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Before goals piled up for Broadneck girls lacrosse in the Class 4A state semifinal, everything else did.
On Wednesday, a tire on the Bruins’ bus flattened on route to Urbana and the state quarterfinal — the first time Broadneck traveled for that round in years — and stranded the Bruins on the side of Interstate-70 for a half hour. Several starters were sidelined. And then, of course, the all-consuming anticipation of prom took the seniors out Friday night.
That’s not including the obstacles the Bruins had already overcome. An early loss to Glenelg that shot down a possible unbeaten season. Back-to-back losses to rival Severna Park in the regular season and county championship. Two years after winning the first of two straight state titles as an unbeaten No. 1 seed, the Bruins entered the state tournament as the sixth.
So, when Broadneck (15-5) approached its northern neighbor, North County, in the last round before the championship on a muggy Saturday afternoon at Crofton High, it didn’t do so as swaggering conquerors. The Bruins came in with energy and left with a dominant 17-4 victory.
“We’ve been focusing on our resilience and knowing you can never underestimate anyone. On any given day, anything can happen,” Broadneck coach Katy Kelley said, “and you have to prepare. It’s nice to have experience, for sure, but I think you always know how precious these moments are.”
The Bruins travel to Stevenson University next week in pursuit of a third straight title against No. 8 seed Dulaney as seasoned veterans. This group of seniors first outlasted Arundel by a goal in 2021 and then put on a clinic in 2022 against Bethesda Chevy-Chase.
But now, there’s one more game. Kelley looked to her daughter Lilly, a senior with four goals in Saturday’s win, with a sheen of tears welling.
“We’re just going to make the most of it,” Lilly Kelley said. “I think it makes us work harder because we’re like, ‘Oh, I will never stand on a field next to them again.’ So, why would I not take it as long as I can?”
After the teams traded goals to start, the bread and butter of Broadneck’s offense unfolded. Seniors Lily Trout, Mary Moore, Kelley and even underclassmen Sienna Miller and Nora Lopes scored for a 12-2 lead at halftime, securing a running clock for the second half.
“A lot of people were working, a lot of people were moving,” Katy Kelley said. “We changed some things up on the draw and I managed to get that as well, so that was good.”
Broadneck subbed out its starters early in the second half, and a few more goals trickled in. North County’s starters remained, a group of seniors unwilling to surrender all they’d built without a fight.
This was the first time in 30 years the Knights reached the state semifinals. They had only done so once before, in 1993. It made coach David Mueller smile to remember those players, who reached out to his current group to encourage them forward.
Mueller waited with excitement for seniors like Alyssa Yost (two goals), Natalia Cosentino and goalkeeper Jaclyn Bange to play through rec league before high school. Even after the coronavirus pandemic stole their freshman year, Mueller watched those players step up and take the legacy of North County lacrosse into their hands.
Over the next few seasons, the Knights (13-5) worked their way through the county to earn a spot in the top tier this spring. They competed, beat Arundel and Chesapeake, beat Old Mill twice. They were 4A East Region I champions, state semifinalists.
Varsity Highlights
“I mean, we did a really good job. I was hoping we’d play better than today, but I’m, happy. I’m excited,” Mueller said. “And now, they all get to go to the prom.”
During the handshake, Mueller told Kelley: go win. He said he’d be surprised if they didn’t.
That’s what Lilly Kelley hopes to build: That expectation of victory associated with Broadneck girls lacrosse.
“Leave a legacy. We want to leave our mark here. We’re gonna do something that’s never been done at this school before,” she said. “We’re gonna leave our mark.”
Goals
BN: Lilly Kelley 4, Sienna Miller 3, Lily Trout 2, Nora Lopes 2, Olivia Orso 2, Mary Moore 2, Carlie Gownley 1, Delany Turner 1
NC: Alyssa Yost 2, Natalia Cosentino 1, Taylor Price 1 | https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/high-school/ac-cs-broadneck-north-county-girls-lacrosse-4a-state-semifinal-20230520-2qjdjydb5fdsfmhslx22j6hrfy-story.html | 2023-05-20 23:49:01 | 1 | https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/high-school/ac-cs-broadneck-north-county-girls-lacrosse-4a-state-semifinal-20230520-2qjdjydb5fdsfmhslx22j6hrfy-story.html |
SAN DIEGO (AP) — It appears Major League Baseball just lost one of its biggest attractions at the All-Star Game: Shohei Ohtani on the mound.
Ohtani said he doesn’t expect to pitch in next week’s showcase after leaving the Los Angeles Angels’ 8-5 loss to the San Diego Padres with a blister on the middle finger of his right hand Tuesday.
“It’s going to be pretty tough. As of now I’m planning on not pitching,” Ohtani said through an interpreter.
The two-way superstar could still play a significant role if he’s healthy enough to remain the starting designated hitter for the American League next Tuesday in Seattle.
Ohtani exited on the mound against the Padres in the sixth inning. When his spot in the lineup at DH came up in the ninth, he was replaced by a pinch-hitter.
“When I came out of the game I was kind of in the moment, so we will see about going forward the next few days,” Ohtani said. “On the pitching side, I have like nine, 10 days until the next start so hopefully I will heal in time.”
Ohtani was pulled after giving up consecutive home runs to Xander Bogaerts and Jake Cronenworth with none out in the sixth.
The right-hander’s start had been pushed back a day due to a cracked fingernail. His velocity was down Tuesday, and he left trailing 5-1.
“It was hard for me to put full pressure on it,” Ohtani said.
He left his previous start as a pitcher but remained in the game as the DH and homered, giving him 10 strikeouts and two home runs in a 4-2 win against the Chicago White Sox.
“It’s my understanding they put an acrylic nail on there because of where it was cracked and it might have just irritated the skin on the side of the finger,” Angels manager Phil Nevin said. “It felt like he just didn’t have command of his pitches going into the sixth and we talked about it and he felt good and warmed up and he gave me a thumbs up.”
Asked if the blister would hamper Ohtani’s ability to bat, Nevin said: “I don’t think so. It’s just the tip of the middle finger and I think he’s going to be OK.”
Ohtani’s exit came several hours after the Angels learned they’ll be without fellow All-Star slugger Mike Trout for several weeks because of a broken left wrist.
Ohtani became a two-way All-Star for the third straight year when he was picked for the AL pitching staff by players on Sunday, 10 days after fans voted him to start at designated hitter. Also on Sunday, Ohtani and Trout homered in the same game for the 30th time, helping the Angels beat Arizona 5-2.
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MILWAUKEE — More than 50,000 people were left without power across Southeast Wisconsin overnight Wednesday into Thursday because of a winter snow and ice storm, forcing Governor Tony Evers to declare an energy emergency and gather additional resources.
As of 11:40 a.m. CST on Thursday, Feb. 23, more than 41,000 We Energies customers are without power across Southeast Wisconsin — specifically in Walworth, Racine and Kenosha counties. Other less expansive outages are in effect for customers near Washington and Fond du Lac counties.
In response to these outages, Gov. Evers signed Executive Order #186, which formally declared an energy emergency and gave clearance for out-of-state utility crews to visit Wisconsin to help with these outages.
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“During and after a winter storm, restoration of power is critically important to the safety and well-being of folks across our state,” Gov. Evers said. “This executive order will allow for a more swift and efficient restoration of any electric power outages throughout the state.”
Under this executive order, certain driver requirements, fuel tax agreements, registration plans and hour of service limitations are suspended to address the pressing issues impacting Southeast Wisconsin communities.
It also effectively provided federal waivers to give in-state utility workers the flexibility required to work on these emergency projects.
This is a developing news story. An update and/or follow-up will be issued as further details are revealed.
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PAGE, Ariz. (AP) — A small plane that plunged into a lake that straddles the Arizona-Utah state line, killing two people and injuring five, was carrying six French tourists plus a pilot, authorities said Tuesday.
Kane County Sheriff’s officials in Utah said witnesses reported seeing the plane out of Page crash into Lake Powell near Face Canyon shortly before 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
Federal Aviation Administration officials said in a statement that the pilot of the single-engine Cessna 207 reported an engine problem before the plane went down.
The aircraft was located in 120 feet (37 meters) of water and Kane County authorities said two people died in the submerged aircraft.
Utah Department of Public Safety divers were trying to recover the bodies, according to sheriff’s officials. The names of the dead and injured haven’t been released yet.
Authorities said the pilot and witnesses were able to get four passengers out of the water and into boats after the crash.
They said three passengers suffered serious injuries and were airlifted to St. George Regional Hospital, while two people with minor injuries were transported by boat to Antelope Marina and then taken to Page Hospital.
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The latest omicron sub-variant, BA.5, has become the dominant strain in New York City.
The infection rate has been surging over the past two weeks to nearly 20%, and experts warn that the number of infections could be significantly undercounted.
This new omicron sub-variant can avoid antibodies thanks to new mutations which aid its rapid spread.
Currently, there are more than 1,000 New York City residents currently hospitalized with COVID-19; this is the first time that the five boroughs' infection rates have surpassed this mark since the second week of February when the massive winter wave of omicron infections started to ebb.
De Blasio said there are also concerns with long-COVID with this particular sub-variant.
He had some criticism for the current mayor, Eric Adams, and his handling of some aspects.
"The Adams administration has done zero inspections for vaccine compliance at businesses throughout the city and has fallen short in enforcing the mask mandates in the subway," a press release put out by the de Blasio campaign said.
The former mayor is currently a candidate for New York's 10th Congressional district.
"This is a matter of public safety; we cannot just ask that New Yorkers supply their own costly masks and avoid populated areas in the name of public good and hope for the best. We need to supply them with the tools and the information they need to be safe and organize our government efforts to meet them where others might fall short. New Yorkers have sacrificed enough already -- we need to meet them with all the resources we have to keep them healthy and safe," de Blasio said.
De Blasio was also critical of the city's move to abandon the color-coded system he implemented during his term.
"A proper response from our Federal and City government starts and ends with clarity from our institutions. We had a color-coded safety system in March and then it was abandoned by June. We had clearly laid out requirements for restaurants, gyms, and entertainment venues that worked, and then they were dropped and their enforcement is up in the air," he said in a statement.
Former Mayor de Blasio recommended the following course of action:
1. Distribute at-home test kits, high-quality N95 masks, and information about Paxlovid to every household in NYC.
2. Form a joint cooperative between the government and private sector to buy KN95 and N95 masks that would be continuously available at restaurants, grocery stores, theaters, gyms, pools, libraries, and other higher-risk settings where people mingle.
3. Enforce private sector mandates for COVID safety.
4. Re-define vaccination standards as "up-to-date" vs. "not up-to-date" for students and workers.
5. Use federal stimulus or infrastructure dollars to address indoor air quality in private buildings and/or tax breaks to support these investments.
Mayor Adams has yet to respond to the suggestions and criticisms by Former Mayor de Blasio.
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Jerry Lee Lewis, the untamable rock ‘n’ roll pioneer whose outrageous talent, energy and ego collided on such definitive records as “Great Balls of Fire” and “Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and sustained a career otherwise upended by personal scandal, died Friday morning at 87.
The last survivor of a generation of groundbreaking performers that included Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Little Richard, Lewis died at his Mississippi home, south of Memphis, Tennessee, representative Zach Farnum said in a release. The news came two days after the publication of an erroneous TMZ report of his death, later retracted.
Of all the rock rebels to emerge in the 1950s, few captured the new genre's attraction and danger as unforgettably as the Louisiana-born piano player who called himself “The Killer."
Tender ballads were best left to the old folks. Lewis was all about lust and gratification, with his leering tenor and demanding asides, violent tempos and brash glissandi, cocky sneer and crazy blond hair. He was a one-man stampede who made the fans scream and the keyboards swear, his live act so combustible that during a 1957 performance of “Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin’ On” on “The Steve Allen Show,” chairs were thrown at him like buckets of water on an inferno.
“There was rockabilly. There was Elvis. But there was no pure rock ’n ’roll before Jerry Lee Lewis kicked in the door,” a Lewis admirer once observed. That admirer was Jerry Lee Lewis.
But in his private life, he raged in ways that might have ended his career today — and nearly did back then.
For a brief time, in 1958, he was a contender to replace Presley as rock’s prime hit maker after Elvis was drafted into the Army. But while Lewis toured in England, the press learned three damaging things: He was married to 13-year-old (possibly even 12-year-old) Myra Gale Brown, she was his cousin, and he was still married to his previous wife. His tour was canceled, he was blacklisted from the radio and his earnings dropped overnight to virtually nothing.
“I probably would have rearranged my life a little bit different, but I never did hide anything from people,” Lewis told the Wall Street Journal in 2014 when asked about the marriage. “I just went on with my life as usual.”
Over the following decades, Lewis struggled with drug and alcohol abuse, legal disputes and physical illness. Two of his many marriages ended in his wife’s early death. Brown herself divorced him in the early 1970s and would later allege physical and mental cruelty that nearly drove her to suicide.
“If I was still married to Jerry, I’d probably be dead by now,” she told People magazine in 1989.
Lewis reinvented himself as a country performer in the 1960s, and the music industry eventually forgave him, long after he stopped having hits. He won three Grammys, and recorded with some of the industry's greatest stars. In 2006, Lewis came out with “Last Man Standing,” featuring Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, B.B. King and George Jones. In 2010, Lewis brought in Jagger, Keith Richards, Sheryl Crow, Tim McGraw and others for the album “Mean Old Man.”
In “The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll,” first published in 1975, he recalled how he convinced disc jockeys to give him a second chance.
“This time I said, ‘Look, man, let’s get together and draw a line on this stuff — a peace treaty you know,’” he explained. Lewis would still play the old hits on stage, but on the radio he would sing country.
Lewis had a run of top 10 country hits between 1967-70, and hardly mellowed at all. He performed drinking songs such as “What’s Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)”, the roving eye confessions of “She Still Comes Around” and a dry-eyed cover of a classic ballad of abandonment, “She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye.” He had remained popular in Europe and a 1964 album, “Live at the Star Club, Hamburg,” is widely regarded as one of the greatest concert records.
A 1973 performance proved more troublesome: Lewis sang for the Grand Ole Opry and broke two longstanding rules — no swearing and no non-country songs.
“I am a rock and rollin’, country-and-western, rhythm and blues-singin’ motherf-----,” he told the audience.
Lewis married seven times, and was rarely far from trouble or death. His fourth wife, Jaren Elizabeth Gunn Pate, drowned in a swimming pool in 1982 while suing for divorce. His fifth wife, Shawn Stephens, 23 years his junior, died of an apparent drug overdose in 1983. Within a year, Lewis had married Kerrie McCarver, then 21. She filed for divorce in 1986, accusing him of physical abuse and infidelity. He countersued, but both petitions eventually were dropped. They finally divorced in 2005 after several years of separation. The couple had one child, Jerry Lee III.
Another son by a previous marriage, Steve Allen Lewis, 3, drowned in a swimming pool in 1962, and son Jerry Lee Jr. died in a traffic accident at 19 in 1973. Lewis also had two daughters, Phoebe and Lori Leigh, and his survived by his wife Judith.
His finances were also chaotic. Lewis made millions, but he liked his money in cash and ended up owing hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Internal Revenue Service. When he began welcoming tourists in 1994 to his longtime residence near Nesbit, Mississippi — complete with a piano-shaped swimming pool — he set up a 900 phone number fans could call for a recorded message at $2.75 a minute.
The son of one-time bootlegger Elmo Lewis and the cousin of TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and country star Mickey Gilley, Lewis was born in Ferriday, Louisiana. As a boy, he first learned to play guitar, but found the instrument too confining and longed for an instrument that the only the rich people in his town could afford — a piano. His life changed when his father pulled up in his truck one day and presented him a dark-wood, upright set of keyboards.
“My eyes almost fell out of my head,” Lewis recalled in “Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story,” written by Rick Bragg and published in 2014.
He took to the piano immediately, and began sneaking off to Black juke joints and absorbing everything from gospel to boogie-woogie. Conflicted early on between secular and scared music, he quit school at 16, with plans of becoming a piano-playing preacher. Lewis briefly attended Southwestern Assemblies of God University in Waxahachie, Texas, a fundamentalist Bible college, but was expelled, reportedly, for playing the “wrong” kind of music.
“Great Balls of Fire,” a sexualized take on Biblical imagery that Lewis initially refused to record, and “Whole Lotta Shakin’” were his most enduring songs and performance pieces. Lewis had only a handful of other pop hits, including “High School Confidential” and “Breathless,” but they were enough to ensure his place as a rock ‘n’ roll architect.
“No group, be it (the) Beatles, Dylan or Stones, have ever improved on ‘Whole Lotta Shakin’’ for my money,” John Lennon would tell Rolling Stone in 1970.
A roadhouse veteran by his early 20s, Lewis took off for Memphis in 1956 and showed up at the studios of Sun Records, the musical home of Elvis, Perkins and Cash. Told by company founder Sam Phillips to go learn some rock ‘n roll, Lewis returned and soon hurried off “Whole Lotta Shakin’” in a single take.
“I knew it was a hit when I cut it,” he later said. “Sam Phillips thought it was gonna be too risque, it couldn’t make it. If that’s risque, well, I’m sorry.”
In 1986, along with Elvis, Chuck Berry and others, he made the inaugural class of inductees for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and joined the Country Hall of Fame this year. The Killer not only outlasted his contemporaries but saw his life and music periodically reintroduced to younger fans, including the the 1989 biopic “Great Balls of Fire,” starring Dennis Quaid, and Ethan Coen’s 2022 documentary “Trouble in Mind.” A 2010 Broadway music, “Million Dollar Quartet,” was inspired by a recording session that featured Lewis, Elvis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash.
He won a Grammy in 1987 as part of an interview album that was cited for best spoken word recording, and he received a lifetime achievement Grammy in 2005. The following year, “Whole Lotta Shakin’” was selected for the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry, whose board praised the “propulsive boogie piano that was perfectly complemented by the drive of J.M. Van Eaton’s energetic drumming. The listeners to the recording, like Lewis himself, had a hard time remaining seated during the performance.”
A classmate at Bible school, Pearry Green, remembered meeting Lewis years later and asking if he was still playing the devil’s music.
“Yes, I am,” Lewis answered. “But you know it’s strange, the same music that they kicked me out of school for is the same kind of music they play in their churches today. The difference is, I know I am playing for the devil and they don’t.”
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ANN ARBOR, MI - The Unabomber Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski’s ties to University of Michigan are part of popular culture, from true crime shows to Netflix documentaries to a mention of it in the 1997 film “Good Will Hunting.”
Kaczynski, who killed three people and injured 23 others through bombs sent in the mail over 17 years, died Saturday, June 10 in a federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina. He was 81.
While also educated at Harvard University and a professor at University of California-Berkeley, the Chicago-born mathematics genius started his science career at the Ann Arbor-based university. Here are five connections he has to the university.
He earned his master’s and doctoral degrees at University of Michigan
After graduating with a bachelor’s in mathematics from Harvard in 1962, Kaczynski enrolled at University of Michigan. He earned his master’s degree in 1964 and his doctorate in 1967, both in mathematics.
He chose the university over Berkeley and University of Chicago since he was offered a graduate instructor position with an annual salary of $2,310 (or $22,188 in 2023), according to a 2006 Michigan Daily article. He lived at 300 Prescott in East Quad Residence Hall, the article states.
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His 1967 thesis Boundary Functions was so well-praised that one of his math professors George Piranian could not figure it out, according to a 1996 Seattle Times article.
“It is not enough to say he was smart,” Piranian said in 1996.
He thought the University of Michigan had “wretchedly low standards”
Kaczynski sent a letter to The Michigan Daily in 2006, describing his experience at the Ann Arbor university.
He found the grading standards quite low.
“The fact that I not only passed my courses (except one physics course) but got quite a few A’s, shows how wretchedly low the standards were at Michigan,” he wrote.
Kaczynski received an F in physics, as well as 12 As and five Bs, according to the document he sent to The Michigan Daily. He characterized faculty as uninterested and unenthusiastic, partially blaming them for his decline.
“Sloppy, careless, poorly organized teaching can destroy the morale of many students,” Kaczynski wrote.
He later moved to a house on 524 S. Forest Ave, where he mostly kept to himself.
“My memories of the University of Michigan are NOT pleasant,” Kaczynski wrote in the letter. “I spent five years there. These were the most miserable years of my life (except for the first year and the last year).”
His brother David Kaczynski said in a 2016 “Nightline” interview that his brother’s delusions started during his time in Ann Arbor.
“He was having delusions that people were laughing about him or making fun of him, or plotting against him,” he said in the interview.
Some of his victims were University of Michigan faculty
Kaczynski attacked businessmen, random civilians and academics with homemade bombs from his Montana cabin from 1978 to 1995. Two of his victims were University of Michigan faculty: graduate assistant Nicklaud Suino and psychology professor James V. McConnell, a leading figure in behaviorism.
In the 1985 attack at McConnell’s home, the blast wounded Suino and damaged McConnell’s hearing, according to MLive files.
A 1996 study in the American Psychological Association theorized that Kaczynski targeted McConnell due to the latter’s research into behavior modification and “planarian learning,” or the transfer of memories from one organism to another through DNA.
He tried to donate his writings to University of Michigan
Kaczynski tried to donate his writings found in his Montana cabin to the university’s Joseph A. Labadie Collection, an archive devoted to radical protest. His collection is known as Kaczynskiana.
A 2004 federal court ruling said Kaczynski had “no right to donate his writings” and that the government possesses the writings on behalf of his victims. The papers were sold with proceeds compensating his victims.
The university collection is very popular. According to The New York Times:
“Julie Herrada, the collection’s curator, declined to describe the people so intrigued by Mr. Kaczynski that they visit the library to look through his archive. She said just one thing: ‘Nobody seems crazy.’
The university’s Hatcher Graduate Library reached an exclusive agreement in 1999 to receive Kaczynski’s prison correspondence, which he provided at no charge. The university received a 5-foot stack of letters from people around the world and his responses.
“Good Will Hunting” mentions University of Michigan
In the Oscar-winning film “Good Will Hunting,” a psychologist played by Robin Williams argues with a mathematician played by Stellan Skarsgård. In the argument, Kaczynski’s ties to the university are mentioned.
Williams describes how a genius without proper direction can lead to dangerous results.
“In the 1960s, a young man graduated from the University of Michigan,” Williams says. “Did some brilliant work in mathematics. Specifically bounded harmonic functions. Then he was at Berkeley, assistant professor, showed amazing professor. Then he moved to Montana, and he blew the competition away.”
“So who was he,” Skarsgård responds.
“Ted Kaczynski,” says Williams.
“Never heard of him,” says Skarsgård.
Williams then yells to a Boston bartender: “Hey Jimmy, who’s Ted Kaczynski?”
“Unabomber,” the bartender responds.
Kaczynski died by suicide, four people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on June 12.
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The Container Store and Big Lots announced this week that they will honor expired Bed Bath & Beyond coupons in a move to drum up sales following the news of Bed Bath & Beyond filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Today, we wished our furry friend Kelly a happy birthday. Also, Willie and Loretta shared a photo from their skating outing! Virginia This Morning viewer Kevin spent some time with his daughter Kamille at Jumpology. Lastly, Jessica caught up with her friend, Mr. Buttons.
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The Midwest will move to the forefront as affordability remains housing's biggest issue
SEATTLE, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Midwestern markets will heat up, and more friends and family members will pool their money to buy homes together in 2023, as people look for new ways to overcome the housing affordability crisis. However, that crisis will stabilize — if not improve — from its pandemic-era apex, Zillow® economists predict. New construction will be focused on rental units, and we should see a jump in homeowners becoming first-time landlords. Those are among a slew of new predictions the Zillow Economic Research team has made heading into 2023.
"Americans finding ways to make payments on a roof over their heads is going to drive the market next year. Where costs are lower, we'll see healthier sales and inventory levels. If rent is less expensive than a new mortgage, we'll see increased demand for rentals — something builders and landlords understand," said Zillow chief economist Skylar Olsen. "Affordability is going to be the biggest factor in housing for 2023, but there's room for optimism on that front if mortgage rates recede."
The Midwest to feature front and center in 2023
Unlike in nearly every other region of the United States, prices in most Midwest metro areas haven't risen to outrageous extremes. Mortgage costs are still within reason compared with incomes across Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Ohio and smaller metros in Illinois, which will allow first-time buyers to take the plunge. Lower rents and home prices in these areas, as well as in some Pennsylvania, New York and other Northeastern metros, make it easier to save up for a down payment. A typical mortgage payment1 in Topeka is $1,269, compared to $4,129 in Sacramento.
Having houses available to choose from is another key component of a healthy market, and the Midwest stands out. Inventory there isn't in a massive hole compared to pre-pandemic times, and more homeowners are willing to list than elsewhere in the country, encouraged by more consistent demand from buyers.
Buying with friends and family will gain momentum
Soaring housing costs have been a popular topic of conversation in 2022, but buying a home with a friend or relative who isn't a partner or spouse turned out to be more than idle chatter for a surprising share of folks. With housing costs rising far beyond previous affordability norms, those chasing homeownership are turning to unconventional means of making it pencil out financially, and this should increase in 2023.
A Zillow survey fielded this spring found that among recent successful home buyers, 18% had purchased with a friend or relative who wasn't their spouse or partner. Of prospective home buyers, 19% intended to buy with a friend or relative in the next 12 months. Affordability and qualifying for a mortgage were cited as the top reasons for buying a home with someone else — both are challenges that are now even more acute. Mortgage payments for a typical U.S. home rose from requiring 27% of median household income in January to 37% in October — far beyond the 30% threshold at which housing becomes a financial burden.
As more millennials and now Generation Zers enter what will still be a historically expensive market in 2023, more folks are set to put "bestie" to the ultimate test.
Affordability crisis will stabilize
Monthly mortgage costs have doubled since 2019, driven by pandemic-era price hikes and, to an even greater degree, by rapid mortgage rate growth this year. High mortgage rates are not only pushing buyers to the sidelines, they're tanking new inventory as homeowners hang on to their current houses and their historically low mortgage rates. Rents have grown faster than wages, making it harder to save up for a down payment, and renters of color are more likely to have experienced rising rents for their units.
Affordability will continue to be the driving force in the housing market in 2023, but there is a decent chance it will improve. At the very least, the market should stabilize, making it possible for households to budget and plan for housing decisions coming up in the months and years ahead.
Zillow expects national home values to remain relatively flat next year, and even fall in the markets most challenged by affordability issues. Mortgage rates are seeing some recent and encouraging progress downward as inflation and labor market tightness show some small signs of easing. If we've actually turned the corner on inflation, that should continue.
Rent growth should move closer to historical norms next year, as well. Annual growth came down quickly from a massive peak of 17.1% in February to 9.6% by October. Rents fell during the month of October, the first time in two years, signaling a return to regular seasonal patterns.
New construction strength will be in rentals
Despite a pullback in permits and starts for single-family construction, the sheer number of houses currently under construction after the pandemic boom – still up 50% since February 2020 – will mean continued rolling deliveries to the market. This temporary glut in available new homes will drive price reductions for new construction, and potentially in the existing home market, too, which otherwise will continue to experience low inventory.
In contrast, builders of multifamily units are feeling much more bullish. The number of multifamily units to start construction each month has increased steadily, rising 8% from pre-pandemic levels in October. Elevated multifamily permits point to a strong vote of confidence in continued demand for rental units, despite looming recession fears. This confidence will also encourage more construction of build-for-rent single-family homes, as many would-be homeowners will need to continue renting into later stages of life if they're currently unable to qualify and move forward with a purchase of their own home.
We'll see a surge in first-time landlords in 2023
The record-low mortgage rates of 2020 and 2021 provided the leverage of a lifetime for investment in a second house. Vacation areas saw significant upticks in sales, and 34% of buyers surveyed by Zillow in 2021 said the opportunity to rent out their entire house was an important reason for buying it – up from 27% in 2018 and 28% in 2019.
With rent growth expected to rise faster than home values over the next year, many of these second homes have an even better potential to yield regular rental income above the mortgage payment fixed with record low rates. The potential for regular income, bearish expectations for stock markets in 2023, and the big pullback from home buyers due to higher mortgage rates may reinforce the incentive to hold onto those investment properties.
Similarly, more homeowners looking to move in 2023 might decide to keep and rent out their current house rather than sell it, to not give up a historically low mortgage rate and a potential income stream at a time when rents are high. Zillow Rental Manager allows landlords to post listings for free, collect payments, screen tenants, sign leases and more, on the web or in the app.
1 Mortgage payments determined using the October raw Zillow Home Value Index for each metro and assuming a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage with 5% down. Does not include taxes and insurance.
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Revolutionary studio will provide immersive educational experience for the next generation of engineers, using elite commercial products to prepare them for real-world applications
ITHACA, N.Y., March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Toyota Material Handling (TMH), North America's leading manufacturer of forklifts and material handling solutions, joined representatives from Cornell University's College of Engineering to officially dedicate the revolutionary Toyota Forklift Learning Studio at Cornell University's Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. This is the world's first Forklift Learning Studio and the result of a unique and dynamic partnership between TMH and Cornell, bringing students a creative outlet for real-world application in a revolutionary and immersive learning experience that could become a model for impactful change in higher education.
"At Toyota, we believe making things is about making people, and this learning studio is a great example of that guiding principle," said Brett Wood, Toyota Material Handing North America President & CEO. "Young people often wonder how they'll use certain theories in their professional lives because it's often difficult to connect the dots. In the innovative Toyota Forklift Learning Studio, all of the 'dots' will exist in the same space as the finished product. This connects perfectly to our Toyota culture of continuous improvement by giving Cornell Engineering students a place for continuous learning and allowing them to explore ways to apply that learning in the real world."
This state-of-the-art learning studio is equipped with industry-leading products, components and technology that will bridge the gap between students' coursework and actual commercial products. The forklifts will help students learn about mechanical properties and how they integrate into a larger system while exposing them to many elements of engineering principles like fluid mechanics, heat transfer, hydraulics, engines, transmissions, motors and more. This experimental-learning space, designed with the latest in forklift innovation, encourages outside-the-box thinking, intellectual exploration, and empowers students with a real-life application of the theories taught in classrooms that supports a modern approach to education that balances lecture and lab sessions.
"I became passionate about this when it became clear to me that students were motivated by seeing how what they learned in class applied to their everyday life and to their career opportunities, and they didn't want to wait very long to get to that point," said Brian Kirby, Associate Director of Undergraduate Affairs for Cornell's Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. "The idea behind the forklift learning studio was to lead with the application, and then use that as a framework to decide how it could be linked together in the different classes we teach."
Kirby says the Toyota Forklift Learning Studio will incorporate between seven and 12 different classes, with students going back and forth between the studio and other parts of the curriculum.
"We want students to interact with the studio constantly, and we want to influence a larger number of students," Kirby said. "Unlike a single class, which can only affect 10-100 students, this space will impact hundreds and hundreds of students and allow them to see the links between what they're doing and what they can actually become. I believe students will see the Toyota Forklift Learning Studio as a fun and exciting place that motivates them to put their energy and passion into studying the foundational material we're teaching – a place where the coolest things happen on campus."
The Toyota Forklift Learning Studio will not only change the educational experience for engineering students at Cornell – it could become a model for universities across the country. It challenges the traditional ideology of doing things a certain way because that's how they've always been done, and provides a clear answer to the age-old question students ask: 'When will I ever use this in the real world?'
"I wish I had a learning studio like this when I was studying mechanical engineering many years ago," Wood said. "To be able to get your hands on a commercial product and learn about direct applications for engineering theory and principles would've been a life-changing experience. I really hope this can help the engineers of tomorrow get out into the workforce and better understand the basic and even the more complicated engineering principles they learn in a classroom. We believe this is a revolutionary shift in the way students learn, and Toyota is so proud to be at the forefront of impactful change."
The Toyota Forklift Learning Studio is an investment in the next generation of engineers that gives students an inimitable opportunity to learn the key principles of modern engineering and systems thinking. Students taking advantage of this cutting-edge learning experience benefit from having complex systems and individual components all in one place, enlightening students with a holistic perspective of the engineering process and the ability to see how the application of science and mathematics comes together to create an essential product.
"The cool thing about the studio is seeing how everything you've learned in separate classes can be integrated into one thing," said Cornell University sophomore Emma Sudmann, who was selected to help build the studio last summer. "It can be hard to see how everything you learn in your statics class compares to your fluid mechanics class, for example. But with the forklift, you can see how all of those topics come together and how they are used in the real world.
"This experience has definitely opened my eyes to so many different possibilities, and things I had never thought you could do with engineering. It's so cool to be part of something that will not only impact engineering but could be a model that impacts how all students learn in the future."
In addition to modernizing the way students learn, the mutually beneficial partnership will expose them to new products and industries where they could build successful careers. The forklift industry is an essential part of the nation's supply chain, and it is coming off the two best years in history – with a combined 663,000 units sold in North America in 2021 and 2022. The industry contributes more than $26 billion to the United States' annual GDP and offers wide-ranging opportunities for engineers.
"We're grateful for our partnership with Toyota Material Handling which allows us to better prepare our students for their future careers by cultivating a deep understanding and appreciation of engineering while instilling values in them that encourage a curious mind and a drive to continuously improve," Kirby said. "Since the beginning of our partnership with Toyota, our collaborations have grown deeper and more vibrant, and our philosophical connections have become more and more clear. We couldn't be more excited about the future of this learning studio and our partnership with Toyota."
Learn more about Toyota Material Handling's commitment to cultivating the forklift industry's next generation of engineers and leaders here, or by visiting ToyotaForklift.com.
About Toyota Material Handling
Toyota Material Handling offers material handling products and solutions, including forklifts, reach trucks, order pickers, pallet jacks, container handlers, automated guided vehicles, and tow tractors, along with aerial work platforms, fleet management services, and advanced automation engineering and design. Toyota's commitment to quality, reliability and customer satisfaction, the hallmark of the Toyota Production System, extends throughout more than 230 locations across North America. With access to an industry-leading lineup of material handling products, Toyota dealers are uniquely positioned to help solve wide-ranging challenges in warehousing and distribution. Built for every application, Toyota can provide the most complete set of solutions for material handling, automation, energy, advanced logistics, and warehouse optimization. For more information or to learn more, visit ToyotaForklift.com.
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Chandler Stephenson knows what this is like.
Five years ago, he and his Washington Capitals teammates went into Las Vegas and won the Stanley Cup, beating the Golden Knights in Game 5 of the final. Now he’s on the Golden Knights, who leave Florida on the verge of winning their first championship.
“It’s a different game than the other ones: There’s a lot more emotion, a lot more everything,” Stephenson said. “It’s one win away from a lot of dreams for a lot of guys.”
A dream they’re trying not to think about — at least not yet.
