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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Ancient Mars may have had an environment capable of harboring an underground world teeming with microscopic organisms, French scientists reported Monday.
But if they existed, these simple life forms would have altered the atmosphere so profoundly that they triggered a Martian Ice Age and snuffed themselves out, the researchers concluded.
The findings provide a bleak view of the ways of the cosmos. Life — even simple life like microbes — “might actually commonly cause its own demise,” said the study’s lead author, Boris Sauterey, now a post-doctoral researcher at Sorbonne University.
The results “are a bit gloomy, but I think they are also very stimulating.,” he said in an email. “They challenge us to rethink the way a biosphere and its planet interact.”
In a study in the journal Nature Astronomy, Sauterey and his team said they used climate and terrain models to evaluate the habitability of the Martian crust some 4 billion years ago when the red planet was thought to be flush with water and much more hospitable than today.
They surmised that hydrogen-gobbling, methane-producing microbes might have flourished just beneath the surface back then, with several inches (a few tens of centimeters) of dirt, more than enough to protect them against harsh incoming radiation. Anywhere free of ice on Mars could have been swarming with these organisms, according to Sauterey, just as they did on early Earth.
Early Mars’ presumably moist, warm climate, however, would have been jeopardized by so much hydrogen sucked out of the thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere, Sauterey said. As temperatures plunged by nearly minus 400 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 200 degrees Celsius), any organisms at or near the surface likely would have buried deeper in an attempt to survive.
By contrast, microbes on Earth may have helped maintain temperate conditions, given the nitrogen-dominated atmosphere, the researchers said.
The SETI Institute’s Kaveh Pahlevan said future models of Mars’ climate need to consider the French research.
Pahlevan led a separate recent study suggesting Mars was born wet with warm oceans lasting millions of years. The atmosphere would have been dense and mostly hydrogen back then, serving as a heat-trapping greenhouse gas that eventually was transported to higher altitudes and lost to space, his team concluded.
The French study investigated the climate effects of possible microbes when Mars’ atmosphere was dominated by carbon dioxide and so is not applicable to the earlier times, Pahlevan said.
“What their study makes clear, however, is that if (this) life were present on Mars” during this earlier period, “they would have had a major influence on the prevailing climate,” he added in an email.
The best places to look for traces of this past life? The French researchers suggest the unexplored Hellas Planita, or plain, and Jezero Crater on the northwestern edge of Isidis Planita, where NASA’s Perseverance rover currently is collecting rocks for return to Earth in a decade.
Next on Sauterey’s to-do list: looking into the possibility that microbial life could still exist deep within Mars.
“Could Mars still be inhabited today by micro-organisms descending from this primitive biosphere?” he said. “If so, where?” | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national-news/simple-life-forms-may-have-swarmed-ancient-mars-researchers-find/ | 2022-10-11 13:27:20 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national-news/simple-life-forms-may-have-swarmed-ancient-mars-researchers-find/ |
How to Watch Miami vs. Louisville on TV or Live Stream - February 11
Published: Feb. 8, 2023 at 5:39 PM EST|Updated: 14 hours ago
The No. 19 Miami Hurricanes (19-5, 10-4 ACC) will try to build on a three-game winning run when they host the Louisville Cardinals (3-21, 1-12 ACC) at 7:00 PM ET on Saturday, February 11, 2023 at Watsco Center. The contest airs on ACC Network.
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Miami vs. Louisville Game Info
- When: Saturday, February 11, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET
- Where: Watsco Center in Coral Gables, Florida
- TV: ACC Network
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Miami Stats Insights
- The Hurricanes make 48.1% of their shots from the field this season, which is one percentage point higher than the Cardinals have allowed to their opponents (47.1%).
- Miami has a 13-2 straight-up record in games it shoots higher than 47.1% from the field.
- The Hurricanes are the 167th-ranked rebounding team in the nation, the Cardinals sit at 266th.
- The Hurricanes record only three more points per game (78.4) than the Cardinals give up (75.4).
- Miami is 14-1 when scoring more than 75.4 points.
Miami Home & Away Comparison
- Offensively Miami has performed better at home this year, posting 82.1 points per game, compared to 74.6 per game when playing on the road.
- Defensively the Hurricanes have played worse at home this season, giving up 69.8 points per game, compared to 68.6 away from home.
- Miami is draining 8.4 three-pointers per game with a 38% shooting percentage from downtown in home games, which is 1.1 more threes and 3.1% points better than it is averaging on the road (7.3 threes per game, 34.9% three-point percentage).
Miami Schedule
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By The Associated Press
A look at what’s happening around the majors today:
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PINSTRIPE PROBLEMS
Healthy for much of this season, the AL-leading Yankees are suddenly dealing with injuries to several key players.
All-Star infielder DJ LeMahieu was a late scratch from New York’s lineup Tuesday night with left wrist discomfort, closer Aroldis Chapman was added to the injured list with left Achilles tendinitis and slugger Giancarlo Stanton was removed from the win over Baltimore with right calf tightness.
LeMahieu had an MRI that came back clean. He received a cortisone shot and could be back within a day or two. Stanton was scheduled for an MRI on Wednesday.
LeMahieu, a two-time batting champion, is hitting .250 with three homers and a .704 OPS this season. He’s 5 for 39 (.128) over his past 10 games.
New York also activated catcher Kyle Higashioka from the COVID-19 injured list Tuesday, but left fielder Joey Gallo and third baseman Josh Donaldson remained out with the virus. Gallo has tested negative and worked out at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday. He could be activated Wednesday.
The Yankees are set to give left-hander JP Sears his first big league start against the Orioles. The 26-year-old has dominated Triple-A this season and pitched two scoreless innings in two relief appearances for the big club.
LUCKY SEVEN
Minnesota and Boston are rolling, and both teams will try for their seventh consecutive victory.
Dylan Bundy (3-2, 5.14 ERA) pitches for the Twins at home against Detroit, which is 3-15 in its last 18 games at Target Field. Bundy is set to make his seventh start this season in his careful return from COVID-19. He threw 54 pitches over three shutout innings on May 17, his first outing after a 13-day layoff.
The first-place Twins are 23-8 since April 21.
New second baseman Trevor Story is batting .355 with seven homers and 18 RBIs in his last 31 at-bats for the Red Sox, on their longest streak since winning nine straight in April 2021. They send Rich Hill (1-1, 3.90 ERA) to the mound against Lucas Giolito (2-1, 2.84) and the White Sox in Chicago.
GIANT PERFORMANCE
One day after a wild slugfest, the Mets and Giants play the rubber match of their three-game series in San Francisco.
Joc Pederson homered three times and drove in a career-high eight runs, including a tying single with two outs in the ninth inning, as the Giants rallied for a 13-12 victory Tuesday night despite blowing a late six-run lead.
Francisco Lindor homered and had six RBIs for the Mets, who plan to bring up left-hander Thomas Szapucki from Triple-A Syracuse to make his first major league start in the series finale.
New York has scored 25 runs in the first two games of the series.
AUGUST AUDITION
Two starting pitchers who could be attractive trade targets before the Aug. 2 deadline face each other when Kyle Hendricks (2-4, 4.89 ERA) and the Chicago Cubs visit Luis Castillo (0-2, 4.60) and the Cincinnati Reds. Hendricks is looking to rebound after tying a career high by allowing four home runs Friday against Arizona. Castillo makes his fourth start since beginning the season on the injured list with a right shoulder strain.
THAT HURTS
Milwaukee will be without Hunter Renfroe for a while after the outfielder was placed on the 10-day injured list with a strained right hamstring Tuesday.
Renfroe was injured Monday night during a 10-inning loss at San Diego. He was hitting .266 with nine home runs and 16 RBIs for the NL Central leaders.
Brewers manager Craig Counsell said an MRI showed a low-grade hamstring strain and Renfroe could miss two weeks. Infielder-outfielder Mark Mathias was brought up from Triple-A Nashville.
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SD high school student told to cut hair or find a new school
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KSFY) - A 14-year-old boy in South Dakota will transfer high schools at the end of the semester after he was given the ultimatum to cut his hair or find a new school.
Braxton Schafer, 14, is a freshman at O’Gorman High School, a Catholic school in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He was told he needed to cut his hair to comply with the school dress code or find a new school.
His parents say the timing of the decision was unfair, KSFY reports.
“He’s had one haircut his entire life, so cutting his hair would be significant,” said Braxton’s father, Derrick Schafer.
The O’Gorman dress code’s hair policy states that boys must keep hair length “above the eyes and not touching the collar.”
“People enroll in our Catholic schools, then they know what we stand for, and they know what we are representing and the structure and environment that we will create for their family,” said Kyle Groos, president of Bishop O’Gorman Catholic Schools.
At an open house on Aug. 24th, the high school’s assistant principal spoke with Braxton’s parents about the teen’s hair. Since then, they’ve met with other administrators.
“We were open to a lot of different compromises. The only one was just not cutting his hair,” Derrick Schafer said.
During his time at O’Gorman Junior High School, Braxton said he hadn’t received any complaints about his hair from staff. That changed after he transitioned to high school.
“There’s some communication that was broken down that was not corrected and needs to be corrected. That’s what probably has us in the situation that we’re talking about right now,” Groos said.
Braxton is an active member of the school band and played his first football game Thursday. His mom, Toni Schafer, spoke with the South Dakota High School Activity Association the next day.
“Since he’s practiced and had a game, he would not be able to transfer into another school and continue with the activity,” she said.
“He just wants to go to school. He just wants to play football. He wants to be in marching band. He wants to hang out with the kids,” Derrick Schafer said.
After extensive conversations, the school decided to let Braxton finish out the semester without cutting his hair, but after that, he will transfer to a different school.
“We’re sitting here talking about haircuts when I’m sending him there for an education, and we’re getting booted because we have long hair,” Toni Schafer said.
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HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) — U.S. authorities on Thursday expanded slots to seek asylum at land crossings with Mexico through a mobile app for the second time in less than a month, seeking to dispel doubts it isn’t a viable option.
There are now 1,250 appointments at eight land crossings, up from 1,000 previously and 740 in early May.
The increase “reflects our commitment to continue to expand lawful options for migrants,” said Blas Nuñez-Neto, the Homeland Security Department’s assistant secretary for border and immigration policy. “We’ll continue to expand appointments at the border as our operations allow in terms of capacity.”
Nuñez-Neto called CBP One a “safe and orderly option” during a visit to Harlingen, Texas. He announced the expansion a week after Texas sued to end what the state government considers an illegal method of boosting immigration.
Demand has far outstripped supply from the Jan. 12 start, prompting many to consider crossing the border illegally or giving up. Enrique Lucero, migrant affairs director for the city of Tijuana, said the latest increase would have little impact considering how many are waiting.
“It’s not a big deal,” he said. “It’s still very low and not enough for the pent-up demand.”
After pandemic-related asylum restrictions ended May 11, the Biden administration continued its embrace of a carrot-and-stick approach to the border, introducing a general ban on asylum for people who travel through other countries, like Mexico, and enter the U.S. illegally.
U.S. authorities are trying to funnel people to “legal pathways” like CBP One and parole for up to 30,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who apply online with a financial sponsor and arrive by air.
CBP One is for people of any nationality who apply in central and northern and northern Mexico and enter by land.
The expansion on Thursday was met with with cautious optimism and mild indifference among some of the 150 people, mostly families with young children, camped on a sidewalk at a border crossing where Tijuana leads to San Diego, hoping U.S. officials admit them without a CBP One appointment.
They said it appeared authorities were allowing about one family every several hours, enough to create a growing bottleneck over the last week as word spread it was an alternative.
Carlos Vasquez, 25, reached southern Mexico from Honduras in January with his pregnant wife and their 4-year-old daughter and started trying daily on the app once he was in central Mexico. He became frustrated and, on Monday, began sleeping at the border camp, hoping U..S. officials would take mercy on his family.
Vasquez said the increase to 1,250 a day was good news but not enough for a major impact.
“We are many and there are few chosen,” he said.
Sergio Hernandez, 35, scored an appointment on May 24 after more than five months of daily effort. The appointments are scheduled up to two weeks out.
Hernandez, a Guatemalan who plans to seek asylum while living with a childhood friend in Kansas City, Missouri, said he had received countless “system error” messages before confirming a slot. He was once given a date on his phone screen but email confirmation never arrived.
“They keep improving it little by little,” he said.
Hernandez, who was traveling alone, said perceptions persist that larger families are at a disadvantage, which U.S. officials deny.
Beatriz Melchor, 47, said she would wait to see if the latest increase has an impact. She has been trying the app for about six weeks with her husband and son and said changes announced in early May have produced no noticeable benefit.
The changes included giving higher priority to asylum-seekers who have been trying the app longest and making appointments available throughout the day instead of all at once, which created mad rushes.
“We have more than a month trying and there are people here nine days, four days, and they get their appointments,” she said.
Melchor said returning to her hometown in the Mexican state of Guerrero wasn’t an option. Criminals blocked exits and entrances and she had to escape. If the mobile app doesn’t work, she is prepared to wait, though she said Tijuana is unsafe.
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Spagat reported from Tijuana, Mexico. | https://www.qcnews.com/news/national-news/us-expands-slots-for-asylum-app-at-land-crossings-as-demand-overwhelms-supply/ | 2023-06-02 09:46:15 | 1 | https://www.qcnews.com/news/national-news/us-expands-slots-for-asylum-app-at-land-crossings-as-demand-overwhelms-supply/ |
LegalWorks empowers legal teams to use AI-powered automation on their terms, in accordance with their own internal policies, guidelines, and data sets
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tonkean, the first-of-its-kind process experience platform, today announced the launch of LegalWorks, a product suite that enables legal teams to harness the potential of AI-powered process automation technology safely—in a way that not only increases process adoption, improves performance, and creates business value, but that actively lowers risk and better ensures compliance.
By design, LegalWorks empowers legal teams at the process level. In Legal—as in other internal service departments—your processes are everything. They're the means by which you scale efforts to improve operational performance, mitigate risk, and provide more value to the business: all critical mandates of the modern legal department.
But you can't reliably begin to achieve any of those goals if people don't follow your processes. And within Legal today, process adoption remains endemically low. At least 67% of employees routinely skip legal processes altogether. This thwarts optimization efforts before they can really even start—and fundamentally limits the potential value of the legal department as a business partner.
LegalWorks gives legal teams the tools they need to reverse these trends. It does so by putting structure around the raw firepower of innovative technologies like large language models, and by enabling legal teams to create flexible, powerful, personalized legal processes that employees actually want to follow.
For example, with LegalWorks, legal teams can:
- Safely automate matter intake. LegalWorks comes with the Tonkean AI Front Door, an AI-powered intake experience accessible to employees via email, Slack/Teams, or a customized web portal. Now, when employees need Legal to do something like create an NDA, all they need to do is… ask. Tonkean trawls the data sources you've given it access to and, if the requested document doesn't already exist, generates it instantly.
- Automatically categorize and resolve inbound requests. LegalWorks includes LegalGPT, which allows legal teams to create processes that automatically triage and classify unstructured inbound business requests. LegalWorks also identifies the urgency of every inbound request, auto-handles simple requests—like requests for NDAs and SOWs—and auto-routes more complex requests (for conflict waivers, IP, or engagements with outside counsel) to the right person or practice group.
- Create processes that meet employees where they are. Tonkean wraps seamlessly around whatever tools, policies, and systems your organization already has in place. This means that never again will employees need to undergo frustrating change management, or useless company-wide training and enablement sessions, in order to engage with a Legal process. Rather, they can access the process from wherever they like to work.
- Customize processes using Tonkean's 100% no-code builder. Finally, with LegalWorks, legal teams can take full control over the way they work, because the award-winning Tonkean interface is 100% no-code. No more trainings, change management, or relying on developers in order to implement process improvements or iterate on workflows.
In full, LegalWorks was designed to finally give legal teams the technical means to do what modern legal departments need to do: create business value, save money, reduce risk, and increase process adoption. And it does so without ever jeopardizing your organization's sensitive data or general security.
"Increasing process adoption is not a 'nice to have' for legal teams—it's a must," says Sagi Eliyahu, CEO and co-founder of Tonkean. "Compliance, efficiency, cost saving and creating business value all depend on high process adoption. But, historically, legal tools have focused only on legal teams themselves—not the stakeholders requesting help. If people don't know where to go, they send an email, blocking any real efficiency gain. LegalWorks changes that by optimizing the experience for the requester, meeting people where they already are, and enabling legal to securely create internal processes that are intelligent, personalized, strategic, and controlled."
To learn more about how you can leverage LegalWorks inside your organization, visit www.tonkean.com, or follow Tonkean on LinkedIn and Twitter.
About Tonkean
Tonkean's Process Experience Platform seamlessly wraps around existing policies and systems, allowing internal service teams to do more with what they already have. Build process experiences that are personalized for each requester, and use AI to automate the intake, triage, and resolution of every request. Maximize adoption, compliance, and efficiency with no change management and no code. Founded in 2015, Tonkean is headquartered in Palo Alto with R&D in Tel Aviv.
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Thornton, Wings beat Sun 89-79, force deciding Game 3
UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) - Kayla Thornton scored 20 points and Teaira McCowan had 17 points and 11 rebounds to help the Dallas Wings beat the Connecticut Sun 89-79 on Sunday to avoid elimination and win the franchise's first playoff game since 2009.
The sixth-seeded Wings, who will host Wednesday's Game 3, never trailed. They led by double digits for the final 26-plus minutes, despite a 22-2 fourth-quarter run that trimmed a 31-point Sun deficit to 84-73 with less than 2 minutes left.
"I think we have to learn how to capitalize," McCowan said. "With us being a young team, you know, sometimes we get a little sloppy -- as you could see at the end. But, I mean, once we tighten that up, it'll be good for the next game."
Allisha Gray had 15 points, eight assists and three steals for the Wings, and Marina Mabrey scored 14 points.
Jonquel Jones had 20 points and nine rebounds for third-seeded Connecticut, and Brionna Jones also scored 20. DiJonai Carrington added 13 points.
"I knew I had to go in and do what I do best, which is rebound, be a dominant force inside, and that's what I did tonight for my teammates" said McCowan, who had seven points and five rebounds in Game 1.
"We have to put our talent to work. I mean, we know what we can do. We have great players on our team so if everyone plays their role, plays team offense and defense, we'll be fine.
Dallas shot 48% (36 of 75) from the field, made 11 of 26 (42.3%) from 3-point range and finished with 28 assists. | https://www.fox4news.com/sports/dallas-wings-connecticut-sun-playoffs | 2022-08-21 20:17:19 | 0 | https://www.fox4news.com/sports/dallas-wings-connecticut-sun-playoffs |
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish official says the Nord Stream gas leaks in the Baltic Sea could emit the equivalent of one third of Denmark’s total annual greenhouse gas emissions.
Kristoffer Böttzauw, head of the Danish Energy Agency, said Wednesday that the emissions from the three gas leaks on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines correspond to approximately 32% of annual Danish CO2 emissions.
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CEDARHURST, N.Y., Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The securities litigation law firm of Kuznicki Law PLLC issues this alert to shareholders of Centessa Pharmaceuticals plc (NasdaqGS: CNTA), if they purchased or otherwise acquired the Company's securities between May 28, 2021 and June 1, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period") and/or purchased or otherwise acquired the Company's American Depositary Shares ("ADSs") pursuant to the Company's May 2021 initial public offering (the "IPO"). Shareholders have until November 28, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in the securities class action lawsuit.
Shareholders are encouraged to contact us at https://kclasslaw.com/cases/securities/nasdaqgs-cnta/, by calling toll-free at 1-833-835-1495 or by email (dk@kclasslaw.com).
Kuznicki Law PLLC is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a Company lead to artificial inflation of the Company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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MINOT, N.D. (KXNET) — City organizations came together to give checks to several beneficiaries, totaling over $50,000.
The Minot Area Community Foundation, Westlie Motor Company, and Power of the Purse gave $20,000 to the Northern Plains Children’s Advocacy Center.
The money from the donation will go towards their group therapy room for children.
This year, close to 20 organizations applied for their grant and only the Minot State ASTEP program, the NPCAC, Hello Sunshine Ice Cream and Books, and Minot Public Schools received the grant in order to benefit youth in Minot.
“Giving back is important, making our community a better place for all is incredibly important and that’s part of our mission at the foundation, is to improve the quality of life of Minot and the surrounding areas,” said Minot Area Community Foundation President, Jason Zimmerman.
Since 2000, when the Minot Area Community Foundation was started, they have been able to cycle over $20,000,000 back into the community of Minot. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/local-news/50000-was-gifted-to-multiple-minot-organizations/ | 2023-01-18 02:21:39 | 1 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/local-news/50000-was-gifted-to-multiple-minot-organizations/ |
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A West Virginia man has been sentenced to three years in federal prison after sending emails that threatened Dr. Anthony Fauci and another federal health official.
The Justice Department says Thomas Patrick Connally, Jr. used an anonymous email account based in Switzerland to threaten to kill Fauci or members of his family.
Fauci is President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser and has been a vocal supporter of vaccines and other preventive measures against COVID-19.
Another target was Dr. Francis Collins. He was director of the National Institutes of Health at the time of Connally’s threats.
Connally also admitted to sending emails threatening Pennsylvania’s previous health secretary and an unidentified public health official in Massachusetts. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/crime/wv-man-who-threatened-dr-fauci-other-official-gets-3-years/ | 2022-08-05 03:18:29 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/crime/wv-man-who-threatened-dr-fauci-other-official-gets-3-years/ |
Video game workers form Microsoft’s first US labor union
(AP) - A group of video game testers is forming Microsoft’s first labor union in the U.S., which will also be the largest in the video game industry.
The Communications Workers of America said Tuesday that a majority of about 300 quality-assurance workers at Microsoft video game subsidiary ZeniMax Studios has voted to join the union.
Microsoft already told the CWA it would accept the formation of the union at its Maryland-based video game subsidiary, fulfilling a promise it made to try to build public support for its $68.7 billion acquisition of another big game company, Activision Blizzard.
Microsoft bought ZeniMax for $7.5 billion in 2021, giving the Xbox-maker control of ZeniMax’s well-known game publishing division Bethesda Softworks and popular game franchises such as The Elder Scrolls, Doom and Fallout.
Senior game tester Wayne Dayberry said in an interview with The Associated Press that the unionization campaign began before Microsoft took over and reflected workplace concerns that are common at video game companies.
“Throughout the industry, the quality assurance departments are treated poorly, paid very little, and treated as replaceable cogs,” said Dayberry, who has worked for five years at ZeniMax’s Rockville, Maryland headquarters on games such as Fallout, Prey and The Evil Within.
“There’s not a lot of dignity involved in it,” he said. “That’s something we’re hoping to show people in the industry who are in like situations, that if we can do it, they can do it as well.”
The unionization campaign accelerated thanks to Microsoft’s ongoing bid to buy California-based game giant Activision Blizzard. Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Washington, made a June pact with the CWA union to stay neutral if Activision Blizzard workers sought to form a union.
The worker-friendly pledge sought to appeal to U.S. regulator concerns under President Joe Biden about the labor implications of massive business mergers, though it didn’t stop the Federal Trade Commission from suing last month to block Microsoft’s planned Activision Blizzard acquisition. The case has its first scheduled hearing Tuesday and could drag on for months.
Two small units of Activision Blizzard workers were the first to certify unions last year in Middleton, Wisconsin and Albany, New York. A third, Boston-based Activision Blizzard subsidiary Proletariat, filed a Dec. 27 petition with the National Labor Relations Board to unionize its 57 workers.
Microsoft’s legally binding neutrality agreement specifically applied to Activision Blizzard workers after the closing of the merger. But it also reflects Microsoft’s broader principles on handling unionization, which is still uncommon in the tech and gaming industries.
Dayberry said Microsoft’s neutrality promise gave workers confidence that there wouldn’t be any “retaliation or union-busting, which there has been none of.”
Microsoft’s green light allowed the ZeniMax union certification to go through a third-party arbitrator rather than the lengthier process typically overseen by the NLRB.
“They have definitely stood by their word all along,” said CWA spokesperson Beth Allen. “It’s pretty momentous. Microsoft is an outlier in the way tech companies have been behaving.”
The unionizing workers are based in Hunt Valley and Rockville, Maryland, as well as the Texas cities of Austin and Dallas.
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WOODSTOCK, Ga., Feb. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Northpoint Roofing Systems ("Northpoint"), a Halmos Capital Partners ("Halmos") and NewSpring portfolio company, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Master Roofers ("Master") located in Manchester, New Hampshire. The Master purchase represents Northpoint's first acquisition as the Company executes on it's strategy pursuing additional add-on opportunities to build scale and expand throughout the United States.
Established in 1942, Master has been serving the New Hampshire and Massachusetts region for three generations, during which they have developed an extraordinary reputation in the roof and skylight repair and replacement non-insurance retail market.
"We are excited with the addition of Masters Roofers to the Northpoint team. Masters brings best-in-class quality combined with generations of experience to an exciting new market geography," says Patrick Maginn, Chief Executive Officer of Northpoint.
"I believe the future is bright for Master Roofers under the stewardship of the Northpoint, Halmos, and NewSpring team. It was important to me that the acquirers of Master protect the reputation my family built over three generations. I'm confident our decision was the right one for our legacy, employees, and customers," said Dan Bolduc, owner of Master Roofers.
About Northpoint Roofing Systems
Northpoint Roofing Systems has three locations operating in Georgia. With 100 years of combined experience serving the greater Atlanta metropolitan area, Northpoint offers leading expertise in shingles, metal roofing, gutters, and solar for homeowners and commercial property owners. Northpoint is also known for providing top-quality services using AI technology and innovative full-roof protection. Additional information is available at https://www.northpointroofingsystems.com/.
About Halmos Capital Partners
Halmos Capital Partners is a private equity firm that invests in leading lower-middle market businesses and focuses on partnering with best-in-class management teams to build companies in niche markets with an operational focus. Halmos aims to transform small capitalization and entrepreneurial businesses into institutional platforms for continued growth and investment. Please visit www.halmoscapital.com for more information.
About NewSpring
Founded in 1999, NewSpring partners with the innovators, makers, and operators of high-performing companies in dynamic industries to catalyze new growth and seize compelling opportunities. The Firm manages over $3.0 billion across five distinct strategies covering the spectrum from growth equity and control buyouts to mezzanine debt. Having invested in over 200 companies, NewSpring brings a wealth of knowledge, experience, and resources to take growing companies to the next level and beyond. Partnering with management teams to help develop their businesses into market leaders, NewSpring identifies opportunities and builds relationships using its network of industry leaders and influencers across a wide array of operational areas and industries. To learn more, visit www.newspringcapital.com.
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Agree Realty Corporation (NYSE: ADC) (the "Company") today announced the release of its 2021 environmental, social and governance ("ESG") report. The report is aligned with the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures frameworks.
"I'm pleased to share our environmental, social and governance achievements since publishing our inaugural ESG report last year," said Joey Agree, President and Chief Executive Officer. "We have made continued progress on our ESG initiatives, including enhancing our disclosure through the incorporation of climate-related and investor-preferred frameworks into this year's report. We remain steadfastly committed to social and environmental responsibility and believe our efforts will create long-term value for our stakeholders while addressing the impacts of climate change and improving the communities in which we operate."
The report can be viewed and downloaded from the Company's website at www.agreerealty.com/esg-report-2021.
Agree Realty Corporation is a publicly traded real estate investment trust that is RETHINKING RETAIL through the acquisition and development of properties net leased to industry-leading, omni-channel retail tenants. As of March 31, 2022, the Company owned and operated a portfolio of 1,510 properties, located in 47 states and containing approximately 31.0 million square feet of gross leasable area. The Company's common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "ADC". For additional information on the Company and RETHINKING RETAIL, please visit www.agreerealty.com.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including statements about the future impact of the Company's current ESG initiatives, 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. The Company intends such forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and includes this statement for purposes of complying with these safe harbor provisions. Forward-looking statements are generally identifiable by use of forward-looking terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "potential," "intend," "expect," "seek," "anticipate," "estimate," "approximately," "believe," "could," "project," "predict," "forecast," "continue," "assume," "plan," "outlook" or other similar words or expressions. Forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions and can include future expectations, future plans and strategies, financial and operating projections or other forward-looking information.
Although these forward-looking statements are based on good faith beliefs, reasonable assumptions and the Company's best judgment reflecting current information, you should not rely on forward-looking statements since they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which are, in some cases, beyond the Company's control and which could materially affect the Company's results of operations, financial condition, cash flows, performance or future achievements or events. Such risks and uncertainties include the risks noted in reports that we file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), including the Risk Factors identified in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, as well as additional factors we may describe from time to time in other filings with the SEC. Additional important factors, among others, that may cause the Company's actual results to vary include the general deterioration in national economic conditions, weakening of real estate markets, decreases in the availability of credit, increases in interest rates, adverse changes in the retail industry and the Company's continuing ability to qualify as a REIT. The forward-looking statements included in this press release are made as of the date hereof. Unless legally required, the Company disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, changes in the Company's expectations or assumptions or otherwise.
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CALIFORNIA -- The US Food and Drug Administration has given a safety clearance to lab-grown meat for the first time.
Upside Foods, a California-based company that makes meat from cultured chicken cells, will be able to begin selling its products once its facilities have been inspected by the US Department of Agriculture.
The agency said it had evaluated the information submitted by Upside Foods and it had "no further questions at this time about the firm's safety conclusion."
"Advancements in cell culture technology are enabling food developers to use animal cells obtained from livestock, poultry, and seafood in the production of food, with these products expected to be ready for the U.S. market in the near future," Dr. Robert M. Califf, the FDA's commissioner of food and drugs and Susan T. Mayne, director of the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), said in a statement.
"The FDA's goal is to support innovation in food technologies while always maintaining as our first priority the safety of the foods available to U.S. consumers," the statement added.
Upside Foods founder and CEO Uma Valeti said on Twitter that its cultivated chicken "was one step closer to being on tables everywhere."
"UPSIDE has received our 'No Questions Letter' from the FDA," Valeti tweeted. "They've accepted our conclusion that our cultivated chicken is safe to eat."
He told CNN earlier this year that the process of making cultivated meat was "similar to brewing beer, but instead of growing yeast or microbes, we grow animal cells."
"These products are not vegan, vegetarian or plant-based -- they are real meat, made without the animal."
Singapore was the first country to allow the sale of cultured meat. It granted San Francisco start-up Eat Just Inc. regulatory approval in 2020 to sell its laboratory-grown chicken in Singapore.
Advocates hope that cultured meat will reduce the need to slaughter animals for food and help with the climate crisis. The food system is responsible for about a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions, most of which are from animal agriculture.
"We are thrilled at FDA's historic announcement that, after a rigorous evaluation, UPSIDE Foods has become the first company in the world to receive the US FDA greenlight for cultivated chicken," David Kay, director of communications at Upside Foods, said via email.
"At scale, cultivated meat is projected to use substantially less water and land than conventionally-produced meat."
Although not technically an approval, the FDA said that a thorough pre-market consultation process had been completed. The clearance only applies to food made from cultured chicken cells by Upside, but the statement said the FDA "is ready to work with additional firms developing cultured animal cell food." | https://abc7ny.com/lab-grown-chicken-meat-fda/12468211/ | 2022-11-18 17:30:36 | 1 | https://abc7ny.com/lab-grown-chicken-meat-fda/12468211/ |
Division.
It’s a word you hear everywhere these days, from media outlets to the halls of the Idaho statehouse. We’ve been led to believe collaboration is impossible and the two sides of the proverbial aisle have nothing in common. But as we’ve traveled around District 26 as candidates for the Idaho State House and Senate, we’ve found that Idahoans have a great deal in common. While their perspectives might differ in some significant ways, above all else, Idahoans want representatives who will listen to them, learn from them, and find solid solutions to the challenges our state and district face. They want representatives who put the needs of the people first – who take their cues from the ground up, not the top down.
As an incumbent representative and former Mayor, Rep. Ned Burns (D-Bellevue) understands the importance of allowing local governments to make their own decisions for the good of their communities – and how the state legislature’s increasingly tight leash makes it increasingly difficult for municipalities to provide necessary services to citizens and small businesses.
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As Mayor of Bellevue, Ned worked with his City Council and staff to complete robust public works projects and line up additional projects for the future, at no additional taxpayer cost. When he was appointed to fill House Seat A, Ned continued his work to empower local governments and allow families to decide for themselves how to grow and thrive, free from burdensome government restrictions.
Karma Metzler Fitzgerald of Shoshone, running for House Seat B, is a longtime advocate for Idaho’s working families, farmers, and rural communities. A recipient of the Cecil B. Andrus Volunteer of the Year Award in 2021, Karma and a team of her Lincoln County neighbors have created a new youth center and after school program, built a local business incubator to encourage entrepreneurship, established a public “micro-transit” system to help home-bound and elderly people run essential errands, and are in the process of developing affordable childcare options. As your state representative, she will continue to fight for Idaho’s most vulnerable residents, whose voices have too often been left out of political conversations.
