text string | url string | crawl_date string | label int64 | id string |
|---|---|---|---|---|
WASHINGTON (AP) — Stagflation. It was the dreaded “S word” of the 1970s.
For Americans of a certain age, it conjures memories of painfully long lines at gas stations, shuttered factories and President Gerald Ford’s much-ridiculed “Whip Inflation Now” buttons.
Stagflation is the bitterest of economic pills: High inflation mixes with a weak job market to cause a toxic brew that punishes consumers and befuddles economists.
For decades, most economists didn’t think such a nasty concoction was even possible. They’d long assumed that inflation would run high only when the economy was strong and unemployment low.
But an unhappy confluence of events has economists reaching back to the days of disco and the bleak high-inflation, high-unemployment economy of nearly a half century ago. Few think stagflation is in sight. But as a longer-term threat, it can no longer be dismissed.
Last week, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen invoked the word in remarks to reporters:
“The economic outlook globally,” Yellen said, “is challenging and uncertain, and higher food and energy prices are having stagflationary effects, namely depressing output and spending and raising inflation all around the world.”
On Thursday, the government estimated that the economy shrank at a 1.5% annual rate from January through March. But the drop was due mostly to two factors that don’t reflect the economy’s underlying strength: A rising trade gap caused by Americans’ appetite for foreign products and a slowdown in the restocking of businesses inventories after a big holiday season buildup.
For now, economists broadly agree that the U.S. economy has enough oomph to avoid a recession. But the problems are piling up. Supply chain bottlenecks and disruptions from Russia’s war against Ukraine have sent consumer prices surging at their fastest pace in decades.
The Federal Reserve and other central banks, blindsided by raging inflation, are scrambling to catch up by aggressively raising interest rates. They hope to cool growth enough to tame inflation without causing a recession.
It’s a notoriously difficult task. The widespread fear, reflected in shrunken stock prices, is that the Fed will end up botching it and will clobber the economy without delivering a knockout blow to inflation.
This month, former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke told The New York Times that “inflation’s still too high but coming down. So there should be a period in the next year or two where growth is low, unemployment is at least up a little bit and inflation is still high.”
And then Bernanke summed up his thoughts: “You could call that stagflation.”
___
WHAT IS STAGFLATION?
There’s no formal definition or specific statistical threshold.
Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, has his own rough guide: Stagflation arrives in the United States, he says, when the unemployment rate reaches at least 5% and consumer prices have surged 5% or more from a year earlier. The U.S. unemployment rate is now just 3.6%.
In the European Union, where joblessness typically runs higher, Zandi’s threshold is different: 9% unemployment and 4% year-over-year inflation, in his view, would combine to cause stagflation.
Until about 50 years ago, economists viewed stagflation as a near-impossibility. They hewed to something called the Phillips Curve, named for its creator, economist A.W.H. “Bill’’ Phillips (1914-1975) of New Zealand. This theory held that inflation and unemployment move in opposite directions.
It sounds like common sense: When the economy is weak and lots of people are out of work, businesses find it hard to raise prices. So inflation should stay low. Likewise, when the economy is hot enough for businesses to pass along big price hikes to their customers, unemployment should stay fairly low.
Somehow, reality hasn’t proved so straightforward. What can throw things off is a supply shock — say, a surge in the cost of raw materials that ignites inflation and leaves consumers with less money to spend to fuel the economy.
Which is exactly what happened in the 1970s.
Saudi Arabia and other oil-producing countries imposed an oil embargo on the United States and other countries that supported Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Oil prices jumped and stayed high. The cost of living grew more unaffordable for many. The economy reeled.
Enter stagflation. Each year from 1974 through 1982, inflation and unemployment in the United States both topped 5%. The combination of the two figures, which came to be called the “misery index,” peaked at a most miserable 20.6 in 1980.
Stagflation, and especially chronically high inflation, became a defining feature of the 1970s. Political figures struggled in vain to attack the problem. President Richard Nixon resorted, futilely, to wage and price controls. The Ford administration issued “Whip Inflation Now” buttons. The reaction was mainly scorn.
HAS STAGFLATION ARRIVED?
No. For now, the stagflation glass is only half-full.
There’s “flation’’ for sure: Consumer prices shot up 8.3% in April from a year earlier, just below a 41-year high set the previous month.
Consumer prices are surging largely because the economy rebounded with unexpected vigor from the brief but devastating pandemic recession. Factories, ports and freight yards have been overwhelmed trying to keep up with an unexpected jump in customer orders. The result has been delays, shortages and higher prices.
Critics also blame President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan of March 2021 for overheating an economy that was already hot. The Ukraine war made things worse by disrupting trade in energy and food and sending prices up.
But the “stag’’ has yet to arrive: Even though the government reported Thursday that economic output shrank from January through March, the nation’s job market has kept roaring.
Every month for the past year, employers have added a robust 400,000-plus jobs. At 3.6%, the unemployment rate is just a notch above 50-year lows. This week, the Fed reported that Americans are in solid financial health: Nearly eight in 10 adults said last fall that they were “doing okay or living comfortably” — the highest proportion since the Fed started asking the question in 2013.
Still, the risks are accumulating. And so are concerns about potential stagflation. Fed Chair Jerome Powell acknowledged this month that the central bank might not be able to achieve a soft landing and dodge a recession. He told American Public Media’s “Marketplace” that he worries about “factors that we don’t control” — the Ukraine war, a slowdown in China, the lingering pandemic.
At the same time, inflation has been eroding Americans’ purchasing power: Prices have risen faster than hourly pay for 13 straight months. And the nation’s savings rate, which soared in 2020 and 2021 as Americans banked government relief checks, has fallen below pre-pandemic levels.
Europe is even more vulnerable to stagflation. Energy prices there have skyrocketed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Unemployment in the 27 EU countries is already 6.2%.
WHY DID STAGFLATION VANISH FOR SO LONG?
For four decades, the United States virtually banished inflation. In the early 1980s, Fed Chair Paul Volcker had jacked up interest rates so high to fight inflation — 30-year mortgage rates approached a dizzying 19% in 1981 — that he caused back-to-back recessions in 1980 and 1981-82. Yet Volcker achieved his goal: He managed to rid the economy of high inflation. And it stayed away.
“The Fed has worked hard since the stagflation of the late 1970s and early 1980s,” Zandi said, “to keep inflation and inflation expectations closer to its target,” which is now around 2%.
Other factors, including the rise of low-cost manufacturing in China and other developing countries, kept a tight lid on prices that consumers and businesses pay.
The United States has endured periods of high unemployment — it reached 10% after the 2007-2009 Great Recession and 14.7% after COVID-19 erupted of 2020. Yet until last year, inflation had remained at bay. In fact, not since 1990 has the nation faced a year of Zandi’s 5%-inflation, 5%-unemployment stagflation standard.
___
AP Writer Fatima Hussein in Washington contributed to this report. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/worry-about-stagflation-a-flashback-to-70s-begins-to-grow/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-05-26 16:53:01 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/worry-about-stagflation-a-flashback-to-70s-begins-to-grow/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Conservationists are seeking an emergency court order to block construction of a Nevada lithium mine after a U.S. judge directed a federal agency to revisit part of its approval of the plans but allowed construction to go forward in the meantime.
Four environmental groups want U.S. District Judge Miranda Du in Reno to temporarily halt any work at a subsidiary of Lithium Americas’ mine near the Oregon border until they can appeal her ruling earlier this month to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
They filed on Tuesday a formal notice of their intent to appeal to the San Francisco-based circuit court and an emergency motion for injunction in Reno pending the appeal. An Oregon tribe that filed a new, separate lawsuit to block the mine last week joined the notice of appeal.
“This mine should not be allowed to destroy public land unless and until the Ninth Circuit has determined whether it was legally approved,” said Talasi Brooks, a lawyer for the Western Watersheds Project.
Du gave the U.S. Bureau of Land Management until the end of Wednesday to respond to the motion or reach an agreement with the conservation groups to postpone any construction until she rules on their request for an emergency injunction.
“Based on the urgency implied by environmental plaintiffs’ representation that Lithium Nevada intends to start construction on February 27 … the court sets an expedited briefing schedule,” she wrote in a brief order late Tuesday.
The company said last week that construction at the Thacker Pass Lithium Mine was “imminent” after Du ruled Feb. 6 the bureau had acted legally — with one possible exception — when it approved plans for the mine in January 2021.
A spokesperson for Lithium Americas said Tuesday they were confident the appellate court would uphold the project’s approval.
“Since we began this project more than a decade ago, we have been committed to doing things right,” Tim Crowley, the company spokesperson, said in an email to The Associated Press. “The recent U.S. District Court ruling definitively supported BLM’s consultation process, and we are confident the ruling will be upheld.”
Du’s earlier ruling was the latest in a series of high-stakes legal battles pitting environmentalists against so-called “green energy” projects the Biden administration is pushing over the objections of conservation groups, tribes and others.
The White House says the mine planned by Lithium Nevada Corp., a subsidiary of Lithium Americas, is critical to ramped-up efforts to produce raw materials for electric vehicle batteries. Opponents say it would harm wildlife habitats, degrade groundwater and pollute the air.
“It symbolizes BLM’s wrecking ball approach to ‘green’ energy on public lands,” Katie Fite of WildLands Defense said Tuesday.
Du ordered the bureau Feb. 6 to go back and determine whether the company had established valid mining rights on 1,300 acres (526 hectares) of neighboring land, where it plans to bury millions of tons of waste rock that would be removed from the open pit mine deeper than the length of a football field.
But she stopped short of granting the opponents’ request at that time to block any work at the site until the validity of the claim was established under the Mining Law of 1872 on the adjacent lands about 200 miles (322 kilometers) northeast of Reno.
“There’s no evidence that Lithium Nevada will be able to establish valid mining claims to lands it plans to bury in waste rock and tailings, but the damage will be done regardless,” Brooks said in a statement Tuesday announcing the filing of the emergency request for an injunction.
Du said in her Feb. 6 ruling it was a rare instance where it was proper to stop short of vacating an agency’s approval of an overall project to allow the bureau to re-examine the adequacy of one element of the plan — the disposal of the waste rock.
She made clear her ruling incorporates part of a recent ruling by the 9th Circuit in a fight over the 1872 law in an Arizona case that could prove more onerous to mining companies that want to dispose of their waste on neighboring federal lands.
In that case, the San Francisco-based appellate court upheld an Arizona ruling that the Forest Service lacked authority to approve Rosemont Copper’s plans to dispose of waste rock on land adjacent to the mine it wanted to dig on a national forest southeast of Tucson. The service and the Bureau of Land Management long have interpreted the mining law to convey the same mineral rights to such lands.
General Motors Co. announced Jan. 31 it had conditionally agreed to invest $650 million in Lithium Americas in a deal that will give the company exclusive access to the first phase of the Thacker Pass mine. The equity investment in two phases was contingent on the project clearing legal challenges in court in Reno.
Lithium Americas said last week that Du’s Feb. 6 ruling satisfied the completion of the first phase and that as a result, GM had purchased 15 million common shares of Lithium Americas at $21.24 per share on Feb. 16 for a total of $320 million.
Lithium Americas estimates that the mine can support production of up to 1 million electric vehicles annually. The company expects production to begin in the second half of 2026.
In the Feb. 6 ruling, Du also denied for the third time relief sought by Native American tribes who argued it could destroy a sacred site where their ancestors were massacred in 1865. Last week, three tribes filed a separate lawsuit claiming that the bureau has misrepresented its claims that it’s met its legal obligation to consult with tribes about potential impacts to historical and cultural values near the mine site. | https://www.koin.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-new-emergency-bid-to-appeal-block-huge-nevada-lithium-mine/ | 2023-02-22 18:08:13 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-new-emergency-bid-to-appeal-block-huge-nevada-lithium-mine/ |
Kt by Knix launches a campaign to raise awareness on the importance of Menstrual Education.
NEW YORK, July 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kt by Knix, the little sibling period underwear brand to Global intimates and apparel brand Knix, has launched a new campaign all about period education and equal access for all to learn about periods and Bleed Confidence no matter their age, just in time for the back to school season.
Since their inception both Kt and its parent company Knix have been steadfast champions in breaking taboos, barriers and ending stigma around periods specifically focusing on the idea to bleed with confidence. The move to potentially stifle learning for young people in some places stands in direct contrast to the core mandate of the brand which believes firmly that education is the key to unlocking understanding, acceptance, conversation and ultimately the foundation for self confidence and empowerment that kids need.
"I began this company a decade ago not only to provide period underwear solutions for people but also to act as a catalyst for change in the intimates industry and to ignite important conversations in the world of women's health. I've proudly witnessed the progress that has been made as topics that were once considered taboo have become destigmatized moving towards an era of education and empowerment. Now more than ever, we need to ensure that we do not become complacent and watch things are put into motion that will undo years of work. Periods can't be silenced, they are going to happen whether we talk about them or not." Says Joanna Griffiths, Founder and President of Knix and Kt by Knix.
Today, periods can begin as young as 8 years old and to limit sexual health education inclusive of menstruation would mean leaving young people completely unprepared for a crucial life stage. Empowering young menstruators with the proper education means equipping them with knowledge about their bodies, enabling them to make informed decisions, advocate for their needs and engage in activities without unnecessary limitations or disruptions. As young people grow into their adult selves, understanding of their bodies allows them to bleed confidence and create stronger voices for their future bodily autonomy and advocacy.
Kt by Knix is hoping to mobilize people into meaningful conversations around this topic. It is crucial that collective voices come together to ensure that young people and their education, especially around their bodies, is being prioritized. Kt by Knix believes that this is not a time to sit back, but rather a pivotal moment where people need to take a stand to protect the rights of young menstruators everywhere. As a complement to this campaign, Kt by Knix will also be releasing a childrens' book later in the summer that will act as a period awareness and education driver, with net proceeds directed toward early menstrual education.
As part of the conversation, Kt by Knix's creative production agency partner on the project, Human NYC have also committed to donating 10% of their service fees to this cause to show their solidarity and support towards this important topic. The campaign will launch on July 10th in New York and New Jersey, as well as in Florida.
About Kt by Knix
Little sister to global intimates brand Knix, Kt By Knix founded in 2017, is a brand built to guide menstruators through a pivotal moment - periods. With a wealth of experience in the intimates and period space, Joanna Griffiths, CEO & Founder of Knix and Kt by Knix, aims to educate and transform the way teens approach periods by harnessing young creatives to implement positive change and impact in the period space and beyond. This includes fighting period poverty and stigma through radical openness while giving back to communities in need.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Knix | https://www.kait8.com/prnewswire/2023/07/12/bleed-confidence-with-kt-by-knix/ | 2023-07-12 14:59:33 | 0 | https://www.kait8.com/prnewswire/2023/07/12/bleed-confidence-with-kt-by-knix/ |
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Little Sunshine's Playhouse and Preschool, a Springfield-based, national early education provider, announced they've launched LuvNotes®, a new parent communication mobile app available in both the App Store and Google Play.
The new app is available to parents who have children enrolled at Little Sunshine's Playhouse. It offers a convenient way for parents to stay in touch with their child's teacher throughout the day. LuvNotes is now the parents' daily source of all things Little Sunshine's Playhouse, allowing them to view personalized daily communication, lesson plans, menus, and photos from throughout the day.
"We are excited to offer the new mobile LuvNotes® app to our incredible Little Sunshine's community," said, Brett Roubal, CEO of Little Sunshine's Playhouse and Preschool "Over the past year and a half, we have been working on providing a top tier, all-in-one, innovative platform for our teachers, students, and families. The app allows us to bridge school and parent communication and creates a one-stop shop for menus, lesson plans, daily activities, and payment. I am pleased with all its capabilities and ease of use and could not be more thrilled with the positive feedback we are receiving from our families."
The app also features:
- Two-way communication between parents and their child's teacher
- Advance check-in feature for better drop-off and pick-up experience
- Push notifications and alerts from school leadership
- Parent management of payment type and ability to obtain tuition statements
Founded in 2002, Little Sunshine's Playhouse and Preschool operates 30 early learning centers located throughout the U.S. Little Sunshine's Playhouse offers a safe, secure & nurturing environment to children ages six weeks through pre-kindergarten through their Distinctive Services and proprietary, Reggio Emilia-inspired curriculum, Creatively ShineTM. They maintain a reputation of unrivaled distinction in preschool and early childhood education making them a sought-after, premier private preschool program.
To learn more, visit Little Sunshine's Playhouse.
If you would like more information, please contact Kelly Yust at (417) 887-4242 or by email at kellyy@littlesunshine.com.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Little Sunshine’s Playhouse and Preschool | https://www.weau.com/prnewswire/2022/08/25/little-sunshines-playhouse-preschool-launches-luvnotes-new-parent-communication-mobile-app/ | 2022-08-25 16:17:04 | 0 | https://www.weau.com/prnewswire/2022/08/25/little-sunshines-playhouse-preschool-launches-luvnotes-new-parent-communication-mobile-app/ |
Which campfire starter is best?
Whether you’re going on a weekend camping trip or a month-long adventure in the middle of nowhere, a campfire starter that’s reliable, durable and easy to use could be critical to your survival.
It’s also a huge bonus when your fire starter can do more than one thing, so you don’t have to bring as many items. The Gerber Bear Grylls Fire Starter is a top pick because it is compact, waterproof and comes with a survival guide.
What to know before you buy a campfire starter
What is a campfire starter?
To start a fire, you need oxygen, fuel and heat. A campfire starter creates the spark to ignite a flame. You can get a fire starter with the fuel source built into the heat source, or you can get each separately.
Two quick, easy and accurate fire-starting methods with built-in accelerants are matches and a lighter. You can also get a flint and steel or a ferrocerium rod and striker, which take a little more work to get a fire going, but are more durable, naturally waterproof and can light more fires than the other two methods put together. Some struggle with them because they require added accelerants, but those are ample, lightweight and easy to pack.
Types of campfire starters
Most professional survivalists suggest that you carry at least one backup campfire starter in case the first fails or gets lost. If you want to be extra safe, take two backups. There are four types of fire starters for you to consider:
- Matches: These small sticks are coated in combustible material that ignites when hit against a strike pad. They come in standard and waterproof varieties.
- Lighter: These can be electric- or butane-based. They create a flame with the press of a wheel or button.
- Fire piston: This is also known as a slam rod fire starter and comes with a rod, tube and tinder. Tinder is placed at the bottom of the tube and ignites when the rod is slammed into the tube.
- Flint and steel: A ferrocerium rod and striker are in the same category and work the same way. When you strike the flint or striker against the steel or rod, a fire-igniting spark erupts and lands in an accelerant, which creates a flame.
Campfire accelerants
Fire accelerants, also known as flame extenders, are crucial as they take the flame or spark and turn it into a stable, roaring fire. They are required when your heat and fuel sources are separate. However, since they simplify the campfire-building process, many also use them with matches and lighters. There are nine types to consider:
- Birch bark
- Duct tape rolled up
- Magnesium shavings
- Wax and sawdust in cubes or cups
- Cotton balls dipped in hand sanitizer
- Cotton balls dunked in petroleum jelly
- Cotton disks coated in wax and an accelerant
- Wax- or Chapstick-doused rope or twine
- Proprietary blends, such as Pyro Putty, Fireflame and Fatwood
What to look for in a quality campfire starter
Reliable
Because you’re not apt to have many backups, your campfire starter must be reliable. The best way to ensure its dependability is to get one that can withstand the elements, labeled windproof, dustproof and waterproof.
Small and lightweight
While a lighter and fatwood can create a robust fire, they are not ideal if your campsite requires a hike and you need to carry them on your back with your other essentials. The best campfire starters are small, lightweight and won’t create bulk in your pack. Keep your heat source small and your fuel source even smaller.
Multipurpose
Consider the other tools you need while camping, such as a safety whistle, flashlight and survival guide, then try to get them in one purchase. While add-ons mustn’t come at the cost of a quality fire starter, space is precious when camping, and it’s helpful when each item can do multiple things.
How much you can expect to spend on a campfire starter
Depending on the brand, materials and included items, they range from $10-$50, with an average price around $10-$20.
Campfire starter FAQ
Is getting a flint and steel rod with a large strike capacity good?
A. Strike quality is more important than strike quantity. Fire steels that can withstand a lot of strikes are typically made from harder materials that don’t chip away easily, which generates less spark. You want one from softer materials that can create a larger spark, increasing your chances of success on the first strike.
What’s a good way to ensure you’ve bought the right fire starter?
A. Test it at home. It’s vital to test all camping essentials in a controlled environment before depending on them to work in the wild.
What’s the best campfire starter to buy?
Top campfire starter
Gerber Bear Grylls Fire Starter
What you need to know: This waterproof all-in-one kit has an attached safety whistle and other bonus tools.
What you’ll love: It comes with a ferrocerium rod, metal striker and an air-tight container to secure your items. It also includes a survival guide, and the container has an attached lanyard you can use to place the kit around your neck for quick access.
What you should consider: Some reviewers said the kit is slightly bigger than they hoped it would be.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top campfire starter for the money
Uco Stormproof Match Kit with Waterproof Case
What you need to know: These matches stay lit no matter what you throw at them.
What you’ll love: This set comes with 25 matches that can burn up to 15 seconds, three strikers and a waterproof case. The matches are windproof, waterproof and dirtproof. The flame stays lit, even when fully submerged in water.
What you should consider: Some people reported that the bottom stems on the matches are a bit fragile.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Suprus Waterproof Lighter Three Modes
What you need to know: This windproof lighter is ideal for short trips; longer ones if you have access to a power source.
What you’ll love: This waterproof lighter comes with a wrist lanyard, a safety whistle and a built-in flashlight with three modes. It also has a USB charging cable and charges in about 1.5 hours. It’s butane free and can work in any weather.
What you should consider: There were mixed reports regarding its battery life, which is contingent upon how often you use it.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Â
Want to shop the best products at the best prices? Check out Daily Deals from BestReviews.
Sign up here to receive the BestReviews weekly newsletter for useful advice on new products and noteworthy deals.
Ella Scott writes for BestReviews. BestReviews has helped millions of consumers simplify their purchasing decisions, saving them time and money.
Copyright 2022 BestReviews, a Nexstar company. All rights reserved. | https://www.wdtn.com/reviews/br/camping-outdoors-br/gear-br/best-campfire-starter/ | 2022-11-01 01:35:34 | 1 | https://www.wdtn.com/reviews/br/camping-outdoors-br/gear-br/best-campfire-starter/ |
CHARLESTON — A federal chief administrative law judge has approved an agreement between regulators and a South Charleston-based mining company for the latter and its subsidiaries to pay nearly $350,000 to resolve more than 500 citations for mine safety and health violations.
Under their settlement with the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, Blackhawk Mining LLC and its subsidiaries are to pay $349,444 to resolve hundreds of safety citations reported at 14 mine sites, including those in Boone, Fayette and Kanawha counties.
Per the agreement, Blackhawk and its subsidiaries will pay 35% less than they would have under the assessments originally proposed by the MSHA, which totaled $537,126.
But the MSHA proposed a significant total penalty reduction approved by Chief Judge Glynn Voisi that Blackhawk welcomed in an emailed statement Monday.
The MSHA often proposes penalty reductions for cited mine operators.
Many citation penalties were slashed to small fractions well under half of the originally proposed amounts.
Blackhawk is “pleased” with the approved settlement, the company said in an email, noting the company had been actively contesting the citations.
The 533 citations reported problems like failure to perform proper safety examinations, mine ventilation failures and unsafe buildup of combustible materials.
The citations issued after what the agency says were routine inspections of mines between August 2021 and March 2022.
“This mutual resolution allows Blackhawk to continue its focus on operating the safest, most productive mines in the region,” the company said.
Voisin, chief administrative law judge of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, ordered Blackhawk and subsidiaries to pay the $349,444 penalty within 30 days.
The Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is an independent agency which reviews legal disputes arising under the Mine Act that has governed MSHA activities since 1977.
“The Mine Safety and Health Review Commission’s decision demands that Blackhawk Mining takes responsibility for its failures and reminds other operators that they will not escape the consequences of failing to protect miners as the law requires,” Department of Labor Solicitor Seema Nanda said in a statement.
Blackhawk is controlled by Liechtenstein-based Sev.en AG. Sev.en was among the mine operators most frequently cited for safety violations the MSHA found could have contributed to coronavirus, according to MSHA data uncovered by HD Media requests under the Freedom of Information Act.
Blackhawk employs about 2,000 workers in West Virginia and Kentucky, according to the MSHA.
Mike Tony covers energy and the environment for HD Media. He can be reached at 304-348-1236 or mtony@hdmediallc.com. Follow @Mike__Tony on Twitter.
Keep it Clean. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd,
racist or sexually-oriented language. PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK. Don't Threaten. Threats of harming another
person will not be tolerated. Be Truthful. Don't knowingly lie about anyone
or anything. Be Nice. No racism, sexism or any sort of -ism
that is degrading to another person. Be Proactive. Use the 'Report' link on
each comment to let us know of abusive posts. Share with Us. We'd love to hear eyewitness
accounts, the history behind an article. | https://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/nearly-350k-settlement-of-over-500-mine-safety-and-health-violation-citations-approved-for-south/article_16c6065c-1d19-51b4-b2be-fe5bedf3e17c.html | 2023-02-21 05:14:57 | 0 | https://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/nearly-350k-settlement-of-over-500-mine-safety-and-health-violation-citations-approved-for-south/article_16c6065c-1d19-51b4-b2be-fe5bedf3e17c.html |
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- A Purdue University student was killed in a residence hall early Wednesday morning, the university said.
The school in West Lafayette, Indiana said in a statement that Purdue police received a 911 call at about 12:44 a.m. from the victim's roommate.
That roommate is in custody, the university said.
An investigation is underway and there is not a threat to the community, the university said.
Further details were not immediately available. | https://abc11.com/purdue-student-killed-murder-university-west-lafayette-indiana/12296777/ | 2022-10-05 13:22:39 | 1 | https://abc11.com/purdue-student-killed-murder-university-west-lafayette-indiana/12296777/ |
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) — Virginia State Police are investigating the fatal police shooting of a suspect in domestic violence incident in Portsmouth.
The Portsmouth Police Department said in a news release that officers were called to Mount Vernon Ave. around 10:30 a.m. Thursday and found a 65-year-old woman who had been stabbed. While the officers were at the scene, a 45-year-old male suspect was fatally shot by police.
Portsmouth police said the stabbing victim was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. They provided no other details.
Television station WVEC reported that a neighbor said he saw a woman in distress run out of a house, calling for help for her son, and that a disheveled man appeared outside a short time later.
The neighbor, who asked not to be identified, told WVEC that several officers walked up to the door, identified themselves as police, and ordered several times that the door be opened. They then kicked the door down and shouted “Stop! Drop it! ” several times before gunshots were fired, according to the neighbor's account. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Police-fatally-shoot-man-in-responding-to-17672859.php | 2022-12-22 23:43:33 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Police-fatally-shoot-man-in-responding-to-17672859.php |
A few afternoon t-storms, then rain Sunday night
SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) - Saturday saw an active afternoon with a number of thunderstorms popping up, a few of those being severe. A low-end severe chance remains this afternoon if a few thunderstorms are able to develop, but the bigger story is the rain expected overnight. That leads into a cooler first half of the upcoming workweek.
Today
Fog settled in early this morning as temperatures cooled off and our wind slowed down. That fog is already mixing out quite quick this morning as the sun comes up, and we’ll welcome a good deal of sunshine through the morning today. Clouds will start to build back up through the afternoon, though, and a few thunderstorms may be able to develop in the Thumb. Although isolated, these storms have the potential to be strong, possibly severe, but this will be dependent upon how much heat can work its way into the Thumb. The strongest storms should be able to produce heavy rain, small hail, and some gusty winds close to 60 mph.
Speaking of the heat, although not hot today, temperatures will still make their way into the upper 70s by this afternoon. Today’s wind will sustain out of the west, rather than the south, with a speed of 5 to 10 mph with gusts to 20 mph.
Tonight
Better rain chances move in overnight has Mid-Michigan gets clipped by the northern edge of a disturbance to the south. Expect just plain rain out of this which picks up closer to midnight from the southwest. Not everybody will see this rain overnight, though, as it will mostly focus from Owosso, up to the Saginaw area, and to the east of there. The heaviest rain comes in closer to Lapeer County and the Lake Huron shoreline.
Lows will drop off into the lower 50s tonight, cooler than the last few nights. The wind slows back down to 5 to 10 mph with a north northwest direction.
Monday
Temperatures take an even cooler turn Monday as they’ll only top out in the upper 60s by the afternoon. After the rain in the morning, the remainder of the day will be dry, with the exception of the Thumb. There, a few thunderstorms may be able to redevelop. Those storms should stay below the severe limit, but provide localized downpours. Rain totals by Monday evening (including Sunday night’s rain) will check in between 0.25″ to 0.50″.
Monday night lows dive into the lower 40s, about 10 degrees cooler than Sunday night.
60s continue for a couple more days this week, check out when in the full 7-Day Forecast!
Copyright 2022 WNEM. All rights reserved. | https://www.wnem.com/2022/05/15/few-afternoon-t-storms-then-rain-sunday-night/ | 2022-05-15 12:04:17 | 1 | https://www.wnem.com/2022/05/15/few-afternoon-t-storms-then-rain-sunday-night/ |
An ice-cream shop known for shaking things up with its unique flavors and sometimes-shocking ingredients is now dishing out scoops at Walt Disney World — and just introduced quite the head-turning limited-edition menu this month.
Salt & Straw, an Oregon-based company, opened its 27th location at Disney Springs, Disney World’s shopping, dining and entertainment district, on April 20, and began serving up the company’s inventive, handmade ice cream flavors to Walt Disney World guests.
The shop serves a menu of classic flavors with a monthly rotation of themed specials. This month’s Summer Picnic Series, launched June 3, is giving Disney World guests their first big taste of Salt & Straw’s envelope-pushing ice creams with a seasonal lineup that includes components like — wait for it — fried chicken and deviled eggs.
Salt & Straw’s Backstory
The brainchild of cousins and co-founders Kim and Tyler Malek, Salt & Straw began as a dream Kim had to create a community gathering place, but she needed someone to make the ice cream. Tyler moved into her basement and started making ice cream in her kitchen, she said, and “two years later he won Forbes 30 Under 30 for changing the way America eats through ice cream.”
Community and collaboration are the foundations of Salt & Straw’s success.
“I wanted to open an ice cream shop where people could run into their neighbors and just hang out and spend time with friends and family and we quickly realized that could be reflected through our product,” Kim said.
The Flavors
Salt & Straw’s Head Ice Cream Maker and self-proclaimed “Flavor Czar,” Tyler develops every handmade flavor with a focus on collaboration with local makers, farmers and chefs.
In Florida, that’s been reflected in flavors like Panther Coffee Chocolate Tres Leches, made with Miami’s Panther Coffee, ground and steeped in cream and sugar for 45 minutes then strained, and The Salty Donut Guava + Cheese, a collaboration with artisanal donut shop The Salty Donut, which has locations in Orlando and throughout South Florida. Tyler says the Salt & Straw and Salty Donut teams have become close friends through the partnership, which includes a complete line of donut-laden flavors, available for shipping across the country.
Even the more “traditional” flavors on the menu of 12 year-round classic offerings are punched up with Tyler’s painstaking, perfectionist approach to getting his flavors just right.
“Strawberry is the hardest ice cream in the world to make without using tricks,” Tyler said. “Most use artificial flavor extract.”
Instead, Tyler’s take on classic strawberry gets inspiration from an Italian approach to serving strawberries — he dips them in balsamic vinegar and black pepper to make his Honey Balsamic w/ Black Pepper.
Tyler says he tasted more than 40 different types of cinnamon before settling on the right notes for his Cinnamon Snickerdoodle, a fan favorite, and calls the Honey Lavender “the perfect lavender ice cream for those who hate lavender like me.”
The Picnic Series
So what about those fried chicken and deviled egg ice creams? Launched the first Friday of every month, the Monthly Flavors are developed around a theme. June’s Picnic Series takes classic picnic items and turns them into some of the most unexpected flavors yet seen from Salt & Straw. Tyler says the monthly series often include “more provocative” flavors, intended to “stimulate interest and conversation.”
So far the Picnic Series is doing just that. The five-flavor lineup will definitely have you doing a double-take. It includes:
- Deviled Egg Custard w/ Smoked Black Tea
- Cinnamon & Honey Fried Chicken
- Baked Brie & Fig Cheesecake
- Chocolate Nocino Cherry Pie
- Pink Rosé & Watermelon Sorbet (vegan)
We had to hear more from Tyler about the fried chicken ice cream in particular. Here’s what he had to say.
“It is so freaking delicious! Honestly, this was one of the most difficult flavors we’ve ever created at Salt & Straw and would never be possible if not for a LOT of help from our friends at Ezell’s Chicken,” he said. “Overall, the texture and flavor is like nothing I’ve ever tasted. It’s clean and simple and, if you didn’t know better, you’d just think it was a pleasantly spiced, slightly savory, super crunchy, regular old ice cream … but, if you know, you know.”
The Picnic Series is available all month long at Walt Disney World and all Salt & Straw locations across the country (they also have an outpost at Disneyland’s Downtown Disney District). If you don’t have one near you, their products are also available to order online for shipping along with their classic flavors and other special series.
How does the Picnic Series sound to you? Would you try fried chicken ice cream?
This story originally appeared on Simplemost. Checkout Simplemost for additional stories. | https://www.wrtv.com/new-ice-cream-shop-disney-world-has-wild-flavors | 2022-06-07 19:24:05 | 1 | https://www.wrtv.com/new-ice-cream-shop-disney-world-has-wild-flavors |
Key Strategy, Transformation Leaders Also Elevated
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Acosta, a global integrated sales and marketing services leader, today announced leadership and organizational changes that will bolster the company's Sales Agency In-Store operations, Digital Commerce capabilities, and Commercial strategy and support, delivering enhanced services and outcomes for the company's CPG clients and retail customers. The company also announced new and evolved roles for its Strategy and Transformation leadership to strengthen the design and execution of its strategic initiatives.
"As Acosta continues to evolve as a company, we are focusing our organization and investments to meet the needs of our clients and customers in an increasingly dynamic marketplace," said Brian Wynne, Acosta CEO. "These changes will further support the integration of our successful acquisitions made over the past 18 months, optimize Acosta's best-in-class retail processes and structure, and build on our unmatched capabilities that drive profitable growth for our partners across CPG and retail."
- David Yenzer, formerly President of Premium, an Acosta agency acquired in 2021, will now serve as President, In-Store Services Team, reporting to Darian Pickett, CEO, Acosta Sales Agency. Yenzer will lead a team that addresses today's most significant retail challenges across labor, technology, and execution.
The In-Store Services Team will leverage Acosta's unparalleled scale, data, and technologies to drive retail execution and compliance and deliver stronger ROI for its brand and retailer partners across the entire enterprise. Areas of focus include enabling elevated service and outcomes for CPG clients and retail customers, improving talent acquisition and associate retention and engagement, and fully implementing Acosta's SmartRetail/360 technology across the retail sales operations team. - John Carroll will shift from his role as Chief Growth Officer to serve as President of Acosta's Digital Commerce business segment and will continue reporting to Wynne. This group will enable clients to bridge the physical and digital shelves by offering one-stop omnichannel digital commerce services that drive conversion and brand preference.
Acosta's Digital Commerce services include Amazon through OeP, retailer.com, content syndication, advanced insights and analytics, as well as revenue growth management, supply chain, and omnichannel insights and reporting. - Jeremy Benedict will move into the newly established Chief Commercial Officer role after serving as Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer for the past two years. He will also continue reporting to Wynne. Benedict and his team will enable Acosta's go-to-market teams with the content, tools, and training needed to help current and potential clients access the breadth of Acosta's capabilities to grow their businesses.
- There are no changes to Acosta's Marketing Services business segment, led by Derek Bowen, President; and Acosta's foodservice agency, CORE Foodservice, led by Travis King, President. Both Bowen and King continue to report to Wynne.
- Lisa Koth has been named SVP, Chief Strategy Officer, after most recently serving as VP, Strategy. She will report to Wynne in this new role, with responsibility for advancing Acosta's strategic plan, partnering closely with the company's business segments to develop strategies and recommendations to pursue emerging market opportunities and drive innovation. Koth's team will also provide guidance and oversight on acquisitions and other strategic investments.