Vegas can hoist the Stanley Cup as soon as Tuesday by beating the Panthers on home ice. But the immediate task for players and coaches is not to dwell on how close they are.
Veteran defenseman Alex Pietrangelo, who captained the St. Louis Blues to their first title in franchise history four years ago, said it’s possible to overthink things in this situation.
His approach now?
“Try and get your brain away from it,” Pietrangelo said. “Get some rest, spend some time with our families and get ready to go back to work.”
The work so far has been nearly immaculate. Vegas has clearly been the better team in the final against Florida, and absent a late comeback in Game 3 might have been flying home Sunday with the Cup.
But the job isn’t done yet, and coach Bruce Cassidy knows all too well what it’s like to be one win away. His Boston Bruins lost to Pietrangelo’s Blues in seven games in 2019, so he’s not satisfied with getting to this point, no matter how well his team has played thus far.
“We’ll hit the ice and we’ll work on some things we feel we can do better from the previous four games and keep our rhythm up and get our touches in and heart rate up, etc., and prepare for the last one,” Cassidy said Sunday. “I think our preparation this time will be similar to what we’ve done with every other game. We know it’s a close-out game. I don’t have to tell the players that. They know what’s at stake.”
At stake, the dream Stephenson and a few of his teammates have lived out. Pietrangelo, Ivan Barbashev, Alec Martinez and backup goaltender Jonathan Quick have lifted the Cup before, while the rest of their teammates who have played this postseason have not.
Many have been on long runs — the six original Knights players who lost to Stephenson and the Capitals in 2018 — plus guys such as captain Mark Stone, who reached Game 7 of the Eastern Conference final in 2017 with Ottawa. Stone does not expect to alter his approach after it has worked so well so far.
“We understand the magnitude of the process, but we’re going to go home and take the game as if it’s one game for us,” Stone said after winning Game 4 Saturday. “We ain’t changing anything. We’ll make minor adjustments to our game, for sure, but we want to continue to play our brand of hockey and be ready to go.”
The Panthers have to do something to change the tide of the series. They scored twice to cut into a three-goal deficit in Game 4, but their comeback bid fell short to put them on the brink of elimination.
Florida erased a 3-1 series deficit in the first round against Boston, which set NHL records for the most wins and points in a regular season. That experience becomes valuable now as the Panthers try to become the first team to win the final after falling behind 3-1 since 1942.
“You draw on your routine from the last time, your last experience with it,” coach Paul Maurice said. “There is in some ways an advantage to the team at times that’s down 3-1 in terms of the freedom mentally that it can play with. At the same time, you’re down 3-1 for a reason, so clearly the other team has been good. But we have some experience with this, and we’ll draw on it.”
The Golden Knights also have recent experience to draw from. They led Dallas 3-0 in the West final and got pushed to a Game 6 before finishing off the Stars with their best performance of the season.
Replicating that would mean a Stanley Cup celebration on The Las Vegas Strip — one that everyone around the team is attempting not to dwell on.
“We do have to block some of that out,” Cassidy said. “Stay in the moment and prepare like we have every other game and then once you’re able to get it done, then you’re able to have your fun with the fanbase and everyone else around.”
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SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — There was an unintentional assist from one of the referees. There was a nearly flawless performance from a rookie goalie making his first playoff start. And there was no sense of panic.
Toronto is going home — for another game, not to start the offseason.
Joseph Woll stopped 24 shots in his first playoff start, Mitch Marner and William Nylander had the goals and the Maple Leafs staved off elimination by beating the Florida Panthers 2-1 in Game 4 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series Wednesday night.
“It was a pretty awesome game to get put into,” Woll said.
Another pretty awesome chance awaits Friday, when Game 5 will be on Toronto’s ice.
Sam Reinhart scored for Florida, which got 23 saves from Sergei Bobrovsky. The Panthers still lead the series 3-1, though their franchise-playoff-record six-game winning streak is now over.
“We lost a game today. That happens in the playoffs,” Panthers coach Paul Maurice said. “We’re good. We’re OK. We get to play the next one. I think we’re all good with that. It wasn’t so fabulous a win that they’re not going to let us play the next one.”
Nylander was the beneficiary of an odd bounce for a power-play score in the second period, Marner scored midway through the third and Woll did the rest as he took the place of injured starter Ilya Samsonov.
Woll, who turns 25 on July 12, was bidding to become the youngest Toronto goalie to have a playoff shutout since Felix Potvin — then 23 — stopped 42 shots to beat Chicago 3-0 on May 9, 1995.
He was 7:47 away from pulling it off.
Reinhart — who had the OT winner in Game 3 — took a quick pass from Matthew Tkachuk and found a way to just get the puck through Woll’s leg pads for a power-play score, cutting Toronto’s lead to 2-1. The Leafs called their time-out immediately after the goal, just to calm everyone down.
“I thought we were playing a really good period to that point,” Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe said. “It really was to give our guys a breath. … I didn’t have to say much.”
Woll didn’t have to do the job alone, either. Toronto blocked 21 shots as a team.
“We’re just going to keep fighting,” Leafs forward John Tavares said.
Nylander’s surname is pronounced KNEE-lander, which seemed fitting on the opening goal.
Toronto went more than five full periods — 107 minutes and 46 seconds, to be exact, going back to late in the second period of Game 2 — without a power play until Florida’s Eetu Luostarinen got called for high-sticking the Leafs’ Michael Bunting early in the second period.
And they cashed in, thanks to the hockey gods who oversee crazy bounces.
Bunting tried dumping the puck around the net from the right-wing boards, only to have it bounce off the knee of referee Jon McIsaac as he tried to get out of the way. It skipped to the front of the net, where Nylander knocked it past Bobrovsky for a 1-0 Toronto lead.
“A bit unlucky bounce, but it is what it is,” Bobrovsky said. “Again, I thought we had a good game. We compete. We fight. We played a solid defensive game. They are a good team as well, so that’s the score tonight.”
It was the first goal of the series for Toronto’s big four players of Nylander, Auston Matthews, Tavares and Marner.
“It’s not going to get easier,” Nylander said.
The score stayed 1-0 going into the third, though Toronto had a big chance to go up two in the final seconds of the second period. Tavares got loose down the center of the ice on a breakaway, but Bobrovsky knocked away his attempt to the stick side to keep Florida within one.
Marner made it 2-0 with 9:57 left, and the Leafs held on. They haven’t been swept in a playoff series since 1980 — a best-of-five against the Minnesota North Stars — and not in a best-of-seven since Montreal ousted them in four games in 1979.
“We were right there to the end,” Florida forward Sam Bennett said. “And that’s playoff hockey.”
STILL NO SWEEP
Florida has never swept a playoff series. The Panthers also haven’t clinched a series on home ice since 1996.
AROUND THE RINK
It was the 12th career start (first in a playoff game) for Woll and the 680th for Bobrovsky (54th in a playoff game). … With Samsonov hurt, the Maple Leafs recalled G Dennis Hildeby from the AHL’s Toronto Marlies to be the team’s emergency backup goalie. Matt Murray backed up Woll.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Officials say South Korea’s economy is recovering from the initial shock of a nationwide walkout staged by thousands of cargo truckers, even as their strike reached its 14th day on Wednesday amid a stalemate with the government over freight fare issues.
The conservative government of President Yoon Suk Yeol has taken aggressive steps to defuse the impact of the strike, issuing contentious back-to-work orders to more than 2,000 drivers of cement trucks among broader groups of truckers participating in the walkout. Officials have also mobilized around 200 military vehicles, including container and fuel trucks, to ease the delays in industrial shipments.
Yoon’s office has warned of stronger steps, such as expanding the so-called “work start” orders to other groups of truckers, including those transporting fuel and steel, blaming the strikers for costing the economy more than 3.5 trillion won ($2.6 billion) in a moment of global uncertainty.
The strike’s impact has so far been mostly limited to domestic industries, such as construction, and there have been no immediate signs of meaningful disruption in major export businesses such as semiconductors.
Container traffic at the country’s major ports is essentially back to normal and reached 126% of pre-strike levels during the busier evening hours from 7 p.m. to midnight Tuesday, according to data from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. Shipments of cement were also reaching 88% of normal levels, easing the disruption at construction sites.
The ministry said around 4,700 truckers were actively participating in the strike on Wednesday, down from 8,000 to 10,000 workers who participated during the early days of the strike, which began on Nov. 24.
Government officials and police have sent teams nationwide to check whether cement truckers were abiding by the back-to-work orders after receiving them in writing and confirmed that so far at least 475 of them had returned to their jobs, the ministry said.
Police are investigating one strike participant accused of assaulting a non-union trucker and throwing eggs at his vehicle at a port in the city of Busan as they clamp down on unionists who threaten or disrupt colleagues who choose to work.
The strikers, represented by the Cargo Truckers Solidarity union, are demanding the government to make permanent a minimum freight rate system that is to expire at the end of 2022, which they say is crucial for safety and financial stability in the face of rising fuel costs and interest rates.
While the minimum fares currently apply only to shipping containers and cement, the strikers are also calling for the benefits to be expanded to other cargo, including oil and chemical tankers, steel and automobile carriers and package delivery trucks.
Yoon’s government had offered to expand the current scheme for another three years but has so far rejected calls to widen the scope of minimum rates. Truckers say the system is crucial for their finances and personal safety, saying they would otherwise be forced to increase their deliveries and drive faster to make ends meet.
South Korean labor groups have requested the International Labor Organization to review whether the government order forcing cement truckers back to their jobs breaches their basic rights for collective action. The order, which was issued last Tuesday, marked the first time a South Korean government exercised its controversial powers under a law revised in 2004 to force truckers back to work.
A failure to comply without “justifiable reason” is punishable by up to three years in jail or a maximum fine of 30 million won ($22,800), and critics say the law infringes on constitutional rights because it clearly doesn’t spell out what would qualify as acceptable conditions for a strike.
The Ministry of Employment and Labor has confirmed that the U.N. agency sent a letter under the name of Corinne Vargha, its director of international labor standards, requesting the South Korean government to clarify its stance over the dispute.
At a regional ILO meeting in Singapore on Wednesday, South Korean Deputy Labor Minister Park Jong-Pil insisted that the back-to-work order was an “inevitable” step, considering its impact on the national economy. He criticized the workers for “holding hostage the national economy and livelihoods” and said the strike was hurting low-income earners and small businesses the most. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/s-korea-sees-easing-disruption-as-truckers-strike-extends/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-12-07 07:37:24 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/s-korea-sees-easing-disruption-as-truckers-strike-extends/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
(The Hill) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating “one of the worst outbreaks of meningococcal disease among gay and bisexual men in U.S. history” after at least 24 cases and six deaths were reported in Florida.
In a Wednesday press release, the CDC described a serogroup C meningococcal outbreak primarily spreading among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men, including those living with HIV.
About half of the cases were reported among Hispanic men. A serogroup is a group of bacteria containing a common antigen.
The CDC, which is investigating the outbreak along with the Florida Department of Health, is also looking into a separate serogroup B meningococcal outbreak among college students in Leon County, Fla.
The Florida health department first issued an alert about the Leon County outbreak in April.
Meningococcal disease is caused by the bacteria Neisseria meningitidis. It can cause a deadly bloodstream infection or meningitis, an infection of the lining of the brain or spinal cord.
The bacteria is spread through close contact, such as coughing or kissing. The most common symptoms from the disease are a fever, headache or a purple rash.
The CDC is encouraging gay and bisexual men in Florida to get the meningococcal vaccine (or MenACWY), which is free of charge through county resources in Florida.
José Romero, the director at the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said getting vaccinated “is the best way to prevent this serious illness, which can quickly become deadly.”
“Because of the outbreak in Florida, and the number of Pride events being held across the state in coming weeks, it’s important that gay and bisexual men who live in Florida get vaccinated,” Romero said in a statement.
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MIAMI (AP) — Parts of South Florida were experiencing road flooding from heavy rain and wind Saturday as a storm system that battered Mexico moves across the state.
Officials in Miami warned drivers about road conditions as many cars were stuck on flooded streets.
“This is a dangerous and life-threatening situation. Traveling during these conditions is not recommended. It’s better to wait. Turn around, don’t drown,” the city of Miami tweeted.
The city was towing stranded vehicles from flooder roadways.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami said the storm once known as Agatha in the Pacific Ocean will be known as Alex in the Atlantic Ocean basin, if it reaches tropical storm status.
At 11 a.m. EDT, a tropical storm warning was in effect for portions of the state’s east coast and the northwestern Bahamas. Bermuda was under a tropical storm watch.
The storm’s center was disorganized, but appeared to be reforming near the Florida east coast. The storm is expected to reach tropical storm strength off Florida’s eastern coast by Saturday night and is expected to strengthen through Monday as it moves away from Florida and into the Atlantic Ocean.
Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said most government services, such as bus routes and trains, planned to operate as normal over the weekend. Canal levels in South Florida have been lowered to minimize flooding from heavy rains.
The Atlantic hurricane season officially began Tuesday. This is an unusually early start to the storm season but not unprecedented for Florida.
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DALLAS (AP) — This year’s record-breaking women’s NCAA Tournament featured breakout stars, upsets and capped off with the flamboyant Kim Mulkey leading LSU to its first basketball championship.
Mulkey’s unforgettable outfits were just one of several memorable moments. There was Caitlin Clark’s 40-point triple-double in the Elite Eight game, the drama of South Carolina’s quest to complete the latest undefeated season and two No. 1 seeds being knock off before the Sweet 16.
It led to the highest attendance ever in the tournament’s history to go along with stellar TV ratings in every round. The timing couldn’t be better for the sport. It all could lead to women’s basketball getting a separate TV deal when the contract expires next summer.
Here’s a look at some of the top moments from the tournament:
FIERY FASHIONISTA
Mulkey is never hard to miss on the sideline with her feisty approach and reactions to referees and her players. The coach’s flamboyant attire takes her presence to a different level, and her Final Four outfits certainly stood out.
For the national semifinal game, Mulkey arrived in a carnation pink top with a flower-like puffs along the entire sleeves, a designer-made top similar to what her 2-year-old granddaughter wore. Even the LSU mascot was spotted in pink attire.
The coach wore a sparkly, golden, tiger-striped outfit during the championship game. Her team were the golden girls, winning the first basketball championship in school history.
DAZZLING CLARK
Clark set an NCAA Tournament record by scoring 191 points over Iowa’s six games, surpassing Sheryl Swoopes’ 177 points for Texas Tech in 1993 — and Glen Rice’s 184 for Michigan in the 1989 men’s tournament.
Before 30 points in the championship game, the 6-foot Iowa-born Clark was the first player in the women’s tournament with back-to-back 40-point games. That included her 11th career triple-double in the regional final against Louisville, before another 41 points against previously undefeated South Carolina in the national semifinal game.
HISTORY DENIED
South Carolina was trying to become the 10th women’s team to run through a season undefeated and the first school to win consecutive titles since UConn won four straight from 2013-16. The Gamecocks were denied that chance, losing to Iowa in the Final Four behind a stellar effort from Clark.
END OF AN ERA
UConn’s run of 14 consecutive Final Four appearance came to an end in the Elite Eight when Ohio State forced the Huskies into 18 first-half turnovers with full-court pressure defense. The Huskies hadn’t missed playing in the national semifinals since 2007.
NEW FORMAT
The NCAA changed its regional format this year going to two sites instead of the traditional four. It got strong reviews from players and coaches and fans alike. There ended up being a record attendance for that round with more fans showing up in Seattle — which had no team within 1,300 miles of the venue — than Greenville, South Carolina.
’CANES WERE COOKING
Miami did more than just be part of history by knocking out No. 1 seed Indiana before the Sweet 16. The Hurricanes under coach Katie Meier ousted Villanova and ended national scoring leader Maddy Siegrist’s career to reach the Elite Eight for the first time. The champs from LSU ended Miami’s run with a muddy 54-42 win in the regional finals.
THIRST FOR FIRSTS
Virginia Tech was a first-time participant in the Final Four, which had a pair of first-time finalists after LSU beat the top-seeded Hokies and Clark’s Hawkeyes ousted undefeated defending national champion South Carolina. It was already guaranteed before the final that the champion would be something other than a No. 1 seed for the first time since 2011.
UPSETTING PERFORMANCES
Stanford and Indiana both fell in the second round becoming the second pair of No. 1 seeds to not make the Sweet 16 since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1994. It also happened in 1998. The Cardinal were stymied on their home court by Mississippi’s defense. They never led the second-round game and had their streak of 14 consecutive Sweet 16 appearances ended. The Hoosiers lost at Assembly Hall the next night, when Miami’s Destiny Harden made the game-winning shot with 3.5 seconds left.
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AP Sports Writer Stephen Hawkins and AP Basketball Writer Doug Feinberg contributed to this story.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Media accreditation is now open for the launch of the fifth SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket that will carry astronauts to the International Space Station for a science expedition mission as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.
The earliest targeted launch date for the mission is Friday, Sept. 29, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The Crew-5 launch will carry two NASA astronauts Mission Commander Nicole Mann and Pilot Josh Cassada, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, who will serve as mission specialists. This is the first spaceflight for Mann, Cassada and Kikina. It is the fifth trip for Wakata.
Following a crew handover period, astronauts from NASA's SpaceX Crew-4 mission are scheduled for return to Earth in October aboard their SpaceX Dragon Freedom.
Media accreditation deadlines for Crew-5 launch are as follows:
- U.S. media and U.S. citizens representing international media must apply no later than 4 p.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 1.
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Crystal Palace 1, Man United 1
Man City 4, Tottenham 2
Liverpool 0, Chelsea 0
Bournemouth 1, Nottingham Forest 1
Leicester 2, Brighton 2
Southampton 0, Aston Villa 1
West Ham 2, Everton 0
Crystal Palace 0, Newcastle 0
Leeds 0, Brentford 0
Man City 3, Wolverhampton 0
Arsenal 3, Man United 2
Fulham 0, Tottenham 1
Chelsea vs. Fulham, 3 p.m.
Everton vs. Arsenal, 7:30 a.m.
Aston Villa vs. Leicester, 10 a.m.
Brentford vs. Southampton, 10 a.m.
Brighton vs. Bournemouth, 10 a.m.
Wolverhampton vs. Liverpool, 10 a.m.
Man United vs. Crystal Palace, 10 a.m.
Newcastle vs. West Ham, 12:30 p.m.
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Sheffield United 1, Hull 0
Burnley 2, West Brom 1
Coventry 2, Norwich 4
Birmingham 1, Preston 2
Blackpool vs. Huddersfield, 10 a.m. ppd
Bristol City 1, Blackburn 1
Cardiff 0, Millwall 1
QPR 1, Swansea 1
Stoke 4, Reading 0
Watford 1, Rotherham 1
Wigan 0, Luton Town 2
Sunderland 2, Middlesbrough 0
Coventry vs. Huddersfield, 2:45 p.m. ppd
Blackburn vs. Blackpool, 10 a.m. ppd
Huddersfield vs. Bristol City, 10 a.m. ppd
Hull vs. QPR, 10 a.m.
Luton Town vs. Cardiff, 10 a.m. ppd
Middlesbrough vs. Watford, 10 a.m.
Millwall vs. Burnley, 10 a.m. ppd
Norwich vs. Birmingham, 10 a.m. ppd
Preston vs. Coventry, 10 a.m. ppd
Reading vs. Sheffield United, 10 a.m. ppd
Rotherham vs. Sunderland, 10 a.m. ppd
Swansea vs. Stoke, 10 a.m. ppd
West Brom vs. Wigan, 10 a.m. ppd
Coventry vs. Huddersfield, 10 a.m.
West Brom vs. Coventry, 3 p.m.
Norwich vs. Burnley, 7:30 a.m.
Rotherham vs. Sheffield United, 7:30 a.m.
Blackburn vs. Wigan, 10 a.m. ppd
Huddersfield vs. QPR, 10 a.m.
Hull vs. Cardiff, 10 a.m.
Luton Town vs. Stoke, 10 a.m.
Middlesbrough vs. Blackpool, 10 a.m.
Millwall vs. Sunderland, 10 a.m.
Preston vs. Bristol City, 10 a.m.
Reading vs. Watford, 10 a.m.
Swansea vs. Birmingham, 10 a.m.
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Port Vale 0, Peterborough 2
Barnsley 3, Accrington Stanley 1
Bristol Rovers vs. Wycombe, 10 a.m. ppd
Derby 2, Bolton 1
Forest Green 1, Milton Keynes Dons 2
Lincoln vs. Burton Albion, 10 a.m. ppd
Morecambe vs. Port Vale, 10 a.m. ppd
Oxford United 2, Ipswich 1
Peterborough vs. Charlton, 10 a.m. ppd
Plymouth 4, Cheltenham 2
Portsmouth 2, Exeter 0
Sheffield Wednesday 1, Fleetwood Town 0
Shrewsbury 5, Cambridge United 1
Accrington Stanley vs. Plymouth, 2:45 p.m. ppd
Bolton vs. Forest Green, 2:45 p.m.
Burton Albion vs. Peterborough, 2:45 p.m. ppd
Cheltenham vs. Sheffield Wednesday, 2:45 p.m. ppd
Exeter vs. Barnsley, 2:45 p.m.
Fleetwood Town vs. Portsmouth, 2:45 p.m.
Ipswich vs. Morecambe, 2:45 p.m.
Milton Keynes Dons vs. Shrewsbury, 2:45 p.m.
Port Vale vs. Derby, 2:45 p.m.
Wycombe vs. Oxford United, 2:45 p.m.
Charlton vs. Bolton, 7:30 a.m.
Burton Albion vs. Oxford United, 10 a.m.
Cheltenham vs. Port Vale, 10 a.m.
Ipswich vs. Accrington Stanley, 10 a.m. ppd
Lincoln vs. Cambridge United, 10 a.m.
Milton Keynes Dons vs. Exeter, 10 a.m.
Morecambe vs. Bristol Rovers, 10 a.m.
Peterborough vs. Portsmouth, 10 a.m.
Plymouth vs. Derby, 10 a.m. ppd
Shrewsbury vs. Forest Green, 10 a.m.
Wycombe vs. Fleetwood Town, 10 a.m. ppd
Barnsley vs. Sheffield Wednesday, 8 a.m. ppd
Oxford United vs. Barnsley, 2:45 p.m.
Accrington Stanley vs. Lincoln, 10 a.m.
Bolton vs. Cheltenham, 10 a.m.
Bristol Rovers vs. Milton Keynes Dons, 10 a.m.
Cambridge United vs. Ipswich, 10 a.m.
Derby vs. Morecambe, 10 a.m.
Exeter vs. Charlton, 10 a.m.
Fleetwood Town vs. Burton Albion, 10 a.m.
Forest Green vs. Peterborough, 10 a.m.
Oxford United vs. Shrewsbury, 10 a.m.
Port Vale vs. Wycombe, 10 a.m.
Portsmouth vs. Barnsley, 10 a.m.
Sheffield Wednesday vs. Plymouth, 10 a.m.
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Barrow vs. Salford, 10 a.m. ppd
Bradford vs. Carlisle, 10 a.m. ppd
Colchester 0, Gillingham 2
Crewe vs. Stockport County, 10 a.m. ppd
Doncaster vs. Tranmere, 10 a.m. ppd
Grimsby Town vs. Harrogate Town, 10 a.m. ppd
Hartlepool 2, Rochdale 0
Newport County vs. AFC Wimbledon, 10 a.m. ppd
Northampton vs. Mansfield Town, 10 a.m. ppd
Stevenage 3, Leyton Orient 0
Sutton United vs. Crawley Town, 10 a.m. ppd
Walsall vs. Swindon, 10 a.m. ppd
AFC Wimbledon vs. Walsall, 2:45 p.m. ppd
Carlisle vs. Hartlepool, 2:45 p.m.
Crawley Town vs. Grimsby Town, 2:45 p.m. ppd
Stockport County vs. Bradford, 2:45 p.m.
Swindon vs. Stevenage, 2:45 p.m. ppd
Colchester vs. Salford, 2:45 p.m.
AFC Wimbledon vs. Stockport County, 10 a.m.
Barrow vs. Northampton, 10 a.m.
Crawley Town vs. Salford, 10 a.m.
Grimsby Town vs. Newport County, 10 a.m. ppd
Harrogate Town vs. Sutton United, 10 a.m.
Hartlepool vs. Colchester, 10 a.m.
Mansfield Town vs. Doncaster, 10 a.m.
Rochdale vs. Carlisle, 10 a.m.
Stevenage vs. Crewe, 10 a.m. ppd
Swindon vs. Gillingham, 10 a.m.
Tranmere vs. Leyton Orient, 10 a.m.
Walsall vs. Bradford, 10 a.m. ppd
Salford vs. Walsall, 2:45 p.m.
Carlisle vs. Barrow, 2:45 p.m.
Crewe vs. Stockport County, 2:45 p.m.
Newport County vs. Swindon, 7:45 a.m.
Bradford vs. Mansfield Town, 10 a.m.
Carlisle vs. Harrogate Town, 10 a.m.
Colchester vs. Barrow, 10 a.m.
Crewe vs. Grimsby Town, 10 a.m.
Doncaster vs. Hartlepool, 10 a.m.
Gillingham vs. Crawley Town, 10 a.m.
Leyton Orient vs. AFC Wimbledon, 10 a.m.
Northampton vs. Walsall, 10 a.m.
Salford vs. Rochdale, 10 a.m.
Stockport County vs. Tranmere, 10 a.m.
Sutton United vs. Stevenage, 10 a.m. | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/English-Standings-17738122.php | 2023-01-24 16:30:12 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/English-Standings-17738122.php |
Manatee County Sheriff finds missing endangered adult
Published: Dec. 7, 2022 at 3:17 PM EST
UPDATED Dec. 9 with police saying she has been located.
BRADENTON, Fla. (WWSB) - The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office has ended its alert for a missing endangered adult.
Emily Ann Wilson, 26 had been was last seen near Blake Hospital a few days ago.
“Emily Ann has been located and she is safe,” the sheriff’s office announced Friday morning.
Copyright 2022 WWSB. All rights reserved. | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/12/07/manatee-county-sheriff-finds-missing-endangered-adult/ | 2022-12-09 15:01:59 | 1 | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/12/07/manatee-county-sheriff-finds-missing-endangered-adult/ |
PARIS (AP) — Some 15,000 athletes will get to feast on fresh baguettes, gourmet dishes and environment-friendly French cuisine — but no wine — when Paris hosts the Summer Olympics next year.
The company tasked with serving 40,000 meals a day at the Olympic Village unveiled Tuesday some of the items on the menu of a sit-down restaurant that plans to serve food created by some of France’s most-renowned chefs.
Bringing a “fun, gourmet and healthy” touch to the plates is key to the job, said Alexandre Mazzia, whose AM restaurant in Marseille earned three Michelin guide stars. He presented a recipe made of crushed chickpeas with herbs and a smoked fish sauce.
Other chefs unveiled dishes that included an elaborate quinoa risotto and a chocolate mousse with raspberries.
“It’s a pride and an honor to be able to show French tradition and skills,” Mazzia told The Associated Press.
French food services company Sodexo was selected to oversee the catering at the athletes’ village and other sites of the Paris Games. The company was assigned the challenge of making the 2024 Olympics an occasion-appropriate opportunity to explore France’s legendary gastronomy.
“France will invite the world to its table,” said Philipp Würz, who is the catering manager for the Olympics organizing committee. Athletes “know they will eat well here. Our goal is to provide them with high quality food.”
The eatery at the Olympic Village, which is meant to be the “biggest restaurant in the world,” is expected to seat 3,500 people.
In addition, athletes will have access to “grab and go” food points, including one dedicated exclusively to French cuisine cooked up by chefs, Sodexo said.
“What I cooked here is poultry, guinea fowl slowly roasted with a nice crayfish jus, very reduced, very intense, with a ‘poulette’ sauce (white sauce), so it’s a kind of creamy, comfort food,” renowned chef Amandine Chaignot, who runs a Paris restaurant, explained.
“I wanted it to be a bit representative of what we do in France so it’s quite ‘gourmand,’” she said.
The Olympic Village also will feature a boulangerie producing French baguettes — recently given U.N. world heritage status — and other breads. Croissants and other pastries will also be available.
One exception will be made to the French way of life, though: No wine, or any form of alcohol, will be offered to Olympians in the village, organizers said. Champagne and liquors will be reserved for reception events.
Stéphane Chicheri, the chef for Sodexo’s venues and sporting events branch, said more than 500 menu items will be available to meet the needs of all sports, special diets, eating habits and religious beliefs.
Another challenge Paris 2024 organizers promised to meet is to make the Games more sustainable and environment-friendly.
In that regard, the main restaurant at the village will use only reusable serving dishes, according to Sodexo.
The company said all meals will be based on seasonal products, and plant-based food will represent one-third of the offerings at the Olympic Village.
All meat, milk products and eggs will be French-produced. Imported items, like bananas and rice, will all be organic or have fair trade certification, Sodexo said.
To avoid waste, goods not consumed will be given to food banks and associations. Food scraps will be turned into compost or used for biogas production, the company said.
Quality and diversity of food is important because athletes need to be reassured that they’ll find what they need to nourish their bodies, said Hélène Defrance, a competitive sailor who won a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympics and now specializes in nutrition.
Still, organizers want the meals to be a convivial moment, in the pure French tradition.
“It’s not only the moment when we really feed our performances and get prepared for competition from a nutritional point of view,” Defrance said. “It’s also a moment when we regenerate and take a break, some time for exchanges, usually a pleasant moment.”
At his gastronomic restaurant in the southern city of Marseille, chef Mazzia is used to greeting many professional athletes, from kayakers and long-distance runners to judo practitioners and French and NBA basketball players.
“They are always surprised and happy with the moment they spent. I think I’ll meet some of them again during the Games, so that’s great,” he said.
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More AP coverage of the Paris Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/2024-paris-olympic-games and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/olympics/baguettes-but-no-wine-olympians-to-eat-gourmet-in-paris/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_olympics | 2023-05-09 19:33:25 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/olympics/baguettes-but-no-wine-olympians-to-eat-gourmet-in-paris/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_olympics |
LONDON, UK — He was the king of Queen and his crown could be yours — for the right price.
Freddie Mercury's extensive collection of costumes, fine art, and even handwritten working lyrics for “We Are the Champions” and “Killer Queen” will be auctioned in September.
Queen's frontman had said he wanted to live a Victorian life surrounded by “exquisite clutter,” and he left it all to his close friend, Mary Austin, when he died, at 45, of AIDS-related pneumonia in 1991.
Austin, who has kept most of it the way Mercury left it in his home in the upscale Kensington neighborhood of London, said she had reached the “difficult decision” that it was time to sell it all, Sotheby's said.
Artwork includes prints or works on paper by Picasso and Matisse. “Type of Beauty,” a painting by 19th century French artist James Tissot of his Irish muse and lover Kathleen Newton, is estimated to sell for 400,000 to 600,000 pounds ($500,000-750,000) — the highest of any item listed in press materials.
Lyrics for the band's show-closing anthemic number “We are the Champions" that Mercury wrote on nine pages, including stationery from British Midland Airways, are estimated to fetch 200,000 to 300,000 pounds ($250,000-375,000).
Mercury donned the rhinestone-studded crown and cloaked his bare back in the red fake fur cloak after singing “Champions” at Knebworth House north of London during Queen's final concert together in 1986. He marched triumphantly back onto stage and raised the crown with his right hand as the crowd began singing along to “God Save the Queen” piped out through the sound system.
The crown is said to be based on St. Edward's Crown, which will be featured in King Charles III's coronation next month. Unlike the authentic centerpiece of Britain's Crown Jewels, the headpiece worn by Mercury is only estimated to sell for 60,000 to 80,000 pounds ($75,000-100,000).
A Mercury fan with a smaller budget might consider his silver moustache comb from Tiffany & Co. It's expected to set you back 400 to 600 pounds ($500—750).
Some of the roughly 1,500 items going up for sale will be exhibited in New York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong during a tour in June.
They will be auctioned over three days in September. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to charity. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/nation-world/freddie-mercury-costumes-art-lyrics-collection-for-sale/507-fc8f8b83-d1db-4304-a4a2-898a033dd27e | 2023-04-26 14:22:32 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/nation-world/freddie-mercury-costumes-art-lyrics-collection-for-sale/507-fc8f8b83-d1db-4304-a4a2-898a033dd27e |
GREENSBORO — Are actions by the General Assembly threatening the impartiality of North Carolina’s judicial system?
A coalition of left-leaning nonprofits under the umbrella of a group called Fair Courts NC thinks so and has launched a series of news conferences across the state calling for judicial reform.
While in Greensboro on Thursday, the group highlighted that reform in three areas:
- Restoring judicial elections as nonpartisan or allowing candidates to run as independent by lower-ballot access thresholds.
- Banning judges from partisan political activity — like endorsing and fundraising for other candidates — when they are not on the ballot.
- Establishing clear ethics rules that would ban judges from hearing cases involving friends and family members.
“This is called recusal reform,” said Melissa Price Kromm, the executive director of North Carolina Voters for Clean Elections. “Right now, judges can just decide whether or not they should hear a case or not.”
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The coalition took particular aim at Chief Justice Paul Newby and Associate Justice Philip Berger Jr. on the state Supreme Court.
“Justice Newby and Phil Berger Jr. have repeatedly involved themselves in political activities, even though Justice Burger isn’t even on the ballot again until 2028 and Justice Newby faces mandatory retirement before the end of his current term,” Price Kromm said.
The group also criticized Newby for replacing the head of the judicial Standards Commission, which provides ethical guidance to judges.
The Fair Courts NC’s website notes that Berger Jr. has refused to recuse himself from cases involving his father, state Senate leader Phil Berger Sr. of Eden.
Neither Newby nor the Bergers could be reached for comment Thursday by the News & Record.
When questioned why the coalition only cited Republicans in its comments, and not Democrats such as Justice Anita Earls — whom Republicans had asked to recuse herself in a redistricting case because of ties to the plaintiffs — the group said the issue applies to both parties.
“This is absolutely not a partisan issue,” said Hilary Harris Klein of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice. “Either party — to your point — can be acting in this way and the folks that are impacted in the crossfire of that are the voters and our democracy.”
Fair Courts NC also counts the NC Council of Churches among its members. At Thursday’s news conference, the council’s executive director, the Rev. Jennifer Copeland, said people should remember checks and balances intended by the three branches of government: executive, legislative and judicial.
“When one branch goes too far, the others keep things balanced,” Copeland said. “Think of a three-legged stool that cannot balance if one of the legs is missing.
“When the legislators are not upholding the laws of our state, we depend on the courts to hold them accountable on our behalf. And when the executive branch passes rules that are beyond the pale, we depend on the courts to hold him or her in check.”
The group noted the importance of the judiciary on issues involving education, voting, police accountability, environmental issues and LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights.