Ron Taylor, a Democrat from Hailey, is a lifelong public servant who has dedicated the past 30 years of his life to protecting members of our community as a firefighter and paramedic. That same compassion, energy, and bravery with which he has saved thousands of lives – even when his own life was in danger – now leads him to the statehouse where, as your next State Senator for District 26, he will continue to serve his community. He is focused on the issues that unite Idahoans, such as quality education for our children, access to public lands, preservation and management of Idaho’s resources, and making sure folks can access housing and pay for it with local jobs.
The people of District 26 deserve leaders who will show up, work hard, invest in their community, and put the interests of their constituents first. We trust our friends and neighbors to make the best decisions for their families and businesses, knowing that we will fight for the resources they need to thrive.
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State officials should explore the possibility of overhauling Arkansas’ tort laws, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Wednesday at the Arkansas Trucking Association’s annual conference.
The Republican governor made the comment in response to a question from an audience member about where her administration stands on tackling “tort reform” in the state.
“I think it is something that we certainly have to have on the table [and] it certainly has to be part of the conversation,” Sanders said before about 300 people attending the trucking association’s annual conference in Little Rock. “It wasn’t something that became a big priority during this [year’s regular] session, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it comes up even during our fiscal session next year.”
The fiscal session in 2024 will begin in April because of the presidential primary election in March, Sanders said. The fiscal session is slated to begin April 10. Arkansas’ primary election is slated for March 5.
She said “there is a lot ongoing discussions” in the state about overhauling the state’s tort laws.
“I think it is something we certainly to take a look at and engage and see what opportunities are in front of us for Arkansas,” Sanders said.
In 2016, the Arkansas Supreme Court struck down a citizen-referred constitutional amendment because the sponsor failed to provide an appropriate definition of “non-economic damages” for which caps were sought.
In 2018, the Arkansas Supreme Court nixed a proposed constitutional amendment referred to voters by the General Assembly from the ballot. The court said lawmakers illegally rolled into a single amendment the separate issues of capping lawsuit damages, limiting attorney fees and granting the Legislature the authority to amend court rules.
During the 2019, 2021 and 2023 regular sessions, the General Assembly hasn’t referred proposed constitutional amendments to voters to change the state’s tort laws. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/may/17/officials-should-consider-overhauling-arkansas-tort-laws-sanders-says/ | 2023-05-17 20:51:51 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/may/17/officials-should-consider-overhauling-arkansas-tort-laws-sanders-says/ |
Anthony Joshua has insisted a "Battle of Britain" with Tyson Fury is the bout "the boxing world needs" after he came through a "do or die" fight with American heavyweight Jermaine Franklin.
Former world champion Joshua enjoyed his first professional victory since 2020, albeit in somewhat grinding fashion, with a unanimous points decision success at London's O2 Arena late on Saturday.
Following successive defeats by Oleksandr Usyk, who deprived the now 33-year-old of his world titles across London in Tottenham two years ago, another loss could have meant the end of Joshua's career.
Joshua, however, prevailed over Franklin with a decisive 118-11, 117-111, 117-111 success on the scorecards of the three judges, repeatedly landing with his left jab and hitting his opponent with several powerful right-handed punches.
There has long been talk of Joshua fighting undefeated WBC champion Fury.
But the much-anticipated bout failed to materialise when they both held versions of the world title and the London-based boxer's losses to Usyk appeared to have scuppered hopes of the "super fight" seeing the light of day.
And with talks between Fury's camp and that of Ukrainian hero Usyk having fallen through, the contest could yet take place after all.
- 'Chasing the dream' -
There is no doubt about the fight that excites Joshua, with the 2012 Olympic champion's professional record now standing at 25 wins, including 22 knockouts, and three defeats.
"That is the pot of gold. That is the WBC heavyweight champion of the world," he said. "That's what it is all about so definitely Tyson Fury.
"Yeah (another warm-up fight) would be ideal, after that long lay-off, to get active. But sometimes an opportunity presents itself and you have to grab it with both hands ... I would take it and grab it with both hands, 100 percent. The boxing world needs it."
Saturday's contest ended in bizarre fashion when the bell for the 12th round appeared to sound early and Joshua pressed his head into Franklin, prompting the American's strength and fitness coach Lorenzo Reynolds to shove the home fighter.
But what really annoyed Joshua, now working under Dallas-based trainer Derrick James, was his failure to knock out Franklin.
"Deep down I am not happy because the ultimate goal is a knockout," he said. "Nothing can top a knockout. But it is what it is."
And he was adamant his performance proved his passion for boxing remained intact, especially given a fight against Fury was now back on his agenda.
"Do or die?," said Joshua as he reflected on the Franklin bout. "That's a great experience to compete in front of 20,000 people. There's no pressure.
"Honestly it is a blessing. When I look out of that ring after a fight, I am like ... 'that is nuts. Look at all them people'. It is humbling.
"I am definitely passionate about the game, 100 percent, for so many reasons. The list is long and I am committed until it's done.
"The reality I am living is we are still chasing something. Yeah, I'm still chasing the dream." | https://www.beinsports.com/en/boxing/news/joshua-says-fury-clash-is-the-fight-the-boxin/2065196 | 2023-04-02 11:01:55 | 0 | https://www.beinsports.com/en/boxing/news/joshua-says-fury-clash-is-the-fight-the-boxin/2065196 |
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- John Moran is pleased to present major works by Judy Chicago, Marcos Grigorian, Rosangela Renno, Jenny Holzer, Josh Smith, Doug Aitken, Jean-Michel Othoniel, and the Father of the Space and Light Movement, James Turrell with his important work, Hologram #10 at Moran's Autumn Modern & Contemporary Art sale. On the heels of Moran's three World-Auction Records in their September Modern & Contemporary Art sale, this selection of rare-to-market works by blue-chip artists on Tuesday, November 1st will certainly be an auction the art world will be closely watching.
Moran's is honored to be presenting the fresh-to-market work, Transformation Painting, 1973, by the feminist artist and educator, Judy Chicago. This work represents a pivotal moment in her career— It marks the transition of her artistic practice moving away from the light and space movement and toward more socially conscious works, particularly in relation to gender and sexual identity. Chicago helped pioneer the feminist art movement in the 1960s and 70s and this is a strong example of artwork from that time. Transformation Painting, is a part of feminist history and history at large: the work was exhibited at the landmark 1973 exhibition "Womanhouse" in Los Angeles, the first ever feminist exhibition to gain national attention. The abstract imagery of Transformation Painting alludes to the feminine and the captions give insight into the artist's innermost thoughts and vulnerabilities (i.e., commentary about a dinner party in which she was excluded). It also led her to creating a body of work that is now part of the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection thanks to the support of a collector, Elizabeth Sackler. Judy Chicago has entered the historical canon and artworks like this show her to not only be on the right side of history, but to have forged the path. Transformation Painting, estimated at $80,000-120,000, is a highlight of the sale and is one of few works by Chicago to have appeared at auction.
Included in this sale are several works previously held in an important New York Corporate Collection, the same collection that housed Moran's recent World-Auction Record-breaking, Alice Baber. This over fifty-year-old collection features work by Robert Natkin and Robert Sterling Neuman. There will also be a variety of photography from contemporary artists such as Lawrence Schiller, Robert Weingarten Jean Pigozzi, Yuka V., Mike Figgis, Douglas Kirkland, and Melanie Pullen.
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LONDON (AP) — Environmental groups on Wednesday welcomed a decision by Britain’s Conservative government to lift its opposition to onshore wind farms. But they warned that any benefit would be erased if the government backs plans to open the U.K.’s first new coal mine in three decades.
Thursday is the deadline for a decision on the proposed mine in the Cumbria area of northwest England. Opponents say approving it will obliterate the U.K.’s image as a world leader in replacing polluting fossil fuels with clean renewable energy.
Wind produced more than a quarter of the U.K.’s electricity in 2021. But the Conservative government has since 2015 opposed new wind turbines on land because of local opposition. A majority of Britain’s wind farms are at sea.
While running for the Conservative Party’s leadership in the summer, Rishi Sunak, who is now prime minister, pledged to keep the ban. But amid growing calls for change from Conservative lawmakers, the government said Tuesday it could allow wind farms in areas where communities support them, pending a “technical consultation.”
“Decisions on onshore wind sites will continue to be made at a local level as these are best made by local representatives who know their areas best and are democratically accountable to the local community,” the government said in a statement.
Caroline Lucas, Britain’s only Green Party lawmaker, said ending the ban on onshore wind was welcome, though “the devil is in the detail.”
“But if this is meant to ‘buy off’ giving the greenlight to the Cumbria coal mine later this week, it would be totally & utterly shameless,” she wrote on Twitter.
Britain has taken steps to bolster its domestic energy supply since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent oil and gas prices soaring. The U.K. imports little Russian oil or gas, but its lightly regulated energy market leaves customers highly exposed to price fluctuations.
Many homes and businesses have seen bills double or triple in the past year, though a government price cap — due to end in April — has prevented even steeper hikes.
Environmentalists and some local residents have strongly opposed plans for a mine that would extract coking coal — a type used to make steel rather than for fuel — from under the Irish Sea and process it on the site of a shuttered chemical plant in Whitehaven, a town 340 miles (550 kilometers) northwest of London.
Opponents say the mine would undermine global efforts to phase out coal and make it harder for Britain to meet its goals of generating 100% of electricity from clean energy sources by 2035 and reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
“With the mine’s particular type of coal no use for the U.K. power or steel industries and the U.K. having led the global campaign to phase out coal, a lot rides on (Cabinet Minister) Michael Gove’s decision,” said Jess Ralston, head of energy at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, a nonprofit organization.
Supporters say the mine would bring much-needed jobs to an area hard hit by the closure of its mines and factories in recent decades.
The invasion of Ukraine has made countries across Europe reconsider plans to cut their use of fossil fuels. Britain has also approved more North Sea oil and gas drilling, while the Czech Republic reversed a plan to stop coal mining in a key region.
France recently restarted a shuttered coal plant, abandoning an earlier vow by President Emmanuel Macron to close all coal-burning plants in the country by the end of this year.
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CHANDLER, Ariz., Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SelectBlinds, a custom online window covering retailer, debuted the William Morris Collection, in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). Founded in 1852 to make works of art available to all, today the V&A is the world's leading museum of art, design and performance.
Morris was a great champion of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the 19th century. Designer, poet, novelist, translator and entrepreneur, Morris' work still has a profound influence on fashion and interiors. The luxury collection features 28 color combinations across six sophisticated designs in roller shades, drapery and roman shades.
"We are honored to introduce designs by renowned Victorian artist William Morris," said Satya Sivunigunta, SelectBlinds CEO. "It's been a pleasure working with the Victoria and Albert Museum to celebrate his legacy through our products."
Bringing the natural world indoors, Morris' patterns interweave flowers, trees, birds, animals and insects influenced by the greenery in his own garden and from walks along the riverbanks.
Amelia Calver, V&A Brand Licensing Research and Development Manager, comments, "William Morris remains one of the most famous names in the museum's collection. He had an important influence on some of the museum's earliest collecting policies and as an artist, he was also inspired by its collections."
Calver continues, "Within the range are six timeless and memorable prints, in distinctive and uplifting colourways, from the much loved 'Willow Bough' to wonderful 'Strawberry Thief' pattern, directly inspired by the famous floral fabrics and wallpapers in our archive. It's been a joy to work with SelectBlinds on producing window covering options that suit all different homes and styles."
View the V&A William Morris Collection at selectblinds.com/william-morris
About SelectBlinds:
SelectBlinds is a leading online retailer of independently branded window fashions. Their vision is to empower people to create spaces they can be proud of by creating an exceptional customer experience that builds confidence with the most diverse selection and helpful resources. For more information, visit SelectBlinds.com. Follow them on social media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, TikTok, and LinkedIn.
About the Victoria and Albert Museum:
The Victoria and Albert Museum is the world's leading museum of art, design and performance. Founded in 1852 in London during the reign of Queen Victoria to make works of art available to all, today it provides a place of inspiration, discovery and learning through its mission to enrich lives through design. Visit their website here.
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Reps. Peter Meijer, Jaime Herrera Beutler and Dan Newhouse have not grabbed the same type of headlines that other Republicans who voted to impeach President Donald Trump in January 2021.
Meijer, an Army intelligence officer in the Iraq War from Michigan, has been a major critic of the Biden administration’s handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Herrera Beutler, from a massive rural district in southwestern Washington, just got a bill passed to transfer land from the U.S. Forest Service to a local county government.
And Friday, Newhouse took to the House floor to speak out against Democratic legislation as “bureaucratic red tape” that would fail to combat wildfires, a perennial issue in his vast district in eastern Washington.
On Tuesday, all three will learn their political fate with Republican voters back home, helping determine if there was ever a path to victory for a Republican who so directly rebuked Trump. And it will go a long way to determining whether there will be one, two or more pro-impeachment Republicans left when the new Congress is sworn in next January.
“I think we’ve got some very good members of Congress we’re talking about here. It would be a shame to see them not return, because they contribute a lot, are very productive and, I think, represent their districts very well,” Newhouse said in a brief interview after his Friday floor speech. “It’s important to have all opinions represented in any discussion,” he added.
Four of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach have opted to retire rather than face almost certain defeat in their primary races. Another, Rep. Tom Rice (R-S.C.), lost by a more than a 2-to-1 margin last month, while Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who has drawn the most vociferous opposition from Trump, faces an uphill battle in her August primary.
That has left the anti-Trump faction of the party hoping that at least some victories come among the trio of Herrera Beutler, Meijer and Newhouse to provide voices inside a House Republican conference that are not in lockstep with the former president.
“I think if they win, there’s still a battle, there’s still a fight,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), who voted to impeach Trump and decided to retire last fall, said in an interview.
Early on, after that impeachment vote, the 10 Republicans stayed close and talked often, helping raise money for one another. “We had a common thread of kinship,” Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.), who chose to retire, said recently.
But for those that sought reelection, it became important to not be viewed solely as part of that group, to be identified more for what they have done for their constituents rather than focusing on impeachment. The group still talks, particularly on experiences related to their Trump vote, but they are running for reelection almost like lone wolves.
“We share a lot of things in common to talk about on that particular subject,” Newhouse said, “but I don’t know that I have a better relationship with the 10 than I do with other people.”
Just one Republican who voted to impeach Trump, Rep. David G. Valadao (Calif.), has secured his party nomination for the November general election, in large part because Trump never endorsed a challenger.
Most Republican insiders suspect that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) used a ton of political capital to keep Trump out of the Valadao primary, as he is a close friend of the party leader and considered the only Republican who can win in a district that gave President Biden a margin of victory of nearly 11 points. With Valadao facing a tough reelection, there remains a chance that all 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump will be swept out of Congress by the end of the year.
Cheney and Kinzinger took the highest profiles in attacking Trump and his role in the insurrection, both serving on the select committee investigating his actions in the Capitol riot in January 2021. Rice spent the final days of his primary last month castigating Trump in national television interviews and calling impeachment the true “conservative vote” in defense of the constitution.
Valadao went on more with his head down and rarely talked about Trump, and now this next trio is attempting something of a hybrid approach. They will defend their votes, if asked, but will also talk about the ongoing work they do that matches up with what their constituents have come to expect.
“The way we look at it, it’s another tough election,” Herrera Beutler told local reporters earlier this month. “I’m not changing course. I’m still the same Republican I’ve always been.”
Meijer, who won the 2020 general election by a comfortable margin of 6 points, faces a unique political situation in which his district lines were redrawn through the decennial redistricting and now sits in a district that Biden won two years ago.
For that reason, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has launched a nearly $500,000 campaign attempting to boost his Trump-endorsed opponent, John Gibbs, whose campaign is basically broke and unable to air its own ads, believing Gibbs would be an easier candidate to defeat in November.
Meijer hopes that shows undecided Republicans in the Grand Rapids-anchored district that he remains their best hope to win in November. “I think the momentum is certainly on our side,” he said in a brief interview Friday, “and I think if anything, the last week, the last 72 hours has shown, that even in a town that is used to some pretty despicable hypocrisy, the D-trip’s meddling has awakened a new sense of, are you kidding me?”
Some Democrats have also expressed alarm that the DCCC, with much of its revenue coming from funds raised by lawmakers, would target someone they consider honorable for his impeachment vote. “I’m disgusted that hard-earned money intended to support Democrats is being used to boost Trump-endorsed candidates,” Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) wrote on Twitter.
“I think Peter is exactly the kind of Republican we want to have around, but at the end of the day we have to win the majority and that is the bigger concern,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), who flew with Meijer into Kabul during the chaotic withdrawal, said Friday.
Democrats have stayed out of the two Washington state primaries, districts that will likely stay in the Republican column regardless of who the nominee is. The district Newhouse represents is so conservative that twice in his four elections the top two vote-getters were Republican candidates in the all-in state primary system, so the November general election was an all-Republican contest.
There is a possibility that could happen again, thus extending his race until November. Newhouse’s vote to impeach Trump was one of the more surprising, as he comes from such a conservative district and he had initially signed a legal brief in December 2020 in support of Trump’s effort to contest the election.
Newhouse is somewhat soft-spoken and avoids the spotlight — “I’m not going to be very talkative, not to be rude,” he said at the start of the brief interview Friday — but Trump’s inaction amid all the violence of that day flipped a switch in his principled psyche. “Our country needed a leader, and President Trump failed to fulfill his oath of office,” he said in a statement released before he voted to impeach.
While they may not talk or text as often as they once did, these anti-Trump lawmakers are all closely watching one another’s races, hopeful that enough of them can win their primary as well as in November so that there is a future for Republicans like them. “If they all lose, I think it means we’re doomed in the near term,” Kinzinger said. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/30/republican-candidates-election-primary/ | 2022-07-30 23:12:49 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/30/republican-candidates-election-primary/ |
MERCER COUNTY, Ohio (WANE) — On Sunday, Mercer County Fairgrounds announced it received a $1 million donation toward the fairgrounds’ Grand Event Center.
The donation came from Dave and Danielle Buschur, owners of multiple businesses:
- Bushur Custom Farm Services
- D&D Truck and Trailer Service
- Buschur Leasing
- Bosma Poultry
- Wendel Poultry Services
Dave Buschur also serves in the Mercer County Board of Commissioners, and his family said the donation will help Mercer County grow and prosper.
“We also hope that our contribution inspires other individuals and small businesses to see the impact that this facility will have on our area and want to support the project in any way possible,” the Buscher family said.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Larry Foyt sensed his late adopted mother helped Santino Ferrucci navigate Sunday’s anxious moment in the Indianapolis 500.
His adopted father, meanwhile, kept asking late-race questions between radio calls to the No. 14 car.
The only thing that would have made the A.J. Foyt Enterprises president smile more gleefully would have been a trip to victory lane with both parents and Ferrucci, whose third-place finish was the highest by a Foyt driver since 1999.
“We definitely had some people looking over us today,” Larry Foyt said. “Mom would be real happy and I know she kept us out of trouble because there were some close ones today. Whew!
“I’m glad we were able to be up there and be competitive really all day. I’m so thankful we got in the top three and just wish we could have gotten that win.”
Just being competitive in May was a victory for this team after the struggles it has endured on and off the track in recent years.
A.J. Foyt, the first of four drivers to win Indy four times and still one of the most popular figures at Gasoline Alley, had come to the Brickyard many times after surviving horrific crashes, killer bee attacks, a lion attack and multiple heart surgeries and staph infections. But nothing hurt more than the death in April of his beloved wife, Lucy, after 68 years of marriage. She was 88.
Foyt didn’t make his usual trip to the Kentucky Derby this year and largely did his work at the historic 2.5-mile oval privately.
The 24-year-old Ferrucci, meanwhile, understood exactly what this race and this month meant to his team owner and the Foyt family, setting out to do everything he could to make this a memorable May.
He even stole a page from the family playbook by making a series of daring passes, bravely driving through the grass, even getting lucky to avoid a late penalty when a crew member snatched a loose tire and pulled it back inside the pit box.
And in many ways, it seemed like this was destiny for the confident American driving the No. 14 car with the star-spangled paint job.
“Normally for this race, there’s a bit of nervousness and you’re just kind of like amped up, ready to go,” he said. “I was almost like in tears getting into the car because I think this race meant so much to so many of us today, specifically obviously with the passing of A.J.’s wife and Larry’s mom,” he said while noting another recent death within the team.
“It’s been a very emotional month for us.”
Almost from the start, Ferrucci injected energy on the track, too.
He was fast in practice, fast on qualifying weekend and after earning the No. 4 starting spot boasted about being one of six cars he thought could win the race Ferrucci took the lead on Lap 160, wound up leading 11 laps and was still near the front when three red flags came out over the final 15 laps.
Larry Foyt did his best to focus on keeping Ferrucci in position to win.
“When it was getting into the last stint, he (A.J.) was trying to ask me questions and I was trying to stay on the radio,” he said. “He was really getting into it and that’s just awesome. That’s how he’s used to racing and I’m glad we were able to do that today and be up there.”
Ferrucci certainly had his shot on the final restart — even after race officials reset the field by moving eventual winner Josef Newgarden from third to second while dropping Ferrucci down one spot to third.
Newgarden took advantage by passing Ericsson, the 2022 Indy winner, and Ferrucci tried to challenge. He just couldn’t get enough speed to challenge and wound up settling for third.
“Yeah, when you finish third, knowing that you led into (Turn) 1 with three or four to go, it’s tough,” Ferrucci said. “But I’m really happy with the way that things played out. This place does pick you as a winner. It’s very true. But I just really wanted to win this race.” | https://www.cbs42.com/shared-sports/big-race-indy-shared-sports/ferrucci-foyt-team-find-fuel-in-sudden-indianapolis-500-revival/ | 2023-05-29 15:04:01 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/shared-sports/big-race-indy-shared-sports/ferrucci-foyt-team-find-fuel-in-sudden-indianapolis-500-revival/ |
Infor recognized for completeness of vision and ability to execute
NEW YORK, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Infor®, the industry cloud company, today announced that Gartner Inc. has positioned Infor as a Leader, for the fourth consecutive time, in its 2022 Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems (WMS). Infor was positioned in the Leaders quadrant for its ability to execute and its completeness of vision.
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"Despite being a very mature market, recent disruptions have spurred innovation, and while very challenging for some vendors and regions, the overall market is forecast to grow to over $4 billion by 2026 with a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 13%," Gartner states in the report. "WMS offerings continue to differ in areas such as usability, adaptability, decision support, scalability both up and down market, use of emerging technologies and life cycle costs. Furthermore, customers increasingly favor suites that can support end-to-end supply chain and logistics process orchestration. Gartner refers to these areas as supply chain (SC) convergence and supply chain execution convergence (related to convergence of operational activities)."
Vishal Minocha, Infor vice president of product management, said, "Market dynamics, evolving product portfolios, growing complexity and a changing labor force are challenging companies to leverage automation and better utilize assets to fuel profitable growth. We believe Infor's being named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems, for the fourth consecutive time, recognizes our ability to enable agile fulfillment through Infor WMS.
Infor WMS combines advanced warehousing capabilities with highly configurable rules, built-in labor, task, and inventory management, as well as 3D visualization, in a single intuitive solution. This unified approach helps businesses holistically assess requirements, incorporate value-added services, prioritize tasks, and eliminate bottlenecks. In this way, Infor enables consistent order fulfillment, while improving throughput and costs."
Infor WMS aims to combine agility with the power of the cloud to help organizations onboard new warehouses and customers quickly. This agile, cloud-based system is designed to enable organizations to enrich service levels and increase product velocity. Designed with configurability and intuitive use, Infor WMS is ready to power next-generation, technology-enhanced, global warehousing operations.
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LUND, Sweden, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InCoax has received an order regarding software maintenance, operation, and platform support of installed InCoax systems from the US-based Fiber/LAN operator. The order amounts to USD 0.49 million (SEK 5 million). The order will be invoiced in 2022 and the revenue will be deferred for four years starting in January 2023.
The order includes the maintenance and expertise for the operation of the InCoax fiber access system, which will reduce the operator's need for operational personnel. Through the sale of these services, InCoax takes a step towards even closer cooperation with the operator, who gains access to the skills and expertise InCoax possesses as an ongoing service.
The global telecom managed services market stood at USD 20 billion in 2021 and is expected to grow by 13.6% over the forecast period to 2030 according to a 2021 report from "Reports and Data". Operators generally need to improve their financial performance and reduce their operating costs and a way to do this is by outsourcing functions to professional providers who can offer improved efficiency and economies of scale.
"We have been working on designing our Managed Services offers for a long time and this order is good proof that the strategy is right", says Jörgen Ekengren, CEO of InCoax Networks AB.
"InCoax will successively launch added Managed Services offers in the form of packaged products, which will simplify the offer and clarify the value of our delivery", says Helge Tiainen, Head of Marketing, Sales and Product Management.
Learn more about InCoax and its MultiGigabit solutions here.
This information is such information as InCoax Networks AB (publ.) is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact persons set out below, at 15.30 CET on December 14, 2022.
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InCoax Networks AB (publ) is reusing existing property coaxial networks for broadband access in Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) deployments for Communication Service Providers (CSP) globally.
The technology is a high performance, future proof, reliant, cost-effective and non-intrusive complement to fiber, that reduces installation time and improves take-up rate, to boost digital inclusion and Internet access for all.
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WILLEMSTAD, Curacao, Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stable Tech N.V. today announced the full launch of CoinSlotty.com, their flagship online casino for crypto enthusiasts, with over 45 different gaming providers and thousands of games available.
Originally established in 2021, the crypto casino has gone under several improvements, and now offers a more secure, robust, and licenced gaming experience.
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In the Slot Machine Lobby, the players will find all their favorite casino games, from regular slots like Gonzo, Lucky Lady and Wolf Gold, up to various Megaways titles - all tailored for crypto.
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DALLAS — Dallas police officers on Tuesday afternoon were investigating a police shooting on Lemmon Avenue near Dallas Love Field airport, officials said.
The scene was still active around 1 p.m. Officers were responding to the shooting in the 7100 block of Lemmon, across from the Frontiers of Flight Museum, just east of Love Field.
Helicopter footage from the scene showed a large U-Haul truck that had crashed and had front-end damage. There were also several officers at the scene investigating the incident.
More information about what happened was not yet available early Tuesday afternoon.
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CHARACTER COUNTS! Determined Tulare Western student aims to help those in need
Diego Mora is known to be a resilient son, brother, student and friend.
He goes out of his way to help others, much like the nurses did when he was diagnosed with a brain tumor at just a year old.
“He has not let the medical treatments limit his achievement in the classroom or limit his ambitions and aspirations,” Tulare Western High School Counselor Michelle Gill said. “Diego is a respectful student who is always willing to help those around him. I see the joy on his face when he helps others.”
Administrators, teachers and counselors at Tulare Western High School describe Diego as a responsible, respectful and resilient student. Gill said he “help[s] students who may be struggling in the classroom, especially those who are English Language Learners.”
His willingness to help others extends outside of school hours. Diego’s mother told his teachers during a parent meeting how he always assists around the house and looks after his younger siblings.
“It was no surprise to his teachers or myself that his incredible work ethic and responsibility is not limited to the classroom,” Gill said. “Diego continues to impress his teachers and school staff with his work ethic and determination to always do his best.”
At home, Diego loved to help his mother cook and prepare meals, something that has somewhat translated into his school day.
One of the jobs Diego has taken on while working with the Future Business Leaders of America this year includes serving student lunches each week from Monday through Thursday. This month, Diego was voted member of the month by the student association and was awarded a pin as a result.
The junior has big plans after he graduates high school in 2024. For now, Diego plans on studying medicine at Stanford University.
“Ever since I went to hospitals, to therapies, treatments and MRIs... I’ve seen all the efforts the nurses made for patients,” Diego said. “For me, it was my personal decision. I told myself, ‘That’s what I want to be when I grow up. I want to help out my community... help out everyone.'”
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Updated October 21, 2022 at 4:36 PM ET
After Donald Trump outperformed among Latinos in South Texas in 2020, Republicans have been hoping to further improve their margins among those voters. Historically, South Texas has been a stronghold for Democrats in the state, but Republicans are banking on those ties not being as strong as they used to be.
Jorge Martinez, an advisor and spokesperson for LIBRE Initiative Action, said for the past decade his team has been aiding political efforts in other parts of the state and the country. But recently, he explained, more resources have been focused at his base in McAllen, Texas.
"Now all eyes are on South Texas," Martinez said. "Now we are the ones getting all the support here."
During a recent canvassing effort, Martinez and his team knocked on doors in a quiet suburban neighborhood in Mission, Texas, which sits right on the U.S. Mexico border. Their goal was to get the word out about Monica De La Cruz, a Republican congressional candidate running for the newly competitive 15th congressional district in South Texas against Democrat Michelle Vallejo.
One of the potential voters they talked to was Fidel Villaseñor, who said he did not know if he was going to vote for De La Cruz in the fall. He told Martinez, though, that the most important issue for him during this election is inflation.
Martinez said most of the voters he talks to are concerned about the economy and rising prices, which he thinks could be a winning issue for his group as they organize for Republican candidates in the area.
"That's what's hurting families, and everyone is feeling it whether you are going to the grocery store or anything that you consume — prices are high right now," Martinez said. "Our message is that we need the government to limit spending."
Democrats still have an edge
According to recent polling, nationwide Democrats still have an edge with Latino voters – including in Texas. Democrats opened a national field office in South Texas earlier this year and have been running radio ads in an effort to hold on to their support in key parts of the state.
But Jens Manuel Krogstad, a senior writer and editor with the Pew Research Center focused on Latino views and attitudes, has found evidence in recent polling that compared to other voters, Latinos have pretty soft ties to political parties even when they favor one over the other.
"One point that really illustrates this is that roughly 1 in 10 Latino voters who identified as either a Democrat or Republican held political views that more closely aligned with the opposing party than their own party," he explained.
This is why Latino voters are more like swing voters compared to the rest of the country.
"Latinos don't always neatly fit into the nation's two party system," Krogstad said. "And the survey shows that Latinos in some ways are charting their own course."
The surveys he has looked at show that many Latinos do not see much of a difference between the parties.
Artemio Muniz is chairman of the Federation of Hispanic Republicans in Texas. He thinks a large swath of Latino voters actually agree with conservatives on a lot of key issues.
"They tend to be more center-right," he said.
Muniz says if Republicans do a good job of consistently talking to Latino voters about those issues, they would be able to "take away voters from what is only a skin deep type connection" to the Democratic party.
"When the party doesn't do the work and they don't show up and they don't have the right messaging, the default is Hispanic voters tend to vote for Democrats," he explained.
Why Latinos don't have deep ties to any party
Latinos act like swing voters because neither party has had sustained and meaningful outreach to Latino voters.
Brandon Rottinghaus, a political science professor at the University of Houston, has been polling Latino voters in Texas for years. He explained neither party has done a good job of engaging these communities and making them feel like their votes actually matter.
"Many in the Latino community are not getting the kind of contact from campaigns organizations or political parties or community organizations," he said. "So, I think a lot of them feel lost. They feel a little bit adrift. So, they don't have a connection to these parties. And as a result, they don't feel swept up in these national trends that pit red versus blue."
In South Texas, there are some community groups – namely a nonpartisan group called LUPE – that have been plugging away for years to get these voters engaged.
Joaquin Garcia, director of organizing at LUPE, says their hard work has helped communities advocate for basic services like sewage treatment, drinking water, street lights and paved roads.
On a recent afternoon, Garcia and his team visited a neighborhood in San Juan, Texas, to let people know about the upcoming election.. Most of the potential voters they spoke to were unaware an election was soon approaching.
Garcia says he has been surprised considering all the ads and attention in South Texas this election cycle.
"We don't know why that is," he explained. "They keep repeating it on TV and on the radio stations."
"But I mean a lot of these people have two, three jobs. They are not paying attention to elections. Their thing is getting money to sustain their families. So sometimes they don't see politics as a priority for their needs," Garcia said.
This lack of time to engage or knowledge about current politics in the state is not a small obstacle for Republicans in Texas.
Rottinghaus says getting people to make voting a priority in general is not an easy task if it's something they were not doing before.
"That's the biggest challenge that Republicans face in trying to get a vote stabilized and get them to motivate them towards the Republican candidates," he said.
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Student loan help for millions coming from Biden after delay
Washington — President Joe Biden on Wednesday is set to announce his long-delayed move to forgive up to $10,000 in federal student loans for many Americans and extend a pause on payments to January, according to three people familiar with the plan.
Biden has faced pressure from liberals to provide broader relief to hard-hit borrowers, and from moderates and Republicans questioning the fairness of any widespread forgiveness. The delay in Biden’s decision has only heightened the anticipation for what his own aides acknowledge represents a political no-win situation. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss Biden's intended announcement ahead of time.
The precise details of Biden’s plan, which will include an income cap limiting the forgiveness to only those earning less than $125,000 a year, were being kept to an unusually small circle within the Biden administration and were still not finalized on the eve of the announcement.
Down-to-the-wire decision-making has been a hallmark of the Biden White House, but the particular delay on student loans reflects the vexing challenge confronting him in fulfilling a key campaign promise.
The plan would likely eliminate student debt entirely for millions of Americans and wipe away at least half for millions more.