- Sharon Hart will now serve as Chief Technology & Transformation Officer, adding Acosta's enterprise-wide Transformation function to her Information Technology (IT) leadership responsibilities. She will continue reporting to Wynne. In this expanded role, Hart will oversee the governance, execution, and value realization for Acosta's enterprise strategic initiatives as the company continues to transform and align the organization with the needs of Acosta clients, customers, and associates.
"I congratulate these leaders and their teams for embracing the work ahead as we continue transforming our organization and capabilities. The changes we are making will help strengthen and grow our client and customer relationships and create great opportunities for our people," said Wynne.
Visit www.acosta.com/news for more news from Acosta.
Acosta's suite of progressive, commerce-centric solutions enables today's biggest brands, retailers and foodservice providers to win in the modern marketplace. Since 1927, Acosta has developed trusted relationships and unmatched scale. In a complex and fast-evolving omnichannel world, Acosta's network of companies allows us to connect with shoppers wherever they are. Through data-backed growth strategies and exceptional customer experiences, we are connecting tomorrow's commerce today. For more information, visit www.acosta.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Acosta | https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2022/12/14/acosta-bolsters-retail-sales-operations-digital-commercial-leadership-capabilities/ | 2022-12-14 16:55:58 | 0 | https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2022/12/14/acosta-bolsters-retail-sales-operations-digital-commercial-leadership-capabilities/ |
Here's how Hearst and Hearst TV are working to promote a healthier, sustainable environment
Hearst, this station's parent company, is a leader in both news and communications, through television, newspapers, radio and magazines.
The company is dedicated to operating in an environmentally responsible manner.
Hearst released its first global sustainability overview on Tuesday in an effort to be transparent about the steps taken to improve its environmental stewardship and track the impact these improvements are having.
In a statement, Hearst President and CEO Steven R. Swartz said, "This is the first of what will be an annual effort to report on and track all we are doing to make our own operations more climate-friendly and to highlight all the work that our colleagues around the world are doing to promote a healthier environment."
In January of this year, Hearst Television, which reaches 39 states and one out of every five U.S. households, launched "Forecasting our Future." It's a group-wide effort to educate communities on the local impact of weather and climate. In this series, experts are delving deeper into the topic of climate change, focusing on how it will affect household budgets, businesses and individuals' health.
Meteorologists throughout the company are collaborating with Hearst colleagues across the country, and with national units based in Washington, D.C., to tell stories that will better prepare viewers for future events.
Forecasting Our Future: How severe weather impacts communities across the U.S.
Forecasting Our Future: Meteorologists explain what drew them to a career in weather
When it comes to reducing carbon emissions, Hearst Television is rolling out advanced technology. New solid-state transmitters and upgraded mechanical systems have reduced electrical consumption without sacrificing power or quality in over-the-air broadcast signals. Inside the studios, energy-efficient LED tech and lighting sensors turn off lights when areas are not in use.
Some of the company's environmental priorities for next year include:
- Following current laws and regulations regarding the environment and striving to go above and beyond where reasonably practicable.
- Enhance energy efficiency and seek out new ways to increase the use of renewable energy sources.
- Use responsibly-sourced paper, as well as increase recycling and reduce waste throughout the organization.
- Motivate all employees, suppliers and business partners to also take part in committing to embrace sustainability best practices.
- Issue an annual environmental report to keep stakeholders, internal and external, apprised of our operations and improvements.
The company's path forward to sustainability includes four phases in its multi-year progression toward emission reduction:
- Phase 1: Collect Scope 1 (direct emissions) and Scope 2 (indirect emissions) baseline data (mix of actual and estimated data) and calculate initial carbon footprint.
- Phase 2: Implement new technology to increase the collection of actual data and better track energy use across global business units.
- Phase 3: Determine priorities for Scope 1 and Scope 2 emission reduction and
set and manage targets. - Phase 4: Implement reduction initiatives and report publicly on an annual basis Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions.
Other Hearst divisions have also demonstrated their commitment to sustainability.
In 2022, Hearst Foundations awarded more than $28 million to nonprofit organizations, with many recipients prioritizing the environment.
Hearst Newspapers is minimizing its climate footprint, including new approaches to the distribution of office space and consolidating production facilities. The Houston Chronicle and San Francisco Chronicle have pioneered strategies around production to cut their footprints as well.
As part of the ongoing commitment to educating the public, Hearst Magazines has featured companies that are both kind to the body and planet, like Elle's annual Green Beauty Stars list.
Furthermore, 100% of the paper fiber Hearst Magazines and Hearst Newspapers purchase is sourced in an ecologically responsible matter.
Hearst's corporate headquarters in New York City, the Hearst Tower, was the city's first LEED-occupied office building. | https://www.wtae.com/article/hearst-environmental-priorities/41831765 | 2022-11-01 20:01:23 | 0 | https://www.wtae.com/article/hearst-environmental-priorities/41831765 |
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate
BOSTON (AP) — Jayson Tatum scored 30 points and the NBA-best Boston Celtics pulled away from the Sacramento Kings for a 122-104 victory on Friday night.
Jaylen Brown added 25 points and Derrick White had 16 for Boston (15-4), which won for the 11th time in 12 games. Al Horford finished with 13 points, and Tatum had eight rebounds.
De’Aaron Fox led Sacramento with 20 points. Domantas Sabonis had 18 points and 10 rebounds, and Davion Mitchell scored 13. The Kings have lost two straight after a seven-game winning streak.
In a matchup of two of the league’s hottest teams in November, the Celtics opened a 16-point lead early in the second quarter before the Kings’ league-best offense got rolling just before halftime, closing to 64-62 at intermission.
From there, the game bogged down with numerous fouls and some sloppy and inconsistent offense for much of the third quarter before Boston took off on a 19-0 run that closed the quarter and extended into Sam Hauser’s 3 at the start of the fourth.
Horford’s 3 gave Boston a 25-point lead with just over five minutes to play.
TIP-INS
Kings: Coach Mike Brown and Fox were each whistled for a technical foul by referee Natalie Sago midway into the opening quarter. ... Were just 2 for 10 on 3-point attempts in the opening quarter and finished 9 of 36.
Celtics: Brown picked up a T from ref Eric Lewis late in the first quarter. Sago gave one to Grant Williams in the third. ... Opened a double-digit lead midway into the first and led 36-22 after one.
BENCH BOOST
With his team trailing by six and looking sluggish late in the third, Boston coach Joe Mazzulla brought in reserves Payton Pritchard and Luke Kornet for their first playing time of the night. It seemed to spark the team and excited the crowd as the Celtics went on a 16-0 run to close the quarter, with Tatum scoring the last five points.
HIGH OCTANE OFFENSES
The game featured two of the league’s highest scoring teams. Sacramento entered first with 120 points per game and Boston was just slightly behind, second at 119.7.
UP NEXT
Kings: Host the Phoenix Suns on Monday.
Celtics: Host the Washington Wizards on Sunday.
___
AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/Tatum-scores-30-Celtics-pull-away-from-Kings-17611556.php | 2022-11-26 03:49:50 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/Tatum-scores-30-Celtics-pull-away-from-Kings-17611556.php |
MOSCOW – The Russian Foreign Ministry is warning Ukraine and its Western allies that an attack on Russian troops in Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria would be construed as an attack on Russia itself and trigger an “adequate response.”
The ministry said in a statement “We are warning the U.S., NATO countries and their Ukrainian proxies from any further adventurous steps.”
Friday’s warning came a day after the Russian Defense Ministry alleged that Ukraine was planning a “provocation” in Transnistria, where Russia has maintained about 1,500 “peacekeeping” troops since the Moscow-backed region broke away in a 1992 civil war.
Citing intelligence data without presenting any evidence, the Russian military alleged that Ukrainian soldiers disguised as Russian troops planned to launch a false flag operation designed to apportion blame Russia for invading Ukraine from Transnistria. Kyiv would the then use that as a pretext to invade the territory.
Moldova’s Defense Ministry said there are “no direct threats” to the country’s security. It urged citizens to remain calm, adding that it’s working with other authorities to “prevent any attempt at destabilization.”
___
KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
— Ukraine leader pledges push for victory on war anniversary
— US commits $2 billion in drones, ammunition, aid to Ukraine
— ‘People’s court’ endorses Putin indictment for aggression
— China calls for Russia-Ukraine cease-fire, peace talks
— Joy amid sorrow: 1st birthdays muted for Ukrainian parents
— Tallying Ukraine toll an elusive task
— Follow AP’s coverage of the war anniversary in Ukraine
___
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
WARSAW, Poland – Poland’s president says his country has delivered the first Leopard tanks to Ukraine.
President Andrzej Duda told a meeting of the National Security Council he was happy that Poland was the first nation to offer the advanced tanks to Ukraine.
The tanks were delivered during Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s visit to Kyiv Friday, the anniversary of the Russian invasion.
Poland has pledged 14 German-made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and Germany has promised an equal number. It was unclear how many tanks arrived on Friday.
Other tank donor countries include Canada which as sent personnel to train Ukrainians.
___
BUCHAREST, Romania — Moldova’s President Maia Sandu says Ukrainians are not only fighting Russia for a “free and dignified life” but also for the “freedom of the entire continent.”
In a message posted online on the war’s first anniversary Friday, Sandu said “there is no greater injustice than being invaded and killed in your own home” and praised Ukrainians who “rose up, conquered their fears and became invincible” in the face of Russian aggression.
___
SOFIA, Bulgaria – A senior European Union official says the entire democratic world will win the war in Ukraine and that Russia must be stopped now because it “will go as far as it can” if left unopposed.
European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said Friday it’s the first time in EU history that the bloc is providing military assistance to a country in time of war.
Dombrovskis said that Brussels is committed to support Ukraine for as long as it takes, adding that the bloc is coming out with a new package of sanctions against Moscow “that are biting hard and contributing to sustained economic recession in Russia.”
But he warned that every EU country must apply the sanctions if they’re to be effective, including seizing and freezing Russian assets. Dombrovskis said the EU is working on “legal solutions” to use seized Russian assets to finance Ukraine’s reconstruction.
___
LONDON – Britain’s King Charles III has praised the “remarkable courage and resilience” of Ukrainians during a year of war.
In a message to mark Friday’s first anniversary of Russia’s invasion, the king said “the people of Ukraine have suffered unimaginably from an unprovoked full-scale attack on their nation.”
Charles said he had met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Buckingham Palace earlier this month to express his “personal support” for Ukraine’s people.
The king, who took the throne in September after the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II, said it was “heartening that the United Kingdom, along with its allies, is doing everything possible to help at this most difficult time.”
He added that he’s hopeful the outpouring of solidarity from across the globe “may bring not only practical aid, but also strength from the knowledge that, together, we stand united.”
___
BERLIN – A wrecked Russian tank brought from Ukraine has been put on display outside the Russian Embassy in Berlin to mark the anniversary of Moscow’s invasion.
The T-72 tank was put on display in Berlin’s Unter den Linden boulevard, in front of the embassy.
The tank was brought to Berlin by a private group, which said that the Ukrainian defense ministry’s military history museum loaned the vehicle and helped it with logistics. It says the vehicle was hit in the Kyiv region in the early stages of the war.
One of the organizers, Wieland Giebel of the Berlin Story group, said that the whole world recognize that many Germans stand behind Ukraine.
___
BELGRADE, Serbia – Serbian police have prevented a group of antiwar activists from reaching the Russian embassy to presenting a skull-adorned cake in commemoration of the first anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine.
Activists left the cake soaked in red dye on the pavement near the embassy in central Belgrade. Activists also wanted to hand embassy staff a demand for Russian President Vladimir Putin to stand trial for genocide.
A traditional Slavic ally, Serbia has maintained friendly relations with Russia despite the invasion. While formally seeking European Union entry, Belgrade has refused to join Western sanctions designed to punish Moscow for the aggression.
___
TALLINN, Estonia – NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Russian President Vladimir Putin is “preparing for more war” and that he wants a Europe in which Russia “can dictate what neighbors do.”
Stoltenberg made the remarks Friday in the Estonian capital where he was joined by EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen to commemorate the Baltic country’s independence day.
Von der Leyen said Putin has failed to achieve any of his strategic goals and that Russia is becoming increasingly isolated, citing Thursday’s U.N. General Assembly vote approving a nonbinding resolution that calls for Russia to end hostilities in Ukraine and withdraw its forces.
Stoltenberg also said that he has invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to attend a NATO summit in Lithuania in July, expressing hope that the Ukrainian leader can attend in person.
NATO will hold a summit in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, Jul. 11-13.
__
BERLIN – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has thanked Germany for its support in the first year of Russia’s invasion and said his country can “end Russian aggression this year.”
Zelenskyy spoke in a video message to a memorial event in Berlin Friday led by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and attended by Germany’s top politicians and the Ukrainian ambassador.
Zelenskyy, who spoke through an interpreter, said that “now is the time when, with our courage and our weapons, we can restore peace and create a historically important safeguard against every aggression.”
Steinmeier led a minute of silence for the victims of the war. He said that “Germany is not at war, but this war concerns us … Russia’s war of aggression has wrecked the European security order.”
He pledged that Kyiv can rely on Germany.
The German parliament on Friday replaced one of the German flags atop its Reichstag building – which usually has three German flags and one European Union flag – with a Ukrainian flag. A Ukrainian flag also was raised outside the chancellery.
___
WARSAW, Poland – Poland’s Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak says that “preventive barriers” are being put up along the country’s borders with Russia and Belarus.
Blaszczak posted on Twitter Friday that the barriers were elements of a “strategy of defense and deterrence.”
___
KYIV, Ukraine – Ukraine’s presidential office says that Russian strikes in the last 23 hours have killed at least three civilians and wounded 19 others.
The office said Friday that intense fighting continued to rage around Bakhmut, Vuhledar and Avdiivka in the eastern Donetsk region, where two civilians were killed and seven others wounded..
Russian forces targeted 18 towns or villages in the Donetsk region with air and artillery strikes over the last 24 hours, including the city of Kramatorsk that hosts Ukrainian military headquarters for the region.
The governor of the neighboring Luhansk region, Serhii Haidai, said that heavy fighting continued to rage around Kreminna, where the Russians briefly broke through Ukrainian defenses before being pushed back by the Ukrainian forces. Haidai said Russian forces were regrouping and bringing more personnel and weapons to the region after suffering heavy losses in unsuccessful attacks.
Russian attacks also targeted the town of Kupiansk and nearby villages in the northeastern Kharkiv region, where seven people were wounded At least one civilian was killed and three others wounded by the Russian attacks in the southern Kherson region. In the city of Kherson, Russian artillery struck the city hospital, but no one was injured.
___
MOSCOW – A senior Russian official says Moscow should capture as much Ukrainian territory as possible to secure a stable peace.
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia’s Security Council chaired by President Vladimir Putin, said Friday that if Russia fails to fully defeat Ukraine, an eventual peace agreement will be unstable and set the stage for hostilities to erupt again in the future.
Medvedev charged that the U.S. would call the shots in future peace talks, aiming to “weaken Russia as much as possible.”
He argued on his messaging app channel that Russia should “push threats … as far away as possible, even if it were the border of Poland.”
Medvedev, who served as Russian president in 2008-2012 when Putin needed to shift into the prime minister’s job because of term limits, has become one of the most hawkish members of Putin’s entourage.
___
LONDON – Britain has slapped more sanctions on firms that supply Russia’s battlefield equipment on the first anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine.
The U.K. said Friday it will bar export to Russia of all items it has used in the war, including aircraft parts, radio equipment, and electronic components of weapons.
The list includes executives of several Russian banks and defense companies, as well as Russia’s state-owned nuclear power company, Rosatom.
Also sanctioned are five executives from Iran’s Qods Aviation Industry, which makes armed drones that Moscow has used to attack Ukraine’s infrastructure.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will lead a nationwide minute of silence for Ukraine Friday morning, gathering outside 10 Downing St. with Ukraine’s ambassador and a contingent of Ukrainian troops.
Sunak will also urge Western allies to deliver more weapons to give Ukraine a “decisive advantage on the battlefield” during a conference call of Group of Seven leaders.
___
KYIV – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has awarded top state honors to soldiers and other Ukrainians who helped save lives, including health and energy workers.
In Friday’s ceremony outside Kyiv’s St Sophia Cathedral marking the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion, Zelenskyy offered praise to soldiers and ordinary Ukrainians fighting back against Russian troops saying, “we are proud of you … let this pride course through trenches and squares.”
Some soldiers posthumously were awarded Ukraine’s highest honor, Hero of Ukraine, for “personal heroism and great labor achievements.” Family members of the fallen soldiers were on hand to accept the honor.
Also recognized were men and women running regional energy enterprises and health centers, including in Ukraine’s embattled east and south.
___
BERLIN – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Russian President Vladimir Putin has failed in his aims a year after Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine.
Scholz said in a video message Friday marking the anniversary that Germany will continue to firmly stand by Ukraine. He said it’s not weapons deliveries that are prolonging the war, but Putin’s insistence on achieving his “imperialist aim.”
The German chancellor said the sooner Putin realizes that he won’t achieve this aim, the better the chance of ending the war soon, adding, “It is in Putin’s hand – he can end this war.”
Scholz aid Putin has failed because he counted on division but Ukraine is more united than ever and the European Union also stands united.
___
BRUSSELS — The NATO military alliance is affirming its commitment to stand by Ukraine and help it defeat Russia on the first anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion.
“We remain determined to maintain coordinated international pressure on Russia,” ambassadors from the 30 alliance countries said in a statement Friday.
“Russia’s efforts to break the resolve of the brave people of Ukraine are failing. One year on, Ukrainians are fighting valiantly for freedom and independence. We stand with them.”
The envoys also reaffirmed their “iron-clad” intent to come to the defense of any member country should Russia consider broadening the war.
___
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s defense chief has congratulated the country’s armed forces for rebuffing an enemy “that terrified the whole world,” referring to Russia’s failed attempt to launch a full-scale invasion that would take control of Ukraine.
“Our soldiers and the entire Ukrainian people took up a fight many in the world considered hopeless,” Oleksiy Reznikov said in an address posted on Facebook on Friday.
“You rebuffed the enemy’s army, which terrified the whole world. But it turned out to be powerless against Ukrainians, who are defending their home and their loved ones, fighting for their land,” he added.
Reznikov said Kyiv will fight until it takes back all territory captured or annexed by Russia, and until the danger from Moscow is “eliminated.
___
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s army chief, Valery Zaluzhny, says his country’s resilience against Russia’s invasion “rests on our people,”
“Ordinary heroes among us. They are people who took up arms to protect their families, their homes and their state from the enemy’s unprovoked and unjustified aggression,” he wrote on Facebook Friday.
“They are people who are now, at this moment, beating back the occupier, holding the line, freezing in our cold but dear, native land, saving the lives of their compatriots, helping the army however they can,” he wrote.
___
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The five Nordic prime ministers say Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “has caused unimaginable suffering, death, and destruction on a scale not seen on our continent since World War II.”
In a joint statement on the one-year anniversary of the invasion, the government leaders of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden said that “Russia’s brutal aggression” was “the gravest threat to Euro-Atlantic security in decades.”
The consequences of the war “are felt far and wide. Economic stability, energy and food security are seriously threatened with severe consequences for the least developed countries,” they said.
“Ukraine’s struggle is our struggle,” they said in the statement.
___
WASHINGTON — White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan during a CNN town hall on Thursday confirmed that Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volydymyr Zelenskyy discussed Ukraine’s request for fighter jets during the U.S. president’s recent visit to Kyiv.
Zelenskyy has asked the U.S. for F-16s, something that Biden has declined to supply.
Sullivan underscored that the administration has been focused on providing Ukraine with the weaponry they believe is most needed in the current and coming stages of the war.
He suggested, however, that the F-16 request could be revisited.
“They’re about to mount a significant counteroffense,” Sullivan noted, referring to expectations that Ukraine will mount a spring offensive. “From our perspective, F-16s are not the key capability for that offensive. It is the stuff that we are moving rapidly to the front lines now.” | https://www.qcnews.com/news/world-news/ap-live-updates-russia-ukraine-war-anniversary/ | 2023-02-24 13:06:54 | 1 | https://www.qcnews.com/news/world-news/ap-live-updates-russia-ukraine-war-anniversary/ |
Texas home construction collapse kills 2, injures several others
Officials believe the people injured were part of the construction crew
Two people were killed and five others were injured Tuesday, when a house collapsed in a Houston, Texas, suburb.
Conroe city officials said a home under construction collapsed in the 3000 block of Pampaneria Drive.
'EL POPO,' MEXICO'S SECOND-TALLEST VOLCANO, ERUPTS
The people injured were believed to be part of the construction crew, FOX Houston reported.
Details of their conditions have not been released.
The cause of the collapse has not been determined but officials said the area was under a tornado warning at the time.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Authorities were asking everyone to avoid the area. | https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-home-construction-collapse-kills-2-injures-others | 2023-05-24 00:30:48 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-home-construction-collapse-kills-2-injures-others |
MOSCOW, Russia — An uncrewed Russian supply ship docked at the International Space Station has lost coolant pressure, the Russian space corporation and NASA reported Saturday, saying the incident doesn’t pose any danger to the station’s crew.
Roscosmos said the hatch between the station and the Progress MS-21 had been locked so the loss of pressure didn’t affect the orbiting outpost.
“The temperature and pressure on board the station are within norms and there is no danger to health and safety of the crew,” it said in a statement.
The initial statement from Roscosmos left it unclear whether the entire cargo ship or just some of its systems lost pressure, but Sergei Krikalev, head of Roscosmos’ crewed programs, later clarified that there was depressurization of the craft’s coolant loop.
NASA said its specialists are assisting their Russian counterparts in the troubleshooting of the coolant leak.
“Officials are monitoring all International Space Station systems and are not tracking any other issues,” NASA said. “The crew, which was informed of the cooling loop leak, is in no danger and continuing with normal space station operations.”
Roscosmos didn’t say what may have caused the cargo ship to lose pressure.
It noted that the cargo ship had already been loaded with waste prior to its scheduled disposal. The craft is set to be undocked from the station and deorbit to burn in the atmosphere on Feb. 18.
The announcement came shortly after a new Russian cargo ship docked smoothly at the station on Saturday. The Progress MS-22 delivered almost three tons of food, water and fuel along with scientific equipment for the crew.
Roscosmos said that the incident didn’t affect the docking of the new cargo ship and “will have no impact on the future station program.”
The depressurization of the cargo craft’s coolant loop follows a similar incident in December with the Soyuz crew capsule, which was hit by a tiny meteoroid that left a small hole in the exterior radiator and sent coolant spewing into space.
Russian Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio were supposed to use the capsule to return to Earth in March, but Russian space officials decided that higher temperatures resulting from the coolant leak could make it dangerous to use.
They decided to launch a new Soyuz capsule on Feb. 20 so the crew have a lifeboat in the event of an emergency. But since it will travel in automatic mode to expedite the launch, a replacement crew will now have to wait until late summer or fall when another capsule is ready. It means that Prokopyev, Petelin and Rubio will have to stay several extra months at the station, possibly pushing their mission to close to a year.
NASA took part in all the discussions and agreed with the plan.
Besides Prokopyev, Petelin and Rubio, the space station is home to NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada; Russian Anna Kikina; and Japan’s Koichi Wakata. The four rode up on a SpaceX capsule last October. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/nation-world/coolant-leak-at-russian-spacecraft-international-space-station/507-bfb3ecfd-1660-43a4-aa86-a13de06cee4e | 2023-02-11 23:47:37 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/nation-world/coolant-leak-at-russian-spacecraft-international-space-station/507-bfb3ecfd-1660-43a4-aa86-a13de06cee4e |
BRUSSELS (AP) — Ukraine’s wartime leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy has now been bestowed with France’s highest medal of honor. But there’s a problem: Russian President Vladimir Putin has the same medal.
French President Emmanuel Macron pinned the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor medal on Zelenskyy’s chest after the two met in the French presidential palace Thursday, a move Macron said was meant to show France’s “immense” recognition for Ukraine’s valor since Russia invaded it a year ago.
Some French legislators and activists have called on Macron to rescind Putin’s award because of the war.
Macron didn’t rule out stripping Putin of the honor bestowed by then-President Jacques Chirac in 2006.
Macron told reporters Friday that such a decision “has serious meaning, and it should be taken at the right moment.’’ He noted that he has rescinded the honor in the past.
Macron stripped Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of his Legion of Honor award in the wake of widespread sexual misconduct allegations against him in 2017. Disgraced cyclist and former Tour de France star Lance Armstrong also had his French Legion of Honor award revoked. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/ap-macron-weighs-kicking-putin-out-of-french-legion-of-honor/ | 2023-02-11 00:30:02 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/ap-macron-weighs-kicking-putin-out-of-french-legion-of-honor/ |
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Derek Wolfe will happily spend his time chasing around his 3-year-old daughter instead of NFL quarterbacks.
“I’m happy to be done with the game because (the injuries) were piling up and I know my wife is very happy not to have to watch me crawl into the shower every morning,” Wolfe said.
“It was just getting bad, so it was time to call it” a career, Wolfe added. “I get to be a father; I get to be a husband. I get to focus on those things now. ... My daughter, she just turned 3 years old and I get to play with her and hang out with her.”
Wolfe lamented all the family time he missed out on after signing with the Ravens two years ago. He hurt his hip last August and missed the entire season.
“I get to relish in the moments that I wasn’t around for, especially the last two years when I was in Baltimore during COVID, your family can’t be around, it was tough, I missed a lot of time,” Wolfe said. “So, I’m going to make up for that now.”
Wolfe said he appreciated the Broncos bringing him back to say good-bye.
“I had a lot of great times here,” he said, “played a lot of good football, won a lot of games, won a Super Bowl.”
Wolfe played in 122 games across nine seasons, starting all but six of them, and he collected 350 tackles, 81 quarterback hits and 34 sacks. He added 28 tackles and 3½ sacks in seven playoff games, five of them with the Broncos.
Wolfe got to speak to the team after practice Friday, breaking down the huddle.
“I miss doing that stuff, just being around the guys,” he said. “That’s the one thing I do miss. I don’t miss the physicality of the game. I do miss being around the guys and getting to talk to them, spreading knowledge to guys.”
What he told them Friday, he said, was to seize the opportunity now that they’ve finally solved their quarterback quandary that’s kept them out of the playoffs for six years.
“I told them, ‘Look, you guys finally got the piece that we’ve been missing, and that’s Russell Wilson,” Wolfe recounted. “I said, ‘Follow his lead. He knows what he’s doing.’”
Wolfe also admonished the players to “appreciate every day” and not take “anything for granted out here.”
“In training camp it’s easy to get complacent because you’re just like, ‘Man, this sucks. It’s hot. My body hurts. My feet hurt. My shoes are soggy,’ all these different things that you can complain about,’” Wolfe said.
“And looking back, the things that I used to complain about, that wasn’t really a big deal. Being healthy is a blessing.”
After a solid rookie season, Wolfe got hurt in a preseason game at Seattle in 2013 and was paralyzed for three hours. He returned to action just two weeks later but suffered a seizure while on the team bus to the airport late in the season, then missed the Broncos’ run to Super Bowl 48 where Russell and the Seahawks beat them.
He went on to play seven more seasons and helped the Broncos win Super Bowl 50 against Carolina two years after the seizure that he said almost killed him.
“That whole season, being able to be a part of something like that was really special,” Wolfe said. “All the plays that were made and all the games that we should have lost but we won because we were playing harder than the other team. I can’t really think of a moment that surpasses that.”
Wolfe said he’d love to spend more time around the Broncos in retirement, tutoring the defensive linemen, but what he really wants to do is use his gift of gab as a member of the media to cover the game that gave him so much.
___
More AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nfl/derek-wolfe-signs-1-day-deal-to-retire-as-a-denver-bronco/2022/07/29/4fbce376-0f87-11ed-88e8-c58dc3dbaee2_story.html | 2022-07-29 22:52:46 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nfl/derek-wolfe-signs-1-day-deal-to-retire-as-a-denver-bronco/2022/07/29/4fbce376-0f87-11ed-88e8-c58dc3dbaee2_story.html |
GREENSBORO — A 58-year-old woman who was struck by an SUV last month has died from her injuries, according to a news release from Greensboro police.
Teresa Lynn Bullins of Greensboro was taken to Moses Cone Hospital after the crash on Nov. 22. She died on Friday, according to the release.
Shortly before 7 p.m. on the day of the accident, officers responded to South Elm-Eugene Street and Interstate 40 in reference to a motor vehicle collision involving a pedestrian. Bullins had been walking south within the left turn lane of southbound Elm-Eugene. She was struck by a southbound 2006 Mitsubishi Endeavor driven by Michelle Lynn Locklear, 50, of Whitsett, police said.
The Crash Reconstruction Unit is continuing to investigate the collision. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact Greensboro/Guilford Crime Stoppers at 336-373-1000. Citizens can also download the mobile P3tips app to submit a mobile tip, or go to P3tips.com to submit a web tip. All tips to Crime Stoppers are anonymous. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/woman-struck-by-suv-last-month-dies-greensboro-police-say/article_bbfc1dfc-7bea-11ed-8bd4-9bd9add88b75.html | 2022-12-14 22:12:48 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/woman-struck-by-suv-last-month-dies-greensboro-police-say/article_bbfc1dfc-7bea-11ed-8bd4-9bd9add88b75.html |
The partnership will bring automated kitchens to the pizza franchise to improve customer experience, ensure consistent quality, and improve operational efficiency.
TORONTO and COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Appetronix has entered into an exclusive partnership with Donatos Pizza and its sister companies Agápe Automation and the Grote Company to launch a fully-autonomous pizza vending machine. This groundbreaking collaboration will pave the way for the development of a standalone, fully autonomous restaurant that combines cutting-edge technology with the art of creating delicious pizzas. The first unit will deploy in Donatos hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
The fully autonomous restaurant developed for Donatos by Appetronix will leverage state-of-the-art robotics and data science technologies -- enabling a seamless and efficient dining experience for customers, from placing orders to receiving their pizza. The mission of Donatos Pizza to promote goodwill through product, service, principles, and people will only be made stronger by this partnership as the advanced robotics will handle the pizza-making process with precision, ensuring consistent quality, faster service, increased order accuracy, and a seamless digital interaction. Additionally, data science solutions will enhance customer interactions, personalize recommendations, optimize inventory management, and improve operational efficiency with predictive machine maintenance.
Founded on May 31, 1963 on the south side of Columbus, Ohio, Donatos features the Edge to Edge® pizza created by Jim Grote with premium toppings abundantly covering every famous thin crust. Over the past 60 years, Donatos has been recognized as an industry innovator, consistently pushing the boundaries to deliver exceptional pizza experiences to its loyal customers.
"We are thrilled to be working with Appetronix to deliver an intuitive, automated system to create our pizza, accessible to people everywhere. Utilizing technology to provide a better customer experience through improved speed and product consistency has been a focus of mine since the first Donatos restaurant opened," said Jim Grote, Donatos Pizza, the Grote Company and Agápe Automation Founder.
Agápe Automation and the Grote Company will co-develop the autonomous pizzeria with Appetronix. Agápe Automation, the innovation arm for Donatos Pizza, will focus on new technologies for both fully autonomous stand-alone restaurants as well as small prep-bots for existing restaurant kitchens. The Grote Company brings invaluable experience and infrastructure to the partnership as the leading manufacturer of state-of-the-art slicing and food assembly equipment for companies the world over.
Appetronix brings to the table its expertise in advanced robotics and data science solutions, enabling automation and optimization of the restaurant operations. Through the partnership with Donatos, Appetronix aims to revolutionize the restaurant industry by introducing a new era of autonomous dining experiences.
"We are truly honoured to partner with the Grote family and contribute to the future of one of the most iconic pizza brands in the United States (Donatos Pizzeria by Appetronix). The collective experience of our combined teams now has an amazing platform to dramatically transform the restaurant industry and accelerate our collective growth strategy", says Nipun Sharma, Co-Founder & CEO of Appetronix Inc. "I would also like to take this opportunity to announce the change of our company name from SJW Robotics to Appetronix (appetite + robotics), as we provide advanced automation, robotics and data science solutions to restaurant brands with a real-estate agnostic solution that tackles labour shortage, environmental sustainability and restaurant profitability – delivering the best quality food and value to consumers."
About Appetronix Inc.
Appetronix Inc. (formerly SJW Robotics) is a foodtech company specializing in the development and design of autonomous robotic solutions for commercial restaurant kitchens. With an expert team with extensive experience in restaurant kitchen design, worldwide expansion of restaurant chains, advanced automation, robotics, and data science, Appetronix is at the forefront of innovation in the foodservice industry. Our mission is to revolutionize the way restaurants operate by leveraging cutting-edge technology to deliver custom solutions that are scalable and tailored to meet the requirements of the next generation of quick-service restaurants. Our autonomous robotic solutions holistically automate all back of house functions including portioning, cooking, plating, and even cleaning with a singular goal of providing the best tasting food.
Contact: Ivana Palumbo, admin@sjwrobotics.com
About Donatos Pizza
Donatos features the Edge to Edge® pizza, created by Jim Grote who founded Donatos in 1963. With 459 locations in 27 states, Donatos and its franchise partners operate 176 traditional restaurants in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Florida. Donatos' products are also proudly served in 283 non-traditional locations (273 locations with Red Robin, plus sports and entertainment venues). For more information about Donatos, visit donatosfranchise.com.
Contact: Carolyn Butler, cbutler@donatos.com
About Agápe Automation
Agápe Automation is the food-tech innovation company that creates the automated Sm^rt Kitchens of the future. We envision exponential growth for pizza operators. Our mission is to make the kitchen a better place.
About Grote Company
The Grote Company was founded by Jim Grote in 1972 and has been a family-owned and operated manufacturer of food processing equipment known for exceptional customer service, unparalleled craftsmanship, dependability, and quality. They are the leading manufacturer of slicing and food assembly equipment for companies the world over.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Donatos Pizza | https://www.wistv.com/prnewswire/2023/07/13/appetronix-formerly-sjw-robotics-partners-with-iconic-donatos-pizza-pioneer-fully-autonomous-restaurant-experience/ | 2023-07-13 16:51:33 | 1 | https://www.wistv.com/prnewswire/2023/07/13/appetronix-formerly-sjw-robotics-partners-with-iconic-donatos-pizza-pioneer-fully-autonomous-restaurant-experience/ |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Lawyers for the man charged in last year's attack against former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband want his federal trial to be moved out of San Francisco, saying intense publicity means he won't get a fair trial.
David DePape is set to appear in federal court Wednesday. His lawyers will ask the judge to move the trial to the city of Eureka, neighboring Oregon. The federal trial is set to start Nov. 13.
His federal public defenders, Jodi Linker and Angela Chuang, say media attention on the case in the San Francisco Bay Area has tainted the pool of jurors. They said a survey they commissioned shows many potential jurors already believe he is guilty of the crimes and would be unable to change their minds.
Prosecutors say DePape broke into the Pelosis' San Francisco home on Oct. 28 seeking to kidnap the former speaker — who was out of town — and instead beat her 83-year-old husband with a hammer. The violence sent shockwaves through the political world.
DePape, 43, pleaded not guilty to federal charges of attempting to kidnap a federal official and assaulting a federal official’s family member. He also pleaded not guilty to state charges, including attempted murder, burglary and elder abuse. He remains jailed without bail. The state trial hasn't been scheduled.
Linker and Chuang also said they fear potential jurors in San Francisco could be biased against DePape because Nancy Pelosi, who has represented the city in Congress since 1987, remains a popular figure in the Bay Area.
They said Bay Area media outlets have extensively covered the case and played video footage of the assault on Paul Pelosi, the 911 call, and a police interview of DePape shortly after his arrest.
Footage of the attack was released to the public in January after a California judge denied prosecutors' request to keep it secret.
Credit: AP
Credit: AP
Credit: AP
Credit: AP | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/defense-wants-trial-in-attack-against-nancy-pelosis-husband-moved-from-san-francisco/NK7VZTGIWFHGPIZO6IMDCDGMWU/ | 2023-07-19 11:57:29 | 1 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/defense-wants-trial-in-attack-against-nancy-pelosis-husband-moved-from-san-francisco/NK7VZTGIWFHGPIZO6IMDCDGMWU/ |
Food delivery services sue NYC over minimum pay rates for app-based workers
NEW YORK (AP) — Uber Eats, DoorDash and Grubhub sued New York City on Thursday to block its new minimum pay rules for food delivery workers.