“Judges should run for election independent from party affiliation,” Price Kromm said. “They should not have labels. They should simply be honest people.”
Supreme Court and Court of Appeals races were nonpartisan for 14 years in North Carolina, until a Republican-led legislature approved a law in 2015 that made them partisan again starting in 2018.
Republican leaders have said that identifying candidates by party label gives voters valuable insight into what kind of judge each is likely to be.
The North Carolina Republican Party did not respond to a request for comment on the points raised by Fair Courts NC.
In a statement, the state’s Democratic Party Chair Bobbie Richardson said: “Our courts should be fair and independent of political biases, but North Carolina Republicans have long since abused their power to inject partisanship into the judicial process. Courts by Republican design are not true justice.”
Mary Ellen Shiflett, president of the nonpartisan League of Women Voters of the Piedmont Triad, said she couldn’t speak to all of the issues raised by Fair Courts NC. However, she said, “the League supports nonpartisan selection of judges.”
Only time will tell if the concerns raised by Fair Courts NC will make their way to the ballot box.
“The fact is, judges don’t wear red robes or blue robes,” Price Kromm said. “They wear black robes because they are there to uphold the rule of law.” | https://greensboro.com/news/state-and-regional/crime-and-courts/is-north-carolinas-judicial-system-fair-this-group-says-no-way-heres-why/article_b2b91ee2-23e9-11ed-8a64-a3a92f759385.html | 2022-08-26 04:30:21 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/state-and-regional/crime-and-courts/is-north-carolinas-judicial-system-fair-this-group-says-no-way-heres-why/article_b2b91ee2-23e9-11ed-8a64-a3a92f759385.html |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – The Wichita Parks Foundation and Wichita Park & Recreation hosted the seventh annual Red, White & Boom!
Fireworks were launched Monday evening east of Riverfront Stadium over the Arkansas River following the completion of the Wichita WindSurge game against Amarillo Sod Poodles.
Food trucks were set just south of the Hyatt Lawn for other attendees.
If you missed the show, KSN News has a video of the fireworks above. The music that was playing during the show has been edited out due to copyright issues. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/watch-red-white-boom-fireworks-from-downtown-wichita/ | 2022-07-05 17:43:39 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/watch-red-white-boom-fireworks-from-downtown-wichita/ |
By TIM REYNOLDS
AP Basketball Writer
MIAMI (AP) — Joel Embiid has a right orbital fracture and a mild concussion and the Philadelphia 76ers said Friday night that the MVP finalist is out for the foreseeable future.
Embiid was injured late in Philadelphia’s victory at Toronto on Thursday night, when the 76ers were closing out the Raptors and finishing off a six-game win in an Eastern Conference first-round series.
That win sent fourth-seeded Philadelphia into the East semifinals against top-seeded Miami, a matchup that begins Monday night.
But Embiid’s status is now very much in doubt. A similar fracture, to his left orbital bone, kept him out for about three weeks — spanning 10 games, including two playoff games against the Heat.
He was already playing through a right thumb injury in these playoffs, but led the 76ers to the Round 1 win regardless.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A company employing thousands of people in central Ohio is asking its workers to pay the company. Honda sent a memo to employees at its Marysville factory, saying it overpaid bonuses and needs that extra money back.
Employees say returning the money will be hard for their families, but an attorney not involved with this case said Honda is properly going about collecting the overpayments.
“Not a lot of people can handle this kind of a hit,” said the wife of a Honda employee, who spoke with NBC4 on the condition that she or her husband not be identified.
She provided a copy of the memo her husband received from his employer Tuesday, informing him that his recent bonus was overpaid.
“I asked him that. I said, you know, ‘Was this… the highest check you’d ever gotten for a bonus check? [Did you think] that it seemed weird?’ And he said no, it wasn’t the highest he’d ever gotten.”
According to the memo, the employee owed back just shy of 8% of his bonus payment, amounting to hundreds of dollars.
“That’s, you know, a car payment. That’s half of our mortgage,” his wife said. “That’s two, three weeks worth of groceries. That’s a lot of money for us.”
Sarah Cole is a law professor at the Ohio State University, specializing in employment and labor. She said aside from the company’s initial mistake of overpaying employees, Honda is handling this situation correctly.
“Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, which applies to all employers in the United States, it’s quite clear that overpayments of bonuses or wages can be recouped by the employer,” Cole said.
The memo gives employees until Sept. 22 to choose whether they’d like the amount they owe to be taken out of future paychecks, deducted from future bonuses or paid upfront. Otherwise, Honda will deduct from future bonuses by default.
Cole’s advice to employees is to choose the best option for them.
“Honda could pursue this in court. But of course, that would be very expensive for them to do and obviously not look very positive from a publicity standpoint,” Cole said. “So I’m sure they’re hoping to have voluntary agreement with the employees that the employee just willingly repays the overpayment.”
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WILMINGTON, Mass. (AP) — WILMINGTON, Mass. (AP) — Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) on Wednesday reported fiscal first-quarter profit of $961.5 million.
The Wilmington, Massachusetts-based company said it had profit of $1.88 per share. Earnings, adjusted for costs related to mergers and acquisitions, came to $2.75 per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 12 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $2.59 per share.
The semiconductor maker posted revenue of $3.25 billion in the period, also topping Street forecasts. Eleven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $3.14 billion.
For the current quarter ending in April, Analog Devices expects its per-share earnings to range from $2.65 to $2.85. Analysts surveyed by Zacks had forecast adjusted earnings per share of $2.50.
The company said it expects revenue in the range of $3.1 billion to $3.3 billion for the fiscal second quarter. Analysts surveyed by Zacks had expected revenue of $3.11 billion.
Analog Devices shares have increased 11% since the beginning of the year, while the S&P's 500 index has climbed almost 8%. The stock has risen 19% in the last 12 months.
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SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, P.C., a leading Michigan full-service law firm, announced today it is merging with Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, an AmLaw 100 law firm with offices across the Midwest and the District of Columbia, effective December 31, 2022.
"Jaffe is starting a new, modern chapter by joining Taft," said Jaffe CEO Mark Cooper. "Taft shares our entrepreneurial mindset, Midwestern values, and commitment to culture, community, and client service. Our ability to leverage Taft's resources and expertise will provide an opportunity to drive even greater value and results to our clients."
Taft operates an innovative "non-headquarter" model in seven primary Midwest markets and the District of Columbia, allowing offices to thrive under empowered local leadership. Local offices are supported by a deep bench of legal expertise across a diverse array of practice areas. After joining Taft, the current Jaffe leadership team will continue to lead and make Detroit market decisions, and many will step into firm-wide leadership roles, serving on Taft's executive committee, all other major committees of the firm, and chairing practice groups.
The combined full-service firm, with more than 800 attorneys, will offer a broad spectrum of legal services to a wide range of industries, representing all significant practice areas.
"At Taft, our pervasive 'client-first' approach is central to who we are and how we operate," said Robert J. Hicks, Taft's chairman and managing partner. "By combining with Jaffe, we welcome a cohesive, talented, and experienced group of attorneys and staff to our team offering expanded expertise to clients. As in all of our mergers, we also look forward to continuing to support the Detroit regional community, united in our commitment to engage with our communities — a shared value among our firms."
Founded in 1968, Jaffe is one of the most respected full-service business law firms in Michigan — representing public and private clients throughout the Midwest and United States, and internationally, with a Midwestern rate structure. With offices in Southfield and Detroit, Jaffe is currently the seventh-largest law firm in the Metro Detroit area with more than 120 attorneys representing more than 25 practice areas.
"Jaffe was founded more than 50 years ago and has created a firm centered on client service and exceptional legal counsel. By joining Taft, a firm that shares our values and client-first approach, we ensure the legacy of the firm will continue for generations to come, in alignment with our foundational principles," said Arthur Weiss, Chairman of Jaffe.
Jaffe has been named a Crain's Detroit Business Cool Places to Work in Michigan for the last three years. In addition to these recognitions, dozens of Jaffe attorneys have been honored for their expertise and leadership by various local and legal publications and rating services including Best Lawyers, Chambers, Crain's Detroit Business, DBusiness, Michigan Lawyers Weekly, SuperLawyers® and more.
This combination not only expands Jaffe's capabilities, but it also expands Taft's presence as it enters its eighth Midwest market — the second-largest in the Midwest. With the Jaffe combination, Taft will have major offices in seven of the nine largest Midwest metropolitan markets. In addition to several strategic lateral hires and robust internal growth, Taft has completed five mergers/combinations in the past 15 years — Briggs & Morgan (Minneapolis) in 2020, Shefsky & Froelich (Chicago) in 2014, Chester Willcox & Saxbe (Columbus) in 2012, and Kahn Kleinman (Cleveland) and Sommer Barnard (Indianapolis), both in 2008.
The addition of Jaffe comes at a time of strategic growth for Taft — having recently been named an Am Law 100 firm. In addition, Taft has grown its attorney headcount by more than 85% in the past five years and continues to be recognized as an employer of choice across the Midwest.
Such growth has enabled Taft to invest significantly in modern initiatives, including its focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Today, more than 70% of Taft's executive leadership team are women and/or racially and ethnically diverse attorneys. The firm's efforts to establish itself as a modern, progressive law firm has also earned them the prestigious Mansfield Rule Certification 4.0 Plus status.
For more information, visit Jaffelaw.com and Taftlaw.com.
Michigan-based Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, P.C. is a full-service law firm representing and advising entrepreneurs and businesses nationwide. Focused on results, invested in relationships, and driven by opportunity, Jaffe has more than 120 attorneys in its Southfield and Detroit offices. Learn more at Jaffelaw.com.
Founded in 1885, Taft is focused on being the modern law firm. From its non-headquarter model to a one-class partnership structure, the firm is committed to its core values of integrity, inclusivity, and teamwork in order to help clients succeed by delivering progressive, agile, and efficient solutions. Learn more at Taftlaw.com.
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With “Gymkhana 2022,” rally driver Travis Pastrana attempted stunts never before seen in the gymkhana series—increasing the potential for something to go wrong.
Subaru of America’s “Launch Control” YouTube show is doing a three-part behind-the-scenes look at the filming of the latest gymkhana installment, called “Road to Gymkhana.” This third episode (all three were filmed before the death of gymkhana creator Ken Block) shows how much nail-biting was going on during filming.
“There is a new element of higher risk with Travis,” Lance Smith, president of Vermont SportsCar, which builds Pastrana’s Subaru rally cars and gymkhana cars, said in the video. Gymkhana 2022 is Pastrana’s second gymkhana video, and in addition to debuting his Subaru GL Family Huckster wagon, it includes some of the most ambitious stunts in the series.
Before even getting in the car, Pastrana filmed a BASE jump off a Fort Lauderdale building. As covered in a previous episode, Pastrana was injured by a hard landing and was sidelined for six months, leaving the team scrambling to finish the shoot after his recovery.
One of the items on the agenda was a rail slide, the kind of move normally done with a skateboard, not an 865-hp station wagon. The rails had to be perfectly center, and Pastrana had to hit his mark perfectly, or the car could have tipped over. That last part was made more difficult by the fact that Pastrana couldn’t actually see the rails as he jumped the car onto them.
That shot and several others, including a sidebar where Pastrana swapped into a stock Subaru WRX, went smoothly, though. That left the bridge jump.
The delay caused by Pastrana’s injury allowed for negotiations with the government of Marathon, Florida, to use the bridge. After a charitable donation used to upgrade a local skate park, the Hoonigan crew got the green light to shoot Pastrana jumping a 100-foot bridge gap over a hovering helicopter. The crew brought out a ramp from “Gymkhana 2020” and shimmed it to achieve the proper trajectory, and did some testing on dry land.
“This wagon flies like a wagon,” Pastrana said, but by getting it up to 120 mph he was able to get enough distance to clear the gap. Check out the Gymkhana 2022 to see the results.
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Man pleads not guilty to trying to kill Justice Kavanaugh
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A man who was arrested near Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home in Maryland earlier this month pleaded not guilty Wednesday to trying to kill Kavanaugh.
Nicholas John Roske, 26, of Simi Valley, California, remained in custody after his arraignment on one count of attempting to assassinate a Supreme Court justice.
During the arraignment, he bowed his head and clasped his hands around his neck as he answered U.S. Magistrate Judge Ajmel Quereshi’s questions. His public defender, Andrew Szekely, told the judge that he was satisfied his client was getting the medical care and unspecified medication that he needs while in custody.
Quereshi set a tentative trial date for Aug. 23.
A grand jury in Greenbelt, Maryland, indicted Roske on the charge last week. The charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
Roske, who was arrested on June 8, was armed with a gun and a knife, was carrying zip ties and was dressed in black when when he arrived by taxi just after 1 a.m. outside Kavanaugh’s home in Chevy Chase, a Washington suburb in Maryland’s Montgomery County, according to an FBI agent’s affidavit.
Roske turned and walked away after seeing two deputy U.S. Marshals outside standing nearby, the affidavit said.
Roske called county police and said he had come to Maryland from California to kill a Supreme Court justice, the agent wrote. Roske also told police that he had a gun in his suitcase and was having suicidal thoughts, the affidavit said.
After his arrest, Roske told a police detective that he was upset by a leaked draft opinion suggesting the Supreme Court is about to overrule Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion case. Roske also said he was upset over the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, and believed Kavanaugh would vote to loosen gun control laws, the affidavit said.
Investigators found a pistol with ammunition, a knife, pepper spray, zip ties, a hammer, duct tape, a pistol light and other gear in Roske’s suitcase and backpack, according to the FBI.
A Homeland Security Department report said the draft opinion’s leak in May unleashed a wave of threats against officials and others and increased the likelihood of extremist violence. The leaked opinion also sparked protests outside the homes of Kavanaugh and other justices.
Last Thursday, President Joe Biden signed a bill that will give around-the-clock security protection to the families of Supreme Court justices.
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CHARLESTON, S.C., Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SinglePoint, Inc. (OTCQB: SING) ("SinglePoint" or "the Company") announced today that its subsidiary, BPA Solutions, a premier provider and consultant for clean air services, fulfilled an initial purchase order of Certified HEPA, AIRBOX air purification units to a university in North Carolina.
Ran Johnston, BPA Solutions VP of Sales, said, "Adding another University purchase to our platform showcases continued efforts by schools to improve indoor air quality (IAQ) at their campuses. Working with a North Carolina educational institution is always a pleasure, and this order is a same-day delivery made it all the more special. The quick turnaround is a testament to AIRBOX and another example of the benefits of selling to in-state universities."
AIRBOX units are made and manufactured in Statesville, North Carolina, and are certified "Made in the USA" products. Each unit is quality control tested before leaving the assembly floor. BPA Solutions uses only the highest quality components to build the leading air purifier designed for commercial use but is usable in any location. Every unit produced uses Certified HEPA filtration, the highest filtration certification available today.
BPA Solutions is an industry expert in improving indoor air quality. BPA Solutions is an industry expert in improving indoor air quality. BPA Solutions has been working with schools using ESSER, EANS, and FEMA dollars. The Company is uniquely qualified to effectively implement air purification solutions and assist school administrators with tapping into the existing Federal funding.
Indoor Air Quality is strongly correlated with students' health and learning potential. Most Americans spend the majority of their time indoors, creating a significant emphasis on how indoor air affects us all. Clean indoor air can improve quality of life and reduce respiratory infections and the risk of various chronic conditions such as asthma. For students, this means more time to focus and study without distraction. Furthermore, better IAQ reduces the potential for transmission of infectious diseases. Homes and public spaces can benefit from the best air quality monitors and filters for mold and other pollutants for health and protection.
AIRBOX™, the only commercial-grade air purifier made in the USA, made the same-day in-state delivery of this order, continuing their commitment to serving schools in their area. BPA Solutions is proud to work with AIRBOX and share its commitment to quality products and timely delivery.
About BPA Solutions
At BPA Solutions, we believe in providing schools with products and services designed to create a healthier, safer school environment. Our flagship entity, BOX Pure Air, introduced us to the school industry and the daily problems schools face. As we continue to expand, we are constantly looking for ways to provide quality resources at a reasonable cost to schools.
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Trey Mancini and the Chicago Cubs have agreed to a two-year contract, according to a person familiar with the deal.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity late Saturday night because the agreement is pending a successful physical.
Mancini, a cancer survivor, helped the Houston Astros win the World Series last season after arriving Aug. 1 from Baltimore in a three-team trade that included Tampa Bay.
He struggled at the plate with Houston and finished the season batting .239 with 18 home runs, 63 RBIs and a .710 OPS overall for the Orioles and Astros.
Mancini, who turns 31 in March, brings a right-handed bat with power and could be a primary option at designated hitter for the Cubs. He plays first base and the corner outfield spots, also giving Chicago a potential platoon partner for new first baseman Eric Hosmer, a left-handed hitter.
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Mancini would become the latest free-agent addition for the active Cubs this winter after they went 74-88 last year for their second consecutive losing season. They also added Gold Glove shortstop Dansby Swanson, right-hander Jameson Taillon, outfielder Cody Bellinger, reliever Brad Boxberger and catcher Tucker Barnhart.
In five-plus major league seasons, Mancini is a .265 career hitter with 125 home runs and a .787 OPS.
He finished third in 2017 AL Rookie of the Year balloting with Baltimore, then batted .291 with 35 homers, 97 RBIs and an .899 OPS in 2019. But he was diagnosed with colon cancer the following year and missed the 2020 season while undergoing treatment.
Mancini returned in 2021 and won the AL Comeback Player of the Year award after hitting .255 with 21 homers, 71 RBIs and a .758 OPS in 147 games for the Orioles.
After the Astros acquired him last year, Mancini batted just .176 with eight homers, 22 RBIs and a .622 OPS, becoming a part-time player for Houston in October. He was in and out of the lineup and finished 1 for 21 with one RBI and eight strikeouts in his first postseason, managing a single in the World Series clincher against Philadelphia.
But he was pressed into service late in Game 5 when Gold Glove first baseman Yuli Gurriel sprained his right knee, and Mancini — playing in the field for the first time in a month — turned in a terrific defensive play that helped the Astros hold on for a 3-2 victory.
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HARRISON -- Boone County's House District 5 race pits a four-term Republican representative against an independent who claims to be the real Republican in the race.
Rep. Ron McNair, R-Harrison, seeks a fifth House term, running against challenger Jim A. Hall, an independent. No Democrat ran for this seat.
The district covers most of Boone County. It includes Harrison and Alpena. It is the only state House district contained entirely within Boone County and covers the southern portion. The northern sector of the county is within neighboring House District 6, which includes much of Carroll County.
State representatives serve two-year terms and receive a base salary of $44,357. There are 100 members of the state House. Early voting begins Oct. 24 for the Nov. 8 general election.
The Legislature should have removed Gov. Asa Hutchinson from office for the covid restrictions he imposed, Hall said in an interview. The Legislature has impeachment power under Article 15 of the Arkansas Constitution.
"He didn't have any right to dictate to businesses, churches and schools," Hall said. "The House member for this district should be a Republican and have stood up for them.
"I am the Republican in the race even though I'm running as an independent," he said. "I have the gumption to stand up to the governor."
He filed as an independent because the Republican Party demanded $3,000 as a filing fee, he said. Running as an independent required petition signatures instead of the fee.
"I believe the 2020 election was stolen," Hall said of then-President Donald Trump's defeat. The state Legislature should have done more to protest the outcome, he said.
"State agencies are too big for their britches, and the Legislature has no control over highways," Hall said, referring to the independent state Highway Commission. Hall also said he is "100% for school choice." He said the state's $1.6 billion budget surplus "should be given back to the people they stole it from," the taxpayers.
McNair knows the people in the district thoroughly, he said.
"I've lived in this district all my life and have built the relationships needed to work on each issue that comes up," he said. "I try to make the best common-sense decisions I can with the information I have at the time. I did that on the school board and in the Legislature."
He is in his fourth term in the Legislature, giving him both seniority in the House and good working relationships with fellow lawmakers, he said.
McNair has a long record of supporting the right to bear arms, he said, and is a long-standing member of the National Rifle Association.
"I'm a public school supporter, and I support teacher raises," he said.
McNair's 28 years of experience on the Alpena School Board before his election as representative is valuable in the Legislature and so is the experience from his career as a private businessman, he said
"The district is not that much different from other places, in that people are trying to make a living," McNair said. "They don't want other people controlling their lives. The majority of my district is usually on the same page on the issues. They're good folks with common sense who feel blessed to live where they are. It's a good place to live."
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How would you feel and what would you think, if war heroes were not welcomed back home?
That’s the question posed by the new temporary exhibit at The History Museum of Hood River County, a collaboration with the Japanese American Museum of Oregon (JAMO), featuring the stories and memorabilia of Japanese American World War II soldiers. The exhibit will run through Dec. 31.
“More than 400 first generation Japanese American (Nisei) soldiers from Oregon served in the military during World War II,” writes The History Museum of Hood River County Executive Director Anna Goodwin in a press release. “They played a pivotal role in both Europe and the Pacific, despite their families being incarcerated in concentration camps in the U.S. at the same time. This exhibition focuses on the stories of those soldiers, and the long trek they made to serve their country, overcome prejudice at home, and achieve recognition for their contributions.”
Setting the stage for the exhibit, an opening panel asks visitors to consider how the events and experiences described are similar — and different — from life today: “Imagine what YOU might have said and done at the time. What might YOU do if you faced similar issues today?”
Hood River’s campaign to discourage Nisei soldiers and their incarcerated families from returning to the valley — and the open hostility towards those who did — is part of that story. “In 1943, the American Legion Post 22 in Hood River proposed a Constitutional amendment to deprive all Nisei of their citizenship,” reads one panel. “It vowed not only to prevent the return of Japanese Americans from wartime camps but also to deport them to Japan. Members of the post also protested against Nisei serving in our military. In November 1944, they removed 16 names from the county’s memorial board on the courthouse. All were names of Nisei servicemen.”
On another panel, visitors learn, “Hood River quickly became famous for more than its apples. From across the country, newspapers editorialized and citizens wrote letters. A torrent of protest also came from GIs, military officers and citizens, especially after local son Frank Hachiya died during a mission in the Philippines.”
It’s the story, too, of the bravery and sacrifice made by Japanese American soldiers, both during the war and after. The exhibit features memorabilia and photos from the collections of the families of George Akiyama, Sho Endow, Frank Hachiya, Shig Imai, Sagie Nishioka, Mamoru Noji, Harry Tamura, Keith Doroski, Kenijro Hayakawa, Hood River News, Japanese American National Museum, Oregon Historical Society, Oregon Nikkei Endowment, Fred Sumoge, The History Museum of Hood River County and Homer Yasui.
It’s a thought-provoking exhibit that drops visitors into a very dark period of local history.
“Resurrecting the past can be like ‘opening a can of worms,’” acknowledges one panel. “We may be vulnerable and we might feel hurt, but it is a beginning. As one Nisei confided: ‘Now that … everything is out in the open, all of us feel less uncomfortable talking about it.’
“And ever so gradually, Hood River is breaking its silence. By publicly recognizing mistakes of the past and by honoring those who withstood racism and served our country, the community is taking steps toward healing.”
As Goodwin explained, the exhibit “encourages us to question ourselves and others: What would you do, if you found yourself in similar circumstances? And perhaps it will help us all commit to moving closer to that welcoming home these heroes risked everything to protect and make a reality.”
As reported in Columbia Gorge News, during this year’s Memorial Day presentation at Idlewilde Cemetery, American Legion Hood River Post 22 Commander Carl Casey described some of the overt racism experienced by the Nisei during this time; he apologized, saying the Legion would work “to ensure they will not be treated like that in Hood River ever again.”
The History Museum of Hood River County, 300 E. Port Marina Drive, Hood River, is open Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. through December. Admission is $5 (and free for children 10 and younger as well as currently serving military personnel and families). For more information, call 541-386-6772, email info@hoodriverhistorymuseum.org or visit www.hoodriverhistorymuseum.org. | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/gorge-life/history-museum-of-hood-river-county-asks-what-would-you-do/article_49b2308c-28bc-11ed-a848-8f7cd1ee1f1d.html | 2022-08-31 14:46:19 | 1 | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/gorge-life/history-museum-of-hood-river-county-asks-what-would-you-do/article_49b2308c-28bc-11ed-a848-8f7cd1ee1f1d.html |
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MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Officials are meeting in Kigali in Rwanda this week as part of the continent's first-ever Africa Protected Areas Congress in a bid to expand the preservation of land and marine wildlife, despite little funding and the low quality of many existing conservation areas in the region.
Just 14% of Africa's land and inland water ecosystems and 17% of coastal and marine areas are protected, according to United Nations estimates. The continent currently has 9,118 protected areas. Over 100 countries worldwide have ambitions to expand conservation efforts and protect wildlife from human-caused damages.
“Africa’s protected and conserved areas face serious issues that need to be addressed urgently," said Ken Mwathe, policy coordinator for Birdlife International in Africa. He said climate change, the decline in quality for protected areas due to underfunding and the growth of infrastructure development in protected areas area severely hampering biodiversity on the continent.
“The push for development in protected and other key biodiversity areas is one that governments and stakeholders should critically interrogate during the congress," Mwathe said.
Those working on the frontlines of conservation are already facing increasing challenges. On Kenya's Wasini Island, where coral reefs and fish are protected by a community-managed marine park, conservation managers say it's difficult for these projects to succeed.
“Managing this local marine park is quite expensive for the community and requires a lot of external support," said Dosa Mshenga, a member of the community that looks after the coral reefs. “However it has a major positive side. Since we started coral restoration and watching the designated area around eight years ago, we have seen fish, octopus and even lobsters which had disappeared returning.”
But these gains are now threatened by the construction of a major fishing port in Shimoni, just 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) from the island, Mshenga said.
The Great Blue Wall Initiative — a project to protect marine life across Africa's east coast — will play a prominent part in marine conservation discussions, alongside community-led projects like those in Wasini, Luther Anukur, regional director of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, which is hosting the conference, said. He added that local communities and Indigenous people will be at the forefront of conservation efforts.
“It is important to note that African people have not only lived alongside wildlife but have been its protectors too," Anukur said.
African governments have found themselves under increasing public pressure and international condemnation in recent weeks following evictions of Indigenous communities from conservation areas, with the Maasai in Tanzania appealing to the U.N. for better protections following violent confrontations that forced them to leave their ancestral homes in Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
The congress brings together wildlife parks and reserves managers, scientists, and Indigenous and community leaders. It's hoped that increasing the dialogue between groups will improve the health of Africa's biodiversity hotspots and combat worrying trends, such as the increase in poaching and the illegal wildlife trade.
A high-level discussion on the link between climate change and biodiversity, with an emphasis on protected areas that can significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions, will be central to the meeting, organizer Anukur added.
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- Net sales of $118.5 million increased 60.6% year-over-year
- Gross profit of $24.1 million increased 152.5% year-over-year
- Net income of $0.97 per diluted share; adjusted net income of $1.04 per diluted share
- Record quarterly profits and revenues for both of the recently acquired Precast Infrastructure and Engineered Systems segment ("Precast") businesses
- Backlog1 of $303 million; backlog including confirmed orders2 of $338 million for the Engineered Steel Pressure Pipe segment ("SPP")
- Record order book3 of $75 million for Precast
VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Northwest Pipe Company (NASDAQ: NWPX) (the "Company"), a leading manufacturer of water-related infrastructure including engineered pipeline systems and precast products, today announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022. The Company will broadcast its second quarter 2022 earnings conference call on Monday, August 8, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. PT.
Management Commentary
"The integration of ParkUSA is on schedule and we remain very excited about the potential of our newest acquisition. Our Precast business continued to be very strong during the second quarter, producing revenue of $41.4 million, a gross margin of 31.3% and a record order book that ended the quarter at nearly $75 million. Despite some of the current economic headwinds, we expect the Precast business to remain strong for the near term," said Scott Montross, President and Chief Executive Officer of Northwest Pipe Company.
Mr. Montross continued, "Our Engineered Steel Pressure Pipe business continued to experience solid bidding and ended the second quarter with a strong backlog including confirmed orders of $338 million. While the first half of 2022 was projected to be the high-water mark for backlog, we expect it to remain fairly high compared to historical standards for the balance of the year. In the second quarter, our SPP business generated revenue of $77.1 million and gross margins of 14.4%. For the third quarter of 2022, our SPP business was on track to generate similar revenue and improving margins compared to the second quarter of 2022. However, recent severe weather events in late July and early August forced shutdowns at both our Adelanto, California and St. Louis, Missouri plants due to flooding which may adversely impact our revenue and margins if the shutdowns become extended. As such, we currently anticipate our third quarter SPP revenue could be down slightly from the second quarter of 2022 with gross margins that are flat to modestly higher."
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results
Consolidated
- Net sales increased 60.6% to $118.5 million from $73.8 million in the second quarter of 2021.
- Gross profit increased 152.5% to $24.1 million, or 20.3% of net sales, from $9.5 million, or 12.9% of net sales, in the second quarter of 2021.
- Net income was $9.7 million, or $0.97 per diluted share, compared to $2.1 million, or $0.21 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2021.
- Adjusted net income was $10.3 million, or $1.04 per diluted share, compared to $2.2 million, or $0.22 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2021. Adjusted net income, which is a non-GAAP financial measure, is reconciled to net income in the table titled "Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" below.
Engineered Steel Pressure Pipe Segment (SPP)
- SPP net sales increased 31.2% to $77.1 million from $58.7 million in the second quarter of 2021 driven by a 35% increase in selling price per ton due to increased materials costs and changes in product mix, partially offset by a 3% decrease in tons produced resulting from changes in project timing.
- SPP gross profit increased 67.9% to $11.1 million, or 14.4% of SPP net sales, compared to $6.6 million, or 11.3% of SPP net sales, in the second quarter of 2021 primarily due to changes in product mix.
- SPP backlog was approximately $303 million as of June 30, 2022 compared to $200 million as of March 31, 2022 and $195 million as of June 30, 2021. Backlog including confirmed orders was $338 million as of June 30, 2022 compared to $341 million as of March 31, 2022 and $234 million as of June 30, 2021.
Precast Infrastructure and Engineered Systems Segment (Precast)
- Precast net sales increased 175.2% to $41.4 million from $15.1 million in the second quarter of 2021 primarily due to the Park Environmental Equipment, LLC ("ParkUSA") operations acquired in October 2021, which contributed $24.2 million in net sales. In addition, the segment realized a 14% increase in net sales at the pre-existing precast operations resulting from a 54% increase in selling prices due to the high demand for the Company's concrete products coupled with increased material costs, partially offset by a 26% decrease in volume shipped due to changes in product mix.
- Precast gross profit increased 343.9% to $13.0 million, or 31.3% of Precast net sales, from $2.9 million, or 19.4% of Precast net sales, in the second quarter of 2021 due to contributions from the ParkUSA operations, as well as improved pricing at the pre-existing precast operations.
- Precast order book was approximately $75 million as of June 30, 2022 compared to $66 million as of March 31, 2022 and $24 million as of June 30, 2021. The quarter ended December 31, 2021 was the first period that included the order book for ParkUSA.
Liquidity Details
As of June 30, 2022, the Company had $86.7 million of outstanding revolving loan borrowings and additional borrowing capacity of approximately $37 million. The Company expects to have sufficient credit available to support its operations for at least the next twelve months with near-term repayment of outstanding debt remaining a high priority.
Conference Call Details
A conference call and simultaneous webcast to discuss the Company's second quarter 2022 financial results will be held on Monday, August 8, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. PT. The call will be broadcast live on the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at investor.nwpipe.com and will be archived online upon completion of the conference call. For those unable to listen to the live call, a replay will be available approximately three hours after the event and will remain available until Monday, August 22, 2022 by dialing 1‑844-512-2921 in the U.S. or 1‑412-317-6671 internationally and entering the replay access code: 10019896.
About Northwest Pipe Company
Founded in 1966, Northwest Pipe Company is a leading manufacturer for water-related infrastructure products. In addition to being the largest manufacturer of engineered steel water pipeline systems in North America, the Company manufactures high-quality precast and reinforced concrete products; water, wastewater, and stormwater equipment; steel casing pipe; bar-wrapped concrete cylinder pipe; and one of the largest offerings of pipeline system joints, fittings, and specialized components. Strategically positioned to meet growing water and wastewater infrastructure needs, Northwest Pipe Company provides solution-based products for a wide range of markets under the ParkUSA, Geneva Pipe and Precast, and Permalok® lines. The Company's diverse team is committed to quality and innovation while demonstrating the Company's core values of accountability, commitment, and teamwork. The Company is headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, and has 13 manufacturing facilities across North America. Please visit www.nwpipe.com for more information.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this press release by Scott Montross are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, that are based on current expectations, estimates, and projections about the Company's business, management's beliefs, and assumptions made by management. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of important factors. While it is impossible to identify all such factors, those that could cause actual results to differ materially from those estimated by the Company include changes in demand and market prices for its products, product mix, bidding activity and order cancelations, timing of customer orders and deliveries, production schedules, price and availability of raw materials, excess or shortage of production capacity, international trade policy and regulations, changes in tariffs and duties imposed on imports and exports and related impacts on the Company, fluctuations in interest rate risk and changes in market interest rates, the Company's ability to identify and complete internal initiatives and/or acquisitions in order to grow its business, the Company's ability to effectively integrate ParkUSA and other acquisitions into its business and operations and achieve significant administrative and operational cost synergies and accretion to financial results, impacts of U.S. tax reform legislation on the Company's results of operations, adequacy of the Company's insurance coverage, supply chain challenges, labor shortages, ongoing military conflicts in Ukraine and related consequences, operating problems at the Company's manufacturing operations including fires, explosions, inclement weather, and floods and other natural disasters, impacts of pandemics, epidemics, or other public health emergencies, such as coronavirus disease 2019, and other risks discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10‑K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and from time to time in its other Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports. Such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made, and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release. If the Company does update or correct one or more forward-looking statements, investors and others should not conclude that it will make additional updates or corrections with respect thereto or with respect to other forward-looking statements.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The Company is presenting backlog including confirmed orders, adjusted net income, and adjusted diluted net income per share. These non-GAAP financial measures are provided to better enable investors and others to assess the Company's ongoing operating results and compare them with its competitors. This should be considered a supplement to, and not a substitute for, or superior to, financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP.
For more information, visit www.nwpipe.com.
Contact:
Aaron Wilkins
Chief Financial Officer
Northwest Pipe Company
(360) 397‑6294 • investors@nwpipe.com
Or Addo Investor Relations
(310) 829‑5400
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CEDARHURST, N.Y., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The securities litigation law firm of Kuznicki Law PLLC issues this alert to shareholders of CareDx, Inc. (NasdaqGM: CDNA), if they purchased the Company's shares between shares between February 24, 2021 and May 5, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). Shareholders have until July 22, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in the securities class action lawsuit.