The nation’s federal student debt now tops $1.6 trillion after ballooning for years. More than 43 million Americans have federal student debt, with almost a third owing less than $10,000 and more than half owing less than $20,000, according to the latest federal data.
The continuation of the pandemic-era payment freeze comes just days before millions of Americans were set to find out when their next student loan bills will be due. This is the closest the administration has come to hitting the end of the payment freeze extension, with the current pause set to end Aug. 31.
Wednesday’s announcement was set for the White House after Biden returns from vacation in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The administration had briefly considered higher education schools in the president’s home state for a larger reveal, but scaled back their plans.
Biden was initially skeptical of student loan debt cancellation as he faced off against more progressive Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who had proposed cancellations of $50,000 or more, during the 2020 primaries.
As he tried to shore up support among younger voters and prepare for a general election battle against then-President Donald Trump, Biden unveiled his initial proposal for debt cancellation of $10,000 per borrower, with no mention of an income cap.
Biden narrowed his campaign promise in recent months by embracing the income limit as soaring inflation took a political toll and as he aimed to head off political attacks that the cancellation would benefit those with higher take-home pay. But Democrats, from members of congressional leadership to those facing tough re-election bids this November, have pushed the administration to go as broad as possible on debt relief, seeing it in part as a galvanizing issue, particularly for Black and young voters this fall.
The frenzied last-minute lobbying continued Tuesday even as Biden remained on his summer vacation. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., one of the loudest advocates in recent years for canceling student loan debt, spoke privately on the phone with Biden, imploring the president to forgive as much debt as the administration can, according to a Democrat with knowledge of the call.
In his pitch, Schumer argued to Biden that doing so was the right thing to do morally and economically, said the Democrat, who asked for anonymity to describe a private conversation.
Inside the administration, officials have discussed since at least early summer forgiving more than $10,000 of student debt for certain categories of borrowers, such as Pell Grant recipients, according to three people with knowledge of the deliberations. That remained one of the final variables being considered by Biden heading into Wednesday’s announcement.
Democrats are betting that Biden, who has seen his public approval rating tumble over the last year, can help motivate younger voters to the polls in November with the announcement.
Although Biden’s plan is narrower than what he initially proposed during the campaign, “he’ll get a lot of credit for following through on something that he was committed to,” said Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster who worked with Biden during the 2020 election.
She described student debt as a “gateway issue” for younger voters, meaning it affects their views and decisions on housing affordability and career choices. A survey of 18- to 29-year-olds conducted by the Harvard Institute of Politics in March found that 59% of those polled favored debt cancellation of some sort — whether for all borrowers or those most in need — although student loans did not rank high among issues that most concerned people in that age group.
Some advocates were already bracing for disappointment.
“If the rumors are true, we’ve got a problem,” Derrick Johnson, the president of the NAACP, which has aggressively lobbied Biden to take bolder action, said Tuesday. He emphasized that Black students face higher debut burdens than white students.
“President Biden’s decision on student debt cannot become the latest example of a policy that has left Black people — especially Black women — behind,” he said. “This is not how you treat Black voters who turned out in record numbers and provided 90% of their vote to once again save democracy in 2020.”
John Della Volpe, who worked as a consultant on Biden’s campaign and is the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, said the particulars of Biden’s announcement were less important than the decision itself.
“It’s about trust in politics, in government, in our system. It’s also about trust in the individual, which in this case is President Biden.”
Combined with fears about expanding abortion restrictions and Trump’s reemergence on the political scene, Della Volpe said student debt forgiveness “adds an additional tailwind to an already improving position with young people.”
Republicans, meanwhile, see only political upside if Biden pursues a large-scale cancellation of student debt ahead of the November midterms, anticipating backlash for Democrats — particularly in states where there are large numbers of working-class voters without college degrees. Critics of broad student debt forgiveness also believe it will open the White House to lawsuits, on the grounds that Congress has never given the president the explicit authority to cancel debt on his own.
The Republican National Committee on Tuesday blasted Biden’s expected announcement as a “handout to the rich,” claiming it would unfairly burden lower-income taxpayers and those who have already paid off their student loans with covering the costs of higher education for the wealthy.
“My neighbor, a detective, worked 3 jobs (including selling carpet) & his wife worked to make sure their daughter got quality college degree w/no student debt,” Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, tweeted Tuesday. “Big sacrifice. Now their taxes must pay off someone else’s student debt?”
Biden’s elongated deliberations have sent federal loan servicers, who have been instructed to hold back billing statements while he weighed a decision, grumbling.
Industry groups had complained that the delayed decision left them with just days to notify borrowers, retrain customer service workers and update websites and digital payment systems, said Scott Buchanan, executive director of the Student Loan Servicing Alliance.
It increases the risk that some borrowers will inadvertently be told they need to make payments, he said.
“At this late stage I think that’s the risk we’re running,” he said. “You can’t just turn on a dime with 35 million borrowers who all have different loan types and statuses.”
Associated Press writer Collin Binkley contributed from Washington. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/23/student-loan-help-millions-coming-biden-after-delay/7880267001/ | 2022-08-24 03:02:41 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/23/student-loan-help-millions-coming-biden-after-delay/7880267001/ |
Jurors heard opening statements Tuesday in the trial of a commercial truck driver accused of negligent homicide for his role in a 2019 crash in the North Country town of Randolph that killed seven motorcyclists.
Volodymyr Zhukovskyy is accused of colliding with members of the Jarheads Motorcycle Club, which is made up of Marine Corps members and their families, while operating a 2016 Dodge Ram 2500 that was towing a 40-foot empty car carrier. Zhukovskyy admitted to police that he had consumed heroin and cocaine the morning of the crash, approximately 11 hours earlier, and stated that he was reaching for a drink in the cab of his truck when he collided with the bikers.
Prosecutors told jurors Tuesday morning that Zhukovskyy was “reckless, negligent and deadly” the evening of the crash.
Zhukovskyy “came across the yellow line and smashed through their group like a wrecking ball,” said Coos County Attorney John McCormick.
Defense attorneys, meanwhile, worked to lay out a different picture of the crash, repeatedly mentioning during opening arguments that the blood-alcohol level of Albert “Woody” Mazza, the lead motorcycle rider in the group, was over the legal limit, and that he sparked the collision by swerving into the truck.
“It’s a tragedy, no doubt about that,” attorney Steve Mirkin told jurors. But he added Mazza was responsible. “Drunk drivers kill. Al Mazza was drunk, and Vlad Zhukovskyy is not guilty of any of these charges.”
The defendant sat in the courtroom wearing a dark suit, thick-framed glasses and a mask. He has been held in preventative detention since shortly following the crash, having been denied bail on multiple occasions, including an appeal to the New Hampshire Supreme Court. He is a Ukranian national who resided in West Springfield, Mass., before the crash, where he was employed by a towing company. The evening of the crash, he was returning from a car dealership in Berlin after delivering a vehicle.
Family and supporters of the motorcyclists filled the first two rows of the courtroom’s gallery Tuesday, while Zhukovskyy’s family smiled and waved to him as he was brought into the courtroom.
Both the state and the defense have hired independent crash reconstruction experts, with extensive testimony from both expected during the trial as the precise location of impact – either on the double-yellow center line, or on the eastbound side of the road – remains in dispute.
The defense is also disputing a toxicology report that prosecutors intend to introduce that showed detectable levels of a byproduct of heroin in Zhukovskyy’s blood, alleging the crime lab manually overrode its own testing equipment.
Tuesday afternoon, witnesses, including those driving immediately behind Zhukovskyy or the bikers, testified about what they saw before and after the incident. That included statements that Zhukovskyy was driving erratically in the moments before the crash, including swerving and correcting his vehicle to stay in his lane.
One witness described the scene of the collision as akin to a plane crash, with motorcycle parts and bodies spread across more than 200 feet of roadway.
Shortly after the June 2019 crash, media reports emerged detailing that Zhukovskyy’s license was supposed to be suspended following a recent DUI arrest in Connecticut, but the state of Massachusetts failed to process the paperwork. The breakdown in communication and timely record processing sparked an investigation across the region that found state motor vehicle agencies, including in New Hampshire, routinely failed to process out-of-state notifications including license suspensions on a timely basis.
The trial could last four weeks, with prosecutors submitting a witness list containing more than 100 names. On Monday, the jurors – 12 Coos County residents and six alternates – viewed the site of the crash. | https://www.nepm.org/2022-07-26/trial-in-randolph-crash-that-killed-seven-motorcyclists-gets-underway | 2022-07-27 16:57:56 | 1 | https://www.nepm.org/2022-07-26/trial-in-randolph-crash-that-killed-seven-motorcyclists-gets-underway |
Any sleep tracker will show you that slumber is far from a passive affair. And no stage of sleep demonstrates that better than rapid eye movement, or REM, commonly called dream sleep.
“It’s also called paradoxical sleep or active sleep, because REM sleep is actually very close to being awake,” said Dr. Rajkumar Dasgupta, a sleep medicine and pulmonary specialist at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.
Before scientists discovered REM sleep in the 1950s, it wasn’t clear that much of anything was happening in the brain at night. Researchers today, however, understand sleep as a highly active process composed of very different types of rest — including REM, which in some ways doesn’t seem like rest at all.
While the body typically remains “off” during REM sleep, the brain is very much “on.” It’s generating vivid dreams, as well as synthesizing memories and knowledge. Scientists are still working to unravel exactly how this strange state of consciousness works.
“It is fair to say that there is a lot left to learn about REM sleep,” Dasgupta said. But from what researchers do understand, REM is critical to our emotional health and brain function — and potentially even our longevity.
Where does REM sleep fall in the sleep cycle?
Throughout the night, “we’re going in and out of this rhythmic, symphonic pattern of the various stages of sleep: non-REM 1, 2, 3 and REM,” said Rebecca Robbins, an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and an associate scientist in the division of sleep and circadian disorders at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
As you doze off, you enter the first stage of non-REM. This lasts less than 10 minutes and is considered a light sleep. Your breathing and heart rate decelerate and your muscles relax as you slip into the second stage of non-REM sleep, where your body temperature drops and your brain waves get slower. Then you enter the third stage, known as deep sleep, when your body repairs your bones and muscles, strengthens your immune system, releases hormones and restores your energy.
After that, REM sleep begins, and your heart rate, breathing and brain activity all increase. Brain regions involved in processing emotions and sensory input (from your dream world) light up. Meanwhile, your brain paralyzes the muscles in your arms and legs, preventing you from acting out your dreams, Dasgupta explained.
Ideally, you move through the four stages in 90- to 110-minute cycles that repeat four to six times in a typical night. Then, after your last REM cycle, you wake up rested and alert, said Dr. Indira Gurubhagavatula, a sleep specialist at Penn Medicine and associate professor of medicine at the VA Medical Center in Philadelphia.
What are the benefits of REM sleep?
If you’ve ever gone to bed upset about something and woken up noticeably less bothered, it’s likely a result of the emotional processing and memory reconsolidation that happen during REM. There’s evidence that your brain divorces memories from their emotional charge — removing the “sharp, painful edges” from life’s difficulties, said Matthew Walker, a professor of neuroscience and psychology and the founder and director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley. REM is “like a form of overnight therapy,” he said.
REM also makes us better learners. During this sleep stage, your brain strengthens neural connections formed by the previous day’s experiences and integrates them into existing networks, Robbins said.
Walker added: “We take those new pieces of information and start colliding them with our back catalog of stored information. It’s almost a form of informational alchemy.” These novel connections also make us more creative, he said. “We wake up with a revised mind-wide web of associations” that helps us solve problems. Researchers in Walker’s lab conducted a small study where people were roused from different stages of sleep and asked to solve anagram puzzles. They found that subjects awakened from REM sleep solved 32% more anagrams than subjects who were interrupted during non-REM sleep.
Then, of course, there’s dreaming: The majority of our vivid dreaming takes place during REM. Some experts suspect that dreams are a mere byproduct of REM sleep — the mental manifestation of neurological work. But others think they might help people process painful experiences, Walker said.
And although most physical processes, like repairing bone and muscle tissues, happen during the non-REM sleep stages, some hormonal changes occur while someone is in REM, Walker said, like the release of testosterone (which peaks at the onset of the first REM cycle).
What happens if you don’t get enough REM?
Genetics and other factors can influence the amount of sleep you need, but most adults should aim for seven to nine hours each night, which includes about two hours of REM sleep, Gurubhagavatula said.
In general, you need less sleep as you age, including slightly less REM. But large deficits of REM sleep, no matter your age, can deprive you of its psychological benefits, Dasgupta said. You may have more trouble learning, processing emotional experiences or solving problems.
Dysregulated REM sleep is also linked with cognitive and mental health issues, like slower thinking and depression, said Dr. Ana Krieger, medical director of the Center for Sleep Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. Too little REM, fragmented REM and REM sleep behavior disorder — where muscle paralysis fails to happen and people physically act out their dreams, often by kicking or punching — are associated with neurological issues, from mild forgetfulness to dementia and Parkinson’s disease.
A 2020 study of more than 4,000 middle-aged and older adults found that each 5% decrease in REM sleep was linked with a 13% greater risk of dying from any cause over the next two decades. Lack of sleep in general is associated with death, but the research suggests that not getting enough REM sleep “is the single strongest factor of all stages,” Walker said.
Walker and other experts aren’t sure what to make of this relationship between REM sleep and mortality. “I don’t think we understand REM sleep well enough yet to definitively say which mechanisms are at play,” he said. Or, as Gurubhagavatula said, if lack of REM is actually causing death.
How do you know if you need more?
It is hard to tease apart signs of REM sleep deficiency from signs of overall sleep deprivation, Gurubhagavatula said. If you’re sleep-deprived, then you’re probably REM-deprived.
Certain behaviors, however, can specifically compromise your REM sleep. “Cutting your sleep short by going to bed late and then using an alarm clock to wake up can put you at risk for chronic deprivation of REM sleep,” Gurubhagavatula said. That’s because the longest REM periods often happen at the end of the night. Having an alcoholic drink before bed also “markedly impairs your REM sleep,” Walker said, because the process of metabolizing alcohol produces compounds that affect sleep cycle regulation. What’s more, Gurubhagavatula explained, moderate and heavy drinkers have a higher risk of REM sleep behavior disorder.
Antidepressants can also reduce REM sleep or trigger REM sleep behavior disorder. And specific conditions — like narcolepsy, obstructive sleep apnea and depression — can elevate your risk of REM abnormalities, Dasgupta said. If you have one of these conditions and are feeling sleep deprived, seek guidance from a sleep specialist. With sleep apnea, for instance, “the minute we initiate therapy, people often get a REM rebound,” Dasgupta said.
Is it possible to prioritize REM sleep?
Although recent research suggests people may get slightly more REM sleep in the winter, it’s a modern myth that you can target one specific stage of sleep for improvement. “People want to manipulate sleep and have more of this particular stage, but the body doesn’t function like that,” Krieger said. The natural architecture of sleep is not something to tinker with, but to protect.
“The way to get healthy REM sleep is to focus on getting healthy sleep overall, and let your brain do the rest,” Gurubhagavatula said.
Waking up and going to bed at the same time every day helps your brain and body know when they should be resting, making sleep more efficient, Robbins said. Other behaviors that help regulate your biological clock include having a consistent eating schedule and not eating too late, exercising regularly, getting some morning sunlight and avoiding blue light in the evening.
Make sure to follow other sleep hygiene best practices, such as avoiding alcohol and stimulants like caffeine and nicotine (particularly later in the day) and maintaining a sleep environment that is dark, quiet and cool, Gurubhagavatula said. And don’t overlook the importance of a wind-down routine to help you shift from action to a night of rest and recovery — including that bizarrely busy time your brain spends in REM. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/rem-sleep-is-magical-heres-what-the-experts-know/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2023-02-27 14:44:21 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/rem-sleep-is-magical-heres-what-the-experts-know/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
TO THE EDITOR:
Last week, I won the Democratic nomination for the State House’s 95th District.
There are so many people I want to thank. Of course my amazingly supportive wife, Ashley. I also want to thank my entire extended family, many of whom crossed party lines to support me. I also have a wide network of friends to thank.
Finally, I need to thank all of you who voted for me. I keep saying it because it is so important to me. None of this happens without all of you. This is a working class, locally-sourced, community-powered campaign that subscribes to the idea that representatives should work for the people.
Every set of hands that has joined us on this journey has made the weight of this more manageable for all of us. Every pair of ears has made us that much more knowledgeable on the issues of the area. And every voice has made us that much louder and undeniable, and primary night proved that in a resounding manner.
The people of this region deserve a representative that is dedicated to truly representing them. Someone who will fight for the rights of everyone, and who won’t prioritize big money donors and special interest groups over the working class. Someone who truly wants this community not just to survive, but to thrive. I want to be that person for the 95th District.
I know this won’t be easy, but it is achievable. If enough of us band together, I truly believe we can make a difference that will help this area reclaim and grow past where we are. It’s not simply about moving us forward, it is about strengthening our roots so that we remain connected to our past and remember where we came from. Remembering the middle class ideals and midwestern values that make this one of the best communities to raise a family in.
Thank you all again, I cannot tell you how much your support has meant to me. I won’t let you down.
MATT DAWSON
Democratic Nominee for Michigan’s 95th District
Midland | https://www.ourmidland.com/opinion/letters/article/Dawson-thanks-those-who-supported-State-House-17363949.php | 2022-08-11 21:39:20 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/opinion/letters/article/Dawson-thanks-those-who-supported-State-House-17363949.php |
Hall of Fame baseball writer Hal McCoy knows a thing or two about our nation’s pastime. Tap into that knowledge by sending an email to halmccoy2@hotmail.com.
Q: Can a potential Hall of Famer wine and dine voters to enhance his chances of getting into Cooperstown? — DAVE, Miamisburg/Centerville/Beavercreek.
A: He can certainly try, but I hope a writer’s vote is non-negotiable. I once had a player, whom I won’t name, become eligible for the Hall call me out of the blue. “Just calling you to see how you’re doing?” he said. He’d never called before and I was perplexed why he called. Then it hit me. He wanted my vote. He didn’t get it and is not in the Hall of Fame. But he is in my Hall of Shame.
Q: Are you looking forward to the pitch clock? — JOHN, Fort Wayne.
A: As an old-school baseball guy, so old I’m one-room schoolhouse for baseball, you’d think I’d be against it. Wrong. I’m all for it. While I don’t care how long a game takes, I do care about all the wasted time between pitches. The pitch clock will speed the pace of the game and force more action. Bring it on and let the play speed up.
Q: The Reds used to field a winter basketball team that played exhibition games for charity, and will we ever see it again? — GREG, Beavercreek.
A: While they traveled under the Cincinnati Reds label in the early 1970s and wore uniforms that said, ‘Cincinnati Reds,’ the troupe was not authorized by the team. And they usually added a couple of real basketball players/ringers to make certain they won. Johnny Bench and Pete Rose played, and Rose played basketball like a linebacker. It was all fun and games until somebody got hurt. Bobby Tolan tore his Achilles tendon and the Reds put a stop to the tour. Potential injuries are why you’ll never see it again.
Q: With Bally Sports Network filing for bankruptcy, what network/TV station will telecast Reds games if Bally goes belly up? — JACKIE, Kettering.
A: What’s $8 billion in debt among friends? Bally is owned by the Diamond Sports Group, which has TV rights to 42 sports teams, including 14 MLB teams. DSG has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy but says it can continue to televise games. If they fail, commissioner Rob Manfred promises that MLB owns digital rights to those 14 baseball teams and MLB would take over. Remember it. Rob Manfred promised. And MLB would like nothing better than to control the TV rights of all the teams, the way the NFL does.
Q: Do you see any scenario that another ownership group would buy the Reds? — LEE, West Carrollton.
A: Before there can be a buyer, there must be a seller. There is no indication that CEO Bob Castellini’s ownership group wants to sell. I’m sure there would be groups lined up to buy the Reds, if they were for sale. So far, though, there is no ‘For Sale’ sign on the Great American Ball Park lawn.
Q: Any idea when the Reds will do a uniform refresher because they are way overdue for a change? — SCOTT, Columbus.
A: Some teams change uniform styles like you and I change underwear. Not the Reds. The traditional wish-bone ‘C’ is too iconic. But they have made one change the last couple of years. Their red jersey tops have ‘Reds’ emblazoned across the chest in script instead of the ‘C’ on one side of the shirt. I am not a fan. At some point this season, the Reds will unfurl their City Connect uniforms where teams wear colors not associated with the franchise. The Boston Red Sox wear blue and yellow. Yech.
Q: Even though starting pitchers only go 100 pitches or five or six innings, it seems there are more injuries than 20 or 30 years ago, so are there any studies that show this way is better on a pitcher’s arm? — TOM, Beavercreek.
A: If there is, I haven’t read it. And I don’t believe such study exists. It perplexes me that arm injuries seem rampant despite modern medicine, better techniques by physical trainers, better diets, better everything. But if a pitcher doesn’t have Tommy John surgery, he isn’t trying.
Q: I counted 11 coaches plus manager David Bell and remember when manager Sparky Anderson had four coaches, so why so many? — TOM, Cincinnati.
A: Somebody must interpret and implement the analytics that are as thick as the Los Angeles/Hollywood celebrity handbook. Your count is accurate — Bell and his 11 disciples. Three are returnees (Derek Johnson, Freddie Benavides, J.R. House) and eight are new. Why so many? Beats me. They never used to have assistants and now you have an assistant pitching coach, an assistant batting coach, an assistant everything. What’s the old saying about too many cooks?
Q: What sporting event have you never covered that you would like to cover? — TIM, Xenia.
A: I haven’t missed many. Events I’ve covered: World Series, All-Star game, Super Bowl, Rose Bowl, Final Four, Masters, U.S. Open, PGA, Indianapolis 500, Daytona 500, Muhammad Ali title fight, Reds, Miami of Ohio, University of Dayton, Cincinnati Royals, Ohio State, Cleveland Browns, Belmont High’s state basketball championship season. My bucket to-do list is very short, the Kentucky Derby and the Olympics.
Q: Do you ever feel like giving up, just throwing up your hands and saying I can’t cover a team where management doesn’t care? — BILL, Kettering.
A: Never. Writing and baseball are part of my DNA. It’s baseball and Reds management does want to win, somehow, some way. So far it hasn’t figured out how to do it. I’m 82 years old and I tell people I’ll be finished when my head hits my laptop keyboard.
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How much has US military aid helped Ukraine’s stunning offensive?
Posted/updated on: September 13, 2022 at 5:59 am(NEW YORK) -- Ukraine's stunning blitzkrieg counteroffensive in the northeastern part of the country has routed Russian forces and continues to make rapid progress, in some cases pushing back Russian troops back into Russia, U.S. officials said Monday.
While they acknowledge that the constant flow of U.S. military aid and equipment has helped "change the battlefield dynamics," the officials also have been quick to praise Ukraine's military for how it has employed the equipment on the battlefield and for anticipating what weapons it would need to eventually launch the offensive.
While there are few details of the long-anticipated Ukrainian offensive in the south targeting the city of Kherson, the surprise Ukrainian offensive launched near the city of Kharkiv has led to a dramatic turn of events.
In a matter of days, U.S. officials said, Ukrainian military forces have retaken as much as 1,200 square miles of territory in northeastern Ukraine once held by Russia for months, pushing eastward from Kharkiv as far as 40 miles. The Ukrainian advance northward from Kharkiv has come as close as 10 miles to the border with Russia as Russian troops hastily retreated in what Russia's defense ministry called a "regrouping" of forces.
"On the ground in the vicinity of Kharkiv, we assess that Russian forces have largely ceded their gains to the Ukrainians and then withdrawn to the north and east," a senior U.S. military official told reporters Monday. "Many of these forces have moved over the border into Russia."
"We also assess that Ukrainian forces have very likely taken control of Kupiansk and Izyum in addition to smaller villages," said the official.
Both cities were important to Russian military operations in eastern Ukraine, particularly Izyum, which had been used as the main logistical hub for its months-long assault on the Donbass region.
"We've seen the Ukrainians use to great effect, the capabilities that they have across the battlefield to change the battlefield dynamics," the official added, referring to military capabilities provided to Ukraine by the United States and other countries.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, the United States has provided $14.5 billion in military equipment, including Javelin anti-tank weapons, Stinger portable anti-aircraft missiles, howitzer artillery, and the long-range HIMARS rockets (High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems) that can reach more than 40 miles behind enemy lines.
While that assistance was described by the U.S. military official as being "incredibly helpful," the official directed praise at Ukraine's military.
"Much of the credit, if not most of it goes to the Ukrainians and what they're doing to employ these capabilities," said the official.
A senior U.S. defense official complimented Ukraine's communications with the United States to anticipate what gear it would need against Russia, such as requesting howitzer artillery to counter what they expected to be an "artillery battle the Russians intended to wage" to take over the Donbass region.
That was soon followed by Ukraine's request for a counter to Russia's advantage in long range rocket systems and its establishment of major logistical hubs and military headquarters far behind enemy lines.
"That's when we started focusing on the ability of providing the HIMARS and GMLR systems (the rockets fired by HIMARS)," said the official. "So, it is absolutely a partnership and in listening to the understanding of what they're seeing, and then seeing what we can do to provide them with capabilities to address that."
Last week, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley said that the United States had provided "thousands" of the long-range rockets fired by the HIMARS systems that Ukraine has used to strike at more than 400 Russian targets behind enemy lines, including ammunition depots, logistical hubs and military headquarters.
"They've had devastating effect," Milley said in Germany last week. "Russian lines of communication and supply channels are severely strained. It is having a direct impact on the Russian ability to project and sustain combat power."
"Russian command and control in the headquarters have been disrupted and they're having great difficulty resupplying their forces and replacing their combat losses," he added.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Greg Landsman wins election to U.S. House in Ohio's 1st Congressional District, beating incumbent Rep. Steve Chabot.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who allegedly shot and wounded two Jewish men as they left synagogues in Los Angeles this week was charged Friday with federal hate crimes.
Jaime Tran, 28, allegedly carried out the attacks on Wednesday and Thursday mornings, U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada said at a news conference.
“For the past two days, our community has experienced two horrific acts,” Estrada said. “An individual motivated by antisemitism, hatred for people in the Jewish community, committed two tremendously horrible acts targeting individuals because of their Jewish faith.”
Both victims wore clothing that identified their faith, including black coats and head coverings, Estrada said. Tran, arrested Thursday evening, told law enforcement that he looked online for a “kosher market” and decided to shoot someone nearby, according at an affidavit filed by the FBI. He also admitted to shooting someone the previous day, the affidavit said.
Tran was scheduled to make an initial appearance in federal court Friday afternoon but was not expected to enter a plea, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
Tran’s federal public defender did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The first victim was shot at close range in the lower back, Estrada said. The second victim was shot in the upper arm, also at close range. In both cases the shots were fired from a car.
Tran said he selected the victims because of what they wore on their heads, the FBI affidavit said.
Tran has “history of antisemitic and threatening conduct,” the affidavit said, citing a review of emails, text messages and unspecified reports. In 2022, he emailed former classmates using insulting language about Jewish people, and he threatened a Jewish former classmate, repeatedly sending them messages like “Someone is going to kill you, Jew” and “I want you dead, Jew,” according to the affidavit.
“We were lucky that we’re not going to funerals. That’s just the reality,” Rabbi Abraham Cooper from the Simon Wiesenthal Center said during Friday’s news conference. “Tomorrow we go to our services with our children.”
Tran was arrested about 100 miles (161 kilometers) east of Los Angeles in the Riverside County community of Cathedral City near Palm Springs.
According to the affidavit, Los Angeles police officers investigating the second shooting used video from a camera at an intersection to identify an older model gray Honda that appeared to be involved.
An officer who responded to assist saw and photographed a man driving a dark gray Honda Civic. The image captured the license plate, which was registered to Tran, whose driver license photo was consistent with witness’ descriptions of the shooter, the affidavit said.
License plate readers showed the Honda was in the area of the two shootings at the times they occurred. Police identified a mobile phone number associated with Tran and location data showed it was in the Palm Springs area Thursday afternoon.
Around 5:45 p.m., Cathedral City police responded to a call from someone who heard the sound of a gunshot and saw a man with a gun near a Honda Civic.
Officers found Tran standing next to the car, and they could see an “AK-style rifle” and a .380-caliber handgun in plain view on the driver’s seat, the affidavit said. The officers also found a spent shell casing.
The U.S. attorney said that Tran had been a resident of the city of Riverside.
In the FBI interview, Tran said he was homeless and had been living out of the car for 12 to 14 months, and that he obtained the firearms from someone he did not know in Arizona, the affidavit said.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said fighting hate crimes is a priority of her administration’s public safety agenda.
“We can rest hopefully a little bit easier,” she said during Friday’s news conference. “Still, antisemitism and terror are tragically on the rise across our city and across our nation.” | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/ap-hate-crimes-charged-in-wounding-of-2-jewish-men-in-la/ | 2023-02-18 22:52:49 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/ap-hate-crimes-charged-in-wounding-of-2-jewish-men-in-la/ |
NEW YORK, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Planet Green Holdings Corp. (the "Company") (NYSE American: PLAG) announced today that on July 15, 2022, the Company has entered into a Share Exchange Agreement with Xianning Xiangtian Energy Holdings Group Co., Ltd. ("Target") and the shareholder of the Target (the "Seller"). Pursuant to the Share Exchange Agreement, the Company will acquire 30% of outstanding equity interests of the Target. The Target is a company that holds LNG production facilities through its subsidiary, and owns other assets.
Pursuant to the Share Exchange Agreement, the company will issue 12,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company to the Sellers in exchange for the transfer of 30% of the equity interest of the Target. The transaction is subject to closing conditions that are customary for transactions of this type.
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Noodle the pug, the beloved dog behind the viral “bones or no bones?” day predictions on TikTok, died on Friday, Dec. 2 at age 14.
Jonathan Graziano, Noodle’s owner, announced the sad news in a short video addressed to fans and shared on his Instagram and TikTok pages.
“I’m so sorry to have to share this, but Noodle passed yesterday,” Graziano, who adopted Noodle when the dog was 7, said. “He was at home, he was in my arms. This is incredibly sad. It’s incredibly difficult. It’s a day that I always knew was coming but never thought would arrive.”
Graziano added, “Although this is very sad, I wanted to let you know, and I wanted to encourage you to celebrate him while we’re navigating this sadness.”
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“He lived 14 and a half years which is about as long as you can hope a dog can,” he continued. “And he made millions of people happy. What a run.”
Graziano thanked fans for loving Noodle and for “embracing" the duo, concluding his emotional statement with some levity, making a joke about Noodle's infamous "cheese ball full of meds."
“Give your dog a cheese ball tonight, but it has to be the fake stuff.”
Noodle the pug and Graziano rose to popularity on TikTok in 2021 during the pandemic for their “bones or no bones?” video series.
In videos shared nearly daily on Graziano’s TikTok, he held Noodle up in a dog bed to see if the pug would stand up or proceed to lie back down. If Noodle flopped over, that made it a “no bones” day, whereas if Noodle remained standing up, it would be declared a “bones” day.
As Graziano explained in his first appearance on TODAY in Oct. 2021, “A bones day is a day where you just have to go after your ambition or a task you were outing off. A no bones day is a day when you just permission to wear soft clothes, self-care, take a bath.”
On TikTok alone, Graziano and Noodle amassed 4.5 million followers — with 271,000 more on Instagram — earning nearly 100 million likes across their collection of videos.
By January 2022, it was announced that Noodle would become the star of his own children’s book, “Noodle and the No Bones Day,” written by Graziano. The book featured both Noodle and his owner as they went through the ebbs and flows of life, including both the “bones” and “no bones” days.
After the book was published on June 7, the dynamic duo stopped by TODAY again on a “bones” day to talk about the book. Graziano explained that the book followed Noodle’s first “no bones” day experience.
“The book is all about me figuring out that not only is it important for me to listen to Noodle when he does or does not want to do something, but that it’s OK to let people know when you need to have either a personal day or you’re ready to go out in the world,” Graziano said, later adding, “I’m still kind of new to this self-care idea, so the idea that we can introduce it in a children’s book and frame it in this way, it’s just wonderful to see that this has really made an impact.”
During his first visit to Studio 1A, Graziano reflected on how his senior pug had not only become a viral sensation, but also a source of happiness for many viewers.
“Noodle has brought joy to so many people online. I can’t believe it,” Graziano said. “This ‘no bones’ video is something that I would just do as a silly little ritual for us in the morning to check in and see how he was doing. And then it took off. People starting using it as a forecast for how their day was going to go and I leaned into it. We all need a little positivity right now."
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FORT MYERS, Fla. — Fort Myers police are investigating after two men were shot at a gas station in Fort Myers overnight.
Police were called to Marathon gas station, located at 2938 Fowler Street.
The two are receiving treatments for gunshot wounds in local hospitals, according to FMPD.
No further details were immediately available.
The investigation is ongoing.
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From Sept. 15 through Oct. 15, Tiny Desk is celebrating Latinx Heritage Month with an "El Tiny" takeover, featuring Jessie Reyez, Susana Baca and more musicians from all corners of Latinidad.