The recently announced rules, touted as a national first, could nearly triple average earnings for app-based delivery workers in the coming years. An increased pay rate of $17.96 an hour is set to take effect July 12.
New York’s more than 60,000 delivery workers currently make an average of $7.09 an hour, according to the city.
The food delivery services are seeking a temporary restraining order in state Supreme Court in Manhattan to stop the changes from going into effect on July 12. The companies claim the changes would result in higher costs for consumers.
“The city’s entire rule depends on the false assumption that restaurants make no money on deliveries - it must be paused before damaging restaurants, consumers and the couriers it purports to protect,” Uber spokesperson Josh Gold said in a prepared statement.
DoorDash and Grubhub jointly filed a lawsuit. Uber filed its own lawsuit, as did New York-based Relay Delivery.
An email seeking comment was sent to city officials.
In a prepared statement sent to The New York Times, Vilda Vera Mayuga, the commissioner of New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, said delivery workers “deserve fair pay for their labor.”
“These workers brave thunderstorms, extreme heat events and risk their lives to deliver for New Yorkers — and we remain committed to delivering for them,” she said.
Under the new rule, food delivery services will have some flexibility in how they pay new workers. Apps can choose if they want to pay delivery workers per trip, per hour worked or another policy created by the company — as long as earnings meet the minimum pay rate, the city has said.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.wlbt.com/2023/07/07/food-delivery-services-sue-nyc-over-minimum-pay-rates-app-based-workers/ | 2023-07-07 04:28:37 | 1 | https://www.wlbt.com/2023/07/07/food-delivery-services-sue-nyc-over-minimum-pay-rates-app-based-workers/ |
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Qatar is to supply liquefied natural gas to Germany under a 15-year deal signed Tuesday as the European economic powerhouse scrambles to replace Russian gas supplies that have been cut during the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Officials gave no dollar value for the deal, which would begin in 2026. Under the agreement, Qatar would send up to 2 million tons of the gas to Germany through an under-construction terminal at Brunsbuettel.
The deal involves both Qatar Energy, the nation’s state-run firm, and ConocoPhillips, which has stakes in Qatar’s offshore natural gas field in the Persian Gulf that it shares with Iran.
As European countries have supported Ukraine after Russia’s invasion in February, Moscow has slashed supplies of natural gas used to heat homes, generate electricity and power industry. That has created an energy crisis that is fueling inflation and increasing pressure on companies as prices have risen.
Germany, which got more than half its gas from Russia before the war, hasn’t received any gas from Russia since the end of August.
The country is building five liquefied natural gas terminals as a key part of its plan to replace Russian supplies, and the first are expected to go into service shortly. Much of Germany’s current gas supply comes from or via Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium.
Germany’s drive to prevent a short-term energy crunch also includes temporarily reactivating old oil- and coal-fired power stations and extending the life of the country’s last three nuclear power plants, which were supposed to be switched off at the end of this year, until mid-April.
German Economy Minister Robert Habeck, who is also responsible for energy, visited Qatar in March — about a month after Russia invaded Ukraine — as part of the government’s effort to diversify gas supplies. Chancellor Olaf Scholz was there in September.
Habeck said Tuesday he wouldn’t say much about the deal because “the political talks were always only framework talks; the companies remained in contact after that.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/qatar-germany-sign-liquefied-natural-gas-deal-amid-crisis/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world | 2022-11-29 10:11:28 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/qatar-germany-sign-liquefied-natural-gas-deal-amid-crisis/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world |
- Reported GAAP net loss per share of $0.46 and non-GAAP net loss per share of $0.37 for Q4 2022
- Advancing deployment of zero-emissions trucks in fleets through innovative integrated mobility solutions
- On track to be first to market and commercialize fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) with deliveries expected in Q4 2023
- Continued to execute on and build our energy business with partners
PHOENIX, Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nikola Corporation (Nasdaq: NKLA), a global leader in zero-emissions transportation solutions, today reported financial results for the quarter and full-year ended December 31, 2022.
"During the fourth quarter we strengthened our commercial and sales operations, which is expected to lead to increased sales and accelerated customer deliveries," said Nikola CEO, Michael Lohscheller. "As a whole, we made significant progress on both the truck and energy infrastructure fronts. The advances we have made on battery charging and hydrogen solutions with strategic partners, and the unveiling of our hydrogen mobile fueler under the HYLA brand, will allow Nikola to provide fully integrated mobility solutions to customers for both the BEV and FCEV."
Energy Business Progress
In January, we announced the launch of HYLA, our new hydrogen energy brand. HYLA will provide integrated and innovative energy solutions for customers. We also announced the completion of our first hydrogen mobile fueler, capable of refueling trucks at 10,000 psi. The mobile fueler, coupled with the 960 kg capacity hydrogen tube trailer, will provide a flexible fueling solution to fleets by enabling fueling at their depots. Mobile fuelers can also serve as an interim solution as permanent infrastructure is built and FCEV network density develops. Mobile fuelers can be deployed on demand in any environment at a fraction of the cost of permanent refueling infrastructure.
During the quarter we announced our intent to develop access to up to 300 metric-tons per day (TPD) of hydrogen supply and up to 60 dispensing stations by 2026, capable of supporting 7,500 FCEVs in service. Underpinning the 300 metric-TPD are a number of strategic partnerships and offtake agreements. To date we have announced the following projects and partnerships in the U.S. and Canada:
- Phoenix Hydrogen Hub – initial production of 30 metric-TPD expanding up to 150 metric-TPD
- Plug Power Supply Partnership – up to 125 metric-TPD
- KeyState Natural Gas Synthesis Supply Partnership – up to 100 metric-TPD
- Crossfield, Alberta TC Energy project– up to 60 metric-TPD
- Wabash Valley Resources Investment – up to 53 metric-TPD
On February 21, we also announced an additional planned station location in West Sacramento, California, bringing our total number of planned stations to four in California. We believe the introduction of the Nikola mobile fueler as well as other third party mobile fuelers in Nikola's portfolio will augment permanent refueling infrastructure and accelerate the adoption of FCEVs by providing agile fueling solutions.
Nikola Tre FCEV Development
Tre FCEV pilot testing with Walmart and TTSI has been successfully completed. During the pilots the FCEV alphas accumulated over 7,800 and 9,500 miles respectively. As of today, we have completed the build and commissioning of 17 FCEV beta trucks and are now in the process of building 10 gamma trucks, which will be used for additional pilot testing and vehicle validation. We remain on track to begin SOP and expect to deliver the first FCEVs to customers in 2H 2023.
Ahead of SOP, our commercial and sales team is looking to secure binding orders and customer deposits. On December 15 we announced our strategic collaboration with Plug Power, including an order for up to 75 FCEVs, and on January 25, we announced that Biagi Brothers is expected to purchase 15 FCEVs in Q4 of this year. On February 7, we announced the Tre FCEV received HVIP incentive approval, allowing customers to receive an incentive worth up to $288,000 in California.
Nikola Tre BEV Commercialization
During the fourth quarter, we produced 133 Nikola Tre BEVs delivering 20 to dealers. We utilized the fourth quarter to improve our BEV product based on customer and potential customer feedback. We also released our over-the-air software update 2.0, which increased the Tre BEVs usable range and enabled 350kW DC fast charging.
On November 8, we announced our partnership with ChargePoint, allowing Nikola and our dealers to sell ChargePoint charging infrastructure and software to customers. This, along with our Mobile Charging Trailers, allows Nikola to offer customers an integrated mobility solution with trucks and a full suite of charging products.
To accelerate customer deliveries and refine our commercial strategy, Bruce Kurtt was hired as SVP Commercial and Sales. He brings over 30 years of medium and heavy-duty trucking experience and deep relationships in the trucking industry to Nikola. The expanded commercial, sales, and product management teams are leading product improvements and refining our go-to-market approach as we look to accelerate customer deliveries.
PlusDrive in Nikola Trucks
On February 22, we announced the selection of PlusDrive, the next generation safety system developed by Plus, for the Nikola Tre BEV and Nikola Tre FCEV in the U.S. The first factory-installed Nikola Tre BEVs and hydrogen electric vehicles that will incorporate enhanced driver assistance features powered by PlusDrive are expected to be available by the end of 2024.
European JV Updates
In Europe, the joint venture between Nikola and Iveco Group is delivering according to plans and the first serial BEV trucks will be delivered to customers by the end of this year. We anticipate serial BEV production will begin in Q3 and customer deliveries to begin soon after. Development of the EU spec FCEVs continued in the fourth quarter. We plan to begin Tre FCEV SOP in Q3 2024. The JV received its first LOI for 100 Tre FCEVs from GP Joule on January 23, and 20 from Richter Group on February 22. We continue to make progress on our partnership with E.ON. We are finalizing the JV agreement which we expect to execute by the end of Q1.
Coolidge, Arizona Manufacturing Facility
In Coolidge, progress continued on the Phase 2 assembly hall expansion, which is expected to be complete by the end of Q2. Once completed, the building hall nameplate capacity is expected to be up to 20,000 trucks per year. We plan to begin installation of the automated battery module and pack line and Bosch fuel cell power module assembly line in Q2. Once complete, we anticipate the automated battery module and pack line will provide up to $105,000 in cost savings per BEV.
Business Outlook
We plan to achieve the following milestones in 2023:
- Complete the build of 10 gamma FCEVs by Q2 2023
- Realize approximately $105,000 in cost savings in battery modules and packs for each Tre BEV truck by Q4 2023
- Achieve Final Investment Decision for the Phoenix Hydrogen Hub by Q3 2023
- Announce at least two refueling station partners by June
- Deliver 250 – 350 Tre BEVs to dealers for the Full Year 2023
- Deliver 125 – 150 Tre FCEVs in Q4 2023
Webcast and Conference Call Information
Nikola will host a webcast to discuss its fourth-quarter results at 7:30 a.m. Pacific Time (10:30 a.m. Eastern Time) on February 23, 2023. To access the webcast, parties in the United States should follow this link: https://www.webcast-eqs.com/register/nikola20230223/en.
The live audio webcast, along with supplemental information, will be accessible on the Company's Investor Relations website at https://nikolamotor.com/investors/news?active=events. A recording of the webcast will also be available following the earnings call.
About Nikola Corporation
Nikola Corporation is globally transforming the transportation industry. As a designer and manufacturer of zero-emission battery-electric and hydrogen-electric vehicles, electric vehicle drivetrains, vehicle components, energy storage systems, and hydrogen station infrastructure, via the HYLA brand, Nikola is driven to revolutionize the economic and environmental impact of commerce as we know it today. Founded in 2015, Nikola Corporation is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. For more information visit our website or Twitter @nikolamotor.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities laws with respect to Nikola Corporation (the "Company"), including statements relating to the Company's future performance and milestones; expected timing of manufacturing facility expansion, SOP and truck delivery and production capacity; expectations regarding hydrogen dispensing stations and hydrogen capacity; timing of completion of testing, production, as well as other milestones; expected capacities and benefits of HYLA mobile fueler and HYLA mobile tube trailer; expected cost savings of automated battery module and pack line; expectations to provide fully integrated mobility solutions to customers for both BEV and FCEV; expected orders and deliveries of trucks and the timing thereof; the Company's belief that strengthened commercial and sales operations will lead to increased sales and accelerated customer deliveries; the Company's belief that the introduction of its mobile fueler as well as other third party mobile fuelers in its portfolio will augment permanent refueling infrastructure and accelerate the adoption of fuel cell electric vehicles by providing agile fueling solutions; the Company's business outlook; and terms and potential benefits of planned and actual collaborations with strategic partners. These forward-looking statements generally are identified by words such as "believe," "project," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "intend," "strategy," "future," "opportunity," "plan," "may," "should," "will," "would," and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are predictions, projections, and other statements about future events based on current expectations and assumptions and, as a result, are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause actual future events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements in this press release, including but not limited to: design and manufacturing changes and delays, including global shortages in parts and materials; general economic, financial, legal, regulatory, political and business conditions and changes in domestic and foreign markets; the effects of inflation and COVID-19; the outcome of legal, regulatory and judicial proceedings to which the Company or Romeo Power, Inc. ("Romeo") is, or may become a party; demand for and customer acceptance of the Company's trucks; the results of customer pilot testing; the execution and terms of definitive agreements; the failure to convert LOIs or MOUs into binding orders; the cancellation of orders; risks associated with development and testing of fuel-cell power modules and hydrogen storage systems; risks related to the rollout of the Company's business and milestones and the timing of expected business milestones; the effects of competition on the Company's business; the availability of and need for capital; the impact of the Company's acquisition of Romeo; the Company's ability to achieve cost reductions for its vehicles; customer demand for the Company's trucks; and the factors, risks and uncertainties regarding the Company's business described in the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2022 filed with the SEC, in addition to the Company's subsequent filings with the SEC. These filings identify and address other important risks and uncertainties that could cause the Company's actual events and results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, and, except as required by law, the Company assumes no obligation and does not intend to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This press release references Adjusted EBITDA and non-GAAP net loss per share, basic and diluted, all of which are non-GAAP financial measures and are presented as supplemental measures of the Company's performance. The Company defines Adjusted EBITDA as earnings before interest expense, taxes, depreciation and amortization, stock-based compensation expense, and certain other items determined by the Company. Non-GAAP net loss is defined as net loss adjusted for stock-based compensation expense and certain other items determined by the Company. Non-GAAP net loss per share basic and diluted is defined as non-GAAP net loss divided by weighted average basic and diluted shares outstanding. These non-GAAP measures are not substitutes for or superior to measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (GAAP) and should not be considered as an alternative to any other performance measures derived in accordance with GAAP.
The Company believes that presenting these non-GAAP measures provides useful supplemental information to investors about the Company in understanding and evaluating its operating results, enhancing the overall understanding of its past performance and future prospects, and allowing for greater transparency with respect to key financial metrics used by its management in financial and operational-decision making. However, there are a number of limitations related to the use of non-GAAP measures and their nearest GAAP equivalents. For example, other companies may calculate non-GAAP measures differently or may use other measures to calculate their financial performance, and therefore any non-GAAP measures the Company uses may not be directly comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Nikola Corporation | https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2023/02/23/nikola-corporation-reports-fourth-quarter-full-year-2022-results/ | 2023-02-23 15:55:22 | 1 | https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2023/02/23/nikola-corporation-reports-fourth-quarter-full-year-2022-results/ |
PIAA state playoff get underway next week for both baseball and softball. Below are the pairings for all games involving teams from the WFMZ region. All of the first round games are scheduled for Monday, June 6.
6A baseball
11-2 Emmaus vs. 1-1 Owen J. Roberts at Boyertown HS, 4 p.m.
11-1 Liberty vs. 3-2 Manheim Township at DeSales U., 7 p.m.
5A baseball
3-5 Exeter Township vs. 1-1 Upper Dublin at Villanova Ballpark, 4 p.m.
11-1 Southern Lehigh vs. 3-4 Donegal at DeSales U., 3:30 p.m.
4A baseball
11-1 Saucon Valley vs. 12-2 Nueva Esperanza at Saucon Valley HS, 4 p.m.
3-3 Fleetwood vs. 12-1 Monsignor Bonner at Lincoln HS, 1 p.m.
11-2 Blue Mountain vs. 3-1 East Pennsboro at East Pennsboro HS, 4:30 p.m.
3A baseball
11-1 Panther Valley vs. 2-1 Lake Lehman at Misericordia U., 4:30 p.m.
2A baseball
11-1 Schuylkill Haven vs. 12-1 Masterman at Schuylkill Haven HS, 4 p.m.
1A baseball
11-1 Tri-Valley vs. 3-1 Greenwood at Greenwood HS, 4 p.m.
6A softball
11-2 Whitehall vs. 1-1 North Penn at North Penn HS, 12 p.m.
11-1 Northampton vs. 1-5 Quakertown at Northampton HS, 4 p.m.
5A softball
3-1 Exeter vs. 1-3 Upper Perkiomen at Exeter Township HS, 4 p.m.
11-1 Southern Lehigh vs. 3-4 Shippensburg at Patriots Park, 6 p.m.
3-2 Twin Valley vs. 7-2 Penn-Trafford at Twin Valley HS, 4 p.m.
4A Softball
11-1 Bethlehem Catholic vs. 12-3 Archbishop Ryan at Patriots Park, 4 p.m.
3-1 Hamburg vs. 7-2 Elizabeth Forward at Hamburg HS, 4 p.m.
3-2 Hamburg TBD vs. 12-1 Archbishop Wood at Archbishop Wood HS, 4 p.m.
3-3 Fleetwood vs. 7-1 Beaver Area at Neshannock HS, 4 p.m.
3A Softball
3-1 Kutztown vs. 12-2 Neumann-Goretti at Lyons Ballfield, 5 p.m.
11-1 Palisades vs. 4-1 Lewisburg at Palisades HS, 4 p.m.
11-2 Palmerton vs. 12-1 Philadelphia Academy at Cardinal O'Hara HS, 12 p.m.
2A Softball
11-1 Williams Valley vs. 12-1 Conwell-Egan at Conwell-Egan HS, 2 p.m.
1A Softball
11-1 Tri-Valley vs. 4-1 Montgomery at Central Columbia HS, 5 p.m. | https://www.wfmz.com/sports/sites-times-announced-for-piaa-baseball-and-softball-tournament/article_14186ad0-e3a3-11ec-a629-a7a9011d77da.html | 2022-06-04 01:48:44 | 0 | https://www.wfmz.com/sports/sites-times-announced-for-piaa-baseball-and-softball-tournament/article_14186ad0-e3a3-11ec-a629-a7a9011d77da.html |
BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — A father and son have been indicted by a grand jury after allegedly chasing and shooting at a FedEx driver in January after he dropped off a package in a Mississippi city.
Brandon and Gregory Case, who are both white, were re-arrested Friday and indicted for attempted first-degree murder, conspiracy and shooting into the vehicle of D’Monterrio Gibson, who is Black. The charges were upgraded from conspiracy and aggravated assault.
Gibson, 24, was not injured. But the chase and gunfire have sparked social media complaints of racism in Brookhaven, about 55 miles (90 kilometers) south of the state capital, Jackson.
Gibson and his attorney, Carlos Moore, said they pushed prosecutors to secure an indictment for nearly 10 months.
“It was an extremely long process to get this far into the case,” Gibson told WLBT-TV. “I feel like most of the time, I was treated like a suspect rather than a victim.”
People are also reading…
Moore compared the incident to the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was running empty-handed through a Georgia subdivision in 2020 when three white strangers chased him down and blasted him with a shotgun.
Moore has called for a federal hate crime probe into the case. A Justice Department spokesperson confirmed to The Associated Press in February that the department received a request to look into the case and was reviewing the request to determine any next steps. The department did not provide an update Tuesday.
Gibson said he was wearing a FedEx uniform and was driving an unmarked van that FedEx had rented when he dropped off a package at a house in Brookhaven on Jan. 24. As he was leaving, he said he noticed a white pickup truck pulling away from another house on the same large lot.
The pickup driver then tried to cut him off as he pulled out of the driveway, he said. Gibson swerved around him and then encountered a second man who had a gun pointed at the van and was motioning for him to stop. Gibson said the man fired as he drove away, damaging the van and packages inside. He said the white pickup chased him to the interstate highway near Brookhaven before ending the pursuit.
Attorneys for Brandon and Gregory Case did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The Cases were initially arrested in February and released after paying bonds on lesser charges. Lincoln County Sheriff Steve Rushing said bond was set at $500,000 for the upgraded charges, according to the Brookhaven Daily Leader.
Moore doesn't expect the case to go to trial until May of 2023 at the earliest. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/men-indicted-for-shooting-at-mississippi-delivery-driver/article_f8eddf86-b17b-57f7-b669-8d0076559c47.html | 2022-11-23 02:40:31 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/men-indicted-for-shooting-at-mississippi-delivery-driver/article_f8eddf86-b17b-57f7-b669-8d0076559c47.html |
The 2023 Mexico Open At Vidanta Odds & Preview: Ben Martin
Ben Martin is in ninth place, with a score of -8, following the second round of the Mexico Open at Vidanta at Vidanta Vallarta.
Looking to place a bet on Ben Martin at the Mexico Open at Vidanta this week? Read on for all the stats and odds you need before you make your picks.
Put together your best lineup of golfers and you could win cash prizes! Sign up for FanDuel Fantasy using our link for the best first-time player offer.
Ben Martin Insights
- Over his last 18 rounds, Martin has shot better than par on 12 occasions, while also shooting one bogey-free round and 12 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has recorded the best score of the day once while finishing with a top-10 score four times in his last 18 rounds.
- Over his last 18 rounds, Martin has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round five times, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on 11 occasions.
- Martin has finished in the top 10 three times in his past five events.
- In his past five tournaments, Martin has finished within five shots of the leader one time and with a better-than-average score three times.
- Martin has qualified for the weekend eight times in a row, and hopes to extend that run this week.
Sign up for ESPN+ to get access to PGA Tour Live, which broadcasts the main feed, featured holes and marquee groups from over 35 events per year! Plus, get tons of other live sports, original shows and the full "30 for 30" library. Sign up today!
Over the last year
Bet with the King of Sportsbooks! Check out the latest PGA odds and place your bets with BetMGM Sportsbook.
Mexico Open at Vidanta Insights and Stats
- In Martin's previous two appearances in this tournament, he has finished in the top 10 one time. His average finish has been ninth.
- Martin has made the cut one time in his previous two entries in this event.
- Martin finished ninth when he last played this event, which was in 2023.
- Vidanta Vallarta measures 7,456 yards for this tournament, 161 more than the average course on the PGA Tour inthe past year (7,295).
- Martin will take to the 7,456-yard course this week at Vidanta Vallarta after having played courses with an average length of 7,265 yards in the past year.
Martin's Last Time Out
- Martin was in the 12th percentile on par 3s at the RBC Heritage, with an average of 3.25 strokes on the 16 par-3 holes.
- His 4.00-stroke average on the 44 par-4 holes at the RBC Heritage ranked in the 46th percentile of the field (the tournament average was 3.96).
- Martin shot better than 98% of the golfers at the RBC Heritage on par-5 holes, averaging 4.17 strokes per hole, in comparison to the field average of 4.63.
- Martin fared worse on par 3s than the field his last time out, recording a birdie or better on one of 16 par-3s at the RBC Heritage (the other competitors averaged 1.5).
- On the 16 par-3s at the RBC Heritage, Martin had more bogeys or worse (three) than the tournament average (2.0).
- Martin had more birdies or better (10) than the field average of 6.2 on the 44 par-4s at the RBC Heritage.
- In that most recent competition, Martin posted a bogey or worse on nine of 44 par-4s (the field averaged 5.1).
- Martin ended the RBC Heritage with a birdie or better on nine par-5 holes, compared to the field average of 3.8 on the 12 par-5s.
- The field at the RBC Heritage averaged 0.7 bogeys or worse on the 12 par-5s, but Martin finished without one.
Mexico Open at Vidanta Time and Date Info
- Date: April 27-30, 2023
- Course: Vidanta Vallarta
- Location: Vallarta, Mexico
- Par: 71 / 7,456 yards
- Martin Odds to Win: +4500 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
Watch live golf without cable on all your devices with a seven-day free trial to Fubo!
All statistics in this article reflect Martin's performance prior to the 2023 Mexico Open at Vidanta.
Not all offers available in all states, please visit BetMGM and FanDuel for the latest promotions for your area. Must be 21+ to gamble, please play responsibly. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, contact 1-800-GAMBLER.
© 2023 Data Skrive. All rights reserved. | https://www.kold.com/sports/betting/2023/04/29/ben-martin-mexico-open-at-vidanta-pga-odds/ | 2023-04-29 07:44:37 | 1 | https://www.kold.com/sports/betting/2023/04/29/ben-martin-mexico-open-at-vidanta-pga-odds/ |
Katherine Schwarzenegger is offering the world a glimpse of her and Chris Pratt's second baby, nearly two months after she was born.
Schwarzenegger took to Instagram on Saturday and posted a series of phots from the months of May and June, and two of those photos included their newborn daughter, Eloise Christina. In the post's cover photo, the doting mother's sitting on the couch and carrying Eloise, whose tiny hand peaks out of her yellow blanket.
In another photo, Schwarzenegger shows off Eloise's striped onesie and cute socks featuring pink bows. The other photos included what appears to be the couple's 1-year-old daughter Lyla's hand reaching for a tiny flower, bottles of breast milk, a throwback photo of Schwarzenegger and a plate of cookies.
Schwarzenegger and Pratt welcomed baby No. 2 back in May, after the Guardians of the Galaxy star took to Instagram to announce the big news.
"We are so excited to announce the birth of our second daughter, Eloise Christina Schwarzenegger Pratt. Mama and baby are doing well," Pratt captioned the post. "We feel beyond blessed and grateful. Love, Katherine and Chris."
Pratt also shares 9-year-old son, Jack, with his ex-wife, Anna Farris.
Earlier this month, Pratt joked on Jimmy Kimmel Live that he just learned how to spell Schwarzenegger.
"I've learned now," he quipped. "It's a long name."
"There's a lot of letters in these children's names," Pratt joked of his daughters.
RELATED CONTENT: | https://www.kvue.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-tonight/katherine-schwarzenegger-shares-first-photos-of-her-and-chris-pratts-baby-girl/603-c3e2046d-9202-4c4f-8268-cdca479a6067 | 2022-06-19 04:56:42 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-tonight/katherine-schwarzenegger-shares-first-photos-of-her-and-chris-pratts-baby-girl/603-c3e2046d-9202-4c4f-8268-cdca479a6067 |
Nestled in the heart of the Dallas Arts District La Stella Cucina Verace honors old-world Italian roots, lifestyle and classic recipes with a modern twist.
For more information, visit lastellatx.com.
Nestled in the heart of the Dallas Arts District La Stella Cucina Verace honors old-world Italian roots, lifestyle and classic recipes with a modern twist.
For more information, visit lastellatx.com. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/good-morning-texas/la-stella-cucina-verace-honors-old-world-italian-roots/287-982694c4-951a-4302-97a2-691761e18d59 | 2022-04-28 18:20:11 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/good-morning-texas/la-stella-cucina-verace-honors-old-world-italian-roots/287-982694c4-951a-4302-97a2-691761e18d59 |
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Caitlin Clark had 22 points and 12 assists while Monika Czinano added 20 points to help Iowa beat Georgia 74-66 in a second-round women's NCAA Tournament game Sunday.
The Hawkeyes (28-6), the No. 2 seed in Seattle Regional 4, advance to the ninth Sweet Sixteen in program history.
Gabbie Marshall added 15 points and McKenna Warnock had 14 for Iowa, which erased the memory of last season's second-round home loss to No. 10 seed Creighton.
Clark, a first-team Associated Press All-American, was held scoreless for 13 minutes in the first half, but scored 14 second-half points as the Hawkeyes finally shook off the 10th-seeded Lady Bulldogs (22-12). She made just 6 of 17 shots, but either scored or assisted on nearly every point by the Hawkeyes in the second half.
Georgia, a No. 10 seed, got within 68-66 on a 3-pointer from Audrey Warren with 2:17 left in the game, but the Lady Bulldogs would not score again, committing three straight turnovers and missing a layup.
Iowa led by as much as 10 points in the first half behind Marshall and Warnock, who combined for five 3-pointers to open the second quarter. But a 14-3 run by the Lady Bulldogs gave them a 35-34 lead, and it took a late surge to give the Hawkeyes a 41-40 halftime lead.
Diamond Battles led Georgia with 21 points. Brittney Smith and Javyn Nicholson each had 12 points.
STUELKE OUT
Iowa was without freshman forward Hannah Stuelke. Stuelke, the Big Ten's Sixth Player of the Year, suffered an injured ankle in practice on Saturday.
Stuelke scored 14 points, making all five of her shots, in Friday's 93-45 first-round win over Southeastern Louisiana. She averages 7 points and 4.2 rebounds.
BIG PICTURE
Georgia: The Lady Bulldogs fell short of their first Sweet Sixteen appearance since 2013, but they finished strong in Katie Abrahamson-Henderson's first season as head coach. Georgia had won nine of their 12 games coming into Sunday's game.
Iowa: The Hawkeyes were held 13 points under their national-best average of 87.8 points, but came up with enough offense Georgia's zone defense, which forced 17 Iowa turnovers.
___
AP March Madness coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/march-madness and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/clark-czinano-lead-iowa-past-georgia-in-march-17848402.php | 2023-03-19 22:47:34 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/clark-czinano-lead-iowa-past-georgia-in-march-17848402.php |
St. Thomas Aquinas, No. 19 in the NJ.com Top 20, took an 86-43 road loss at the hands of Long Island Lutheran (NY).
Long Island Lutheran led 49-22 at the half.
Gianna Chuffo led St. Thomas Aquinas with 13 points, while Jessica Cooper scored 11 points.
Nominate your game changer now in one of 18 categories decided by fans.
• Learn more and make a nomination!
The N.J. High School Sports newsletter now appearing in mailboxes 5 days a week. Sign up now and be among the first to get all the boys and girls sports you care about, straight to your inbox each weekday. To add your name, click here. Thank you for relying on us to provide the journalism you can trust. Please consider supporting NJ.com with a subscription. | https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports/2023/01/girls-basketball-no-19-st-thomas-aquinas-falls-to-long-island-lutheran-ny.html | 2023-01-30 01:32:11 | 1 | https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports/2023/01/girls-basketball-no-19-st-thomas-aquinas-falls-to-long-island-lutheran-ny.html |
FDA changes Plan B label, clarifies it won’t cause abortion
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that it will overhaul packaging labels for the emergency contraceptive pill, Plan B, that women can take after having sex to prevent a pregnancy.
The federal agency said it will remove references on the contraception’s packaging that claim, without scientific evidence, that the pill prevents a fertilized egg from implanting in the womb.
The new labels are intended to further distinguish the emergency contraception — also known as the morning after pill — from abortion pills, which end a pregnancy after a fertilized egg has implanted in the lining of a woman’s uterus.
In a memo released Friday, the FDA clarified that taking Plan B pills is not the same as an abortion, a fact that has long been understood in the medical community.
“Evidence does not support that the drug affects implantation or maintenance of a pregnancy after implantation, therefore it does not terminate a pregnancy,” the FDA said in its statement.
The agency added that the emergency contraception works similarly to birth control in preventing pregnancy, but contains a higher dose of levonorgestrel. The pill prevents ovulation.
About a quarter of women say they’ve used emergency contraception pills at some point, according to a survey by the Centers for Disease Control released last year.
Still, concern has swirled that access to emergency contraception such as Plan B might be limited in some states, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion this summer. Nevada’s Republican governor-elect said he’d consider banning the pill during a debate this year. School clinics in Idaho also prohibited the pills under a law banning public funding for “abortion related services” last year.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Plan B for use up to 72 hours, or three days, after unprotected sex. Women are able to get the emergency contraception over the counter.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.cleveland19.com/2022/12/23/fda-changes-plan-b-label-clarifies-it-wont-cause-abortion/ | 2022-12-24 00:50:32 | 0 | https://www.cleveland19.com/2022/12/23/fda-changes-plan-b-label-clarifies-it-wont-cause-abortion/ |
(NewsNation) — Police officials gave an update on the search for the remains of 20-month-old Quinton Simon, who went missing from Savannah, Georgia, on Oct. 5.
While evidence brought the investigation to a Chatham County landfill, the Chatham County Police Department (CCPD) said the probability of finding Quinton’s body is low, NewsNation affiliate WSAV reported.
“The photos and videos we’ve shared over the last four weeks show you what a massive yet painstaking effort this has been for every single person involved,” police tweeted Monday.
This even as, according to WSAV, agents from the FBI, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Chatham County Sheriff’s Office and Georgia Department of Natural Resources have all helped navigate through tons of trash in efforts to find the missing child, WSAV reported.
So far, police have named Quinton’s mother, Leilani Simon, as their prime suspect — a conclusion they reached after announcing they were officially treating the case as a criminal investigation and sending a team of search dogs into the boy’s home.
While she had originally called 911 to report that her son was gone, many, including Quinton’s grandmother, Billie Jo Howell, feel Leilani Simon’s story didn’t add up.
Brett Buffington, the lead investigative reporter at WSAV-TV in Savannah, Georgia, joined “NewsNation Live” Thursday to give details on the current state of the case.
Buffington explained that, although investigators are more than a month into the search for the boy’s body, and there has been outrage from the community, police have not made criminal charges because they’re working the case.
“They don’t want to prematurely charge anyone in this case,” Buffington said Thursday. “The police chief told me, when they file those charges, they want to make sure they stick.”
As for Leilani Simon’s boyfriend, Daniel Youngkin, who was the last person to see Quinton Simon, according to police reports, Buffington said he has packed up and left town.
“The only known address we have for him is in Dunn, North Carolina — just outside of Raleigh, North Carolina,” Buffington said before adding that Youngkin had been arrested at least twice in the past.
“So far, since Oct. 5, we have not seen Daniel Youngkin.”
Despite the lack of substantial evidence thus far, however, CCPD officials said they are devoted to continuing until they find Simon’s remains.
“At this point, we do not have a scheduled end date for the landfill search. Meanwhile, our investigative team continues working diligently to uncover and collect every piece of evidence relevant in this case.” CCPD tweeted Monday. | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/quinton-simon-update-no-arrests-yet-as-police-search-build-case/ | 2022-11-18 02:43:27 | 1 | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/quinton-simon-update-no-arrests-yet-as-police-search-build-case/ |
Grant will strengthen quality local journalism, boost civic engagement and expand philanthropic investment throughout the Central Valley
MERCED, Calif., Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Central Valley Journalism Collaborative (CVJC) is honored to be the recipient of a $1 million grant from the James Irvine Foundation. CVJC will foster a community-oriented journalism ecosystem in California's Central Valley that grows newsroom jobs through hiring local journalists, encourages cooperation among newsroom partners, and reinvigorates quality local news coverage needed to enhance civic life. The grant will focus on building local news ecosystems in Stockton and Fresno, two significant communities where diminishing local news coverage has opened voids increasingly vulnerable to misinformation and disinformation.
Over two years, the grant from the James Irvine Foundation will support the CVJC's work to strengthen the local media ecosystem, working with existing, new, and emerging partners in Fresno and Stockton to build innovative journalism projects that amplify diverse voices while focusing on issues most important to local communities. The work is an extension of efforts underway to establish a local newsroom in Merced as a hub for a network of Valley-focused journalistic newsrooms, projects, and journalists.
Launched by the James B. McClatchy Foundation (JBMF) in 2021, CVJC is a new nonprofit infrastructure dedicated to keeping public service journalism thriving in California's Central Valley as wide disruption in the media industry has led to the erosion of traditional newsrooms over the last 15 years.
"We are inspired by this partnership with the James Irvine Foundation to center the Central Valley as a regional model through the CVJC to preserve local news, journalism jobs, and support the next generation of newsmakers from the communities of Stockton and Fresno," said Priscilla Enriquez, Chief Executive Officer of JBMF.
"The need to preserve local news and journalism jobs is paramount as changes in news ownership have diminished local control of coverage, resulting in fewer reporters covering their communities and residents being left in the dark about events and issues affecting their lives," said CVJC Editor-in-Chief Michelle Morgante.
The Irvine grant, in partnership with grant investments from JBMF and other funders, will support the growth and capacity of CVJC as the vehicle and hub to build sustainability for local news.
"We are proud to support CVJC's efforts to ensure residents and future generations have access to quality local journalism that reflects their voices and spurs engagement on critical local issues," said Jessica Kaczmarek, Initiative Director for Irvine's Priority Communities initiative.
Led by Morgante, a veteran journalist who is a native of the Central Valley, the collaborative pools the collective skills and knowledge of locally based journalists and newsrooms to amplify local voices, draw attention to local issues and build connections with Valley communities in order to strengthen civic engagement.
As a sunsetting foundation, JBMF is committed to supporting a multiracial democracy in the Central Valley by centering multilingual students and families, promoting the next generation of inclusive leaders, and advancing community-powered local journalism for the future.