Shareholders are encouraged to contact us at https://kclasslaw.com/cases/securities/nasdaqgm-cdna/, by calling toll-free at 1-833-835-1495 or by email (dk@kclasslaw.com).
Kuznicki Law PLLC is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a Company lead to artificial inflation of the Company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
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Daniel Kuznicki, Esq.
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Santolina’s developer is a step closer to building a solar array, wind energy project, recycling facility or landfill within the massive planned community west of Albuquerque.
The Bernalillo County Commission on Tuesday approved the developer’s second-level – or Level BII plan – for certain industrial uses on a 630-acre portion of the nearly 14,000-acre site. It also amended the previously approved Santolina master plan to ensure consistency among the documents.
Garrett Development Corp. applied for the approvals largely to account for a changing water strategy. A project representative told the commission Tuesday that current plans for that 630-acre area require just a fraction of the water that was contemplated in the master plan, which the County Commission approved in 2015.
Garrett now wants to haul in the necessary water in lieu of executing a development agreement with the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority. Such an agreement was initially required before any actual development could occur, but Tuesday’s votes essentially exempt the 630 acres.
The commission approved both of the developer’s requests over objections from more than a dozen people who made public comment during Tuesday’s meeting and despite a recommendation to deny approval made earlier this year by the county’s own Planning Commission.
The Planning Commission had raised concerns that Santolina’s requests were intended to circumvent the requirement to have a water agreement in place. According to a 2018 ABCWUA analysis, the water and sewer infrastructure needed to service the full Santolina development would cost $659 million.
Opponents who spoke out against the new proposals Tuesday continued to hammer the water issue and the very notion that Santolina should move forward at all. The master plan calls for 38,000 homes and a range of other elements, including industrial operations and business parks.
“There is not enough water right now and there is certainly not enough water for massive water-using developments,” said Kathleen McCord, who, like several others, spoke out during public comments at the meeting, noting the recent dry-out of the Rio Grande through the metro area.
“Reality is screaming at us to stop,” she said.
The commission ultimately voted 4-0 to amend the master plan and 3-0 to approve the Level BII plan. Commissioner Charlene Pyskoty was excused from the meeting and Commissioner Adriann Barboa, who attended remotely, participated in the first vote, but missed the second due to technical issues.
Commissioner Steven Michael Quezada, whose southwestern district includes Santolina, said before voting that he feels people unfairly criticize projects in his area. He cited what he considers a lack of public concern about the Amazon fulfillment center that opened just on the other side of Interstate 40.
“They’re using Albuquerque Bernalillo County water, but yet not a peep, not a protest, not a nothing when it comes to that side of the freeway,” he said.
Commissioner Walt Benson, meanwhile, said he understood water worries, but that he is concerned that a lack of development will lead to other problems, such as people moving out of the state.
“If we all moved, then the water would return,” he said. “Is that what we want? Get rid of all the farmers? Get rid of all the residents?”
Though she has on multiple previous occasions opposed Santolina requests, Commissioner Debbie O’Malley said she supported these two because they represented a “preferable” alternative to the water-hungrier plans, while Barboa said she voted “yes” because she specifically supports the site’s potential as a place to recycle tires.
Any actual development still requires another level of county approval.
Jim Strozier of Consensus Planning, the developer’s representative in the county process, said after the meeting that a landfill operator is presently looking to buy 350 acres within the 630 contained in the Level BII plan.
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Inaugural celebrations include free Whataburgers, VIP Experiences and Student Lunch Debt Relief
SAN ANTONIO, July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Whataburger fans are the real deal. They wrap their babies in Whataburger taquito paper, propose marriage over fries, bring their prom dates for after-prom shakes, and even create beautiful art inspired by our orange-and-white stripes.
So when we say we have the best fans and employees (who we call Family Members) in the business, we mean it. It's a love unlike any other—and one we think deserves to be celebrated on a national stage.
National Whataburger Day honors what our founder, Harmon Dobson, started over 70 years ago, while looking toward a bright future. Established in 1950, our legacy is rooted in the bold flavors, extraordinary hospitality and meaningful community connections Dobson fostered. National Whataburger Day spotlights this legacy and paves the way for future celebrations across America, giving back to those who have made the brand what it is today.
In celebration of the brand's 73rd birthday, Whataburger is proudly proclaiming August 8 National Whataburger Day! From free Whataburgers, to relieving student school lunch debt across our communities, and even rolling out the orange carpet for some special fans and Family Members, there are ways for everyone to get in on the celebration.
Relieving School Lunch Debt
At Whataburger, we believe hunger should never be an obstacle to a student's academic success or prevent them from reaching their dreams.
That's why our charitable giving pillar, Whataburger Feeding Student Success, serves at the intersection of student success and food insecurity—and why we're celebrating National Whataburger Day by relieving $73,000 ($1,000 for every year in business) of school lunch debt for children in communities across our footprint with partner, All for Lunch.
By partnering with All for Lunch, we're ensuring that local programs get the support they need so students can reach their fullest potential.
Service to our hometown is also a hallmark of National Whataburger Day. Whataburger's Home Office team is partnering with the San Antonio chapter of Communities In Schools to collect supplies and build and donate hygiene kits for students in the 12 San Antonio-area school districts they serve.
Going Big on Rewards with Free Whataburgers
Is it even National Whataburger Day if you're not celebrating over a Whataburger? If you're not already signed up for Whataburger Rewards, we suggest downloading the app—because we'll be giving away free Whataburgers!
On August 7 and 8, active Whataburger Rewards members will be treated to an in-app offer for a free Whataburger, no purchase necessary!
To make sure you don't miss out on the celebratory free Whataburger for National Whataburger Day, be sure to:
- Download the Whataburger App on the App Store for iOS or get it on Google Play for Android.
- Create a Whataburger Rewards account. It's free to sign up!
- Have placed at least one order on the app within the past 12 months to be considered an active user.
Digital offer can only be redeemed once. Offer valid at participating locations.
For the table tent collectors, on August 8 we'll be handing out limited quantities of inaugural National Whataburger Day table tents to Guests who visit us in the restaurant on our birthday.
But that's not the only way to snag a collectable table tent! For one-day only on August 8, we're also giving away National Whataburger Day table tents to everyone who chooses to celebrate with some retail therapy on Whatastore.com, while supplies last.
The Ultimate VIP Treatment
The celebrations don't stop there. We'll be rolling out the orange carpet for some of our most passionate fans and Family Members by inviting them to Whataburger's Home Office in San Antonio, Texas, for a behind-the-scenes peek at what we've got cooking.
They'll get an exclusive, up-close look at new Whataburger innovations, menu items and a shopping spree to update their wardrobe.
Let's Celebrate!
There's so much that makes Whataburger special. Our history, Family Members, local communities and fans are the biggest part of that—but it wouldn't be a celebration without you.
No matter where you are or where you're from, we invite you to celebrate all the things that make Whataburger great (a list we feel would be too long to include here).
Here are just a few ideas of ways you can celebrate with us:
- Show your Whataburger love by wearing Whataburger orange.
- Visit a restaurant and wish Whataburger employees Happy National Whataburger Day.
- Discover a new Whataburger favorite by ordering something you've never tried before or customizing a tried and true in a new way.
- Be the trivia hero of your group and learn about Whataburger's rich history and fun facts.
And of course, you can celebrate with us on social media! Fans are encouraged to post their favorite Whataburger moments using the hashtag #NationalWhataburgerDay and use a special National Whataburger Day-themed AR filter on Instagram @whataburger, available in Spanish and English.
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MODERN MOBILITY AIDS, INC. ANNUAL LETTER TO SHAREHOLDERS
BRAMPTON, ON, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Modern Mobility Aids Inc, (OTC: MDRM) also known as Galileo Life Sciences, Inc. (the "Company") is pleased to present this year-end shareholder letter to provide an overview of our company's performance in the past year and share our plans for the future.
Over the past year, our primary focus has been on launching virtual-care clinics in Ontario. We are pleased to report that this strategic initiative has been a success and we have seen an increasing demand for our virtual-care services. In addition to offering primary care at our clinics, we have started providing the annual "truck driver physicals" as required by Ontario law
We are excited to announce that one of the most significant achievements of the year was that we have completed our due diligence on 2542153 Ontario Ltd and expect to complete the transaction in January of 2023. This acquisition will greatly enhance our physician roster, allowing us to expand our virtual care services and reach even more patients. 2542153 Ontario Ltd has gross revenue of over a million dollars per year and is a supplier of medical-grade personal protection equipment to hospitals and other customers
In addition to our virtual-care services and the potential acquisition of 2542153 Ontario Ltd, we have also made strides in other areas of our business. We are in high-level discussions to launch virtual-care in West Africa, which will enable local physicians to provide healthcare to the population residing in remote areas who would otherwise have to travel great distances to access care. This is a significant opportunity for us to positively impact the health and well-being of these communities and expand our operations in this region.
The company has engaged "Digital-Care" https://digital-care.net/ a leading developer of telehealth platforms. With the guidance of our physicians, Digital Care will custom-design our platform which can be deployed globally. This new platform will allow us to offer a wider range of virtual-care services, such as mental health, chronic pain management, and patient home monitoring services. We believe this platform will be the key driver of growth for our company in the coming years.
Looking ahead, we are confident that our virtual-care offering will continue to grow and evolve as more and more patients turn to remote care as a convenient and effective alternative to traditional in-person primary care without affecting the quality of care. Our planned acquisitions, partnerships, and our relationship with "Digital-Care" will position us well for the future.
In the first quarter of 2023, we plan to get our financials audited and become a fully reporting company on the OTC markets. We expect to report revenue growth in the first quarter of 2023, and we believe this will be a significant milestone for our company.
Overall, we are thrilled with the progress we have made and are confident in our ability to continue delivering value to our shareholders. We remain committed to excellence and to delivering the highest level of care to our patients.
Thank you for your continued support
Sincerely
CEO
About Modern Mobility Aids Inc.
Modern Mobility Aids, Inc. has recently revamped its corporate infrastructure and now plans to direct its focus and energies on multibillion-dollar Virtual Care services. Through the formation of its new business model, the Company expects to implement an aggressive campaign in order to seek out technologies, medical experts, and opportunities within the healthcare sector. around the globe. The Company is confident that strategic acquisitions and first-stage investments will play a pivotal role in the Company's success in building a successful global entity.
Safe Harbor
This release contains statements that constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These statements appear in a number of places in this release and include all statements that are not statements of historical fact regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of the Company, its directors or its officers with respect to, among other things: (i) financing plans; (ii) potential acquisitions, (iii) trends affecting its financial condition or results of operations; (iv) growth strategy and operating strategy. The words "may," "would," "will," "expect, "intend", "estimate," "can," "believe," "potential" and similar expressions and variations thereof are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the Company's ability to control, and that actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors. More information about the potential factors that could affect the business and financial results is and will be included in the Company's filings with OTCIQ.
Contact: Modern Mobility Aids Inc.
Email: tdimarco@mdrminc.com
Phone : 416 254 2581
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SAN DIEGO, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As we age, our bodies accumulate aging and worn out cells, called senescent cells, which contribute to many negative aspects of age-related decline.
In 2015, the Mayo Clinic and Scripps published groundbreaking research on a class of dietary ingredients which appear to support the body's ability to more readily eliminate senescent cells as we age.*
This class of ingredients became known as "senolytics", whose rough Latin translation is "destroying the old", as in aging cells.
And this month, Neurohacker Collective debuted Qualia Senolytic, the first comprehensive dietary supplement formulated to support the body's capacity for senescent cell elimination.*
"This product is based on the most interesting science of any product we've developed to date." states Neurohacker's Chief Science Officer, Shawn Ramer, PhD.
Ramer worked with Neurohacker's product formulator and naturopathic physician Dr. Gregory Kelly, along with a credentialed assembly of science and medical advisors on Neurohacker's extended R&D team, to arrive at the final formula.
"The capacity for senolytic ingredients to support a better aging process is becoming clear, and their role in supporting senescent cell elimination has captivated our team for years now", states Neurohacker CEO James Schmachtenberger.
"Senolytic ingredients are on the cusp of greater consumer awareness, much like nootropics and the ketogenic diet became better known over the last decade. We're excited to offer a great product on the leading edge of senolytic support becoming an emphasis of supplementation for better aging." *
Senolytic supplementation is fast becoming a recommendation in the integrative health community, as well.
"The ingredients in Qualia Senolytic are the ideal therapeutic amounts for my patients", states MD and integrative medicine author Dr. Hyla Cass. "It's also taken just 2 days a month, which is a recommendation that patients and clients can easily follow through on."*†
Qualia Senolytic became available throughout North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand on June 7th.
Since their founding in 2015, Neurohacker's pioneering research team has put an emphasis on formulations that value ingredient synergy potentials and support of the body's own regulatory capacities to achieve health benefits.
With Qualia Senolytic, they further that reputation with perhaps the most novel form of dietary support for the human aging process on the market today.*
Neurohacker Collective was founded in 2015 with the mission to advance human quality of life by creating best-in-class well-being products. Neurohacker Collective's products are radically different because they employ a unique methodology to research and development based on complex systems science. This scientific approach focuses on supporting the body's ability to self-regulate. The company began with a focus on cognitive products and nootropics with the launch of Qualia Mind and has since developed products to support sleep, longevity, skin, energy, and vision. Learn more about their scientific approach by going to neurohacker.com.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
†These statements are not intended as general medical advice. Please consult your physician before taking any dietary supplements.
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Growing up in Fairfield, California, during the 1990s meant visiting the library on Fridays for Will O’Hearn. His earliest memory: repeatedly going with his mother, an avid reader. “Whenever I asked for anything at the library, my mom said, ‘Yes,’ because it was free,” says O’Hearn, who is now Eugene Public Library services director.
With limited resources at home, the high cost of computers at the end of the 20th century and no time to explore his school’s computers, O’Hearn found in the library a sanctuary. Not only did he become passionate about books, but it was there that he discovered an additional resource available for everybody: those computers.
“The moments that changed my life and still make a huge impact on me today were those moments in the library. I learned how to use a computer in the library,” O’Hearn says. He was in the early years of elementary school. His brother, four years older than him, also learned how to use the machines at the same place.
It was at the library that he found his community where he always felt welcomed. He got his first job at age 16 at the Marengo-Union Public Library in Illinois. Although he did not think of it as a career back then, he enjoyed helping people find information and, as a result, went on to get a bachelor of science degree in human resources management at Northern Illinois University. He ended up working in the corporate world, but did not enjoy it.
“I kept talking to my partner, Joannne O’Hearn, about wishing to be helpful and do something that was a bigger goal for the world, that would help the whole world like the library. I wish I could just be friendly and help people. She is a pretty astute listener, a very intelligent person, and said, ‘It sounds like you want to work at a library,’” O’Hearn says.
As a result, he started working as a circulation supervisor at the academic library of College of Lake County in Illinois from 2008 until 2010. To become a librarian, a master’s degree is needed, so O’Hearn received his master of arts in library and information science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2011. He never looked back.
His career includes working at the Pikes Peak Library District in Colorado, the Lincoln Library in Springfield, Illinois, and, since 2019, at the Eugene Public Library.
Why Eugene? He was attracted to its library system, the involvement and passion of the community as well as how its people cared about education.
“The library welcomes everyone as part of our community; whether you are passing through town for one day or you are the mayor of the city, the library is going to treat you with respect and dignity and welcome you in. The library is truly for everyone. That is a really big deal for us,” O’Hearn says.
The Eugene Public Library has welcomed anybody through the years, regardless of people’s housing status, as long as the space is used respectfully. Unsheltered individuals can also access full-service library cards like anybody else in the city at no cost by providing a letter from a service agency to prove their residency. From his experiences growing up, O’Hearn wants the entire community to feel comfortable, appreciated and accepted.
“I always thought of the library myself as a bit of a sanctuary. A place where people can get away from the world to lose themselves in knowledge and education. To escape maybe a difficult home life, to just get a moment for yourself. We call it the third space: You have your work or school and then you have your home,” O’Hearn says.
The Eugene Public Library has become that: a third space defined as a mecca and a sanctuary. During the pandemic, the library system went into an innovation boom and expanded and fully developed the Library of Things. You can check out sewing machines, loaf pans, board games, ukuleles, outdoor games, scanners and mobile wifi hotspots, among many other useful things.
Just like the stereotype regarding libraries has been debunked as it is not just a source of books, O’Hearn’s persona defies the negatively stereotyped librarian. He is neither quiet nor introverted. “Librarians are just like any other group of people,” he says. “They are diverse, wide-ranging.”
Eugene Public Library is asking community members to help the library plan for its future. The “Craft Our Next Chapter” survey is available in English and Spanish at the library website, Eugene-Or.gov/library. | https://eugeneweekly.com/2022/12/01/not-just-books/ | 2022-12-01 15:11:46 | 1 | https://eugeneweekly.com/2022/12/01/not-just-books/ |
SPOTTED: New Biopic “Audrey’s Children” Starring Natalie Dormer Filming in Philadelphia
If you love biopics with an inspirational true story, you'll probably be into this one that was just filming in Philadelphia!
According 6ABC, filming was underway in Center City for "Audrey's Children", a biopic about the incredible true story of Dr. Audrey Evans, co-founder of the original Ronald McDonald House in Philadelphia in 1974!
"In 1970 when nearly all children with cancer die, an unconventional and brilliant oncologist breaks all the rules in an effort to revolutionize treatment methods and to provide housing and support to families of sick children," reads the film's IMDb page
And the cast look pretty promising. If you were a fan of "Game of Thrones" and/or "The Hunger Games", you're gonna love this familiar face. The beautiful Natalie Dormer is cast as the lead role of Dr. Audrey Evans.
There's also Jimmi Simpson, who's not unfamiliar with filming projects set in the City of Brotherly Love. You'll recognize him from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and various other projects. He'll be playing oncologist Dr. Dan D'Angio.
Joining the supporting cast is Clancy Brown as former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. C Everett Koop. Brown has a long list of credits, including as a voice actor for many different animated shows and features, including "Spongebob Squarepants."
When does "Audrey's Children" come out?
So far, no word yet on a forecasted release date.
If you're in Philly, keep your eyes peeled for a filming crew! You might just see one of these stars! | https://wpst.com/spotted-new-biopic-audreys-children-starring-natalie-dormer-filming-in-philadelphia/ | 2022-09-20 04:59:46 | 1 | https://wpst.com/spotted-new-biopic-audreys-children-starring-natalie-dormer-filming-in-philadelphia/ |
The House unanimously passed a bill on Monday that would direct the Secretary of State to work toward stripping the People’s Republic of China of its “developing country” label in international organizations
The measure — titled the PRC Is Not a Developing Country Act — cleared the House in a 415-0 vote.
The legislation would direct the Secretary of State to “pursue” altering the status of the People’s Republic of China from developing country to upper middle income country, high income country or developed country for international organizations that include both the U.S. and China, and propose a mechanism to do so.
Additionally, it would direct the top diplomat to work “to ensure that the People’s Republic of China does not receive preferential treatment or assistance within the organization as a result of it having the status of a developing country.”
“The People’s Republic of China is the world’s second largest economy, accounting for 18.6 percent of the global economy,” Rep. Young Kim (R-Calif.), a sponsor of the measure, said on the House floor Monday.
“Their economy size is second only to that of the United States. [The] United States is treated as a developed country, so should PRC,” Kim said. “And is also treated as a high-income country in treaties and international organizations, so China should also be treated as a developed country.”
“However, the PRC is classified as a developing country, and they’re using this status to game the system and hurt countries that are truly in need,” she added.
Despite being the second largest economy in the world — only behind the U.S. — China is considered to be a developing country by some international organizations, including the United Nations.
That designation, according to lawmakers, could allow some nations to receive special privileges or flexibilities in certain treaties or organizations.
A bipartisan pair of lawmakers introduced a bill last month that would prevent granting China “developing nation” status in future treaties and international organizations, and direct the Secretary of State to work towards changing its label in treaties or organizations where a mechanism to make such an alteration exists.
The legislation passed on Monday is the latest measure aimed at cracking down on China. Last month, the House unanimously approved a resolution condemning the Chinese Communist Party’s use of a spy balloon over continental U.S.
In January, the chamber overwhelmingly voted to establish a bipartisan select committee focused on U.S. competition with China.
The PRC Is Not a Developing Country Act would cement the policy of the U.S. as opposing “the labeling or treatment of the People’s Republic of China as a developing country” in any treaty, international agreement or international organization that the U.S. is part of.
Additionally, it would make the policy of the U.S. “to pursue the labeling or treatment of the People’s Republic of China as an upper middle income country, high income country, or developed country in each international organization of which the United States is a member.”
“H.R. 1107 is an important bipartisan measure that calls out the People’s Republic of China for failing to do its part in international organizations and treaties, and calls on it to do more,” Rep. Susan Wild (D-Pa.) said on the House floor Monday.
“At the same time, the diplomatic actions that this measure calls for highlight just how critical it is that the United States remain engaged and present in international and multilateral forums and treaties,” she continued.
The measure would also direct the Secretary of State to prepare a report identifying all treaty negotiations where “the proposed treaty develops different standards for the enforcement of the treaty based on the development status of the member states of the treaty,” and ones where the People’s Republic of China is under consideration to become part of it. | https://pix11.com/hill-politics/house-unanimously-passes-bill-to-work-to-remove-chinas-developing-country-label/ | 2023-03-28 03:38:17 | 0 | https://pix11.com/hill-politics/house-unanimously-passes-bill-to-work-to-remove-chinas-developing-country-label/ |
Mars rover captures 1st sound of dust devil on red planet
What's a dust devil sound like on Mars? A NASA rover, by chance, had its microphone on when a whirling tower of red dust passed directly overhead, recording the racket.
It's about 10 seconds of not only rumbling gusts of up to 25 mph, but the pinging of hundreds of dust particles against the rover Perseverance. Scientists released the first-of-its-kind audio Tuesday.
It sounds strikingly similar to dust devils on Earth, although quieter since Mars’ thin atmosphere makes for more muted sounds and less forceful wind, according to the researchers.
The dust devil came and went over Perseverance quickly last year, thus the short length of the audio, said the University of Toulouse’s Naomi Murdoch, lead author of the study appearing in Nature Communications. At the same time, the navigation camera on the parked rover captured images, while its weather-monitoring instrument collected data.
"It was fully caught red-handed by Persy,” said co-author German Martinez of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.
Photographed for decades at Mars but never heard until now, dust devils are common at the red planet. This one was in the average range: at least 400 feet tall and 80 feet across, traveling at 16 feet per second.
The microphone picked up 308 dust pings as the dust devil whipped by, said Murdoch, who helped build it.
Given that the rover’s SuperCam microphone is turned on for less than three minutes every few days, Murdoch said it was "definitely luck" that the dust devil appeared when it did on Sept. 27, 2021. She estimates there was just a 1-in-200 chance of capturing dust-devil audio.
Of the 84 minutes collected in its first year, there's "only one dust devil recording," she wrote in an email from France.
This same microphone on Perseverance’s mast provided the first sounds from Mars — namely the Martian wind — soon after the rover landed in February 2021. It followed up with audio of the rover driving around and its companion helicopter, little Ingenuity, flying nearby, as well as the crackle of the rover’s rock-zapping lasers, the main reason for the microphone.
These recordings allow scientists to study the Martian wind, atmospheric turbulence and now dust movement as never before, Murdoch said. The results "demonstrate just how valuable acoustic data can be in space exploration.”
On the prowl for rocks that might contain signs of ancient microbial life, Perseverance has collected 18 samples so far at Jezero Crater, once the scene of a river delta. NASA plans to return these samples to Earth a decade from now. The helicopter Ingenuity has logged 36 flights, the longest lasting almost three minutes. | https://www.wesh.com/article/mars-rover-captures-sound-dust-devil/42231264 | 2022-12-13 18:24:08 | 0 | https://www.wesh.com/article/mars-rover-captures-sound-dust-devil/42231264 |
West Nile Found Found in Wahpeton, GF & EGF Tonight Plan Mosquito Spraying
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — West Nile Virus has been found in Wahpeton.
The city posting on social media that a pool of mosquitoes tested positive for the virus on Monday.
They are encouraging people to take extra precautions against getting bitten by mosquitoes.
The virus was first found this season in Grand Forks.
That city and East Grand Forks will be spraying for mosquitoes tonight between 8 p.m. and 1 a.m.
The mosquito most common for transmitting West Nile virus is most active from sundown into the early morning hours.
Symptoms include a fever, headache, body aches, joint pains, vomiting, diarrhea, or rash.
In extreme cases it can cause death. | https://www.kvrr.com/2023/07/20/west-nile-found-found-in-wahpeton-gf-egf-tonight-plan-mosquito-spraying/ | 2023-07-20 22:12:53 | 0 | https://www.kvrr.com/2023/07/20/west-nile-found-found-in-wahpeton-gf-egf-tonight-plan-mosquito-spraying/ |
Positive gains reported during Illinois Commerce Commission Supplier Diversity Policy session
CHICAGO, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Members of the Illinois Utilities Business Diversity Council (IUBDC) spent a combined total of $2 billion with minority-, women- and veteran-owned businesses in 2021. Leaders from the member utilities reported positive gains year-over-year at the Illinois Commerce Commision's 2022 policy session.
The IUBDC was formed in 2015 to increase business opportunities for diverse suppliers through closer collaboration, technical development and sharing of best practices among leading Illinois utilities. IUBDC charter members include Ameren Illinois, Commonwealth Edison, Illinois American Water, Nicor Gas, Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas.
"Providing opportunities to diverse suppliers in Illinois enables us to build stronger communities and meet the evolving needs of customers," said Justin Ladner, IUBDC chairman of the board and president of Illinois American Water. "IUBDC's commitment to diverse supplier spending is a testament to our dedication to create equity for our current and potential business partners."
Supplier diversity creates multiple channels for the procurement of supplies and services, said Stephen Brock, CEO of Supplied Industrial Solutions, Inc., a minority- and veteran-owned business that works with Illinois American Water. "We're proud of the work we've done to help Illinois utilities mitigate pandemic-related supply chain challenges and their impact on customers through innovative solutions to securing critical materials at competitive prices. Diverse suppliers help make supply chains more resilient."
Since 2014, electric, natural gas and water companies under the jurisdiction of the Illinois Commerce Commission with at least 100,000 customers report annually their procurement goals and actual spend with diverse suppliers. These annual reports can be located here and a video of this year's Supplier Diversity Policy Session can be viewed here.
For more information about the IUBDC, visit iubdc.com.
The Illinois Utilities Business Diversity Council (IUBDC) members include Ameren Illinois, Aqua America, ComEd, Illinois American Water, Nicor Gas, North Shore Gas and Peoples Gas. The mission of the IUBDC is to serve the Illinois utilities as a forum for best practice sharing and information exchange with the focus on advancing the growth and utilization of utility-based diverse businesses in the state of Illinois.
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2023 Wells Fargo Championship Schedule: Friday Start Time, How to Watch Live Stream, Tee Times & Pairings
After one round of play at the 2023 Wells Fargo Championship, Tommy Fleetwood leads (-6). Watch the second round unfold from Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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TX Corpus Christi TX Zone Forecast for Sunday, March 12, 2023
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Zone Forecast Product for South Texas
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
315 AM CDT Mon Mar 13 2023
TXZ343-132130-
Coastal Nueces-
Including the cities of Corpus Christi and Flour Bluff
315 AM CDT Mon Mar 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this
afternoon. Much cooler with highs around 70. Northeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 60s. East winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph, diminishing to 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the
upper 60s. East winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the mid 60s.
East winds 15 to 25 mph, diminishing to 10 to 15 mph after
midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the mid 70s. East
winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing to southeast 15 to 25 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the upper
60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs around 80.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with a chance of showers after midnight. Breezy with lows
in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Breezy with highs in the
lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy, cooler with lows in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with highs in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ443-132130-
Nueces Islands-
Including the city of Port Aransas
315 AM CDT Mon Mar 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Cooler. Near steady temperature in the mid 60s. Northeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Near steady temperature in the mid 60s. East winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Breezy. Near
steady temperature in the upper 60s. East winds 15 to 20 mph,
increasing to 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Near steady
temperature in the mid 60s. East winds 20 to 25 mph, diminishing
to 15 to 20 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the lower 70s.
East winds 15 to 20 mph, increasing to southeast 20 to 25 mph in
the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the upper
60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Breezy with highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with a chance of showers after midnight. Breezy with lows
around 60. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers likely in the morning. Breezy with highs in the
lower 70s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy, cooler with lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy, cooler with highs in the
upper 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning.
Highs in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ243-132130-
Inland Nueces-
Including the cities of Robstown, Tuloso, and Bishop
315 AM CDT Mon Mar 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this
afternoon. Much cooler with highs in the lower 70s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph this afternoon.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s. East winds 15 to 20 mph, diminishing to
around 10 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the
upper 60s. East winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. East winds
15 to 20 mph, diminishing to 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph, increasing to southeast 15 to 20 mph with gusts up
to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows around 60.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Breezy, cooler with highs in
the lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with highs in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
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TXZ234-132130-
Victoria-
Including the cities of Victoria and Bloomington
315 AM CDT Mon Mar 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of. Cooler with highs in
the upper 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 50s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds
around 10 mph, increasing to southeast 15 to 20 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the
mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Breezy with highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely after midnight.
Breezy, cooler with lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning.
Breezy, cooler with highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with highs in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
$$
TXZ239-132130-
Webb-
Including the cities of Laredo, Bruni, and Orvil
315 AM CDT Mon Mar 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Much
cooler with highs in the mid 70s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers. Lows in the upper 50s.
East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Highs around 70. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the lower 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Warmer with highs around 80. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the upper
60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Warmer
with highs in the lower 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then partly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Much cooler with highs in
the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ242-132130-
Inland Kleberg-
Including the cities of Kingsville, Loyola Beach, Ricardo,
and Riviera
315 AM CDT Mon Mar 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Much
cooler with highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph,
increasing to 15 to 20 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs around
70. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing to east 15 to 20 mph
in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. East winds
15 to 20 mph, diminishing to 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph, increasing to southeast 15 to 20 mph with gusts up
to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the lower
60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Breezy, cooler with highs in
the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with highs in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ342-132130-
Coastal Kleberg-
315 AM CDT Mon Mar 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this
afternoon. Much cooler with highs around 70. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph this afternoon. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the
evening. Lows in the lower 60s. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming east 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs around
70. East winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. East winds
15 to 20 mph, diminishing to 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the mid 70s. East
winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing to southeast 15 to 25 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the upper
60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs around 80.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with a chance of showers after midnight. Breezy with lows
in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Breezy with highs in the
lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with highs around 60.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
TXZ442-132130-
Kleberg Islands-
315 AM CDT Mon Mar 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Breezy and much cooler with highs in the upper 60s. Northeast
winds 15 to 20 mph, increasing to 20 to 25 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the
evening. Breezy. Near steady temperature in the mid 60s. East
winds 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Breezy with
highs in the upper 60s. East winds 15 to 20 mph, increasing to
20 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Near steady
temperature in the mid 60s. East winds 20 to 25 mph, diminishing
to 15 to 20 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the lower 70s.
East winds 15 to 20 mph, increasing to southeast 15 to 25 mph in
the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the upper
60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with a chance of showers after midnight. Breezy with lows
in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers likely in the morning. Breezy with highs in the
lower 70s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy, cooler with lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with highs in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning.
Highs in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ344-132130-
Coastal San Patricio-
Including the cities of Portland and Ingleside
315 AM CDT Mon Mar 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this
afternoon. Much cooler with highs in the upper 60s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Lows around 60. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the
upper 60s. East winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. East winds
15 to 20 mph, diminishing to 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph, increasing to southeast 15 to 20 mph with gusts up
to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Breezy with highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with a chance of showers after midnight. Breezy with lows
in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning.
Breezy with highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with highs around 60.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
TXZ244-132130-
Inland San Patricio-
Including the cities of Sinton, Mathis, Taft, and Odem
315 AM CDT Mon Mar 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this
afternoon. Much cooler with highs around 70. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing
to east 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds
15 to 20 mph, diminishing to around 10 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph, increasing to southeast 15 to 20 mph with gusts up
to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper
50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Breezy, cooler with highs
around 70. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with highs in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
TXZ245-132130-
Coastal Aransas-
Including the cities of Rockport and Fulton
315 AM CDT Mon Mar 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this
afternoon. Much cooler with highs in the upper 60s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s. East winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, diminishing to 10 to 15 mph
after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph, increasing to southeast 15 to 20 mph with gusts up
to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Breezy with highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Breezy, cooler with lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning.
Breezy with highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy, cooler with lows in the
lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with highs around 60.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
TXZ345-132130-
Aransas Islands-
315 AM CDT Mon Mar 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this
afternoon. Much cooler with highs in the upper 60s. Northeast
winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Near steady temperature in the lower 60s. East winds 15 to
20 mph, diminishing to 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the
upper 60s. East winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower 60s.
East winds 20 to 25 mph, diminishing to 15 to 20 mph after
midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the upper
60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Breezy with highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Breezy, cooler with lows in the upper 50s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning.
Breezy with highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy, cooler with lows in the
upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy, cooler with highs around
60.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
TXZ346-132130-
Coastal Refugio-
Including the cities of Bayside and Austwell
315 AM CDT Mon Mar 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of. Much cooler with
highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s. East winds around 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph, increasing to southeast 15 to 20 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Breezy with highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Breezy, cooler with lows in the lower 50s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning.
Breezy with highs around 70. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with highs in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
TXZ246-132130-
Inland Refugio-
Including the cities of Refugio and Woodsboro
315 AM CDT Mon Mar 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of. Much cooler with
highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph, increasing to southeast 15 to 20 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Breezy with highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Breezy, cooler with lows in the lower 50s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning.
Breezy, cooler with highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with highs in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 60.
$$
TXZ247-132130-
Inland Calhoun-
Including the city of Long Mott
315 AM CDT Mon Mar 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of. Much cooler with
highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s. East winds around 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph, increasing
to east 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph, increasing to southeast 15 to 20 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Breezy with highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Breezy, cooler with lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning.
Breezy with highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with highs in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 60.
$$
TXZ347-132130-
Coastal Calhoun-
Including the cities of Seadrift, Port Lavaca, and Port O Connor
315 AM CDT Mon Mar 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Much cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s. East winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s. East winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60. East winds 15 to
20 mph, diminishing to 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph, increasing to southeast 15 to 20 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the upper
60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Breezy with highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Breezy, cooler with lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning.