Girl Ultra's music is never one thing for long. After coming up in Mexico City's alt R&B scene, Mariana de Miguel built on that premise with experiments in house, bolero, pop and punk, fused with her own distinct glint. Her El Tiny performance is an effortless flash of all she is capable of and of the commanding performance she's finessed over her career. Even the onomatopoeic chorus of house track "BOMBAY" translates seamlessly to the desk.
Slowed and acoustic as it is, the El Tiny version of "Punk" captures the frenetic rush of the original, itself an alt transfiguration of Gwen Stefani's "Bubble Pop Electric" that interpolates its pop chorus and tailors it to the allure of going out in the south side of Mariana de Miguel's hometown of Mexico City. "Dime tú que voy a hacer con este feeling," ("You tell me what I'm going to do with this feeling") she asks, ostensibly of the person she's singing about. But it's also a question that speaks to the mutability of her performance: effusive and commanding, but never lacking a controlled restraint as it evolves. As she sings in "DameLove," "feelings always come and go."
She begins her El Tiny performance of that song by playing a few moments of the recorded version. Cuco's voice and hers float in from the drum machine, warped, as she flutters her fingers in front of her face, cultivating mystery against the familiarity of the setting for a solo rendition of the song that feels even more intimate.
She describes the final song of her set, "Ella Tú y Yo" from 2019's Nuevos Aires, as "about finding a third one in a relationship – which is pretty common these days." Here, she reworks the R&B ballad into a simmering indie rock churn, its titular phrase whispered with a soft wince.
Just one album and an EP into her career, Girl Ultra has already commanded change — as necessary and sometimes difficult as it can be — as a driver of expression. Here, it's thrilling.
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Funeral arrangements announced for Betsy Layne Elementary School teacher
FLOYD COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - Funeral arrangements were announced for Betsy Layne Elementary School teacher Lea Bentley.
Bentley died on March 2 at Highlands ARH Regional Medical Center.
Visitation is scheduled for Sunday, March 5, at 5 p.m. at Nelson Frazier Funeral Home and on Monday, March 6, at the Dome prior to the funeral.
Funeral services are scheduled for Monday, March 6, at 1 p.m. at the Dome at Betsy Layne Elementary School.
There will be no school at Betsy Layne Elementary School on March 6 because of the funeral.
“We ask that all of our Bobcats, and Floyd County staff and students, whether you will be attending the funeral or not, to please wear BLUE in memory of Mrs. Bentley. We also ask that you continue to keep the Bentley family and BLES community in your thoughts and prayers,” a post read on Facebook.
You can read the entire obituary for Lea Bentley here.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama could be ready to use a new, untried execution method called nitrogen hypoxia to carry out a death sentence later this month, a state attorney told a federal judge Monday.
James Houts, a deputy state attorney general, told U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker Jr. that it is “very likely” the method will be available for the execution of Alan Eugene Miller, currently set for Sept. 22 by lethal injection.
The final decision on whether to use the new method is up to Corrections Commissioner John Hamm, he said, and litigation is likely.
Nitrogen hypoxia, which is supposed to cause death by replacing oxygen with nitrogen, has been authorized by Alabama and two other states for executions but never used.
Convicted in a triple killing in 1999, Miller is trying to block his execution at Holman Prison. The disclosure about the possibility of using the new method came during a court hearing on Miller's claim that prison staff several years ago lost his paperwork. In it, he requested nitrogen as his execution method rather than lethal injection.
Houts told the judge the state had gone as far as to see if Miller would agree to be fitted with a mask for use of nitrogen, but the inmate declined.
Miller’s lawyer, Mara Klebaner, said the inmate's legal team needed more information about the nitrogen process and wouldn’t agree blindly to its use. Miller's lawyers don't want him to be the test case for an untried execution method, she said.
Miller, who was in court for the evidentiary hearing, was expected to testify.
Miller, a delivery truck driver, was convicted in workplace shootings that killed Lee Holdbrooks, Scott Yancy and Terry Jarvis in suburban Birmingham. Miller shot Holdbrooks and Yancy at one business and then drove to another location to shoot Jarvis, evidence showed.
Miller was delusional and believed the men were spreading rumors about him, including that he was gay, testimony showed. A defense psychiatrist said Miller suffered from severe mental illness but his condition wasn’t bad enough to use as a basis for an insanity defense under state law.
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BRASILIA, Brasil (AP) — Brazil’s capital prepared for the possibility of more violent demonstrations Wednesday by people seeking to overturn the presidential election, with local security officials blocking access to buildings trashed four days earlier by a horde of rioters.
A flyer promoting a “mega-protest to retake power” circulated on social media platforms, particularly Telegram, and urged protesters to turn out in two dozen cities, including the capital. It was unclear how large or violent such demonstrations might shape up to be, but skittish authorities took no chances.
Speaking to journalists in Brasilia, the federal appointee who has assumed control of the capital’s security said police were shutting down the main avenue to traffic and limiting pedestrian access with barricades. They are blocking all access to the square that was the site of Sunday’s mayhem, said the official, Ricarado Cappelli.
He said a small area on the avenue has been reserved for peaceful demonstrations, but will be surrounded by police and the national guard and all protesters searched upon entry.
“The right to protest freely will always be respected and cannot be confused with terrorism,” Cappelli said.
Citing the call to action on social media, a Supreme Court justice ordered local authorities in cities across Brazil to prevent protesters from blocking roads or occupying public spaces and buildings. Justice Alexandre de Moraes also ordered arrests and fines for people and companies who participate or help with logistics and funding.
The nation remains on edge after supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro rampaged through Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential palace on Sunday, laying ruin to the government’s three most important buildings. Officials arrested or detained some 1,500 people by the following morning, hundreds of whom were sent to prison.
Though there is no evidence of fraud in the Oct. 30 presidential election, the protesters have claimed the true winner was far-right Bolsonaro. He has fired up his base about the vulnerability of electronic voting machines despite independent experts’ assurances they are closely scrutinized. Bolsonaro also has warned his supporters that the election’s leftist victor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, would impose communism.
The fresh call for an uprising Wednesday sparked concern that the crackdown hadn’t damped the will of radicals. Among those who vow to continue struggling is Daniel Bressan, 35, who traveled some 300 miles from the interior of Parana state to join Sunday’s protest in Brasilia. He was detained by police the next morning, though he denies participating in any of the vandalism.
“A lot of people are going to be afraid to go to the streets and be arrested — I myself fear persecution by the legal system — but I’m not going to stop fighting and I’m not going to get discouraged,” Bressan said by phone from the federal police’s temporary holding center. “I’m ready for everything. Our freedom is worth more than our lives.”
Jailing rioters represents only part of the government’s effort to hold people responsible, with authorities also seeking to track down those who enabled the uprising. That includes organizers who summoned protesters to the capital and paid their way as well as local security personnel accused of either standing by and allowing the destruction to occur, or even cooperating.
Justice Minister Flávio Dino told local press this week that authorities have identified some of the protest’s financiers. He said they are based in the south and center-west regions that Bolsonaro carried in the election. Without identifying individuals, he said they are members of the agribusiness sector, local business owners and people registered to own firearms.
Dino previously said the riot was apparently intended to spark a domino effect around the country. He has referred to the encampments that had been set up by Bolsonaro supporters outside military buildings to call on the armed forces to overturn election results as “incubators of terrorists.” Authorities cleared away the camps in Brasilia and other cities after the rioting.
In November, the Supreme Court froze 43 bank accounts of people accused of having financed roadblocks that disrupted highway traffic in the wake of Lula’s victory. At least 30 were in the center-west state of Mato Grosso, Brazil’s top soybean producer.
De Moraes, the Supreme Court justice, also ordered preventative detention for the men who were serving Sunday as head of the federal district’s security and military police chief, as well as searches of their residences. Both men have been fired since the rioting.
“Absolutely NOTHING justifies the omission and collusion of the security secretary and the military police commander,” de Moraes wrote in his decision, which was made public late Tuesday.
The justice also denounced the protest encampments sponsored by diverse financiers.
“There are strong indications that the conduct of criminal terrorists could only have occurred with the willful participation or omission — which will be determined in these investigations — of the aforementioned public authorities,” de Moraes wrote.
The fired security secretary, Anderson Torres, had been Bolsonaro’s justice minister. Cappelli, the federal appointee who now controls the secretariat, said Wednesday that Torres assumed his new position, immediately fired subordinates and then traveled to Florida.
Cappelli previously told local media there were signs Torres’ actions amounted to intentional sabotage of security ahead of Sunday’s violence.
Torres said Tuesday night on Twitter that he was interrupting his vacation and returning to Brazil to present his defense. He said ethics and legality had always governed his actions.
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VIENNA — The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog urged Iran on Monday to cooperate with his inspectors amid a standoff over its atomic program and a threat by Western nations to censure Tehran over its noncooperation.
“This will be a reminder for Iran, and for us, and for everybody, that we really need to get down to work and clarify these issues that have been outstanding for too long,” Grossi added.
Grossi spoke during the first day of the IAEA board of directors meeting in Vienna, which runs until Friday.
The meeting comes at a tense time for the future of the negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. Iran has limited the IAEA’s monitoring activities for more than a year, and has failed to provide what Grossi called “credible information” about discovered nuclear material at three of Iran’s sites.
Additionally, talks between senior diplomats from Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia to discuss bringing Tehran back into compliance with the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action stalled earlier this year. The pact eased sanctions on Iran in return for curbs on its nuclear program.
The United States pulled out of the accord under former President Donald Trump and reimposed sanctions on Iran, prompting Tehran to resume its uranium enrichment.
Grossi said he was neither for nor against a possible vote to censure Iran during this week’s meeting, stressing the importance of continued cooperation with Iran despite recent tensions.
“I believe that it’s in no one’s interest that the cooperation between the agency and Iran diminishes even further,” he said.
Still, without adequate cooperation on Iran’s part, there is an “impasse” between the agency and Iran’s leadership, Grossi said. “These issues will not go away - they are not solved, they are not clarified.”
Grossi repeated his warnings that Iran is nearing the amount of nuclear material necessary to create a bomb, saying Monday they are “very, very close” to acquiring a “significant quantity” of this material.
He said Iran could reach this amount in a matter of weeks. Still, he stressed that having enough material for a bomb and building a bomb are two different things.
As of Feb. 19, the IAEA says Iran’s stockpile of all enriched uranium was nearly 3,200 kilograms (7,055 pounds). Some has been enriched up to 60% purity — a short technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90%. Meanwhile, Iran has stopped the IAEA from accessing its surveillance camera footage.
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ORANGE, Calif. (AP) _ Alignment Healthcare Inc. (ALHC) on Thursday reported a loss of $11.6 million in its second quarter.
The Orange, California-based company said it had a loss of 6 cents per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 26 cents per share.
The Medicare Advantage insurer posted revenue of $366.5 million in the period, also topping Street forecasts. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $336.7 million.
For the current quarter ending in October, Alignment Healthcare said it expects revenue in the range of $330 million to $335 million.
The company expects full-year revenue in the range of $1.37 billion to $1.38 billion.
Alignment Healthcare shares have risen 19% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Thursday, shares hit $16.71, a decline of 19% in the last 12 months.
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Grundy Center's offense erupted in a dazzling display to dominate Columbus Junction Columbus 41-7 in an Iowa high school football matchup.
Grundy Center steamrolled in front of Columbus Junction Columbus 20-0 to begin the second quarter.
The Spartans registered a 27-7 advantage at intermission over the Wildcats.
Grundy Center steamrolled to a 34-7 lead heading into the fourth quarter.
The Spartans put a bow on this victory with a strong final-quarter kick, outpointing the Wildcats 7-0 in the last stanza.
In recent action on October 14, Grundy Center faced off against Traer North Tama and Columbus Junction Columbus took on Alburnett on October 14 at Columbus Junction Columbus Community High School. We covered the game. For a full recap, click here.
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- Document exchange ceremony at the International Greentech & Eco Products Exhibition & Conference Malaysia (IGEM) witnessed by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Environment and Water
- As an industry-first for Malaysia, MGTC and Envision Digital will develop a low carbon operating system (LCOS) that allows local businesses to track their carbon footprint in real-time
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Oct. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Malaysian Green Technology and Climate Change Corporation (MGTC), an agency of the Ministry of Environment and Water (KASA), and Envision Digital, the decarbonisation software leader for net zero, have signed a new partnership agreement to accelerate Malaysia's net zero journey and promote real-time carbon footprint tracking.
A document exchange ceremony took place today at the International Greentech & Eco Products Exhibition & Conference Malaysia (IGEM) and was witnessed by Yang Berbahagia Dato' Seri Ir. Dr. Zaini bin Ujang, Secretary General of the Ministry of Environment and Water.
Under the 12th Malaysia Plan, Malaysia has announced ambitious goals of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 and reducing its greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) intensity of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 45% by 2030. The partnership between Envision Digital and MGTC is an industry-first in Malaysia's journey towards achieving these commitments and will equip key stakeholders with the tools and capabilities they need to track their carbon emissions.
As part of this collaboration, both parties will jointly develop a low carbon operating system (LCOS) to enable local businesses across Malaysia to monitor and manage their carbon emissions. Powered by EnOSTM Ark, Envision Digital's carbon management solution, LCOS allows key stakeholders to catalyse the decarbonisation and digitalisation momentum, and gain real-time insights into their carbon footprint.
Ts. Shamsul Bahar Mohd Nor, CEO of MGTC, said, "Getting to net zero means reducing the build-up of emissions in the atmosphere that are warming our planet. With rising temperatures, the world faces a number of irreversible environmental changes. Issues such as food and water shortages, unpredictable weather, and the outbreak of diseases could affect humanity and future generations for years to come."
He added, "Globally, many companies are embarking on the net-zero transition, and decarbonisation is undoubtedly the first and most crucial part of this agenda. Our partnership with Envision Digital will allow companies to measure their carbon emissions, manage their business activities and take action to reduce their emissions. This opportunity will pave the way for us to promote a green economy and realise the national mission to build a carbon-neutral nation by 2050."
Azaidi Mohd Lazim, Managing Director, Malaysia at Envision Digital, said, "This partnership with MGTC highlights our commitment to supporting Malaysia's decarbonisation journey and helps unlock opportunities for businesses to accelerate their net zero transition in innovative ways. As a global net zero technology partner for both governments and companies, we believe public-private partnerships are vital to creating a net zero world."
About Malaysian Green Technology and Climate Change Corporation (MGTC)
MGTC is an agency of the Ministry of Environment and Water (KASA) mandated to drive the country in the scope of Accelerating Green Growth, Climate Action Empowerment and Cultivating Green Lifestyle.
Three national policies, in particular, the National Green Technology Policy (NGTP), the National Climate Change Policy (NCCP) and the Green Technology Master Plan (GTMP), regulated MGTC's role as a catalyst for green economic growth.
MGTC prime directive is to realise Malaysia's Net-Zero greenhouse gas (GHG) in 2050 through a 45% reduction of unconditional GHG emissions relative to 2005 intensity by 2030, increasing RM 100 billion GDP value in the green technology sector and generating 230,000 green job opportunities.
About Envision Digital
Envision Digital is the world's leading net zero technology partner for enterprises, governments, and cities, with the goal of accelerating progress towards carbon-free energy and improving quality of life for all of humanity. The company's EnOSTM net zero platform manages over 220 million devices and 500 Gigawatts of electricity, powering highly configurable, end to end IIOT solutions that use AI to reduce carbon emissions and costs, improve return on capital, and simplify reporting and compliance.
The company has over 1,000 employees and 14 offices across the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Malaysia, China, Japan and the United States, with headquarters in Singapore.
For more information, please visit www.envision-digital.com/.
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Argyle wide receiver Wayne Pritts (9) runs in for a touchdown after beating Melissa defensive back Jacob Fields on a slant route during their game at Eagle Stadium Friday, August 26, 2022, in Argyle, Texas.
After a nearly 11-month wait, Argyle earned some sweet revenge Friday with a 37-18 season-opening defeat of Melissa.
Argyle got its comeuppance in both schools' first Class 5A contest after its 12-year district title streak was snapped by the Cardinals last season in a 21-0 loss. Coach Todd Rodgers opened his 20th season leading the Eagles with a bang as his team extended its home win streak to 51 straight games.
An action-packed first half featured 98 plays and 46 points between the two teams.
Three plays into Argyle's opening possession, Melissa linebacker Alex Secreto intercepted Jacob Robinson's second pass of the game. The Cardinals were stuffed on a fourth-and-two from the Eagles' eight-yard line on their ensuing drive.
Chaos quickly set in after that as Argyle engineered a nine-play, 93-yard touchdown drive capped by a 48-yard pass from Robinson to wide receiver Wayne Pritts. Melissa answered on its first play of the next drive as quarterback Trevor Ham connected with receiver Jayvon Smith for a 61-yard score.
A successful two-point conversion try afterwards gave the Cardinals their first lead.
An Eagles punt and Melissa fumble later, Argyle retook the lead on a 10-yard touchdown run by RJ Bunnell. Melissa countered with a 40-yard drive capped by Ham's second touchdown pass.
Robinson then threw his second interception on the first play of the Eagles' ensuing drive. The Cardinals took advantage by tacking on a field goal on the drive to lead 18-14 after a quarter.
Argyle had two more touchdown passes in the second quarter as Robinson and fellow quarterback John Gailey each found Will Hodson for scores of 22 and 36 yards, respectively, to put the Eagles up 28-18 at the half.
After both offense struggled to get going early in the second half, Bunnell broke away for an 82-yard touchdown run. A missed extra point meant Argyle only extended its lead to 34-18.
An interception by defensive back Cooper Slater set the Eagles up to eventually score a 23-yard field goal and open up a three-score lead.
That would be all the scoring needed as Argyle opened its season with a strong win.
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Julia Bullock likes to call herself a "classical singer," instead of an opera singer, or simply a soprano. It's another way the 35-year-old St. Louis native is carefully building her unconventional career. Because her voice is among today's most expressive — a deluxe combination of velvety smoothness and brushed steel — you would think she might load up her debut solo album with showstopping opera arias.
Instead, Walking in the Dark, offers mainly songs — some a little out in left field, like "One by One," by the obscure singer-songwriter Connie Converse. With her signature elegant phrasing, Bullock transforms this introspective little song into something profound — like Schubert in a pensive mood. Converse, who enjoyed a flicker of recognition in the 1950s, never cut an album and disappeared mysteriously in 1974, never to be heard from again. Her song maps the precariousness of our connections with each other.
There is no opera on the album, but that doesn't mean there isn't any dramatic music. The fiery side of Bullock is on display in a selection from El Niño, a riveting reconsideration of the Nativity story by John Adams. This music not only represents Bullock as a go-to singer for Adams — she's had key roles in three of his productions — but points to the curatorial rigor in the themes Bullock threads through Walking in the Dark.
For Bullock, the word "dark" is neither positive nor negative. "Darkness is a place where we may find protection and safety," she writes in the album's booklet. "It's a place we may hold intimate secrets and desires — or it's somewhere we hide and shield wounds or violent acts." Another theme winding through the album is the spirit of Nina Simone. Bullock sings three songs Simone covered, including Billy Taylor's "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free" and "Brown Baby," where she stretches her range, introducing a rich low register.
Perhaps the anchor of Bullock's album — another piece set at night — is Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915, an affecting orchestral tableau told from the viewpoint of a young boy, lying on a quilt with his family in the backyard on a warm summer evening. While Bullock's interpretation falls somewhere between the girlish Dawn Upshaw and the more formal Barbara Hendricks, you can hear her searching for larger truths and a more luminous tone. The German conductor Christian Reif coaxes fine detail from the Philharmonia Orchestra and makes a sensitive pianist for Bullock (to whom he is married) in five songs on the album.
From Barber's summer night, Bullock shifts to a winter morning sky — the set lighting for Sandy Denny's "Who Knows Where the Time Goes," which closes Walking in the Dark on a bittersweet note of nostalgia. Bullock completely reharmonizes the song and paints it in minor key colors and broad, meditative strokes. If you know the majestic Judy Collins version, or the haunted one by Nina Simone, you might be in for a shock. Bullock isn't afraid to put her own stamp on a song that is fearless in the face of time.
With its smart, wildly diverse repertoire, Julia Bullock's Walking in the Dark is an album that shines, introducing us to an artist curating a career on her own distinctive terms.
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HAVANA — The United States Embassy in Cuba is reopening visa and consular services Wednesday, the first time it has done so since a spate of unexplained health incidents among diplomatic staff in 2017 slashed the American presence in Havana.
The Embassy confirmed this week it will begin processing immigrant visas, with a priority placed on permits to reunite Cubans with family in the U.S., and others like the diversity visa lottery.
The resumption comes amid the greatest migratory flight from Cuba in decades, which has placed pressure on the Biden administration to open more legal pathways to Cubans and start a dialogue with the Cuban government, despite a historically tense relationship.
They are anticipated to give out at least 20,000 visas a year, though it's just a drop in the bucket of the migratory tide, which is fueled by intensifying economic and political crises on the island.
In late December, U.S. authorities reported stopping Cubans 34,675 times along the Mexico border in November, up 21% from 28,848 times in October.
Month-to-month, that number has gradually risen. Cubans are now the second-largest nationality after Mexicans appearing on the border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection data shows.
The growing migration is due to a complex array of factors, including economic, energy and political crises, as well deep discontent among Cubans.
While the vast majority of Cuban migrants head to the U.S. via flights to Nicaragua and cross by land at the U.S. border with Mexico, thousands more have also taken a dangerous voyage by sea. They travel 90 miles to the Florida coast, often arriving in rickety, precariously constructed boats packed with migrants.
The exodus from Cuba is also compounded by rising migration to the U.S. from other countries like Haiti and Venezuela, forcing the U.S. government to grapple with a growingly complex situation on its southern border.
The renewal of visa work at the embassy comes after a series of migration talks and visits by U.S. officials to Havana in recent months, and may also be the sign of a slow thawing between the two governments.
"Engaging in these talks underscores our commitment to pursuing constructive discussions with the government of Cuba where appropriate to advance U.S. interests," the U.S. Embassy said in a statement in November following an American delegation's visit to Cuba.
The small steps are far cry from relations under President Barack Obama, who eased many American Cold War-era sanctions during his time in office and made a historic visit to the island in 2016.
Visa and consular services were closed on the island in 2017 after embassy staff were affflicted in a series of health incidents, alleged sonic attacks that remain largely unexplained.
As a result, many Cubans who wanted to legally migrate to the U.S. have had to fly to places like Guyana to do so before migrating or reuniting with family.
While relations have always been tense between Cuba and the U.S., they were heightened following the embassy closure and the Trump administration's tightening of sanctions on Cuba.
Under President Joe Biden, the U.S. has eased some restrictions on things like remittances and family travel from Miami to Cuba, but has fallen short of hopes by many in Cuba that a Biden presidency would return the island to its "Obama era."
Restrictions on tourist travel to Cuba, and imports and exports of many goods, remain in place.
Also kindling tensions has been the Cuban government's harsh treatment of participants in the island's 2021 protests, including hefty prison sentences doled out to minors, a constant point of criticism by the Biden administration.
Cuban officials have repeatedly expressed optimism about talks with the U.S. and steps to reopen visa services. Cuban Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Carlos Cossio said in November that ensuring migration through safe and legal pathways is a "mutual objective" by both countries.
But Cossio also blamed the flight of tens of thousands from the island on U.S. sanctions, saying that "there's no doubt that a policy meant to depress the living standards of a population is a direct driver of migration."
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Dick Groat, a two-sport star who went from All-American guard in basketball to a brief stint in the NBA to ultimately an All-Star shortstop and the 1960 National League MVP while playing baseball for his hometown Pittsburgh Pirates, died Thursday. He was 92.
Groat’s family said in a statement that he died at UMPC Presbyterian Hospital from complications of a stroke.
“We are deeply saddened by the loss of such a beloved member of the Pirates family and Pittsburgh community,” Pirates Chairman Bob Nutting said in a statement, calling Groat “a great player and an even better person.”
Groat, who was from the Swissvale neighborhood just east of Pittsburgh’s downtown, starred at Duke in basketball and baseball in the early 1950s, earning All-American honors in both. His No. 10 jersey hangs in Cameron Indoor Stadium; the program retired his number following the end of his senior season in 1952.
Groat attempted to play both baseball and basketball professionally, signing with the Pirates and being drafted by the Fort Wayne Pistons of the then-fledgling NBA within weeks of each other in 1952.
Long before Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders made two-way playing en vogue in the 1980s and ’90s, Groat was regularly shuttling from Durham, North Carolina, to Fort Wayne, Indiana in the winter of 1952-53 so he could split time between his classes at Duke — where he was finishing his degree after his eligibility expired — and the Pistons.
“I had a ball playing for them and had some of the scariest trips in my life,” Groat said. “I never had to practice, just play on the weekend.”
While basketball was Groat’s sport of choice, a stint in the military and an ultimatum from Pirates general manager Branch Rickey redirected the arc of Groat’s athletic career.
“Baseball was always like work for me,” Groat said in a 2014 interview. “Basketball was the sport that I loved, but it was baseball where I knew I would make a living.”
Rickey agreed, telling Groat after he returned home and played for the Pirates in 1955 that the young shortstop needed to step away from basketball. Groat somewhat reluctantly agreed, a decision that morphed into a lengthy 14-year career with Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Philadelphia and San Francisco. He made the All-Star team in five seasons and led the majors in hitting in 1960 when he batted .325.
The 1960 season ended with Groat earning NL MVP honors for a Pirates team that upset the New York Yankees in seven games to win the World Series.
Groat finished with 2,138 career hits during a major league career spanning 1952-67. The Pirates announced last week that Groat would be inducted into the team’s recently established Hall of Fame this summer.
A member of the college basketball and college baseball Halls of Fame, Groat was a two-time All-American guard at Duke in the 1950s and remains the second-leading scorer in school history, averaging 23.0 points for the Blue Devils. He was taken third overall by the Pistons in the 1952 NBA draft.
Groat played 26 games for the Pistons, averaging 11.9 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.7 assists. His basketball career, however, ended after he enlisted in the Army in 1953. He spent nearly two years in the service and when he was discharged, Rickey essentially threatened to take away Groat’s signing bonus if he didn’t turn his attention to baseball.
Groat relented and became one of the most consistent shortstops of his era. He played in eight All-Star games (there were two games a season for a brief period in the 1950s and ’60s) and during Pittsburgh’s improbable run to a World Series title in 1960, it was Groat and not future baseball Hall of Famers Roberto Clemente and Bill Mazeroski who spearheaded the Pirates’ unlikely rise from perennial also-ran to championship club.
The list of players who finished behind Groat in the 1960 NL MVP voting includes Hall of Famers Clemente, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Stan Musial and Eddie Matthews.
A smooth defender who teamed with Mazeroski to lead the NL in double plays five times — a record that still stands — Groat played 1,290 games at shortstop for the Pirates, fourth on the club’s all-time list for a player at that position.
Pittsburgh traded Groat to St. Louis in November 1962. He responded by having the best statistical season of his career in 1963, finishing second in MVP voting behind Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax while hitting .319 with a major league-leading 43 doubles. Groat won a second world championship that fall as the Cardinals toppled the Yankees in seven games.
Groat played briefly for Philadelphia and then the Giants before retiring after the 1967 season. He remained active in the Pittsburgh area following his playing days, running the golf course he owned in the Laurel Highlands about an hour east of the city and spending four decades as a color commentator for the University of Pittsburgh basketball team.
Current Pitt coach Jeff Capel said Groat lived “a storybook life.”
Groat is survived by daughters Tracey, Carol Ann and Allison, along with 11 grandchildren.
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Louisiana schools showed marked improvement on the latest state rankings released by U.S. News & World Report. This widely-referenced report captured education as a component of its 2023 Best States rankings, which evaluates all 50 states. Louisiana moved up five places for Pre-K-12 education, improving to 41st in 2023.
“These positive gains reflect the unwavering commitment educators and policy makers have to improving the quality of education in Louisiana,” said State Superintendent of Education Dr. Cade Brumley. “In a state long-challenged with educational outcomes, this movement is welcome news; however, we have a long way to go and must keep pushing forward.”
This improvement is similar to the positive data released earlier this school year on NAEP, also known as “The Nation’s Report Card,” where Louisiana 4th graders ranked #1 in the country in reading growth.
According to U.S. News & World Report, from 2019 to 2023, Louisiana has improved its overall Pre-K-12 ranking five spots, jumping from 46th to 41st. Categorically, Louisiana made the following improvements among the states:
College readiness improved two places from 42nd to 40th
High school graduation improved eight places from 45th to 37th
Math scores improved six places from 50th to 44th
Reading scores improved 10 places from 48th to 38th
Preschool enrollment improved six places from 15th to 9th
This is the latest data to show the continued progress of Louisiana students.
Louisiana’s 4th graders led the country in reading growth and the state’s overall ranking moved from 46th to 42nd among the states from 2019 to 2022 on NAEP.
Louisiana’s students earned the most significant year-over-year increase on state assessments since 2016, as students increased three points in both ELA and math.
Louisiana’s overall School Performance Score returned to its pre-pandemic level.
Louisiana’s students in grades 1-3 grew on the Fall Reading Report for the second consecutive year.
“I commend the teachers of Louisiana who have shown such dedication to our students,” said Deputy Superintendent Dr. Jenna Chiasson. “They remained focused on academic excellence and these gains are the direct result of that relentless pursuit.”
The U.S. News & World Report Pre-K-12 ranking informs the Best States rankings. It measures state performance across the life cycle of a young person’s education, encompassing preschool enrollment, standardized test scores among eighth-graders, high school graduation rate and college readiness. | https://bossierpress.com/louisiana-pre-k-12-education-improves-five-places-in-u-s-news-world-report-rankings/ | 2023-05-08 21:05:42 | 1 | https://bossierpress.com/louisiana-pre-k-12-education-improves-five-places-in-u-s-news-world-report-rankings/ |
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The WBC champion saw off old rival Derek Chisora once again at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium earlier this month, to set up a potential unification bout with the Ukrainian.
Following his win, ex-Manchester United forward Rooney professed his admiration for Fury, with the latter suggesting he should spar with the D.C. United boss.
Though those comments appeared to be in jest, Fury claimed on Monday his offer was serious, with Rooney set to link up with him in training.
"I spoke to Wayne last night and he’s well up for it," he said. "He's a right-handed person, so he has to switch up to be a southpaw, left-handed. We're going to bring Wayne in for preparation for Usyk.
"[I’m being] very, very serious. He's agreed, so he's going to come into camp for about four weeks and help me. I'm a big fan of his as well."
Across a highly successful club career, Rooney enjoyed domestic and international success with United, before transitioning into management with Derby County.
He was previously the outright record goalscorer for England, until current Three Lions captain Harry Kane matched his haul during the nation's 2-1 defeat to France in the World Cup quarter-finals.
Fury is angling for a bout with Usyk, who defeated Anthony Joshua to take the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO titles before defending them against the Briton once again earlier this year. | https://www.beinsports.com/au/boxing/news/rooney-to-join-furys-training-camp-for-usyk-f/2004541 | 2022-12-12 20:18:19 | 0 | https://www.beinsports.com/au/boxing/news/rooney-to-join-furys-training-camp-for-usyk-f/2004541 |
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Antonia Cereijido and M.G. Lord about their new podcast, LA Made: The Barbie Tapes, based on their archival tape of interviews with major players in the doll's creation.
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif., May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Santa Cruz County Bank (OTCQX: SCZC), today announced Maxwell Sinclair has joined the Bank as Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer.
Mr. Sinclair has a 28-year history in the banking industry with extensive executive-level experience in risk management, compliance, AML/BSA and human resource management. Most recently, Mr. Sinclair served as EVP Chief Risk, Compliance & Human Resources Officer at Pacific Mercantile Bancorp/Pacific Mercantile Bank, where he managed all aspects of risk, compliance, and regulatory matters, human resources, as well as regulatory relationships and corporate governance. He is also a founder of an Arizona-based de novo where he served in the capacity of Chief Risk Officer with responsibilities for governance, audit, compliance and human resource management. His experience includes serving as VP Compliance & BSA Manager at Zions Bancorp (California Bank & Trust). He also served as VP Compliance & BSA Officer and CRA & Security Manager at several Southern California-based financial institutions.
Mr. Sinclair obtained his Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Southern California and his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from University of the Redlands. He is a graduate of Pacific Coast Banking School, American Bankers Association National Compliance School, and also holds a certificate in Human Resource Management from Loyola Marymount University.
Commenting on his new appointment, Mr. Sinclair stated, "It is a pleasure to be joining an institution that I have long admired for its strong ties and commitment to the local community. After working with Santa Cruz County Bank's entire team and Board of Directors, it validated and solidified my respect for the Bank's sound practices, well-managed operations and outstanding reputation in the industry. Working strategically with the team and understanding its mission and vision lead to my acceptance of this incredible opportunity to permanently lead the Bank's risk management enterprise."
Krista Snelling, President and CEO commented, "Maxwell served as an advisor in the areas of compliance and risk management. He stepped in at a crucial moment, before an FDIC Examination, which he handled smoothly and professionally, and delivered best outcomes. The vast experience and professionalism he brings to the Bank are already playing a key role in our success and growth. We're thrilled to have him on the Executive Team."
