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NEW YORK, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- iStar Inc. (NYSE: STAR) announced today an adjustment to the conversion rate of its 3.125% Convertible Senior Notes due 2022 as a result of the common stock cash dividends to be paid on June 15, 2022.
The conversion price applicable to the outstanding Convertible Notes has been adjusted to $13.73 per share (72.8554 shares of iStar common stock per $1,000 principal amount of Notes) effective May 31, 2022 and subject to further adjustment as provided in the governing supplemental indenture.
Notice of the conversion rate adjustment has been delivered to holders of the notes and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee, in accordance with the terms of the supplemental indenture.
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iStar Inc. (NYSE: STAR) is focused on reinventing the ground lease sector, unlocking value for real estate owners throughout the country by providing modern, more efficient ground leases on institutional quality properties. As the founder, investment manager and largest shareholder of Safehold Inc. (NYSE: SAFE), the creator of the modern ground lease industry, iStar is using its national investment platform and its historic strengths in finance and net lease to expand the use of modern ground leases within the $7 trillion institutional commercial real estate market. Recognized as a consistent innovator in the real estate markets, iStar specializes in identifying and scaling newly discovered opportunities and has completed more than $40 billion of transactions over the past two decades. Additional information on iStar is available on its website at www.istar.com.
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A Michigan zoo has welcomed baby bintlets for the first time in over two decades.
Potter Park Zoo said mom Thistle gave birth to three bintlets on the Fourth of July.
Unfortunately, the zoo said one of the babies died a week after it was born.
The zoo said their veterinarians monitored Thistle's pregnancy through ultrasounds by using "positive reinforcement training done by her zookeepers."
According to the zoo, at birth, binturongs are born with their eyes sealed and remain hidden in the mother’s thick fur for a few days.
But by six to eight weeks, they are the size of a domestic cat, the zoo said.
"Binturongs, often referred to as bearcats although they are not a bear or a cat, live in the canopies of tropical rain forests in southeast Asia," the zoo said in a press release.
The zoo said they are monitoring them through a camera, and the babies are being weighed daily. | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/michigan-zoo-welcomes-baby-bintlets-for-first-time-in-over-20-years | 2022-07-21 20:24:45 | 0 | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/michigan-zoo-welcomes-baby-bintlets-for-first-time-in-over-20-years |
The companies will focus on developing vision AI solutions for monitoring marine energy devices to protect aquatic ecosystems.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Plainsight, the leader in proven vision AI, today announced its collaboration with MarineSitu, a provider of state-of-the-art marine hardware and software, to create innovative vision AI monitoring solutions for the Blue Economy, enabling Marine Energy devices to coexist harmoniously with aquatic life. Plainsight's managed services and vision AI tools will be integrated with MarineSitu's user-friendly underwater camera and sonar software and hardware for faster, lower-cost video processing, analysis, and alerting. This partnership will deliver underwater intelligence to MarineSitu users and customers, reducing environmental risks and mitigating negative impacts across the Blue Economy.
The Blue Economy relates to "sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth," according to the World Bank. In 2018, the American Blue Economy supported 2.3 million jobs and contributed $373 billion to the US GDP. By 2030, the global Blue Economy is expected to double to $3 trillion. Key sector goals include fostering strong, strategic partnerships across industries and national borders to promote sustainable business practices across the globe.
With funding from the United States Department of Energy, MarineSitu has developed environmental monitoring systems for marine energy devices, such as tidal turbines and wave energy converters. Plainsight is working with MarineSitu to provide edge-based vision AI models with its data, training, and management platform to enhance their software with real-time video analytics.
With Plainsight, MarineSitu is poised to deliver powerful vision AI solutions to marine energy customers for continuous underwater monitoring and real-time data processing. Initial projects will use custom computer vision models to detect and classify aquatic wildlife and environmental factors that can impact tidal turbines. Future projects will explore a wide range of opportunities across evolving sea and freshwater industries including aquaculture and underwater observation.