Breezy with highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy, cooler with lows in the
mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with highs in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
TXZ447-132130-
Calhoun Islands-
315 AM CDT Mon Mar 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this
afternoon. Breezy and much cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph, becoming 15 to 20 mph this
afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Near steady temperature in the lower 60s. East winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Breezy with highs in the upper 60s. East winds 15 to 25 mph,
becoming 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower 60s.
East winds 20 to 25 mph, diminishing to 15 to 20 mph after
midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the lower 70s.
East winds 15 to 20 mph, increasing to southeast 20 to 25 mph in
the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the upper
60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Breezy with highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Breezy, cooler with lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning.
Breezy with highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy, cooler with highs in the
upper 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
TXZ233-132130-
Goliad-
Including the city of Goliad
315 AM CDT Mon Mar 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of. Much cooler with
highs around 70. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the lower 50s. East winds around 10 mph. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds
around 10 mph, increasing to southeast 15 to 20 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the
mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Breezy with
highs around 80. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Cooler with lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning.
Breezy, cooler with highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows around 40.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with highs in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
$$
TXZ232-132130-
Bee-
Including the cities of Beeville, Skidmore, Pettus, and Pawnee
315 AM CDT Mon Mar 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of. Much cooler with
highs around 70. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 50s. East winds around 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds
around 10 mph, increasing to southeast 15 to 20 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight. Cooler with
lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning.
Breezy and much cooler with highs in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with highs in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 60.
$$
TXZ241-132130-
Jim Wells-
Including the cities of Alice, Orange Grove, and Premont
315 AM CDT Mon Mar 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Much
cooler with highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the
upper 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph, increasing to southeast 15 to 20 mph with gusts up
to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Warmer with highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper
50s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Breezy and much cooler with
highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with highs in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ231-132130-
Live Oak-
Including the cities of George West and Three Rivers
315 AM CDT Mon Mar 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this
afternoon. Much cooler with highs in the lower 70s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 50s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Highs around 70. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph, increasing to southeast 15 to 20 mph with gusts up
to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the
mid 50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Breezy and much cooler with
highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with highs in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
TXZ240-132130-
Duval-
Including the cities of Freer, Benavides, and San Diego
315 AM CDT Mon Mar 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Much
cooler with highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the
upper 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Not as cool with highs in the upper 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph, increasing to southeast 15 to 20 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Warmer with highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows around 60. Chance
of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Breezy and much cooler with
highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with highs in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
TXZ229-132130-
La Salle-
Including the cities of Cotulla and Encinal
315 AM CDT Mon Mar 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Much
cooler with highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers. Lows in the mid 50s. East
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Highs around 70. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
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LIMA, Peru (AP) — In less than two months, more than 50 people have died in Peru, largely protesters at the hands of police officers. And while a few international voices of concern have emerged, much of the regional and global community has largely remained silent.
The silence comes at the dismay of human rights groups who are calling for more condemnation of the state violence after then-President Pedro Castillo was impeached and imprisoned for trying to dissolve Congress.
“The feeling is we’re alone,” said Jennie Dador, executive secretary of Peru’s National Human Rights Coordinator, a civil society group. “None of the states in the region have done anything concrete.”
As regional leaders gather in Argentina's capital on Tuesday for a meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, there were signs that, at least for now, some leaders appear to prefer to leave the issue aside.
But not all. Chile’s President Gabriel Boric said there was “an urgent need for a change in Peru because the result of the path of violence and repression is unacceptable.” Mexico's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a staunch supporter of Castillo, gave a recorded message in which he demanded an “end to the repression” in Peru.
The two regional leaders spoke shortly after President Alberto Fernández of Argentina did not mention Peru in the opening of the regional summit.
That dynamic illustrates how although Peru's repression of protests has received some global attention, activists say it is far less than what they would expect considering 56 people have died since Dina Boluarte, the former vice president, was sworn in as president Dec. 7. Of that total, 45 have been in direct clashes with security forces, according to Peru’s ombudsman.
“The international community has expressed concern, but really I think it could be more forceful,” César Muñoz, associate director of the Americas division at Human Rights Watch, said. A key thing other governments in the region could do, Muñoz added, is emphasize “that the rule of law means there must be independent investigations of all the deaths.”
Latin American leaders are meeting on a day when yet another large protest is expected in Peru’s capital, the latest in a series of street demonstrations that began last week when thousands, many from remote Andean regions, descended on Lima for mobilizations to demand Boluarte’s resignation, immediate elections and the dissolution of Congress.
In Lima, protesters have been met with volleys of tear gas as the government has maintained a defiant attitude, accusing protesters of fomenting violence and using street demonstrations to take power. Before last week, most of the large anti-government protests took place in remote regions of Peru, largely in the country’s south, exposing deep division between residents of the capital and the long-neglected countryside.
While human rights activists agree there have been acts of violence by protesters — including efforts to take over airports and the burning of police stations — that does not justify a broader effort to criminalize political protest in general.
“Peru has managed to fly under the radar,” Marina Navarro, executive director of Amnesty International Peru, said. “Given the gravity of the situation, with this number of people who have died, we don’t see as much said about it as there could be.”
That same pattern is likely to continue in Buenos Aires on Tuesday after much speculation that some countries were going to try to bring up the issue during the regional summit.
“Peru is a prickly issue,” said an official in Argentina’s Foreign Ministry who declined to speak on the record because they are not authorized to talk publicly about policy. “From a regional point of view, Peru is a reason for worry and division.”
Negotiations over whether to include the issue at the summit continued until Monday, the official said, noting there was a general agreement to leave controversial issues aside to focus on things where there could be a general consensus.
The crisis in Peru that has sparked the worst political violence the country has seen in more than two decade, has proven to be a divisive issue in Latin America with some of the more left-leaning governments in the region expressing support for Castillo, Peru’s first leader from a rural Andean background who was facing his third impeachment proceeding of his young administration when he tried to dissolve Congress.
Yet the larger question about how Boluarte rose to power should not impede comments about abuses, human rights organizations say.
“There must be international pressure for this government to cease all types of repressive attitudes and that has nothing to do with emitting an opinion about the government’s legitimacy,” said Manuel Tufró, the head of the justice and security division at the Center for Legal and Social Studies, an Argentine human rights organization.
But Boluarte’s government has also made clear it won’t take any criticism lightly.
After law enforcement raided a university in Lima on Saturday, where some protesters who traveled from far-away regions for the protests were being housed, Colombian President Gustavo Petro wrote on Twitter that the Organization of American States must “examine Peru’s case.”
Shortly thereafter, Prime Minister Alberto Otarola fired back and said Petro should “worry about your own affairs.”
Peru’s Foreign Ministry later issued a formal note of protest against what it described as Petro’s involvement “in issues of domestic politics.” It also issued a protest against Bolivia after its president, Luis Arce, expressed support for the protests.
One of the strongest statements criticizing Peru’s actions came from outside the region, with the European Union saying Monday that it “deplores the very large number of casualties since the start of the protests” and reiterated “its condemnation of the widespread acts of violence as well as the disproportionate use of force by security forces.”
The U.S. ambassador in Lima, Lisa Kenna, also surprised many observers earlier this month when she issued a statement saying it was “fundamental for law enforcement to respect human rights, the right to protest and protect the citizenry.”
For some analysts, the tepid response from the region tells a larger story about how Peru’s recent history of political crises — with six presidents over the past six years — means it has lost prominence on the world stage.
“Peru as a country has lost presence,” Oscar Vidarte, an international relations professor at the Catholic University of Peru, said. “It’s a chaotic country, a country that has become ungovernable, questioned in terms of democracy and respect for human life … countries in the region have clearly turned their backs.”
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Associated Press writer Almudena Calatrava in Buenos Aires, Argentina, contributed to this report. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Rights-groups-dismayed-at-lack-of-criticism-for-17738419.php | 2023-01-24 17:04:26 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Rights-groups-dismayed-at-lack-of-criticism-for-17738419.php |
Glow-in-the-dark tennis party to be held in Delray Beach
A glow-in-the-dark tennis party will get underway Friday night at the Delray Beach Tennis Center benefiting the Be Like Brit Foundation.
"We're gonna have a glow-in-the-dark tennis party, and if you can't play tennis, even better. Come on down," said Cherylann Gengel, co-founder and executive director of the Be Like Brit Foundation said. "It's really going to be a great night where people can come together, and that's what Brittany loved, bringing people together, having a great time and really just being able to share the story of Be Like Brit."
Cherylann's daughter, Britney Gengel, was a Lynn University student who died in the 2010 Haiti earthquake while she was on a school trip.
"Haiti had a 7.0 devastating earthquake where over 300,000 people were killed. And for 33 days our family didn't know if Brittany was one of them," Cherylann Gengel said.
Moments before the quake occurred, Brit sent her mom a text.
"She was devastated by the poverty and the situation that she saw people in, and she had sent me a text message that said they love us so much and everyone is so happy," Cherylann Gengel said. "They love what they have, and they worked so hard to get nowhere yet they're also appreciative. I want to move here and start an orphanage myself."
The orphanage was built in the shape of the letter B for Brit. It's a 19,000-square-foot facility, with the 19 representing Brit's age.
"We have 33 girls and 33 boys representing the 33 days that she was missing in the rubble at the Hotel Montana," Cherylann Gengel said. "Our goal is to raise the next generation of leaders in Haiti."
The proceeds raised at the "Serve it Forward: A Glow in the Dark Tennis Party" will help fuel Be Like Brit's mission. That mission includes building a transition home for students entering college, which will be built off Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach.
"On this journey, we have seen humanity at its best," Cherylann Gengel said. "People are really good. People are kind, and we're just very blessed to have all these incredible people in our lives."
The "Serve it Forward” tennis party turns traditional tennis into a fun, no-pressure social experience for people of all ages and abilities.
The event will get underway at 6 p.m. and is sponsored by the Delray Beach Open.
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MOSCOW (AP) — Since Brittney Griner last appeared in her trial for cannabis possession, the question of her fate has expanded from a tiny, cramped courtroom on Moscow’s outskirts to the highest level of Russia-U.S. diplomacy.
The WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist returns to court on Tuesday, a month after the beginning of the trial in which she could face 10 years in prison if convicted. As the trial has progressed, the Biden administration has faced rising calls for action to win her release.
In an extraordinary move, Secretary of State Antony Blinken last week spoke to his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, urging him to accept a deal under which Griner and Paul Whelan, an American imprisoned in Russia on an espionage conviction, would go free.
Although details of the offer remain shrouded, Blinken’s public announcement of a proposal was at odds with the convention of keeping prisoner-release negotiations tightly under wraps. When American Trevor Reed, serving time for assaulting a police officer, was freed in April in exchange for a Russian drug trafficker, no clues of an imminent swap had emerged.
The Lavrov-Blinken call also was the highest-level known contact between Washington and Moscow since Russia sent troops into Ukraine more than five months ago. The direct outreach risks undermining a core message to U.S. allies that isolating Russia could force the eventual withdrawal of troops from Ukraine.
It also underlines the public pressure that the White House has faced to get Griner released, which has brought some backlash. Former President Donald Trump strongly criticized the proposal that people familiar with it have said envisions trading Griner and Whelan for the notorious arms trader Viktor Bout.
“He’s absolutely one of the worst in the world, and he’s going to be given his freedom because a potentially spoiled person goes into Russia loaded up with drugs,” Trump said.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Monday that Russia has made a “bad faith” response to the U.S. government’s offer, a counteroffer that American officials don’t regard as serious. She declined to elaborate.
Griner, speaking from the defendant’s cage in a courtroom that barely holds a dozen people, has acknowledged there were vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage when she was arrested at a Moscow airport in February. But she says she had no criminal intent and that the canisters ended up in her luggage because she was packing hastily. Griner played for a Russian women’s basketball team in the WNBA off-season.
To bolster her case, her defense lawyers have called character witnesses from her Russian team, UMMC Ekaterinburg, and presented testimony from doctors that she was prescribed cannabis as a treatment for pain. Medical marijuana treatment is not legal in Russia.
Her lawyers say they hope such testimony will bring leniency from the judge, who they say under Russian law has leeway to consider mitigating factors.
Acquittals are rare in Russian criminal prosecutions — less than 1% of cases. Sentences can be suspended.
If a conviction is a foregone conclusion, it would also potentially be a step forward. Russian officials have said no release of Griner could occur until the judicial process is completed.
However, a Washington attorney who formerly was legal adviser at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow said there is no formal requirement for a conviction before an exchange.
“If she is in fact being used as a political bargaining chip — and the administration has already designated her as wrongfully detained, presumably because they think she is being used as a political pawn — they may impose a very significant sentence as a way to maximize their leverage in negotiations,” the attorney, Tom Firestone, told The Associated Press.
He also said that, given the Biden administration’s public commitment to securing the release of Whelan and Griner, Russia “may want to let this play out a little bit longer and try to extract more concessions.”
Russian officials have given no public hint of whether Blinken made headway in his call with Lavrov, only issuing a statement urging the Americans to pursue the matter though “quiet diplomacy without releases of speculative information.”
Russia has repeatedly expressed annoyance with American statements on the case, saying they show a disrespect for Russian law.
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Eric Tucker in Washington DC contributed to this story. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/ap-top-headlines/griners-trail-resumes-amid-intensified-diplomacy/ | 2022-08-01 20:37:40 | 0 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/ap-top-headlines/griners-trail-resumes-amid-intensified-diplomacy/ |
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is nearing a decision on whether to cancel some federal student debt, and multiple media reports say the announcement will come as soon as Wednesday.
The expected announcement comes just one week before the yearslong pause on federal student loan payments is set to expire on Wednesday, Aug. 31.
According to Bloomberg, which was first to report the news, the expected Wednesday announcement will likely include at least a brief extension on the payment pause and some debt cancellation. The White House has kept details tightly under wraps.
The Washington Post, CNN and NBC News cited sources who said White House discussions have recently centered on canceling $10,000 per borrower for those who make below a certain income threshold. The Washington Post's sources said the president hadn't communicated a decision yet.
While Biden had previously said he would make an announcement on student loan forgiveness by the end of the month, the White House has insisted that the president had yet to make a final decision.
The president and first lady are scheduled to return to the White House on Wednesday from their beach home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
What has Biden said on student loans?
Biden previously said he supports canceling up to $10,000, but he argued it should be done through congressional action. Negotiations have stretched on for months, with some Democrats calling on the president to do more and Republicans opposing mass debt cancellation efforts.
The White House has said Biden will make a decision on student loan forgiveness by the end of August, after the president initially said in April he’d announce a decision within a “couple of weeks.”
So far, the Biden administration has taken a more targeted approach to debt cancellation, focusing largely on students who were 'misled' by for-profit colleges.
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A house in Haddonfield that sold for $920,000 tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Cherry Hill area in the past week.
In total, 27 residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $429,004, $251 per square foot.
The prices in the list below concern real estate sales where the title was recorded during the week of June 26 even if the property may have been sold earlier.
10. $425,000, single-family house at 166 Edison Ave.
The property at 166 Edison Ave. in Cherry Hill has new owners. The price was $425,000. The house was built in 1948 and has a living area of 864 square feet. The price per square foot is $492. The deal was finalized on Jun. 14.
9. $430,000, detached house at 225 S. Atlantic Ave.
The sale of the single family residence at 225 S. Atlantic Ave. in Haddonfield has been finalized. The price was $430,000, and the new owners took over the house in June. The house was built in 1850 and has a living area of 1,812 square feet. The price per square foot was $237. The deal was finalized on Jun. 13.
8. $455,000, condominium at 606 Haddonfield Road
A sale has been finalized for the condominium at 606 Haddonfield Road in Cherry Hill. The price was $455,000 and the new owners took over the condominium in June. The condo was built in 1975 and the living area totals 1,806 square feet. The price per square foot ended up at $252. The deal was finalized on Jun. 13.
7. $537,000, single-family home at 111 Hart Road
The property at 111 Hart Road in Cherry Hill has new owners. The price was $537,000. The house was built in 1973 and has a living area of 2,835 square feet. The price per square foot is $189. The deal was finalized on Jun. 15.
6. $575,000, single-family residence at 648 Pomona Ave.
The 1,655 square-foot single-family house at 648 Pomona Ave. in Haddonfield has been sold. The transfer of ownership was settled in June and the total purchase price was $575,000, $347 per square foot. The house was built in 1950. The deal was finalized on Jun. 12.
5. $605,000, detached house at 24 Evergreen Lane
The 1,636 square-foot single-family home at 24 Evergreen Lane, Haddonfield, has been sold. The transfer of ownership was settled in June and the total purchase price was $605,000, $370 per square foot. The house was built in 1926. The deal was finalized on Jun. 13.
4. $605,000, single-family home at 124 Farmington Road
The sale of the single-family house at 124 Farmington Road, Cherry Hill, has been finalized. The price was $605,000, and the house changed hands in June. The house was built in 1962 and has a living area of 2,344 square feet. The price per square foot was $258. The deal was finalized on Jun. 14.
3. $699,000, single-family residence at 100 Wexford Drive
The 3,549 square-foot single-family residence at 100 Wexford Drive in Cherry Hill has been sold. The transfer of ownership was settled in June and the total purchase price was $699,000, $197 per square foot. The house was built in 1972. The deal was finalized on Jun. 13.
2. $875,000, single-family house at 217 Ardmore Ave.
The sale of the single family residence at 217 Ardmore Ave. in Haddonfield has been finalized. The price was $875,000, and the new owners took over the house in June. The house was built in 1938 and has a living area of 2,424 square feet. The price per square foot was $361. The deal was finalized on Jun. 13.
1. $920,000, single-family house at 415 Estaugh Ave.
The sale of the single-family residence at 415 Estaugh Ave., Haddonfield, has been finalized. The price was $920,000, and the new owners took over the house in June. The house was built in 1940 and has a living area of 2,402 square feet. The price per square foot was $383. The deal was finalized on Jun. 15.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Johnny Cueto allowed five hits over eight innings, Gavin Sheets hit a three-run homer and the Chicago White Sox beat Detroit 8-0 Saturday to end the Tigers’ season-high six-game winning streak.
Cueto (3-4) and José Ruiz combined on a six-hitter in the 11th shutout against the Tigers this season. Cueto struck out five and walked none in the longest outing by a White Sox pitcher in 2022. He had allowed eight runs over his previous 17 1/3 innings.
“It’s just a beautiful thing to watch, from our side,” manager Tony La Russa said.
Detroit didn’t have an extra-base hit until Spencer Torkelson’s eighth-inning double.
“He was good,” Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said of Cueto. “It was his day. We didn’t really do a ton against him to stress him. He made pitches, the ball moves, he disrupts timing, the quick pitch, the slow pitch, everything in-between. He’s a veteran guy who’s evolved. He left a little in the tank for later, started hitting 93s, 94s.”
Kody Clemens, a son of Roger Clemens who usually plays left and the infield, threw a 1-2-3 eighth for Detroit in his second big league pitching appearance. Kody Clemens made his mound debut against the White Sox on June 15.
José Abreu, Tim Anderson and Sheets each had a pair of hits for the White Sox, who have won two of their last six. The reigning AL Central champions improved to 18-25 at home.
Detroit’s winning streak was its longest since seven in a row last July 17-22.
Miguel Cabrera went 0 for 3, a day after he was selected to his 12th All-Star Game.
Sheets hit a three-run home run on a 3-0 pitch by Garrett Hill (1-1) in the first after Andrew Vaughn doubled and Luis Robert walked.
“That’s something that we did really well last year and that’s something we do as a team,” Sheets said of the two-out hits. “So to see that today was a good sign. Obviously missing (injured catcher Yasmani Grandal), but we’re at full health, and this is the lineup we expect to produce every day.”
Robert added an RBI single and Abreu hit a two-run double in the second. Abreu’s hitting streak reached 14 games.
Chicago extended its lead to 8-0 in the sixth on an Anderson RBI single and a wild pitch by Will Vest.
BOUNCING BACK
Hill needed 35 pitches in the first inning and 21 in the second, allowing six runs. He then retired nine straight batters over three scoreless innings.
“I liked how he made some adjustments and started being a little more aggressive with the strike zone and not getting into bad counts against their power hitters,” Hinch said.
Hill, a 26-year-old right-hander, won his major league debut Monday against Cleveland, giving up one run in six innings.
LOOKING BACK
Cueto, a 15-year veteran, signed with Chicago as a minor league free agent April 8. The White Sox selected his contract from Triple-A Charlotte May 16.
“He should have been in here since Opening Day, that’s what he’s meant,” La Russa said. “He’s picked us up when we needed it. We were talking about it earlier, it still bothers a lot of us the records of our starting rotation. Johnny is still an under-.500 pitcher and he’s pitched much better than that. But get that offense going like it was today.”
Added Cueto, “You work for this.”
KEEPING A PROMISE
The Tigers’ Twitter account shared a video of reliever Gregory Soto shaving third base coach Ramón Santiago’s head in the clubhouse after Detroit beat the White Sox on Friday. Santiago told his teammates he would go bald if the Tigers won six straight.
“The first thing they wanted to do last night was shave his head,” Hinch said before Saturday’s game. “We’ll see if that trend continues. The next question about when I’m going to do it? They’re going to need a lot more. There’s always a number. We’re not quite there yet.”
TRANSACTION
Tigers LHP Sam Howard cleared waivers and was assigned outright to Triple-A Toledo. He was designated for assignment Tuesday to make room for RHP Drew Hutchison.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Tigers: OF Austin Meadows (strained right and left Achilles tendons) is unlikely to return Monday. Hinch said Meadows will likely return later in the week. Meadows has experienced soreness during his rehab assignment with Toledo.
White Sox: OF Eloy Jiménez (hamstring tear) was dealing with normal soreness, La Russa said, and did not play. Jiménez was activated from the injured list Wednesday after he was injured April 23.
UP NEXT
RHP Drew Hutchison (1-4, 4.30 ERA) takes the mound for the Tigers against RHP Michael Kopech (2-6, 3.34) in Sunday’s series finale.
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Bryant receives highest honor for empowering communities through financial literacy on Wednesday, March 29 at the RISE Financial Pathways Power Luncheon 2023.
ATLANTA, March 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- RISE Financial Pathways hosted its 2023 Power Luncheon on March 29 and presented Operation HOPE Chairman, Founder, and CEO John Hope Bryant with the 2023 Robert A. McNeely Trailblazer Award, the organization's highest honor.
RISE (Reach. Invest. Succeed. Earn.) is a nonprofit that serves communities within Los Angeles County, particularly South Los Angeles, a region that is suffering from some of the highest unemployment in the nation. The event, which was themed "RISE: The Reunion, The Resurgence!" also honored other business leaders. RISE and its CEO Forescee Hogan-Rawls celebrated 30 years of community economic investment at the Power Luncheon.
John Hope Bryant is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Atlanta-based Operation HOPE, Inc., a leading national nonprofit dedicated to financial literacy and economic empowerment. Since its inception in 1992, Operation HOPE has served over 4 million people and directed more than $3.2 billion in economic activity into disenfranchised communities.
"Three decades ago, when I first had the vision to help uplift our communities through the work of Operation HOPE, Los Angeles is where it all started. It's an honor to be back and celebrated in my hometown," said Bryant. "As we continue this important work together, I want everyone to remember that the 'Silver Rights' movement matters for all. I am grateful to RISE and its leadership for bestowing me with the distinguished McNeely Trailblazer Award."
The Robert A. McNeely award was named after one of the organization's cofounders who educated local banks on how they could invest in the community and profit at the same time. McNeely was a leader in the enforcement of the Community Reinvestment Act of 1978, a federal law that had not been properly implemented in low-income communities.
In addition to founding Operation HOPE, Bryant is also the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Bryant Group Ventures and Principal of The Promise Homes Company, which is the largest minority-controlled owner of single-family rental homes in the United States. Bryant has served as a member of the President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy under President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama. At the recommendation of Mr. Bryant, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew renamed the former U.S. Treasury Annex Building the Freedman's Bank Building.
Operation HOPE's mission promotes social justice through an economic lens. Today, the Atlanta-based organization continues to experience significant growth with a focus on providing resources to historically underserved communities. With more than 230 'HOPE Inside' locations across the country, HOPE's team of certified coaches supports a diverse group of clients through initiatives to help improve financial wellness, increase homeownership and build small businesses. For more information, visit OperationHope.org.
Since 1992, Operation HOPE has been moving America from civil rights to "silver rights" with the mission of making free enterprise and capitalism work for the underserved—disrupting poverty for millions of low and moderate-income youth and adults across the nation. Through our community uplift model, HOPE Inside, which received the 2016 Innovator of the Year recognition by American Banker magazine, Operation HOPE has served more than 4 million individuals and directed more than $3.2 billion in economic activity into disenfranchised communities—turning check-cashing customers into banking customers, renters into homeowners, small business dreamers into small business owners, minimum wage workers into living wage consumers, and uncertain disaster victims into financially empowered disaster survivors. For more information: www.OperationHOPE.org. Follow the HOPE conversation on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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The CARE Award Honors Frontline Dialysis Workers for Exemplifying the Company's Core Values
WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fresenius Kidney Care, the nation's leading provider of kidney care services, applauds our nephrology frontline care team members during a crucial period in healthcare delivery and is recognizing employees' commitment to its core values of collaboration, proactivity, reliability, and excellence in care. Fresenius Kidney Care will present The Caring About Renal Excellence (CARE) Award to those who excel in any of the five clinical pillars: quality and safety, growth, clinical leadership, clinical excellence, and patient experience.
In its inaugural year, Fresenius Kidney Care will recognize 250 nephrology technicians and technologists with CARE Awards across the United States as part of National Dialysis Technician Recognition Week. CARE Award winners will receive a personalized certificate and an all-expenses-paid trip to the National Association of Nephrology Technicians (NANT) DialysisTechConneXion (DTX) conference in March 2023.
"This National Dialysis Technician Recognition Week, we express gratitude for the care our technicians take to ensure the best outcomes for people living with chronic kidney disease," said Kathleen Belmonte, Fresenius Kidney Care Chief Nursing Officer. "Dialysis technicians and technologists are essential to what we do. They are each an integral part of helping our patients and people living with kidney disease live their best lives. This is an important time each year to celebrate the care shown by our incredible frontline workers."
Fresenius Kidney Care's more than 21,000 dialysis technicians and technologists make up one third of the company's workforce. These employees devote their time to ensure safe and comfortable delivery of dialysis treatment to patients whose needs differ based on the type of treatment required, daily schedules, comorbidities, and other unique needs.
Observed October 10 through 15 this year, National Dialysis Technician Recognition Week celebrates the difference dialysis technicians make in the lives of people living with chronic kidney disease. Dialysis technicians make treatment as effective as possible and seek to improve patients' quality of life.
People on dialysis treatment often form strong connections with dialysis technicians and technologists through daily interaction and communication. The technical expertise and emotional intelligence required from dialysis technicians makes this position an essential role for Fresenius Kidney Care. Fresenius Kidney Care remains dedicated to growing the nephrology technician and technologist profession.
The National Association of Nephrology Technicians (NANT) celebrates Dialysis Technician Recognition Week by acknowledging that dialysis technicians are passionate, optimistic, worthy, enthusiastic, and resilient. During Technician Recognition Week, NANT thanks dialysis technicians for the work they do to improve the lives of people receiving dialysis treatment. Fresenius Kidney Care partners with NANT, with Fresenius Kidney Care purchasing NANT memberships for its employees.
Fresenius Kidney Care, a division of Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA), provides kidney disease education, dialysis treatment, and support services to more than 200,000 people with kidney disease every year whether in their own homes or at more than 2,600 facilities nationwide. Fresenius Kidney Care's dedicated teams help address the physical and emotional aspects of kidney disease through personalized care, education, and lifestyle support services. For more information about Fresenius Kidney Care, visit www.FreseniusKidneyCare.com.
Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) is the premier healthcare company focused on providing the highest quality care to people with renal and other chronic conditions. Through its industry-leading network of dialysis facilities and outpatient cardiac and vascular labs, Fresenius Medical Care North America provides coordinated healthcare services at pivotal care points for hundreds of thousands of chronically ill customers throughout the continent. As the world's largest fully integrated renal company, it offers specialty pharmacy and laboratory services, and manufactures and distributes the most comprehensive line of dialysis equipment, disposable products, and renal pharmaceuticals. For more information, visit the FMCNA website.
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BALTIMORE — A 78-year-old man was assaulted with a hammer at a church Sunday morning.
At approximately 10:33 a.m., Baltimore police responded to a report of an aggravated assault at a church in the 4300 block of Old York Road.
When officers arrived, they located a 55-year-old male suspect being detained by church members.
Police believe that the suspect was experiencing a mental crisis and was transported to a hospital for evaluation.
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BOSTON (AP) — A simple plan to get more people enjoying the outdoors on New Year’s Day has become a nationwide movement after a hike at a Massachusetts park more than three decades ago.
Just 380 people participated in the initial First Day Hike in 1992 at the nearly 7,000-acre (2,830-hectare) Blue Hills Reservation just south of Boston. On Sunday, tens of thousands of people are expected to take part in First Day Hikes at hundreds of parks in all 50 states.
A vigorous walk is a great way to start the new year on the right foot — literally — and get outdoors, enjoy nature, spend time with family and friends and maybe start working on that New Year’s resolution to get in shape, park officials and participants said.
“It’s all about mind, body and soul,” said Rodney Franklin, director of parks for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
The late Patrick Flynn, the former supervisor at Blue Hills, came up with the original plan.
“He wanted a way to bring people into the parks in the winter time because so many people think of parks as just a summertime place,” said Priscilla Geigis, deputy commissioner for conservation and resource stewardship at the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.
Steve Olanoff, 77, took part in that inaugural event at Blue Hills back in 1992 and is now a volunteer who helps shepherd hikers along the park’s trails each year.
“Back then, there was nothing to do on New Year’s Day,” he said. “Everyone just sat home and watched television. When I heard there was an opportunity to go for a hike I said, ‘Well, I’ll try that.’ It’s really amazing that so many people are doing this now.”
Over the years, more Massachusetts state parks joined in. Then, parks in other states came on board. In 2012, First Day Hikes went nationwide when the National Association of State Park Directors endorsed the idea.
“It just goes to show that one person can have an idea that can spread like that,” Geigis said.
Some states have added their own twists. At Ink Lake State Park in Burnet County, Texas, northwest of Austin, participants can go for a first day run, bike ride, or paddle in a canoe or kayak.
Snowshoes or cross country skis may be required at some Oregon locations, said Jason Resch, marketing manager for the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. Elijah Bristow State Park near Eugene is even offering a first day horseback ride.
“Just bring your own horse,” Resch said.
Some hikes are guided by park rangers or volunteers who teach about the history, geography, flora and fauna of a particular park. That in turn promotes stewardship, and a commitment to protect parks and open spaces, Geigis said. Refreshments are offered at many sites.
And people of all ability levels are welcome.
“We want to appeal to as many people as possible,” Franklin said. “So you’ll have some of our hikes that take place on paved, flat surfaces that are not very long, but if you want a brisk, longer hike, you can do that.”
Families with babies, seniors, and people with their dogs have participated in the First Day Hike at the Chester Blandford State Forest in Massachusetts, said Elizabeth Massa, president of the Western Mass Hilltown Hikers, who guides the 1.5-mile (2.4-kilometer) jaunt.
“If your New Year’s resolution is the get more exercise, lose weight, get healthier, then this is your opportunity,” she said. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national/ap-tradition-of-hiking-in-the-new-year-reaches-all-50-us-states/ | 2022-12-31 18:32:58 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national/ap-tradition-of-hiking-in-the-new-year-reaches-all-50-us-states/ |
Leading Cyber C-UAS Provider Rounds Out Management Team by Tapping Industry Veterans to Bolster its Rapidly Growing U.S. Expansion and Operations
RA'ANANA, Israel and MCLEAN, VA, June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- D-Fend Solutions, the leader in radio frequency (RF), cyber-based, non-kinetic, non-jamming, counter-drone takeover technology, has announced multiple additions to its U.S.-based team. In support of accelerating its momentum and growth both globally and specifically in the U.S., and strengthening its U.S. presence, the company has appointed a team of aerospace and defense, national security, and law enforcement industry professionals to oversee U.S. strategy, operations, sales, partnerships, service delivery, and implementations out of the company's Mclean, Virginia office.
These additions include Danny Rajan as U.S. General Manager, Michael Langman as Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, and Brett Feddersen as Vice President, Strategy and Governmental Affairs. With D-Fend Solutions' rapid global expansion, all three individuals bring decades of experience for expanding the company's success across multiple U.S. market sectors.
"We've seen tremendous growth and demand in the U.S. market in the past year," said Zohar Halachmi, Chairman and CEO, D-Fend Solutions. "Highly talented leaders such as Danny, Michael, and Brett will accelerate the company's growth trajectory in its strategic market segments."
Danny Rajan has joined the team as U.S. General Manager, where he is tasked with rapid expansionary growth in the U.S., including penetrating new accounts, expanding existing accounts, and overseeing sales, support, and implementations. Rajan is an accomplished General Manager within the aerospace and defense sector, previously having held leadership positions with aerospace and defense companies such as L3Harris and its affiliated companies, such as ITT and Exelis. Prior to joining industry, Rajan managed acquisition programs and projects at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the Naval Air Warfare Center.
Michael Langman joined the US team as Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, where he executes the company's strategy to rapidly bolster strategic alliances, partnerships, channels, and integrations with prime aerospace and defense companies and other complementary technology vendors, contributing to D-Fend's role within C-UAS layered defense systems. Langman brings business development and partnership management experience from the aerospace and defense industry, having served in leadership positions most recently with Thales. Michael served as a Captain in the Army.
Brett Feddersen will serve as Vice President, Strategy and Governmental Affairs, where he will lead the company's strategy, public policy, and government relations efforts and engagements with various branches of the U.S. government, policymakers, and regulators. He will also play a key role in supporting business development for D-Fend's airports and aviation practice by expanding the company's C-UAS presence at major U.S. airports. Feddersen joins the team with extensive senior leadership experience in major governmental agencies, including the Federal Aviation Administration, the White House's National Security Council, the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Defense Intelligence Agency, among others. Feddersen is a U.S. Army combat veteran and a retired Pennsylvania State Trooper.
About D-Fend Solutions
D-Fend Solutions is the leading counter-drone takeover technology provider, enabling full control, safety and continuity during rogue drone incidents across complex and sensitive environments, to overcome current and emerging drone threats. With hundreds of deployments worldwide, EnforceAir, the company's core offering, focuses on the most dangerous drone threats in military, public safety, airport, prison, major event and critical infrastructure environments. D-Fend Solutions' technology has been chosen as best-in-class and is deployed by multiple top-tier governmental agencies – including with military, law enforcement and homeland security users – as well as major international airports globally. EnforceAir autonomously executes RF, cyber-takeovers of rogue drones for a safe landing and outcome, ensuring the smooth flow of communications, commerce, transportation, and everyday life.