Mr. Sinclair is a current board member of AOJAH and the Wiley Center/LA Speech and Language, and a former board member of Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Los Angeles Chapter, USC Summer Leadership Program, and also served as a former Advisory Board member of Central City Lutheran Mission, San Bernardino, and Bethlehem Temple Economic Development. Mr. Sinclair currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Rosario, and will maintain an office at the Bank's 75 River Street office in downtown Santa Cruz.
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LONDON — A London museum agreed Sunday to return a collection of Benin Bronzes looted in the late 19th century from what is now Nigeria as cultural institutions throughout Britain come under pressure to repatriate artifacts acquired during the colonial era.
“The evidence is very clear that these objects were acquired through force, and external consultation supported our view that it is both moral and appropriate to return their ownership to Nigeria,’’ Eve Salomon, chair of the museum’s board of trustees, said in a statement. “The Horniman is pleased to be able to take this step, and we look forward to working with the NCMM to secure longer term care for these precious artifacts.’’
The Horniman’s collection is a small part of the 3,000 to 5,000 artifacts taken from the Kingdom of Benin in 1897 when British soldiers attacked and occupied Benin City as Britain expanded its political and commercial influence in West Africa. The British Museum alone holds more than 900 objects from Benin, and National Museums Scotland has another 74. Others were distributed to museums around the world.
The artifacts include plaques, animal and human figures, and items of royal regalia made from brass and bronze by artists working for the royal court of Benin. The general term Benin Bronzes is sometimes applied to items made from ivory, coral, wood and other materials as well as the metal sculptures.
Countries including Nigeria, Egypt and Greece, as well indigenous peoples from North America to Australia, are increasingly demanding the return of artifacts and human remains amid a global reassessment of colonialism and the exploitation of local populations.
Nigeria and Germany recently signed a deal for the return of hundreds of Benin Bronzes. That followed French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision last year to sign over 26 pieces known as the Abomey Treasures, priceless artworks of the 19th century Dahomey kingdom in present-day Benin, a small country that sits just west of Nigeria.
But British institutions have been slower to respond.
The British Museum says it has held discussions with Nigerian authorities since at least 2018, and the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture submitted a written request for the return of antiquities in October of last year.
“The museum is committed to active engagement with Nigerian institutions concerning the Benin Bronzes, including pursuing and supporting new initiatives developed in collaboration with Nigerian partners and colleagues,” the British Museum said on its website.
The Horniman Museum also traces its roots to the Age of Empire.
The museum opened in 1890, when tea merchant Frederick Horniman opened his collection of artifacts from around the world for public viewing.
Amid the Black Lives Matter movement, the museum embarked on a “reset agenda,’’ that sought to “address long-standing issues of racism and discrimination within our history and collections, and a determination to set ourselves on a more sustainable course for the future.’’
The museum’s website acknowledges that Frederick Horniman’s involvement in the Chinese tea trade meant he benefitted from low prices due to Britain’s sale of opium in China and the use of poorly compensated and sometimes forced labor.
The Horniman also recognizes that it holds items “obtained through colonial violence.”
These include the Horniman’s collection of Benin Bronzes, comprising 12 brass plaques, as well as a brass cockerel altar piece, ivory and brass ceremonial objects, brass bells and a key to the king’s palace. The bronzes are currently displayed along with information acknowledging their forced removal from Benin City and their contested status.
“We recognize that we are at the beginning of a journey to be more inclusive in our stories and our practices, and there is much more we need to do,” the museum says on its website. “This includes reviewing the future of collections that were taken by force or in unequal transactions.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/uk-museum-agrees-to-return-looted-benin-bronzes-to-nigeria/2022/08/07/5668daca-165f-11ed-b998-b2ab68f58468_story.html | 2022-08-07 15:36:42 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/uk-museum-agrees-to-return-looted-benin-bronzes-to-nigeria/2022/08/07/5668daca-165f-11ed-b998-b2ab68f58468_story.html |
(KTXL) — For every election, ballots are mailed out to every registered voter in California. Voters can fill out, sign, and return their ballot by mail and track the ballot’s progress online.
The ballot tracking process is part of a “Where’s My Ballot?” service offered by the California Secretary of State.
The service, available in every county, allows voters to get notified when their ballot is mailed, received and counted. Voters can also receive notifications through emails, text or voice calls.
You can sign up for the service here.
Registered voters can sign in with their first and last name, date of birth and zip code. Once you’re logged in, there are four steps the ballot takes to get counted: ballot outbound, inbound, received and accepted.
Here is the process of each step of tracking your ballot.
Ballot Outbound
This first step of the process notifies voters when their ballots have been mailed to their home addresses. For voters wondering where their ballot is, the “Ballot Outbound” step on your account lets you know it’s on its way from the post office.
The “Where’s My Ballot” website will tell you to look for your ballot in your mailbox soon.
Ballot Inbound
Once you fill out your ballot and drop it into the mailbox, this step lets you know that the Postal Service has picked it up and is taking it to your county’s elections office. According to the website, the Postal Service will notify the state that they received your ballot and that it’s taking it to the election office in your county.
Ballot Received
This step of the process lets the voter know their county’s election office has received their ballot. Ballots that are mailed in are held and sorted but are not officially counted until Election Day.
Ballot Accepted
This is the final step of the process that notifies voters that their local election office confirms that it has received their ballot and counted their vote. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/california/wheres-my-ballot-the-online-tool-that-lets-you-track-your-california-election-ballot/ | 2022-10-08 02:06:54 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/california/wheres-my-ballot-the-online-tool-that-lets-you-track-your-california-election-ballot/ |
RICHMOND, Va., April 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Koalafi, a provider of comprehensive non-prime consumer financing plans, today announced a partnership with Broad River Retail, one of the largest and fastest-growing independently owned Ashley licensees, with stores located in the Carolinas and Georgia.
Koalafi's loan and lease plans will enable more of Ashley's guests to purchase furniture, mattresses, and other items for their homes. Koalafi always shows applicants the total financing costs upfront, in clear terms. Koalafi also reports payment activity to TransUnion, giving customers an opportunity to improve their credit with on-time payments. Broad River Retail currently offers Koalafi lease-to-own plans to its guests. Soon, as part of a phase-two launch, Broad River Retail will also offer Koalafi's installment loans to more seamlessly match guests to the right plan for their financial circumstances.
"Koalafi is inspired by Broad River Retail's purpose to furnish life's best memories," said Boomer Muth, CEO of Koalafi. "For over 40% of consumers, purchasing larger-ticket items can be challenging without financing. It is a privilege to partner with such a guest-centric company as Broad River Retail to make necessary home purchases more accessible."
"It's important that our partners show the same commitment to our purpose and level of care for our team and guests," said Stacey McCormick, SVP of Retail Performance at Broad River Retail. "Broad River is impressed by the team at Koalafi. We have gained more trust with them as a partner because they share our values. Koalafi will play a critical role in helping us achieve our ambitious growth goals. We are committed to a long-term partnership."
Broad River Retail joins twenty-five other Ashley licensee groups offering Koalafi's clear and easy-to-use financing plans.
About Koalafi
Koalafi (www.koalafi.com) offers a wide range of loan and lease plans that make it possible for non-prime consumers to make life-changing purchases. With Koalafi, in-store and e-commerce merchants nationwide can be confident they have a payment plan to offer every customer who wants to shop with them. Koalafi believes financing is more than just a payment tool and provides customers with credit improvement opportunities. Top retailers recognize Koalafi for their commitment to the success of both the retailer and their customers, reflected in Koalafi's 70 net promoter score.
About Broad River
Broad River Retail (www.broadriverretail.com) is headquartered in Fort Mill, SC, and employs over 800 Memory Makers. Broad River Retail operates 30 Ashley Stores and Ashley Outlets throughout the Carolinas and Georgia. Broad River Retail was ranked #45 in Furniture Today's 2022 Top 100 U.S. Furniture Stores and recognized among Furniture Today's Best Places to Work in 2021 and 2022.
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Private equity investor identified as political contributor allegedly duped by George Santos
By Fredreka Schouten, CNN
Private equity investor Andrew Intrater is one of the people federal prosecutors allege Rep. George Santos induced to donate money as part of an alleged scheme that diverted purported political contributions to Santos’ personal use, Intrater’s lawyer confirmed to CNN on Thursday.
In a 13-count indictment made public Wednesday, prosecutors alleged that Santos and an unnamed associate duped two donors — described only as Contributor #1 and Contributor #2 — into giving $25,000 apiece to support the Republican’s candidacy last year.
The donors were told the money would go to an independent committee that could raise unlimited amounts to help his campaign and would help underwrite television ads, according to the indictment. Prosecutors, however, say the money instead went to a limited liability company that Santos controlled and the funds paid for designer clothing, credit cards bills and other personal expenses.
“From the outset, Andy Intrater aided the government’s investigation of George Santos and is identified as a victim in the Indictment as Contributor #2,” Intrater’s lawyer, Richard D. Owens, said in a statement. “Andy is gratified that Santos will now have to answer in court for the many lies George told to Andy and so many other Americans.”
Santos pleaded not guilty Wednesday in New York and has vowed to fight the charges.
Intrater has financially supported Santos’ political ambitions in recent years, donating more than $24,000 to Santos’ congressional campaigns and his federal leadership PAC since 2020, Federal Election Commission records show.
Intrater told The New York Times earlier this year that he also had invested more than $600,000 in a fund offered by Harbor City Capital, where Santos worked as an account manager, partly because he admired Santos as a “hard-working guy.”
Intrater told the paper he later discovered he had been misled.
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint in April 2021 against Harbor City and its founder, Jonathan P. Maroney, alleging the company ran a $17 million “Ponzi scheme.” Maroney has not been charged with a crime, and Santos is not named in the SEC complaint.
Intrater is perhaps best known in US political circles as a cousin of Viktor Vekselberg, one of several Russian oligarchs sanctioned in 2018 by the US Treasury Department, for “worldwide malign activity.”
The New York Times earlier reported that Intrater was Contributor #2 in the indictment. CNN has not confirmed the identity of the other contributor described in the indictment.
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For the first time at SCOPE Miami Beach, Galderma, a leader in advancing the future of aesthetics, will invite attendees to explore its portfolio of injectable treatments
DALLAS, Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Galderma announced today its upcoming collaboration with SCOPE Miami Beach 2022, the premier showcase for emerging contemporary art. As the exclusive aesthetic injectables sponsor of the 21st annual art show, Galderma will be highlighting its aesthetics portfolio – Restylane®, Dysport®* (abobotulinumtoxinA) and Sculptra® – and hosting a variety of activations for visitors beginning November 29th through December 4th, 2022.
"We are thrilled to be among the artists and innovators at SCOPE Miami Beach this year," said Carrie Caulkins, Vice President, U.S. Aesthetics Marketing, Galderma. "Every skin story begins with a beautiful canvas and this partnership serves as a great reminder that expression can come in many forms."
During the showcase, Galderma will create an interactive space for guests, celebrating the beauty of art and aesthetics via a custom art installation from renowned street artist, HOTTEA. Brand representatives onsite will provide information about Restylane, Dysport and Sculptra and the booth will offer personalized consultations and real-time treatments with Miami-based aesthetic injectors, custom beauty tips and touchups from a celebrity makeup artist. Guests will be able to enjoy a coffee bar featuring latte art and participate in giveaways and meet and greets with A-list influencers throughout the week. Guests can also receive up to $200 off Galderma Aesthetics treatments through a special ASPIRE Galderma Rewards offer.**
"Self-expression is a cornerstone of art," Caulkins said. "A recent study*** found that the majority of consumers find it important to be able to visually express themselves, which is why, at Galderma, we embrace and encourage self-expression through the art of aesthetics. We strive to innovate and deliver products that allow patients to fully express a range of emotions, while looking their best."
Galderma's presence at SCOPE Miami Beach 2022 builds on the momentum of Restylane's "XpresYourself" communications campaign, aimed at destigmatizing aesthetics and promoting natural-looking results. The brand's proprietary XpresHAn Technology™, a unique manufacturing process used to formulate four Restylane products****, allows for natural movement and expression.1-3 Dysport and Sculptra are also designed to provide natural-looking results, giving consumers a portfolio of products to choose from. SCOPE Art Show's mission to provide a platform for experiential innovation and discovery complements Galderma's commitment to design innovative and effective aesthetic treatments with natural-looking results for every laugh, smile and expression.
For those unable to join Galderma at SCOPE Miami Beach 2022, check out RestylaneUSA, DysportUSA and SculptraUSA on Instagram to follow the conversation.
To learn more about Galderma's portfolio, visit www.galderma.com/us.
*Please see full Important Safety Information for Dysport, including Distant Spread of Toxin Effect Boxed Warning, below.
**Terms and conditions apply. For details, visit ASPIRE Galderma Rewards.
***Results based on a nationwide online survey conducted by Real Chemistry of 1,000 directionally representative aesthetically conscious consumers in the U.S.
****Products formulated with XpresHAn Technology™ include Restylane® Contour, Restylane® Kysse, Restylane® Defyne and Restylane® Refyne.
About Galderma
Galderma is the pure-play dermatology category leader, present in approximately 90 countries. We deliver an innovative, science-based portfolio of premium flagship brands and services that span the full spectrum of the fast-growing dermatology market through Injectable Aesthetics, Dermo-cosmetics and Therapeutic Dermatology. Since our foundation in 1981, we have dedicated our focus and passion to the human body's largest organ – the skin – meeting individual consumer and patient needs with superior outcomes in partnership with healthcare professionals. Because we understand that the skin we're in shapes our lives, we are advancing dermatology for every skin story. For more information: www.galderma.com/us.
About Galderma's RESTYLANE® Product Portfolio
With over 50 million treatments worldwide4 and counting, the Restylane® family of HA dermal fillers is a diverse and broad portfolio of dermal fillers in the U.S. These products help smooth facial wrinkles and folds, such as smile lines (Restylane® L, Restylane® Refyne, Restylane® Defyne and Restylane® Lyft with Lidocaine), augment and correct mild to moderate chin retrusion (Restylane® Defyne), create fuller and more accentuated lips (Restylane® Silk, Restylane®-L and Restylane® Kysse), add lift and volume to the cheeks and back of the hands (Restylane® Lyft with Lidocaine), and augment cheeks and correct midface contour deficiencies (Restylane® Contour). To learn more about the Restylane® family of HA dermal fillers, visit www.RestylaneUSA.com.
About Galderma's collaboration with Ipsen
Dysport® (abobotulinumtoxinA) is a prescription injection for temporary improvement in the appearance of moderate to severe frown lines between the eyebrows (glabellar lines) in adults less than 65 years of age. Dysport is also marketed as Azzalure in the EU for the treatment of glabellar lines and lateral canthal lines. Dysport has more than 30 years of clinical experience globally for therapeutic indications and 13 years for aesthetics indications, with extensive clinical evidence of safety and efficacy. It is li-censed for aesthetic indications in 85 markets5 worldwide, Dysport is one of the world's leading brands of aesthetic neuromodulators with over 100 million treatments delivered in the aesthetics indications to date. To learn more about Dysport products, visit www.DysportUSA.com.
Dysport is manufactured by Ipsen, a global specialty-driven pharmaceutical company. Since 2009, Galderma and Ipsen have had a strategic partnership under which Galderma has promoted and distributed Ipsen's botulinum toxin type A products in aesthetic indications. The Ipsen-Galderma strategic partnership now covers China, the United States, the European Union, Australia, South Korea, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and certain other countries. Ipsen continues to promote Dysport within certain therapeutic indications in countries around the world. For more information on Ipsen, visit www.Ipsen.com.
About SCULPTRA®
Sculptra® works to help stimulate the skin's own collagen production and is indicated for use in people with healthy immune systems for the correction of shallow to deep nasolabial fold contour deficiencies and other facial wrinkles.6,7 Sculptra is an injectable biostimulator containing microparticles of poly-l-lactic acid (PLLA) which helps gradually revitalize the skin's structural foundation, providing natural-looking, long-term results for up to 2 years.6† Sculptra was first approved for aesthetic use in 2009 in the United States and is currently available in more than 40 countries globally. To learn more about Sculptra products, visit www.SculptraUSA.com.
† Clinical study ended at 96 weeks (2 years)
To earn exclusive rewards, bonuses and discounts on Galderma's aesthetic treatments, join the ASPIRE Galderma Rewards program. To learn more, visit www.aspirerewards.com.
Media
Zach Randles-Friedman
Head of U.S. Communications
zach.randles-friedman@galderma.com
+1 (305) 299-5700
DYSPORT IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Dysport® (abobotulinumtoxinA) is a prescription injection for temporary improvement in the look of moderate to severe frown lines between the eyebrows (glabellar lines) in adults less than 65 years of age.
Important Safety Information
What is the most important information you should know about Dysport? Spread of Toxin Effects: In some cases, the effects of Dysport and all botulinum toxin products may affect areas of the body away from the injection site. Symptoms can happen hours to weeks after injection and may include swallowing and breathing problems, loss of strength and muscle weakness all over the body, double vision, blurred vision and drooping eyelids, hoarseness or change or loss of voice, trouble saying words clearly, or loss of bladder control. Swallowing and breathing problems can be life threatening and there have been reports of death. You are at the highest risk if these problems are pre‐existing before injection.
These effects could make it unsafe for you to drive a car, operate machinery, or do other dangerous activities.
Do not have Dysport treatment if you: are allergic to Dysport or any of its ingredients (see the end of the Medication Guide for a list of ingredients), are allergic to cow's milk protein, had an allergic reaction to any other botulinum toxin product, such as Myobloc®, Botox®, or Xeomin®, have a skin infection at the planned injection site, under 18 years of age, or are pregnant or breastfeeding.
The dose of Dysport is not the same as the dose of any other botulinum toxin product and cannot be compared to the dose of any other product you may have used.
Tell your doctor about any swallowing or breathing difficulties and all your muscle or nerve conditions such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis [ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease], myasthenia gravis, or Lambert‐Eaton syndrome, which may increase the risk of serious side effects including difficulty swallowing and difficulty breathing. Serious allergic reactions have occurred with the use of Dysport. Dry eye has also been reported.
Tell your doctor about all of your medical conditions, including if you have surgical changes to your face, very weak muscles in the treatment area, any abnormal facial change, injection site inflammation, droopy eyelids or sagging eyelid folds, deep facial scars, thick oily skin, wrinkles that can't be smoothed by spreading them apart, or if you are pregnant or breastfeeding or planning to become pregnant or breastfeed.
Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take, including prescription and nonprescription medicines, vitamins and herbal and other natural products. Using Dysport with certain other medicines may cause serious side effects. Do not start any new medicines while taking Dysport without talking to your doctor first.
Especially tell your doctor if you: have received any other botulinum toxin product, such as Myobloc® (rimabotulinumtoxinB), Botox® (onabotulinumtoxinA), or Xeomin® (incobotulinumtoxinA), in the last four months or any in the past (be sure your doctor knows exactly which product you received, have recently received an antibiotic by injection, take muscle relaxants, take an allergy or cold medicine, or take a sleep medicine.
Common Side Effects
The most common side effects are nose and throat irritation, headache, injection site pain, injection site skin reaction, upper respiratory tract infection, eyelid swelling, eyelid drooping, sinus inflammation, and nausea.
Ask your doctor if Dysport is right for you.
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
Please see Dysport Full Prescribing Information including Medication Guide at DysportUSA.com.
RESTYLANE IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
The Restylane family of products are indicated for patients over the age of 21, and includes Restylane®, Restylane-L®, Restylane® Lyft with Lidocaine, Restylane® Silk, Restylane® Kysse, Restylane® Refyne, Restylane® Defyne, and Restylane® Contour.
APPROVED USES
Restylane® and Restylane-L® are for mid-to-deep injection into the facial tissue for the correction of moderate to severe facial wrinkles and folds, such as nasolabial folds. Restylane® and Restylane-L® are also indicated for injection into the lips.
Restylane® Lyft with Lidocaine is for deep implantation into the facial tissue for the correction of moderate to severe facial wrinkles and folds, such as nasolabial folds and for cheek augmentation and for the correction of age-related midface contour deficiencies. Restylane® Lyft with Lidocaine is also indicated for injection into the dorsal hand to correct volume loss.
Restylane® Silk is for lip augmentation and for correction of perioral wrinkles.
Restylane® Kysse is for lip augmentation and for correction of upper perioral wrinkles.
Restylane® Refyne is for mid-to-deep injection into the facial tissue for the correction of moderate to severe facial wrinkles and folds, such as nasolabial folds.
Restylane® Defyne is for mid-to-deep injection into the facial tissue for the correction of moderate to severe deep facial wrinkles and folds, such as nasolabial folds. Restylane® Defyne is also indicated for injection into the mid-to deep dermis (subcutaneous and/or supraperiosteal) for augmentation of the chin region to improve the chin profile in patients with mild to moderate chin retrusion.
Restylane® Contour is for cheek augmentation and for the correction of midface contour deficiencies.
Do not use if you have severe allergies with a history of severe reactions (anaphylaxis), are allergic to lidocaine or gram-positive bacterial proteins used to make hyaluronic acid, prone to bleeding, or have a bleeding disorder. The safety of use while pregnant or breastfeeding has not been studied. Tell your doctor if you have a history of scarring or pigmentation disorders as these side effects can occur with hyaluronic acid fillers. Tell your doctor if you are planning other cosmetic treatments (i.e., lasers and chemical peels) as there is a possible risk of inflammation at the injection site.
Tell your doctor if you're taking medications that lower your body's immune response or affect bleeding, such as aspirin or warfarin, as these medications may increase the risk of bruising or bleeding at the gel injection site. Using these products on gel injection sites with skin sores, pimples, rashes, hives, cysts, or infections should be postponed until healing is complete.
The most common side effects are swelling, redness, pain, bruising, headache, tenderness, lump formation, itching at the injection site, and impaired hand function. Serious but rare side effects include delayed onset infections, recurrence of herpetic eruptions, and superficial necrosis at the injection site. The risk of unintentional injection into a blood vessel is small but can occur and could result in serious complications, which may be permanent including, vision abnormalities, blindness, stroke, temporary scabs, or permanent scarring of the skin. As with all skin injection procedures, there is a risk of infection.
To report a side effect with any Restylane® product, please call Galderma Laboratories, L.P. at 1-855-425-8722.
To learn more about serious but rare side effects and full Important Safety Information, visit www.RestylaneUSA.com.
SCULPTRA IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Indication: Sculptra® (injectable poly-L-lactic acid) is indicated for use in people with healthy immune systems for the correction of shallow to deep nasolabial fold contour deficiencies and other facial wrinkles.
Sculptra should not be used by people that are allergic to any ingredient of the product or have a history of keloid formation or hypertrophic scarring. Safety has not been established in patients who are pregnant, lactating, breastfeeding, or under 18 years of age.
Sculptra has unique injection requirements and should only be used by a trained healthcare practitioner. Contour deficiencies should not be overcorrected because they are expected to gradually improve after treatment.
Sculptra should not be injected into the blood vessels as it may cause vascular occlusion, infarction or embolic phenomena. Use at the site of skin sores, cysts, pimples, rashes, hives or infection should be postponed until healing is complete. Sculptra should not be injected into the red area (vermillion) of the lip or in the peri-orbital area.
The most common side effects after initial treatment include injection site swelling, tenderness, redness, pain, bruising, bleeding, itching and lumps. Other side effects may include small lumps under the skin that are sometimes noticeable when pressing on the treated area. Larger lumps, some with delayed onset with or without inflammation or skin discoloration, have also been reported.
Sculptra is available only through a licensed practitioner. Complete Instructions for Use are available at www.SculptraUSA.com/IFU.
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- Joint study with Massachusetts General Hospital proves that Lunit's AI-powered chest x-ray analysis software enhances the overall performance and efficiency of radiologists
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A recent study published in JAMA Network Open demonstrated that Lunit INSIGHT CXR, Lunit's AI-powered chest x-ray analysis solution, can significantly improve the accuracy and efficiency of radiologists diagnosing major chest findings.
The study was conducted by Lunit (KRX: 328130.KQ) and Dr. Mannudeep K. Kalra of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) from April to November 2021.
With a total of 497 chest x-rays, researchers compared Lunit INSIGHT CXR's standalone performance, radiologists' assessments with AI and without AI, diagnosing pneumonia, pneumothorax, pleural effusion, and pulmonary nodules. Reviewers included two radiologists, two thoracic radiology fellows, and two residents.
According to the study, Lunit INSIGHT CXR achieved detection rate of 82.5% for pulmonary nodules (94 of 114 findings), 88.7% for pneumonia (173 of 195 findings), 87.2% for pleural effusion (130 of 149 findings), and 100% for pneumothorax (80 of 80 findings). The AI's standalone performance remained high even when non-target findings were present on the chest radiograph.
For all four abnormalities, AI-assisted analysis substantially improved radiologists' sensitivity in comparison to unassisted assessment. Sensitivity increased 17.3%, 6.2% and 4.6% for pneumothorax, pulmonary nodules, and pneumonia respectively.
Moreover, the study also showed that Lunit INSIGHT CXR can improve efficiency. With the AI-assistance, radiologists saved 10% of their reading time compared with the group reporting without AI.
"The use of Lunit's AI product was associated with sensitivity gains for all four targeted chest findings and efficiency improvement across all readers regardless of their experience and training status," said Dr. Kalra.
"This joint study can be a remarkable milestone as it is conducted with the best medical staff from one of the top-ranked hospitals in the US," said Brandon Suh, CEO of Lunit. "The research proved that Lunit INSIGHT CXR can support both radiologists and patients with its exceptional accuracy and efficiency. I strongly believe that it will build a pillar for Lunit as we intend to expand the reach of our product across the US market."
JAMA Network Open is an international peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Medical Association, with an impact factor of 13.353.
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Auburn got its second commitment of the day Tuesday night in Florida 4-star defensive back Kensley Faustin.
Baker wide receiver Bryce Cain committed to the Tigers earlier in the day. Auburn now has seven commitments in the Class of 2024.
Faustin visited Auburn last weekend.
At 5-foot-11, 170 pounds, Faustin is listed as the No. 64 senior recruit in Florida, according to the 247 composite rankings.
His other offers included Arkansas, Coastal Carolina, Colorado, Duke, Florida, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Miami, Michigan State, N.C. State, Penn State, Tennessee and Texas A&M.
The Naples standout joins Cain, quarterback Walker White, tight end Martavious Collins, running back J’Marion Burnette and defensive backs A’Mon Lane and Jayden Lewis in Auburn’s 2024 class.
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Appointment ensures continuity as the company continues to deliver on Ontario-focused strategy and starts a thorough CEO selection process
TORONTO, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -Today Hydro One Limited (Hydro One) announced that Mark Poweska will be stepping down as President and CEO to assume a leadership position at a utility closer to his family in Western Canada later this year. William (Bill) Sheffield, a member of the company's Board of Directors since 2018, has been appointed Interim President and CEO of Hydro One. Poweska will remain with Hydro One as an advisor to support Sheffield with the transition.
"On behalf of the board of Board of Directors, I want to thank Mark for his exceptional leadership and for building a strong executive team who have put customers and communities first to deliver greater value for stakeholders, shareholders and all Ontarians," said Tim Hodgson, Chair of the Board of Hydro One. "Since joining in 2019, Mark introduced an Ontario-focused strategy which has successfully delivered operational and customer excellence, improved outcomes in employee safety, and a strong commitment to environmental, social and governance issues."
"I would like to thank Hydro One's Board, leadership team and every employee for your dedication and passion, especially over the last couple years as we supported customers and communities across Ontario," said Mark Poweska, former President and CEO of Hydro One. "I am confident that the strategy and team we have built together will continue to deliver greater value for customers, communities, employees and shareholders."
Bill Sheffield is a highly-regarded leader with experience in the electricity industry in Ontario who will provide continuity as the company delivers on its commitments. He will leverage Hydro One's significant bench-strength to further advance the company's vision, mission and strategy as the Board of Directors begin a thorough CEO selection process.
"The entire Board and management team recognizes the critical role Hydro One plays in meeting customer needs and enabling economic growth in the province," said Bill Sheffield, the Interim President and CEO of Hydro One. "I am honoured to lead this exceptional team as we continue to energize life for people and communities across Ontario."
William (Bill) Sheffield is the former CEO of Sappi Fine Papers, headquartered in the U.K. and South Africa. He began his career in the steel industry with Stelco Inc., headquartered in Ontario. Mr. Sheffield also held senior roles in the forest products industry with Abitibi-Price Inc. and Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. where he led the forestry, mill and hydro-electric operations with the Iroquois Falls Division in northern Ontario.
Mr. Sheffield has been a corporate director since 2004 and is currently completing his last term on the board of Velan Inc. Previous directorships include Ontario Power Generation, Canada Post Corporation, Houston Wire & Cable Company, Pan Asia Paper, Corby Distilleries, Royal Group Technologies, 4iiii Innovations Inc., Family Enterprise Canada, and SHAD. In addition to his engagements on the boards of public companies and Crown corporations, Mr. Sheffield has had experience with family enterprise advisory boards such as Burnbrae Farms, Longview Aviation Capital Corp. and Epicure.
Mr. Sheffield holds a Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) from Carleton University, an MBA from McMaster University and holds his ICD.D. In 2015, he was awarded a Fellowship from the National Association of Corporate Directors in the U.S. He also completed the Family Enterprise Advisors Program (FEA) at the University of British Columbia.
Hydro One Limited, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, is Ontario's largest electricity transmission and distribution provider with approximately 1.5 million valued customers, approximately $30.4 billion in assets as at December 31, 2021, and annual revenues in 2021 of approximately $7.2 billion.
Our team of approximately 9,300 skilled and dedicated employees proudly build and maintain a safe and reliable electricity system which is essential to supporting strong and successful communities. In 2021, Hydro One invested approximately $2.1 billion in its transmission and distribution networks, and supported the economy through buying approximately $1.7 billion of goods and services.
We are committed to the communities where we live and work through community investment, sustainability and diversity initiatives. We are designated as a Sustainable Electricity Company by the Canadian Electricity Association.
Hydro One Limited's common shares are listed on the TSX and certain of Hydro One Inc.'s medium term notes are listed on the NYSE. Additional information can be accessed at www.hydroone.com, www.sedar.com or www.sec.gov.
This press release may contain "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Words such as "expect", "anticipate", "intend", "attempt", "may", "plan", "will", "can", "believe", "seek", "estimate", and variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking information. These statements are not guarantees of future performance or actions and involve assumptions and risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed, implied or forecasted in such forward-looking information. Some of the factors that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from the results expressed, implied or forecasted by such forward-looking information, including some of the assumptions used in making such statements, are discussed more fully in Hydro One's filings with the securities regulatory authorities in Canada, which are available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. Hydro One does not intend, and it disclaims any obligation, to update any forward-looking information, except as required by law.
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Biden begins summer vacation with family in South Carolina
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden arrived in South Carolina on Wednesday to begin what is expected to be at least a seven-day vacation with members of his family.
The first couple was planning to be in Kiawah Island, noted for its private beach and golf resort, through Tuesday, according to Federal Aviation Administration advisories.
The White House did not respond to requests to provide details on Biden’s vacation schedule, activities or when he planned to return to Washington. The president will stay at a friend’s home on the island that the family has used for previous visits, according to a White House official.
Biden, accompanied by first lady Jill Biden, departed the White House by motorcade to Joint Base Andrews outside the capital, where Air Force One was on hand to take them to Joint Base Charleston. Biden was dropped off at a private home in a gated community alongside a golf course on the island.
Biden was joined on Air Force One by his son, Hunter Biden, daughter-in-law Melissa Cohen and grandson Beau.
While Biden is in South Carolina, the House is set to vote to approve a bill full of Biden’s priorities, including the most substantial investment in history to fight climate change, some $369 billion over the decade. The measure would cap prescription drug costs at $2,000 out-of-pocket for Medicare recipients and help an estimated 13 million Americans pay for health care insurance by extending subsidies provided during the coronavirus pandemic.
The White House demurred on when Biden plans to sign the bill, saying it was focused on helping ensure the House approved the measure.
Biden’s 2021 vacation plans were scrambled by Washington’s legislative calendar, a COVID-19 case surge, and the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
Summer vacations are a presidential tradition. George W. Bush often spent August clearing brush in the 100-degree heat that baked his central Texas ranch. Barack Obama worked on his golf game on the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard. Donald Trump spent time at his home on his private golf club in central New Jersey.
The White House in the past has emphasized that the president is never truly free from the job’s responsibilities — and that he’ll continue to consult with aides and take his daily national security briefing regardless of his location.
And at times, presidents have had to make legacy-defining decisions while on vacation, including Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina flooding New Orleans in 2005. Bill Clinton ordered airstrikes against al-Qaida terrorists from Martha’s Vineyard in response to the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. And Bush’s father, President George H.W. Bush, planned the U.S. response to Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990 from his family’s oceanfront compound in Kennebunkport, Maine.