Media Contact: info@cvlocaljournalism.org
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Central Valley Journalism Collaborative | https://www.cleveland19.com/prnewswire/2022/12/21/central-valley-journalism-collaborative-receives-1-million-grant-james-irvine-foundation/ | 2022-12-21 21:39:54 | 1 | https://www.cleveland19.com/prnewswire/2022/12/21/central-valley-journalism-collaborative-receives-1-million-grant-james-irvine-foundation/ |
MADISON, Wis. – Following several recent black bear sightings across the state, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is reminding the public to take precautions to avoid potential conflicts this summer.
Although black bears are most common in the northern half of the state, populations have been slowly expanding south over the last decade. Wisconsinites are encouraged to take the same bear precautions no matter what part of the state.
While bear sightings in southern Wisconsin remain rare, the sightings in Waukesha and Washington Counties this summer are a reminder that bears can be found in any county.
Sightings usually increase in early summer when young bears strike out on their own for the first time. Bear breeding season also occurs in early summer resulting in many male bears wandering around in search of a mate.
If a bear is near your home or cabin:
- From a safe location, wave your arms and make noise to scare it away.
- Back away slowly and seek a safe location where you can wait for the bear to leave.
- When scaring a bear away, make sure it has a clear escape route; never corner a bear.
- If you encounter a bear while in the woods, DO NOT RUN, stay calm and do not approach the bear.
- Never approach any bear.
- For your safety, do not attempt to break up a fight between your pet and a bear.
Black bears are naturally cautious animals that normally avoid contact with people for their safety, but conflicts between people and bears can arise. Additionally, bears can quickly learn to associate humans with food when food sources are available.
If a bear finds food, such as bird feed or garbage near your home or cabin, it will likely return for more. Bear visits are more likely to stop when food is no longer available. Bears will periodically check sites where food was once available, so it may take several days to weeks after a food source has been removed for a bear to completely discontinue visiting food sites.
It is important to make sure these tasty food sources are hidden from bears at all times of the year, but it’s especially important in warmer months when bears are more active.
Follow these steps to avoid attracting black bears:
- Do not knowingly feed a bear.
- Completely remove bird feeders, even during daytime hours – Bears are active during the day and may cause problems even if the feeders are out only during that time.
- Clean areas where bird feeders were located so that accumulated deposits of spilled seed are removed.
- Reduce garbage odors by rinsing food cans before putting them in covered recycling containers or garbage cans.
- Keep meat scraps in the freezer until garbage day, and if possible, keep garbage cans in a closed building until the morning of pick-up.
- Be sure to lock commercial dumpsters.
- Keep pet food inside or inaccessible to bears even during daytime hours.
- Keep grills and picnic tables clean.
Bears are normally solitary forest animals, but their powerful sense of smell can lead them into urban areas in search of food. Black bears are secretive animals and usually try to avoid people. However, conflicts with humans can occur when bears destroy gardens, bird feeders, apiaries and trash cans.
By understanding bear behavior, there are several ways people can reduce negative human-bear conflicts around their homes. The DNR’s Living With Black Bears In Wisconsin pamphlet is a great resource for learning more about co-existing with bears in Wisconsin.
The department partners with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services Program to respond to approximately 800 bear-related complaints reported in Wisconsin each year.
If unable to resolve a conflict with a bear, contact the USDA Wildlife Services toll-free line at 1-800-433-0663 for properties in Southern Wisconsin and 1-800-228-1368 for properties in Northern Wisconsin. Most complaints are resolved through technical advice.
More information regarding bears and safety is available on the DNR’s Bear Hunting webpage. | https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2022/06/17/be-bear-aware-encounters-increase-during-summer/ | 2022-06-17 22:02:16 | 1 | https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2022/06/17/be-bear-aware-encounters-increase-during-summer/ |
Inmate who escaped transport vehicle in Kentucky caught after two-day search
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE/Gray News) - An inmate who was on the run for more than two days has been caught and arrested, according to police.
In a Facebook post, Louisville Metro Police Department confirmed 31-year-old Norman K. Wolfe had been caught and arrested.
Police say Wolfe escaped early Thursday morning while being transported to Trimble County for a court hearing. It’s believed Wolfe may have gotten out through the window of the transport vehicle.
WAVE reported a heavy police presence was spotted near the I-265/I-71 interchange in eastern Jefferson County on Thursday.
Around 8:30 a.m., LMPD were informed of an individual seen running along the lanes of traffic wearing orange clothing. The department confirmed the inmate was Wolfe.
According to court documents, Wolfe was a convicted felon out of Clark County, Indiana, and had been arrested in April in connection with a burglary. Wolfe has charges against him for burglary, fleeing, evading police and possession of a handgun as a convicted felon.
LMPD and other agencies began searching the surrounding area to find Wolfe, and the department told nearby businesses and schools to take precautions.
Around 11:30 a.m., officers said Wolfe had kidnapped two victims from the 8500 block of Brownsboro Road and were forced to drive the suspect to the area of River Road and Edith Avenue. The victims were found unharmed and told police the incident happened around 10:20 a.m.
On Saturday, LMPD Fugitive Unit and SWAT said Wolfe was seen in the passenger seat of a vehicle on Washington Street.
Officers made a traffic stop and ordered the driver to get out of the vehicle. Police say Wolfe then slid into the driver’s seat and drove away. After a short pursuit, the vehicle was disabled near Brownsboro Road and Lindsay Avenue.
Tang Nguyen owns New York Nails, a business nearby, and witnessed the pursuit.
“We all were working and we saw a cop drive real fast on Brownsboro Road. He was chasing some guy and we didn’t know who he was,” Nguyen said. “Next thing you know, he turned down Lindsay and crashed over there by the stop sign and the bus stop.”
Nguyen said when he heard sirens, he thought it was just a normal day but had no clue a chase for a fugitive was underway. He said there were easily more than ten police cars nearby as they worked to get Wolfe into custody.
“I’m so happy that law enforcement finally got him into custody. Because we have been kind of nervous,” he said. “We asked the customers to keep a lookout for anyone to see him and everything. But I know this area here. We were always making sure that people lock their cars, and stuff like that. Keep the doors locked.”
Wolfe was taken into custody and was transported to the hospital due to some injuries from his escape from custody on Thursday, according to police. He will be taken to Metro Corrections when released from the hospital.
Copyright 2023 WAVE via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.kfyrtv.com/2023/05/21/inmate-who-escaped-transport-vehicle-kentucky-caught-after-two-day-search/ | 2023-05-21 21:58:16 | 0 | https://www.kfyrtv.com/2023/05/21/inmate-who-escaped-transport-vehicle-kentucky-caught-after-two-day-search/ |
CARMEL, Ind., Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Merchants Bancorp ("Merchants") (Nasdaq: MBIN), parent company of Merchants Bank of Indiana ("Merchants Bank"), announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 5,200,000 depositary shares, each representing a 1/40th ownership interest in a share of its 8.25% Fixed Rate Reset Series D Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, without par value (the "Series D preferred stock"), with a liquidation preference of $25.00 per depositary share. Merchants has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase 780,000 additional depositary shares of the Series D preferred stock, solely to cover over-allotments, if any.
When, as, and if declared by the board of directors of Merchants, dividends will be payable on the Series D preferred stock from the date of issuance to, but excluding, October 1, 2027 at a rate of 8.25% per annum, payable quarterly, in arrears on January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 of each year, beginning January 1, 2023. From and including October 1, 2027, during each reset period, dividends will be payable at a rate per annum equal to the five-year treasury rate as of the most recent reset dividend determination date (as described in the prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering) plus 4.34%, payable quarterly, in arrears on January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 of each year, beginning January 1, 2028. Merchants may redeem the Series D preferred stock at its option, subject to regulatory approval, at a redemption price equal to $25.00 per depositary share, plus any declared and unpaid dividends, on or after October 1, 2027 or within 90 days following a regulatory capital treatment event, as described in the prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering.
Net proceeds of the offering are expected to be used for general corporate purposes including to support balance sheet growth of Merchants Bank.
Piper Sandler & Co., Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, and UBS Securities LLC are serving as joint book runners.
A shelf registration statement, including a prospectus, with respect to the offering was previously filed by Merchants with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and was declared effective by the SEC on August 17, 2022. A preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the offering has been filed with the SEC. The offering will be made only by means of a prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus. When available, copies of the prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to these securities may be obtained free of charge by visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov, or may be obtained from Piper Sandler & Co., 1251 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10020, Attn: Syndicate Operations, Telephone: 1-866-805-4128, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, 180 Varick Street, Second Floor, New York, NY 10014, Attn: Prospectus Delivery, Telephone: 1-866-718-1649, or UBS Securities LLC, 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019, Attn: Prospectus Department, Telephone number: 1-888-827-7275.
This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy any security, nor shall there be any offer or sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
About Merchants Bancorp
Ranked as a top performing U.S. public bank by S&P Global Market Intelligence, Merchants Bancorp is a diversified bank holding company headquartered in Carmel, Indiana operating multiple lines of business, including multi-family housing and healthcare facility financing and servicing; mortgage warehouse financing; retail and correspondent residential mortgage banking; agricultural lending; and traditional community banking. Merchants Bancorp, with $11.1 billion in assets and $8.3 billion in deposits as of June 30, 2022, conducts its business primarily through its direct and indirect subsidiaries, Merchants Bank of Indiana, Merchants Capital Corp., Merchants Asset Management, LLC, Merchants Capital Investments, LLC, Farmers-Merchants Bank of Illinois, Merchants Capital Servicing, LLC, and Merchants Mortgage, a division of Merchants Bank of Indiana. For more information and financial data, please visit Merchants' Investor Relations page at investors.merchantsbancorp.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes "forward-looking" statements as that term is defined in the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including with respect to the timing and size of the offering and the anticipated use of proceeds, which statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including, but not limited to those that are described in the "Risk Factors" section of the preliminary prospectus supplement for this offering filed with the SEC on September 22, 2022, the "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" sections in Merchant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, and other periodic filings with the SEC from time to time (which are available at www.sec.gov). Potential investors should note that the forward-looking statements included in this press release are not a guarantee of future events, and that actual events may differ materially from those made in or suggested by the forward-looking statements. These statements are often, but not always, made through the use of words or phrases such as "may," "might," "should," "could," "predict," "potential," "believe," "expect," "continue," "will," "will likely result," "anticipate," "seek," "estimate," "intend," "plan," "projection," "goal," "target," "outlook," "aim," "annualized," "would" and "outlook," or the negative version of those words or other comparable words or phrases of a future or forward-looking nature. These forward-looking statements are not historical facts, and are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about Merchant's industry, management's beliefs and certain assumptions made by Merchant's management, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and beyond Merchant's control. Any forward-looking statements presented herein are made only as of the date of this press release, and Merchants does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect changes in assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events, or otherwise.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Merchants Bancorp | https://www.ktre.com/prnewswire/2022/09/23/merchants-bancorp-prices-perpetual-preferred-stock-offering/ | 2022-09-23 20:37:51 | 0 | https://www.ktre.com/prnewswire/2022/09/23/merchants-bancorp-prices-perpetual-preferred-stock-offering/ |
Report focuses on data, people, and alliances—outlining short- and long-term goals as
the lingerie brand seeks to make improvements to its impact
NEW YORK, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Adore Me, known for being the first lingerie brand to bring extended sizing to the market, today published its first ESG (environmental social and governance) report, highlighting how the brand is integrating sustainability into every element of its business and taking a compliance-first approach to critical ESG initiatives. The full report can be found here.
"Adore Me did not launch as a sustainability-focused brand. These efforts started in 2019, and since then, we've been steadily working to rewrite the code that underlies every part of our company in an effort to inject more environmentally conscious ways of doing business," said Morgan Hermand, Adore Me Founder & CEO. "Our mission is to bring sustainable fashion to an increasingly broader and more inclusive customer base. This report is an exercise in bringing transparency across the structure of our organization and shedding light on our approach to tackling critical industry challenges. We are not perfect, but we are improving."
In 2021, Adore Me became a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), pledging to change fashion for good by fostering inclusivity and environmental sustainability in the production, distribution, and marketing of its products. In this ESG report, Adore Me has outlined goals for 2022, 2023, 2025, 2030, and 2050—covering all sectors of its business, including product design, raw materials, manufacturing, transport, warehouse logistics, and retail. In establishing these goals, Adore Me pledges to further their sustainability efforts and to hold every stakeholder at the organization accountable to these standards.
"Our guiding principle is that ESG controls must be integrated at every level of an organization. On its surface this report doesn't look a lot different than those you've seen from other companies—yet what's unique for us is that the elements we outline truly drive the way each and every person on our team approaches their work," said Romain Liot, Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer at Adore Me. "Our vision is to build a world where customers who might not fit the stereotypical mold of a sustainable fashion consumer have access to products that are made in a better way—without any compromise. The fashion industry can only make meaningful transformations when it takes every customer into consideration—something we need to improve upon as an industry."
Adore Me has deployed a set of tools in the last three years assessing the sustainability of its products' designs, raw material components and manufacturing: AIM (Adore Me Impact Matrix), GAME (Green Adore Me Manufacturing Evaluation), and MAT (Material Assessment Tool). AIM is a tool that assesses the environmental sustainability of a product based on its design and manufacturing attributes, providing a score based on four key impact areas: fiber, waste, water, and chemicals. Through the GAME program, Adore Me scores its manufacturers' social & environmental performance and engages in a collaborative effort to improve their performance over a 2-year period.. MAT measures the environmental impact of Adore Me's key product components.
"We've seen countless fashion brands release ESG reports lately that use tools built to enhance product marketing as opposed to real, transparent assessments," said Camille Oberkampf, an international lawyer who provided counsel around the governance of this ESG report from Adore Me. "Adore Me opted to create its own tools in order to provide a more granular, behind-the-scenes look at its performance and drive the necessary improvements to its impact across its value chain."
This report was prepared using the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards, used by 10,000 companies worldwide, as a reference.
Founded in 2011 as a disruptive online lingerie startup, Adore Me has evolved into a DTC womenswear brand that serves women of all sizes and budgets. The company is transforming the way people shop with a pioneering try-at-home commerce service that features a variety of apparel categories including and outside of lingerie. As an innovation-driven team, Adore Me is revolutionizing affordable sustainability through cutting-edge technologies and advanced innovations at affordable price points.
Connect with Adore Me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
Contact:
BAM for Adore Me
adoreme@bamtheagency.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Adore Me | https://www.wbay.com/prnewswire/2022/07/28/adore-me-releases-inaugural-esg-report-provides-blueprint-sustainability-transformation/ | 2022-07-28 18:56:36 | 1 | https://www.wbay.com/prnewswire/2022/07/28/adore-me-releases-inaugural-esg-report-provides-blueprint-sustainability-transformation/ |
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate
PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — With the clock winding down in the final minutes, Rutgers fans didn't hesitate in letting No. 10 Indiana how they felt about the Hoosiers' rating.
Chants of “Who's Your Daddy” and “Overrated” were shouted with glee at the Indiana bench after the team was knocked from the unbeaten ranks.
Make no mistake, Rutgers (6-2, 1-0 Big Ten) owns Indiana (7-1, 0-1) on the basketball floor these days.
Freshman guard Derek Simpson scored 10 straight points in a game-deciding run and Rutgers beat Indiana for the sixth time in a row and ninth time in 10 meetings, 63-48 on Saturday.
“As far as Indiana goes, I feel we just know the focus of this team,” said Rutgers senior Caleb McConnell, who had 16 points and 10 rebounds. “It gives us an advantage because we had beaten them five times in a row. We went in trying to execute our game plan and we did it again.”
Simpson scored all 14 of his points in the second half as Rutgers made coach Mike Woodson's first visit to “The Banks” unpleasant.
“We got to make shots from the perimeter,” said Woodson, whose team shot 30.4% from the field, including 6 of 21 from long range. “But we just got out-toughed tonight. I thought, I mean, from the beginning to the end, I mean, we couldn’t rebound the basketball with him. I thought that was the difference in the ballgame and that was the cushion that they needed.”
Miller Kopp scored a season-high 21 points for Indiana . Star forward Trayce Jackson-Davis, who faced a packed in defense, was held to 13 points and 10 rebounds before fouling out late.
Jackson-Davis said Indiana just didn't play well.
“I don’t necessarily say that it’s a bad matchup for us because I think defensively we’re still good,” he said. “But at the same time, our offense just wasn’t clicking tonight.”
The win was coach Steve Pikiell's 14th over a ranked team since taking over a struggling Rutgers' program in 2016-17. As usual, defense was at the center of its win.
The Hoosiers' point total was a season low. They were averaging 87.1 points and were coming off a win over North Carolina.
Indiana played poorly in the first half in falling behind 31-24. The Hoosiers opened the final 20 minutes with a 13-4 spurt, taking two-point leads on baskets by Xavier Johnson and Kopp.
McConnell hit a 3-pointer to put Rutgers ahead for good and then Simpson took over, hitting a layup, a jumper, a 3-pointer and a big scoop shot for a 47-37 lead. His final point in the run came when Johnson hit him in the face in the offensive zone and a flagrant foul was eventually called. He made 1 of 2 free throws.
“I still have have much more to do and I am going to keep working and we're going to keep working as a team,” Simpson said. “It was a fun game, and it really got loud. My ears are still ringing right now.”
MULCAHY RETURNS
Rutgers senior starting guard Paul Mulcahy returned to the lineup after missing four games with a shoulder injury. He came off the bench early in the first half and played almost 24 minutes, scoring six points and handing out four assists.
MISSING
Indiana starting guard Jalen Hood-Schifino did not play because of a back problem. He was averaging 8.7 points. Starting forward Race Thompson, who was averaging 7.3 points, was scoreless on 0 for 4 shooting.
BIG PICTURE
Indiana: This was poor performance by the Hoosiers. They are bound to take a tumble.
Rutgers: This was a big win for Rutgers, which was coming off a road loss at Miami. They are 6-0 at home.
UP NEXT
Indiana: Conference home opener against Nebraska on Wednesday.
Rutgers: At No. 25 Ohio State on Thursday.
___
More AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/Rutgers-beats-No-10-Indiana-for-6th-straight-17629411.php | 2022-12-04 01:02:54 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/Rutgers-beats-No-10-Indiana-for-6th-straight-17629411.php |
Before sitting down to watch the Super Bowl on Sunday, a lot of people will be hitting the supermarket, stocking up on chips and dip and all the other delicious super snacks.
And in this period of inflation, it's still possible to feed your friends and family during the big game without having your wallet tackled for a loss.
While overall grocery prices are still inflated — up nearly 12% from a year ago — some favorite football foods are relative bargains.
Party trays of frozen chicken wings, for example, are 28% cheaper than last year, according to the USDA.
"It's finger food," says Chef Oji Abbott, who expects take-out wings to be flying out the door of his Oohh's & Aahh's restaurant in Washington, D.C., this weekend. "You pick it up with your fingers and you're watching the game. You're cheering. It's easy to do both at the same time. It's just good party food."
The chicken versus the egg
With more people giving and going to Super Bowl parties this year, the National Chicken Council expects Americans to gobble up 1.45 billion wings this weekend, 84 million more than last year.
The drop in wing prices is remarkable, given the much-publicized jump in egg prices.
"Must be something to that," Abbott says. "What came first — the chicken or the egg?"
Loading...
Chicken and egg production have both been hampered by a widespread outbreak of avian flu. But it takes much longer to raise egg-laying birds, so farmers who raise chickens for meat have been able to recover much more quickly.
"Two completely different flocks," explains Michael Swanson, an agricultural economist at Wells Fargo. "The eggs really got hit hard. But luckily for us, the chicken breasts, all those other pieces, have not gotten hit that bad."
Beer versus wine
Swanson says there are other bargains to be found on the Super Bowl menu, but like a quarterback reading the defense, shoppers have to keep their eyes open and pick their opportunities.
Beer prices have jumped 8.6% in the last year, and soft drink prices have popped up 13%, according to the consumer price index, compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Wine prices, on the other hand, have risen less than 4%.
"So maybe some sangria to celebrate the Super Bowl," Swanson suggests. "Wine is a global market. So the U.S. wine producers are under a lot of competition so they can't price up."
Avocados are XXIII% cheaper than last Super Bowl
Shrimp prices have also shrunk from a year ago.
"My wife's Colombian, so we always serve ceviche, to go along with guacamole, so it's looking pretty good for us," Swanson says.
Avocado prices have dropped 23% since last year's Super Bowl, thanks to super-sized imports from Mexico. In just the last four weeks, some 250 million pounds of fresh avocados have crossed the border, like a big green running back, just in time for kickoff.
"This is the second highest Super Bowl volume in history for avocados," says Lance Jungmeyer, president of the Fresh Produce Association of the Americas. "Of course, guacamole is one of the absolute feel-good, fun time snacks of all time. It's really popular this time of year and everyone from grocery stores to the restaurants are trying to capitalize on that."
Super Bowl party hosts might consider stocking up on bargain foods, rather than run the risk of leaving guests hungry.
"You'd rather have a little extra, but you don't want to run out," says Chef Abbott. "Nothing wrong with some chicken wings for breakfast."
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.wunc.org/2023-02-10/your-super-bowl-platter-may-cost-less-this-year-if-you-follow-these-menu-twists | 2023-02-10 20:43:44 | 1 | https://www.wunc.org/2023-02-10/your-super-bowl-platter-may-cost-less-this-year-if-you-follow-these-menu-twists |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
07-12-24-32-35
(seven, twelve, twenty-four, thirty-two, thirty-five)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
07-12-24-32-35
(seven, twelve, twenty-four, thirty-two, thirty-five) | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-game-17163755.php | 2022-05-11 00:21:45 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-game-17163755.php |
Federal trial over OR voter-approved gun control measure begins in Portland
The federal trial will determine whether the controversial OR law violates the US Constitution
A federal trial over Oregon’s voter-approved gun control measure is set to open Monday in Portland, marking a critical next step for one of the toughest gun control laws in the nation after months of being tied up in the courts.
The trial, which will be held before a judge and not a jury, will determine whether the law violates the U.S. Constitution.
The protracted legal battle over the law could well last beyond the trial. Whatever the judge decides, the ruling is likely to be appealed, potentially moving all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Oregon voters in November narrowly passed Measure 114, which requires residents to undergo safety training and a background check to obtain a permit to buy a gun.
The legislation also bans the sale, transfer or import of gun magazines with more than 10 rounds unless they are owned by law enforcement or a military member or were owned before the measure’s passage. Those who already own high-capacity magazines can only possess them at home or use them at a firing range, in shooting competitions or for hunting as allowed by state law after the measure takes effect.
The Oregon Firearms Federation and a county sheriff filed the federal lawsuit in November, contending it violated the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Democratic Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and former Democratic Gov. Kate Brown are named as defendants.
It was one of several lawsuits filed over the measure.
2 OREGON POLICE OFFICERS FATALLY SHOOT MAN WHO WAS HAVING A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS
In a separate lawsuit, filed in state court in rural and sparsely populated Harney County in southeastern Oregon, Gun Owners of America Inc., the Gun Owners Foundation and several individual gun owners claimed the law violates the Oregon Constitution.
The judge presiding over that case, Harney County Judge Robert S. Raschio, in December ordered the law to be put on hold. Because the lawsuit challenged Measure 114 under the state constitution and not the U.S. Constitution, it held precedence in the state, legal experts said. A trial is scheduled for September.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Supporters of the law say it would reduce mass shootings and other forms of guns violence as well as suicides, which the Oregon Health Authority said accounts for 82% of gun deaths in the state.
The measure’s fate is being carefully watched as one of the first new gun restrictions since the U.S. Supreme Court last June struck down a New York law that limited carrying guns outside the home. The high court has allowed the law to remain in force while a lawsuit plays out. | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-trial-over-voter-approved-gun-control-measure-begins-portland | 2023-06-05 17:35:41 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-trial-over-voter-approved-gun-control-measure-begins-portland |
BEIRUT — A Lebanese activist group on Thursday vowed to organize more bank heists to help people retrieve their locked savings as the country’s years-long economic crisis continues to worsen.
Hafez carried a toy gun when she walked into BLOM Bank on Wednesday, while the activists who accompanied her poured about gasoline, threatening to set the bank on fire if she did not get her money out.
The group told The Associated Press that they had also coordinated with a man who tried to take some of his money from a bank in the mountainous town of Aley. Local media said he carried an unloaded shotgun.
Lebanon’s cash-strapped banks have imposed strict limits on withdrawals of foreign currency since 2019, tying up the savings of millions of people. About three-quarters of the population has slipped into poverty as the tiny Middle East country’s economy continues to spiral.
Alaa Khorchid, the head of Depositors’ Outcry, said there is now no other choice for Lebanese bank depositors but to “take matters into their own hands.” He spoke at a press conference in Beirut.
“BLOM Bank issues a statement saying that this is a pre-orchestrated operation. Yes it is, what were you thinking?” Khorchid told reporters, referring to the bank’s statement condemning Hafez and the activists.
“And we’re organizing more than this, and you have no choice. People’s rights are sacred,” he added, addressing banks in general.
“The real beginning of the revolution started yesterday, when Sali Hafez entered the bank, and there is no turning back,” Ibrahim Abdullah, a member of the Depositors’ Outcry group said at the press conference. “This revolution is against all the banks.”
Several groups advocating and protesting for Lebanese depositors have emerged since 2019, with some — like the one named the Depositors’ Union — opting to file lawsuits against banks to help depositors retrieve their money.
Wednesday’s heist occurred weeks after a food delivery driver broke into another bank branch in Beirut and held 10 people hostage for seven hours, demanding tens of thousands of dollars in his trapped savings. Many Lebanese hailed him as a hero.
The standoff and public sympathy for those taking matters into their own hands to get their savings has exposed the depths of people's despair in Lebanon’s economic crisis, which has pulled over three-quarters of the country’s population into poverty, unable to cope with skyrocketing food, electricity, and gasoline prices.
Meanwhile, Lebanese officials struggle to implement structural reforms for an economic recovery plan approved by the International Monetary Fund to unlock billions of dollars in loans and aid to make the country viable again. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/after-heist-lebanese-activists-promise-more-bank-raids/2022/09/15/cb931e3a-3506-11ed-a0d6-415299bfebd5_story.html | 2022-09-15 15:19:52 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/after-heist-lebanese-activists-promise-more-bank-raids/2022/09/15/cb931e3a-3506-11ed-a0d6-415299bfebd5_story.html |
(PINPOINT WEATHER) — Good afternoon, and happy Wednesday! We have been dealing with heavy rain and thunderstorms throughout the morning, with reports of flooding across the region. We will dry out this afternoon; drier weather will dominate the rest of the week.
Temperatures will cool off behind the front, but don’t expect any significant cold over the next week. Another round of showers with a weak front looks to move into the region Sunday night into Monday, followed by another small temperature drop.
As for the rest of your Wednesday, the intense storms and heavy rain will move out early this afternoon, and temperatures will stay on the comfortable side, with the mid-60s likely. This evening will be dry and milder as temperatures barely fall below the 50-degree mark.
For the rest of the week, sunny skies and cooling temperatures will be the story for the Carolinas. Thursday, while slightly cooler, will still be relatively mild, with highs in the 60s with mostly sunny skies. Noticeably cooler temperatures will move in early Friday weather with a possible freeze and high temperatures in the mid-50s.
The weekend will start on the dry side with mostly sunny skies on Saturday, with highs again in the mid-50s. Sunday clouds will move in, and we could see some showers during the day, but wet weather looks more likely Monday as another week’s front moves through.
In the meantime, the roads may be wet right now, but sunnier days are ahead. Have a great afternoon! | https://www.qcnews.com/weather/comfortable-temperatures-coming-to-charlotte-evening-but-cooling-on-the-way/ | 2023-01-05 00:10:37 | 0 | https://www.qcnews.com/weather/comfortable-temperatures-coming-to-charlotte-evening-but-cooling-on-the-way/ |
ATLANTA — Opening statements begin Friday in the trial of a man charged after a stray bullet killed a little girl outside Phipps Plaza during the 2020 holiday season.
On Thursday, a judge seated a jury for the murder trial of Daquan Reed.
Police said he got into an argument with someone in the mall parking lot and fired his gun out his car window.
One of those bullets hit 7-year-old Kennedy Maxie in the head as she was riding in her aunt's car.
She died the day after Christmas.
Reed was caught in Virginia in early Jan. 2021 and extradited to Georgia in February of that year, according to Fulton County Jail records.
The community rallied behind Kennedy by sharing prayers and raising money for her care while she was in the hospital.
Reed has a violent criminal history, according to authorities.
According to court records in Virginia, he was arrested there previously for assault and battery, as well as a strangulation charge and other misdemeanor charges. He was also previously convicted on forgery charges.
11Alive's Norfolk sister station WVEC reports that he was arrested by US Marshals in Atlanta in October 2019 following a shooting at MacArthur Center Mall in Norfolk. Two people were hurt during the Norfolk shooting. Reed was facing an accessory after the fact charge. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/trial-daquan-reed-kennedy-maxie/85-bc9d79bb-d398-4d8f-a66b-d9e49f2f3da6 | 2022-08-12 12:43:30 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/trial-daquan-reed-kennedy-maxie/85-bc9d79bb-d398-4d8f-a66b-d9e49f2f3da6 |
Every year, the NFL Draft is full of surprises, and the 2023 version was no different.
But perhaps the biggest one of the night was the fact that Will Levis, who earlier this week was the favorite to be the second overall pick, wasn't even selected in the first round.
Earlier this week, a Reddit rumor said Levis was telling people that the Carolina Panthers were taking him with the first overall pick Thursday night. Sportsbooks took note, as Levis' odds of being the first pick went from plus-4000 to 4-1.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM
Levis neither confirmed nor denied the rumor, but he did downplay it.
He was asked a day later whether it was true, and he replied with an adage as old as the World Wide Web.
"All I've said is don't believe everything you read on the internet," he said on Wednesday.
However, it sure is quite the surprise that he seemed like a total lock to go top-five, and now, he'll have to return to the green room for one more day.
The bad night for Levis began when the Houston Texans' smokescreens were all untrue, and they selected Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud with the second overall pick, which had long been the consensus until recently.
2023 NFL DRAFT: WHAT TO KNOW
But two picks later, the Indianapolis Colts selected Florida QB Anthony Richardson, thus beginning the free fall.
The Atlanta Falcons, who currently have a competition with Desmond Ridder and Taylor Heinecke, selected running back Bijan Robinson at No. 8. Ryan Tannehill's Tennessee Titans at No. 11 went with offensive lineman Peter Skoronski, and the Washington Commanders, for now, are sticking with Sam Howell after they took cornerback Emmanuel Forbes.
All eyes were on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the 19th selection after Tom Brady's retirement, but they went with Pittsburgh defensive tackle Calijah Kancey.
The Minnesota Vikings could have picked Kirk Cousins' successor, but instead, they went with wide receiver Jordan Addison. After that, nobody else exactly was in dire need of a quarterback.
Of course, Levis will get taken, but it does remain to be seen where he will take his talents.
In his two full seasons as Kentucky's quarterback (24 games), Levis threw for 5,232 yards, 33 touchdowns and 23 interceptions with a 65.7 completion percentage. | https://www.foxbangor.com/sports/national-sports/2023-nfl-draft-will-levis-once-favored-to-go-second-overall-goes-unselected-in-first/article_a9d671a3-db31-59e2-808c-c2c0a44e69eb.html | 2023-04-28 05:45:57 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/sports/national-sports/2023-nfl-draft-will-levis-once-favored-to-go-second-overall-goes-unselected-in-first/article_a9d671a3-db31-59e2-808c-c2c0a44e69eb.html |
Study shares safest cities for trick-or-treating this year
(Gray News) - Halloween brings costumes and candy to families of all ages, but it also brings with it the importance of safety.
A recent study says it complied several key factors ahead of Halloween to develop a list of the safest U.S. cities for trick-or-treating.
Researchers say they analyzed data from more than 300 cities and compared those cities across five equally weighted metrics. Those categories included pedestrian fatalities, violent crime, property crime, number of registered sex offenders and number of law enforcement employees.
Gilbert, Arizona, came in as the safest city for trick-or-treating this year. Cambridge, Massachusetts, was second, followed by Cary, North Carolina, Naperville, Illinois, and Rochester, Minnesota, rounding out the top five.
According to the study, each metric was calculated per 100,000 residents. Each city within the analysis had a population of at least 100,000 or more. The numbers were compiled to produce a top 25 overall ranking.
California and Arizona dominated the top 25 list with 12 cities. Two Colorado cities landed within the top 12, which included Centennial and Boulder.
The cities on the list received scores that ranged from 82 to 73 overall.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.kbtx.com/2022/10/19/study-shares-safest-cities-trick-or-treating-this-year/ | 2022-10-19 02:53:22 | 1 | https://www.kbtx.com/2022/10/19/study-shares-safest-cities-trick-or-treating-this-year/ |
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate
DALLAS (AP) — Defenseman Miro Heiskanen ended a 19-game goal drought by scoring the winning goal early in the third period and Tyler Seguin had two goals and an assist as the Dallas Stars rallied from a two-goal first-period deficit to beat the Arizona Coyotes 4-2 on Wednesday night.
Roope Hintz also scored for the Stars, who will complete a back-to-back at Chicago on Thursday. Jake Oettinger made 18 saves for his 25th win, tied for sixth place in the NHL.
The Stars lead the Central Division by three points but struggled recently against lesser teams, losing at home to Vancouver, Columbus and Chicago. They went 1-3-3 in their previous seven games and went in 1-7-4 in games in which they trailed after one period.
“It’s been muck,” Seguin said. “Sometimes you can call it bad bounces. Sometimes you can call it hot goalies. We said, ‘Let’s not leave here saying we hit a hot goalie or that we deserved to win.’”
Clayton Keller and Barrett Hayton scored for the Coyotes, who finished a back-to-back after beating Chicago at home on Tuesday night. Connor Ingram stopped 37 shots. Ingram, a rookie, has faced at least 40 shots in eight of his 21 starts.
Heiskanen fired a wrist shot from the left point that trickled through Ingram at 4:38 of the third period for his first goal since Jan. 8.
“One lucky bounce, and it’s an important goal,” Heiskanen said.
Seguin scored a power-play goal early in the second period and a shorthanded insurance goal with 3:48 to play.
The Coyotes broke out to a 2-0 lead 14 minutes in with Juuso Valimaki assisting on both goals. Keller’s goal, his team-leading 25th of the season, came on the lone shot on goal on three first-period Arizona power plays when he faked a one-timer in the slot and sent a wrist shot past Oettinger – his teammate at Boston University in 2016-17.
The Stars pulled even with goals in the last two minutes of the first period from Hintz and in the first two minutes of the second period from Seguin.
LITTLE HELP, PLEASE
The Coyotes traded two defensemen earlier Wednesday – Shayne Gostisbehere to Carolina and Jakob Chychrun to Ottawa – and made forward Nick Bjugstad a healthy scratch for trade-related reasons for the second consecutive game. They then lost forward Nick Schmaltz, second on the team with 42 points, midway through the second period when a slapshot by Dallas’ Jani Hakanpaa rode up Schmaltz’s stick and struck him near his left ear.
NOTES
Keller has a season-long six-game point streak. … Stars forward Mason Marchment took two first-period penalties giving him 78 penalty minutes this season, moving into the league’s top 10. … Dallas forward Evgenii Dadonov had an assist after recording a goal on Monday in his Stars debut following Sunday’s trade from Montreal. … Both of Valimaki’s multipoint games this season have come in the last nine games. … The Coyotes lead the NHL with 21 road losses.
UP NEXT
Coyotes: Begin a four-game homestand on Friday night against the Carolina Hurricanes.
Stars: Visit the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday. They’ve split two previous games with the Blackhawks and are 2-4-0 this season closing back-to-backs.
___
AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/nhl and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/heiskanen-ends-drought-seguin-nets-2-as-stars-17814845.php | 2023-03-02 05:31:52 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/heiskanen-ends-drought-seguin-nets-2-as-stars-17814845.php |
click to enlarge Photo via Country Thunder Music Festivals / Official Facebook
Jason Aldean will be one of the three artists headlining the Country Thunder Music Festival alongside Morgan Wallen and Chris Young, in Kissimmee. He will perform alongside various different country artists this weekend from Oct. 21 - 23.