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MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — African officials outlined their priorities for the upcoming U.N. climate summit, including a push to make heavily polluting rich nations compensate poor countries for the environmental damage done to them.
The continent will also focus on how countries can adapt to global warming and how the continent can best halt further climate-related disasters. Africa has seen debilitating droughts in the east and Horn of Africa and deadly cyclones in the south.
Other key areas for discussion include moving from high-carbon energy sources like oil and gas to renewables, and “carbon credit” schemes, where foreign governments and companies pay for tree planting in exchange for producing greenhouse gases.
The U.N. climate conference, known as COP27, will be held in Egypt in November.
How much funding Africa gets is the biggest factor for how prepared it will be for a hotter future, said Harsen Nyambe, the director of sustainable environment at the African Union Commission.
“We recall the $100 billion that was promised has never been fulfilled and current assessments show that even that amount is not enough,” Nyambe said, referring to a 12-year-old pledge by rich nations to provide climate funding for poorer nations.
“Africa must be given adequate time to transition and transform its energy infrastructure. We cannot transform abruptly. We need resources, capacity, technology transfer and finance to power our development,” he added.
A commitment made in the previous international summit in Glasgow to spend half of climate funds on helping developing nations adapt to the effects of a warming world by having infrastructure and agriculture that’s resilient to more volatile weather systems, must be followed through, said Jean-Paul Adam, director of climate change for the U.N.’s Economic Commission for Africa.
He added the continent only received about 7.5% of its promised $70 billion in climate funding between 2014 and 2018.
Africa needs around $3 trillion to fulfill its self-determined emissions targets, known as nationally determined contributions, that each country is required to submit as part of the 2015 Paris agreement on climate, according to U.N. and Africa Development Bank estimates.
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“RIPTwitter” is trending on Twitter.
Twitter is now running with a skeleton crew. After half the company was let go a two weeks ago, hundreds more left the firm on Thursday night after Elon Musk set a deadline for remaining staff to agree to “extremely hardcore” conditions or take three months severance. Many took the latter.
It’s unclear exactly how many of Twitter’s original 7,500-strong workforce remain. A reporter from Fortune tweeted that 75% of its remaining 3,700 staff had quit, while according to the Verge, about 2,900 staff have stayed behind. The real figure may well be somewhere in the middle.
Many staff who emoji-saluted their way out the door warned the site would crumble in the near future without enough critical engineers in place. Not helping this weekend’s World Cup: Twitter has temporarily suspended badge access across its buildings, meaning no one can get into the office.
Naturally, Musk has dismissed the concerns. “The best people are staying so I’m not super worried,” he tweeted on Thursday.
Musk likes to surround himself with loyalists and he has revelled in having a rabid fanbase on Twitter, primarily responding to messages of praise. Those who stand up to correct him are shown the door. The thin-skinned billionaire has fired several engineers who openly criticized him. Musk may say that he values excellence, but it stands to reason that many of the smartest people at Twitter have now left.
You could argue that running a global online platform with a skeleton crew is absolutely possible. Let’s assume that between 1,000 and 2,000 staff now remain at Twitter. That is still a lot of engineers, especially considering that WhatsApp had just a fraction of that — 55 — when it was bought by Facebook in 2014, and was maintaining a messaging app for about 450 million monthly active users. Twitter has about 300 million monthly active users.
You could also argue that drastic times call for drastic measures. Musk has taken the reins of a company that was bloated and unprofitable in its latest quarter. To radically bring costs down, he needs to cut staff to a nucleus of “hardcore” engineers who can work at high speed and high intensity.
But neither of these arguments really hold weight if the goal is long-term success. WhatsApp may have ticked along nicely with a few dozen workers, but it also was notoriously cautious about rolling out new features and its founders focused primarily on simply keeping its servers running. Musk has no intention of just keeping servers running. He wants to turn Twitter into the “everything app,” with a host of new features like payments to emulate larger online platforms like China’s WeChat.
That is an especially challenging task for Twitter. After 16 years of operation, its systems are loaded with technical debt, bugs left behind after myriad iterations and upgrades. Its systems are highly complex and distributed across multiple networks. Reshaping them will take time and expertise — but Musk is in a hurry, and he has jettisoned many of the people who know these systems well.(2)
Musk is planning to re-launch his $8 Twitter Blue service on Nov. 29 “to make sure it’s rock solid.” But Twitter itself might not be so solid when that happens.
It’s unclear why Musk’s approach has been so extreme. Perhaps he is desperate to claw back his investment and pay back creditors. But he didn’t need to take such drastic measures. Twitter was not on the brink of disaster when Musk took over. It has been mostly profitable over the past five years and ran a decent advertising business that, until Musk’s takeover, brought in about 90% of its revenues. That business looks increasingly uncertain as advertisers balk at the turmoil at the company.
Musk is like a mechanic who replaces the engine, timing belt, chassis and entire frame of a car after it has been taken in with a deflated tire. It’s overkill, and almost certain to backfire.
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(1) If it did die, Musk could at least claim that he solved the bot problem.
(2) WhatsApp’s tiny staff were also highly incentivised by stock options, and all became millionaires when the app sold to Facebook. It’s unclear what benefits Twitter’s remaining crew will get. Musk has promised a stock plan similar to SpaceX’s, with rewards for “exceptional performance.”
This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.
Parmy Olson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, she is author of “We Are Anonymous.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — The price of a qualifying offer to Major League Baseball free agents rose to $19.65 million, an increase of $1.25 million.
The figure is determined by the average of the top 125 major league contracts this year. The price dropped by $100,000 to $17.8 million in 2019, then rose to $18.9 million in 2020 and fell $500,000 last year.
Among the top players who can become free agents after the World Series and are eligible to receive qualifying offers are New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge, New York Mets pitchers Jacob deGrom, Edwin Díaz and Chris Bassitt and outfielder Brandon Nimmo, Boston shortstop Xander Bogaerts, Atlanta shortstop Dansby Swanson, Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Trea Turner, Chicago Cubs catcher Willson Contreras and San Francisco pitcher Carlos Rodón.
Players eligible for free agency but not for qualifying offers include Chicago White Sox first baseman José Abreu, Minnesota shortstop Carlos Correa and Philadelphia pitcher Noah Syndergaard.
A free agent can be made a qualifying offer only if he has been with the same team continuously since opening day and has never received a qualifying offer before.
A qualifying offer can be made through the fifth day after the World Series, and a player has a week after that to accept.
If a team makes a qualifying offer to a player who signs a major league contract with another club before the amateur draft, his former club would receive a draft pick as compensation at the end of the first round or at the end of competitive balance round B. The placement depends on the amount of the new contract and the revenue-sharing and luxury tax status of the team losing the player.
Qualifying offers began after the 2012 season, and only eight of 110 offers have been accepted. Among the 14 players given offers last year, only San Francisco first baseman Brandon Belt said yes.
Major League Baseball offered last winter to drop qualifying offers and direct draft-pick compensation, and the March lockout settlement tied the proposal to the players' association agreeing to an international amateur draft. The union rejected the draft in July.
The qualifying offer price started at $13.3 million in 2012 and rose to $14.1 million in 2013, $15.3 million in 2014, $15.8 million in 2015, $17.2 million in 2016 and $17.4 million in 2017.
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Acquisition of critical parts and services distributor enhances FloWorks' product suite and extends value proposition in attractive growth sectors
HOUSTON and SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FloWorks International LLC ("FloWorks"), a specialty flow control distribution platform backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates, "Clearlake"), today announced it has acquired netMercury ("netMercury" or the "Company"), a specialty parts and services distributor. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 2000, netMercury is a distributor of critical parts and services to the global integrated circuit fabrication and technology industries with three locations in Dallas, Austin, and Phoenix. The Company's family of products includes system controls, temperature controls, high purity valves and fittings, fluid pumps, liquid flow controls, cleanroom equipment, consumables, vacuum pumps, and wafer process equipment, among others. netMercury also provides project management, including repair programs for equipment and components, custom kitting services for maintenance, and automated supply chain management replenishment services.
Together with netMercury, FloWorks will have over 45 branches globally, all strategically located in key markets to support customers focused on the chemical, sanitary, utility, refining, integrated circuit fabrication, microelectronics, life sciences, food & beverage, agriculture, and general industrial end markets.
"I am excited to welcome netMercury to the FloWorks platform as we continue to execute on our organic and M&A-driven growth strategies," said Scott Jackson, President and CEO of FloWorks. "This combination provides an exciting opportunity to build on both netMercury's and FloWorks' strong history in the integrated circuit fabrication and broader technology end markets to accelerate our compelling growth plans. We look forward to partnering with Terry and his team to build on netMercury's significant momentum, while continuing our shared 'customers first' focus."
"These two companies share a passion for providing customers with technical solutions and partnering with industry leading manufacturers, while building collaborative teams offering high touch local sales support and service," said Terry Hollingshead, President of netMercury. "We are confident that this transaction will provide our customers with access to greater resources while offering the same attention to detail, ingenuity, and sense of urgency in providing state of the art solutions to challenging problems. The future is bright for the netMercury team and our suppliers."
About FloWorks
FloWorks is a holding company of specialty flow control distribution providers with brands including Sunbelt Supply, SemiTorr Group, Oliver Equipment Company, Triple S, Major Inc., Genesis Systems Inc., and National Valve. The company is a specialty distributor of industrial flow control products and an expert provider of tailored technical solutions for processing applications in the industrial markets. FloWorks operates over 45 facilities worldwide. More information is available at www.gofloworks.com.
About netMercury
netMercury is a critical parts, materials, equipment, repairs, and value-added services distributor with over 30 years of experience supporting the global integrated circuit fabrication and high-technology industries. Offering a highly flexible business model, netMercury provides supply chain managers, empowered sourcing agents, distributors, and manufacturers' representatives, allowing netMercury to provide a broad range of products and services. More information is available at www.netmercury.net.
About Clearlake
Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. is an investment firm founded in 2006 operating integrated businesses across private equity, credit, and other related strategies. With a sector-focused approach, the firm seeks to partner with management teams by providing patient, long-term capital to businesses that can benefit from Clearlake's operational improvement approach, O.P.S.® The firm's core target sectors are technology, industrials, and consumer. Clearlake currently has over $72 billion of assets under management, and its senior investment principals have led or co-led over 400 investments. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with affiliates in Dallas, TX, London, UK and Dublin, Ireland. More information is available at www.clearlake.com and on Twitter @Clearlake.
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Do you feel the “Lavender Haze” creeping up on you? Swifties will know exactly what we mean. The single is from her 2022 album “Midnights,” but Taylor Swift only released her music video for “Lavender Haze” earlier this week. Since then, the video has collected over 14 million views — and spawned a new “secret menu” Starbucks drink.
TikToker @alexiaencinas13, a self-described “Taylor Swift enthusiast,” is credited with creating the ordering instructions for the Lavender Haze.
@alexiaencinas13 #lavenderhaze #taylorswift #starbucks ⬠Lavender Haze – Taylor Swift
As with all “secret menu” drinks, this one isn’t on the regular menu, so a barista won’t know how to make it.
To order the lovely lavender drink, ask your barista for an Iced Passion Tango Tea. This non-caffeinated hibiscus tea is naturally sweetened with cinnamon, apple and fruit juice, and is a beautiful dark pink hue. But once you add milk, the result is a lavender color. TikToker Alexia orders the Lavender Haze by asking for the Iced Passion Tango Tea with soy milk — but you can use real milk, almond milk or whatever dairy option you like. Remember: The addition of milk will not only make your tea rich and creamy, but it will also dilute that dark pink hue to a light pastel purple.
Next, add some depth and sweetness. If you are ordering a Venti Lavender Haze, ask for six pumps of vanilla. If you are ordering a smaller size, you will want to decrease the amount to suit your taste.
Since this drink isn’t caffeinated, even younger Swifities can enjoy this secret menu drink while vibing to the “Lavender Haze” music video.
If you want your Lavender Haze tea to be more decadent, consider this twist from Totally the Bomb. Order an Iced Passion Tango Tea with your milk of choice. Then, ask for it to be mixed with honey syrup and a scoop of blackberry. For a yummy final touch, ask your barista to finish the drink with a vanilla sweet cold foam.
Or, order the Violet Drink off the traditional Starbucks menu. No, it’s not quite lavender, but it’s close enough!
To get inspiration for your next Starbucks trip, watch the music video for Taylor Swift’s “Lavender Haze” below.
Enjoy!
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Penn St. transfer Noah Cain looks to help LSU rushing attack
Published: Aug. 6, 2022 at 6:23 PM CDT|Updated: 25 minutes ago
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - LSU is hoping to be able to find a consistent rushing attack this season.
It’s the last at-bat for senior running back John Emery, after missing all of last year because he was academically ineligible. Emery will perhaps be complimented well by newcomer Noah Cain.
Cain is a baton rouge native who attended the IMG Academy, before spending the last three years at Penn State.
He’s had some injuries but says he’s now 100% and thrilled to be back in the state capital.
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DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. , July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- YouFit Gyms, the popular nationwide fitness chain, today announced a partnership with University of Miami Athletics as the Official Gym of the Miami Hurricanes. The partnership begins on July 15, 2022, and will continue throughout the 2022-2023 football and basketball seasons.
YouFit Gyms will host several events throughout the season for Miami Hurricanes fans to help support and enhance everyone's fitness journey via customized activations at YouFit locations, and on-site at UM football, basketball, and other athletics venues.
"YouFit Gyms is committed to delivering the best-in-class fitness experience. We are honored to partner with the Miami Hurricanes as their official gym partner to bring health and wellness to students and fans," said Brian Vahaly, CEO of YouFit Gyms. "As a former collegiate- and pro-athlete, I know firsthand the vital role athletic programs play in student-athletes' lives and University of Miami Athletics offers an exceptional and diverse program for both men and women athletes. YouFit Gyms is thrilled to help foster the spirit of fitness and wellness within the UM community activations and our new small group fitness class we are launching, H HIIT."
"We couldn't be happier to welcome YouFit as an official partner of the Miami Hurricanes," said Chris Maragno, SVP Hurricanes Global Partnerships. "The Miami Hurricanes are committed to driving home the importance of leading a healthy lifestyle on and off the field. With the help of our partners such as UHealth, and now YouFit, we look forward to showcasing those efforts to our entire fan base."
Known for their all-encompassing offerings from state-of-the-art equipment, cutting-edge workouts, and high-end amenities at an unbeatable price, YouFit Gyms will also launch a new small group fitness class called H HIIT, inspired by the Hurricanes at its South Florida locations. Miami Hurricanes coaches and athletic trainers will provide YouFit HIIT coaches with tips and consultation to enhance their classes. H HIIT combines strength training and cardio to increase your heart rate, build and tone muscles, and increase both aerobic and anaerobic performance. With only 10 people in each class, you'll get that team-like energy with individualized attention from a certified YouFit coach
Legends, which has managed corporate sponsorships and multimedia rights for UM Athletics since April 2021, facilitated the partnership with YouFit Gyms.
With 80 locations nationwide, YouFit Gyms offer a premium fitness experience at an accessible price. Memberships start at $9.99 and individual personal training sessions cost as low as $30. YouFit Gyms offer everything from Olympic weightlifting platforms and endless cardio equipment, to small group personal training, high-energy fitness classes, customized nutrition advice from registered dietitians, and virtual fitness classes. By combining cutting-edge workouts and high-end amenities with an unbeatable price, YouFit Gyms members can take charge of their wellness journey, no matter what fitness level they start from. For more information visit www.youfit.com and www.youfit.com/miamihurricanes and follow on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at @youfitgyms.
The University of Miami's Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), supports more than 400 student-athletes across 18 sports. Miami has won 21 team national championships and 84 individual national championships in its storied history. UM Athletics is dedicated to developing and supporting its student-athletes in their effort to attain personal, academic, and athletic excellence, resulting in the highest standard of achievement. For more information visit www.miamihurricanes.com.
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HARLEM, Manhattan (PIX11) — Reducing stigma and spreading awareness through art is the goal of The Vascular Birthmark Portrait Show at Positive Exposure gallery in Harlem. The paintings by Celina Leroy highlight people with facial differences caused by port-wine stain (PWS) birthmarks and other venous malformations.
Approximately 3 out of every 1,000 babies are born with a PWS birthmark, which appears as a reddish mark and can become darker and thicker over time.
Leroy is a Brooklyn-based artist and New York City school teacher. She was born with a PWS on her chin, lip and cheek. Leroy started painting people with birthmarks in 2020, posting the work and taking requests on Instagram.
People with PWS birthmarks often face bullying and social exclusion. “Art has the power to change perceptions,” said Leroy, who was bullied herself in high school and started the series to educate people on vascular birthmarks.
“Confirming that what makes us different, makes us beautiful” said Jessica Dickson, who saw the artwork for the first time at the show opening and has a PWS herself.
“Growing up I would hear, ‘Did your mom hit you? Did you get burned?'” said Patricia Contreras, referring to her PWS birthmark on her cheek. “There’s such a lack of awareness,” said Emma Albert. Contreras and Albert are two of the subjects of Leroy’s paintings.
“People just heard about this exhibition and they showed up today, and they just felt welcomed. People came and they felt they belonged. It was family. It was community,” said Rick Guidotti, the founder of Positive Exposure, which is hosting the art show.
Positive Exposure is a charitable organization that promotes a more inclusive world through photography, films, exhibitions, lectures and educational programs. “We all have the same needs, the need to be seen, the need to be heard and the need to belong,” said Guidotti.
“Having yourself as a work of art makes you feel beautiful,” said Leroy, who hopes her art can increase self-esteem while combating bullying. “The goal is to end the stigma around facial differences so people don’t feel like they need to hide it. They don’t need to feel ashamed of it.”
“It sucks that other people have experienced it, but also the universality of, OK, other people have experienced it too. I’m less alone,” said Contreras.
Ten large paintings are featured as part of the show, along with several smaller ones in a collage. There is also a video accompanying each large painting where each subject tells their own story, paired with behind-the-scenes timelapse videos showing the paintings being created.
The Vascular Birthmark Portrait Show will be on display at the Positive Exposure gallery in Harlem at 14 East 109th Street through the end of February 2023. | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/brooklyn-artist-seeks-to-end-stigma-around-facial-differences-with-new-art-show/ | 2023-02-01 01:36:58 | 1 | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/brooklyn-artist-seeks-to-end-stigma-around-facial-differences-with-new-art-show/ |
ROCK HILL, S.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – A reporter who was covering a Catawba Nation meeting this weekend near Rock Hill was removed from the meeting and cited for trespassing, Queen City News has confirmed.
The Post and Courier, which covers news across the state of South Carolina with roots in Charleston, said on Saturday that one of its reporters, Maggie Brown, had been charged with trespassing while covering a Catawba Nation meeting.
Brown is a beat reporter for the Post and Courier in the Rock Hill area, part of the paper’s statewide coverage plan, and is a native North Carolinian, according to the newspaper’s website. Brown had been working on a story about the Native American Catawba Nation tribe cutting ties with its casino partner amid federal scrutiny.
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Last month, a notice of violation was issued last month against the Catawba Indian Nation and its Two Kings Casino partners by the National Indian Gaming Commission for expanding the casino without an approved management contract. “We issued a Notice of Violation to both enforce regulatory compliance and ensure the Nation is the primary beneficiary of its gaming revenue,” the commission said in a statement released at the time. The partners are Kings Mountain Sky Boat Partners, LLC (Sky Boat), and Sky Boat’s owners. The investigation was conducted by the commission’s D.C. bureau. Penalties at the time were said to have included a possible daily $57,000-pluss fine.
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Saturday’s meeting had over 200 people in attendance and was held on the reservation near Rock Hill to discuss those ties with its casino partners, the newspaper said. The sheriff’s office said the meeting was not open to the public. Brown was removed from the meeting, handcuffed, and placed in the back of a cruiser, before being released, the article said. The York County Sheriff’s Office told Queen City News that Brown was given a citation for trespassing and released. Brown had requested to attend the meeting prior to the incident and was denied by the tribal administration, according to the sheriff. A request for a comment from the newspaper’s editor was not immediately responded to.
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Catawba Two Kings Casino opened in 2021. “Anytime you go there, late at night, the parking lot is full,” Kings Mountain Mayor Scott Neisler told Queen City News shortly after its debut.
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Last year right before the start of the current NFL season, a 24-hour sports book featuring 30 kiosks opened inside the casino.
Catawba Nation said Brown has been banned from tribal lands and released the following statement on Sunday.
There is an unfortunate and long history of non-Native people not respecting the lands, laws, and traditions of Native people. During a General Council meeting of Catawba citizens yesterday, Post and Courier reporter Maggie Brown Driggers chose to add to this history.
Catawba General Council meetings are gatherings of Catawba citizens to discuss, debate, and ultimately vote on issues facing the Nation. These meetings are open only to Catawba citizens and invited guests. We are a sovereign nation with the power to set boundaries and laws on our land to protect and serve our people. This includes restricting those who are allowed and not allowed in our meetings.
Yesterday, a reporter from the Post and Courier attended a meeting without identifying herself and after receiving a message denying her access to the meeting in previous correspondence from the Nation. Maggie Brown Driggers’ actions make clear that she was aware that this meeting was not open to uninvited non-Catawbas, and despite this she chose to ignore our boundaries.
Once discovered, she was asked to leave the meeting and arrested for trespassing. Due to the intentional disrespect she demonstrated, the General Council of the Catawba Nation voted to ban Maggie Brown Driggers from Tribal lands.
We have held many General Council meetings over many years and have never had a media organization ignore our laws and violate our sovereignty in such a way. We welcome media organizations who follow our procedures, as well as respect our laws and our community. The Nation hopes to work on improving our relationship with the Post and Courier in the future.
We also note that Maggie Brown Driggers reported on her arrest last night without mentioning the myriad of ways she knew that she was not invited to our General Council meeting and was violating our laws. Accuracy, truth, and accountability are bedrock principles of journalism, and we are disappointed that Mrs. Brown Driggers does not feel those principals apply to her own actions. | https://www.qcnews.com/news/u-s/york-county/reporter-removed-from-catawba-nation-meeting-cited-for-trespassing-sheriff/ | 2023-01-15 20:55:49 | 0 | https://www.qcnews.com/news/u-s/york-county/reporter-removed-from-catawba-nation-meeting-cited-for-trespassing-sheriff/ |
Revitalized Berkshires property highlights how furnishings and décor upgrades elevate a space and deliver greater return on investment for property owners
ATLANTA, Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Home Depot® announces the launch of a refreshed vacation rental home – the Berkshires Home Makeover. Complete with furnishings and décor from The Home Depot including exclusive brands like Home Decorators Collection, StyleWell and The Company Store, the property has been revamped to offer a specialized, elevated experience for guests. The project was achieved in collaboration with Vrbo, part of Expedia Group, and select design-focused influencers.
"Making upgrades to any home or rental property with furniture, wall art, wallpaper and textiles can truly change its personality without the need for a major renovation," said Corinne Bentzen, general manager for The Home Depot Home. "Through the makeover of a vacation rental in the Berkshires, we're excited to showcase just how impactful these easy and attainable home updates, from fresh bedding and throws to functional seating, can be for travelers and property owners."
The Home Depot partnered with influencers including Holly and Brad Lauritzen (Our Faux Farmhouse), Fariha Nasir (Pennies for a Fortune) and Danielle Guerrero (Our Nest on Powell) to re-imagine the entrance, patio, kitchen, living areas and guest rooms within the rental home. Using only products found at The Home Depot or HomeDepot.com, the influencers created designs to exemplify current trends throughout the Berkshires property, including:
- Timeless Décor Elements – modern styles are blended with traditional classics to create a nostalgic, comforting feel throughout the home. Combining vintage-inspired wallpaper and lighting with contemporary furniture creates a sense of comfort and familiarity, which has become increasingly more important when considering home design.
- Balanced Color Palette – using Behr's 2023 Color of the Year "Blank Canvas" as a central backdrop throughout common areas, designers showcase possibilities to lean into the tranquility of the color with neutral tones in furniture, or balance it with bold, colorful accents throughout the space.
- Functional Spaces + Cozy Living – from the coffee bar in the kitchen to the textiles in the bedrooms, the property has been thoughtfully curated for functionality through design and ultimate comfort for guests. For both rental properties and personal spaces, décor should serve a purpose and make one feel at ease within the space.
As the expert in private, whole home accommodations for families, Vrbo understands the power of staying with the people you love. With more than two million unique Vrbo properties to choose from, families prioritize selecting vacation homes with the best spaces and amenities they can enjoy together. Adding intentional home upgrades from The Home Depot not only enhances the guest experience, but also helps homeowners maximize the return on their investment properties.
As a part of the home transformation, The Home Depot will make in-kind donations of unused furniture, décor and housewares items to nonprofit organizations including Habitat for Humanity, House2Home, Safe Haven Family Shelter and Oasis Center.
To book your stay at the Berkshires property and get an up-close look at the latest interior design trends visit https://www.vrbo.com/2579114?noDates=true&unitId=3149424.
Visit https://www.homedepot.com/c/BerkshiresHomeMakeover to explore the transformation and shop the look for the newly upgraded Berkshires vacation rental property.
To learn more about The Home Depot's wide selection of affordable home décor and furniture, visit www.homedepot.com/decor.
ABOUT THE HOME DEPOT
The Home Depot is the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer. At the end of the second quarter of fiscal year 2022, the company operated a total of 2,316 retail stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, 10 Canadian provinces and Mexico. The company employs approximately 500,000 associates. The Home Depot's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: HD) and is included in the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor's 500 index. The Home Depot is #17 on the 2022 Fortune 500.
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The U.S. Treasury Department confirmed Thursday that buyers can effectively bypass both the American final assembly and critical-mineral requirements for electric vehicles—if those EVs are leased.
That means, according to Reuters, starting Jan. 1, automakers selling EVs with final assembly outside North America may be eligible for a tax credit of up to $7,500 if applied to subsidized leases, in what amounts to a workaround for the American-made requirements of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and its restructured EV tax credit.
The move, which has been anticipated by many in recent weeks, perhaps quells some of the trade pushback from other nations that’s been building since the passage of the IRA, including the possibility that the tax credit might violate WTO rules.
Meanwhile, the rules remain quite different for anyone planning to buy an EV outright. In guidance released Thursday, the Treasury Department clarified that as of Jan. 1, 2023, new rules for MSRP, income, and final assembly will all apply to purchased vehicles. As per the IRA, battery critical minerals relate to half of the credit amount, and the Treasury Department confirmed earlier this month it was delaying the release of full guidance on that portion of the tax credit.
$7,500 dropping to $3,750 in April?
That will likely mean that for about the first quarter of 2023, many American-made EVs will qualify for the full $7,500 amount, while after the first quarter most of those qualifying models will only be eligible for $3,750.
Under the new credit, the vehicle’s MSRP cannot exceed $80,000 for SUVs, pickups, and vans, or $55,000 for passenger cars. The IRS emphasizes that while the MSRP includes options, “it isn’t necessarily the price you pay”—a clarification many will have amid rampant dealer markups. As per the new rules, buyers must have a household income equal to or less than $150,000 for single filers, $225,000 for heads of households, or $300,000 for married couples filing jointly. Buyers must also purchase the vehicle for their own use, not for resale, and for use primarily in the U.S.
Jan. 1: $7,500 for Model 3, Model Y, Bolt EV, among others
With the previous 200,000-vehicle ceiling lifted, those who purchase GM or Tesla vehicles will likely be eligible for the full credit of $7,500 in the new year, as the IRS has now clearly laid out, as per the IRA, that the new rules apply to vehicles from these brands.
Up until the end of the year, you can still buy an EV or PHEV and claim the $7,500 credit—only if it’s American-made, and not yet including GM or Tesla.
So far, the link the IRS provided—of vehicles that qualify for the credit starting Jan. 1—only includes vehicles from Ford, Nissan, Rivian, and Stellantis. But given the price and final assembly stipulations, that list is likely to be greatly expanded in the coming days.
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Men to compete in artistic swimming at Olympics for first time
FUKUOKA, Japan (AP) — Men have competed in synchro at the lower levels for decades. Now they’re being included in the Olympics, meaning next year’s Summer Games in Paris.
“I think it’s a huge opportunity for the sport to grow and attract more men,” May told the Associated Press at the World Aquatics Championships. “By keeping men out you’re limiting the sport. By including men you’re going to see an upshift in the popularity and the numbers.”
May looks like a lean bodybuilder. He was among the first men to compete when synchro was included in the worlds for the first time in 2015. And he worked for 17 years at Cirque du Soleil doing water-themed shows. He has come out of competitive retirement for a chance to compete at the Olympics.
“There has always been that misconception that it’s a female-only sport, or that it’s for wimps, or that it’s not a difficult sport,” the 44-year-old May said. “Anyone that has anything negative to say about the sport — boy, female, anyone. Just try it and you’ll know it’s the most difficult sport in the world.”
This is not the synchronized swimming that your parents or grandparents watched — the water ballet that made few waves below the flowery rubber caps and permanent smiles, It’s estranged from the sport introduced at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
The acrobatic team event, in particular, features lifts, throws and flips, and diving routines launched off the shoulders of teammates treading water below. It’s gymnastics on water and concussions are a risk.
Interested men often confront the stereotypes.
Beginning in elementary school, 18-year-old American Kenny Gaudet dreamed of being a synchronized swimmer. He made it, but it wasn’t easy.
“It makes me emotional just to think about the problems we all went through and the struggles we all had just to get a chance to swim and do what we love,” said Gaudet who competed at this year’s worlds.
“So much bullying. So much slander. So much hate,” he added. “Just because of my gender, just because I’m a male in artistic swimming. When I first started I wanted to quit so many times. Growing up my peers would ask why I’m doing a female sport, why am I being like a girl and degrade me for doing what I love to do.”
One aspect of Adam Andrasko’s job as the head of USA Artistic Swimming is recruiting men. He said there are about 100 participating in the United States, up from 25 just four years ago.
“There hasn’t been a good foundation of growth,” Andrasko said. “You haven’t had the farm system.”
A few countries at the world championships have male swimmers including the United States, Japan, Germany and China. Spain and Italy also have top competitors.
“There aren’t a lot of countries with strong males,” in the international competition, Andrasko said, noting men often lack the flexibility to compete. “So you might not see a lot of males swimming in the Olympics. I’m concerned it goes to the Olympic Games and we don’t see a male participating. I definitely have that fear.”
“To this point,” he added, “women are still far better at this sport than a man.”
Another fear, apparently unfounded, is that women might resent the men competing in the sport. Men will compete in only team events at the Olympics. Teams have a maximum of eight members — with a limit of two men — which means men might crowd out some women.
There is no requirement for men to be included.
Asked about any acrimony, two-time American Olympian Anita Alvarez replied: “No, not at all.”
Alvarez has blacked out twice in the last two years while competing and had to be resuscitated. She’s been cleared to compete with no diagnosis except physical or mental exhaustion. Holding her breath for too long underwater is also suspected.
Men can add some physicality to routines, and their presence could lead to a wider audience. Alvarez also credits May with choreography skills that he picked up with Cirque du Soleil.
“Having the inclusion of both males and females will make it more open for young boys and young girls to dream of being in the Olympics, parents wanting to start their kids,” Alvarez said.
She ran off her workout routine, sure to scare away men and women — equally.
“We’re training eight-plus hours a day, treading water all day,” she said. “You have to be able to count time and work with music. You have to be able to watch your patterns and stay in line. We don’t wear goggles when we compete. You’re holding your breath. You don’t touch the bottom. There are so many elements that go into it that people don’t see.”
And we’re about to see more men trying it.
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Friday
Kokomo 48-Hour Film Contest, 7-9 p.m., Sun King Kokomo. Sign up to create a short film over the course of 48 hours. Rules and information will be shared at the informational session on Aug. 26, and the films will be screened during September’s First Friday on Sept. 2. There is no charge to participate, and the screening will be free.
Al-Anon, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Faith Presbyterian Church, 1608 Kirk Row, enter through door 1.
Saturday
Annual Ride of Hope, 10 a.m. at Harley Davidson, hosted by Turning Point SOC and Tyler’s Triumph. Registration at 10 a.m. The cost to ride is $30 plus $10 per passenger. Cost includes a free event t-shirt, a meal and access to the after-ride event. Following the ride, there will be food, a beer garden available to those 21 and older, and live music from the Mike Milligan and Steam Shovel band. There is a $20 admission fee for those who are not participating in the ride but want to enjoy the after-ride event starting at 4 p.m.
Rummage sale, hosted by First Friends Meeting of Kokomo, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., 1801 W. Zartman Road. Food items will also be for sale.
Greentown Historical Society open, 1-4 p.m. Saturdays and Mondays or by appointment, 103 E. Main St., Greentown, call 765-628-3800.
Tuesday
Ladies Tea, 2 p.m. at Meridian St. Christian Church, 205 N. Meridian Street, Greentown. Refreshments, Dave Turner’s version of Antiques Roadshow.
Friday, Sept. 2
Kokomo 48-Hour Film Contest screening, 7-9 p.m., Sun King Kokomo. All are welcome for this free screening of videos submitted for the Kokomo 48-Hour Film Contest. Drinks will be available for purchase.
VFW pork chop dinner, 5-7 p.m., VFW Post 1152, 920 N. Washington St., Kokomo. 2 Pork Chops, ¾” Thick plus 2 sides & roll, cost $12.00. Karaoke from 7-11 p.m. Contact the VFW for more info at 765-452-1521.
Tuesday, Sept. 6
Tea time with the Miami County Democrat Women’s Committee, 6 p.m., Peru Civic Theatre, 235 E. Riverside Dr., Peru. Invited candidates will have the opportunity to introduce themselves and answer moderated questions. Maximum capacity is 20 people. Please call 765-327-2240 to reserve a spot.
Saturday, Sept. 10
13th Annual Run/Walk for Hope, 9 a.m. at the Gilead House, 406 E. Sycamore St. Find more information, including how to sign up, on the Gilead House Facebook page. For questions email sspencer07@yahoo.com or call 765-437-9149.
Sunday, Sept. 11
Open house, Harrison Township Volunteer Fire Department, 1-5 p.m., 4102 S. Dixon Road. The open house will feature a car extrication demonstration, a dunk tank, truck tours and photo opportunities. Free drinks, hot dogs, popcorn and cotton candy will be available, as well as honorary fire hats and badges for kids. The department will be accepting free-will donations and selling special edition Harrison Fire Department shirts. | https://www.kokomotribune.com/news/area_briefs/calendar-aug-26-2022/article_aa1be30e-24b7-11ed-a646-a75b61c28342.html | 2022-08-25 22:23:40 | 0 | https://www.kokomotribune.com/news/area_briefs/calendar-aug-26-2022/article_aa1be30e-24b7-11ed-a646-a75b61c28342.html |
Mila Kunis feels like the luckiest girl alive.