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Japan aims for World Cup knockout stage against Costa Rica
By STEPHEN WADE
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Japan could reach the knockout round of 16 at the World Cup with a victory over Costa Rica in the second Group E match for both teams. Japan upset Germany in its opener 2-1. Costa Rica had a terrible result and lost to Spain 7-0. This is Japan’s seventh straight appearance at the World Cup. It has advanced three times to the round of 16, and lost each time. The most recent was a 3-2 loss in second-half stoppage time to Belgium in the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Japan’s goal this time is to get to the quarterfinals. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/11/26/japan-aims-for-world-cup-knockout-stage-against-costa-rica/ | 2022-11-26 16:37:15 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/11/26/japan-aims-for-world-cup-knockout-stage-against-costa-rica/ |
TOMPKINSVILLE, Staten Island (WABC) -- Port Authority police officer and former MLB player Anthony Varvaro is being laid to rest Thursday.
The Staten Island native was killed in a wrong-way crash on the New Jersey Turnpike Sunday. He was on his way to work at a 9/11 ceremony.
Officer Varvaro's funeral is set for 10:30 a.m. in Tompkinsville on Staten Island, followed by internment at St. Peter's Cemetery.
Earlier, family and friends paid their respects at Matthew Funeral Home on Staten Island, where the first of three wakes was held Tuesday evening.
Tributes have poured in for the 37-year-old officer, who grew up in Westerleigh, Staten Island and played six seasons of professional baseball after a standout collegiate career at St. John's.
"Not only was he everything you could want out of a ball player, he was everything you could want in a person," said Mike Hampton, who was an assistant coach at St. John's during all three of Varvaro's seasons there. "My heart goes out to his family, friends, teammates and fellow officers."
Varvaro retired in 2016 after stints with the Seattle Mariners, Atlanta Braves and Boston Red Sox and went on to join the Port Authority Police Department.
"On this solemn occasion as the Port Authority mourns the loss of 84 employees in the attacks on the World Trade Center - including 37 members of the Port Authority Police Department - our grief only deepens today with the passing of Officer Varvaro," Port Authority Chairman Kevin O'Toole and Executive Director Rick Cotton said in a statement after the fatal crash.
The crash happened early Sunday morning on the New Jersey Turnpike Hudson Bay Extension East in Jersey City.
Police say 30-year-old Henry Plazas, of Bridgewater, was traveling west in the eastbound lanes when he struck Varvano's car head on.
Both drivers were killed.
Officer Varvaro leaves behind a wife and four children.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Newest PetSafe® Litter Box Offers the Perfect Solution for Multi-Cat Families, Makes Cleaning Simple
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Welcoming another cat to the family is easier than ever as PetSafe® brand, a global leader in pet product solutions, is expanding its line of pet waste management products with the addition of the Multi-Cat Litter Box. Extra-large in size and designed for multi-cat families, the newest PetSafe® litter box offers plenty of space for cats to share.
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Castner Range near El Paso declared a national monument with Indigenous roots
Latino groups have fought for decades to protect the Indigenous ancestral lands, archeological sites, and wildlife.
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March 17th, 2023The Biden Administration recently announced a new slate of land and sea areas that will get new protections for their cultural and natural value. One of them is Castner Range near El Paso, Texas, which Latino advocacy groups have long pushed to be designated a national monument for its Indigenous history and wildlife.
The three selected areas are:
- Avi Kwa Ame in Nevada, where 506,814 acres of land will be protected in honor of Tribal Nations and Indigenous Peoples
- 777,000 square miles in the Pacific Ocean have been designated as a National Marine Sanctuary, seeking to meet the goal of conserving at least 30% of U.S. ocean waters by 2030
- Castner Range in El Paso, TX, home to Indian ancestral lands, a number of archeological sites, and wildlife, has been designated a national monument
For more than 50 years, Latino communities in El Paso have pushed to protect Castner Range and recognize it for its ethnic and cultural value.
“President Biden is establishing Castner Range National Monument in Texas, protecting over 6,672 acres of high-desert mountains. This new monument will expand access to the outdoors for the El Paso community while honoring our veterans, servicemembers, and Tribal Nations,” wrote The White House on Twitter.
The new Castner Range Monument
According to recent studies, the Castner Range has been found to be the ancestral land of several Indigenous groups, including the Comanche Nation and Apache.
Latino conservationists have also long touted the land as sacred to Indigenous communities thanks to the discovery of several archaeological sites, and for being an important wildlife refuge.
“In an area where more than eight out of 10 residents are Latino, groups have promoted the importance of the landscape as a recreational space and mental health resource. The area borders many communities that lack economic resources,” wrote NBCNews.
The naming of the new national monument, located along the Rio Grande, was celebrated by neighboring communities.
While conservation efforts began in the 1970s, it was not until a decade ago that official calls began to be made for the landscape to be designated as a landmark. In 2021, Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, first introduced the Castner Range National Monument Act.
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President Biden is establishing Castner Range National Monument in Texas, protecting over 6,672 acres of high-desert mountains. This new monument will expand access to the outdoors for the El Paso community while honoring our veterans, servicemembers, and Tribal Nations. pic.twitter.com/2gsxttSMIa
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 21, 2023
A multicultural space and wildlife refuge
NBC News also highlighted the need to protect the territory for the impact of its natural space.
According to a report by the Hispanic Access Foundation, presented by the news network, El Paso Latinos who live near the Castner Range have disproportionately high rates of asthma and chronic disease, so designating the land as a national monument would help protect essential outdoor space and bridge the natural gap.
“Our country’s natural treasures define our identity as a nation. They are a birthright we pass down from generation to generation. Today, I'm announcing steps to protect that birthright,” said Biden.
Former uses and current dangers
Being located on Fort Bliss, Castner Range was also used as a training and test site for the Army for decades, until it closed in 1966.
It means there are still likely unexploded military devices in the range. For that reason, it will be temporarily under Army control.
Once the area is safe for public access, the Castner Range will offer unique opportunities for the El Paso community to experience, explore and learn from nature.
“When we conserve our country’s natural gifts, we aren’t just protecting the livelihoods of people who depend on them. We’re protecting the heart and soul of our national pride. And we’re protecting history that will be told for generations to come,” added Biden. | https://www.aldianews.com/en/culture/heritage-and-history/castner-range-natl-monument | 2023-03-25 16:14:18 | 1 | https://www.aldianews.com/en/culture/heritage-and-history/castner-range-natl-monument |
BERLIN -- Shots were fired inside a building used by Jehovah's Witnesses in the northern German city of Hamburg on Thursday evening, and several people were killed or wounded, police said.
The shooting took place in the Gross Borstel district, a few kilometers (miles) north of the downtown area of Germany's second-biggest city.
"We only know that several people died here; several people are wounded, they were taken to hospitals," police spokesman Holger Vehren said.
He said he had no information on the severity of the injuries suffered by the wounded.
Police did not confirm German media reports, which named no sources, of six or seven dead.
The scene of the shooting was the Jehovah's Witnesses' Kingdom Hall, a modern and boxy three-story building next door to an auto repair shop.
Vehren said police were alerted to the shooting about 9:15 p.m. and were on the scene quickly.
He said that after officers arrived and found people with apparent gunshot wounds on the ground floor, they heard a shot from an upper floor and found a fatally wounded person upstairs who may have been a shooter. He said police did not have to use their firearms.
Vehren said there was no indication that a shooter was on the run and that it appeared likely that the perpetrator was either in the building or among the dead.
Two witnesses interviewed on n-tv television, whose names weren't given, said they heard 12 shots.
Police had no information on the event that was under way in the building when the shooting took place.
They also had no immediate information on a possible motive. Vehren said that "the background is still completely unclear."
Hamburg Mayor Peter Tschentscher tweeted that the news was "shocking" and offered his sympathy to the victims' relatives.
Jehovah's Witnesses are part of an international church, founded in the United States in the 19th century and headquartered in Warwick, New York. It claims a worldwide membership of about 8.7 million, with about 170,000 in Germany.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo tried to explain his early hot streak from the floor when — hey, wait a minute! — he saw himself in a commercial on a muted TV. Antetokounmpo interrupted his thought and praised actor Simu Liu and said he had a “kind heart.”
Antetokounmpo smiled as the spot ended and said of Liu, “That’s my guy.”
The Greek Freak can credit his Milwaukee co-stars for some plays worthy of the highlight reel, as well.
Wesley Matthews hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 23.8 seconds left, and Antetokounmpo had 21 points and 13 rebounds to lead the Bucks to a 90-88 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Thursday night.
“If the ball gets in Wes’ hands, you’re pretty freaking confident the ball is going in,” Brook Lopez said.
Lopez scored 17 points as the Bucks, who went 0-5 in the preseason, won their season opener after Matthews surprised the Sixers on the long 3. James Harden, who scored 31 and rallied the Sixers in the fourth, missed a jumper that could have won the game.
“It was a good look, it wasn’t a great look,” Harden said.
Matthews, starting his 14th NBA season, hit two 3s and scored eight points, including the winner off a kick-out pass from Grayson Allen.
“It was a great decision and Wes was able to knock down the shot,” Antetokounmpo said.
The 76ers lost their opener Tuesday night in Boston and had another weak defensive effort early that had the Philly crowd booing them off the court in the third quarter.
Tyrese Maxey added 15 points for the Sixers. Joel Embiid was shut down by Lopez and Antetokounmpo and did not score in the second half. Embiid, who declined to talk to the media, finished with 15 points and 12 rebounds.
“It’s tough. He’s such a load,” Lopez said. “You’ve got to try and keep him off his spot as much as possible. But pretty much every place on the floor is his spot.”
Embiid, who had offseason surgery to repair a torn ligament in his right thumb, had another four turnovers. He had six against the Celtics.
“It does affect you for a long time, especially if he gets hit,” coach Doc Rivers said. “Those are still raw moves. As a big, I’m assuming he gets hit every game. You’re not injured, it’s just painful.”
Harden finally got the Sixers rolling in the fourth when he scored eight straight points and cut a 12-point deficit to single digits. Trying to bulk up the defensive lineup with toughness, Rivers turned to Harden, Tobias Harris, P.J Tucker, De’Anthony Melton and Daniel House Jr.
The 76ers forced shot clock turnovers and forced the Bucks out of bounds. Tucker stole the ball and hit Harden for the layup that made it 80-all with 6:41 left. Harden, whose nagging hamstring injuries from last season seem behind him, had a bucket that capped a 13-0 run, all done with Embiid on the bench.
“He’s a special player, a special scorer,” coach Mike Budenholzer said.
Antetokounmpo snapped the tie when he pushed through for Milwaukee’s first basket in more than four minutes.
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Bucks: Budenholzer used a walking cane before the game and hobbled in a walking boot during the game following surgery on his right ankle. … Rivers said Bucks guard Jrue Holiday reminded him of former 76ers point guard Mo Cheeks, whose No. 10 is retired by the team. Holiday, who started his career with the Sixers, missed 13 of 15 shots. “I don’t think he gets enough recognition,” Rivers said. “I don’t know another guard that is a better defensive player than him. I would not want to see him every night.”
76ers: Fanatics founder Michael Rubin sold his stake in the company that owns the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Devils to David Adelman. Adelman is the third-largest shareholder behind owners Josh Harris and David Blitzer.
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Bucks: Play their home opener Saturday against Houston.
76ers: Trust the Process! Long-time coach Brett Brown, who shepherded the Sixers’ rebuilding process that brought them Embiid, returns Saturday as an assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs.
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Netflix says their account password-sharing crackdown has worked: report
After launching a program to stop account holders from sharing passwords, Netflix claims it is working and boosting company profits.
The streaming service giant's program has expanded to over 100 countries and represents over 80% of its revenue. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Netflix reportedly added roughly 5.9 million new subscribers in its second quarter, reaching a staggering 238.4 million worldwide.
Netflix also said cancellation rates are low since the new password policy took effect, the Hollywood Reporter noted.
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The changes to its account-sharing policies allow users with the standard $15.49 per month plan to pay an extra $7.99 to allow one other person to share their account, while the premium plan, which is $19.99, offers an extra sharing slot to the user, according to FOX Business.
The company began cracking down on password sharing on May 23 after it rolled out a plan in several countries in February to deter account holders from the behavior.
Since the new policy began, FOX Business reported that Netflix account holders had to determine whether they would allow fellow streamers to use the one or two password-sharing slots available for a fee and who would remain on the account.
The streaming company created a profile transfer feature that allows users to transfer their viewing profile and preference from the once-shared account to one of their own.
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The feature allows a primary account holder to transfer the profile and viewing history to the new subscriber's account so they don’t have to determine how far along they were in streaming a given series or reconstruct their watch list from scratch.
FOX Business reported that after Netflix implemented its new password-sharing policy, the company saw a spike in new subscriptions from May 25 to May 28, the largest for any four days since Antenna began tracking Netflix subscriber growth in 2019.
The Hollywood Reporter noted that Netlfix plans to start managing account sharing in most of the remaining countries, including Indonesia, Croatia, Kenya, and India starting Thursday.
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CROWN POINT — A man appeared to hesitate Friday but ultimately told a judge he was guilty of murder in a Halloween night shooting last year in Hammond that left a 13-year-old trick-or-treater dead and wounded another teen.
Desmond L. Crews Jr., 23, could face a sentence of 55 years in prison if Lake Criminal Court Judge Salvador Vasquez accepts his plea agreement at a sentencing hearing set for November.
Thomas DeLaCruz Jr., 13, was killed in the shooting, and another 13-year-old suffered a gunshot wound to the leg.
DeLaCruz's family remembered him after the shooting as "the best brother, the best cousin, the best friend in the world." He loved games, football and his family.
Crews admitted in his plea agreement that he drove with co-defendants Tariq Silas, 20, Sheldon S. Stokes, 20, Richard Walker, 20, and another man with the nickname "Whoosh" after Stokes got into an argument with a 15-year-old in a clown mask in Hammond's Hessville neighborhood.
Stokes and Walker each have pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder.
Silas pleaded guilty in April to aggravated battery, a level 3 felony, and could face a sentence of three to 10 years.
"Whoosh" was "yet to be charged" in the case, according to court documents.
About a dozen members of DeLaCruz's family watched as Crews entered his plea. Some wept quietly.
The five co-defendants found the teen in the clown mask, who was trick-or-treating with a group that included DeLaCruz, in the area of the Williamsburg Apartments at 167th Street and Nebraska Avenue in Hammond's Hessville section.
Crews got out of the car Silas was driving and began firing a 9 mm handgun at the trick-or-treaters, his plea agreement states. Crews admitted he also saw "Whoosh" firing in the kids' direction.
Crews saw DeLaCruz fall to the ground, and he and "Whoosh" got back into the car Silas was driving, records state.
Silas admitted in his plea agreement that he saw Crews and Walker shooting guns and Stokes running around. After the men got back in the car, Silas drove a short distance and let them out, records state.
Hammond residents who witnessed the shooting spotted Crews and began chasing him, eventually leading police to him.
While Crews was attempting to evade police, he discarded a yellow sweatshirt and threw his handgun in a garbage can. Hammond police later recovered the items, documents state.
Ballistics analysis showed several spent cartridge casings found on a sidewalk near the scene of the homicide were fired from Crews' 9 mm.
A spent bullet recovered from DeLaCruz's body during an autopsy was fired from a gun in the .35-caliber family, which includes 9 mm weapons.
However, investigators could not conclusively say it was fired from Crews' gun, Lake County Deputy Prosecutor Michelle Jatkiewicz said.
Sonya Scott-Dix, who represented Crews with attorney Eric Morris, said she had explained to Crews that he could be found guilty of murder even if he didn't fire the "kill shot" because of the legal concept of "accomplice liability."
Crews appeared to hesitate before answering Vasquez's questions, so the judge asked repeatedly if he needed more time to talk to his attorneys.
Crews said that he understood he was giving up various rights by pleading guilty and that no one was forcing him to enter his plea.
Vasquez granted Jatkiewicz's request to enter judgment Friday and scheduled Crews' sentencing for Nov. 4.
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Tariq Silas, 20, admitted in a plea agreement he drove a group of people to an apartment complex in Hammond and waited in a car while several of them got out and shot at a group of trick-or-treaters.
Four men charged in a Halloween shooting that killed 13-year-old Thomas DeLaCruz Jr. and wounded another 13-year-old sat behind their attorneys Tuesday for the first of two bail hearings.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden sparked a firestorm in energy circles when he said in Tuesday’s State of the Union address that the United States will need oil “for at least another decade.″
Republicans in the House chamber laughed in derision at Biden’s off-the-cuff remark, which was not in his scripted speech. GOP lawmakers accused the Democratic president of refusing to accept reality and “living in a green hallucination,” as Montana Sen. Steve Daines put it.
“President Biden implied tonight America would not produce oil beyond the next decade. If you believe that, you have missed a lot and live in a dream world. God help America,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in a tweet.
But environmentalists and some Democrats supported Biden, saying the U.S. needs a plan to wean itself off oil and other fossil fuels — the sooner, the better.
“I think the president is right,” said Collin Rees, a senior campaigner for the green group Oil Change International. “We can’t continue to pretend we’re reducing (greenhouse gas) emissions without addressing oil production, and that means phasing out fossil fuels.”
“If we’re going to save our future, we need a transition away from dirty, expensive and deadly fossil fuels, and we need to be speeding up — not slowing down,” added Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass.
Biden made the comment as he touted a landmark law to slow climate change. The law he signed last year — supported only by Democrats — authorizes hundreds of billions of dollars to boost renewable energy such as wind and solar power and help consumers buy electric vehicles and energy-efficient appliances.
The law is a key part of Biden’s ambitious bid to cut planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Most experts say the net-zero goal is unlikely to be fully achieved even under the most optimistic scenarios.
Phasing out oil within a decade is virtually impossible, said energy analyst Kevin Book.
“I think the White House may want to workshop the ad-libs” before Biden speaks, Book joked Wednesday, adding that no serious analyst believes oil can be completely phased out in a matter of years.
“We rely on oil and gas for 85 to 90 percent of transportation energy,” he said. Electric vehicles, while growing in popularity, represent less than 6% of new U.S. car sales.
Even the U.S. government agrees that oil and gas will likely be needed for decades to come. The Energy Information Administration, a statistical and research arm of the Energy Department, projects that U.S. energy consumption will increase over the next 30 years as population and economic growth outpace energy efficiency gains.
Petroleum and natural gas are likely to remain the nation’s largest energy sources through 2050, the EIA said in a report last year, even as renewable energy such as wind and solar power are the fastest growing.
The White House said Biden’s comments were in line with statements he and other administration officials have made previously — namely that the U.S. is in the midst of an energy transition and will continue to need oil.
“Let’s be very clear that fossil fuels will remain in the mix of the energy system of the globe for years to come,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in a 2022 remark cited by the White House.
Ironically, Biden’s comment came as he tried to reassure critics that he recognizes the need for continued oil production. “We’re still going to need oil and gas for a while,” Biden said, before adding the 10-year time frame in a later, ad-libbed remark.
After GOP lawmakers laughed, Biden quickly responded: “And beyond that. We’re going to need it.”
Biden’s message to the oil industry — “Stay in business, we need you today” — was the right one, “but his units were off,” Book said. “He was giving a 10-year life expectancy to 50-year assets.”
Mike Sommers, president of the American Petroleum Institute, said Biden “could have used his #SOTU address to unite America. Instead, he has again criticized American businesses that employ millions of Americans, pay taxes and provide energy for the world. U.S. oil and natural gas producers, transporters and refiners deserve better.”
Ben Jealous, executive director of the Sierra Club, said expanding oil and gas production and extending the life-span of fossil fuel infrastructure such as refineries “would only exacerbate the climate crisis while further padding the profits of the very same companies President Biden rightfully decried” in the State of the Union.
“What we need is doubling down on our investments to equitably transition off of the fuels of the past and to clean energy,” Jealous said. | https://pix11.com/ap-political/ap-bidens-oil-comments-spark-debate-over-energy-production/ | 2023-02-09 13:49:59 | 0 | https://pix11.com/ap-political/ap-bidens-oil-comments-spark-debate-over-energy-production/ |
MADRID (AP) — En cumbre OTAN, Biden dice que EEUU reforzará su presencia militar en Europa para enviar un mensaje de fuerza y unidad.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — An upcoming exhibit in Fort Wayne is bringing to life more than 300 of the greatest works of an iconic artist, with Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience.
The extravaganza immerses attendees in artwork from the post-Impressionist artist Vincent Van Gogh through a three-dimensional experience starting June 24 at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum.
Visitors will take a journey through some of the artist’s most revealing self-portraits and most memorable pieces over his tenure, such as “The Starry Night,” and “Café Terrace at Night.”
The audience will be able to fully immerse themselves into a plethora of Van Gogh’s paintings and landscapes. Visitors will also be able to hear the artist’s own dreams, thoughts and words set to a symphonic score.
The experience will last until August 10.
Ticket prices start at $33.99 for adults and $19.99 for children, plus ticketing fees. They will be on-sale to the general public beginning Thursday.
The experience is being produced by the Paquin Entertainment Group, a full-service entertainment company that has sold more than five million tickets globally to become one of the most popular traveling exhibitions. The group’s vision with their productions is to build a creative culture that develops the world’s premier artists.
“This distinctive and unique multimedia artistic adventure is deeply resonating with audiences,” says Justin Paquin, producer of Paquin Entertainment Group. “Encompassing a refreshing new twist unlike art lovers have seen before, Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience gives a new appreciation of this tortured artist’s stunning work.”
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LAS VEGAS, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- iPreg Incorporation (iPreg), an award-winning biomedical device manufacturer in the field of reproductive medicine, has developed a new and enhanced solution for infertility. The "Sperm Sorting Chip'' is expected to increase fertility rate and fill in the blind spots that come with the in vitro fertilization (IVF) process, the technology was showcased at CES 2022
The research and development team at iPreg designed the "Sperm Sorting Chip'' using microfluidic technology which allows the fluid mechanics of sperm to swim in the microfluidic chip and create an environment that allows the sperms to race in the chip. This uniquely designed chip also increases the purity of healthy sperm to 90% while posing minimum damage to the DNA.
Sperm preparation by iPreg sorting chip increases the healthy sperm ratio to 90% in 15 minutes while maintaining the patient's safety as well as high recovery and efficiency. This plays an important role in assisting reproduction that speeds up the crucial stage of sperm screening in the IVF process.
With current infertility rates hanging at an average of 15% globally, IVF is believed to be the most efficient solution on the market with the ability to increase the pregnancy rate to 37.4%. On the other hand, the live birth rates of an IVF cycle with a woman's eggs at age 40-44 is down to a staggering 4.7%.
Through the many stages of fertility, from increasing the ratio of healthy sperm to the early formation of the blastocyst, the sperm sorting chip is expected to improve the success of pregnancy.
Currently, swim up and discontinuous density gradients are the most utilized in fertility clinics to select the fraction of motile spermatozoa. However, both methods have negative effects on sperm viability and can result in sperm DNA fragmentation and consequently lead to a low success rate of pregnancy in IVF therapy. Since health sperm is critical to the success of assisted reproductive technology (ART) procedures, iPreg developed a novel device intended for preparing motile sperm from semen.
"iPreg aims to increase the fertility rate and provide modern day parent(s) the opportunity of building a family. With today's lifestyle, medical procedures need to be refined further to cope with the continuous change that poses an obstacle. We are looking to break barriers and provide a fighting chance to parent(s) across the globe," said Chen-Yen Chung, Chief Executive Officer of iPreg Inc.
As women's age at first childbearing increases year by year, the infertility situation is getting worse. Therefore, we believe that the research of IVF treatment urgently needs more investment in new technology. We expect that the application of iPreg chip can increase the fertilization rate and further increase the pregnancy rate of IVF. In addition, the future iPreg chip can also be extended towards tumor diagnosis, immune cell purification and animal husbandry industry, making this technology applicable to more fields.
Going global to make a change
Ever since its establishment, iPreg has been focusing on the in Vitro fertilization market and seeks to continuously improve the new generation of sperm sorting methods to help keep the fertility rate high and the infertility rate as low as possible. In the coming years, the company aims to set up footprint in Southeast Asia, North America and Europe.
iPreg Incorporation will be showcasing its technology at the Taiwan Tech Arena (TTA) Pavilion at Eureka Park, Venetian Expo 1F (Former Sands expo), booth no: 61423.
For more information, visit https://www.ipreginc.com/.
About iPreg Incorporation
Founded by Dr. CY Chung, who holds a Ph.D. in Immunology, in 2018. iPreg Incorporation is a biomedical device manufacturer focusing on reproductive medicine. The newly invented iPreg sperm sorting chip helps facilitate the IVF process in the key step of sperm screening and to further improve the success rate of assisted reproduction. iPreg Incorporation and the sperm sorting chip have won several awards in Taiwan including the 2020 Global Hack Startup, 17th National Innovation Award and the 2020 From IP to IPR Program.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A memoir by Chelsea Manning will come out this fall. The book is titled “README.txt,” and it’s scheduled for release on Oct. 18.
Manning’s book was first announced in 2019 but did not have a title or release date. The former intelligence analyst served seven years in a military prison for leaking a trove of documents to WikiLeaks before President Barack Obama commuted the remainder of her 35-year sentence in 2017.
The day after her conviction, Manning declared her gender identity was a woman and began to transition.
“In README.txt, Manning recounts how her pleas for increased institutional transparency and government accountability took place alongside a fight to defend her rights as a trans woman,” according to an announcement Thursday by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
“Manning details the challenges of her childhood and adolescence as a naive, computer-savvy kid, what drew her to the military, and the fierce pride she has about the work she does.”
The book’s title refers to a file she used for sending a message about the documents.
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Industry veteran brings more than 25 years of executive experience to the only private island resort in the United States
SEATTLE, April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Little Palm Island Resort & Spa, the award-winning luxury resort that is consistently rated as one of the top properties in the world by travelers and travel experts alike, proudly announces the appointment of John Allan as the resort's new general manager. An industry veteran with extensive hotel and resort management experience, Allan will oversee the property's daily operations, including managing the successful execution of the resort's sales and marketing, food and beverage, financials and continuing to implement the Noble House Hotels & Resorts brand standard by focusing on strategic goals and maintaining active engagement with ownership.
Prior to joining Little Palm Island, Allan most recently served as managing director of the Westin Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort and the Kimpton Shorebreak Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort where he directed the efforts to earn more than $80 million in combined revenue. His experience also includes managing Little Palm Island's sister property, Solé Miami, a Noble House Resort, in which he assembled a best-in-class executive committee through performance transitions after a multi-million-dollar resort renovation and reposition. To add, John spent over fifteen years with Hilton Worldwide at four South Florida properties, including the role of general manager of the flagship Hilton Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort – one of the most pre-eminent hotels in Florida with market-leading financial and service performance.
"I am beyond excited to have joined the world-class team at Little Palm Island Resort & Spa," says Allan. "I have long admired the unique charm and mystique of Little Palm Island and now, what a dream it is to live and work in the beautiful Florida Keys."
John began his career through food and beverage operations where he was instrumental in establishing the nationally recognized brand, Shula's Steak Houses, growing the organization from two restaurants to over thirty locations in most major markets. Allan's role as the director of operations with Shula's Steak Houses provided him the opportunity to learn the ins and outs of the business, ahead of becoming the vice president of operations where he directed everything from the brand's standards and site selection, to design, construction, and recruitment of personnel.
In addition to his successful career, Allan is a proud father of two wonderful daughters and an avid outdoorsman, sharing a passion for fishing, boating and scuba diving with his wife. He is a graduate from North Miami's Florida International University's School of Hospitality Management.
For more information, call Little Palm Island Resort & Spa at 1-800-413-0560 or visit www.LittlePalmIsland.com. Little Palm Island is located at 28500 Overseas Highway, Little Torch Key, Fla. 33042.
About Noble House Hotels & Resorts
The Noble House Hotels & Resorts portfolio is a collection of 25 luxury and upscale hotels, resorts, and experiences across North America—all designed for discerning travelers seeking to escape the daily routine. Noble House can be trusted to unlock the most authentic experiences in the most compelling destinations. This promise is delivered through their carefully curated collection that pairs boutique local charm with consistent high service and comfort standards. All concepts within their collection offer immersive, active adventure experiences that bring out the best of their destinations. Headquartered in Seattle, their family-owned business philosophy creates value for each concept's community, environment, ownership, staff, and guests. The portfolio includes: the Napa Valley Wine Train; a collection of spas, marinas, and private residences throughout the U.S., Canada, and Mexico; a range of beachfront resorts from California to Florida; luxury retreats in Jackson Hole, Wyo., British Columbia, and Colorado; and award-winning urban hotels in Seattle and San Francisco. For more information, visit www.noblehousehotels.com or call 877.NOBLE.TRIP.
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Billie Eilish Receives Inaugural "Universal Music Group x REVERB Amplifier Award"
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Music Group (UMG), the world leader in music-based entertainment, today announced an expansion of its partnership with REVERB, a leading environmental non-profit focused on working with musicians, festivals and venues, to increase sustainability and reduce the environmental footprint of the live music industry.
The partnership was highlighted earlier today at UMG Chairman & CEO Sir Lucian Grainge's Artist Showcase and will be again featured tomorrow, at UMG's Annual After Party to coincide with the 65th Annual Grammy Awards. At the events, a number of emerging technologies have been, and will be, implemented from CO2 removal, renewable energy sources and recycled materials. In addition, the events' menus are both 100% meatless and locally sourced. The events will serve as models for sustainability standards at future UMG events.
Speaking on the initiative, California Governor Gavin Newsom said, "At a time when the world is grappling with the dire consequences of the climate crisis, it's more important than ever for all of us to step up and take meaningful action to reduce our environmental footprint. That's why I commend Universal Music Group for their bold efforts to lead by example and show the rest of us how it's done. This is our collective responsibility, and it's incumbent that we work together towards building a more sustainable future for generations to come."
Susan Mazo, UMG's EVP of Corporate Social Responsibility, Events and Special Projects, said of the initiative, "We're proud to build on our relationship with REVERB by partnering with them on two of our flagship events this year. With all eyes on the music industry in Los Angeles this week, this collaboration underscores our commitment to produce more eco-friendly events in order to set a new and sustainable standard across the industry. We are proud that these showcase sustainability in action while also supporting many of our other philanthropic partners."
UMG and REVERB also announced an annual award – The Universal Music Group x REVERB Amplifier Award – to recognize the artist best exemplifying the commitment to, and achievement of, measurable steps to reduce their environmental footprint and support nonprofit causes through direct fan engagement at shows, online and beyond.
Billie Eilish was named as the award's inaugural recipient. Selected for her trailblazing advocacy for sustainability and the environmental movement, Eilish utilized her platform to magnify and bring attention to the work of nonprofit organizations around the globe while engaging her fans and the music industry in meaningful climate action.
Eilish was presented the award by UMG Chairman and CEO Sir Lucian Grainge, REVERB Co-Founder Adam Gardner and REVERB Director of Sustainable Touring, Lara Seaver during the UMG artist showcase on Saturday February 4th.
In presenting Eilish with the award, Grainge said, "Billie, it is my honor to present to you the inaugural Universal Music Group x REVERB Amplifier Award. The award recognizes artists' efforts to promote sustainability. Your stellar example and active leadership has inspired us to transform our own events as a company. Everything UMG is doing this weekend has been designed both to reduce our environmental impact and to increase community engagement on the issue. We are so thrilled you are the first recipient of this award, an award you so well deserve. Congratulations."
Eilish said, "I want to thank Lucian, Reverb and Universal Music. I am very impressed and excited about what you are actually doing to make sustainability a priority. It's really important. We all can do our part."
Technical support for these events is being provided by Three Squares Inc., a sustainability consultancy with a division that specializes in designing events to meet the strict international standard for event sustainability management, ISO 20121. In addition to this, event assets will be designed for future reuse, leftover materials will be donated locally in Los Angeles to education organizations, and carbon emissions from the event will be measured and tracked to inform future reductions for UMG events.
The event's menus are 100% meatless and ingredients were locally sourced in order to reduce carbon emissions. Additionally, the gifting suite features exclusively climate-friendly and environmentally responsible products from brand partners. After the event, select items from the gifting suite will be donated to UMG partner organization Covenant House California, a non-profit youth shelter that provides sanctuary and support for youth experiencing homelessness, ages 18-24.
UMG is committed to innovation in action and this year's events will support a number of emerging technologies to affect real change in the music and events space, including:
- Climeworks, a pioneer and leader in CO2 removal that uses Direct Air Capture to remove the CO2 directly from the air so that it can be stored safely in the deep underground. With Climeworks, we are committed to removing 100% of the CO2 resulting from the energy required to power the events.
- Overdrive Energy Solutions, a company that provides smart battery power stations recharged by renewable energy.
- FLOR carbon neutral green carpet, made from recycled content and manufactured using 100% renewable electricity. Our FLOR green carpet will replace the traditional red carpet.
"It has been a true labor of love to partner with UMG on these two huge events and we couldn't be more thrilled with what we have planned," said REVERB Co-Founder, Adam Gardner. "We're also excited to recognize Billie's environmental work. Having worked closely with Billie on her 2022 World Tour, we know firsthand how dedicated she is to using her music and her platform to create positive change."