The music festival Country Thunder brings all things twang to Central Florida this weekend.
The festival takes over Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee starting on Thursday, Oct. 20, with help from the some of the biggest names in country music like Jason Aldean and Morgan Wallen.
Campsite grounds will open to concert goers one day before the weekend festival begins, on Oct. 20 at 9 a.m. Attendees will need a three day admission ticket to be allowed onto the campgrounds.
Friday's lineup includes headliner Chris Young, Ashley McBryde, Niko Moon, Kameron Marlowe, Phil Vassar and Jackson Dean. Saturday sees shows by Wallen, Chase Rice, Tracy Lawrence, and Maggie Rose, among others.
click to enlarge Photo via Country Thunder Music Festivals / Official Facebook
The Country Thunder Music Festival officially begins on Friday, Oct. 21. Those interested in camping will be able to make their way to the campsite grounds as early as Thurs., Oct. 20.
On the festival's final day, Aldean will join Clay Walker, Lainey Wilson and John Morgan (
no, the other one).
Country Thunder Florida first made its debut in Central Florida in 2019 with headliners Luke Bryan, Luke Combs and Toby Keith. The yearly festival has been making its way across North America since
1996, with new cities such as Saskatchewan and Alberta, being added in 2005 and 2016.
Premium seating tickets along with camping experience tickets are currently sold out. However, single day and weekend passes for the festival can still be purchased
here. | https://www.orlandoweekly.com/music/country-thunder-brings-country-titans-jason-aldean-ashley-mcbride-to-central-florida-for-a-four-day-fest-32719307 | 2022-10-19 22:52:47 | 0 | https://www.orlandoweekly.com/music/country-thunder-brings-country-titans-jason-aldean-ashley-mcbride-to-central-florida-for-a-four-day-fest-32719307 |
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The 101st season of Arkansas baseball is on deck.
56 regular-season contests, including a 19-game homestand, 10 conference series and a pair of trips to both Globe Life Field and Dickey-Stephens Park, are on tap for head coach Dave Van Horn and the Razorbacks in 2023.
Arkansas, which posted a 46-21 overall record and made its 11th trip to the College World Series last year, is scheduled to play at least 11 teams that participated in the 2022 NCAA Tournament and at least three that advanced to Omaha.
The Hogs will begin their 2023 campaign in the College Baseball Showdown (Feb. 17-19) at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. The three-day tournament at the home of the Texas Rangers will feature fellow SEC members Vanderbilt and Missouri as well as Big 12 foes Oklahoma State, Texas and TCU.
While Arkansas’ matchups have not yet been revealed, all games of the 2023 College Baseball Showdown will be streamed live on FloSports, the exclusive broadcast partner for the tournament. Tickets go on sale later this fall with full details to be announced.
Following their season-opening road trip, the Razorbacks embark on a 19-game homestand at Baum-Walker Stadium. It will mark Arkansas’ longest homestand since 1982, when the Hogs’ played 22 consecutive contests at George Cole Field.
The Hogs host Grambling (Feb. 21) in a Tuesday home opener before welcoming Eastern Illinois (Feb. 24-26), Illinois State (March 1), Wright State (March 3-5), Army (March 7-8), Louisiana Tech (March 10-12) and UNLV (March 14-15). SEC East foe South Carolina (March 17-19) comes to town amid the homestand, which concludes with a midweek matchup against Southeast Missouri State (March 21).
Arkansas’ non-conference slate also consists of midweek games at Baum-Walker Stadium against Omaha (March 28) as well as against three in-state foes: Arkansas State (April 4), Little Rock (April 11-12) and UCA (April 18). The Hogs travel to take on Missouri State (April 25) in Springfield, Mo., and Lipscomb (May 2) in North Little Rock, Ark., at Dickey-Stephens Park, home of the Seattle Mariners’ Double-A affiliate Arkansas Travelers.
Ticket information for the game at Dickey-Stephens Park will be announced at a later date.
In addition to South Carolina, Arkansas’ SEC schedule features home series against Auburn (March 31-April 2), Missouri (April 7-9), Alabama (April 28-30) and Texas A&M (May 12-14). The Hogs hit the road to face reigning national champion Ole Miss (March 24-26), LSU (April 14-16), Georgia (April 21-23), Mississippi State (May 5-7) and Vanderbilt (May 18-20).
The SEC Tournament (May 23-28) returns to Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Ala., for the 24th season in a row and the 26th time in history. The SEC led all conferences with nine teams in the 2022 NCAA Tournament. | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/sports/ncaa/university-of-arkansas/razorback-baseball/11-ncaa-tournament-teams-three-college-world-series-participants-on-hogs-2023-schedule/527-e16d174b-17c7-4681-abba-8aedb304a106 | 2022-09-14 21:05:53 | 1 | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/sports/ncaa/university-of-arkansas/razorback-baseball/11-ncaa-tournament-teams-three-college-world-series-participants-on-hogs-2023-schedule/527-e16d174b-17c7-4681-abba-8aedb304a106 |
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – The third Sunday in July is a special day for fans of ice cream.
This year, July 17 is National Ice Cream Day and some ice cream shops are offering customers special deals in celebration of the holiday.
Baskin Robbins
Between July 17-23 customer can get $5 off any purchase of $15 or more. Anyone shopping online or buying via the store’s app should use the coupon code BECOOLER.
Cold Stone Creamery
Get $4 off purchases of $20 or more and free delivery when buying through the mobile app.
Dairy Queen
Customers can enjoy a special deal of $1 off any dipped cone at participating stores when they order through the DQ app.
Whole Foods
The store is offering 25% off ice cream and frozen treats through Tuesday.
An entire month was dedicated to a national celebration in honor of the tasty treat back in 1984 when President Ronald Reagan declared July National Ice Cream Month and the third Sunday of July National Ice Cream Day.
So, Louisianians who want to beat the heat this Sunday can do so by enjoying their favorite flavor of ice cream at a discounted price. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/where-to-find-specials-on-national-ice-cream-day/ | 2022-07-17 21:13:07 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/where-to-find-specials-on-national-ice-cream-day/ |
- Toyota Mobility Foundation launches a three-year Sustainable Cities Challenge to bring cities and innovators together
- The Challenge aims to help cities reduce carbon, improve access, enhance data-driven concepts for more resilient transport systems
- Three cities will work with innovators to tailor solutions to overcome their mobility barriers
LONDON, June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Toyota Mobility Foundation, in partnership with Challenge Works and World Resources Institute, has launched a $9 million global challenge to help cities adapt to the future, with the potential to transform the lives of millions around the world.
As cities grow and evolve, the challenges of moving people and goods in reliable, efficient, and inclusive ways have never been more essential. At the same time, opportunities to apply advances in transport modes, infrastructure design, operations, energy options, and connected data systems have never been more promising.
The Sustainable Cities Challenge aims to improve the lives of people by increasing access to jobs, education and other essential services. It will bring cities and innovators together to implement mobility solutions that could reduce carbon, improve accessibility, and use data to build more resilient transport systems.
"Our experience over the past decade has underscored the importance of local cities' buy-in and engagement with our activities," Ryan Klem, director of programs at the Toyota Mobility Foundation, said. "Throughout the Sustainable Cities Challenge, we are looking to work alongside cities to find innovative solutions in the areas they identify as critical to develop a scalable model for the cities of tomorrow."
Call for Entries
Entry to the first stage of the Challenge is open to city leaders and municipal governments, transport departments and other related local and regional agencies. Entries should be submitted according to one or more of the following three themes:
- Expanding access to safe, affordable, and inclusive modes of transportation
- Harnessing the power of data to create connected and resilient mobility ecosystems
- Reducing environmental impact through low-carbon and renewable energy solutions
Shortlisted cities will be invited to attend a capacity building academy in the U.S. and will receive support developing their challenge design, becoming part of a wider network of other innovative city teams.
In February 2024, three winning cities will be selected to host a City Challenge to attract entries from global innovators. Innovators could be homegrown - living in the city or country chosen - or maybe from anywhere across the globe, but with solutions applicable and adapted to the winning cities.
The winning innovators for each city will be announced in late 2024, and the cities and innovators will share $9 million in funding to test and roll out their solutions.
Increase mobility solutions for a more sustainable future
Many cities are now adapting to new behaviors and lifestyles, as our lives move increasingly online, and patterns of work change. With more than half of the world's population currently living in cities, the United Nations predicts this will increase to two-thirds by 2050. Additionally, cities are responsible for 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
The Sustainable Cities Challenge is funded by the Toyota Mobility Foundation and has been designed in partnership with Challenge Works and World Resources Institute. Challenge Works is an international leader in developing challenge programs to drive new thinking and find creative solutions to problems facing society. World Resources Institute is a global research organization which works with partners to develop practical solutions that improve people's lives and ensure that nature can thrive.
"Brilliant people all over the world are working hard to create innovative solutions to help mobility systems work better, and with a lower carbon footprint," Kathy Nothstine, head of future cities at Challenge Works, said. "The Sustainable Cities Challenge will help those innovators interface with cities to test and adapt solutions according to local needs to improve people's lives. Challenges like this can act as catalysts for change by accelerating innovation in real world settings."
In addition to helping cities decarbonize, transforming mobility systems will help cities become more inclusive and accessible for the people living in them. Currently, 1.2 billion people living in cities do not have access to one or more core services.
"Cities are in need of innovations to foster sustainable mobility that reduces emissions, improves health, and increases access to jobs and opportunity for all," Ben Welle, director of integrated transport and innovation at World Resources Institute's Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, said. "The Sustainable Cities Challenge is an excellent opportunity for cities globally to build capacity and support innovators to work hand in hand with officials."
To find out more and to enter, visit the Sustainable Cities Challenge website.
About Toyota Mobility Foundation
The Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF) was established in August 2014 by the Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) to support the development of a more mobile society in which everyone can move freely. The Foundation underscores Toyota's on-going commitment to continuous improvement and respect for people. It utilizes Toyota's expertise and technologies to support strong mobility systems while eliminating disparities in mobility. TMF works in partnership with universities, governments, non-profits, research institutions and other organizations, creating programs that are aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to address mobility issues around the world.
In the past, TMF has led a range of Challenges, including the global Mobility Unlimited Challenge, CATCH in Malaysia, InoveMob Challenge in Brazil and STAMP Challenge in India. You can find out more about TMF and how it is governed at toyotamobilityfoundation.org
About Challenge Works
For a decade, Challenge Works has established itself as a global leader in designing and delivering high impact challenges that incentivize cutting-edge innovation for social good. Challenge Works is a social enterprise founded by the UK's innovation agency Nesta. In the last 10 years, they have run more than 80 prizes, distributed £100 million in funding, and engaged with more than 12,000 innovators. Challenge Works believe no challenge is unsolvable, partnering with non-profits, governments, and other organizations around the globe to unearth the entrepreneurs and their innovations that can solve the greatest challenges of our time. Visit them at https://challengeworks.org/
About World Resources Institute
World Resources Institute (WRI) is a global research organization with offices in Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Mexico and the United States, and regional offices for Africa and Europe. WRI's 1,700 staff work with partners to develop practical solutions that improve people's lives and ensure nature can thrive. Learn more: WRI.org and on Twitter @WorldResources.
Media Contacts
Julie Ann Burandt
julieann.burandt@toyota.com
Valarie Oladeinde
valerie@89up.org
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Toyota Mobility Foundation | https://www.wistv.com/prnewswire/2023/06/21/9-million-global-city-challenge-launched-drive-safe-inclusive-sustainable-innovation-city-mobility/ | 2023-06-21 11:42:47 | 0 | https://www.wistv.com/prnewswire/2023/06/21/9-million-global-city-challenge-launched-drive-safe-inclusive-sustainable-innovation-city-mobility/ |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — An Amtrak train carrying roughly 560 passengers to Florida was delayed for 20 hours after taking a detour around a derailed freight train Monday evening.
A representative for Amtrak told News Channel 8 that Auto Train 53, which was traveling from Lorton, VA to Sanford, FL “detoured off its normal route in order to continue operating south.”
The train left Virginia on Jan. 9 and was supposed to arrive in Florida on Jan. 10 (about 17 hours later), but passengers would later recall the trip “turned into a nightmare.” For nearly 20 hours, all 563 passengers waited as the lengthy delay grew longer.
One Twitter user, who goes by the username Tara G, posted, “My elderly in-laws are stuck on the train in South Carolina. There has been no communication and no food provisions. Please fix this!”
In a statement to News Channel 8, Amtrak said, “Customers were provided regular updates, along with meals, snack packs, and beverages. Additional food from local businesses along the route was also provided during the trip. The onboard staff worked with pet owners to provide bathroom breaks.”
According to reports, some passengers phoned 911 to report they were being held hostage on the train.
In response, one conductor asked passengers not to call the police saying over the loudspeaker, “Once again, for those of you that are calling the police, we are not holding you, hostage. we are giving you all the information in which we have and we are sorry about the inconvenience.”
The train ultimately arrived in Sanford, Fla. on Wednesday, Jan. 11 with an approximate 20-hour delay.
Amtrak apologized for the delay saying it is working with each customer on fare refunds.
The rail service allows customers to travel with vehicles, including cars, vans, SUVs, motorcycles, and small boats or jet skis. | https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/amtrak-passengers-stuck-on-train-to-florida-for-nearly-30-hours/ | 2023-01-12 00:33:56 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/amtrak-passengers-stuck-on-train-to-florida-for-nearly-30-hours/ |
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) clocked in with the highest favorability rating among a list of 23 potential 2024 presidential contenders, according to a new USA Today-Ipsos poll.
Forty-six percent of respondents said they had at least a somewhat favorable view toward Sanders, while 41 percent said they had an unfavorable opinion.
President Biden had the second-highest favorability rating at 43 percent, although his unfavorability rating was notably higher than Sanders’s, with 52 percent of those surveyed saying they had an unfavorable opinion of the president. Former President Trump clocked in with the same ratings as Biden.
The three political figures were followed in the poll by other well-known potential candidates, while possible contenders with a smaller national profile were seen as unfamiliar by most voters.
Vice President Harris and former Vice President Pence both received favorable ratings from at least 40 percent of respondents, earning the third- and fourth-highest figures among the candidates, respectively.
Among Democrats, Biden received the highest favorability rating, with 82 percent of Democratic voters indicating a positive view of the sitting president. Just 11 percent of Republicans indicated a favorable view of Biden.
Biden and his aides insist he plans to run for a second term in 2024 if his health allows, although some Democrats have dodged questions about supporting Biden’s re-election bid amid his low approval numbers.
When asked, many of those Democrats say they are focused on this year’s midterm elections. But some figures dodging questions include those who could potentially mount their own White House bid in 2024.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) declined in June to say if she would be endorsing Biden in 2024 during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it,” she said. “But I think if the president has a vision, and that’s something certainly we’re all willing to entertain and examine when the time comes.”
Ocasio-Cortez’s favorability rating in the poll was in the middle of the pack, ranking No. 11 among those of the 23 polled candidates.
Thirty-three percent of voters surveyed said they had a favorable view of Ocasio-Cortez, while 38 percent indicated an unfavorable view.
The poll found the progressive lawmaker had the lowest favorability rating among Republicans, with 10 percent of GOP respondents giving her a favorable rating, one percentage point lower than Biden and Harris.
Trump received the highest favorability rating among Republicans — 81 percent — according to the poll. The former president was followed by Pence and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who were viewed favorably by 69 percent and 68 percent of Republican voters, respectively.
A group of moderate Republican governors included in the poll, like Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, saw lower favorability ratings.
But the vast majority of respondents also indicated they were unfamiliar with the two governors, while higher-profile figures like Trump and Pence were known by most voters polled.
The poll was conducted between Aug. 18 and Aug. 22 through online interviews with 2,345 U.S. adults. The margin of error is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/hill-politics/sanders-has-highest-favorability-among-possible-2024-contenders-poll/ | 2022-08-27 01:10:16 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/hill-politics/sanders-has-highest-favorability-among-possible-2024-contenders-poll/ |
Company Acquires Recordings, Song Catalog, Film Archive and Complete Contents of The Vault of the Legendary American Artist, Genius Composer, Rock Guitar Virtuoso, Free Speech Activist and One-Time Cultural Ambassador to Czechoslovakia
SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Music Group (UMG), the world leader in music-based entertainment, today announced an agreement between Moon, Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva Zappa (the Zappa Trust) to acquire Frank Zappa's estate, including his expansive recordings, publishing catalog of iconic songs, film archive, and the complete contents of The Vault, the near mythic storage facility that houses the late Zappa's life's work. The content spans the prolific four-decade career of the legendary, boundary-pushing musician, acclaimed composer, virtuoso guitarist, and prominent activist.
With the acquisition, which additionally includes Frank Zappa's name and likeness, Universal Music Enterprises (UMe), UMG's global catalog company, and Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), the company's leading music publisher, will build on the company's already successful track record of working with the Zappa Trust to amplify Frank Zappa's career as a trailblazer, iconoclast, brilliant musician and fearless artist who challenged music and culture with his unconventional and uncompromising vision and advocacy.
Under the new agreement, UMPG acquires Zappa's complete publishing catalog including "Watermelon In Easter Hay," "Cosmik Debris," "Peaches En Regalia," "Uncle Remus," "Joe's Garage" and hundreds more. Described by American Songwriter as a "compositional genius," Zappa is known for writing songs offering sage advice ("Don't Eat The Yellow Snow") to astute cultural critiques ("Valley Girl" and "Trouble Every Day"), disco satire ("Dancin' Fool") to serious orchestral compositions ("The Perfect Stranger" and "Strictly Genteel").
The Zappa Trust said, "Ten years ago, Gail Zappa partnered with UMe to bring Frank Zappa's music into the digital era and help expand the Frank Zappa business around the world, setting in motion a fruitful partnership that has resulted in exponential growth. Together over the last decade we made Frank's vast catalog of music available for streaming and download, reissued many of his pivotal albums on vinyl, created a slew of exciting archival releases and expansive box sets, including a series celebrating FZ's legendary Halloween concerts, and were nominated for a Grammy for the 200 Motels (The Suites) orchestral album. UMG have more than proven their passion for Frank's art and so the entire Zappa family – Moon, Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva – is thrilled to pass the baton to the new forever stewards for all things Frank Zappa. Old and new fans will get more of what they want – more Frank Zappa music for years to come. Frank released his first album with Verve Records in 1966 with The Mothers Of Invention's debut album, Freak Out!, so this is a very full circle moment more than five decades later and we know that his music and legacy will be in the best possible hands for generations to come."
UMe President & CEO Bruce Resnikoff said, "It has been a privilege to work with the Zappa family to release Frank Zappa's music around the world, grow his audience, and protect his legacy for the past decade. Zappa was a pioneering, visionary artist who created an incredible body of work and we are incredibly proud that Gail, and now his children, have entrusted us with his important legacy. We will continue to develop innovative ways to celebrate his vast and influential catalog for both longtime fans and those just discovering his genius. As a prolific artist well ahead of his time, Frank Zappa was constantly creating and recording and he left behind a treasure trove of extraordinary still-unreleased music and video in his Vault that will help us usher in the next era of Frank Zappa fans."
Marc Cimino, Chief Operating Officer of Universal Music Publishing Group, said, "A powerful voice in music and culture, Frank Zappa was one of the most brilliant artists of his time. We are honored to welcome Zappa's influential song catalog and that his estate has chosen UMG to uphold his artistry and to grow his immense legacy throughout the world."
Over the last decade working closely together, the Zappa Trust and UMe have revitalized Frank Zappa's catalog through a steady stream of thrilling archival releases, vinyl reissues of his classic albums, streaming initiatives, and by making his music more widely available around the globe than ever before. UMG has grown streams of Zappa's music by double-digit percentages each year and recently much of Zappa's catalog was made available in Hi-Res Audio for download and streaming for the first time. On the heels of UMe and the Zappa Trust's multipronged efforts, and Alex Winter's acclaimed 2020 feature documentary "Zappa," of which UMe provided the soundtrack, Zappa and his music have experienced a newfound popularity that only continues to grow nearly two decades after his death.
In 2012, Zappa Records and the Zappa Trust – headed by his widow, Gail Zappa – made Zappa's entire recorded catalog available digitally for the first time through a partnership with UMe, with half of the albums remastered from the original analog sources and the remaining albums retransferred and prepared from the original digital tapes for CD and streaming and download. Many albums were also remastered for reissue on vinyl. Shortly after, the Zappa Trust entered into an agreement with UMe for a global license and distribution deal that saw the release of 60 of Zappa's recordings. In 2015, they partnered on a long-term, global licensing agreement for Zappa's entire recorded catalog, as well as rights management participation across the rest of the cultural icon's creative canon. The partnership grew into an expansive license with Resnikoff and UMe that also includes new product releases, trademark licensing, film, and theatrical production.
To date, there have been 122 official Zappa releases, however, that only scratches the surface of what the future holds as it represents a small fraction of the recordings in Zappa's expansive and exhaustive Vault that have been made publicly available. An obsessive documenter, Zappa recorded nearly every session, rehearsal, live performance, and even casual jam in a variety of audio and video formats across nearly his entire life. UMG plans to dive into The Vault for new archival projects for decades to come. Additionally, with Zappa's name and likeness, UMG will engage existing fans and new audiences around the world with merchandise, feature films, interactive experiences, as well as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and other next-generation Web3 projects.
From his early psychedelic rock beginnings to his avant-garde experimentation, jazz-rock explorations, symphonic suites and satirical sendups to his conceptual, compositional and technological innovations, Zappa, who was named Czechoslovakia's "Special Ambassador to the West on Trade, Culture and Tourism" in 1990 by Vaclav Havel, shattered the norms every step of the way and his influence and ethos continues to reverberate as strongly today as ever.
In his unprecedented and incredibly prolific career, Zappa released more than 60 groundbreaking albums during his lifetime, as a solo artist and with his bands, The Mothers of Invention and The Mothers. From the early primal psychedelic rock of The Mothers Of Invention's 1966 debut album, Freak Out!, one of the earliest double albums in rock, to the jazz-rock fusion of 1969's's Hot Rats, to the experimental, envelope pushing of 1969's Uncle Meat and 1971's surrealistic film and soundtrack, 200 Motels, to the orchestral compositions of his later years, Zappa's unrelentless artistic drive, pushed him into a dizzying array of musical worlds, never content to stay in one lane for very long.
In addition to those albums, some of the many highlights of his voluminous discography of studio and live albums include We're Only in it for the Money (1968), Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970), Chunga's Revenge (1970), Apostrophe(') (1974), Zoot Allures (1976), Zappa In New York (1978), Joe's Garage (1979), Sheik Yerbouti (1979), Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch (1982), Jazz From Hell (1986) and the final album to be released in his lifetime, The Yellow Shark (1993).
Following Zappa's passing in 1993, there have been more than 60 posthumous releases, beginning with 1994's Cilvization Phaze III and spanning from Zappa's last album completed before his death, Dance Me This, released in 2015 as his 100th album, to elaborate and expanded multi-disc box sets for such albums as 200 Motels, Hot Rats, Orchestral Favorites, Zappa In New York, as well as super deluxe editions of his legendary Halloween concerts, complete with costumes, and other live favorites like The Roxy Performances. Recent releases include Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show, a box set titled The Mothers 1971, which celebrates Zappa's 1971 lineups, and Zappa/Erie, a six-disc collection that brings together an exciting trio of previously unreleased concerts that the Maestro performed in Erie, Pa. and the surrounding area between 1974-76.
Zappa, who died of prostate cancer when he was 52, was a composer, virtuoso guitarist, songwriter, artist's rights champion, provocateur, anti-censorship advocate, a musical pioneer, and one-time cultural ambassador to Czechoslovakia. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and awarded the Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award in 1997.
About Universal Music Group
At Universal Music Group, we exist to shape culture through the power of artistry. UMG is the world leader in music-based entertainment, with a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising and audiovisual content. Featuring the most comprehensive catalogue of recordings and songs across every musical genre, UMG identifies and develops artists and produces and distributes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music in the world. Committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship, UMG fosters the development of services, platforms, and business models in order to broaden artistic and commercial opportunities for our artists and create new experiences for fans. For more information, visit www.universalmusic.com
About Universal Music Publishing Group
Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) is a leading global music publisher with 51 offices in 41 countries. Headquartered in Los Angeles, UMPG represents music across every genre from some of the world's most important songwriters and catalogs. These include ABBA, Adele, Alabama Shakes, Bad Bunny, J Balvin, Bastille, Beach Boys, Beastie Boys, Bee Gees, Louis Bell, Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Jeff Bhasker, Justin Bieber, Benny Blanco, Nicholas Britell, Chris Brown, Tommy Brown, Mariah Carey, Brandi Carlile, Michael Chabon, Kenny Chesney, Desmond Child, Cirkut, The Clash, Coldplay, Luke Combs, Alexandre Desplat, Jason Derulo, Neil Diamond, Disclosure, Dua Lipa, Bob Dylan, Billie Eilish, Danny Elfman, Eminem, Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Omer Fedi, Florence + the Machine, Future, Martin Garrix, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, Al Green, Josh Groban, Halsey, Kid Harpoon, Emile Haynie, Jimi Hendrix, Don Henley, H.E.R., Hit-Boy, Sam Hunt, Imagine Dragons, Carly Rae Jepsen, Tobias Jesso Jr., Billy Joel, Elton John/Bernie Taupin, Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas, Alicia Keys, Kendrick Lamar, Lil Baby, Lil Yachty, Linkin Park, Logic, Demi Lovato, the Mamas & the Papas, Steve Mac, Maroon 5, Dave Matthews, Megan Thee Stallion, Shawn Mendes, Metallica, Metro Boomin, Julia Michaels, Miguel, Nicki Minaj, Maren Morris, Mumford & Sons, Nas, Randy Newman, New Order, Ne-Yo, Nija, Pearl Jam, Post Malone, Quavo, Otis Redding, R.E.M., Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rex Orange County, Lionel Richie, Rosalía, Carole Bayer Sager, Gustavo Santaolalla, Schoolboy Q, Sex Pistols, Carly Simon, Blake Slatkin, Britney Spears, Stax (East Memphis Music), Sting, Harry Styles, Swedish House Mafia, Taylor Swift, SZA, Justin Timberlake, Shania Twain, U2, Keith Urban, The Weeknd, Jack White, Zedd and many more.
About Universal Music Enterprises
Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) is the global catalog and special markets division of Universal Music Group (UMG). Working closely in concert with UMG's record labels, territories and operating companies, UMe provides a frontline approach to catalog management, an emphasis on strategic marketing initiatives and creating opportunities in new technologies.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Universal Music Group | https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2022/06/30/universal-music-group-becomes-permanent-home-frank-zappa-estate/ | 2022-06-30 14:09:27 | 1 | https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2022/06/30/universal-music-group-becomes-permanent-home-frank-zappa-estate/ |
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (WGN) — The parents of the alleged Highland Park July 4 parade shooter have retained the law office of R. Kelly’s defense attorney to represent them.
In a statement posted on Twitter Tuesday evening, Steve Greenberg, who currently represents R. Kelly in his Chicago case, said the Crimo family has retained attorneys Tom Durkin and Josh Herman to represent their son.
Additionally, the parents have retained Steve Greenberg’s firm to represent them and released the following statement through him:
“We are all mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, and this is a terrible tragedy for many families, the victims, the paradegoers, the community, and our own. Our hearts, thoughts, and prayers go out to everybody.”
Crimo III’s father, Robert Crimo, ran for mayor of Highland Park in 2019.
In a press conference Tuesday evening, seven counts of first-degree murder charges were announced against Crimo III. More charges, like aggravated battery, are expected in the coming days. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/parents-of-alleged-july-4-parade-shooter-release-statement-retain-attorney/ | 2022-07-05 23:45:12 | 1 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/parents-of-alleged-july-4-parade-shooter-release-statement-retain-attorney/ |
HOBOKEN, N.J., June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pearson [FTSE: PSON.L], the world's leading learning company, today launched an AI Summer Reading List, a collection of titles selected to encourage the exploration of artificial intelligence. Pearson is a leader in AI publishing, helping students and professionals understand and apply generative AI to learn and advance their careers. These titles, written by leading AI experts, have been selected to spark curiosity, generate forward-thinking and unlock new potential.
"AI is the most talked about technology that is revolutionizing how we live and interact with each other. To harness its power responsibly, leaders and learners must have the resources to understand its potential and associated challenges. In order to truly understand its far-reaching social impact, these titles will help people understand its strength and apply AI responsibly in their careers and our society." said Andy Bird, CEO of Pearson.
Pearson's 2023 Summer Reading list includes:
The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond by Peter Lee, Carey Goldberg, and Isaac Kohane
Three insiders who've had months of early access to GPT-4 reveal its momentous potential -- to improve diagnoses, summarize patient visits, streamline processes, accelerate research, and much more. There has never been technology like this. Whether you're a physician, patient, healthcare leader, payer, policymaker, or investor, artificial intelligence will profoundly impact you -- and it might make the difference between life or death.
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig
This is a guide to the theory and practice of modern AI, written by renowned AI experts, Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkely and Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google. It introduces major concepts using intuitive explanations and nontechnical language, before going into mathematical or algorithmic details. In-depth coverage of both basic and advanced topics provides you with a solid understanding of the frontiers of AI without compromising complexity and depth.
Deep Learning Illustrated: A Visual, Interactive Guide to Artificial Intelligence by Jon Krohn with Grant Beyleveld and Aglaé Bassens
Three world-class instructors and practitioners present a uniquely visual, intuitive, and accessible high-level introduction to the techniques and applications of deep learning. Packed with vibrant, full-color illustrations, it abstracts away much of the complexity of building deep learning models, making the field more fun to learn and accessible to a far wider audience.
Learning Deep Learning: Theory and Practice of Neural Networks, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and Transformers Using TensorFlow by Magnus Ekman
This is a complete guide to Deep Learning. It illuminates both the core concepts and the hands-on programming techniques needed to succeed. Ekman demonstrates how to use the essential building blocks of deep neural networks to build advanced architectures, and how these concepts are used to build modern networks for computer vision and natural language processing (NLP), including Mask R-CNN, GPT, and BERT.
Foundations of Deep Reinforcement Learning: Theory and Practice in Python by Laura Graesser and Wah Loon Keng
This title is an introduction to deep Reinforcement Learning, uniquely combining both theory and implementation. It starts with intuition, then carefully explains the theory of deep RL algorithms, discusses implementations in its companion software library SLM Lab, and finishes with the practical details of getting deep RL to work.
About Pearson
At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to add life to a lifetime of learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. That's why our c.20,000 Pearson employees are committed to creating vibrant and enriching learning experiences designed for real-life impact. We are the world's leading learning company, serving customers in c.200 countries with digital content, assessments, qualifications, and data. For us, learning isn't just what we do. It's who we are.
For more information visit us at pearsonplc.com and connect with Pearson on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Media Contact:
Joe.Wiggins@pearson.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Pearson | https://www.wflx.com/prnewswire/2023/06/26/pearson-launches-ai-summer-reading-list/ | 2023-06-26 12:08:06 | 0 | https://www.wflx.com/prnewswire/2023/06/26/pearson-launches-ai-summer-reading-list/ |
Televised January 6 hearings a first in decades
By WVUA 23 News Reporter Asher Redd
The January 6th committee held their first round of hearings last night, Thursday, June 9, but one thing stands out about this hearing: it’s the first time a House Select Committee hearing has been televised during a prime-time slot.
“This was a day when the committee needed to paint a picture for the American public because Americans, like the rest of us and like all of us, need to hear a story,” said Dr. Chris Roberts, a professor of journalism at the University of Alabama.
A comparable time for media is the Watergate scandal, and although Roberts was just a little boy, so much has changed since then.
“Now we’ve got thousands of cable channels plus this Internet thing, and not everybody is on the same page as a society. The goal of the committee tonight is to get as many people as possible to understand that single narrative,” Roberts said.
Nine representatives were chosen from all across the country to take part in the January 6th Committee, two of which are Republicans.
“We have to be based in reality, and it’s easy in this era of the internet to pursue the things that agree with what we already agree with or to get rid of the verifiable information that doesn’t buy into our previously held narrative,” Roberts said.
The committee will hold more hearings in the coming weeks. | https://www.wvua23.com/televised-january-6-hearings-a-first-in-decades/ | 2022-06-11 09:01:34 | 0 | https://www.wvua23.com/televised-january-6-hearings-a-first-in-decades/ |
SAN ANTONIO, May 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PayrollOrg today announced the finalists for its third annual Showcase Standout Awards. Featuring four categories, the awards recognize the best payroll product demonstrations of those featured at the Payroll Solutions Showcase (PSS). Finalists were selected solely through votes cast by PSS attendees.
The Payroll Solutions Showcase was a two-day virtual event held in March that brought payroll practitioners together with major payroll product and service providers for case studies, product demonstrations, and four forward-looking panel discussions. The event is available on-demand through October 31.
"The Showcase Standout Awards recognize outstanding payroll providers and their presentations of premier products for the industry," said Dan Maddux, executive director of PayrollOrg.
The demonstration finalists by category:
Overall PSS Best Demo
Experian
Immedis
rapid!
Cutting-Edge Technology
Experian
Netspend
rapid!
Data Analytics and Reporting
Experian
Immedis
rapid!
Workforce Management
Experian
Immedis
rapid!
Winners for all four categories will be announced on May 18 at PayrollOrg's Payroll Congress in Denver, CO.
PayrollOrg (PAYO) is the industry leader in payroll education, publications, and networking. Each year, PAYO enrolls more than 100,000 participants from more than 100 countries in its training programs, and provides publications, newsletters, and resources to help payroll professionals maintain compliance. Visit PAYO online at payroll.org.
View original content:
SOURCE PayrollOrg | https://www.weau.com/prnewswire/2023/05/12/payrollorg-announces-finalists-showcase-standout-awards/ | 2023-05-12 16:50:38 | 0 | https://www.weau.com/prnewswire/2023/05/12/payrollorg-announces-finalists-showcase-standout-awards/ |
One more game is on tap for the Detroit Tigers, as they will look to end the 2022 campaign on a high note, as they finish up their four-game series with the playoff-bound Seattle Mariners.
- Watch the Detroit Tigers on DirecTV Stream
The Tigers looked to double-dip against the Mariners in the pair of games set for Tuesday. The first game saw both teams put runs up on the board. Spencer Torkelson and Victor Reyes each hit home runs for Detroit, while Curt Casali and Mitch Haniger both went yard for Seattle. The game ended up going to extra innings, where the Mariners used catcher Luis Torrens on the hill. While the Tigers scored a run in the top of the 10th, the Mariners came back with two win the bottom-half of the frame to come away with a 7-6 win.
The two teams had another tight battle in the night cap. Detroit erased a 4-1 deficit in the fifth inning, thanks to a Kody Clemens grand slam. However, the Mariners quickly answered back with three runs in the bottom-half of the inning, which ended up being too much for the Tigers to come back from, as Seattle won the second game of the double-header by a score of 9-6.
With the Mariners winning the first game of the day, mixed with a loss by the Tampa Bay Rays, Seattle clinched the second Wild Card spot in the American League, setting up a matchup in Canada with the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday in the their WC series.
Detroit is hoping to stay out of last place in the AL Central. Coming into the final day of the season, they are one game ahead of the Kansas City Royals for fourth in the division. If the Tigers were to lose, and the Royals wins, KC would earn the tiebreaker as they have a winning record over Detroit this season.
PROBABLE STARTERS
- DET: Tyler Alexander (4-11, 4.72 ERA)
- SEA: Marco Gonzales (10-15, 4.14 ERA)
Check out more stories about the Detroit Tigers here on MLive
What: MLB Baseball
Who: Detroit Tigers (66-95) vs. Seattle Mariners (89-72)
When: Wednesday, October 5
Time: 4:10 p.m. ET
Where: T-Mobile Park (Seattle, Wa.)