However, this wasn't always the case. Speaking with E! News about her new Netflix thriller Luckiest Girl Alive, the actress, 39, reflected on whether she's ever felt like a secret held her back from living her best life—just like her character does in the film.
"I don't know if it was a secret, but I do think that there's a part of me that looked at my previous mistakes—however small or large that they were—as a form of like, 'Well karma's going to come get me,'" she told E! News correspondent Francesca Amiker. "And it's one of those where [I was like], 'I'm never going to be able to' fill in the blank."
However, her husband Ashton Kutcher suggested shifting her mindset. "My husband's like, 'Well, you're giving a lot of power to said karma,'" Kunis recalled. "And I was like, 'I mean my superstition!' And it wasn't until he was like, 'Karma doesn't have that much control over you.' And I was like, 'OK, but I feel like it does.'"
So while the Bad Moms star said her perspective on karma didn't stop her from trying to live her best life, she admitted her thought process "prevented me of taking ownership of it."
Still, Kunis hasn't shaken her superstitious tendencies completely. When asked if she considers herself the luckiest girl alive, the That '70s Show alum replied, "I'm going to knock on wood." However, she acknowledged she has a lot to be thankful for.
"It's a fine line between hard work and luck," she said. "I am very lucky. I am so fortunate."
She's especially grateful for her family—noting she has "a great relationship" with her parents and brother, an "amazing partner" in Kutcher and two children, daughter Wyatt, 7, and son Dimitri, 5.
And ultimately, as the Black Swan actress explained, everyone has a different definition of what it means to be lucky. Referring to leaving Ukraine for the U.S. with her family as a child, Kunis shared, "For me, given how I grew up, the fact that I own a house and a car, that surpassed anything and everything. So that was it for me."
However, she noted that her definition of luck has changed over time. "Then you get older, then you realize you can't buy time and you can't buy health," Kunis continued. "So the second you have time and the second you got health, you're like, 'Wow! I'm so lucky. I'm healthy. My family's healthy. How lucky am I? I have time to be with my family. How lucky am I?' So I think it depends on what your definition of lucky is."
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By CURT ANDERSON
Associated Press
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A nearly $1 billion tentative settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit brought by families of victims and survivors of last June’s condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, an attorney said Wednesday.
Harley S. Tropin announced the $997 million settlement during a hearing before Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Michael Hanzman. Still pending final approval, the settlement involves developers of an adjacent building, insurance companies and other defendants.
“I think it’s fantastic,” Hanzman said, reacting to the update from attorneys. “This is a recovery that is far in excess of what I had anticipated.”
Earlier this year, Hanzman had approved an $83 million settlement to compensate people who suffered economic losses such as condominium units and personal property. A key question from the beginning has been how to allocate money from the property’s sale, insurance proceeds and damages from lawsuits among wrongful death cases and property claims.
The 12-story Champlain Towers South condominium partially collapsed in the early-morning hours of June 24, almost instantly destroying dozens of individual condo units and burying victims under tons of rubble. Rescuers spent weeks carefully digging through mountains of concrete, first to find survivors and later to recover the remains of those who died. Ten days after the initial collapse, demolition crews used explosives to bring down the remaining portion of the building to give searchers access to additional areas where survivors might have been located. A total of 98 people were killed.
The tragedy in the town of Surfside, just north of Miami Beach, triggered lawsuits from victims, families and condo owners, and prompted state and federal investigations. In October, a coalition of engineers and architects said the state of Florida should consider requiring high-rise buildings near the coast to undergo safety inspections every 20 years. And in December, a Florida grand jury issued a lengthy list of recommendations aimed at preventing another condominium collapse, including earlier and more frequent inspections and better waterproofing.
At the time of the collapse, Miami-Dade and Broward were the only two of the state’s 67 counties that had condominium recertification programs.
The main lawsuit, filed on behalf of Champlain Towers South victims and family members, contends that work on the adjacent Eighty Seven Park tower damaged and destabilized the Champlain Towers building, which was in need of major structural repair. Champlain Towers was in the midst of its 40-year structural review when it partially crumbled to the ground.
Video released by a team of federal investigators showed evidence of extensive corrosion and overcrowded concrete reinforcement in the building.
Seven months after the collapse, temporary structural supports were added to areas in the underground garage of Champlain Towers South’s sister tower, Champlain Towers North, in what the building’s condo board called “an abundance of caution.” The condo was built in 1981 and has a nearly identical design as the Champlain Towers South.
The little-known enclave of Surfside comprises a mix of older homes and condos similar to the collapsed tower, built decades ago for the middle-class, and recently erected luxury condos drawing the wealthy. That includes former first daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, who live about a block north of the collapsed condo. The residents of Champlain Towers South were an international mix: South American immigrants, Orthodox Jews and foreign retirees.
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This story has been corrected to show that Circuit Court Judge Michael Hanzman said he was shocked by the settlement, not Harley S. Tropin.
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Johnny Depp Trial: Depp calls Heard allegations 'insane' hours after Kate Moss testifies on staircase rumor
FALLS CHURCH, Va. - British supermodel Kate Moss, the ex-girlfriend of Johnny Depp, testified Wednesday as the $50 million defamation case against Depp's ex-wife Amber Heard continues through its final week.
Moss was sworn in as the first witness Wednesday. Her brief testimony only lasted about three minutes. She appeared via live video link from Gloucestershire, England.
Moss addressed the infamous staircase rumor that claimed Depp pushed her down a flight of stairs during an incident while the two were dating. 48-year-old Moss said that while the two were on a vacation at the GoldenEye resort in Jamaica she slipped and fell while leaving her hotel room following a rain storm.
Moss said Depp rushed to her aid, carried her back to her room and brought her medical attention after she fell.
"No. He never pushed me, kicked me or threw me down any stairs," Moss answered when asked if Depp was responsible for the incident.
Moss said that she and Depp were involved in a romantic relationship from 1994 to 1998. She was dragged into the case earlier in the trial when Heard blurted out her name during testimony.
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"I don't hesitate. I don't wait. I instantly think of Kate Moss and the stairs, and I swung at him," Heard said on May 5 while on the stand describing an argument over Depp's alleged infidelity when she thought he was about to push her sister, Whitney Henriquez Heard, down a flight of stairs. Heard said she punched Depp, and it was the first time she had ever "landed a blow."
Heard's statement prompted celebratory reactions from Depp's legal team in the courtroom. The namedropping of Moss opened the door for Depp's team to call the model as a witness to refute the rumor.
Depp was expected to take the stand earlier this week but did not after a last-minute change in strategy by Heard's legal team. He did take the stand Wednesday, however.
Johnny Depp called his ex-wife’s accusations of sexual and physical abuse "insane" as he returned to the witness stand in his libel suit against Amber Heard.
"Ridiculous, humiliating, ludicrous, painful, savage, unbelievably brutal, cruel, and all false," Depp said when asked about his reaction to hearing Heard’s allegations when she testified earlier in the trial.
Depp was testifying Wednesday as a rebuttal witness — both he and Heard each testified extensively earlier in the trial.
He gave some specific responses to some of the particular allegations levied by Heard and also her sister, Whitney Henriquez, who provided some of Heard’s strongest corroborating testimony.
He concluded his testimony with a final denial of the allegations.
"I have never in my life committed sexual battery, physical abuse, all these outlandish, outrageous stories of me committing these things," he said. "And living with it for six years, and waiting to be able to bring the truth out."
He said that "no matter what happens I did get here and I did tell the truth and I have spoken up for what I’ve been carrying on my back, reluctantly, for six years."
Both sides are expected to present their final witnesses Thursday, with closing arguments expected Friday.
The final week of the trial began with a hand surgeon's testimony that Depp could not have lost the tip of his middle finger the way he told jurors it happened. Surgeon Richard Moore testified about the severed finger as jurors saw gruesome photos of the injury.
Also on Monday, a psychiatrist testified that Depp's behavior fits the pattern of a person whose drug and alcohol abuse contributes to domestic violence.
During a break Monday, a woman professed her love for Depp asking him when he was going to acknowledge that he was the father of the baby she was holding. She was removed from the courtroom.
Closing arguments are expected to be heard this Friday following seven weeks of bombshell testimony and questioning.
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Last week, Heard's sister told juror that she personally witnessed Depp strike her sibling. Whitney Heard Henriquez was on the witness stand Wednesday and said she often found herself involved in the troubled relationship of the ex-Hollywood couple. Henriquez testified she saw Depp hit Heard during a March 2015 fight that happened about a month after their wedding following an argument between the two regarding an alleged extramarital affair by Depp.
Henriquez said she was struck in the back before Heard became enraged and "landed one" on Depp. Bodyguards broke up the fight but not before Depp had already grabbed Heard by the hair and struck her several times, Henriquez testified.
Henriquez said it was the only time she witnessed Depp strike Heard but witnessed the aftermath of many other fights.
US actor Johnny Depp listens during trial at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on May 24, 2022. - Actor Johnny Depp is suing ex-wife Amber Heard for libel after she wrote an op-ed piece in The Washington Post in 2018 referri
Also last week , in a recorded deposition played for jurors, Heard's friend Raquel Pennington, testified she never witnessed Depp strike Heard but she said she saw injuries, and took photos of Heard's face in December 2015 following a fight in which Heard claimed Depp head-butted her and possibly broke her nose. The photos showed Heard with a cut lip, black eyes and strands of her hair.
Pennington also said she saw cuts on Heard's feet following her return from a March 2015 trip to Australia.
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The cross-examination of Heard concluded last Tuesday after she was cross-examined for most of the day following her testimony in the libel suit against her.
Depp's legal team questioned her about several incidents in which she says she was attacked by her former husband including a fight during which Heard claimed Depp sexually assaulted her.
Heard was questioned as to why she never sought medical attention following the alleged attacks and as to why she wrote a series of love notes to Depp in the months after she said she was assaulted.
The jury was also shown a recording of a deposition Heard gave in 2016 in which she appeared to inadvertently admit she had tipped off the media regarding the former couple's divorce proceedings.
US actress Amber Heard looks on in the courtroom at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on May 24, 2022. - Actor Johnny Depp is suing ex-wife Amber Heard for libel after she wrote an op-ed piece in The Washington Post in 2018
Heard's grueling cross-examination concluded with questions about her arrest for allegedly hitting an ex-girlfriend in 2009.
Heard's lengthy cross-examination began last Monday when Depp's lawyers questioned her about photographs taken within days of alleged abuse incidents but which did not appear to show any visible signs of bruising. Depp's lawyers questioned Heard about photographs taken within days of alleged abuse incidents but which did not appear to show any visible signs of bruising.
Lawyers also questioned Heard about her $7 million divorce settlement from Depp and her pledge to donate that full amount to charity. Heard has only donated a portion of it saying Depp's lawsuit prevented her from fulfilling her pledge.
During her direct testimony earlier in the trial, Heard said she did not want to publicly expose Depp as an abuser but had to in order to obtain a restraining order against him. She discussed at length her makeup routine and her expertise in covering up bruises with what she called her "bruise kit." Heard's legal team also showed photographs to the jury that showed her with red marks and swelling on her face which came after they say the Hollywood couple had their final fight before their divorce in May 2016.
Also last Monday, Heard strongly denied Depp's accusation that she left human fecal matter in the couple's bed following a fight. Heard said it belonged to their teacup Yorkshire terrier that messed the bed.
Heard concluded her testimony by saying daily accusations from Depp supporters that she's lying about the alleged abuse are "torture." Heard is expected back on the witness stand Tuesday.
Prior to the one-week trial hiatus, Heard went into graphic detail as she described disturbing sexual assault allegations against her ex-husband.
From the witness stand, she described an alleged sexual assault she said took place over several days while the then-couple was in Australia in 2015.
Heard alleged Depp accused her of cheating on him with movie co-stars including Billy Bob Thornton and Eddie Redmayne, with whom she'd just shot the film "The Danish Girl." Heard has denied those accusations.
Heard said Depp tore off her clothes and repeatedly punched her before he sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle in an alcohol-fueled rage.
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Heard also described bizarre details she alleges followed the attack, including Depp using her torn nightgown to wrap a raw steak that had been left out.
She accused Depp of writing on the walls with blood from his finger that she says he severed during the incident. Depp has accused Heard of causing the injury after she threw a bottle of alcohol at him.
The March 2015 incident in Australia, that happened over three days during the couple's first year of marriage while Depp was filming the fifth "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie, has been disputed and has been a focal point of the trial.
Heard spoke about how the couple met during their work on the film "The Rum Diary" and how they began dating while doing a press tour for the film's release in 2011.
She said Depp's first act of physical violence against her came in 2013 when he slapped her several times while she looked at his tattoos – specifically one that read "Wino" — an alteration to the lettering he had made when he'd been dating actor Winona Ryder.
Heard also described a 2013 incident when she said she was sexually assaulted by Depp as he performed what he called a "cavity search" on her during a drug-fueled night in California.
The libel lawsuit was filed by Depp against Heard over an op-ed piece Heard wrote in The Washington Post in 2018 in which Heard refers to herself as a "public figure representing domestic abuse." The Post article doesn't mention Depp by name, but he says it clearly refers to her allegation that she suffered physical abuse at his hands. Depp denies the allegation.
Prior to her testimony, Heard abruptly fired her public relations team after she was reportedly angered over negative headlines about the trial.
Earlier in the trial a psychologist testified that Heard suffered post-traumatic stress disorder from violence, including sexual violence, she suffered at the hands of Depp. The psychologist, Dawn Hughes, told jurors that there is corroboration of many of the instances of abuse -- including apologies and admissions made by Depp to Heard. Hughes is the first witness to take the stand on Heard's behalf in the four-week trial after Depp rested his case earlier in the day.
Depp's agent testified that Heard's op-ed piece in The Washington Post describing herself as a victim of domestic abuse was "catastrophic" to his career. Agent Jack Whigham said Depp lost a $23 million deal for a "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequel following Heard's piece.
The trial opened April 11, and since its start, Depp has testified regarding his past drug use, has discussed suffering a mental breakdown and talked about the disturbing details surrounding his relationship with Heard. Heard's attorneys have highlighted text messages Depp sent to friends recounting alcohol and drug use and have shown photos that showed cocaine and other drugs they say belonged to the actor.
A forensic psychologist hired by Depp's legal team testified that Heard suffers from borderline and histrionic personality disorder. The psychologist, Shannon Curry, took the stand saying she reached her diagnosis during 12 hours of interviews with Heard and after a review of her mental-health records. Curry also testified that Heard does not suffer post-traumatic stress disorder from her relationship with Depp. On cross-examination, Heard's lawyers questioned Curry for potential bias.
Jurors have also heard testimony from Tara Roberts, the woman who managed Depp's private island in the Bahamas who testified that she never saw Heard with any kind of bruises.
Los Angeles police officer Melissa Saenz who testified about her visit to Depp's penthouses just days before Heard filed for divorce and sought a restraining order said that Heard had been crying but she saw no evidence of an injury.
Depp's cross-examination concludedafter four days on the witness stand.
During his time on the stand, Depp denied ever hitting Heard and accused her of striking him. Depp said Heard threw liquor bottles and paint cans at him during arguments the two had during their relationship. He also denied cutting off his own finger during a fight with Heard, claiming she severed it when she threw a vodka bottle at him.
Jurors also heard audio clips of Depp berating his then-wife with vulgarities. In other clips, Heard seemingly taunted Depp, suggesting he wouldn't be believed if he were to accuse her of abuse. Jurors were also shown dozens of text messages from Depp to friends regarding drinking, drug use and interactions with Heard.
Throughout the cross-examination, Heard's lawyers focused on Depp's drinking, drug use and heated interactions with her. Depp expressed disapproval and displeasure with many of the questions asked during his four days on the stand.
Earlier in the trial, Depp's older sister, Christi Dembrowski, faced a barrage of questions from Heard's lawyers about Depp's alcohol and drug use. Isaac Baruch, a longtime friend and next-door neighbor of Depp also testified that Amber Heard told him Depp had hit her but he never saw evidence of abuse on her face.
A former personal assistant to Amber Heard, Kate James, also testified in a video deposition that was played in court saying she never saw the actress suffer any physical abuse at the hands of her then-husband but did say Heard once spit in her face when she asked for a higher salary.
Lawyers also presented a video deposition of Laurel Anderson, a couple's therapist who worked with Heard and Depp in 2015 who said both suffered childhood abuse. As a couple, they were engaged in "mutual abuse," Anderson testified.
Depp and Heard met in 2009, were married in 2015. Heard filed for divorce a year later.
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Albert Lea Civic Music concert season approaching
Published 8:55 pm Tuesday, July 26, 2022
After canceling much of the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic and expanding the 2021 season to include the performances missed in 2020, Albert Lea Civic Music will return to a normal schedule for their 2022-23 season.
The new season kicks off Oct. 3, and all performances are at the Albert Lea High School auditorium:
Brothers: Oct. 3
Jeeyoon Kim: Nov. 18
Frisson: Feb. 25, 2023
Take 3: March 26, 2023
Copper Street Brass: May 7, 2023
As in the past, Albert Lea Civic Music will be mailing past ticket holders the 2022-23 season ticket order forms in August. In addition, 2022-23 season tickets can be purchased at Hy-Vee in Albert Lea, the Albert Lea Convention and Visitors Bureau, and all Arcadian Bank locations. Civic Music volunteers will also be selling 2022-2023 season tickets during Senior Day at the Freeborn County Fair. The 2022- 23 season ticket prices are $15 for students, $50 for adults and $105 for families.
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DALLAS, June 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- We will release our second-quarter 2023 results on Wednesday, July 26. Earnings release and related materials will be available at AT&T Investor Relations.
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Oregon’s Bo Nix and Wake Forest’s Sam Hartman on Saturday became the fourth and fifth Football Bowl Subdivision quarterbacks to throw for five touchdowns in multiple games this season.
Nix passed for five scores against UCLA after having done it last month against Eastern Washington.
Hartman, who threw for six TDs against Clemson last month, had five against Boston College.
Ohio State’s C.J. Stroud has thrown five TD passes in two games and six in another and leads the nation with 28.
Mississippi State’s Will Rogers has a game with six TD passes and another with a fifth.
North Carolina’s Drake Maye has two games with five TD passes.
4X SAFETY
Weber State long snapper Grant Sands has had better days. He put four snaps over punter Jack Burgess’ head, leading to a Football Championship Subdivision-record four safeties surrendered to Montana State.
The first three sailed or bounced out the back of the end zone from the 19-, 33- and 30-yard lines and the fourth, from the 34, bounced into the end zone and Burgess kicked it out the back.
Weber State gave up a safety in the opener against Western Oregon, but that was on a punt that was blocked out of the end zone.
“I’ve never been in a game like that, where we did it multiple times let alone four,” Weber State coach Jay Hill said after the 43-38 loss.
Three teams had shared the previous record of three safeties allowed in a game.
8X TURNOVERS
Miami committed eight turnovers in its 45-21 loss to Duke, the most in the Bowl Subdivision since Central Michigan gave the ball away eight times against Wyoming in the 2017 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.
Duke, which recovered five fumbles and intercepted three passes, had never been the beneficiary of so many turnovers.
MOST PUNTS
James Madison and Marshall combined for 24 punts — 12 each. That was the most since East Carolina and Tulane totaled 26 in 2018.
Sam Clark’s leg got a workout. He had all 12 punts for James Madison, the most since Texas A&M’s Nik Constantinou had the same number against LSU in 2020. John McConnell punted 10 times and Rece Verhoff twice for Marshall, which won 26-12.
LONGEST PUNT
Toledo’s Jonathon Batzke got off the longest punt in five years in the FBS when he sent one 91 yards against Buffalo.
It was the longest since Marshall’s Kaare Vedvik hit a 92-yarder against Old Dominion in 2017.
Batzke’s previous long punt was a 54-yarder against Kent State on Oct. 15. He was a yard off the school record of 92 yards by Brandon Hannum in 2001.
LONGEST PUNT RETURN
Jha’Quan Jackson’s 90-yard punt return touchdown for Tulane against Memphis was longest of the season in the FBS and second-longest in Green Wave history. The longest in school history was Joe Bullard’s 92-yarder against Vanderbilt in 1969.
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One of the dozens of police officers injured during the U.S. Capitol riot testified Wednesday that he didn't punch or pick a fight with a retired New York City police officer charged with attacking the officer.
Thomas Webster, whose trial on an assault charge started this week, claims he was acting in self-defense when he tackled Metropolitan Police Department officer Noah Rathbun outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Rathbun said he reached out with an open left hand and pushed Webster in the face after the New York man shoved a bike rack at him. Rathbun said he was trying to move Webster back from a security perimeter that he and other officers were struggling to maintain behind rows of bike racks.
“I just think it’s unfortunate to be in the nation’s capital and be treated like that by another citizen," Rathbun said during the second day of Webster's trial.
Webster's trial is the first among dozens of Capitol riot defendants charged with assaulting police on Jan. 6, 2021. His trial is the fourth before a jury and the sixth overall.
Defense attorney James Monroe said he plans to call Webster to the stand to testify once the government finishes presenting its case, possibly on Thursday.
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Kelly showed jurors five videos that captured the encounter between Webster and Rathbun from different angles, including a close-up view from the body camera on Rathbun’s chest.
The videos show Webster shoving a bike rack at Rathbun before swinging the flag pole at the officer in a downward chopping motion, striking a metal barricade in front of the officer. After Rathbun grabbed the broken pole and retreated, Webster charged at the officer and tackled him to the ground.
Rathbun said he started choking and couldn’t breathe when Webster grabbed his gas mask and the chin strap pressed against the officer’s neck.
“That’s not a position that anyone wants to be in,” Rathbun said.
Webster's lawyer told jurors during the trial's opening statements on Tuesday that Rathbun “started this whole thing” by punching Webster. Monroe asserts that a video shows Webster making a motion with his arm to goad Webster into fighting.
“That was a motion to back up,” Rathbun said during the defense lawyer's cross-examination. “That wasn't a motion to move forward.”
Rathbun's body camera captured Webster shouting profanities and insults at the officer before they made any physical contact. Rathbun said it would never be permissible for him to hit somebody in response to verbal abuse.
Webster was carrying a U.S. Marine Corps flag on a metal pole on Jan. 6. Rathbun said he noticed that other people in the mob were carrying signs expressing support for police.
“But the things they were saying were clearly hostile,” he added.
Webster faces six counts, including a charge that he assaulted Rathbun with a dangerous weapon, a metal flag pole. He isn’t accused of entering the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Rathbun took a deep breath and briefly paused when Kelly asked him how he feels about the incident more than a year later.
“I think it's sad," he said. “This whole incident is tragic, but I try not to think about it."
Rathbun reported a hand injury from a separate encounter with a rioter inside the Capitol’s Rotunda. He didn't report any injuries caused by Webster, but jurors saw photos of leg bruises that Rathbun attributed to his confrontation with the retired officer.
A Metropolitan Police Department detective, Jonathan Lauderdale, said Rathbun initially didn’t recall his encounter with Webster when he asked him about the incident. Rathbun said seeing the body camera video refreshed his memory.
Webster retired from the NYPD in 2011 after 20 years of service. His department service included a stint on then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s private security detail. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1985 to 1989 before joining the NYPD in 1991.
More than 780 people have been charged with riot-related federal crimes. The Justice Department says over 245 of them have been charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement.
The first three Capitol riot defendants to get a jury trial were convicted of all charges in their respective indictments.
In a pair of bench trials, a different federal judge heard testimony without a jury before acquitting one defendant and partially acquitting another.
Also on Wednesday, a Missouri man who was a member of the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group, pleaded guilty to obstructing law enforcement officers during the Capitol riot. Louis Enrique Colon, 45, of Blue Springs, Missouri, had been charged with conspiring with other Proud Boys members to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's 2020 electoral victory.
A sentencing hearing for Colon wasn't immediately scheduled. He agreed to cooperate with Justice Department prosecutors as part of his plea deal.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI), a leading renewable energy producer in the U.S., today announced the signing of a long-term renewable energy off-take agreement with Meta. The Long Lake Project (Long Lake) will be a 200 megawatt (MWac) facility in Phillips County, Arkansas. DESRI has executed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Meta to provide energy and capacity for its growing energy needs in the region.
Long Lake is DESRI's first project in Arkansas and among the largest in the state. The project contributes to DESRI's growing solar portfolio with Meta, which also includes projects in Utah and Virginia.
"DESRI is continuing to build out a portfolio of affordable, on-peak renewable energy projects to serve corporate and utility customers around the country. We are pleased to partner with Meta on the Long Lake project and now count more than 850MWac of clean energy nationwide to support their operations," said Hy Martin, Chief Development Officer of DESRI. "We appreciate the ongoing community support of Phillips County and are pleased to develop this solar facility to meet Meta's renewable energy demand, while providing economic opportunities."
"We appreciate DESRI's partnership in helping us bring new renewable energy to the grid in support of our operations," said Urvi Parekh, Head of Renewable Energy at Meta. "This project is an important part of helping us continue to meet our goal of 100% renewable energy as we grow."
Long Lake is expected to deliver significant community benefits, including the creation of construction jobs and other local economic development. DESRI will be the project's long-term owner and operator.
Initial development of Long Lake was led by Acadian Renewable Energy (Acadian), a joint venture between SunChase Power and Eolian, L.P. "Eolian and SunChase formed Acadian in 2015, anticipating the growing need for low-cost solar energy in Arkansas and the larger MISO power market that will directly reduce the passthrough fuel costs from conventional thermal generators while simultaneously producing valuable energy during the highest-demand, hottest summer afternoons," stated Aaron Zubaty, CEO of Eolian.
Heather Otten, SunChase Power principal, added "We are excited to work with DESRI again and to help repurpose transmission facilities originally built for fossil fuel generation to modernize and decarbonize the Arkansas electricity grid."
About D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments
D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI) and its affiliates develop, acquire, own, and operate long-term contracted renewable energy assets in the U.S. DESRI's portfolio of contracted, operating, and in-construction renewable energy projects currently includes more than 65 solar and wind projects representing more than 6 gigawatts of aggregate capacity. DESRI is a member of the D. E. Shaw group, a global investment and technology development firm with more than $60 billion in investment and committed capital as of September 1, 2022, and offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Please visit www.desri.com for more information about DESRI.
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WASHINGTON — Kevin McCarthy is set to face a case of deja vu come Tuesday. The political future of the 57-year-old will once again be at stake as Republican lawmakers decide if he should be elected as House speaker.
It’s a journey the California lawmaker took once before in 2015, fruitlessly, facing the same opposition from the right flank of the party he is expected to meet this week. His first speakership run came when then-House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, resigned after an internal party battle with members of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus.
More than seven years later, he is the party's nominee for speaker after leading the Republican Party to a slim majority in the November midterm elections. He secured the support of most of the conference during a closed-door leadership vote shortly after and overcame a challenge from Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.
While McCarthy is as of now facing no serious Republican challenger for the constitutionally mandated office, which would make him second in line to the presidency, his ascension to speaker is an open question. He is facing entrenched opposition from a small number of conservative lawmakers who in a 222-213 majority could well tank his nomination.
Here’s what you need to know about how the House elects a speaker:
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CAN THE HOUSE OPERATE WITHOUT A SPEAKER?
Choosing a speaker will be the first vote the House will take before new and returning lawmakers are even sworn into office on Tuesday. As set out under the Constitution, the session will begin at noon on Jan. 3, with all the lawmakers seated on the House floor and members from both parties joining in the vote for speaker.
The chamber cannot organize until it has a speaker since that person effectively serves as the House’s presiding officer and the institution’s administrative head. The House can elect a new speaker at any time if the person occupying that role dies, resigns or is removed from office. Barring that, a speaker is normally elected at the start of a new Congress.
Lawmakers call out the name of their choice for speaker from the floor, a rare and time-consuming roll call that heightens the drama on the floor. Members often liven up the proceedings by shouting or standing when casting their vote.
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WHO CAN BE NOMINATED FOR SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE?
In the weeks after an election, the Republican conference and the Democratic caucus hold an informal vote among their members to decide who they want to nominate to lead their party in January. McCarthy won the majority of the Republican vote in a closed-door November meeting. Weeks later, Democrats unanimously chose Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., to become their leader as the party transitions into the minority.
But, once Jan. 3 comes along, members are not obligated to vote for the party's chosen candidate. While it has been the tradition for the speaker candidate to be a member of the House, it is not required. In past years, President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and even a senator, Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky, have received votes for House speaker.
To be sure, none of them received the majority of the vote.
LET THE VOTING BEGIN
Once the House is in a quorum — meaning the minimum number of members are present to proceed — the speaker nominee from each party will be read aloud by the respective leaders before a roll call vote to elect a new speaker. The clerk then appoints lawmakers from each party as tellers to tally the votes.
The candidate to become speaker needs a majority of the votes from House members who are present and voting.
Historically, the magical number has been 218 out of the 435 members of the House. But many previous speakers, including outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have ascended to the dais with fewer votes than that, as some members voted present instead of calling out a name. Every lawmaker voting “present” lowers the overall tally needed to reach a majority.
Many are skeptical that McCarthy will reach a majority to become speaker on the first ballot. Should he come up short, it is likely the clerk will repeat the roll call vote several times until he is able to garner a majority. McCarthy is expected to be making concessions and compromises with the holdouts until the moment he is able to grasp the gavel.
PASSING OF THE GAVEL
Once a speaker candidate won a majority of the vote, the clerk will announce the results of the election.
A bipartisan committee, usually consisting of members from the home state of the chosen candidate, will then escort the speaker-elect to the chair on the dais where the oath of office is administered. The oath is identical to the one new members will take once a speaker is chosen.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New Capital Partners (NCP), a private equity firm in Birmingham, Alabama, today announces that it has hired Will Saxton as a Principal of the firm. Saxton most recently served as a Director at Arlington Capital Advisors, a boutique Investment Bank in Birmingham, where he led the Debt Capital Markets Group in originating and executing capital placements in the alternative credit market for middle market sponsor-backed and founder-owned businesses.
Prior to his work at Arlington, Saxton worked in the Financial Sponsors / Leveraged Finance Group at Credit Suisse in New York, where he executed over $30 billion of transactions for Private Equity clients. Prior to CS, Will was a Judge Advocate (JAG) attorney in the United States Marine Corps. Will attended undergrad the University of Tennessee and also holds JD and MBA degrees from the University of Arkansas and University of Virginia, respectively.
"We couldn't be more excited to have Will join our team at New Capital Partners," said James Outland, Managing Partner at NCP. "Will has a strong track record of sourcing, evaluating, and executing deals across a broad industry set, and we look forward to having him continue to do the same for NCP in our chosen sectors and markets," Outland said.
Saxton said, "I am very excited to join the New Capital Partners team. I have known of NCP's presence in the market for many years and have always admired the success they have had as investors and operators. I look forward to working with the entire NCP team to partner with founders, owners, and management teams to build great companies."
New Capital Partners is a private equity firm comprised of former operators headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. NCP makes investments in niche technology and services companies in the healthcare, financial and business services industries. Leveraging their extensive operational experience, NCP helps create significant value in portfolio companies by cultivating true partnerships with management teams and focusing on one core goal: Building Great Companies. For more information, please visit www.newcapitalpartners.com.
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- Rapid and robust transition of banks' loan portfolios to green assets will unlock value
- Banks must invest in high-calibre tracking for their financed emissions immediately to be able to make accurate strategic decisions
- Banks must develop long-term strategic plans that allow them to adapt quickly and decisively as the carbon transition unrolls
BOSTON, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The world's banks are accelerating on the carbon transition, but they face three major strategic challenges to reaching net zero emissions by 2050, according to new research from Bain & Company. As financed emissions—those associated with an organisation's lending or investment activity—represent at least 95% of a bank's overall carbon footprint, it is essential to prioritize granular measurement of these emissions along with a long-range strategy to capture value from the carbon transition.
Bain & Company's new study reveals that many banks have the opportunity to build a more accurate baseline of emissions in their lending and other financed portfolios as there is a risk of over- or under-estimating financed emissions by up to double when using loan data that is not granular enough. This critical but complex task of measuring financed emissions makes it challenging to understand where and when value will emerge in the carbon transition and which strategy is best for a bank to capitalise on it.
Bain & Company's experts predict that banks that tackle these challenges head on—which Bain calls "pioneer banks"— will see profits grow by between 25% and 30%. In sharp contrast, banks that either delay or adopt a passive approach tied simply to following regulatory requirements will see profits eroded by between 10% and 20%.
Pioneer banks will ensure they invest in high-calibre emissions tracking to help their clients transition and make smarter strategic decisions, actively steering their portfolios based on both financial indicators and carbon footprints. By moving quickly, pioneer banks will shift a much larger percentage of their portfolios to green assets—up to 85% by 2050. In turn, their cost of funding and risk will be far lower than those of slower-moving competitors, who will be increasingly penalised by markets and investors for higher exposure to traditional industries and projects.
"Banks have a pivotal role to play in limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and industry-wide initiatives, such as the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, are critical," said Camille Goossens, Bain & Company's global lead for sustainability and responsibility in financial services. "We see positive momentum on both commitments by 2050 and 2030 as well as on disclosures that are increasingly transparent and precise. However, this critical topic requires banks to invest in reliable granular data and to increasingly adopt longer-term adaptable strategic thinking. Each bank will also need to decide on the posture it wants to take in order to unlock value, asking themselves 'Are you willing to be a pioneer?'"
For questions or to request an interview, please contact Gary Duncan at gary.duncan@bain.com or Katie Ware at katie.ware@bain.com.
Bain & Company examined the top 15 banks by assets in Europe, Asia-Pacific and North America using data from PCAF, PACTA, S&P Global Market Intelligence and banks' annual reports to determine where banks stand in terms of disclosures and target setting. Bain & Company measured both a bank's financed emissions disclosure and the percentage of portfolio value it covered in this study. In addition, it measured whether the bank discloses its 2030 targets, as well as how many sectors it is measuring to assess if it is declaring absolute emissions.
Bain & Company also conducted a study to determine whether data granularity has a significant impact on measurement reliability. This study calculated the carbon footprint for four representative loan portfolios: electric power, metallurgy, automotive and home mortgage, using three methodologies in accordance with the PCAF standard. The Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) establishes a data quality score that considers the granularity and specificity of emissions data. The score ranges from 1 to 5, with 1 representing highly certain data and 5 representing highly uncertain (nonspecific and general) data.