In addition, UMG will continue to support its long-time health care partner, Mental Health Coalition (MHC). In 2022, UMG and MHC collaborated to help individuals navigate the very real mental health issues surrounding climate change, eco-anxiety, climate trauma, PTSD and climate justice, amongst others. This year, the weekend's events will feature a photo booth and for every photo shared during the weekend, UMG will make a donation to MHC, to further its message and mission to end the stigma surrounding mental health. MHC resources are accessible here. To download the MHC Roadmap to Climate Change Mental Health, produced in partnership with UMG, click here.
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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 REVERB
Leading the green music movement since 2004, REVERB (REVERB.org) partners with artists, festivals, and venues to reduce their environmental footprint while empowering millions of fans to take action on today's most pressing environmental issues. Working with artist partners like Billie Eilish, Odesza, Jack Johnson, Lorde, The 1975, Maroon 5, Harry Styles, Dave Matthews Band, and many more, REVERB has greened over 350 tours & 6,000 concert events, prevented the use of over 4 million single-use plastic bottles, neutralized 280,000+ tons of CO2e, and is the Official Music and Public Engagement Partner of the United Nations Environment Programme. Learn more at REVERB.org
About Three Squares Inc.
Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Three Squares Inc. (TSI) is an award-winning sustainability and ESG consulting firm. Having worked on all seven continents (including Antarctica), TSI is a global leader in developing and implementing sustainability plans for governments, corporations, investors, and industry groups. TSI carries a robust corporate client roster and enjoys working with many of the world's leading companies committed to climate action, including Nike, Honda, Disney, LVMH, HP, and more. TSI is certified as a women-owned business, Santa Monica Green Business, and UN Climate Neutral Now business.
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Memre enables 1PL8 learning subscribers to more effectively retain health and food information and provide improved impact of content for better bodily health.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Memre, the world's leading provider of AI-based learning and memory technologies, has been selected by 1PL8 as the platform to build its new subscription-based learning program targeting the nation's obesity problem.
The United States is suffering from an obesity epidemic. Weights and poor health have climbed in recent years spurred by a number of factors. According to the CDC, from 1999–2000 through 2017–March 2020, US obesity prevalence increased from 30.5% to 41.9%. First is the increasing reliance on packaged foods which can include a lot of non-natural preservatives, sugars, and other substances. Second is the growth of fast food. In a 2015-2018 study, the CDC discovered that the percentage of calories from fast food in children and adolescents decreased from 14.1% in 2003–2004 to 10.6% in 2009–2010, and then increased to 14.4% in 2017–2018.
To rectify those alarming trends, 1PL8 believes that a comprehensive culinary and food health and wellness education program can help change people's behavior and their relationship with food.
"People have been so focused on diet trends, magic pills, or quick fixes, that they have lost sight of the importance of good, quality food," says Rich Rosado, CEO and Executive Chef at 1PL8. "1PL8 has designed a curriculum that identifies the causes of health and wellness struggles. 1PL8 subscribers will learn how to use food and culinary techniques as well as psychology and behavioral change factors that cause certain triggers and barriers in relation to food."
By using Memre,the industry-leading, AI-powered learning platform, 1PL8 can provide users with more effective learning, recommending specific days and times to take courses, and applying learning concepts for optimal retention and impact. In addition to improving retention, Memre can also help 1PL8 students track their progress, identify areas where they need more education, and ultimately improve the success rate of long-term health and weight improvement.
"Customers like 1PL8 demonstrate how Memre can enable companies to power, enhance, and create subscription-based learning offerings," says Jon-David Hague at Memre. "They can develop content entirely through the Memre platform and take advantage of the powerful AI-based technologies that help to optimize and personalize the learning experience for each subscriber."
Customers like 1PL8 can employ the Memre learning management system to develop engaging and interactive online courses which can be offered through a subscription-based platform. Many of Memre's powerful AI-based features can be accessed programmatically. Enterprises and other learning management systems can employ a suite of APIs to integrate Memre into their employee portals or course-building platforms.
Memre is an adaptive learning platform that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to scale proven cognitive science and make learning possible for anyone. The proprietary learning engine at the heart of the platform continuously adapts and enhances the learning experience to meet every individual's needs, while predictive analytics deliver actionable data to educators and managers. By improving the learning experience, Memre aims to unlock the promise of education and training, ultimately helping people reach their full potential. For more information about Memre visit: www.memre.ai
The 1PL8 Culinary Health and Wellness™ program allows consumers to personalize their wellness and weightloss journey. As professional chefs and skilled educators, 1PL8 differentiates itself from other wellness-focused organizations by focusing on healthy cooking techniques and food substitutions, rather than gimmicky diet programs, as well as help manage emotions while identifying and preventing personal triggers that foster a poor relationship with food, 1PL8 is the best program for consumers to get healthy and lose weight in an easy, sustainable, and culturally respectful manner. For more information about 1PL8, visit: www.1pl8.com.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is replacing leaky seals in its moon rocket at the pad in hopes of launching it on its first test flight by the end of this month.
Managers said Thursday they will conduct another test after the repairs to ensure all hydrogen fuel leaks are plugged. If that test goes well — and if the Space Force extends a flight safety waiver — then NASA could take another stab at launching the 322-foot rocket in late September. Otherwise, the rocket will return to the hangar for additional work, delaying liftoff until at least October.
A series of hydrogen fuel leaks and other problems halted back-to-back launch attempts last week.
The Space Launch System rocket — the most powerful ever built by NASA — holds a crew capsule with three test dummies. The space agency wants to send the capsule into lunar orbit on a trial run, before putting astronauts on the next flight, in 2024. That around-the-moon mission would pave the way for the first human moon landing in 50 years, currently scheduled for 2025.
“We need to get the tanking test done and then we’ll have to look at what is the realism and schedule” to make a launch attempt as early as Sept. 23, said Jim Free, who’s in charge of NASA’s exploration systems development.
To launch in late September, NASA needs the OK from the Space Force in Cape Canaveral, which oversees the rocket’s self-destruct system. Batteries are needed to activate the system if the rocket veers off course toward populated areas. These batteries must be retested periodically, and that can only be done in the hangar. The military would have to extend the certification of those batteries by an extra two weeks or more to avoid moving the rocket back to the hangar.
But every time the rocket moves between the hangar and launch pad adds “routine wear and tear, and I don’t want to do that” unless necessary, said chief engineer John Blevins. There already have been three trips to the pad this year for practice countdowns and, most recently, the thwarted launch attempts of Aug. 29 and Saturday.
Engineers are hopeful that replacing a pair of seals in the hydrogen fuel lines at the bottom of the rocket will take care of any lingering leaks.
As an extra precaution, the launch team plans “a kindler and gentler approach to tanking” during the final phase of the countdown, slowing the flow of fuel at times to reduce stress on the seals, according to Mike Bolger, a program manager.
“We’re optimistic that we can knock this problem flat,” he told reporters.
Running years late and billions over budget, NASA’s new lunar exploration program is named Artemis after Apollo’s twin sister in Greek mythology. Twelve astronauts walked on the moon back in the late 1960s and early 1970s during NASA’s Apollo program.
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ProFrac's Two-Prong Growth Strategy
– Acquire, Retire, Replace(TM) and scaling Vertical Integration –
Drives Significant Increases in Revenue, Net Income and Adjusted EBITDA
WILLOW PARK, Texas, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ProFrac Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: PFHC) ("ProFrac" or the "Company") today announced strong financial and operational results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Second Quarter 2022 Results and Recent Highlights
- Total revenue grew approximately 40% sequentially to $589.8 million over 2022 first quarter revenue, on a pro forma basis for the FTSI acquisition,(1) of $421.6 million, and up over 70% over 2022 first quarter reported revenue of $345.0 million
- Net income rose to $70.1 million, which included $38.8 million of stock compensation expense related to a deemed contribution from a related party
- Net income excluding stock compensation expense related to a deemed contribution was $108.9 million, up over 350% compared to 2022 first quarter reported net income of $24.1 million
- Adjusted EBITDA(2) increased over 100% sequentially to $210.6 million compared to 2022 first quarter Adjusted EBITDA, on a pro forma basis for the FTSI acquisition,(3) of $99.4 million
- Annualized Adjusted EBITDA per fleet excluding Flotek was $28.1 million on 31 average active fleets during the quarter
- Announced pending acquisition of U.S. Well Services, Inc. in late June and expect to close the transaction in the fourth quarter of 2022
- Upsized Term Loan by $150 million and closed on the acquisition of the SPS Monahans assets in late July 2022
- Second quarter results include the consolidation of Flotek results after May 17, 2022 which contributed $15.4 million in revenue and ($7.5) million in Adjusted EBITDA
Ladd Wilks, ProFrac Holding Corp.'s Chief Executive Officer, stated, "Our business performed extremely well during the second quarter. We had 31 average active fleets during the quarter and we are currently deploying our first electric fleet into the field. We do not have plans to activate any additional conventional fleets at this time. We continue to focus our supply chain and our team on our existing fleets and our electric deployments. I am proud to partner with our customers and our team to continue pushing for a better, safer service company that provides best-in-class products and services, while focusing on driving superior returns for our shareholders."
Matt Wilks, Executive Chairman, added, "Over the past several quarters, we have been focused on executing our Acquire, Retire, Replace(TM) strategy and scaling our Vertical Integration strategy. As such, we are very pleased to report tremendous growth metrics during our second quarter which highlights the strong value of both strategies. The second quarter demonstrates our two-prong strategy in action because this is our first full quarter that includes the fleets acquired in the FTSI transaction. This is also the time that vertical integration matters the most. We are excited and look forward to continue proving the value creation potential of our two-prong growth strategy to our new investors as a public company as we integrate our most recently announced acquisitions."
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results
For the second quarter of 2022, consolidated revenues totaled $589.8 million, or approximately $76 million per fleet on an annualized basis. On a pro forma basis for the FTSI acquisition, this compares to $421.6 million in the first quarter, or $54.4 million per fleet on an annualized basis. The increase was driven by higher average pricing, higher activity levels achieved with our fleets, and more materials provided to our customers.
Selling, general, and administrative costs ("SG&A") was $87.5 million and included $38.8 million of stock compensation expense related to a deemed contribution, $4.2 million of costs attributable to Flotek, $4.1 million in acquisition related expenses and included a full quarter of SG&A from FTSI. Higher costs were also driven by incentive compensation costs and acquisition related expenses during the quarter.
The stock-based compensation expense related to a deemed contribution of $38.8 million was related to shares sold by Farris Wilks and Dan Wilks (or entities they control) (collectively the "Wilks") to Ladd Wilks and Matt Wilks, respectively. These transfers were completed in connection with the IPO and the accounting treatment resulted in stock-based compensation funded directly by the Wilks.
Net income for the second quarter totaled $70.1 million. Net income excluding the stock compensation expense related to a deemed contribution from related parties was $108.9 million, compared to $24.1 million for the first quarter.
Adjusted EBITDA totaled $210.6 million in the second quarter, or $27.2 million per fleet on an annualized basis. Excluding the operating results attributable to Flotek, Adjusted EBITDA totaled $218.0 million, or $28.1 million per fleet on an annualized basis.
Operating cash flow was $39.5 million which was impacted by a working capital build due to increased pricing, increased activity levels, and increased materials provided to our customers.
The Company's average active fleet count for the second quarter was 31 fleets.
Outlook
The Company is deploying its first electric fleet during the third quarter and expects to average approximately 31 active fleets for the full quarter. We expect to deploy two more electric fleets in the fourth quarter. There are no current plans to reactivate any conventional or dual fuel fleets for the remainder of 2022.
The Company also expects incremental improvement in third quarter results, as compared to the second quarter attributable to further bundling of materials with our pressure pumping services, continued pricing improvements, and the anticipated deployment of our first electric fleet.
Business Segment Information
The Stimulation Services segment generated revenues in the second quarter of 2022 of $576.6 million, which resulted in $196.1 million of Adjusted EBITDA.
The Manufacturing segment generated revenues of $34.9 million in the second quarter of 2022, which resulted in $9.4 million of Adjusted EBITDA. Approximately 88% of the Manufacturing segment's revenue was intercompany.
The Proppant Production segment generated revenues of $17.5 million in the second quarter of 2022, which resulted in $12.6 million of Adjusted EBITDA. Approximately 66% of the Proppant Production segment's revenue was intercompany.
Our other business activities generated revenues of $15.4 million in the second quarter of 2022, which resulted in $(7.5) million of Adjusted EBITDA.
The Other business activities solely relate to the results of Flotek Industries, Inc. ("Flotek"). In May 2022, the Flotek shareholders approved the issuance of $50 million in initial principal amount of convertible notes that are convertible into Flotek common stock in exchange for amending our supply agreement to increase the term to ten years and the scope to 30 fleets. We were also granted the right to designate four of seven directors to Flotek's board of directors. As a result of our right to appoint directors without a direct equity interest, we determined that Flotek is a variable interest entity ("VIE"). We further determined that the Company is the primary beneficiary of the VIE, primarily due to our ability to appoint four of seven directors to Flotek's board of directors. As a result, and in accordance with GAAP, subsequent to May 17, 2022, we have accounted for this transaction as a business combination using the acquisition method of accounting and Flotek's financial results from May 17, 2022 to June 30, 2022 have been consolidated into our consolidated financial statements.
Capital Expenditures and Capital Allocation
Capital expenditures for full year 2022 are expected to range from $265 million to $290 million, which represents the high end of the range provided previously, due to increased activity levels and costs. The first electric fleet has been deployed for field trials and is expected to be fully deployed prior to the fourth quarter. The West Munger sand plant is expected to be operational by the beginning of the fourth quarter of this year.
Balance Sheet and Liquidity
Total gross debt outstanding as of June 30, 2022 was $495.0 million, $17.5 million of which was attributable to Flotek. Gross debt outstanding excluding amounts attributable to Flotek was $477.5 million, compared to $648.0 million as of March 31, 2022.
Total cash and cash equivalents as of June 30, 2022, was $73.7 million, $33.1 million of which was attributable to Flotek. Cash and cash equivalents excluding amounts attributable to Flotek was $40.6 million, compared to $28.7 million as of March 31, 2022.
As of June 30, 2022, and excluding amounts attributable to Flotek, the Company had $88.0 million of liquidity, including $40.6 million in cash and cash equivalents and net availability of $47.4 million under its asset-based credit facility.
On July 25, 2022, the Company entered into an amendment to its Term Loan Credit Facility to increase the size of the facility by $150 million, with an uncommitted option to obtain commitments for a potential additional $100 million of delayed draw loans before the earlier to occur of (i) the consummation of the pending acquisition of U.S. Well Services, Inc. and (ii) March 31, 2023.
SPS Monahans Acquisition
On July 25, 2022, the Company acquired SP Silica of Monahans, LLC, and SP Silica Sales, LLC (collectively, "SPS Monahans"), the West Texas subsidiaries of Signal Peak Silica, for approximately $90 million in cash plus approximately $10 million in working capital closing adjustments. For additional information related to the acquisition, please reference the Company's press releases available on its website at https://ir.pfholdingscorp.com/news-events/press-releases.
Footnotes
Conference Call
ProFrac has scheduled a conference call on Friday, August 12, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time / 10:00 a.m. Central time. Please dial 412-902-0030 and ask for the ProFrac Holding Corp. call at least 10 minutes prior to the start time of the call, or listen to the call live over the Internet by logging on to the website at the address https://ir.pfholdingscorp.com/news-events/ir-calendar. A telephonic replay of the conference call will be available through August 19, 2022 and may be accessed by calling 201-612-7415 using passcode 13731713#. A webcast archive will also be available at the link above shortly after the call and will be accessible for approximately 90 days.
About ProFrac Holding Corp.
ProFrac Holding Corp. is a growth-oriented, vertically integrated and innovation-driven energy services company providing hydraulic fracturing, completion services and other complementary products and services to leading upstream oil and gas companies engaged in the exploration and production ("E&P") of North American unconventional oil and natural gas resources. Founded in 2016, The Company was built to be the go-to service provider for E&P companies' most demanding hydraulic fracturing needs. ProFrac is focused on employing new technologies to significantly reduce "greenhouse gas" emissions and increase efficiency in what has historically been an emissions-intensive component of the unconventional E&P development process. For more information, please visit the Company's website, https://www.pfholdingscorp.com.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release may be considered "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In some cases, the reader can identify forward-looking statements by words such as "may," "should," "expect," "intend," "will," "estimate," "anticipate," "believe," "predict," or similar words. Forward-looking statements relate to future events or the Company's future financial or operating performance. These forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements regarding: the Company's strategies and plans for growth; the Company's positioning, resources, capabilities, and expectations for future performance; market and industry expectations; the anticipated timing of the Company's pending acquisition of U.S. Well Services, Inc.; the anticipated benefits of the Company's July 2022 acquisition of SPS Monahans; the Company's estimates with respect to the profitability and utilization of its electric, conventional and dual fleets; the Company's currently expected guidance regarding its third quarter 2022 results of operations; the Company's currently expected guidance regarding its full year 2022 capital expenditures and capital allocation; statements regarding the availability of funds under the Company's credit facilities; the Company's anticipated timing for operationalizing its new electric fleets and its West Munger sand plant; the amount of capital available to the Company in future periods under its Term Loan Credit Facility; any financial or other information based upon or otherwise incorporating judgments or estimates relating to future performance, events or expectations; any estimates and forecasts of financial and other performance metrics; and the Company's outlook and financial and other guidance. Such forward-looking statements are based upon assumptions made by the Company as of the date hereof and are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations include, but are not limited to: the risk that the Company's pending acquisition of U.S. Well Services, Inc. may not be completed in a timely manner or at all; the ability to achieve anticipated benefits of the pending acquisition of U.S. Well Services, Inc. and the July 2022 acquisition of SPS Monahans, including risks relating to integrating acquired companies and personnel; the failure to operationalize the Company's new electric fleets and West Munger sand plant in a timely manner or at all; the Company's ability to deploy capital, including capital raised in the May 2022 IPO and capital currently and potentially available to the Company and Flotek in future periods, in a manner that furthers the Company's growth strategy, as well as the Company's general ability to execute its business plans; industry conditions, including fluctuations in supply, demand and prices for the Company's products and services; global and regional economic and financial conditions; the effectiveness of the Company's risk management strategies; the transition to becoming a public company; and other risks and uncertainties set forth in the sections entitled "Risk Factors" and "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), which are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Forward-looking statements are also subject to the risks and other issues described below under "Non-GAAP Financial Measures," which could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations included in the Company's forward-looking statements included in this press release. Nothing in this press release should be regarded as a representation by any person that the forward-looking statements set forth herein will be achieved or that any of the contemplated results of such forward looking statements will be achieved, including without limitation any expectations about the Company's operational and financial performance or achievements through and including 2022. There may be additional risks about which the Company is presently unaware or that the Company currently believes are immaterial that could also cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements. The reader should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. The Company anticipates that subsequent events and developments will cause its assessments to change. However, while the Company may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, it expressly disclaims any duty to update these forward-looking statements, except as otherwise required by law.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA per fleet are non-GAAP financial measures and should not be considered as substitutes for net income (loss) or any other performance measure derived in accordance with GAAP or as an alternative to net cash provided by operating activities as a measure of our profitability or liquidity. Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA per fleet are supplemental measures utilized by our management and other users of our financial statements such as investors, commercial banks, research analysts and others, to assess our financial performance because they allow us to compare our operating performance on a consistent basis across periods by removing the effects of our capital structure (such as varying levels of interest expense), asset base (such as depreciation and amortization) and items outside the control of our management team (such as income tax rates).
We view Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA per fleet as important indicators of performance. We define Adjusted EBITDA as our net income (loss), before (i) interest expense, net, (ii) income tax provision, (iii) depreciation, depletion and amortization, (iv) loss on disposal of assets and (v) other unusual or non-recurring charges, such as costs and stock compensation expense related to our initial public offering, non-recurring supply commitment charges, certain bad debt expense and gain on extinguishment of debt. We define Adjusted EBITDA per fleet for a particular period as Adjusted EBITDA calculated as a daily average of active fleets during period.
We believe that our presentation of Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA per fleet will provide useful information to investors in assessing our financial condition and results of operations. In particular, we believe Adjusted EBITDA per fleet allows investors to compare the performance of our fleets across comparable periods and against the fleets of our competitors who may have different capital structures, which may make a fleet-for-fleet comparison more difficult. Net income (loss) is the GAAP measure most directly comparable to Adjusted EBITDA, and net income (loss) per fleet is the GAAP measure most directly comparable to Adjusted EBITDA per fleet. Adjusted EBITDA should not be considered as an alternative to net income (loss), and Adjusted EBITDA per fleet should not be considered as an alternative to net income (loss) per fleet. Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA per fleet have important limitations as analytical tools because they exclude some but not all items that affect the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure. Because Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA per fleet may be defined differently by other companies in our industry, our definition of these non-GAAP financial measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies, thereby diminishing their utility.
The presentation of non-GAAP financial measures is not intended to be a substitute for, and should not be considered in isolation from, the financial measures reported in accordance with GAAP. The following tables present a reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures of Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA per fleet to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure for the periods indicated.
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DENVER (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland says her agency will work to restore more large bison herds to Native American lands under an order that calls for the government to tap into Indigenous knowledge in its efforts to conserve the burly animals that are an icon of the American West.
Haaland was expected to announce a secretarial order Friday meant to help more tribes establish bison herds, along with $25 million in federal spending for such efforts. The Associated Press obtained details on the order in advance.
The money, from last year's climate bill, will build new herds, transfer more bison from federal to tribal lands and forge new bison management agreements with tribes, officials said.
Bison have bounced back from their near extinction due to commercial hunting in the 1800s. But they remain absent from most of the grasslands they once occupied, and many tribes have struggled to reforge their deep historical connections to the animals.
As many as 60 million bison once roamed North America, moving in vast herds that were central to the culture and survival of numerous Native American groups.
The animals are “inextricably intertwined with Indigenous culture, grassland ecology and American history,” Haaland said in a statement.
They were driven to the brink of extinction more than a century ago when hunters, U.S. troops and tourists shot them by the thousands to feed a growing commercial market that used bison parts in machinery, fertilizer and clothing. By 1889, only a few hundred bison remained.
Haaland said the bison's slow recovery has been a conservation success, yet more work is needed to return the animals to tribal lands and restore the grasslands they depend on. Haaland, of Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico, is the first Native American to serve as a U.S. Cabinet secretary.
Across the U.S., from New York to Oklahoma to Alaska, 82 tribes now have more than 20,000 bison in 65 herds. Numbers have been growing in recent years along with the desire among Native Americans to reclaim stewardship of the animals.
Many of the tribes' bison came from U.S. agencies, which over the past two decades transferred thousands of the animals to thin government-controlled herds so they don’t outgrow the land.
Past administrations have proposed or advanced bison conservation plans — including under former Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump — and tribes have long been part of that process.
Haaland's order puts Native American interests at the center of the Interior Department's bison program. It also adds a tribal leader, yet to be named, to a group that's exploring establishing new herds on both tribal and federal lands.
Those actions could put the Biden administration at odds with state officials in Montana who have resisted more bison on federal lands and some previous bison transfers to tribes. State lawmakers voted Thursday to advance a resolution opposing the reintroduction of bison to the million-acre (400,000-hectare) Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge in northern Montana — an idea that's been floated by the Biden administration.
About half of the $25 million announced Friday will go to the National Park Service. The remainder will be split among the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of Land Management and the Fish and Wildlife Service.
It includes about $1 million to establish an apprenticeship program that will provide training to tribes on managing bison, including at national parks and national wildlife refuges, officials said.
The Interior Department currently oversees 11,000 bison in herds on public lands in 12 states.
The announcement from Haaland was planned for a Friday event commemorating World Wildlife Day at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C.
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Cameron County Sheriff's Office investigate homicide in Laguna Heights
Deputies with the Cameron County Sheriff's Office are investigating a homicide after getting reports of a gunshot victim in Laguna Heights.
Deputies responded to the 200 block of Adams Street in reference to a shooting victim, according to a news release.
Upon arrival, deputies found 27-year-old Christopher James De Leon dead and had apparent gunshot wounds on his body, according to the release.
Investigators with the sheriff's office currently have no suspects but are following several leads, according to the release.
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Charli D'Amelio and Landon Barker's relationship is heating up.
The TikTok star, 18, and Travis Barker's son, 18, looked absolutely smitten as they enjoyed a recent night out with their close friends. In photos from their outing, shared on both Charli and Landon's Instagram Stories, the pair can be seen smiling and pressing their faces close together. Landon also included an image of himself with a red lipstick kiss pressed on his cheek.
In addition to the extra sweet snapshots, the couple, who began dating last month, also recorded a TikTok of themselves singing along to a sped-up version of The Neighbourhood's 2013 single "Sweater Weather," which ended with Landon resting his head on Charli's shoulder.
In the clip taken by Charli, Landon looks effortlessly cool in a pair of white sunglasses—which look similar to ones that Charli has worn in previous videos—with a white t-shirt, black blazer and his signature chain necklaces.
When she pans the camera over to herself, Charli can be seen sporting a black and white floral tank top. You can catch their duet in full here.
Last month, a source confirmed to E! News that Charli and Landon "are in the early stages of dating." The news comes after the pair first sparked romance rumors when Charli and older sister Dixie D'Amelio were seen attending Landon's boohooMAN capsule collection launch in Los Angeles on June 14.
"It was a big night for Landon," an eyewitness at the event told E!. "It was important to him that Charli was included."
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BENSALEM, Pa., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Unity Software Inc. ("Unity" or the "Company") (NYSE: U).
Class Period: March 5, 2021 – May 10, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: September 6, 2022
Investors suffering losses on their Unity investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) deficiencies in Unity's product platform reduced the accuracy of the Company's machine learning technology; (2) the foregoing was likely to have a material negative impact on the Company's revenues; (3) accordingly, Unity had overstated its commercial and/or financial prospects for 2022; and (4) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Howard G. Smith, Esquire, of Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, 3070 Bristol Pike, Suite 112, Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020, by telephone at (215) 638-4847, toll-free at (888) 638-4847, or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Wei Chen wants people who visit Philadelphia’s Chinatown to look through the community’s gateway arch and see the residents chatting in Mandarin on the steps to the apartments above or the vendors selling traditional Chinese food to families walking by, not a giant Philadelphia 76ers arena a block away.
“These apartments are full of people who are low-income, who are elderly people, and people who are new immigrants,” said Chen, the community engagement director for Asian Americans United. “You have to think about how Chinatown was created. We weren't welcome in other neighborhoods.”
Chen, along with other organizers and members of Chinatown, said they were surprised by the Philadelphia 76ers' announcement Thursday of a proposal to build a $1.3 billion arena just a block from the community's gateway arch. They said neither the organization nor the property owner reached out for community input before the announcement.
A spokesperson for 76 Devcorp, the development company behind the arena, said in an emailed statement that the process is in its early stages — years from “anything changing" — and that the company planned to work with the community to help shape the project and ensure it's “done right."
“We are very sensitive to the Chinatown community’s concern in light of prior Center City proposals and are committed to listening to and working with the community in a way that hasn’t happened before," the statement read.
Those are promises many in Chinatown have heard before. After decades of developments — like the Pennsylvania Convention Center, which took homes from 200 families; Interstate 676, also known as the Vine Street Expressway, which threatened to cut off parts of the community — and proposals for a jail, a casino and another sports facility that all were beaten back by the community, residents have a deep playbook of their own to choose from.
Across the country, there are fewer than 50 Chinatowns, some more vibrant and larger than others. Many took root in areas of cities that were thought of as red light districts. And as cities grew and changed around those communities, many Chinatowns have been under threat from gentrification or development.
Like others, the community in Philadelphia is just bouncing back after losing business during the pandemic, when Chinatown’s restaurants were shuttered for dining-in. Much of the senior population didn’t want to leave the neighborhood because of the fourfold increase since 2019 in hate crimes against people of Asian descent.
“This is an ongoing struggle for Chinatowns and other downtown communities of color and of low income,” said historian John Kuo Wei Tchen, director of Rutgers University’s Clement Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience. “In the case of Chinatowns that play important symbolic roles for the cosmopolitan claims of the city, sport authority interests often trump such roles.”
The 76ers’ current home is in south Philadelphia, a few miles from downtown, along with most of the city’s other pro sports teams.
Many Chinatown residents and business owners are concerned that if a new arena is built, affordable street parking will disappear, traffic will increase, and holding traditional celebrations and festivals could become more difficult. But they are also worried that already-increasing property values could spike and force many who depend on the community to leave.
Debbie Wei is a founding member of Asian Americans United, started in Philadelphia in the 1980s to unite people of Asian ancestry to build the community and fight oppression. She was also an organizer of the protests against a proposed Phillies baseball stadium that city officials wanted to place at Chinatown’s door in 2000.
“If it's not a stadium, it's a highway or a convention center. Seattle ... Detroit ... Chicago, Boston, and then Washington, D.C. I have friends who grew up in Chinatown in D.C. and it's just been decimated," Wei said.
The home of the Washington Capitals hockey team and the Wizards basketball team moved to D.C.'s Chinatown community in 1997. Economic development experts say the increased foot traffic and more desirable real estate brought revitalization, but for the Chinatown community it meant rising rents and chain restaurants forcing them out.
Census numbers show that in 1990, about 66% of the people who lived in the D.C. Chinatown area identified as Asian American. That dwindled to 21% in 2010. And as of the 2020 census, that had dropped to about 18% in the two tracts that make up parts of Chinatown.
Wei described signs for chains like CVS and Starbucks appearing with Chinese translations beside them, calling it a “cosmetic illusion.” Chen fears the changes to D.C.'s Chinatown could happen to Philadelphia.
“If you go inside a restaurant or a business, the workers aren't Asian anymore. The owner isn't Asian. And a lot of the customers aren't Asian,” he said. “So where is the Chinatown? It's not there anymore.”
But in Philadelphia, Chinese-speaking households have been one of the fastest-growing populations, according to the census. The community passed the 5% threshold recently, meaning Chinese languages became official ballot languages. Asian and other immigrant communities contributed to the city reversing a decades-long trend of losing population in recent censuses.
Helen Gym, the first Asian American woman to serve on Philadelphia City Council and an at-large member, held up two T-shirts from previous fights against potentially detrimental developments wanting to come to Chinatown. The first says, “No stadium in Chinatown,” and the second crossed out the word stadium and replaces it with “casino,” for the 2008 proposal that hoped to put a casino near the current proposal for the arena.
Gym previously joined the fight against the stadium and said that now, as a council member, she is “extremely skeptical” of the 76ers proposal.
“To us, this is one of the most vital parts and neighborhoods and communities in the city of Philadelphia,” Gym said. “This side has been a community that has continued to invest in itself, in its people, in small businesses. And in fact, this side is the one that has grown the health and well-being of the city.”
After the stadium failed in 2000, Gym said, the community developed the nearby space north of the expressway to add a public charter school, a community center, extensions of the Chinese Christian Church, the first Cambodian arts center and other cultural organizations.
Wei was the first principal of that school, the Folk Arts Cultural Treasures charter school. She said the building's owner turned down offers from developers who wanted to build condos.
“People don't understand what Chinatown means to the people of this community, people all over the area who consider this their home,” Wei said.
“There are precious few communities, real communities, left in Philadelphia. They are not just geographic; they are about relationships and memories. They are a place-based core that has been systematically destroyed not just in Philadelphia and the U.S.; but around the world," Wei said. "And once Chinatown is gone, it's gone. You can't rebuild it."
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The 2023 NFL draft is just over three weeks away and already the hype around this electric group of quarterbacks is at full steam.
The choices teams like Carolina, Houston, and Indianapolis make early in the first round will have massive ramifications around the NFL - potentially for decades to come.
Locked on NFL Draft co-host Damian Parson released his seventh full first round mock draft of the season, and the guys broke down their favorite picks on the latest episode of the podcast.
Below is a look at each of Parson's selections. For more analysis on each pick, check out the Locked on NFL Draft podcast.