Channel: Bally Sports Detroit
Stream: DirecTV Stream
- Buy Tigers gear: Fanatics, Amazon, Lids
- Buy Tigers tickets: StubHub, SeatGeek, Ticketmaster
- Stream Tigers games live: DirecTV Stream
Check out the MLB standings and results on MLB.com | https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2022/10/how-to-watch-the-detroit-tigers-vs-seattle-mariners-mlb-10522-channel-stream-preview.html | 2022-10-05 16:12:41 | 1 | https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2022/10/how-to-watch-the-detroit-tigers-vs-seattle-mariners-mlb-10522-channel-stream-preview.html |
LOS ANGELES — Louise Fletcher, a late-blooming star whose riveting performance as the cruel and calculating Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” set a new standard for screen villains and won her an Academy Award, has died at age 88.
Fletcher died in her sleep surrounded by family at her home in Montdurausse, France, her agent David Shaul told The Associated Press on Friday. No cause was given.
After putting her career on hold for years to raise her children, Fletcher was in her early 40s and little known when chosen for the role opposite Jack Nicholson in the 1975 film by director Milos Forman, who had admired her work the year before in director Robert Altman’s “Thieves Like Us.” At the time, she didn’t know that many other prominent stars, including Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn and Angela Lansbury, had turned it down.
“I was the last person cast,” she recalled in a 2004 interview. “It wasn’t until we were halfway through shooting that I realized the part had been offered to other actresses who didn’t want to appear so horrible on the screen.”
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” went on to become the first film since 1934′s “It Happened One Night” to win best picture, best director, best actor, best actress and best screenplay.
Clutching her Oscar at the 1976 ceremony, Fletcher told the audience, “It looks as though you all hated me.”
She then addressed her deaf parents in Birmingham, Alabama, talking and using sign language: “I want to thank you for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.”
A moment of silence was followed by thunderous applause.
Later that night, Forman made the wry comment to Fletcher and her co-star, Jack Nicholson: “Now we all will make tremendous flops.”
In the short run, at least, he was right.
Forman next directed “Hair,” the movie version of the hit Broadway musical that failed to capture the appeal of the stage version. Nicholson directed and starred in “Goin’ South,” generally regarded as one of his worst films. Fletcher signed on for “Exorcist II: The Heretic,” a misconceived sequel to the landmark original.
Far more than her male peers, Fletcher was hampered by her age in finding major roles in Hollywood. Still, she worked continuously for most of the rest of her life. Her post-“Cuckoo’s Nest” films included “Mama Dracula,” “Dead Kids" and “The Boy Who Could Fly.”
She was nominated for Emmys for her guest roles on the TV series “Joan of Arcadia” and “Picket Fences,” and had a recurring role as Bajoran religious leader Kai Winn Adami in “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine." She played the mother of musical duo Carpenters in 1989's “The Karen Carpenter Story.”
Fletcher’s career was also hampered by her height. At 5-feet-10, she would often be dismissed from an audition immediately because she was taller than her leading man.
Fletcher had moved to Los Angeles to launch her acting career soon after graduating from North Carolina State University.
Working as a doctor’s receptionist by day and studying at night with noted actor and teacher Jeff Corey, she began getting one-day jobs on such TV series as “Wagon Train,” “77 Sunset Strip” and “The Untouchables.”
Fletcher married producer Jerry Bick in the early 1960s and gave birth to two sons in quick succession. She decided to put her career on hold to be a stay-at-home mother and didn’t work for 11 years.
“I made the choice to stop working, but I didn’t see it as a choice,” she said in the 2004 interview. “I felt compelled to stay at home.”
She divorced Bick in 1977 and he died in 2004.
In “Cuckoo’s Nest,” based on the novel Ken Kesey wrote while taking part in an experimental LSD program, Nicholson’s character, R.P. McMurphy, is a swaggering, small-time criminal who feigns insanity to get transferred from prison to a mental institution where he won’t have to work so hard.
Once institutionalized, McMurphy discovers his mental ward is run by Fletcher's cold, imposing Nurse Mildred Ratched, who keeps her patients tightly under her thumb. As the two clash, McMurphy all but takes over the ward with his bravado, leading to stiff punishment from Ratched and the institution, where she restores order.
The character was so memorable she would become the basis for a Netflix series, “Ratched,” 45 years later.
Estelle Louise Fletcher was born the second of four children on July 22, 1934, in Birmingham. Her mother was born deaf and her father was a traveling Episcopal minister who lost his hearing when struck by lightning at age 4.
“It was like having parents who are immigrants who don’t speak your language,” she said in 1982.
The Fletcher children were helped by their aunt, with whom they lived in Bryant, Texas, for a year. She taught them reading, writing and speaking, as well as how to sing and dance.
It was those latter studies that convinced Fletcher she wanted to act. She was further inspired, she once said, when she saw the movie “Lady in the Dark” with Ginger Rogers.
That and other films, Fletcher said, taught her “your dream could become real life if you wanted it bad enough.”
“I knew from the movies,” she would say, “that I wouldn’t have to stay in Birmingham and be like everyone else.”
Fletcher's death was first reported by Deadline.
She is survived by her two sons, John and Andrew Bick.
The late AP Entertainment Writer Bob Thomas contributed biographical material to this report. | https://www.12news.com/article/news/nation-world/louise-fletcher-cuckoos-nest-dies-at-88/507-440dbdc1-ee39-495b-9542-14ae0a867dd1 | 2022-09-24 06:12:08 | 1 | https://www.12news.com/article/news/nation-world/louise-fletcher-cuckoos-nest-dies-at-88/507-440dbdc1-ee39-495b-9542-14ae0a867dd1 |
The sixth annual awards honor the products, concepts, companies, policies, and designs that are driving change, tackling issues from climate change to inequality, and so much more.
SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The winners of Fast Company's 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards were announced this week, honoring clean technology, innovative corporate initiatives, brave new designs for cities and buildings, and other creative works that are supporting the growth of positive social innovation, tackling social inequality, climate change, and public health crises.
Selected as an honorable mention in the Climate category, LifeLabs was recognized as a distinguished project mitigating the impacts of climate change through its innovations of sustainable, thermal regulating textiles that utilize CoolLife and WarmLife technology. CoolLife technology is the world's first thermally-transparent, Polyethylene-based fabric that cools your body temperature by nearly three degrees Fahrenheit and allows an individual's body heat to escape rapidly, creating a more continuous cooling effect unlike any other apparel on the market. WarmLife uses unique reflective technology to deliver clothing that is 30% warmer than comparable items with 30% less material for more warmth with less weight and resources.
As the first material sciences company innovating thermally efficient textiles that regulate body temperature, LifeLabs is also introducing the concept of new sustainability. Reducing water usage and manufacturing resources, LifeLabs empowers consumers to be cooler or warmer and adjust their HVAC systems to reduce energy through the use of apparel made with its groundbreaking patented technology to optimize body temperature.
Now in its sixth year, the World Changing Ideas Awards showcase 39 winners, 350 finalists, and more than 600 honorable mentions—with climate, social justice, and AI and data among the most popular categories. A panel of eminent Fast Company editors and reporters selected winners and finalists from a pool of more than 2,997 entries across transportation, education, food, politics, technology, health, social justice, and more. In addition, several new categories have been added this year including climate, nature, water, and workplace. The 2022 awards feature entries from across the globe, from Switzerland to Hong Kong to Australia.
Fast Company's Summer 2022 issue (on newsstands May 10, 2022) will showcase some of the world's most inventive entrepreneurs and companies tackling global challenges. The issues highlight, among others, probiotics for coral reefs, easy-to-assemble kit homes for refugees or disaster survivors, a 3D printed vaccine patch, an electric truck, a system to heat homes from the waste heat of a name-brand factory, and prosecutor-initiated resentencing for overly long prison sentences.
"As a collective community, we can influence climate change as we know it today and even a small adjustment in our daily lifestyle can make a substantial impact," says Yi Cui, Co-Founder of LifeLabs. "We're honored that Fast Company has recognized the work we're doing to create a more sustainable world through using textiles to reduce energy on a personal and global scale."
"We are consistently inspired by the novelty and creativity that people are applying to solve some of our society's most pressing problems, from shelter to the climate crisis. Fast Company relishes its role in amplifying important, innovative work to address big challenges," says David Lidsky, interim editor-in-chief of Fast Company. "Our journalists have identified some of the most ingenious initiatives to launch since the start of 2021, which we hope will both have a meaningful impact and lead others to join in being part of the solution."
About the World Changing Ideas Awards: World Changing Ideas is one of Fast Company's major annual awards programs and is focused on social good, seeking to elevate finished products and brave concepts that make the world better. A panel of judges from across sectors choose winners, finalists, and honorable mentions based on feasibility and the potential for impact. With the goals of awarding ingenuity and fostering innovation, Fast Company draws attention to ideas with great potential and helps them expand their reach to inspire more people to start working on solving the problems that affect us all.
About LifeLabs: LifeLabs™ is a material sciences company based on textile patents from Stanford's advanced materials laboratory. LifeLabs™ bridges the gap between academia and scientific research and commercially-viable textiles that create a more sustainable world. LifeLabs™and the Life System™ of textiles introduce a unique suite of intellectual property and patents addressing peoples' environments, from mobility to home to work to sport. LifeLabs'™ patented textiles maximize comfort and performance while reducing energy on a personal and global scale.
Media Contact:
Amy Pandya
R&CPMK
(310) 967-3418
amy.pandya@rogersandcowanpmk.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE LifeLabs Design | https://www.kold.com/prnewswire/2022/05/05/lifelabs-honored-climate-category-fast-companys-2022-world-changing-ideas-awards/ | 2022-05-05 13:57:29 | 1 | https://www.kold.com/prnewswire/2022/05/05/lifelabs-honored-climate-category-fast-companys-2022-world-changing-ideas-awards/ |
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Monday that he’s open to the idea of freezing spending at current levels in order to secure a debt ceiling deal — an idea supported by President Biden but is sure to infuriate liberals in Jeffries’ own Democratic Caucus.
“As part of the effort to find common ground we’re willing to consider freezing spending,” Jeffries told reporters outside the Capitol. “That is not an extreme proposal. That is a reasonable proposal.”
Amid the talks with Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), the White House has offered Republicans a freeze in federal spending at current, fiscal year 2023 levels — a proposal McCarthy has rejected.
“A freeze is not less; a freeze is spending the same amount,” McCarthy said Monday evening, shortly after he met with Biden at the White House to discuss a path forward.
The spending caps have emerged as a central sticking point in the high-stakes negotiations to raise the debt ceiling and prevent a government default, which the Treasury Department has warned could happen as soon as June 1.
Behind McCarthy, Republicans are insisting on steep spending cuts as a condition of raising the debt ceiling, leveraging the threat of default to pressure Biden to accept their terms.
House Republicans had passed a debt ceiling package last month that would cut fiscal 2024 spending back to fiscal 2022 levels — a decrease estimated to be roughly $130 billion below the 2023 levels. They’re noting that the 2022 spending levels were in place as recently as December, when Congress passed a massive government funding bill establishing the current 2023 levels.
“It was not a big cut; it was the same money we were spending five months ago,” said Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), head of the hardline Freedom Caucus, whose members have warned that they won’t except a watered-down version of the House-passed bill.
“What we’re willing to accept is what we passed last month,” Perry added. “That’s why we passed it.”
Highlighting the perils facing Democratic leaders, a number of liberals are fighting to hike federal spending, warning that cuts would harm programs that benefit the most vulnerable populations.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), a staunch liberal, praised Biden on Monday for pushing back against what she characterized as the “some of the extreme demands” from Republicans. But she also warned that there are limits to how far Biden can compromise, and accepting cuts is “going to be a problem” with progressives.
“We do not negotiate through the debt ceiling for this very reason,” she said.
Jeffries acknowledged the unpopularity of the spending freeze, which Democrats have characterized as a cut when inflation is factored in. But he suggested he’s willing to accept it anyways, as a concession to the Republicans who control the House.
“Any proposal that potentially offers to freeze spending is not a proposal that has been put into the public domain by the left flank,” Jeffries said. “That’s an inherently reasonable effort to find common ground in a divided government situation.”
McCarthy and Biden reached no agreement during their White House meeting on Monday. But McCarthy said the sides have moved “closer” to a deal. And staff-level negotiations are expected to continue into Monday night. | https://fox59.com/hill-politics/jeffries-suggests-hed-support-spending-freeze/ | 2023-05-23 03:31:32 | 1 | https://fox59.com/hill-politics/jeffries-suggests-hed-support-spending-freeze/ |
WASHINGTON — Abbott Labs said Friday it is recalling some ready-to-feed liquid baby formula, citing a bottle cap defect.
The recall involves certain lots of 2 fluid ounce/59 milliliter bottles from the brands Similac Pro-Total Comfort, Pedialyte Electrolyte Solution, Similac NeoSure and more. The company said less than 1% of the bottles in the recalled lots have faulty caps that may not have sealed completely, which could lead to spoiled product.
"Intake of a spoiled formula product could result in gastrointestinal symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea," the company said in a statement.
The company stressed in its announcement that the recall involves "less than a day's worth" of the total amount of formula used in the U.S. and it's not expected to impact the overall supply of baby formula.
The February shutdown of an Abbott plant in Michigan contributed to a national shortage of baby formula, which the country is still dealing with.
The products included in this new recall were manufactured at the company's Columbus, Ohio, manufacturing facility.
The company said these formula products are also produced on another manufacturing line not impacted by the recall, so consumers should verify the lot numbers on the bottom or the side of the bottles to determine if it's included in the recall.
You can visit the recall site to see the full list of lot numbers impacted by the recall. The company urges consumers to not feed the recalled products to their children.
Certain lots from these brands recalled in the US.:
- Similac 360 Total Care
- Similac 360 Total Care Sensitive
- Similac Special Care 24
- Similac Pro-Total Comfort
- Similac NeoSure
- Pedialyte Electrolyte Solution
Abbott reassured consumers that the recent recall is not related to the Sturgis powder recall from their Michigan plant.
The company recalled several leading brands of formula in February, including Similac. That squeezed supplies already strained by supply chain disruptions and stockpiling during COVID-19 shutdowns. Abbott is one of just four companies that produce 90% of U.S. formula.
The shortage was most dire for children with allergies, digestive problems and metabolic disorders who rely on specialty formulas.
The plant was closed in February after the Food and Drug Administration began investigating four bacterial infections among infants who consumed powdered formula from the plant. Two of the babies died. The company says its products have not been directly linked to the infections, which involved different bacterial strains.
Abbott Labs reopened their Michigan plant in July.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/nation-world/abbott-issues-baby-formula-recall-possibly-spoiled-products/507-6bfc1b9a-0ce1-468c-bb2b-6c2d0f481403 | 2022-10-14 21:41:54 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/nation-world/abbott-issues-baby-formula-recall-possibly-spoiled-products/507-6bfc1b9a-0ce1-468c-bb2b-6c2d0f481403 |
NEW YORK (AP) — The American Library Association, the American Federation of Teachers and more than a dozen other organizations have formed a coalition to fight the nationwide wave of book bans and challenges.
Unite Against Book Bans ( https://uniteagainstbookbans.org ) also includes the publishers Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster and Macmillan, the Authors Guild and the National Coalition Against Censorship. Resources will include helping community members draft petitions, forming questionnaires for political candidates and designing graphics for social media.
“This is a dangerous time for readers and the public servants who provide access to reading materials. Readers, particularly students, are losing access to critical information, and librarians and teachers are under attack for doing their jobs,” Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the library association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, said in a statement Tuesday. “It’s time that policymakers understand the severity of this issue.”
The library association reported last month that it tracked nearly 1,600 attempts to ban books in 2021, the highest since it began recording challenges more than 20 years ago.
“Our partners and supporters are critical in moving the needle to ultimately bring an end to book bans,” Caldwell-Stone said in a statement. “As the campaign evolves, our growing network of supporters will work to prevent those bans, ensuring access to information for all and advocating for the important work of libraries and librarians.”
. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/entertainment-news/librarians-authors-publishers-form-anti-book-ban-coalition/ | 2022-05-10 21:36:54 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/entertainment-news/librarians-authors-publishers-form-anti-book-ban-coalition/ |
Thursday, Feb. 2
• Steuben Township Advisory Board budget hearing, Steuben Township Fire Department, 1405 W. Main St., Pleasant Lake, 6 p.m.
Monday, Feb. 6
• Angola Fire Pension Board, Angola Training Center, 306 W. Mill St., Suite 1B, 9 a.m. Special meeting.
• Steuben County Board of Commissioners, Steuben Community Center, 317 S. Wayne St., Angola, 9 a.m.
• Steuben County Drainage Board, Steuben Community Center, 317 S. Wayne St., at 2 p.m.
• Fremont Community Schools, Superintendent’s Office, 1100 W. Toledo St., Fremont, 6 p.m. Special meeting.
• Angola Common Council, City Hall, 210 N. Public Square, Angola, 7 p.m.
• Angola Board of Public Works and Safety, City Hall, 210 N. Public Square, Angola, 6:30 p.m.
• Clear Lake Plan Commission, Town Hall, 111 Gecowets Drive, Fremont, 7 p.m.
• Hamilton Town Council, Town Hall, 900 S. Wayne St., Hamilton, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 7
• Angola Historic Preservation Commission, City Hall, 210 N. Public Square, 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 8
• Steuben County Soil and Water Conservation District, Angola USDA Service Center, 1220 N. C.R. 200W, Suite L, Angola, 5 p.m.
Thursday. Feb. 9
• Northeast Indiana Solid Waste Management District Executive Committee, District Offices, 2320 W. C.R. 800S, Ashley, 5 p.m.
• Northeast Indiana Solid Waste Management District, District Offices, 2320 W. C.R. 800S, Ashley, 5:30 p.m. | https://www.kpcnews.com/heraldrepublican/article_cdffc644-16fc-5986-a70a-7df921700f68.html | 2023-02-01 20:37:52 | 0 | https://www.kpcnews.com/heraldrepublican/article_cdffc644-16fc-5986-a70a-7df921700f68.html |
Five to Flow is a global consulting collective that builds integrative organizational wellness solutions designed to achieve and sustain peak business performance.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Five to Flow™ today announces a strategic partnership with ThirdEye Consulting to build holistic organizational change programs by using the five core elements of organizational wellness and The Wellness Wave™ diagnostic. ThirdEye Consulting is a boutique consulting agency with the highest level of technical resources and expertise across Salesforce products and MuleSoft's Anypoint platform.
Five to Flow and ThirdEye share a strong commitment to helping business professionals improve employee engagement, customer experience, and revenue growth. ThirdEye has recognized the need for its customers to connect the disconnected core elements of their digital transformations and improve technology adoption using a people-first approach. Five to Flow is uniquely positioned to be an agent of change on ThirdEye's transformational projects that require people, culture, process, and analytics solutions to achieve and sustain peak business performance.
"Our customers will benefit from Five to Flow's integrative approach that is fueled by the Wellness Wave™ diagnostic", said Kelley Walton, Co-Founder at ThirdEye Consulting. "By joining forces with Five to Flow, we are reinforcing our commitment to adapting quickly to meet the ever-changing needs of our customers in EMEA."
ThirdEye and Five to Flow's alliance is timely given the rapid state of change businesses are experiencing across the globe. According to Gartner's Organizational Change Management report, on average, organizations today have gone through five major firmwide changes in the past three years—and nearly 75% expect to increase the types of major change initiatives they will undertake in the next three years. Additionally, cultural inertia causes most of the failures for change initiatives. According to the 2018 Gartner CEO and Business Executive Survey, 46% of CIOs report culture is the biggest barrier to success, while 42% of CEOs at companies undergoing digital transformations expect their firms to undergo deep culture changes.
"Our alliance with ThirdEye Consulting will pave the way for our expansion in Europe", said Kate Visconti, Founder & CEO of Five to Flow. "We are excited to pursue our shared mission to deliver holistic solutions with ThirdEye's experienced team that help organizations achieve and sustain peak business performance across the five core elements."
Five to Flow is a global consulting collective that builds integrative organizational wellness solutions designed to achieve and sustain peak performance. Our proprietary methodology is driven by five core elements of organizational wellness. We are the bridge between who an organization thinks they are, who they actually are, and who they aspire to be.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Five to Flow | https://www.weau.com/prnewswire/2022/07/20/five-flow-thirdeye-consulting-form-strategic-alliance-build-holistic-organizational-change-programs/ | 2022-07-20 12:45:24 | 0 | https://www.weau.com/prnewswire/2022/07/20/five-flow-thirdeye-consulting-form-strategic-alliance-build-holistic-organizational-change-programs/ |
DENVER, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Richey May, the hedge, private equity, and venture capital fund advisory and accounting firm, has launched a new cybersecurity practice, led by financial services industry veteran Michael Nouguier. With more than 100 years of combined experience in the technical, operational, and procedural requirements impacting the hedge fund and asset management industries, Richey May's cybersecurity practice is uniquely equipped to help investment managers prepare for tighter regulations on the horizon.
"We are proud to offer our clients a comprehensive approach to cybersecurity that can help them plan from strategy to execution of their security program. We understand that each fund has its own unique needs, so we strive to provide tailored solutions that meet their individual requirements," said Michael Nouguier, director of Richey May's cybersecurity practice.
With requirements proposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for hedge funds and other asset managers set to become increasingly stringent in the near future, it is more important than ever for investment firms to be proactive about their cybersecurity measures. As such, Richey May's new offering is designed to keep assets secure and help managers stay ahead of regulatory changes.
The practice also offers additional services such as third-party risk assessments, cyber incident response planning, execution support, and security awareness training programs. Through these offerings, Richey May provides guidance on how best to protect fund data from intrusions while ensuring compliance with all applicable laws and regulations in today's rapidly evolving digital landscape.
"We are excited about this new venture," said Danny O'Connor, Alternative Investments Leader at Richey May. "Our goal is to help our clients navigate the complexities of managing their cyber risk so they can focus on what matters most - running their fund."
About Richey May:
Richey May provides full-service advisory and technology consulting along with assurance and tax services to clients nationwide. The firm specializes in financial services, alternative investments, mortgage banking, and other regulated industries, and offers a wide range of tailored solutions to meet the needs of many different types of organizations, from Fortune 1000 to successful privately-held companies and their owners. www.richeymay.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Richey May | https://www.kbtx.com/prnewswire/2023/02/28/richey-may-launches-fund-cybersecurity-practice-help-investment-managers-keep-their-assets-secure/ | 2023-02-28 13:21:43 | 1 | https://www.kbtx.com/prnewswire/2023/02/28/richey-may-launches-fund-cybersecurity-practice-help-investment-managers-keep-their-assets-secure/ |
By HOWARD FENDRICH
AP Tennis Writer
The U.S. Open will allow tennis players from Russia and Belarus to compete this year despite the ongoing war in Ukraine, which prompted Wimbledon to ban those athletes.
U.S. Tennis Association CEO and Executive Director Lew Sherr, whose group runs the U.S. Open, said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday that the USTA Board decided to let Russians and Belarusians enter the tournament because of “concern about holding the individual athletes accountable for the actions and decisions of their governments.”
Sherr said athletes from Russia and Belarus will play at Flushing Meadows under a neutral flag — an arrangement that’s been used at various tennis tournaments around the world, including the French Open, which ended June 5.
The U.S. Open starts on Aug. 29 in New York.
Since Russia began its attacks on Ukraine in February, Russian athletes have been prevented from taking part in many sports, including soccer’s World Cup qualifying playoffs. Belarus has aided Russia in the war.
Russia also was held out of international team events in tennis, the Billie Jean King Cup and Davis Cup. It was the reigning champion in both.
The All England Club, where main-draw play for Wimbledon starts on June 27, announced in April it would bar all Russians and Belarusians from its fields — which means the man currently ranked No. 1, Russia’s Daniil Medvedev, is not eligible to participate. Medvedev is the defending champion at the U.S. Open.
That ban drew immediate criticism from the WTA and ATP professional tennis tours, along with some prominent players, such as defending champion Novak Djokovic.
In May, the WTA and ATP said they would not award any rankings points from Wimbledon this year, an unprecedented rebuke of the All England Club. Some players, including four-time major champion and former No. 1 Naomi Osaka, said they would consider sitting out Wimbledon.
The ATP has said all points earned at Wimbledon in 2021 will fall off a player’s record and no new points will be earned there this year. The WTA has not decided exactly how last year’s rankings points from the All England Club will be treated, but no new points can be added based on how a player performs there this time.
Sherr told the AP that what happened with Wimbledon — both the All England Club’s move to keep players from certain countries out and the tours’ reaction — played no role in the USTA’s choice to let Russian and Belarusian players in.
“Our discussion was really on the merits and really the principles around both sides of this argument. This was not a commercial versus an ethical question,” he said. “There are arguments on both sides. Are you being perceived as supporting atrocious acts by a government? And at the same time: Would you hold an individual athlete accountable for that?”
___
More AP Tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | https://wtmj.com/national/2022/06/14/russian-tennis-players-will-be-allowed-to-compete-at-us-open-3/ | 2022-06-14 20:53:34 | 1 | https://wtmj.com/national/2022/06/14/russian-tennis-players-will-be-allowed-to-compete-at-us-open-3/ |
*** If you have any questions or would like to meet any of our adoptable cats, please email catadoptions@nawsus.org. This... View on PetFinder
Dax
Related to this story
Most Popular
A 39-year-old electrician collapsed and died while working on a crane at the 84-inch hot strip mill.
The 2003 murder of Merrillville businessman John Parker Jr., planned by his wife, Judy Parker, and aided by his two stepchildren, will be the focus of a television show airing at 6 p.m. Sunday.
Justen Prugh, a 39-year-old Valparaiso man, died after collapsing while at work at the steel mill, according to the Lake County coroner's office.
"The SUV appeared to collide with something that was walking in the southbound lanes," a charging document reads.
Teddia “Teddy” Caldwell formally pleaded guilty to two of 20 felony counts he faces — conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine between 2016 and 2018 and ordering a fatal 2017 robbery.
While officers were en route, the woman told dispatchers the man had broken out a window and she discharged her firearm but was unsure if she shot him, police said.
The man previously was arrested in Porter County in September 2018 after leading a sheriff's officer on a pursuit in a maroon 1993 Chevrolet Camaro, court records show.
A Griffith man was killed after hitting a semi-tractor while driving the wrong way on Indiana Toll Road Friday evening.
"The female resident stated she had discharged her firearm but was unsure if she had struck the male."
"When asked about the concealed items by a store employee, the females fled the store, making no attempts to pay for the concealed merchandise," according to police. | https://www.nwitimes.com/dax/article_7571869e-16b2-5b75-a4b4-82ad6a42e24c.html | 2022-08-12 11:37:08 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/dax/article_7571869e-16b2-5b75-a4b4-82ad6a42e24c.html |
This week, The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences apologized to Sacheen Littlefeather, the USA Mullet Championships chose their kid and teen finalists, and Japan said it wants young people to drink more alcohol.
Here's what the NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend.
Chaka Khan's New Single, "Woman Like Me"
I was a professional musician many years ago, and one of my oldest friends from that time, producer Gregg Pagani, has co-written and produced Chaka Khan's new single, "Woman Like Me."
It really is a wonderful song, and it's so great to hear this vocalist, who is almost 70, still bringing it and doing something really cool.
She has the song up on her YouTube page, website, and Spotify so folks can check it out. — Eric Deggans
Cult of the Lamb
This is a game that just came out for various platforms, and it is entirely my jam. You are this cute little sheep who has been recruited by an Elder God to form a cult in its name. So you gather followers and materials, and you gather materials by slashing your way through some very cute, randomly generated dungeons.
The other half of the game is managing your followers. You build shrines and temples for them to worship you. You also build farms and sleeping quarters, and if you don't build outhouses everyone's going to get sick because they poop damn everywhere.
You need to keep their faith in you high, because if it drops, one follower will start sowing dissent among your flock. So what kind of cult leader do you want to be? You can sacrifice your followers or brainwash them with magic mushrooms to get a quick burst of faith. Or you can give them gifts and blessings and take their confessions to keep them happy.
I should make it clear by now that at some point in the game, the line between cult and organized religion becomes a distinction without a meaningful difference.
The aesthetic of this game is so cute; all your followers are these cartoony woodland creatures with giant eyes. The design is really impressively deep because it gives you a lot of choices for what kind of cult you build, which really ups the replay value. It is Animal Crossing meets Helter Skelter, and it is adorably sinister. — Glen Weldon
P-Valley Season Two Finale
We've talked about P-Valley on Pop Culture Happy Hour, and the season two finale is making me happy. I love this show so much. For me, the central relationship is the one between Lil Murda and Uncle Clifford.
Uncle Clifford, played by Nicco Annon, is a non-binary owner of The Pynk, a strip club in the Mississippi Delta. Lil Murda, played by J. Alphonse Nicholson, is an up-and-coming rapper, and they have a beautiful relationship.
There's one moment in the season two finale that I've gone back to over and over again — Willow Murda is at The Pynk, and he's performing this song called "Seven Pounds of Pressure." It's hard. It's all about murdering people, but it's so catchy.
On top of that, you have Mercedes, who is one of the pole dancers there. She's played by Brandee Evans, and she is bringing it. I just love that sequence and the aerial shots of her coming down the pole. It is fantastic, so if you are not watching P-Valley on Starz, you should do it. — Aisha Harris
More recommendations from the Pop Culture Happy Hour newsletter
by Linda Holmes
We will have an episode about the finale of Better Call Saul, but along with that, enjoy Eric Deggans' review for NPR.
Are you the kind of person who likes a quick home makeover with some nice stories about families and a very charismatic host? You might enjoy Netflix's feather-light Instant Dream Home, featuring Danielle Brooks.
Vengeance, B.J. Novak's feature debut as a writer-director (and star), has arrived on demand after a theatrical release a few weeks ago. It's a story about a guy whose desire to start a podcast leads him down a very dark road, and while I'm not sure everything about it works, I admired its weirdness and its absolute skewering of certain media tendencies.
NPR's Maison Tran adapted the Pop Culture Happy Hour segment "What's Making Us Happy" into a digital page. If you like these suggestions, consider signing up for our newsletter to get recommendations every week. And listen to Pop Culture Happy Hour on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.iowapublicradio.org/2022-08-19/whats-making-us-happy-a-guide-to-your-weekend-listening-and-viewing | 2022-08-19 22:09:35 | 0 | https://www.iowapublicradio.org/2022-08-19/whats-making-us-happy-a-guide-to-your-weekend-listening-and-viewing |
NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AkzoNobel (AKZA; AKZOY) today announced how airlines and operators now have the opportunity to optimize the paint maintenance schedules for their entire fleets thanks to a digital management system developed by AkzoNobel's Aerospace Coatings business.
Known as Aerofleet Coatings Management, the system uses data that's gathered over several years to help ensure that aircraft are only repainted when needed, not according to a fixed time schedule alone.
"Planes are often repainted while the coating still has life left in it," explains Patrick Bourguignon, Director of AkzoNobel's Automotive and Specialty Coatings business. "Using our service will help to reduce costs, while increasing aircraft availability by anything up to a year."
Currently, aircraft tend to be taken out of service for maintenance every six or seven years, without really knowing for certain if a repaint is needed. Aerofleet addresses this issue by capturing data from both manual and drone-operated inspections and creating a database of every aircraft in a fleet. The individual histories include details of the coatings used (such as single-stage or basecoat/clearcoat coatings), as well as flight path data – such as weather conditions – which can affect the longevity of the coating applied.
"By analyzing this information and mapping it over several years, it becomes easier and more accurate to determine when an aircraft needs to be repainted, rather than simply using time or flight hours," adds Tami Swearingin, Segment Director of AkzoNobel's Aerospace and Film Coatings business. "Over time, the frequency with which aircraft need to be repainted will fall, which is significantly better for an airline's bottom line. It also means less waste, so it will be better for the planet as well."
Ideally suited for fleets in excess of 100 aircraft, the inspection service is provided by experts from AkzoNobel Aerospace Coatings, using a digital application. The app stores all the information collected, such as dry film thickness, color variation, gloss and general appearance. The data is then fed back to a database, which tracks the fleet's performance over time.
Manual inspections can be further enhanced by automated inspections conducted by drones. The drones fly in a set grid over the plane's surface – taking up to 1,000 high definition photos – and the built-in software analyzes the images to flag any issues or wear of the coatings. This standardizes the inspection and is less subjective. It's also faster and more in-depth than a manual inspection – an automated drone can scan an entire narrowbody aircraft in less than an hour. Whether digitally recording data manually or via a drone, the objective is to only have an aircraft on the ground when it needs to be.
Aerofleet Coatings Management is being launched as part of a range of support and enhanced training services available through AkzoNobel Aerospace Business Solutions, a new entity bringing further structure to many of the services already provided by the business' technical support teams.
About AkzoNobel
We supply the sustainable and innovative paints and coatings that our customers, communities – and the environment – are increasingly relying on. That's why everything we do starts with People. Planet. Paint. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We're active in more than 150 countries and have set our sights on becoming the global industry leader. It's what you'd expect from a pioneering paints company that's committed to science-based targets and is taking genuine action to address globally relevant challenges and protect future generations.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE AkzoNobel | https://www.kold.com/prnewswire/2023/04/11/akzonobel-takes-aircraft-paint-maintenance-new-heights-efficiency/ | 2023-04-11 13:01:31 | 0 | https://www.kold.com/prnewswire/2023/04/11/akzonobel-takes-aircraft-paint-maintenance-new-heights-efficiency/ |
The Kremlin says it's open to talking about a trade for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner. It warned Washington against using the media in negotiations over a swap.
Copyright 2022 NPR
The Kremlin says it's open to talking about a trade for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner. It warned Washington against using the media in negotiations over a swap.
Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.knau.org/2022-08-06/russia-is-open-to-freeing-brittney-griner-in-a-prisoner-swap | 2022-08-06 13:00:10 | 1 | https://www.knau.org/2022-08-06/russia-is-open-to-freeing-brittney-griner-in-a-prisoner-swap |
Tucker Carlson has parted ways with Fox News, the network said on Monday.
“We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,” the network said in a statement.
Carlson’s last show was Friday, the network said.
Fox said it would air a new program called “Fox News Tonight” at 8 p.m. starting Monday evening as an interim show helmed by rotating Fox News personalities until a new host is named.
Carlson was Fox’s top-rated prime-time host, netting an average of more than 3 million viewers per night, the most of any pundit on cable television.
More media coverage from The Hill:
- Don Lemon out at CNN
- Fox News faces next round of legal threats from Smartmatic
- Dan Bongino parts was with Fox News
- The biggest takeaways from the Fox News / Dominion settlement
- BuzzFeed news shuts down
Carlson’s departure from the network came less than a week after it agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems over coverage of former President Trump’s false claims of voter fraud and the company’s software.
Depositions taken by Dominion’s lawyers exposed private communications from top hosts at the network, including Carlson.
In one widely publicized text exchange with fellow prime-time hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, Carlson said he hated Trump “passionately” and called the former president’s claims of voter fraud “insane.”
Carlson’s show launched in 2016 and regularly featured controversial guests and segments on matters of race, immigration and other hot political topics of the day.
His hourlong opinion program, which featured an opening monologue and guest interviews, often acted as a proving ground for Republican office-seekers and conservative activists looking to broaden their reach with voters and donors.
Earlier this month, Trump sat for an extensive interview with Carlson, which the former president used to bash Democrats and the media.
News of Carlson’s departure broke during the network’s afternoon “Outnumbered” program, with host Harris Faulkner echoing the outlet’s public statement saying it had been a mutual agreement and thanking Carlson for his work at Fox.
During his most recent appearance on the network on Friday, Carlson indicated he expected to be back on its airwaves on Monday.
“That’s it for us for the week,” Carlson said as he signed off. “We’ll be back on Monday.”
Carlson spoke at an event on Friday for the conservative Heritage Foundation, at which he formerly was a copy editor and fact checker at the organization’s now defunct policy review quarterly.
Heritage president Kevin Roberts said after Carlson’s speech: “If things go south for Fox News, there’s always a job for you here.”
“You’ve saved me before,” Carlson replied.
Updated at 12:20 p.m. | https://cbs4indy.com/hill-politics/tucker-carlson-and-fox-news-part-ways/ | 2023-04-24 17:15:15 | 1 | https://cbs4indy.com/hill-politics/tucker-carlson-and-fox-news-part-ways/ |
HOUSTON, July 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Howard Hughes Corporation® (NYSE: HHC) (the "Company") today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized the Company to create a newly incorporated holding company structure—The Howard Hughes Holding Corporation—which will become the new parent company of The Howard Hughes Corporation and replace it as the company that is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Existing shares of The Howard Hughes Corporation stock will be automatically converted, on a one-for-one basis, into shares of common stock of The Howard Hughes Holding Corporation, which will retain the ticker symbol "HHC" as trading continues uninterrupted on the NYSE. The Board and the executive officers of the Company will continue in their same roles at the new company.