Bain & Company modelled a theoretical bank with a representative portfolio (e.g. international activities, balanced industries exposure and product mix). Based on volume and probability factors, the model simulated how a bank's profits would change between now and 2050, excluding inflation or market growth and following three different strategies:
1. Pioneer. The bank displays an early, strong commitment to climate transition.
2. Follower: The bank undertakes climate transition, but not quickly or aggressively.
3. Laggard: The bank delays and adopts a passive approach, tied to regulatory requirements.
Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world's most ambitious change makers define the future.
Across 65 cities in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes. Our 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today's urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment. We earned a gold rating from EcoVadis, the leading platform for environmental, social, and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains, putting us in the top 2% of all companies. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP is investigating potential claims against Latch, Inc. ("Latch" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: LTCH), and whether Latch has violated federal securities laws.
If you purchased whether Latch, Inc. shares and suffered losses, please call Gregory Stone at (800) 575-0735 or (212) 545-4774, email gstone@whafh.com or submit this form:
Latch Inc., a maker of smart locks and building-management software, went public in a merger with a special purpose acquisition company ("SPAC") backed by New York-based real estate firm Tishman Speyer in early 2021. It has traded as high as $19.70 per share after listing. It closed on August 26, 2022 at $0.9477 after announcing a material financial accounting restatement.
Latch cited material errors and possible irregularities relating to, among other things, the way it recognized revenue associated with the sale of hardware devices since listing its shares on NASDAQ.
It noted in an 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that:
- The Audit Committee has determined the statements for 2021 and 1Q
2022 will be restated, and; - "Based on the preliminary findings of the Investigation, certain revenue recognition errors occurred as a result of unreported sales arrangements due to sales activity that was inconsistent with the Company's internal controls and
procedures"
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Latch cites material errors and possible irregularities relating to, among other things, the way it recognized revenue associated with the sale of hardware devices in those periods.
* Audit committee has determined the statements for 2021 and 1Q 2022 will be restated
* "Based on the preliminary findings of the Investigation, certain revenue recognition errors occurred as a result of unreported sales arrangements due to sales activity that was inconsistent with the Company's internal controls and procedures"
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COLUMBIA, Md., July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientists have long held that star formation creates ionized carbon giving vital information for understanding our universe. But a new study, led by Universities Space Research Association's Robert Minchin, has shown that ionized carbon is also formed by galaxies moving through the hot gas of the Virgo cluster. The results were published in The Astronomical Journal.
Since the 1990's scientists have suspected that ionized carbon might be formed by galaxies plowing through the hot gas of clusters—a process known as "ram pressure." Observations from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have recently revealed that it can result from galactic jets hitting the gas in those galaxies and from interactions between galaxies. But a good sample of galaxies in clusters to study this process was lacking until USRA scientist Robert Minchin found the data available in the archive for ESA's Herschel Space Telescope.
Minchin noted that in preparing a SOFIA proposal in the Virgo cluster to look for this effect, he checked the Herschel archive to see what had been done previously and found observations from fourteen dwarf galaxies.
Armed with information from these dwarf galaxies, the team of scientists conducting the study searched for differences between the amount of ionized carbon relative to the infrared continuum in galaxies in the inner part of the cluster (where the hot cluster gas is densest and has the largest effect), and in the cluster outskirts. They also compared these to published results from another Herschel project looking at dwarf galaxies in the nearby universe to check that results were consistent. As the infrared continuum also reflects the star formation in galaxies, astronomers can compare these two quantities to see if the ionized carbon is coming from star formation or is due to other processes. The main finding of the study was that while the galaxies in the outskirts of the cluster had similar amounts of ionized carbon to the other dwarf galaxies in the nearby universe, the galaxies in the cluster center had a statistically significant excess of ionized carbon compared to both those in the outskirts and those in the nearby universe.
Minchin stated, "This showed us that something other than star formation was forming ionized carbon in the center of the cluster, with ram pressure being the obvious culprit. We had long suspected that this might be the case, but previous studies with ESA's Infrared Space Observatory satellite (which operated from 1995 to 1998) were inconclusive. Here, at last, was the evidence we were looking for."
The finding adds to growing evidence from SOFIA that ionized carbon is formed by a variety of different processes that affect galaxies in the local universe, calling into question the link between ionized carbon and star formation used to study galaxies at cosmological distances. The importance of finding out exactly what is happening to ionized carbon in different environments was recently called out in a major report on astronomy—the 2020 Decadal Survey—that stated: "An accurate calibration of this tracer … as a function of local environment in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies can be accomplished with SOFIA, building on the legacy of Herschel."
According to Minchin, "We had hoped to use SOFIA to further investigate this effect. We have the first evidence for its existence here, but this is only a tantalizing glimpse – we need to do a lot more work to fully understand what is going on and learn how to correctly interpret the results from high redshift galaxies (that can be seen with the ALMA telescope in Chile) in order to enhance our understanding of the early universe. Unfortunately, the decision to cease SOFIA operations means this will have to wait for a future far infrared mission."
Minchin R. et al., 2022, AJ, 164, 43 (or Minchin R., Fadda D., Taylor R., Deshev B. and Davies J., 2002, AJ, 164, 43
DOI 10.3847/1538-3881/ac746d
Founded in 1969, under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences at the request of the U.S. Government, the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) is a nonprofit corporation chartered to advance space-related science, technology, and engineering. USRA operates scientific institutes and facilities, and conducts other major research and educational programs. USRA engages the university community and employs in-house scientific leadership, innovative research and development, and project management expertise. More information about USRA is available at www.usra.edu.
SOFIA is a joint project of NASA and the German Space Agency at DLR. DLR provides the telescope, scheduled aircraft maintenance, and other support for the mission. NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley manages the SOFIA program, science, and mission operations in cooperation with the Universities Space Research Association, headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, and the German SOFIA Institute at the University of Stuttgart. The aircraft is maintained and operated by NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703, in Palmdale, California. SOFIA achieved full operational capability in 2014, and the mission will conclude no later than Sept. 30, 2022. SOFIA will continue its regular operations until then, including science flights and a deployment to New Zealand this summer.
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WTMJ’s Reporter’s Notebook is a show which focuses on the major stories of the week by speaking with the journalists who cover them.
The featured stories included in this episode:
Melissa Barclay– WTMJ’s Melissa Barclay talked with a woman working to bring humanitarian aid to migrants crossing the border about the tragedy in Texas earlier this week where over 50 people were found dead in the trailer of a semi.
Scott Armstrong– Alex Crowe talked with Scott Armstrong from the Boy Scouts of America about the Wisconsin Boy Scout troops that saved lives when a train derailed while travelling from Los Angeles to Chicago.
J.R. Ross– Alex was joined by J.R. Ross from WisPolitics.com to talk about the Wisconsin Department of Justice’s lawsuit over the state’s 1849 abortion ban.
Ted Pankau– Ted Pankau from the Geneva Lake Water Safety Patrol joined the show to talk about staying safe out on the water over the holiday weekend.
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Conference call to be conducted on Monday, November 14, 2022, at 11:00AM ET
LONGMONT, Colo., Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- S&W Seed Company (Nasdaq: SANW) will report financial results for its first quarter of fiscal year 2023, ended September 30, 2022, on Monday, November 14, 2022, before the open of the market. The Company has scheduled a conference call that same day, Monday, November 14, 2022, at 11:00 am ET (8:00am PT) to review the results.
Interested parties can access the conference call by dialing (844) 861-5498 or (412) 317-6580 or can listen via a live Internet webcast, which is available in the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at http://www.swseedco.com/investors.
A teleconference replay of the call will be available for seven days at (877) 344-7529 or (412) 317-0088, replay access code 8584312. A webcast replay will be available in the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at http://www.swseedco.com/investors for 30 days.
About S&W Seed Company
Founded in 1980, S&W Seed Company is a global agricultural company headquartered in Longmont, Colorado. S&W's vision is to be the world's preferred proprietary seed company which supplies a range of forage and specialty crop products that supports the growing global demand for animal proteins and healthier consumer diets. S&W is a global leader in proprietary alfalfa, sorghum and pasture seeds, with significant research and development, production and distribution capabilities. S&W's product portfolio also includes hybrid sunflower and wheat and the company is utilizing its research and breeding expertise to develop and produce stevia, the all-natural, zero calorie sweetener for the food and beverage industry. For more information, please visit www.swseedco.com.
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This release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. "Forward-looking statements" describe future expectations, plans, results, or strategies and are generally preceded by words such as "anticipates," "may," "future," "plan," "should," "preliminary" or "expects." Forward-looking statements in this release include our expectation that our preliminary financial results for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2022 will be within the ranges provided on October 25, 2022. You are cautioned that such statements are subject to a multitude of risks and uncertainties that could cause future circumstances, events, or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, including risks and uncertainties related to: adjustments to these preliminary financial results resulting from, among other things, the completion of our end-of-period reporting processes; and the timing and amount of revenue we are able to recognize in a given fiscal period. These and other risks are identified in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, without limitation, our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2022 and in our other filings subsequently made with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date on which they were made and are based on management's assumptions and estimates as of such date. We do not undertake any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of the receipt of new information, the occurrence of future events or otherwise.
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100-year-old veteran lays wreath at World War II memorial
Billie Engel served as an instructor, teaching servicemen about the B-25 bomber.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - World War II veteran Billy Engel had a rockstar moment during a very special trip to the American capital.
“It feels great,” said Engel. “It shakes me up a bit.” Engel, who turns 101 next month, marked her time during the war by laying a patriotic wreath at the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC.
It was near the fountain with the words inscribed, “here we mark the price of freedom.”
“I never dreamed in my wildest dreams that this could happen to me,” said Engel. “The attention. The pictures.”
Engel lives in Cincinnati. At the age of 22, she worked as an instructor during the war, teaching servicemen the hydraulic system of the B-25 bomber.
“I had been a first grade teacher before that and I decided I wanted to do something else, and they were looking for people who knew how to teach and they would teach you what to teach,” said Engel.
Engel says her time during World War II is one she’s proud of, and her experience at the World War II Memorial is one she will always cherish.
Engel, along with 87 other veterans from Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, visited the Lincoln, Korean, and Vietnam War memorials and Arlington National Cemetery during their visit.
This is the fourth and final honor flight for the tri-state area for this year before flights start again next year in April.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Home prices began falling in June in the metro areas of San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, Riverside-San Bernardino, Sacramento, and San Diego, according to analysis by the American Enterprise Institute's Housing Center. At the same time, housing supply remains at historically low levels and homes remain out of reach even for middle-class workers. This is a crisis, and the AEI Housing Center is hosting events across the state to provide cities and homeowners with the tools they need to address it.
Think of modest "Light Touch" increases in housing density as the tortoise in the effort to increase supply. Slow but steady increases to supply over say 10 years will dramatically increase California's housing supply, create more affordable new homes, and unlock wealth for current homeowners, according to a new study of 200 metros released by the American Enterprise Institute's Housing Center. The key ingredient for affordability is that with light tough density, home price appreciation over time will rise more in line with wages. Thus light touch density can help address California's chronic housing supply shortfall while retaining the look and feel of small scale residential neighborhoods.
The AEI Housing Center is bringing this message to six cities across the state in a series of free events open to the public. On August 2nd AEI released a free Housing and Economic Analysis Toolkit (HEAT) to help inform local policymakers, interested groups, and citizens across California on how to implement achievable solutions that increase housing with a "light touch."
In San Diego County, for example, light-touch increases in single family detached density could result in 31% more homes built per year, a 10% reduction in price, and a 21% increase in property taxes. This light touch density achieves natural affordability without reliance on subsidies, income limits, or expensive infrastructure improvements. Light touch density, when applied to existing homes, gives homeowners the right to unlock the hidden value in the lot under their homes by repurposing their land.
Registration is open for 6 California free conferences to be held the week of September 19, 2022.
These conferences are free and open to all—please forward to anyone else who might have an interest. Each conference will be packed with information and presentations to help to tackle the most pressing housing issues facing Californians.
Visit aei.org/california-housing-conference to register
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More than the first woman: Meet Barksdale's new B-52 squadron commander
Born and raised in the Miami Valley region, Lt. Col. Vanessa Wilcox has made her home in Bossier City for 13 years while serving as a B-52 Weapon Systems Officer.
On April 21, Wilcox became the first female B-52 squadron commander during a change-of-command ceremony.
But, Wilcox is more than just the first woman to hold that title.
"I am the first female B-52 squadron commander," said Wilcox. "I hate it because it's not about me, It's about the people that work for me. That becoming the focus, I feel like it detracts from them and what they are accomplishing, because that's really what it's about, I'm just there to move rocks out of their way and help them to get the job done."
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More about Wilcox
Wilcox describes her journey in the military as "a little non-traditional."
Born and raised in Dayton, Ohio, Wilcox grew to love and appreciate the military with Wright-Patterson Air Force Base just down the road from her hometown.
She said, "I grew up in Dayton, I wasn't a military family, even though I lived right by Wright-Patt."
Wilcox explained that she wanted to work with B-52s because her dad worked as a maintainer on D models in the Cuban Missile Crisis. "I knew, going through nav school, I was like, well, obviously, I want to fly in that plane."
Prior to Wilcox finding her dream aircraft, she attended Ohio State University where she received her commission through ROTC and graduated in 2005.
"I joined ROTC in college after 9/11. And really wanted to do OSI originally, and then got a nav slot. So I basically had 15 minutes to decide if I wanted to be a navigator and was like, okay, I don't know what that means. But sure, that sounds fun. And so that's how I ended up with B-52s."
Upon graduation, Wilcox completed Combat Systems Officer training at Randolph Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, where she learned weapon systems training for the B-52 aircraft. She graduated in the top third of her class.
After Wilcox finished her training at Randolph AFB, she was stationed at Barksdale Air Force Base until 2013 when she took a humanitarian backup tour at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base after her father passed away.
She made her way back to Barksdale in 2015 and has been there since.
"I joke that I'm trying to work in every building on base," said Wilcox.
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Being a Commander
"My role is the people. My entire job is taking care of them, managing my workforce, making sure I have the adequate number of people and they're trained appropriately for the mission set. So, that they can achieve whatever mission we are tasked."
Wilcox's whole career has been leading her to this position. With over 1,500 hours in the air, Wilcox has not only performed the task but helped train others.
In 2012, Wilcox served as an instructor and taught the Formal Training Unit in the 11th Bomb Squadron.
"The jobs I've done have been very non-traditional," said Wilcox. "It's given me a good broad view of how the Air Force and the wing operates."
Wilcox explained that part of her previous job was working with the Mission Support Group.
Wilcox said, "getting to see how all of those partnerships work on base and how every bit of those agencies contribute to the mission was a huge eye opener and really good to help build those relationships going forward to know how our LRS (logistics readiness squadron) counterparts get us from point A to point B."
Now Wilcox serves as the commander of the 96th Bomb Squadron, of the 2d Operations Group. In this role she not only manages a workforce but cares for families, career progression and as she likes to say "building my replacement."
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Looking to the future
Wilcox's goal is to grow airmen into the best versions of themselves and help them make positive impacts on society.
"I want them to be fully tied in, and to understand all the things that I've grown to understand later in my career," said Wilcox. "Building better officers and airmen so that they can reach out and be that conduit, across the base and across the community, and ultimately grow better leaders out of it."
Being the first female B-52 squadron commander Wilcox wanted to highlight the importance of skill set, not just an individual's characteristics.
Having two daughters, she understands the importance of diversity and inclusion and hopes that her achievements will show them they can do anything they set their minds to do.
She said, "honestly, I've never thought that I couldn't do something because I was a woman. It's never even occurred to me."
"Regardless of gender, or ethnicity or anything. Ultimately, it's about the people that work for me, and how to help make them better. And to make the Air Force better."
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UN says part of Somalia will reach famine later this year
By CARA ANNA and OMAR FARUK
Associated Press
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The United Nations says “famine is at the door” in Somalia with “concrete indications” famine will occur later this year in the southern Bay region. This falls just short of a formal famine declaration as thousands are dying in a historic drought made worse by the effects of the war in Ukraine. A formal famine declaration is rare and a warning that too little help has come too late. At least 1 million people in Somalia have been displaced by the driest drought in decades that also affects the wider Horn of Africa including Ethiopia and Kenya. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/09/05/un-says-part-of-somalia-will-reach-famine-later-this-year/ | 2022-09-05 17:56:35 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/09/05/un-says-part-of-somalia-will-reach-famine-later-this-year/ |
EUCLID, Ohio (WJW) – A local ride share driver fought back when a suspect tried to carjack her at gunpoint.
“He had the gun at the back of my head,” the victim told the FOX 8 I-Team Tuesday.
The driver, who asked not to be identified, said the attempted carjacking happened around 8:30 p.m. Saturday in Euclid.
She said she was dropping the customer off at East 212nd Street when he pulled out a gun, threatened her and tried to steal the car.
She said instead of being scared, she was angry.
“They don’t have any respect,“ the victim said. “I mean, the nerve.”
She said instead of stopping the car, she drove faster.
“I was going to crash the car into a pole,” the victim said. “That’s what my thought was like. We will both go today. You are not going to take me like that, not without a fight.”
Euclid Police Captain Mitch Houser says he doesn’t think the suspect expected that type of reaction from the driver.
“She floored it,” Houser said. “She pointed the car at a telephone pole and said, ‘we are both going to die.'”
The 16-year-old suspect jumped out of the car and ran. The victim called 911 and police arrived within minutes.
“The dispatcher and police were just great,” the victim said.
Euclid Police Chief Scott Meyer says police were able to arrest the teenage suspect a short time later.
“It’s becoming more common to see these young offenders and it’s my understanding this young man was already on probation for a previous armed robbery,” the chief said.
An Uber spokesperson sent the following statement.
“This driver’s experience is truly terrifying. We take safety seriously, which is why we invest in technology, like our in-app emergency button, GPS tracking on every trip, and Live Help from a safety agent, that raises the bar on safety. We banned the rider account from the platform as soon as we were made aware of the incident, and are standing by to help law enforcement however we can.”
The suspect is due in juvenile court soon to face several charges. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/ohio/local-uber-driver-fights-off-armed-carjacker-i-team/ | 2022-10-26 17:09:55 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/ohio/local-uber-driver-fights-off-armed-carjacker-i-team/ |
The days leading up to the holidays can be exhausting, what with all the visitors and shopping and general merriment over the approaching holidays. So any meal that can be whipped up with minimal effort is a reason to cheer for the busy cook.
This tangy, tomatillo-forward pozole fits the bill, with an easy (mostly) stovetop preparation. Both filling and super-warming, it’s a verdant showcase not just for the tender, shredded chicken that gives the stew its heft but also for the hominy — dried corn that has been soaked in an alkaline solution to remove the hull and germ. The plump, slightly chewy kernels add a mild and earthy flavor that’s pretty irresistible, and it’s also a good and (unexpected) source of fiber.
Optional toppings include shredded cabbage, diced onion and thinly sliced radish for crunch and lime wedges for an extra burst of citrus flavor.
I made the broth with more tomatillos and cilantro than the original recipe because, well, I love how both ingredients taste.
For the best prices, look for tomatillos at Mexican markets. Mexican oregano is stronger and less sweet than Mediterranean oregano, with a peppery bite and lemony finish; if you can’t find it, substitute dried marjoram. Look for hominy in the canned bean aisle.
It’s doubtful there will be many leftovers but, just in case, pozole verde can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days.
Chicken Pozole Verde
Ingredients:
- 2 pounds boneless skinless chicken thighs
- 1 1/2 pounds tomatillos, husks removed and rinsed
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 3 jalapeño peppers, halved and seeds removed
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 tablespoon dried Mexican oregano
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 7 cups chicken or vegetable broth
- 1 very large handful cilantro, stems and leaves
- 2 15-ounce cans white hominy, drained and rinsed well
- Optional toppings: lime wedges, sliced radishes, thinly shredded cabbage, diced onions and/or chopped cilantro
Directions:
- In a large pot or Dutch oven, add chicken thighs, tomatillos, onion, jalapeños, garlic, oregano, salt and broth. Bring to a boil over high heat, reduce heat to low, cover partially, and simmer for 40 minutes until chicken is fall-apart tender.
- Transfer chicken to cutting board and shred with a fork or, once it has cooled, shred it with your fingers. Set aside.
- Using a large slotted spoon, carefully transfer the cooked tomatillos, onions, jalapeños and garlic to a large blender. Add in a cup of the cooking liquid and the cilantro, and blend until completely smooth.
- Carefully pour the blended mixture back into the pot and stir in the shredded chicken and hominy. Bring to a simmer over medium-high heat and cook uncovered for 15 minutes. Taste and season with more salt, if necessary.
- Serve with toppings such as fresh lime juice, thinly shredded cabbage, sliced radishes, cilantro, diced onions and Mexican oregano.
— Adapted from isabeleats.com
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Firm proposes Taser-armed drones to stop school shootings
(AP) - Taser developer Axon said this week it is working to build drones armed with the electric stunning weapons that could fly in schools and “help prevent the next Uvalde, Sandy Hook, or Columbine.” But its own technology advisers quickly panned the idea as a dangerous fantasy.
The publicly traded company, which sells Tasers and police body cameras, floated the idea of a new police drone product last year to its artificial intelligence ethics board, a group of well-respected experts in technology, policing and privacy.
Some of them expressed reservations about weaponizing drones in over-policed communities of color. But they were not expecting Axon’s Thursday announcement that it wants to send those Taser-equipped drones into classrooms to prevent mass shootings by immobilizing an intruding gunman.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Axon founder and CEO Rick Smith said he felt compelled to make the idea public after the mass shooting at an Uvalde, Texas elementary school, saying he was “catastrophically disappointed” in the response by police who didn’t move in to kill the suspect for more than an hour.
But he stressed Friday that no product had been launched and any potential launch would be down the road. The idea, he felt, needed to be shared now because of the public conversation about effective ways for police to safely confront attackers and how schools can increase safety.
“This is an idea that should get into the public’s consciousness while our minds are open to it, and I felt if I wait another six months, the world is going to change and people are going to forget this pain and we’re going to see a shift in sentiments where people are going to focus a lot more on what could go wrong, rather than the pain of this problem we need to solve,” he said.
Axon’s stock price rose with the news. But the announcement angered members of the ethics board, some of whom are now likely to quit in protest.
“This particular idea is crackpot,” said Barry Friedman, a New York University law professor who sits on the Axon AI Ethics Board. “Drones can’t fly through closed doors. The physical properties of the universe still hold. So unless you have a drone in every single classroom in America, which seems insane, the idea just isn’t going to work.”
Friedman said it was a “dangerous and fantastical idea” that went far beyond the proposal for a Taser-equipped police drone that board members — some of them former or current police officials — had been debating in recent months.
“We begged the company not to do it,” Friedman said of the company’s announcement. “It was unnecessary and shameful.”
The product idea had been kicked around at Axon since at least 2019, and the company has been working to try to figure out whether a drone with a Taser was even a feasible idea. Over the last year, the company created computer-generated art renderings to mock up a product design and conducted an internal test to see if Taser darts — which transmit an immobilizing electric jolt — could be fired from a flying drone, Smith said. He added that he had discussed the possibility of developing such a product with the ethics board.
Board members who spoke with The Associated Press said they were taken aback by the school drone proposal — which they got notice of only earlier this week — and cobbled together a unanimous statement of concern that described Axon’s decision as “deeply regrettable.” The company tweeted out the board’s dissent shortly after its own statement Thursday announcement.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if there were resignations,” said another ethics board member, Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington. “I think everyone on the board has to make a choice about whether they want to stay involved.”
Friedman and Calo both described this week’s process as a sharp turnaround from the respectful relationship that Axon executives have had with the board in recent years on controversial topics such as face recognition — which Axon decided against using in its body cameras — and automated license plate readers.
“Sometimes the company takes our advice and sometimes it doesn’t,” Friedman said. “What’s important is that happens after thoughtful discussion and coordination. That was thrown out the window here.”
Smith said the company is still in the very early phases of product development and would continue to consult the ethics board, along with law enforcement officials, community leaders and school officials. He acknowledged that the company might later determine that the idea isn’t feasible and abandon it.
But he took issue with the idea that he had ignored the concerns from the ethics board, which is meant to provide guidance and share feedback. Ultimately, the decision still falls to Smith as the company’s chief executive.
“I have not ignored what they have said. People can have debates and disagree,” Smith said. “I think there is one thing the world can see: our board is not a whitewash.”
“I hope they don’t resign,” he added. “I hope that they are somewhat proud maybe after this that we’re having this public debate.”
On Friday in an “Ask Me Anything” chat on the online forum Reddit. Smith acknowledged that “drones in schools can sound nuts” but went on to answer detailed questions about them. They could travel through school vents, he said, and perch on doors and walls near ceilings. It could be a “good thing” if a gunman tried to shoot one down because it would distract from trying to kill people.
“We’re doing this because we care,” Smith said. “We’re a business so ultimately we have to find a financial model that works, but at the end of the day we’ve been successful because our mission drives our business and we solve problems we care about,” he added.
Smith told a Reddit user that Axon was “absolutely not” trying to capitalize on recent tragedies to attract investors. He noted the advisory board’s disagreements but said the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas — and what he described as misguided proposals to arm teachers with guns — compelled him to go public with the drone idea to field a “far broader array of voices.”
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Asian shares edge higher, tracking Wall Street rally
By YURI KAGEYAMA
AP Business Writer
TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares advanced Friday, tracking a rally on Wall Street following reports suggesting the economy and corporate profits may be doing better than feared.
In Tokyo, data showed the core consumer price index was up 4.3%, slightly higher than expected and higher than the Bank of Japan’s target of 2%.
“This seeks to challenge an eventual policy shift for the central bank, although the government’s energy subsidies next month could be tapped on to push back any changes for now,” Yeap Jun Rong, a market analyst at IG, said in a commentary.
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 rose nearly 0.1% to finish at 27,382.56. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 added 0.3% to 7,493.80. South Korea’s Kospi gained 0.6% to 2,484.02. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose 0.3% to 22,634.93.
Markets remained closed in Shanghai for the Lunar New Year holidays.
Stocks climbed on Wall Street to their highest level in nearly eight weeks after the Commerce Department reported the U.S. economy expanded at a 2.9% annual pace in the last quarter, ending 2022 with momentum despite higher interest rates and widespread fears of a looming recession. That beat economists’ forecasts for a 2.3% expansion.
The S&P 500 climbed 1.1% to clinch its highest finish since Dec. 2, at 4,060.43. The Dow climbed 0.6% to 33,949.41, and the Nasdaq composite gained 1.8% to 11,512.41.
More swings may still be ahead, as Wall Street digests a growing torrent of earnings and economic reports. Markets have veered up and down recently as worries about a severe recession and drop-off in profits battle against hopes the economy can manage a soft landing and the Federal Reserve may ease up on interest rates.
Other reports Thursday showed that orders for long-lasting goods from factories strengthened by more than expected in December and fewer workers applied for jobless claims than expected last week.
Strong data suggest the economy can withstand last year’s blizzard of rate hikes by the Fed, plus at least one more expected next week, without crashing to a deep recession. Higher rates intentionally slow the economy by making it more expensive to borrow to buy a home, a car or anything else on credit. They also drag down prices for stocks and other investments.
But a stronger-than-expected economy, particularly in the job market, could push the Fed to keep rates higher for longer to ensure inflation really is crushed.
On the earnings front, reports from some big tech-oriented companies helped build optimism a day after worries flared following forecasts from Microsoft that were widely seen as discouraging.
Tesla jumped 11% after the electric-vehicle maker reported stronger profit for its latest quarter than analysts expected. Seagate Technology rose 10.9% after it reported better revenue and earnings than anticipated.
Steelmaker Nucor was also among the top-performing stocks in the S&P 500, rising 8.4% after beating Wall Street’s profit and revenue forecasts.
Chevron rose 4.9% after it raised its dividend and approved a program to buy back up to $75 billion of its stock. Both moves put cash directly in the pockets of shareholders, which caught criticism from Washington. White House spokesman Abdullah Hasan suggested oil companies instead “use their record profits to increase supply.”
In energy trading, benchmark U.S. crude rose 33 cents to $81.34 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It lost 14 cents to $81.01 on Thursday.
Brent crude, the international pricing standard, gained 35 cents to $87.82 a barrel in London.
In currency trading, the U.S. dollar edged down to 130.18 Japanese yen from 130.23 yen. The euro cost $1.0873, down from $1.0890.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A wooden bridge over a river in southern Norway collapsed early Monday, with a car plunging into the water and a truck getting stuck on a raised section. The drivers of both vehicles were rescued and doing well, police said.
Police were alerted shortly after 7:30 a.m. (0530 GMT; 1:30 a.m. EDT) that the bridge had collapsed as a truck and a car were crossing over it. The cause wasn’t immediately known.
The car plunged into the river while the truck remained on the bridge in a nearly vertical position on a section that was raised at a steep angle out of the water.
A helicopter assisted in the rescue operation and pulled out the truck driver, police said. The driver of the car managed to get out of his vehicle by himself.
The nearly 150-meter-long (500-foot-long) bridge connects the west bank of the Gudbrandsdalslaagen River and the village of Tretten. The bridge opened in 2012.
“It is completely catastrophic, completely unreal,” local mayor Jon Halvor Midtmageli told the Dabgladet newspaper. “It is also a fairly new bridge.”
“It is completely destroyed, everything has fallen down,” he added.
The Norwegian Automobile Federation said the bridge was checked in 2021, raising concern about the safety of such bridges.
“We who travel on the roads must be able to trust that the bridges are safe to drive on,” the organization’s spokeswoman, Ingunn Handagard, told the Norwegian news agency NTB.
Atle Formo, who lives by the Tretten bridge, said he heard “an intense crash.”
“The whole house was shaking. I was rolling up the blinds in the bedroom and looked right at a bridge laying in the river,” he told Norwegian broadcaster TV2.
A similar nearby bridge in Sjoa in the Gudbrand valley, also made of glued laminated timber, collapsed in 2016. The driver of a truck who was crossing the bridge at the time of the collapse was slightly injured.
Following that collapse, 11 similar bridges, including the one in Tretten, were temporarily closed by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration. The agency said in a report about the 2016 collapse that “the direct cause of the bridge collapse is a defective joint in the framework.”
Norwegian transportation minister Jon-Ivar Nygård was due to visit the site of the latest bridge collapse later Monday. | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-international/norway-bridge-collapses-drivers-of-2-vehicles-rescued/ | 2022-08-16 04:08:44 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-international/norway-bridge-collapses-drivers-of-2-vehicles-rescued/ |
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NEW YORK (AP) — Midge Decter, a leading neoconservative writer and commentator who in blunt and tenacious style helped lead the right’s attack in the culture wars as she opposed the rise of feminism, affirmative action and the gay rights movement, has died at age 94.
Decter, the wife of retired Commentary editor and fellow neoconservative Norman Podhoretz, died Monday at her home in Manhattan. Daughter Naomi Decter said her health had been failing, but did not cite a specific cause of death.
Like her husband, Midge Decter was a onetime Democrat repelled in the ’60s and after by what she called “heedless and mindless leftist politics and intellectual and artistic nihilism.” Confrontation energized her: She was a popular speaker, a prolific writer and, as she described it, “the requisite bad guy on discussion panels” about the cultural issues of the moment. Her books included “Liberal Parents, Radical Children,” “The New Chastity” and the memoir “An Old Wife’s Tale.”
In 2003, she received a National Humanities Medal, cited as one who “has never shied from controversy.”
Calling herself an “ardent ideologue,” she faulted affirmative action for causing “massive seizures of self-doubt” among Black people. She attacked gays as reckless and irresponsible, and alleged that they had removed themselves from “the tides of ordinary mortal existence.”
Feminism was her special target. “The Libbers,” as she called them, “had created a generation of self-centered and unsatisfied women ‘hopping from marriage to marriage,’ resenting their children for limiting their personal freedom and pressuring themselves to have careers they might not have wanted.
The real agenda of feminism was to leave a woman “as unformed, as able to act without genuine consequence, as the little girl she imagines she once was and longs to continue to be,” Decter wrote.
Her opinions were not left unanswered.
The poet and activist Adrienne Rich once wrote that Decter suffered from “a strange lack of information about the unfilled needs, let alone the enormous destructiveness, of the social order which she so admires.” Responding to a 1980 article by Decter about gay people, Gore Vidal remarked that “she has managed not only to come up with every known prejudice and superstition about same-sexers but also to make up some brand-new ones.”
Decter, Vidal added, “writes with the authority and easy confidence of someone who knows that she is very well known indeed to those few who know her.”
In her early years, Decter did not uphold tradition; she challenged it. Born Midge Rosenthal in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1927, she was the youngest of three girls and, apparently, the loudest. “Annoyingly talkative” was her family’s consensus, she recalled, underlined by “a certain note of turbulence.”
As a teenager, she acted out, 1940s style — cutting school on occasion to smoke, swear, drink “gallons” of Pepsi and talk about boys and sex. She dreamed a liberal dream. Visits to relatives in Brooklyn left her longing for the “bustle and the smells and the variety” of a big city. She dropped out of the University of Minnesota and transferred to New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary.
In 1948, she married Jewish activist Moshe Decter and for a time lived in leftist paradise, Greenwich Village. Her decision to divorce her first husband had a similar ring to the words of an imagined suburban housewife (“Is this all there is?”) in a book Decter would very much dislike, Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique.”
“Divorce begins in that moment when one looks into the mirror and says, ‘Is THIS all there is going to be forever?’” Decter wrote in her memoir, published in 2001.
She doubted the modern wish to “have it all,” but Decter managed a full life of family, work and material comfort. She was married more than 50 years to Podhoretz and had four children, two with each husband. (All four worked in journalism and son John Podhoretz eventually became editor of Commentary). She wrote for several publications, from The Weekly Standard to The New Republic. She was an editor at Basic Books and executive editor at Harper’s magazine, where she helped work on what became Norman Mailer’s award-winning book “The Armies of the Night.” She founded the anti-Communist “Committee for the Free World” and was a member of the conservative watchdog Accuracy in Media.
Her turn to the right, like her husband’s, was personal and political. She and Podhoretz were longtime Manhattan residents who had socialized with Mailer, Lillian Hellman and others from whom they became bitterly estranged. In her memoir, Decter accused her leftist opponents of not simply disagreeing with their country, but wishing for its downfall — an attitude she feared would spread to her own family.
“Living as I had been, and where I had been, I had been subjecting my own children to danger: the danger they would be worn down and jaded before they ever had the chance, or the spiritual wherewithal, to take on the chills and spills of real adulthood.” she wrote.
“Put those feelings and ideas all together, and they amounted to what would one day come to be called neoconservatism.” | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/entertainment-news/midge-decter-leading-neo-conservative-dead-at-94/ | 2022-05-10 15:09:32 | 1 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/entertainment-news/midge-decter-leading-neo-conservative-dead-at-94/ |
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