1. Carolina Panthers: CJ Stroud, QB, Ohio State
2. Houston Texans: Bryce Young, QB, Alabama
3. Arizona Cardinals: Will Anderson, EDGE, Alabama
4. Indianapolis Colts: Anthony Richardson, QB, Florida
5. Seattle Seahawks: Jalen Carter, DL, Georgia
6. Detroit Lions: Tyree Wilson, EDGE, Texas Tech
7. Las Vegas Raiders: Will Levis, QB, Kentucky
8. Atlanta Falcons: Christian Gonzalez, CB, Oregon
9. Chicago Bears: Myles Murphy, EDGE, Clemson
10. Philadelphia Eagles: Nolan Smith, EDGE, Georgia
11. Tennessee Titans: Broderick Jones, OT, Georgia
12. Houston Texans: Quentin Johnston, WR, TCU
13. New York Jets: Paris Johnson Jr., OT, Ohio State
14. New England Patriots: Zay Flowers, WR, Boston College
15. Green Bay Packers: Jaxon Smith-Njigba, WR, Ohio State
16. Washington Commanders: Devon Witherspoon, CB, Illinois
17. Pittsburgh Steelers: Joey Porter Jr., CB, Penn State
18. Detroit Lions: Deonte Banks, CB, Maryland
19. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Peter Skornski, OT, Northwestern
20. Seattle Seahawks:John Michael Schmitz, IOL, Minnesota
21. Miami Dolphins: Pick forfeited
22. Los Angeles Chargers: Luke Musgrave, TE, Oregon State
23. Baltimore Ravens: Jordan Addison, WR, USC
24. Minnesota Vikings: Kelee Ringo, CB, Georgia
25. Jacksonville Jaguars: Julius Brents, CB, Kansas State
26. New York Giants: Cam Smith, CB, South Carolina
27. Dallas Cowboys: Mazi Smith, DL, Michigan
28. Buffalo Bills: Drew Sanders, LB, Arkansas
29. Cincinnati Bengals: Michael Mayer, TE, Notre Dame
30. New Orleans Saints: Bijan Robinson, RB, Texas
31. Philadelphia Eagles: Brian Branch, Safety, Alabama
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Typically, when a person shows up for arraignment, there are a few logistical things they have to take care of before they can appear in front of a judge: namely, fingerprints, photographs and paperwork.
It's not entirely clear what that process will look like for former President Donald Trump, who is slated to arrive at the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse on Tuesday afternoon to hear the charges against him and enter a plea.
A New York grand jury indicted Trump last week in connection with his alleged role in covering up hush money paid to adult film actress Stormy Daniels during his 2016 campaign.
The historic indictment of a former president (and current presidential candidate) is a first in the U.S. So there is little precedent and much uncertainty about what happens next.
One growing area of curiosity — especially as Trump's campaign has sought to fundraise and capitalize off his legal woes — is whether he will have a mug shot taken. And if so, will people be able to see it?
The short answer is: Probably not, unless it somehow gets leaked.
The pros and cons of mug shots
Mug shots are sets of photos of the defendant from the shoulders up that also include identifying information like their height and date of arrest.
They are typically taken as part of the booking process and serve several purposes, like confirming which of multiple people with the same name was actually arrested and establishing their physical condition at that time.
Mug shots historically remained in police files, but in many cases are now available online.
Mug shots only show that a person was booked, not whether they were found innocent or guilty. And their internet presence can often come at someone's professional or personal expense.
The rules around publishing mug shots are oft-debated and ever-evolving, with policies varying by state.
New York passed a 'mug shot ban' in 2019
Then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2020 budget included a law that effectively banned law enforcement from releasing most mug shots to the public.
He had initially proposed banning the release of other booking information, like names and charges, which he called an "unwanted invasion of personal privacy."
Critics pushed back, fearing "secret arrests" and a lack of accountability, and lawmakers ultimately passed a scaled-down version of the bill focusing only on mug shots.
In April 2019, Cuomo signed legislation amending the Freedom of Information Law to expressly state that "an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy includes ... disclosure of law enforcement arrest or booking photographs of an individual."
The so-called ban does have some exceptions: It says photographs can be released if they will "serve a specific law enforcement purpose and disclosure is not precluded by any state or federal laws."
That could mean, for example, when investigators are searching for a missing or wanted person.
What Trump's team has said
Some mug shots have leaked in the past, despite New York's law discouraging their release, the Associated Press reports.
It's possible that could happen in such a high-profile case — if mug shots are taken — but it's unclear whether that's something Trump's team would want.
They challenged a media request to have video cameras in the courtroom, (though the judge overseeing the case ruled on Monday that five pool photographers can take still photos before the arraignment itself).
Alina Habba, an attorney representing Trump in several legal matters, argued on CNN on Monday that mug shots would be unnecessary in Trump's case.
"[Mug shots] are for people so that you recognize who they are," she said. "He's the most recognized face in the world, let alone the country, right now, so there's no need for that."
She also said that even if mug shots are taken, they should not be released to the public.
"I like transparency. I think that in certain situations, it's a good thing. I do have a problem with leaking of pictures," Habba added. "I think that because we're in a campaign, because he's the leading GOP candidate, it's not going to help anything."
Trump has made no secret of his indictment — he's posted on social media about it (even incorrectly predicting it would happen days before it did) and plans to give a prime-time speech from Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday night.
And citing three unnamed sources familiar with the situation, Rolling Stone reports that some of Trump's aides and advisers have pushed him to "turn his [mug shot] into fuel for a fundraising drive, or as a potent new symbol on 2024 campaign merchandise."
Trump's campaign said Monday it had raised $7 million since he was indicted on Thursday.
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TAMPA, Fla. — Athletes with the University of South Florida are now able to make some money through a collective that utilizes their name, image and likeness.
The Fowler Avenue Collective was created to allow athletes with the university to spend more personal time with fans who pay for a monthly membership.
What You Need To Know
- A new NIL collective, called Fowler Avenue Collective, is offering memberships for fans to spend time with USF athletes
- Gerry Bohanon, USF's starting quarterback, is the collective's first ambassador
- Membership fees range between $10-$200
They’ve already secured an ambassador in Bulls starting quarterback Gerry Bohanon, who is already making money through NIL after transferring to USF from Baylor University.
“I’ve been waiting for us to get connected with fans, connect with alumni and future sponsors hopefully,” Bohanon said.
That’s the goal for the Fowler Avenue Collective.
It’s set up so fans can pay a monthly membership and get the chance to spend time with some of the athletes at fun places like meet and greets at bowling alleys or TopGolf.
“I’m excited about the future opportunities for everyone,” Bohanon said.
And that’s how Corey Staniscia feels about the prospect of the growth of the collective at his alma mater.
“We saw a need in Tampa at USF to give fans the ability to really kind of network and get to know the athletes on a different level,” Staniscia, the director of external affairs for Dreamfield, a NIL deal making platform, said.
He lives in Miami now and works for Dreamfield, which runs the Fowler Avenue Collective.
He says most of the money from this collective goes right back to the athletes because Dreamfield generally makes their money off sponsorship deals between athletes and companies, not through these types of fan experiences.
“The majority of these dollars, at the maximum, we don’t see our overhead go past 15 percent,” Staniscia said.
Which means more money for students, like Bohanon, who has a young son and basically works all day and night on the gridiron.
“I want to make sure that I’ll be able to play this game that I love and make sure that I can provide for my family because there’s not too many people my age in my situation,” Bohanon said.
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MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 100 Black Men of the Twin Cities Chapter, in partnership with the Women Presidents Organization (WPO), are proud to announce the 2022 Women of Color Achievement Awards. A total of 24 women are being recognized for outstanding professional achievement and demonstrating exemplary community service. Sponsored by JPMorgan Chase Commercial Banking, the event will take place on October 19, 2022, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., at The Minneapolis Club, 729 2nd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55402.
"100 Black Men of the Twin Cities, Inc. is delighted to partner with the Women Presidents Organization in recognizing outstanding women of color in our community for their leadership, business savvy and dedication to community service," said Kentalé Morris Sr, President of 100 Black Men of the Twin Cities, Inc. "These amazing women exemplify excellence in all that they do and shine brightly as representatives of achievement to the youth and families we serve in the Twin Cities and beyond. We celebrate these exceptional women for their accomplishments and dedication while also highlighting a path of possibilities for others to follow."
"The 2022 Women of Color Achievement Awards continues a longstanding tradition between WPO and 100 Black Men to identify and celebrate influential local women leaders. We are honored to recognize these successful female entrepreneurs who not only lead multi-million-dollar businesses, but also serve to improve the greater Minneapolis community. Congratulations to all of Minneapolis' deserving award winners," said Camille Burns, CEO of the WPO.
The following women will be honored:
- Farhana Luna Ahmed, ILM Professional Services
- Khadija Ali, Global Language Connections
- Tonya Allen, McKnight Foundation
- Tawanna Black, Center for Economic Inclusion
- Alyza Bohbot, Alakef Coffee Roasters
- Shelley Carthen Watson, YWCA MN
- Gloria Contreras Edin, Contreras & Metelska PA
- Dr. Verna Cornelia Price, The Power of People Consulting Group
- Gloria Freeman, Olu's Home, Inc.
- Lili Hall, KNOCK, Inc.
- Shawntera Hardy, PolicyGrounds Consulting
- Seena Hodges, The Woke Coach, LLC
- Damaris Hollingsworth, Design by Melo
- Domonique Jones, Partnership in Property Commercial Land Trust
- Nancy Korsah, Black Business Enterprises
- Stephanie Lee, Carlson Partners
- Miquel McMoore, kpCompanies
- Sharmaine Meadows, Cradle of Love, LLC
- Joyce Mogeni, Divine Healing Home Care LLC
- Priya Morioka, Global Language Connections
- Brigid O'Malley, Reiling Construction Co, Inc.
- Maya Santamaria, Santamaria Broadcasting
- Sharon Smith-Akinsanya, Rae MacKenzie Group Inc.
- Keiko Sugisaka, Maslon LLP
"We are honored to sponsor the 2022 Women of Color Achievement Awards alongside WPO and 100 Black Men," said Thelma Ferguson, Vice Chair, JPMorgan Chase Commercial Banking. "These 24 outstanding women business leaders are making vital contributions to the Minneapolis community and local economy. We celebrate them for the work they do every day and look forward to seeing all they will accomplish in the future."
100 Black Men of the Twin Cities, Inc. (The 100) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, youth development organization based in Minneapolis-St. Paul. The 100's motto of "What They See Is What They'll Be" is brought to life through the positive daily efforts our members, volunteers, and partners who have a common mission to help youth. The 100 is committed to the intellectual development of youth and economic empowerment of communities of color through programs based in Mentoring, Education, Health & Wellness, Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship. To learn more, please visit. www.100BMTC.org and email info@100BMTC.org to discuss how you can support our efforts as a volunteer and/or donor.
The Women Presidents Organization (WPO) is a non-profit membership organization where dynamic and diverse women business leaders around the world tap into collective insight with exclusive access to entrepreneurial equals, innovative ideas, and executive education. WPO members have guided their businesses to generate at least $2 million USD in gross annual sales (or $1 million USD for a service-based business). Each WPO chapter serves as a professionally facilitated peer advisory group for members where they can harness the momentum of their successes and cultivate new strategies that will take them even further. Learn more at women-presidents.com.
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By The Associated Press
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the NFL draft.
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The second day of the NFL draft ended appropriately with another wide receiver being selected.
The San Francisco 49ers selected speedster Danny Gray from SMU with the last pick of the third round, No. 105 overall. Through three rounds, 17 receivers were selected, more than any other position.
The third round also produced a mini-run on quarterbacks after none were selected in Round 2 and only one went off the board in the first round Thursday night.
After Cincinnati’s Desmond Ridder went to Atlanta and Liberty’s Malik Willis was selected by Tennessee, the Carolina Panthers chose Mississippi’s Matt Corral with the 94th pick overall.
Heading into Saturday’s final four rounds, North Carolina’s Sam Howell is the most highly rated quarterback left on the board.
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Malik Willis of Liberty became the third quarterback taken in the NFL draft when the Tennessee Titans took him in the third round with the 86th overall pick.
Willis is a spectacular athlete who signed with Auburn as a blue-chip recruit out of high school. He transferred to Liberty where he thrived in coach Hugh Freeze’s offense the past two seasons. He threw 47 touchdowns passes and ran for 27 scores in the past two years.
The previous two quarterbacks taken were Kenny Pickett from Pitt by the Steelers in the first round and Desmond Ridder of Cincinnati earlier in the third round to Atlanta.
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Georgia linebacker Nakobe Dean, the leading tackler on the national champions’ dominant defense, was selected in the third round with the 83rd overall pick by the Philadelphia Eagles.
The Butkus Award winner as the nation’s best linebacker was projected to be a first-round pick, despite being a bit undersized at 5-foot-11.
Various reports during the draft suggested Dean had injury issues that caused him to drop. The All-American became the sixth player from Georgia’s defense taken in this draft and the eighth Bulldogs’ player overall.
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Cincinnati’s Desmond Ridder was the second quarterback picked in the draft, taken in the third round at No. 74 overall by the Atlanta Falcons.
There were no quarterbacks taken in Round 2 of the NFL draft after just one — Kenny Pickett to the Steelers — went in Round 1.
The previous time only one quarterback was selected in the first two rounds of the draft was 2000. Ridder led the Bearcats to the College Football Playoff and went 43-6 as a starter in college.
Ridder will play behind former first-round pick and Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota in Atlanta.
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Breece Hall got his moment — and hug from Roger Goodell — on stage at the NFL draft.
It just took a few hours.
The former Iowa State running back was drafted by the Jets with the No. 36 overall pick — the fourth selection of the second round — after New York moved up two spots by trading with the Giants. He was the first running back drafted this year.
Hall was staying at a hotel in the Las Vegas area and watching the draft, but didn’t attend. He instead was celebrating with friends and family when he received the call from New York and his name was announced by former Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis.
Hall did a Zoom interview with reporters, but then made his way to the draft site.
Wearing a Jets cap, Hall was allowed to walk on to the stage — both arms raised as fans in attendance cheered — and was greeted by a big hug from the NFL Commissioner.
“It’s just a dream come true,” Hall told NFL Network. “Last night, just knowing the Jets, they tried to trade into the first round to get me but it didn’t go through. So it was kind of a bummer. But, I mean, I’m still blessed to be a Jet and blessed to be able to have the opportunity to come on here. So it’s been fun.”
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The second pick of the second round was wide receiver Christian Watson from North Dakota State by the Green Bay Packers and by the time the round was done six more wideouts came off the board.
Thirteen receivers in the first two rounds matched a draft record.
Three straight receivers came off the board at one point, starting with Georgia’s George Pickens to the Steelers with pick No. 52. The Colts followed up with Cincinnati’s Alec Pierce and then the Chiefs grabbed Skyy Moore from Western Michigan.
The round ended with two players from Nebraska being taken — center Cam Jurgens to Philadelphia and cornerback Cam Taylor-Britt to Cincinnati — the best showing in the draft by the Cornhuskers since they had two second-rounders in 2015.
But Georgia linebacker Nakobe Dean was still waiting to be selected.
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The Patriots selected maybe the fastest receiver in this year’s draft when they picked Baylor’s Tyquan Thornton with the 50th overall pick.
New England traded up a few spots to get Thornton, who ran a 4.28 in the 40-yard dash at the combine, best of any receiver. Thornton also had a scholarship offer to run track at LSU.
Meanwhile, Georgia linebacker Nakobe Dean, the leading tackler on the national championship defense was still on the board through 52 picks. Dean, an All-American but a bit undersized at 5-foot-11, was projected by many analysts to be a first-round pick.
After a record five defensive players from Georgia were taken in the first round, the first Bulldog taken in the second round was receiver George Pickens to the Steelers with the 52nd pick.
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Michigan edge rusher David Ojabo is going from one Harbaugh to another. Baltimore selected the second-team All-American in the second round with the 45th overall pick. Ojabo was pegged as a possible first-rounder before he tore the Achilles tendon in his left leg during a pro day workout.
Ojabo, who was born in Nigeria and raised in Scotland, had a breakout season as a junior with 11 sacks playing for Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh and then-defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald, who had previously been an assistant for John Harbaugh with the Ravens.
Macdonald returned to Baltimore this offseason to become defensive coordinator for John and now will be coaching Ojabo again.
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The Big 12 finally had a player taken in the NFL draft, and then had another on the very next pick.
Iowa State running back Breece Hall, a two-time All-American and the conference’s offensive player of the year in 2021, was taken with the fourth pick of the second round, 36th overall, by the Jets. New York traded up with the Giants to get Hall.
On the very next pick, the Big 12′s defensive player of the year was selected. The Texans landed defensive back Jalen Pitre from Baylor.
The Big 12 was the only Power Five conference not to have a player selected during the first round. In fact, three players from FCS, Division I’s second-tier, were selected before a player from the Big 12.
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Tennessee has added to its secondary with cornerback Roger McCreary with the third pick of the second round of the draft.
With a pick acquired from the New York Jets during the first round, the Titans get a fast and aggressive cover guy who excelled against the archrival Crimson Tide.
The Jets, so busy on Thursday when they made three picks, dealt with their co-tenant of MetLife Stadium, the Giants, to move to No. 36 and take Iowa State’s Breece Hall. Not only is Hall the first running back chosen, but the first from the Big 12, which was blanked in the opening round.
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Aaron Rodgers at last is getting a highly drafted rookie receiver.
Rodgers famously has sought more input into Green Bay’s drafts, and the Packers didn’t select a wideout in the first round with their two picks because the top prospects were gone. But they used the second slot in the second round to grab North Dakota State’s Christian Watson.
Yes, Watson comes from a FCS school, but the Bison are as close to FBS as you can get, perennial championship contenders on their level, winning nine of the past 11 national titles. It’s the fourth consecutive year a North Dakota State player has been drafted.
The Packers traded their All-Pro receiver, Davante Adams, to Las Vegas this offseason.
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Houston defensive tackle Logan Hall is the first selection of the second round of the NFL draft, by the Buccaneers.
Tampa Bay, under new head coach Todd Bowles after Bruce Arians retired last month, owned the spot after trading with Jacksonville the previous night. Bowles’ background is on defense, so Hall seems a natural choice. He goes 6-foot-6, 275 pounds and is known for his relentlessness. He comes off elbow surgery and missed the Senior Bowl.
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The Tennessee Titans’ newest wide receiver Treylon Burks is an Arkansas native who likes to go fishing and hunt with a bow.
Burks also likes to go hunting wild boar with his dogs and a knife. It’s a quality that certainly makes a receiver unafraid of any defender he might see on a football field.
“A lot of people are not going to go out there and chase a wild boar,” the 6-foot-3, 225-pound Burks said. “You know, they can hurt you. But at the same time, that’s part of my game on the field, just being fearless and I’m just selling out for the team.”
It’s a hobby that might cause a general manager to insert a clause prohibiting boar hunting in the offseason. Titans general manager Jon Robinson said he might offer up some grocery store coupons to Burks.
“He can just go to the back aisle and get bacon and sausage,” Robinson said. “It’s probably a little easier trying to get it that way as opposed to dogs and knives.”
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Aidan Hutchinson seems set up for a smooth transition in the NFL, playing for his hometown Detroit Lions whose training facility is a 30-minute drive from his parents’ house.
“I may be living in the basement,” he joked Friday in Allen Park, Michigan.
Detroit drafted the former Michigan and Dearborn Divine Child defensive end with the No. 2 pick Thursday night and welcomed him, his parents and two sisters back to the Motor City less than 24 hours later.
“It feels like a dream,” his mother, Melissa Hutchinson said. “We would’ve acclimated to wherever he was, but Detroit is special because he’s a hometown boy from grade-school football, high school, college, and now he gets to stay home with the Lions.”
Aidan Hutchinson was raised in nearby Plymouth, Michigan, and played high school football about five minutes from the facility he will train and practice in as an NFL player.
“To think I’m a Lion, it’s like a wild dream,” he said. “I’m sure one of these days it’s going to hit me.”
The Lions have taken a lot of hits over the years, advancing only once in the playoffs since winning the 1957 NFL title and that lone postseason victory was three decades ago.
Hutchinson remembers the team’s 0-16 season in 2008, the low point of a long-suffering franchise.
“Not a ton of great memories,” he said.
Detroit is attempting another rebuild, hoping general manager Brad Holmes and coach Dan Campbell can make all the right moves for a team that has averaged just four wins over the past four years.
The Lions went into the NFL draft with an extra first-round pick, acquired as part of the Matthew Stafford trade with the Los Angeles Rams, and used the asset to gamble in Las Vegas on a player they coveted.
Detroit moved way up in the opening round to draft Jameson Williams at No. 12, giving up the last pick in the first round, No. 32 overall and a third-round pick for the Alabama wide receiver and a slot in the middle of the second round.
“If we have the conviction and we have the buy-in, we know that we’ll be aggressive and go get that player,” Holmes said. “There’s not a lot of them, but fortunately Jameson was one.”
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New Seattle Seahawks left tackle Charles Cross says he’s betting on himself by choosing to not have an agent to begin his NFL career.
Cross was selected with the No. 9 pick in the first round by the Seahawks and was introduced at the team’s facility on Friday. Cross said he’s created a team around him to help with business decisions — and specifically highlighted his business manager Saint Omni who was with him on Friday — but that team doesn’t include an agent.
“I just had to bet on myself,” Cross said. “Bet on myself and save some money in the long run.”
Cross said he spoke with a couple of former Mississippi State teammates who have chosen to represent themselves in the NFL and that helped solidify his decision.
“Just getting their input and insight on it really helped me make my decision. I feel like I have a great team around me,” Cross said.
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Going into Round 2, the Big 12 is still waiting for its first player to be drafted.
The conference was the only one in the Power Five with no first-round picks. It was the second straight year the Big 12 was shut out.
Prior to 2021, the conference had at least one first-rounder every year since it formed in 1996 as a merger of the Big Eight and Southwest Conferences.
Among the Big 12 players in line to be selected in the second round are running back Breece Hall of Iowa State, safety Jalen Pitre of Baylor and defensive lineman Perrion Winfrey, edge rusher Nik Bonitto and linebacker Brian Asamoah, all of Oklahoma.
The Big 12 had 22 players drafted last year. First to go was Oklahoma State offensive lineman Teven Jenkins, picked 39th overall by Chicago.
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ROUND 1
The first round of the NFL draft began and ended with the selections of former University of Georgia defenders.
The Minnesota Vikings drafted safety Lewis Cine with the final pick of the first round which began with Jacksonville selecting edge rusher Travon Walker.
In between, former Georgia defenders Jordan Davis went to the Eagles at No. 10 and Quay Walker and Devonte Wyatt were selected by the Green Bay Packers with picks 22 and 28, respectively.
The Bulldogs won the national championship on the strength of their defense.
The previous record was four defenders taken from the same school in the first round in 2004 (Miami) and 2006 (Florida State).
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The Green Bay Packers have become the first team in the common draft era ever to select two players from the same school in the first round.
The Packers selected former University of Georgia teammates Quay Walker with the 22nd pick and Devonte Wyatt with the 28th selection.
Four members of the national champion Bulldogs defense have been selected in the first round, tying for the most ever.
Former Georgia edge rusher Travon Walker was the first overall pick by Jacksonville and ex-Bulldogs defensive tackle Jordan Davis was the 13th overall pick.
The other schools that had four defensive players selected in the first round are the University of Miami in 2004 and Florida State University in 2006.
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By JIM HEINTZ and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) — Thousands of mourners lined up Saturday to pay tribute to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who launched drastic reforms that helped end the Cold War and precipitated the breakup of the Soviet Union, in a farewell snubbed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Kremlin’s refusal to declare a state funeral reflects its uneasiness about the legacy of Gorbachev, who has been venerated worldwide for bringing down the Iron Curtain but reviled by many at home for the Soviet collapse and the ensuing economic meltdown that plunged millions into poverty.
On Thursday, Putin privately laid flowers at Gorbachev’s coffin at a Moscow hospital where he died. The Kremlin said the president’s busy schedule would prevent him from attending the funeral.
Asked what specific business will keep Putin busy on Saturday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the president will have a series of working meetings, an international phone call and needs to prepare for a business forum in Russia’s Far East he’s scheduled to attend next week.
Gorbachev, who died Tuesday at the age of 91, will be buried at Moscow’s Novodevichy cemetery next to his wife, Raisa, following a farewell ceremony at the Pillar Hall of the House of the Unions, an opulent 18th century mansion near the Kremlin that has served as the venue for state funerals since Soviet times.
At the ceremony Saturday, mourners passed by Gorbachev’s open casket flanked by honorary guards, laying flowers as solemn music played. Gorbachev’s daughter, Irina, and his two granddaughters sat beside the coffin.
The grand, chandeliered hall lined by columns hosted balls for the nobility under the czars and served as a venue for high-level meetings and congresses along with state funerals during Soviet times. Upon entering the building, mourners saw honor guards flanking a large photo of Gorbachev standing with a broad smile, a reminder of the cheerful vigor he brought to the Soviet leadership after a series of dour, ailing predecessors.
The turnout was large enough that the viewing was extended more than an hour beyond the stated two hours.
Despite the choice of the prestigious site for the farewell ceremony, the Kremlin stopped short of calling it a state funeral, with Peskov saying the ceremony will have “elements” of one, such as honorary guards, and the government’s assistance in organizing it. He wouldn’t describe how it will differ from a full-fledged state funeral.
Declaring a state funeral for Gorbachev would have obliged Putin to attend it and would have required Moscow to invite foreign leaders, something that it was apparently reluctant to do amid soaring tensions with the West after sending troops to Ukraine.
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy head of Russia’s Security Council chaired by Putin who served as Russia’s president in 2008-2012, showed up at the farewell ceremony. He then released a post on a messaging app channel, referring to the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union and accusing the U.S. and its allies of trying to engineer Russia’s breakup, a policy he described as a “chess game with Death.”
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who often has been critical of the Western sanctions against Russia, attended the farewell on Saturday. The U.S., British and German ambassadors also attended.
The modest ceremony contrasted with a lavish 2007 state funeral given to Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s first post-Soviet leader who anointed Putin as his preferred successor and set the stage for him to win the presidency by stepping down.
The farewell viewing was shadowed by the awareness that the openness Gorbachev championed has been stifled under Putin.
“I want to thank him for my childhood of freedom, which we don’t have today,” said mourner Ilya, a financial services worker in his early 30s who declined to give his last name.
“I am a son of perestroika,” he said, using the Russian word for Gorbachev’s reform, or reconstruction, initiatives.
Putin, who once lamented the collapse of the Soviet Union as the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,” has avoided explicit personal criticism of Gorbachev but has repeatedly blamed him for failing to secure written commitments from the West that would rule out NATO’s expansion eastward. The issue has marred Russia-West relations for decades and fomented tensions that exploded when the Russian leader sent troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24.
In a carefully phrased letter of condolence released Wednesday avoiding explicit praise or criticism, Putin described Gorbachev as a man who left “an enormous impact on the course of world history.”
“He led the country during difficult and dramatic changes, amid large-scale foreign policy, economic and society challenges,” Putin said. “He deeply realized that reforms were necessary and tried to offer his solutions for the acute problems.”
The Kremlin’s ambivalence about Gorbachev was reflected in state television broadcasts, which described his worldwide acclaim and grand expectations generated by his reforms, but held him responsible for plunging the country into political turmoil and economic woes and failing to properly defend the country’s interests in talks with the West.
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Electronic Monitoring Program Go-Live is expected within 90 days of Project Launch
TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SuperCom (NASDAQ: SPCB), a global provider of secured solutions for the e-Government, IoT, and Cybersecurity sectors, is pleased to announce that it, together with its local partner, has been awarded an over $33 million contract by the national government of an European Union (EU) member country to deploy its PureSecurity Electronic Monitoring (EM) Suite for a domestic violence monitoring, GPS Tracking of offenders and home detention monitoring program.
SuperCom's PureSecurity Suite is a best-of-breed electronic monitoring and tracking platform with a comprehensive set of innovative features, including advanced anti-tamper mechanisms, multi-factor biometrics, the newest location technologies and sensors, practically limitless historic data, seamless 3rd party API integration, and an ultra-light weight ankle-bracelet with proprietary energy efficiency algorithms.
This is the country's first EM project, linking it with a long list of nations choosing SuperCom's EM solutions and further expanding SuperCom's footprint into an additional country in the EU. The nationwide program is expected to encompass all EM offender programs within the country, up to 15,000 enrollees simultaneously, and include a unique integration of multiple offender tracking sub-programs.
The awarded value of the contract based on the government's internal budgeting is over $33 million. The budget is based mainly on monitoring software, EM products and complimentary services spread over five years, plus an additional two years of continued services. EM Program go-live is expected within the first 90 days of project launch.
"We are excited with this award, the largest European EM project awarded so far this year. It further validates our strategy to scale up operations to accelerate growth and improve public safety in more nations around the world. We look forward to supporting another EU member country's public safety efforts and bringing them the many benefits of SuperCom's proprietary EM technology. It is an honor to take part in this national initiative by building the necessary infrastructure and deploying this country's first EM program," commented Ordan Trabelsi, President & CEO of SuperCom.
"This competitive tender process that just concluded is the first of several tenders for large scale national European EM projects that are expected to be concluded in 2022 and 2023, with a total estimated value of over $200 million. With this meaningful win, SuperCom is once again signaling, after more than 10 other recent national European EM project wins, the superiority of its value offering in the European EM space. We believe our growing reputation as a leading global EM solution provider will drive additional wins in the future," concluded Mr. Trabelsi.
The award was won through a formal bid process, with over 8 international companies taking part in the bidding process. The process included several rounds of negotiations and several demonstrations and system tests by the contracting authority. The award will go through a customary standstill waiting period before contract signing is approved and the project is launched. SuperCom management expects to provide further information on such in follow-up announcements.
About SuperCom
Since 1988, SuperCom has been a global provider of traditional and digital identity solutions, providing advanced safety, identification, and security solutions to governments and organizations, both private and public, throughout the world. Through its proprietary e-Government platforms and innovative solutions for traditional and biometrics enrollment, personalization, issuance and border control services, SuperCom has inspired governments and national agencies to design and issue secure Multi-ID documents and robust digital identity solutions to its citizens and visitors. SuperCom offers a unique all-in-one field-proven RFID & mobile technology and product suite, accompanied by advanced complementary services for various industries including healthcare and homecare, security and safety, community public safety, law enforcement, electronic monitoring, livestock monitoring, and building and access automation. For more information, please visit SuperCom's website, www.supercom.com
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MADISON — A Norfolk man was sentenced to probation Tuesday for his role in the improper disposal of a baby’s remains in April.
The 22-year-old was sentenced by County Judge Donna Taylor to nine months of probation for attempted concealing the death of another person, a misdemeanor crime that he pleaded no contest to July 12. He had faced up to 6 months in jail, up to a $1,000 fine or both.
The Madison County Attorney’s Office had agreed not to oppose a probation sentence as part of a plea bargain.
The man was convicted for lending support in April to Jessica Burgess, 41, and her daughter, Celeste Burgess, then 17, by providing transportation to multiple sites around the Norfolk area where the baby’s remains were buried.
Jessica Burgess is accused of helping her daughter abort, burn and bury her fetus when she was nearly six months pregnant. Both women have pleaded not guilty.
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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NuVasive, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUVA), the leader in spine technology innovation, focused on transforming spine surgery with minimally disruptive, procedurally integrated solutions, today announced it will continue its partnership with the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) as a double diamond sponsor and will attend the 57th Annual Meeting held September 14-17, 2022 in Stockholm, Sweden.
"SRS is a leading society in our industry, and we share a common vision to support research and education efforts to advance care for all patients with spinal deformities," said Chris Barry, chief executive officer at NuVasive. "It is clear that procedures integrated with enabling technology are critical in larger, complex deformity cases, and our partnership with SRS helps further our ability to push the standard of spine surgery toward more intelligent solutions."
As part of the SRS Annual Meeting, NuVasive will host a workshop titled "Over a decade of MAGEC®: outcomes and efficacy through data and real-world experiences" presented by Professor Kenneth Cheung, Professor Ralf D. Stücker, and Dr. Paul Sponseller, and moderated by Dr. Amer Samdani on September 15, 2022. This case-based discussion will cover the MAGEC system's impact on the panel's early-onset scoliosis patients and their practices over the last 10+ years. NuVasive's Senior Vice President of Scientific Affairs, Kyle Malone, will also share a brief scientific data update on the MAGEC system.
NuVasive has partnered with SRS, the premier international society aimed at fostering optimal care for all patients with spinal deformities, since 2007. The Company's ongoing double diamond sponsorship supports clinical workshops, hands-on educational courses, and fellowship and grants for more than 1,500 of the world's leading spine surgeons, researchers, physician assistants, and orthotists who are involved in the research and treatment of spinal deformities.
NuVasive, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUVA) is the leader in spine technology innovation, with a mission to transform surgery, advance care, and change lives. The Company's less-invasive, procedurally integrated surgical solutions are designed to deliver reproducible and clinically proven outcomes. The Company's comprehensive procedural portfolio includes surgical access instruments, spinal implants, fixation systems, biologics, software for surgical planning, navigation and imaging solutions, magnetically adjustable implant systems for spine and orthopedics, and intraoperative neuromonitoring technology and service offerings. With more than $1 billion in net sales, NuVasive operates in more than 50 countries serving surgeons, hospitals, and patients. For more information, please visit www.nuvasive.com.
NuVasive cautions you that statements included in this news release that are not a description of historical facts are forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors which, if they do not materialize or prove correct, could cause NuVasive's results to differ materially from historical results or those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The potential risks and uncertainties which contribute to the uncertain nature of these statements include, among others, risks associated with acceptance of the Company's surgical products and procedures by spine surgeons and hospitals, development and acceptance of new products or product enhancements, clinical and statistical verification of the benefits achieved via the use of NuVasive's products, the Company's ability to adequately manage inventory as it continues to release new products, its ability to recruit and retain management and key personnel, and the other risks and uncertainties described in NuVasive's news releases and periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. NuVasive's public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission are available at www.sec.gov. NuVasive assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances arising after the date on which it was made.
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