The Company believes that implementation of the reorganization will promote the growth of its businesses, including by providing additional flexibility to fund future investment opportunities and to segregate assets and related liabilities in separate subsidiaries.
The holding company reorganization is intended to be a tax-free transaction for U.S. federal income tax purposes for the Company stockholders. The holding company reorganization is expected to be effective August 11, 2023, or as soon as practicable thereafter.
About The Howard Hughes Corporation®
The Howard Hughes Corporation owns, manages, and develops commercial, residential, and mixed-use real estate throughout the U.S. Its award-winning assets include the country's preeminent portfolio of master planned communities, as well as operating properties and development opportunities including: the Seaport in New York City; Downtown Columbia®, Maryland; The Woodlands®, Bridgeland® and The Woodlands Hills® in the Greater Houston, Texas area; Summerlin®, Las Vegas; Ward Village® in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi; and Teravalis™ in the Greater Phoenix, Arizona area. The Howard Hughes Corporation's portfolio is strategically positioned to meet and accelerate development based on market demand, resulting in one of the strongest real estate platforms in the country. Dedicated to innovative placemaking, the company is recognized for its ongoing commitment to design excellence and to the cultural life of its communities. The Howard Hughes Corporation is traded on the New York Stock Exchange as HHC. For additional information visit www.howardhughes.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
Statements made in this press release that are not historical facts, including statements accompanied by words such as "will," "believe," "expect," "enables," "realize," "plan," "intend," "assume," "transform" and other words of similar expression, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on management's expectations, estimates, assumptions, and projections as of the date of this release and are not guarantees of future performance. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in these statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are set forth as risk factors in The Howard Hughes Corporation's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Quarterly and Annual Reports. The Howard Hughes Corporation cautions you not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements contained in this release. The Howard Hughes Corporation does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect future events, information or circumstances that arise after the date of this release.
Media Contact
Cristina Carlson, 646-822-6910
SVP, Head of Corporate Communications
cristina.carlson@howardhughes.com
Investor Relations
Eric Holcomb, 281-475-2144
SVP, Investor Relations
eric.holcomb@howardhughes.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE The Howard Hughes Corporation | https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2023/07/17/howard-hughes-corporation-announces-creation-holding-company-structure/ | 2023-07-17 12:40:04 | 1 | https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2023/07/17/howard-hughes-corporation-announces-creation-holding-company-structure/ |
Acquisition Will Mark TCB's Entrance Into the Attractive Greater Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and USA Market
Key Highlights of the Proposed Transaction:
- Provides TCB with an initial foothold in the Greater Los Angeles Metropolitan market
- Highly compatible business model and shared credit culture
TAIPEI, Taiwan and CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif., Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Taichung Commercial Bank Co., Ltd., Taipei, Taiwan ("TCB"), announced today that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with American Continental Bancorp, the bank holding company of American Continental Bank (collectively referred to herein as the "Company"), whereby TCB will acquire the Company in a cash transaction valued at approximately $82.1 million or approximately $41.48 per share calculated as of June 30, 2022. The actual cash consideration will be determined at closing based upon a multiple of 1.83 times adjusted book value of the Company at closing after subtracting costs of the transaction and other items.
American Continental Bank, a commercial bank based in the City of Industry, California, had total assets of $324.4 million, total gross loans of $245.7 million, and total deposits of $271.3 million as of June 30, 2022. Principally serving the Chinese-American communities in the City of Industry and surrounding communities located in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties, American Continental Bank has 5 branches located in City of Industry, Alhambra, Chino Hills, Arcadia (State of California), and Bellevue (State of Washington), and loan production offices located in Bellevue, Washington, Fremont, California, and in Carrollton, Texas, offering commercial real estate loans, SBA loans, construction loans, land loans, apartment loans, general commercial loans and residential housing loans, and other business banking services.
"We are very pleased to announce this transaction with American Continental Bank, which enables us to expand the TCB franchise to the attractive Los Angeles, Washington, and Texas markets and serve its large community of Asian-Americans," said Mr. David Jia, President of TCB. "American Continental is an excellent cultural fit with TCB, which had total assets of $26.240 billion as of June 30, 2022 based upon the exchange ratio at that time between the New Taiwan Dollar and the USD, as we have complementary business models, strong residential mortgage loan production platforms, and a focus on the Chinese-American market."
Mr. Jia added, "We are excited to be entering the Los Angeles, Washington, and Texas markets and intend to open new branches in the United States. We believe that this transaction will position us well for continued growth of the TCB franchise and the creation of value for our shareholders in the years ahead."
"We are very excited to be joining the TCB family," said Mr. Terry Lou, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. "TCB's focus on high engagement client service, disciplined underwriting standards, strong asset quality and commitment to employee development aligns well with American Continental's culture and provides me great confidence for the future of the combined organization."
Under the terms of the definitive agreement, TCB will pay to the Company's shareholders approximately $82.1 million in cash based upon calculations prepared as of June 30, 2022. The actual cash consideration will be determined at closing based upon a multiple of 1.83 times adjusted book value of the Company at closing after subtracting costs of the transaction and other items. The transaction is expected to close in early first quarter of 2023 and is subject to TCB obtaining all of the regulatory approvals as well as other customary closing conditions.
Janney Montgomery Scott LLC is serving as financial advisor to the Company and Loren P. Hansen, APC is acting as the Company's legal counsel. PricewaterhouseCoopers Financial Advisory Taiwan Ltd. is serving as financial advisor to TCB and PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal Taiwan is acting as TCB's legal counsel.
American Continental Bancorp is a community-based bank holding company headquartered in the City of Industry, California. The Company has total assets of $324.4 million. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, American Continental Bank, is a full service commercial bank, which provides business banking services to the Chinese-American communities in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties in California, and in Bellevue, Washington. Bank services include remote deposit, E-banking, commercial and investor real estate loans, business loans and lines of credit, SBA 7A and 504 loans, 1-4 single family residential loans, and a full range of depository account products and services. The Bank has three branches in Los Angeles County, one branch in San Bernardino County, one branch in Bellevue, Washington, and three loan offices in Bellevue, Washington, Fremont, California, and Carrollton, Texas. The Company's head office is located at 17700 Castleton Street, Suite 100, City of Industry, California. The Company's website address is www.americancontinentalbank.com.
Certain matters set forth herein (including the exhibits hereto) constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including forward-looking statements relating to the Company's current business plans, its future financial position and operating results and TCB's and the Company's expectations. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "target," "estimate," "continue," "positions," "prospects" or "potential," by future conditional verbs such as "will," "would," "should," "could" or "may", or by variations of such words or by similar expressions. These forward-looking statements are subject to numerous assumptions, risks and uncertainties which change over time. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made and we assume no duty to update forward-looking statements.
These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance and/or achievements to differ materially from those projected. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, local, regional, national and international economic and market conditions and events and the impact they may have on TCB and/or the Company, on our customers and our assets and liabilities; our ability to attract deposits and other sources of funding or liquidity; supply and demand for real estate and periodic deterioration in real estate prices and/or values in California, Washington or other states and countries where TCB and the Company lends, including both residential and commercial real estate; a prolonged slowdown or decline in real estate construction, sales or leasing activities; changes in the financial performance and/or condition of our borrowers, depositors or key vendors or counterparties; changes in our levels of delinquent loans, nonperforming assets, allowance for loan losses and charge-offs; the costs or effects of acquisitions or dispositions we may make, whether we are able to obtain any required governmental approvals in connection with any such acquisitions or dispositions, and/or TCB's and the Company's ability to realize the contemplated financial or business benefits associated with any such acquisitions or dispositions; the effect of changes in laws, regulations and applicable judicial decisions (including laws, regulations and judicial decisions concerning financial reforms, taxes, banking capital levels, consumer, commercial or secured lending, securities and securities trading and hedging, compliance, employment, executive compensation, insurance, vendor management and information security) with which we and our subsidiaries must comply or believe we should comply; changes in estimates of future reserve requirements and minimum capital requirements based upon the periodic review thereof under relevant regulatory and accounting requirements, including changes in the Basel Committee framework establishing capital standards for credit, operations and market risk; inflation, interest rate, securities market and monetary fluctuations; changes in government interest rates or monetary policies; changes in the amount and availability of deposit insurance; cyber-security threats, including loss of system functionality or theft or loss of company or customer data or money; political instability; acts of war or terrorism, or natural disasters, such as earthquakes, drought, or the effects of pandemic diseases; the timely development and acceptance of new banking products and services and the perceived overall value of these products and services by our customers and potential customers; our relationships with and reliance upon vendors with respect to the operation of certain key internal and external systems and applications; changes in commercial or consumer spending, borrowing and savings preferences or behaviors; technological changes and the expanding use of technology in banking (including the adoption of mobile banking and funds transfer applications); the ability to retain and increase market share, retain and grow customers and control expenses; changes in the competitive and regulatory environment among financial and bank holding companies, banks and other financial service providers; volatility in the credit and equity markets and its effect on the general economy or local or regional business conditions; fluctuations in the price of the our common stock or other securities; and the resulting impact on our ability to raise capital or TCB's and the Company's ability to make acquisitions, the effect of changes in accounting policies and practices, as may be adopted from time-to-time by our regulatory agencies, as well as by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the Financial Accounting Standards Board and other accounting standard-setters; changes in our organization, management, compensation and benefit plans, and our ability to retain or expand our workforce, management team and/or our board of directors; the costs and effects of legal, compliance and regulatory actions, changes and developments, including the initiation and resolution of legal proceedings (such as securities, consumer or employee class action litigation), regulatory or other governmental inquiries or investigations, and/or the results of regulatory examinations or reviews; our ongoing relations with our various federal and state regulators; our success at managing the risks involved in the foregoing items. In addition, the following risks related to the transaction in particular could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements: ability to obtain regulatory approvals and meet other closing conditions to the merger, including approval by the Company's shareholders, on the expected terms and schedule; delay in closing the merger; difficulties and delays in integrating the TCB and the Company's businesses or fully realizing cost savings and other benefits; business disruption following the proposed transaction. Any statements about future operating results, such as those concerning accretion and dilution to TCB's earnings or shareholders, are for illustrative purposes only, are not forecasts, and actual results may differ. TCB and the Company do not undertake, and specifically disclaims any obligation, to update any forward-looking statements to reflect occurrences or unanticipated events or circumstances after the date of such statements except as required by law.
Contacts:
Terry Lou
President and CEO
(626) 363-8988
Donald Dang
Executive Vice President and CFO
(626) 363-8988
View original content:
SOURCE American Continental Bancorp | https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2022/10/01/taichung-commercial-bank-co-ltd-tcb-taipei-taiwan-announces-plan-acquire-city-industry-based-american-continental-bancorp-american-continental-bank/ | 2022-10-01 03:37:07 | 1 | https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2022/10/01/taichung-commercial-bank-co-ltd-tcb-taipei-taiwan-announces-plan-acquire-city-industry-based-american-continental-bancorp-american-continental-bank/ |
GRAVETTE -- Halftime at basketball games is proving to be a great time to get in some reading in Gravette.
Halftime Story Time, a read-aloud program started last year by Gravette Superintendent Maribel Childress and Shannon Mitchell, high school principal, takes place during Gravette home basketball games.
"The idea for the Halftime Story Time came from Shannon Mitchell, our high school principal," Childress said. "We were at a principals' meeting, and we were talking about what we could do as a community to get family and students excited about reading, to encourage reading in children, just to build a love of reading within the community."
Childress added, "Shannon had the idea of story time because we have a lot of children and school-age people in the gym during ball games and we have lots of parents, so it is a great captive moment for us to read to students and get them excited about books and just how fun it is to read."
The Halftime Story Time program takes place during halftime of home varsity boys' and girls' basketball contests and is held in an open room under the main staircase in the lobby of the Lions' Den.
"It is a perfect location," Childress said. "I love having it right in the front lobby because, as people are coming in, they see the sign. They see us advertise the read-aloud program, and the students are gathered around. The people coming in and out can see how excited and proud the kids are to be part of the program. It is a perfect little nook. We are out of the way, and it is a little quieter and away from the music and noise."
The little nook is always filled to near capacity, but there is still plenty of room in the lobby for kids and adults to stop by and listen to various books be read aloud by Childress and other volunteers during the 10-minute halftime. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jan/16/halftime-story-time-is-a-hit-at-gravette/ | 2023-01-16 12:42:49 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jan/16/halftime-story-time-is-a-hit-at-gravette/ |
(NEXSTAR) – As federal student loan borrowers nationwide await the Supreme Court’s decision on President Biden’s debt forgiveness, new data shows thousands have received relief as part of a separate program.
More than 615,000 borrowers have received $42 billion in debt relief since October 2021 due to temporary changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, the Department of Education announced Monday.
The PSLF program, created in 2007, is intended to help employees with nonprofit and government agencies by forgiving their student loans after 10 years of payments (120 total payments). The overall approval rate among applicants was low – only around 7,000 borrowers had been approved before 2021, according to the Education Department.
In October 2021, the Biden administration temporarily waived certain PSLF requirements that granted borrowers credit toward loan cancellation regardless of their federal loan type or if they had been enrolled in a specific payment plan, as long as they consolidated their debt before the end of the waiver in October 2022.
While those temporary changes have ended, the PSLF program remains available to public workers and improvements are scheduled to go into effect on July 1, 2023. Those changes include helping borrowers earn progress toward relief, simplifying employment criteria, and providing borrowers the chance to correct account problems.
Do you qualify for PSLF?
While the temporary waiver has ended for PSLF, the program still exists.
As explained above, PSLF is intended to give eligible public service employees debt forgiveness after a set number of payments are made.
Eligible borrowers must:
- Be employed by a U.S. federal, state, local, or tribal government or not-for-profit organization (federal service includes U.S. military service)
- Work full-time for that agency or organization
- Have Direct Loans (or consolidate other federal student loans into a Direct Loan)
- Make 120 qualifying payments
You can use the PSLF Help Tool to determine if you work for a qualifying employer, have eligible loans, and have already made qualifying payments.
PSLF relief is separate from Biden’s student debt relief. The Supreme Court is expected to rule on that program before the end of June. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/42b-in-student-debt-forgiven-for-public-workers-how-to-qualify-for-the-pslf-program/ | 2023-05-08 21:40:24 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/42b-in-student-debt-forgiven-for-public-workers-how-to-qualify-for-the-pslf-program/ |
Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde are standing their ground amid their custody battle, with each of them vowing to fight for what's best for their two children, sources tell ET.
The point of contention between the exes has been where the children -- Otis, 8, and Daisy, 6 -- should live. Wilde has argued in court that their home should remain in L.A. with her, while Sudeikis insists it should be in New York.
A source tells ET that the Ted Lasso star "has never liked Los Angeles and he wants things to be the way they were when they lived in New York." The source also says Sudeikis, 47, thinks "Olivia has changed" ever since she and the kids moved to L.A.
However, a source also tells ET that Wilde, 39, has made it clear she intends to remain in L.A. This source says Wilde "has her whole life here, as do their children." Wilde's lawyer recently argued, via legal documents obtained by The Daily Mail, that there's no reason for the children to move to New York, especially considering Daisy has never attended school there and Otis attended only one semester of kindergarten in New York in 2019.
The source adds, "Olivia does her best to try to shield herself and their kids from the intrusive negativity. She doesn't want to play games or have this back and forth. She is constantly trying to be mature and protect their kids, and she doesn't want them to know about any of the animosity between their parents and makes sure not to talk badly about Jason to loved ones."
The same source says any time Wilde has tried to have a positive relationship with Sudeikis since they broke up, "she feels as though he takes advantage of it. She has made it clear to Jason that their relationship is over."
What's more, the source says "Olivia thinks Jason wants revenge because she broke up with him."
"She understands that he's the father of her children, and she tries to be as respectful as possible, but it is difficult when she believes Jason uses manipulative tactics," the source continues.
But another source tells ET, "There's nothing malicious about Jason's actions. Everything is about his children, as they are his only priority."
Previously, Wilde has argued that the point of contention between she and Sudeikis should be decided upon by a judge in California, with Sudeikis arguing it should be settled in New York. But a judge in New York previously ruled against Sudeikis on that legal front back in August 2022, and then again last week. A source previously told ET that he's always wanted to continue raising the kids in New York, "especially considering the family home that they built together is in New York."
RELATED CONTENT: | https://www.kvue.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-tonight/where-olivia-wilde-and-jason-sudeikis-relationship-stands-amid-difficult-custody-battle/603-cc71bb62-965b-4005-af40-559487755a2b | 2023-03-29 00:46:15 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-tonight/where-olivia-wilde-and-jason-sudeikis-relationship-stands-amid-difficult-custody-battle/603-cc71bb62-965b-4005-af40-559487755a2b |
Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
On Saturday, Matteo Arnaldi (No. 76 in the world) meets Alexei Popyrin (No. 90) in the semifinals of the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag.
Arnaldi is the favorite (-150) in this match, compared to the underdog Popyrin, who is +115.
Looking to place a bet on this or other tennis matches? Head over to BetMGM, the King of Sportsbooks, and sign up today with our link!
Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin Match Information
- Tournament: The Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Stadium Goran Ivanisevic in ITC Stella Maris
- Location: Umag, Croatia
- Court Surface: Clay
Watch live tennis and many more sports and shows without cable on all your devices with a seven-day free trial to Fubo!
Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Matteo Arnaldi has a 60.0% chance to win.
Bet on tennis with BetMGM, the King of Sportsbooks!
Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alexei Popyrin Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Arnaldi advanced past No. 33-ranked Jiri Lehecka, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4.
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Popyrin beat No. 287-ranked Dino Prizmic, winning 7-6, 7-5.
- Arnaldi has played 24.5 games per match (23.2 in best-of-three matches) in his 35 matches over the past year (across all court types).
- On clay, Arnaldi has played 18 matches over the past 12 months, totaling 24.5 games per match (23.4 in best-of-three matches) while winning 54.2% of games.
- In the past year, Popyrin has competed in 47 total matches (across all court types), winning 49.3% of the games. He averages 28.0 games per match (25.3 in best-of-three matches) and 10.6 games per set.
- On clay surfaces, Popyrin has played 16 matches and averaged 26.7 games per match (26.0 in best-of-three matches) and 10.2 games per set.
- Dating back to 2015, Arnaldi and Popyrin have not competed against each other.
Not all offers available in all states, please visit BetMGM for the latest promotions for your area. Must be 21+ to gamble, please wager responsibly. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, contact 1-800-GAMBLER.
© 2023 Data Skrive. All rights reserved. | https://www.wbrc.com/sports/betting/2023/07/29/matteo-arnaldi-vs-alexei-popyrin-tennis-prediction-betting-odds-plava-laguna-croatia-open-umag/ | 2023-07-29 04:53:33 | 1 | https://www.wbrc.com/sports/betting/2023/07/29/matteo-arnaldi-vs-alexei-popyrin-tennis-prediction-betting-odds-plava-laguna-croatia-open-umag/ |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 3" game were:
8-0-4
(eight, zero, four)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 3" game were:
8-0-4
(eight, zero, four) | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Midday-Daily-3-game-17494086.php | 2022-10-07 18:05:32 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Midday-Daily-3-game-17494086.php |
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Sylvester Stallone’s wife Jennifer Flavin Stallone has filed for divorce after 25 years of marriage.
The petition was filed last week in a court in Palm Beach County, Florida, where the couple owns a home.
She is seeking exclusive use of their home in Florida — they own another in California — and has asked to have her name changed back to Jennifer Flavin. She also is asking for a greater share of their assets, alleging the actor deliberately squandered money that should be available to her.
Stallone has yet to file his response to the divorce petition, and an email to a representative seeking comment was not immediately returned.
The couple’s three daughters are all adults, so there are no custody issues to resolve.
Sylvester Stallone, 76, star of the “Rocky” and “Rambo” franchises, married Jennifer Stallone, 54, a businesswoman and former model, in London in 1997.
They had dated for several years in the late 1980s and early 1990s before breaking up and later reconciling.
It was the third marriage for Sylvester Stallone, who was last married to his “Rocky IV” co-star Brigitte Nielsen from 1985 to 1987. It was Jennifer Stallone’s first marriage. | https://www.pahomepage.com/entertainment-news/ap-sylvester-stallones-wife-files-for-divorce-after-25-years/ | 2022-08-26 20:15:20 | 0 | https://www.pahomepage.com/entertainment-news/ap-sylvester-stallones-wife-files-for-divorce-after-25-years/ |
The decomposed and partially mummified bodies of three people who were recently found at a remote western Colorado campsite were two adult sisters and one woman’s 14-year-old son, Gunnison County Coroner Michael Barnes said.
The deceased are Christine Vance, 41; Rebecca Vance, 42, and Rebecca’s son, all from Colorado Springs. Two were found in a tent down the road from a campsite in the Gunnison National Forest about nine miles (14.5 kilometers) from Ohio City, Colorado, Gunnison County Coroner Michael Barnes said in an interview Tuesday. Officials have not named the son because he is a minor.
Their bodies showed signs of malnourishment, with two in the tent and one outside. Though a cause of death has yet to be determined while authorities wait for toxicology reports to be processed, the group may have succumbed to starvation, freezing temperatures or carbon monoxide poisoning from trying to make fire to stay warm, Barnes said.
The three likely started camping in July 2022 and died sometime over the winter. Family members told Barnes that the group embarked on a trip last summer and planned to live “off the grid.”
After a hiker found a body outside the tent earlier this month, deputies began investigating the site to identify the bodies. At the campsite alongside the bodies were empty food cans, books and a restroom area, Barnes said. It appeared they had begun to build a “lean-to” type shelter but not finished by the time last year’s harsh winter began, he said.
“I wonder if winter came on quickly and suddenly they were just in survival mode in the tent,” Barnes said. “They had a lot of literature with them about outdoor survival and foraging and stuff like that. But it looked like they supplied at a grocery store.”
Authorities did not find any vehicle or firearms at the campsite with the bodies. | https://cw33.com/news/u-s-news/ap-us-headlines/ap-three-found-dead-at-campsite-were-members-of-colorado-springs-family-who-planned-to-live-off-grid/ | 2023-07-26 18:54:10 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/u-s-news/ap-us-headlines/ap-three-found-dead-at-campsite-were-members-of-colorado-springs-family-who-planned-to-live-off-grid/ |
NEW YORK, Dec. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
If you own shares in any of the companies listed above and
would like to discuss our investigations or have any questions concerning
this notice or your rights or interests, please contact:
Joshua Rubin, Esq.
Weiss Law
305 Broadway, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10007
(212) 682-3025
(888) 593-4771
stockinfo@weisslawllp.com
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Brunswick Bancorp (OTC: BRBW) in connection with the proposed acquisition of BRBW by Mid Penn Bancorp, Inc. ("Mid Penn"). Under the merger agreement, BRBW shareholders will have the option to elect to receive either 0.598 shares of Mid Penn common stock, representing implied per-share consideration of $18.58 based upon Mid Penn's December 27, 2022 closing price of $31.07, or $18.00 in cash for each common share of BRBW they own, subject to proration to ensure that, in the aggregate, 50% of the transaction consideration will be paid in the form of Mid Penn common stock. If you own BRBW shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, call us or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/brbw
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Mid Penn Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: MPB), in connection with its acquisition of Brunswick Bancorp (OTC: BRBW) for approximately $53.9 million in a combination of cash and MPB stock. If you own MPB shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, call us or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/mpb
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Coupa Software Incorporated (NASDAQ: COUP) in connection with the proposed acquisition of COUP by Thoma Bravo that includes a significant minority investment from a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority ("ADIA"). Under the terms of the merger agreement, COUP shareholders will receive $81.00 in cash for each share of COUP common stock owned. If you own COUP shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, call us or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/coup
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Horizon Therapeutics Public Limited Company (NASDAQ: HZNP) in connection with the proposed acquisition of HZNP by Amgen Inc. Under the terms of the merger agreement, HZNP shareholders will receive $116.50 in cash for each share of HZNP common stock owned. If you own HZNP shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/hznp
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Weiss Law | https://www.wflx.com/prnewswire/2022/12/28/shareholder-alert-weiss-law-reminds-brbw-mpb-coup-hznp-shareholders-about-its-ongoing-investigations/ | 2022-12-28 19:50:00 | 0 | https://www.wflx.com/prnewswire/2022/12/28/shareholder-alert-weiss-law-reminds-brbw-mpb-coup-hznp-shareholders-about-its-ongoing-investigations/ |
Behind the story: How The Times covered the Chinese ‘border crossers’
The Times’ Jeong Park and Cindy Chang wrote a story detailing how Chinese migrants who entered the United States through the southern border are building their lives in California. The route the migrants took — flying to Ecuador and crossing the Darien Gap — shows new levels of desperation to reach American soil.
Park covers Asian American communities. Chang is normally his editor but reported the story with him because she speaks Mandarin.
This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
How did you find out about this story?
Jeong Park: We’ve been reading about the influx of Chinese migrants from other media outlets like the Chinese-language World Journal. That got us curious about how it’s playing out in Monterey Park, which has often been known as the first city that a lot of new Chinese migrants go to.
We were struck by the numbers from the State Department and Border Patrol, showing 2,000 to 3,000 Chinese migrants a month coming through the border, 10 to 20 times the usual number.
I started asking around: the Monterey Park mayor, City Council, organizations like the Chinatown Service Center. A City Council member mentioned Tzu Chi, a Buddhist foundation that does charity work. I contacted them, which led me to David Lu, who’s been organizing donation and food distribution events for Chinese migrants, and it all kind of went from there.
How did you find your interviewees?
Park: Cindy and I went to these food distribution events and talked to volunteers and migrants. We also connected with other migrants at another Tzu Chi event. It took a lot of effort and also a little bit of luck.
Cindy Chang: I knew one guy from when we covered the Taiwanese president coming to L.A. to meet Kevin McCarthy. I contacted him asking if he knew any of these migrants, which he did. At that point, we had already found enough migrants through other channels — but it’s the general principle that knowing somebody can lead you to someone else.
I also saw a Chinese flier in Monterey Park for a free English class. I called them and met some immigrants there. We tried to go to employment agencies in Monterey Park that I wrote about years ago, where immigrants go to find work. But it turns out a lot of that has moved online. Some of it also involves spending your time where you end up striking out.
How do you gain trust with migrants who might not feel like talking to reporters?
Chang: I start out introducing myself and asking them, “When did you get here?” drawing them into a conversation. Sometimes it’s explaining what the story is about and why I want to talk to them. There were some people that were uncomfortable talking with me. If I sensed that, I would just move on to the next person.
Some migrants didn’t give their full name during interviews in fear of retribution or other consequences. Why do you think a few of them were willing to speak on the record?
Chang: Most people did not want to give their full names because they’re worried about their family back in China. There was one man who came with his wife and three kids who said that he didn’t want his kids to be brainwashed by the Chinese government. I think people who are in that category where they’re really unhappy with the government, or may even be persecuted, are taking a stand. At the same time, he did not want his face in the photos, so we had to work around that.
What was the most challenging part of reporting this story?
Park: I think language is a big one. I’m trying to learn Chinese right now, but I am nowhere at a point where I can hold those conversations. I’m glad to be in a newsroom where we have people who can speak different languages.
Another thing that’s challenging is figuring out where to start. We didn’t want to do a story asking migrants at the border why they came, because that has already been done by other media outlets. The L.A. Times is really good at telling the stories of migrants as they are building their lives in California. Trying to figure out where to start to tell that story was really challenging.
What else did you learn?
Chang: The question of why the migrants want to come here so badly was really on my mind. The answer to that is varied. There was one person who told me he was involved in the recent “white paper” movement protesting pandemic lockdowns and government repression. There are people who do it for economic reasons. They didn’t feel like they could ever make enough money in China. I think behind that are questions about hope and the future, and people have lost that feeling when they are in China.
One woman told me that she didn’t even know the alphabet before she got here. It’s going to be a tough road for them to get legal status. I was really struck when I asked them, “Are you applying for asylum?” and the majority said they didn’t know how they were going to get legal status.
Park: It’s hard not to think about my own journey, because I came from Korea when I was 11 to L.A. I didn’t know any English. I wrote about this in a story last year. I have DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which grants temporary work authorization and protection from deportation]. Everything had to go right for me to make it to where I’m at. For a lot of these Chinese migrants, everything has to go right for them to build a life here.
The stories shaping California
Get up to speed with our Essential California newsletter, sent six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-27/behind-the-story-how-the-times-covered-the-chinese-border-crossers | 2023-07-27 10:29:00 | 1 | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-27/behind-the-story-how-the-times-covered-the-chinese-border-crossers |
BEIJING (AP) — The foreign minister of China, which has provided strong political backing for Russia in its invasion of Ukraine, said Tuesday his country wants to play a role in ending the conflict.
Qin Gang told participants at a security conference in Beijing that China was concerned the almost year-long war could escalate further and spin “out of control.”
China would continue to urge peace talks and provide “Chinese wisdom” to bring about a political settlement, he said.
“At the same time, we urge relevant countries to immediately stop adding fuel to the fire, stop shifting blames to China, and stop hyping up the discourse of Ukraine today, Taiwan tomorrow," Qin said in an apparent reference to military support provided to Ukraine by the United States and its allies, as well as concerns that China is preparing to make good on its threats to use force to assert its claim to sovereignty over Taiwan, a self-governing island democracy.
China has refused to condemn Russia’s invasion or atrocities against Ukrainian civilians and strongly criticized Western economic sanctions against Moscow. In deference to Moscow, it has yet to describe the conflict as an invasion.
China and Russia have aligned their foreign policies to oppose the U.S. and, weeks before the Ukraine invasion, their leaders declared a partnership with “no limits.” China also says Russia was provoked into using military force by NATO's eastward expansion.
Despite that, Qin reiterated China's claim that it has “always taken an objective and impartial stance based on the merits of the issue."
“China is deeply worried about the escalation of the situation and even the possibility of it going out of control," Qin said. He said Chinese President Xi Jinping had put forward proposals that have “played a responsible and constructive role in easing the situation and de-escalating the crisis,” without offering any details or evidence.
“We will continue to promote peace talks, provide Chinese wisdom for the political settlement of the Ukraine crisis, and work with the international community to promote dialogue and consultation to address the concerns of all parties and seek common security," Qin said.
China has opposed criticism of Russia at the United Nations, while insisting that the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all nations be respected, a position that underpins its claim to Taiwan, which separated from the mainland amid civil war more than 70 years ago.
Russian President Vladimir Putin could meet with the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign policy chief Wang Yi in Moscow, the Kremlin said Monday.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov hailed Russia-China ties as “multidimensional and allied in nature.”
That statement coincided with U.S. President Joe Biden's unannounced visit to Ukraine on Monday to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and show support for Kyiv days ahead of the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion.
Wang’s trip to Russia follows talks Saturday with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the sidelines of an international security conference in Munich. Blinken said he reiterated to Wang that any Chinese material support for the Russian armed forces would trigger a strong response from Washington. Thus far, the U.S. says there are no indications that China is doing so, although its close economic ties with Russia have offered a lifeline to Putin's regime.
Russia, in turn, has offered strong support for China and held a series of joint military drills amid tensions with the U.S. over Taiwan, trade, human rights and Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea.
China's Foreign Ministry issued a lengthy statement Tuesday outlining Xi's “Global Security Initiative," which aims to “eliminate the root causes of international conflicts, improve global security governance, encourage joint international efforts to bring more stability and certainty to a volatile and changing era, and promote durable peace and development in the world," the statement said.
In its only reference to Russia's invasion, it said the initiative would “support political settlement of hotspot issues such as the Ukraine crisis through dialogue and negotiation."
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/ap-online/2023/02/21/china-says-its-seeking-role-in-ukraine-peace-settlement | 2023-02-21 07:34:02 | 1 | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/ap-online/2023/02/21/china-says-its-seeking-role-in-ukraine-peace-settlement |
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A first-grade Virginia teacher who was shot and seriously wounded by her 6-year-old student filed a lawsuit Monday seeking $40 million in damages from school officials, accusing them of gross negligence for allegedly ignoring multiple warnings on the day of the shooting that the boy had a gun and was in a “violent mood.”
Abby Zwerner, a 25-year-old teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia was shot in the hand and chest on Jan. 6 as she sat at a reading table in her classroom. She spent nearly two weeks in the hospital and has had four surgeries since the shooting.
The shooting rattled the military shipbuilding community and sent shock waves around the country, with many wondering how a child so young could get access to a gun and shoot his teacher.
The lawsuit names the Newport News School Board and several school district officials, including former Superintendent George Parker III, as defendants.
Michelle Price, a spokesperson for the school board, Lisa Surles-Law, chair of the school board, and other board members did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment on the lawsuit. The former superintendent did not immediately return a message seeking comment left on his cellphone.
No one, including the boy, has been charged in the shooting. The superintendent was fired by the school board after the shooting, while the assistant principal resigned. The principal was reassigned to another job within the school district. The board also voted to install metal detectors in every school in the district, beginning with Richneck, and to purchase clear backpacks for all students.
In the lawsuit, Zwerner’s attorneys say all of the defendants knew the boy “had a history of random violence” at school and at home, including an episode the year before, when he “strangled and choked” his kindergarten teacher.
“All Defendants knew that John Doe attacked students and teachers alike, and his motivation to injure was directed toward anyone in his path, both in and out of school, and was not limited to teachers while at the school,” the lawsuit states.
School officials removed the boy from Richneck and sent him to another school for the remainder of the year, but allowed him to return to Richneck for first grade in the fall of 2022, the lawsuit states. He was placed on a modified schedule “because he was chasing students around the playground with a belt in an effort to whip them with it,” and was cursing staff and teachers, it says. Under the modified schedule, one of the boy’s parents was required to accompany him during the school day.
“Teachers’ concerns with John Doe’s behavior (were) regularly brought to the attention of Richneck Elementary School administration, and the concerns were always dismissed,” the lawsuit states. Often after he was taken to the office, “he would return to class shortly thereafter with some type of reward, such as a piece of candy,” according to the lawsuit.
The boy’s parents did not agree for him to be put in special education classes where he would be with other students with behavioral issues, the lawsuit states.
Zwerner suffered permanent bodily injuries, physical pain, mental anguish, lost earnings and other damages, the lawsuit states. It seeks $40 million in compensatory damages.
Last month, Newport News prosecutor Howard Gwynn said his office will not criminally charge the boy because he wouldn’t understand the legal system and what a charge means. Gwynn has yet to decide if any adults will be charged.
The boy used his mother’s gun, which police said was purchased legally. An attorney for the boy’s family has said that the firearm was secured on a closet shelf and had a lock on it. | https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/teacher-shot-by-6-year-old-student-filing-40m-lawsuit/ | 2023-04-03 13:34:41 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/teacher-shot-by-6-year-old-student-filing-40m-lawsuit/ |
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Winning the Nobel Peace Prize often provides a boost for a grassroots activist or international group working for peace and human rights, opening doors and elevating the causes for which they fight. But it doesn't always work out that way.
For the two journalists who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021, the past year has not been easy.
Dmitry Muratov of Russia and Maria Ressa of the Philippines have been fighting for the survival of their news organizations, defying government efforts to silence them. The two were honored last year for “their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.”
Muratov, the longtime editor of newspaper Novaya Gazeta, saw the situation for independent media in Russia turn from bad to worse following Russia's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine. A week later it removed much of the war reporting from its website in response to a new Russian law, which threatened jail terms of up to 15 years for publishing information disparaging the Russian military or deemed to be “fake.”
That could include mention of Russian forces harming civilians or suffering losses on the battlefield. All other major independent Russian media either closed down or had their websites blocked. Many Russian journalists left the country. But Novaya Gazeta held out, printing three issues a week and reaching what Muratov said were 27 million readers in March.
Finally, on March 28, after two warnings from Russia's media regulator, the paper announced it was suspending publication for the duration of the war. A team of its journalists, however, started a new project from abroad, calling it Novaya Gazeta Europe.
Muratov has kept the newspaper going through many trying times since it was founded in 1993. The paper has won acclaim but also made many enemies in Russia through its critical reporting and investigations into rights abuses and corruption. Six of its journalists have been killed.
In April, while Muratov was on a train waiting to leave Moscow for Samara, a man poured red paint over him, causing his eyes to burn. He said the man shouted: “Muratov, here’s one for our boys!”
His newspaper, too, wasn’t to be left in peace. In September, a court agreed to the media regulator’s request to revoke its license.
In appealing the ruling, Muratov argued that the regulator should have been satisfied that the newspaper was no longer publishing, but instead wanted a “control shot to the head” to make sure it was dead.
One bright spot came in June, when his Nobel Peace Prize sold at auction for $103.5 million, shattering the old record for a Nobel. The money went to help Ukrainian child refugees. Muratov also donated his $500,000 Nobel cash award to charity.
In the Philippines, the legal travails of Ressa and her news website Rappler under former President Rodrigo Duterte have not eased with his exit from office on June 30 at the end of a turbulent six-year term that activists regarded as a human rights calamity in an Asian bastion of democracy.
Her online news outfit was among the most critical of Duterte’s brutal crackdown against illegal drugs, which left thousands of mostly petty drug suspects dead and sparked an International Criminal Court investigation into possible crimes against humanity.
Throughout much of Duterte's rule, Ressa and Rappler, which she co-founded in 2012, fought a slew of lawsuits that threatened to shut down the increasingly popular news website and lock her up in jail. Just two days before Duterte stepped down, the government’s corporate regulator upheld a decision revoking Rappler’s operating license on a conclusion that the news upstart allowed a foreign investor to wield control in violation of a constitutional prohibition on foreign control of local media, a finding that Rappler had disputed.
Rappler moved to fight the closure order and told its staff: “It is business as usual for us. We will adapt, adjust, survive and thrive.”
It got backing from prominent democracy voices. “Rappler and Maria Ressa tell the truth,” Hillary Clinton tweeted. “Shutting the site down would be a grave disservice to the country and its people.”
About a week later in July, in the first days in power of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Manila's Court of Appeals upheld an online libel conviction of Ressa and a former Rappler journalist in a separate lawsuit and imposed a longer prison sentence of up to six years, eight months and 20 days for both. Their lawyers appealed to keep them out of prison and the news website running.
The ruling prompted the Norwegian Nobel Committee to react, with committee chair Berit Reiss-Andersen, saying it “underlines the importance of a free, independent and fact-based journalism, which serves to protect against abuse of power, lies and war propaganda.”
The astonishing rise to power of Marcos Jr., the son of a dictator who was ousted in a 1986 pro-democracy uprising amid widespread rights atrocities and plunder, was a new reality check on the extent of disinformation and fake news on social media that Rappler and other independent news organizations have grappled with in the Philippines.
Critics attributed his landslide electoral victory to a well-funded online propaganda, which they said whitewashed the Marcos family’s history and underscored the powerful sway of social media in a country regarded as one of the world’s largest internet users.
When asked about Ressa and Rappler in an appearance at the Asia Society headquarters in New York last month, Marcos Jr. said his administration would not interfere in court cases. He made no mention of allegations of media repression by his predecessor.
A private individual filed the two online libel cases against her, he said, and added that the closure order came off a legal breach.
“What have happened with Maria Ressa and Rappler is that it was determined that it is a foreign enterprise,” Marcos Jr. said. “And that’s not allowed in our rules, in our law.”
The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday in Oslo.
___
Follow all AP stories on the 2022 Nobel prizes at https://apnews.com/hub/nobel-prizes. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/2021-Nobel-Peace-Prize-winners-have-faced-a-year-17490900.php | 2022-10-06 14:35:51 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/2021-Nobel-Peace-Prize-winners-have-faced-a-year-17490900.php |
Hunter Ray's 5-yard TD pass to Braswell Thomas gave the Caper Tigers (2-0) a 7-3 lead in the second quarter. Lower, which trailed 10-7 at halftime, scored 13 unanswered to win, capped by Isiah Carr-Wing's 16-yard TD at the end of the third quarter. Pennsville fell to 1-1.
Be the first to know
Get local news delivered to your inbox!
John Russo
Digital producer
I graduated from Rowan University in 2011 where I studied journalism. I covered local high school and college sports at the South Jersey Times and Vineland Daily Journal. I have been a sports reporter with The Press since July 2013
Get email notifications on {{subject}} daily!
Your notification has been saved.
There was a problem saving your notification.
{{description}}
Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items.
Followed notifications
Please log in to use this feature
Log In
Don't have an account? Sign Up Today | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/lower-cape-may-reg-20-pennsville-10-final/article_46fb6be6-3079-11ed-bbd8-df5d2795d4dd.html | 2022-09-10 01:18:09 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/lower-cape-may-reg-20-pennsville-10-final/article_46fb6be6-3079-11ed-bbd8-df5d2795d4dd.html |
TAIPEI, Taiwan , May 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Gogoro Inc. (Nasdaq: GGR), a global technology leader in battery swapping ecosystems that enable sustainable mobility solutions for cities, today announced that it will hold its 2023 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (the "AGM") at Building C, No. 225, Sec. 2, Chang'an E. Rd., Songshan Dist., Taipei City, Taiwan 105, on the 30th day of May 2023 at 9:30 AM Taipei time.
Holders of the Company's ordinary shares listed in the register of members of the Company at the close of business on May 5, 2023 (Eastern Standard Time) are entitled to receive notice of, and vote at, the AGM or at any adjournment that may take place.
Copies of the Notice of the AGM, which sets forth the resolutions to be proposed and for which adoption from shareholders is sought, the Proxy Statement, the Proxy Card and the Company's 2022 Annual Report, which contains the complete audited financial statements and the report of auditors for the year ended December 31, 2022, are available on the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at https://investor.gogoro.com and on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
About Gogoro
Founded in 2011 to rethink urban energy and inspire the world to move through cities in smarter and more sustainable ways, Gogoro leverages the power of innovation to change the way urban energy is distributed and consumed. Recognized and awarded by Frost & Sullivan as the "2023 Global Company of the Year for battery swapping for electric two-wheel vehicles," Gogoro's battery swapping and vehicle platforms offer a smart, proven, and sustainable long-term ecosystem for delivering a new approach to urban mobility. Gogoro has quickly become an innovation leader in vehicle design and electric propulsion, smart battery design, battery swapping, and advanced cloud services that utilize artificial intelligence to manage battery availability and safety. The challenge is massive, but the opportunity to disrupt the status quo, establish new standards, and achieve new levels of sustainable transportation growth in densely populated cities is even greater. For more information, visit https://www.gogoro.com/news and follow Gogoro on Twitter: @wearegogoro.
Forward Looking Statements
This communication 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. Forward looking statements generally relate to future events or Gogoro's future financial or operating performance. In some cases, you can identify forward looking statements because they contain words such as "may," "will," "should," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "going to," "could," "intends," "target," "projects," "contemplates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "potential" or "continue" or the negative of these words or other similar terms or expressions that concern Gogoro's expectations, strategy, priorities, plans or intentions. Forward-looking statements in this communication include, but are not limited to, statements in the section entitled, "2023 Guidance," such as estimates regarding revenue and Gogoro's revenue generated from the Taiwan market, statements regarding the sufficiency of Gogoro's cash resources, Gogoro's beliefs regarding Gogoro's future operating performance including its ability to grow its subscriber base, projections of market opportunity and market share, potential growth of Gogoro's battery swapping ecosystem in Taiwan and in new markets, timing of Gogoro's launch in India, the capability of Gogoro's technology, Gogoro's business plans including its plans to grow and expand in Taiwan and internationally, the expected use of proceeds from the merger, and statements by Gogoro's founder, chairman, and chief executive officer and Gogoro's chief financial officer.
Gogoro's expectations and beliefs regarding these matters may not materialize, and actual results in future periods are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, including risks related to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, risks related to macroeconomic factors including inflation and consumer confidence, risks related to the Taiwan scooter market, risks related to political tensions, Gogoro's ability to effectively manage its growth, Gogoro's ability to launch and ramp up the production of its products and control its manufacturing costs and manage its supply chain issues, Gogoro's risks related to ability to expand its sales and marketing abilities, Gogoro's ability to expand effectively into new markets, foreign exchange fluctuations, Gogoro's ability to develop and maintain relationships with its partners, regulatory risks and Gogoro's risks related to strategic collaborations, risks related to the Taiwan market, China market, India market, and other international markets, alliances or joint ventures including Gogoro's ability to enter into and execute its plans related to strategic collaborations, alliances or joint ventures in order for such strategic collaborations, alliances or joint ventures to be successful and generate revenue, the ability of Gogoro to be successful in the B2B market, risks related to Gogoro's ability to achieve operational efficiencies, Gogoro's ability to raise additional capital, the risks related to the need for Gogoro to invest more capital in strategic collaborations, alliances or joint ventures, risks relating to the impact of foreign exchange and the risk of Gogoro having to update the accounting treatment for its joint ventures. The forward looking statements contained in this communication are also subject to other risks and uncertainties, including those more fully described in Gogoro's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including in Gogoro's Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2022, which was filed on March 31, 2023 and in its subsequent filings with the SEC, copies of which are available on our website and on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The forward looking statements in this communication are based on information available to Gogoro as of the date hereof, and Gogoro disclaims any obligation to update any forward looking statements, except as required by law.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Gogoro | https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2023/05/10/gogoro-hold-annual-general-meeting-may-30-2023/ | 2023-05-10 12:00:04 | 1 | https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2023/05/10/gogoro-hold-annual-general-meeting-may-30-2023/ |
It’s a Tuesday night and there’s a small party going on in a back room of the Pike Place Market. Take a left at the pig statue, go up some stairs, through a hallway and you’ll find yourself in a little library full of more than a dozen people eating pizza.
It’s a gathering of the most committed members and leaders of Fair Vote Washington, a group pushing for a big change to elections.
They’re celebrating years of hard work that might finally pay off. This November, Portland, Seattle, and three counties in Washington and Oregon are considering ranked choice voting.
These proposals vary area to area – Seattle’s ranked choice looks different than Portland’s, and Seattle will consider ranked choice voting alongside a thing called "approval voting" – but they all reflect a dissatisfaction with who elections choose.
Take one of the partygoers at Pike Place – Patricia Raftery. The story of how she discovered Fair Vote is a great one for parties: She was chasing an escaped peacock at the Mill Creek Festival and ran past a guy at the Fair Vote booth, who told her which way the peacock went. Forty minutes later, with the peacock caught, she came back and said “Hey, that ranked choice voting thing. I’ve heard about it. Tell me more.”
Here’s roughly how he explained ranked choice to her: You pick your favorite candidate as #1, but you also get to pick your second favorite and third and etc., if you want. If your favorite doesn’t get enough votes, your second favorite vote could still count.
Raftery wasn’t sold immediately, but when she attended an info session and learned more about it, she began to think it could solve her misgivings about the two-party system.
“The two major candidates, I almost never liked either of them, and there would almost always be a third or fourth candidate that I really liked,” Raftery said. “But when you looked at the numbers, you might as well just throw your ballot away. But with ranked choice voting, that wouldn't be the case.”
Nationwide frustration with both the Republican and Democratic parties is at its highest in recent years. This year, the Pew Research Center released the results of a survey showing people who have unfavorable views of both parties is at 27%. In 1994, when they began asking that question, it was just 6%.
In Oregon and Washington specifically, a lot of third party candidates are running this year. While few are likely to win, some are popular enough they’re making races tighter for Democrats and Republicans.
In Oregon, independent Betsy Johnson has split enough votes away from Democrat Tina Kotek that the election for governor could result in a Republican win for the first time since the 1980s. In Washington’s Secretary of State race, unaffiliated candidate Julie Anderson beat four Republican candidates in the primary and is polling well against a Democrat, Steve Hobbs, in the general election.
But two-party frustrations don’t account for everything. In Seattle and Portland, for instance, the new voting methods would apply to nonpartisan local races. Those races are often crowded, and fewer voters participate in them – so you have less participation and more choices.
At the same time the ranked choice people are eating pizza, across town Logan Bowers is getting ready to debate one of them. Bowers is a proponent of approval voting, which instead of ranking, asks voters simply to choose each candidate who they think is acceptable – a sort of "check all that apply" approach. The candidates who the most voters approved of would go to the general election.
Bowers is one of the approval voting campaign’s leaders. He started digging into approval voting after he ran for city council in 2019. He was one of 55 candidates citywide and didn’t get past the primary.
“When you have a field that big, there’s going to be a lot of overlap between the candidates. Two candidates can split the vote, and cause both to lose, even though their values are popular,” Bowers said.
There’s definitely dissatisfaction with who emerges from these crowded, pick-one local primaries. In liberal Seattle last year, voters had to choose between to very different candidates for city attorney: a Republican pushing to prosecute low level offenses and a progressive candidate who supported abolishing police, jails and prisons. The Republican won.
In Portland’s mayoral race in 2020, a somewhat unpopular moderate mayor was able to win in part because progressives split the vote between the primary winner and a write-in candidate.
These and other recent outcomes are signs of voter dissatisfaction, said Mark A. Smith, a political science professor at the University of Washington.
“The thing about voting reforms is, different people can kind of see that as a solution to their particular problem,” Smith said. “And even if it might not be. But it's like, ‘hey, you know, something's not working. Hey, why don't we try this thing out?’”
Some advocates hope these voting changes could help populist third-party candidates – others hope they’ll help moderates.
Alaska implemented ranked choice voting this summer and made big headlines when a Democrat won over Republican Sarah Palin in a congressional race. The reason why? The Republican vote was split between Palin and Republican Nick Begich – but enough of Begich’s voters put the Democrat as their second choice, rather than Palin, that the Democrat won.
“Palin had her constituency. There are some people who loved her,” Smith said. “There's also a lot of people out there who really can't stand her.”
Smith himself does plan on voting for ranked choice. But there are plenty of skeptics and organized campaigns against it in both Portland and Seattle.
Sandeep Kaushik is a Seattle political consultant and he plans on voting against either change.
“I do think the hope is, well, boy, if we just make this tweak to how we do our elections, more people who agree with us are going to get elected all of a sudden,” Kaushik said.
Defenders of voting reforms say, we know it’s not going to change things overnight. But maybe over time.
This story is part of a collaboration among public radio stations in the Northwest News Network covering the 2022 election season.
Copyright 2022 KLCC. To see more, visit KLCC. | https://www.ijpr.org/politics-government/2022-11-07/why-the-wave-of-voting-reform-measures-in-the-northwest | 2022-11-07 13:27:12 | 0 | https://www.ijpr.org/politics-government/2022-11-07/why-the-wave-of-voting-reform-measures-in-the-northwest |
Experts say having a will critical to your family’s future
Only 33% of Americans have an estate plan according to a recent survey from Caring.com
InvestigateTV - Having a will is one an overlooked step of life, according to a recent survey from Caring.com. Only 33% of Americans have an estate plan, even though experts said having a will is crucial to successful financial planning.
Patrick Hicks is the head of legal with Trust & Will, an online service that allows you to create estate plans, wills and or trust. Hicks said in the absence of a will family members could be confused or at odds over your estate.
In most states, you can have a will as young as 18 years old. Hicks explained that once you have a will it should be updated it regularly. Changes such as getting married, having a family, or other big life events could alter your plan.
Hicks also pointed out that making a will does not have to be expensive or time consuming. Online sites make it a little bit faster and cheaper, and you can create the estate plans on your own timeframe at sites like Trust and Will or LegalZoom.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.wafb.com/2022/09/27/experts-say-having-will-critical-your-familys-future/ | 2022-09-27 19:19:06 | 1 | https://www.wafb.com/2022/09/27/experts-say-having-will-critical-your-familys-future/ |
Mastodon bones unearthed by Michigan work crew go on display in museum
Grand Rapids – A selection of bones belonging to a juvenile mastodon who roamed the woods of Michigan 13,000 years ago is now on display at the Grand Rapids Public Museum, after workers unearthed it by chance last year.
Excited museum officials showed off some of the long-extinct pachyderm's remains on Thursday, although much of the skeleton still is going through the drying process.
Mastodons might seem similar to woolly mammoths, but they were shorter and stockier – imagine a mix between a woolly mammoth and modern elephant – and their tusks were shorter and less curved.
The Michigan skeleton was discovered by Kent County workers digging a drainage ditch about 30 miles north of Grand Rapids. Museum CEO Dale Robertson called the discovery “amazing.”
“It’s probably an understatement,” he said during a news conference Thursday before officials toured the new exhibit.
It's not unusual to find mastodon bones, especially in the Midwest. But what's special about this discovery is that as much as 80% of the mastodon’s bones are intact, “which is really, really impressive,” said Cory Redman, the museum’s science curator.
“Anything over 20 you’re super excited about, so 75 to 80% is absolutely fantastic,” Redman said.
Unfortunately, no tusks were found and only a partial skull, which is displayed under glass near a large photo of the excavation site. The skeleton was discovered last August on private property belonging to the Clapp family, who decided to donate it to the museum.
A selection of the bones, now known as the “Clapp Family Mastodon," will be publicly displayed as part of the museum's exhibition “Ice Age: Michigan's Frozen Secrets,” which opens on Saturday. The exhibit also features an array of creatures from the Pleistocene period. The museum acquired 63 new fossils and casts, allowing visitors to touch real fossilized bones and teeth.
But the Clapp Family Mastodon is the star of the show.
The juvenile was between 10 and 20 years old when it died, said Redman, which radiocarbon dating puts at around 13,210 years ago.
“What makes this specimen unique and so exciting is it's a juvenile. It's a young animal. Typically, when you find them, they're adults. And also, the degree of completeness,” Redman said. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/05/18/mastodon-bones-unearthed-by-michigan-work-crew-go-on-display-in-museum/70233016007/ | 2023-05-18 19:33:07 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/05/18/mastodon-bones-unearthed-by-michigan-work-crew-go-on-display-in-museum/70233016007/ |
Dear Amy: My husband and I don’t have children, but we are friends with many couples who do, and we enjoy spending time with these families.
Before they had children, one particular couple used to do an annual hiking weekend with us.
Once the kids came along, they wanted to continue this tradition and bring the kids.
Amy, I love spending time with our friends’ children, but this trip is not a kid-friendly experience.
Last year, their children, ages 2 and 4, cried almost the entire time as they were dragged through the heat on rough terrain for eight hours, where their parents expected them to walk most of it.
I didn’t blame these children for hating it. It wasn’t fun for anyone.
I do not want to go on this trip this year, and I’d like to find a way to be honest about why, without having them think that we don’t want to spend time with their kids.
People are also reading…
I suggested to them that we do a shorter day trip on some easier trails nearby because the kids would enjoy that more.
They replied that they wish to teach their kids “stamina” and that we can “give them breaks and they’ll be fine.”
I disagree and think the trip will be a disaster again, and the three-hour drive to get there isn’t really worth it.
Is there any other polite way of eliminating this trip, at least until the kids are older?
— Trying to be Accommodating
Dear Trying: I can well imagine what this hike to hell and back was like for everyone, and I don’t blame you for not wanting to repeat it.
You should be completely honest about this. Tell them, “It killed me to see the kids so uncomfortable during the hike. I only want to do this if we can do a shorter and more kid-friendly hike.”
That’s it. That’s you stating your own needs.
They might give you all sorts of reasons why it would be easier for the children this year. You can reply: “I know I’m not a parent, and maybe that’s why it’s so hard for me to see them struggle. I love your children and I want them to have a better time. If they have a good time, I’ll have a good time. But I need to take a different excursion.”
Dear Amy: My daughter’s mother-in-law, who lives in another state, is very strong-willed.
I am throwing my daughter a baby shower, and her MIL invited her neighbor and the neighbor’s daughter to the shower, without asking me first.
She did not offer to contribute to the shower and refused to throw one locally for my daughter, who lives near her.
She did recently throw a gender reveal party for my daughter and son-in-law and I contributed substantially. However, when I asked to invite my cousin, who lives in the area, I was told no. Although I was disappointed, I didn’t say anything because I did not think it appropriate.
When my daughter told me that her MIL had invited these extra people, I said no because we were already at maximum capacity.
In response, she and my son-in-law became very upset and my son-in-law argued with me.
I gave in, but then MIL said she now would not come, and neither will her other daughter-in-law, who was supposed to drive with her. My son-in-law blames me.
I felt she was out of line to invite these people, without asking me first. My daughter is afraid of her and just wants to get along. I relented for the sake of the relationship and even messaged: “Sorry you won’t be joining us,” but apparently this was not enough. Your thoughts?
— Setting Boundaries
Dear Setting: I think you’ve done a good job of trying to navigate this.
Understand that if you set boundaries that feel right to you, you might be teaching your daughter to do the same.
Given that she lives closer to her mother-in-law than to you (and that her husband advocates for his mother), once this baby comes, she might need some real love, patience, and emotional support from you.
Dear Amy: I was deeply moved by your response to the letter from the grandmother (“Offended Gran”) whose grandson wore a gown to his prom.
I am 73 and transgender.
I am married and have many grandchildren.
I remember how alone I felt when I was that boy’s age.
Thank you.
— T
Dear T: We can all hope that younger transgender people don’t feel so alone.
Contact Amy Dickinson at askamy@amydickinson.com | https://tucson.com/lifestyles/ask-amy-annual-hike-brings-on-major-tears/article_506f5456-03bc-11ed-bf48-67ef0f3e69e1.html | 2022-07-22 14:54:32 | 0 | https://tucson.com/lifestyles/ask-amy-annual-hike-brings-on-major-tears/article_506f5456-03bc-11ed-bf48-67ef0f3e69e1.html |
WHEELING, W.V., Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- WesBanco, Inc. (Nasdaq:WSBC), a diversified, multi-state bank holding company, announced today it will host a conference call at 10:00 a.m. ET on Wednesday, January 25, 2023. Todd F. Clossin, President and Chief Executive Officer, Jeffrey H. Jackson, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, and Daniel K. Weiss, Jr., Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will review financial results for the fourth quarter of 2022. Results for the quarter are expected to be released after the market close on Tuesday, January 24, 2023.
Interested parties can access the live webcast of the conference call through the Investor Relations section of the Company's website, www.wesbanco.com. Participants can also listen to the conference call by dialing 888-347-6607, 855-669-9657 for Canadian callers, or 412-902-4290 for international callers, and asking to be joined into the WesBanco call. Please log in or dial in at least 10 minutes prior to the start time to ensure a connection.
A replay of the conference call will be available by dialing 877-344-7529, 855-669-9658 for Canadian callers, or 412-317-0088 for international callers, and providing the access code of 8654312. The replay will begin at approximately 12:00 p.m. ET on January 25, 2023 and end at 12 a.m. ET on February 8, 2023. An archive of the webcast will be available for one year on the Investor Relations section of the Company's website (www.wesbanco.com).
About WesBanco, Inc.
Founded in 1870, WesBanco, Inc. (www.wesbanco.com) is a diversified and balanced financial services company that delivers large bank capabilities with a community bank feel. Our distinct long-term growth strategies are built upon unique sustainable advantages permitting us to span six states with meaningful market share. Built upon our 'Better Banking Pledge', our customer-centric service culture is focused on growing long-term relationships by pledging to serve all personal and business customer needs efficiently and effectively. Furthermore, our strong financial performance and employee focus has earned us recognition by Forbes as both one of America's Best Banks and Best Midsize Employers – the only midsize bank making the top ten of both rankings. In addition to a full range of online and mobile banking options and a full-suite of commercial products and services, WesBanco provides trust, wealth management, securities brokerage, and private banking services through our century-old Trust and Investment Services department, with approximately $4.6 billion of assets under management (as of September 30, 2022). WesBanco's banking subsidiary, WesBanco Bank, Inc., operates 194 financial centers in the states of Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Additionally, WesBanco operates an insurance agency, WesBanco Insurance Services, Inc., and a full-service broker/dealer, WesBanco Securities, Inc.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE WesBanco, Inc. | https://www.kold.com/prnewswire/2023/01/05/wesbanco-inc-host-2022-fourth-quarter-earnings-conference-call-webcast-wednesday-january-25/ | 2023-01-05 23:08:18 | 1 | https://www.kold.com/prnewswire/2023/01/05/wesbanco-inc-host-2022-fourth-quarter-earnings-conference-call-webcast-wednesday-january-25/ |
LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is expected to highlight the benefits of remaining in the U.K. when he meets with the Scottish leader on Thursday during his first visit to Scotland since taking office.
Sunak will meet for private, informal talks with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who wants to take Scotland out of the United Kingdom.
Downing Street said Sunak and Sturgeon will focus on “the shared challenges that people in Scotland and across the rest of the U.K. face,” and how both governments can cooperate meaningfully.
Sturgeon’s relationship with Sunak’s two predecessors, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, had been frosty and the governments in London and Edinburgh have been at loggerheads over Sturgeon’s push for Scottish independence.
The U.K.-wide government has repeatedly said that the matter was settled in a 2014 referendum, when Scottish voters rejected independence by a margin of 55% to 45%.
Sturgeon disagreed, and her semiautonomous government has pushed for a new plebiscite. But in November, the U.K. Supreme Court ruled that Sturgeon’s government didn’t have the power to hold a new independence referendum without the consent of the British government.
Sunak and Sturgeon are also expected to jointly announce on Friday millions in U.K. government funding to boost investments in the Scottish economy.
Sunak’s office said the funding aims to create thousands of high-skilled green jobs and drive growth across Scotland. | https://cw33.com/business/ap-business/ap-uk-leader-sunak-makes-first-visit-to-scotland-as-pm/ | 2023-01-13 08:23:28 | 1 | https://cw33.com/business/ap-business/ap-uk-leader-sunak-makes-first-visit-to-scotland-as-pm/ |
County hosting 4-H event Wednesday
Morton County will host NDSU Extension’s 4-H Leadership Awareness Wednesday on June 1 at the Morton County Courthouse.
Students from across the state will learn about the different aspects of local government and prepare them for civic engagement. The event will offer hands-on activities to help students understand:
- How property taxes are determined
- How to budget mill levy funds
- The role of a county commissioner
- Careers and how to get involved at the county level
The event is from 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at 210 2nd Ave NW in Mandan. LAW is for any youth in grades 7-12 who are interested in civic engagement and the political process.
‘Click It for Coffee’ event set
Mandan drivers can get discounts on coffee during an upcoming Vision Zero “Click It for Coffee” event.
Balancing Goat Coffee Co. in Mandan is teaming up with the Morton County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Drive-thru customers wearing their seat belts will get $1 off their order and a coupon for $1 off on their next order.
People are also reading…
The event coincides with the statewide Click It or Ticket enforcement campaign that started Monday and runs through June 5. North Dakota law enforcement agencies are cracking down on seat belt violations over the next two weeks, a period that includes the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
The coffee event is part of the state’s Vision Zero strategy to eliminate motor vehicle crash fatalities and injuries on North Dakota roads. For more information go to https://visionzero.nd.gov/.
Holles host Breakfast on the Farm June 11
Northern Lights Dairy, Mandan, will host a National Dairy Month event on Saturday, June 11.
The Andrew Holle family, owners of the dairy, invite the public to join them for their bi-annual Breakfast on the Farm, a free event from 7 to 11 a.m. at the dairy, 2165 54th St., Mandan.
Activities include hayrides, face painting, a farmers market, a meet-and-greet with North Dakota’s dairy princess, guided farm tours, vendor booths and displays, equipment displays and a petting zoo. The food includes breakfast, ice cream, milk, yogurt and string cheese.
Northern Lights Dairy is a 800-cow dairy farm that is located 13 miles south of Mandan on N.D. Highway 6.
School brings yard sale inside
An indoor yard sale is planned June 8-11 at Christ the King School in Mandan.
Bargain-hunters are asked to use the gym entrance across the street from 502 12th Ave. N.W. Hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saleable valuables, antiques, useful household items and other home goods may be donated for sale. Bring them to the gym between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. June 4, 6-7.
For more information, call Joe Schatz, 701-663-6265 or 701-220-6506. | https://bismarcktribune.com/community/mandannews/news/morton-county-hosting-ndsu-extension-s-4-h-leadership-awareness-wednesday/article_6af919a8-dd0e-11ec-94dc-fbe6e108f8e0.html | 2022-05-26 18:53:46 | 0 | https://bismarcktribune.com/community/mandannews/news/morton-county-hosting-ndsu-extension-s-4-h-leadership-awareness-wednesday/article_6af919a8-dd0e-11ec-94dc-fbe6e108f8e0.html |
By ED WHITE and JOEY CAPPELLETTI
Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) — A 19-year-old man suspected of randomly killing three people on Detroit streets over roughly two hours may have been emboldened when he didn’t encounter police after the first shooting, the mayor said Monday.
The victims included a single mother of five children who was waiting for a bus Sunday. Lari Brisco was planning to move this week to a suburb closer to her job as a medical assistant at an allergy clinic.
“You never expect gun violence to hit close to home. You always hear about shootings, but it’s never someone you know until it is,” said her boss, Dr. Kathleen Dass.
Police still were sorting out details while a suspect who may have a mental illness remained in custody. The man was peacefully arrested at home after a 12-hour search Sunday, following a tip from someone close to him.
He “terrorized our community,” Chief James White said.
Mayor Mike Duggan said no one called 911 when the first victim, a 28-year-old man, was shot before dawn, less than two miles from a police station.
“At 4:45 on a Sunday morning, not a lot of people are up. Some people might have thought they were hearing firecrackers,” Duggan said. “I think there’s a strong probability he expected to get caught. … And then 35 minutes later he shoots and kills a second individual and proceeds from there.”
The first incident occurred at 4:45 a.m. The suspect shot a man without provocation, walked away and then returned to fire more shots, White said.
About 30 minutes later and three blocks away, police got their first 911 call for a woman in her 40s shot on a sidewalk. Brisco, 43, was the third victim, shot multiple times while waiting for a bus a short distance away.
Dass said her clinic had planned to give Brisco a cake to celebrate her move to a new home.
“My patients loved her because she treated them all like they were her family,” the doctor said.
A fourth shooting occurred at 7:10 a.m. while an 80-year-old man was walking his dog, said Michael McGinnis, major crimes commander. He survived.
A gun found by police matched the bullet casings at the shooting scenes, McGinnis said.
Bishop Daryl Harris of Total Life Christian Ministries said he could “feel the panic” in his congregation when he informed people that an active shooter was at large Sunday.
“Many of our members were distraught as they ran out of the sanctuary to try to call their loved ones and families,” he said.
Duggan described the victims as “innocent people going about their lives on a Sunday morning.”
He lamented that Detroit has limited use of ShotSpotter, a gunshot-detection technology. It’s used in some precincts but not in the area where the shootings occurred. The City Council in June postponed a vote on expansion.
“Every single detective who came to the command center said the same thing: If we had had ShotSpotter, there was an excellent chance we would have arrested him by five in the morning,” the mayor said.
___
Cappelletti reported from Lansing.
___
Follow Ed White at http://twitter.com/edwritez
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | https://wtmj.com/national/2022/08/29/man-suspected-of-killing-3-terrorized-detroit-chief-says/ | 2022-08-30 04:48:33 | 1 | https://wtmj.com/national/2022/08/29/man-suspected-of-killing-3-terrorized-detroit-chief-says/ |
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Dozens of activists, including Greta Thunberg of neighboring Sweden, were blocking the entrance to Norway’s energy ministry in Oslo Monday to protest been protesting a wind farm they say hinders the rights of the Sami indigenous people to raise reindeer in Arctic Norway.
The activists, mainly teenagers, are lying outside the ministry entrance holding Sami flags and a poster reading “Land Back.”
The protesters from organizations called Young Friends of The Earth Norway and the Norwegian Sami Association’s youth council NSR-Nuorat, say “the ongoing human rights violations” against Sami reindeer herders “must come to an end.” Several of the activists donned the Sami's traditional bright-colored dress and put up a tent used by the Arctic indigenous people.
In October 2021, Norway’s Supreme Court ruled that the construction of the wind turbines violated the rights of the Sami people, who have been using the land to raise reindeer for centuries. However, the wind farm is still operating.
“It is absurd that the Norwegian government has chosen to ignore the ruling,” said Thunberg who joined the protest early Monday.
Over the weekend, the protesters had occupied the ministry’s lobby but were evicted by police early Monday, according to Norwegian broadcaster NRK. They shifted their protest to chaining themselves outside the main entrance to the ministry, prompting authorities to urge employees to work from home.
Norway's Energy Minister Terje Aasland told NRK that although the Supreme Court has ruled that the construction of the wind farm as invalid, the court does not say anything about what should happen to it.
The government must “make new decisions that are in line with the premise of the Supreme Court’s judgment,” Aasland told the broadcaster.
Other activists who were sitting outside the doors of nearby government buildings “have been ordered to move and if they don’t we will remove them by force," said police spokesman Brian Skotnes shortly before officers were seen carrying activists away. They were not arrested.
The Sami live in Lapland, which stretches from northern parts of Norway through Sweden and Finland to Russia. They once faced oppression of their culture, including bans on the use of their native tongue.
Today the nomadic people live mostly modern lifestyles but still tend reindeer and some still wear their traditionally bright-colored national dress. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/world/article/norway-protests-target-wind-farm-on-land-used-by-17807858.php | 2023-02-27 13:10:56 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/world/article/norway-protests-target-wind-farm-on-land-used-by-17807858.php |
Fourth-grade teacher Irma Garcia was killed in her Texas classroom on Tuesday, massacred along with her co-teacher and 19 students. Two days later, a family member says her brokenhearted husband died.
The motive for the massacre — the nation’s deadliest school shooting since Newtown, Connecticut, almost a decade ago — remained under investigation, with authorities saying the 18-year-old gunman had no known criminal or mental health history.
The alleged shooter, Salvador Ramos, was inside the Robb Elementary School classroom in Uvalde for more than an hour before he was killed in a shootout, authorities said Thursday.
The rampage has rocked a country already reeling from gun violence, and the toll has continued to climb in Uvalde, a largely Latino town of some 16,000 people about 75 miles (120 kilometers) from the Mexican border.
Joe Garcia, 50, had dropped off flowers at his wife’s memorial on Thursday morning, The New York Times reported. He “pretty much just fell over” after returning home and died of a heart attack, his nephew John Martinez told the newspaper.
The Archdiocese of San Antonio and the Rushing-Estes-Knowles Mortuary confirmed Joe Garcia’s death to The Associated Press. AP was unable to independently reach members of the Garcia family on Thursday.
Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller will hold a Mass on Thursday evening at Sacred Heart Church in Uvalde for the Garcia family and the wider community, the archdiocese said.
Married for 24 years, the couple shared four children. The oldest, Cristian, is serving in the Marine Corps as his brother, Jose, attended Texas State University. Their eldest daughter Lyliana is a high school sophomore, while her younger sister is a seventh grade student.
Martinez, the Garcias’ nephew, told The Detroit Free Press that the family was struggling to grasp that while Garcia’s son trained for combat, it was his mother who was shot to death.
“Stuff like this should not be happening in schools,” he told the newspaper. “It’s wrong. It’s not OK.”
The Garcias loved to barbecue, 48-year-old Irma wrote in an online letter to her students at Robb Elementary. Irma enjoyed listening to music and taking country cruises to Concan, a community along the Frio River about 25 miles (40.23 kilometers) north of Uvalde.
The school year, scheduled to end Thursday, was Irma’s 23rd year of teaching — all of it at Robb Elementary School. She had been previously named the school’s teacher of the year and was a 2019 recipient of the Trinity Prize for Excellence in Education from Trinity University.
“Mrs. Irma Garcia was my mentor when I began teaching,” her colleague Allison McCullough wrote when Irma was named teacher of the year. “The wealth of knowledge and patience that she showed me was life changing.”
For five years, Irma had co-taught with Eva Mireles, who also was killed.
“Welcome to the 4th grade! We have a wonderful year ahead of us!” Mireles wrote in an online letter to their incoming students last year.
__
Associated Press journalist Jamie Stengle in Dallas contributed.
___
More on the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas: https://apnews.com/hub/school-shootings | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/brokenhearted-husband-dies-after-wife-slain-in-texas-rampage/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-05-27 00:30:01 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/brokenhearted-husband-dies-after-wife-slain-in-texas-rampage/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.