"Our relationship with Plainsight will empower MarineSitu to rapidly accelerate and expand the deployment of our environmental monitoring tools for the emerging marine energy market, research organizations, and new players across the Blue Economy," said James Joslin, President and Principal Engineer at MarineSitu. "Humans have barely skimmed the surface when it comes to understanding marine environments and enhanced, AI-enabled monitoring capabilities promise to deepen our expertise and unlock more incredible use cases."
"Computer vision tools available to date for underwater monitoring solutions have been incapable of capturing and delivering actionable results, due in large part to data bandwidth and manual processing challenges," said Carlos Anchia, Plainsight's Co-Founder and CEO. "AI-enabled tools deployed on the edge represent the most effective method for low-latency, low-cost, monitoring and will yield especially valuable insights for underwater detection and protection of vulnerable ecosystems." Anchia added, "We couldn't be more excited to work with MarineSitu to develop solutions that will unlock a wealth of immediate, near-, and long-term opportunities to drive innovation and support sustainability for businesses in the evolving Blue Economy."
Through its Google Cloud partnership and via the Google Cloud Marketplace, Plainsight is providing MarineSitu with its platform, expertise, and deeply integrated vision AI solutions that deliver the production-grade accuracy and scale necessary to safely manage underwater machinery and protect marine populations.
Plainsight is passionate about working with enterprises to identify environmental challenges and sustainable solutions while empowering enterprises to achieve their goals and ensure process compliance. Organizations across all industries can solve their computer vision challenges, decrease time to value, and ensure repeatable success by partnering with Plainsight. To learn more, request a call today and speak to Plainsight's experts.
Plainsight provides the unique combination of AI strategy, a vision AI platform, and deep learning expertise to develop, implement, and oversee transformative computer vision solutions for enterprises. Through the widest breadth of managed services and a vision AI platform for centralized processes and standardized pipelines, Plainsight makes computer vision repeatable and accountable across all enterprise vision AI initiatives. Plainsight solves problems where others have failed and empowers businesses across industries to realize the full potential of their visual data with the lowest barriers to production, fastest value generation, and monitoring for long-term success. For more information, visit plainsight.ai.
MarineSitu provides full turnkey solutions for underwater monitoring of marine energy systems, including custom hardware, data acquisition and autonomous detection software, and data management services. These systems have proven reliability through over a decade of research and development with the University of Washington's Pacific Marine Energy Center and long-term deployments in some of the harshest marine environments. Please contact info@marinesitu.com for more information.
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CONTACT: Paul Davenport, pdavenport@plainsight.ai
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(The Hill) – After a juror was excused from the double murder trial of South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, she told the judge that she had left “a dozen eggs” in the jury room.
The juror made the unusual comment after the judge in the case, Clifton Newman, notified her that she was being removed from the jury because of allegations she had talked about the trial outside the courtroom. He then asked if she had any belongings left in the jury room.
The juror responded that she left a dozen eggs — along with a purse and a bottle of water — in the jury room, which sparked laughter from the courtroom.
After the juror said she wanted to take the eggs, Newman, with a bit of a bemused look, then asked the a member of the court staff to go retrieve the juror’s belongings, including the eggs.
“We get a lot of interesting things, but now a dozen eggs,” Newman said.
Newman announced he was excusing the juror from the 12-person jury on Thursday as the trial resumed, saying that a member of the public sent a letter to the court revealing that the juror had “improper conversations” discussing the case outside of the courtroom.
The judge said that two people were interviewed about their interactions with the juror, and they “waffled on the nature and the extent of the contact.”
“Though it does not appear that the conversations were that extensive, it did involve the juror offering her opinion regarding evidence received up to that point in the trial,” Newman said.
Newman said that the juror will be replaced with another juror to “preserve the integrity of the process and in fairness to all the parties involved.”
Murdaugh’s defense team gave their closing arguments for the case on Thursday morning. During state prosecutor Creighton Waters closing arguments on Wednesday, he accused the embattled lawyer of killing his wife and son in 2021 to buy time because of alleged financial crimes that were slated to be revealed. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national-news/excused-murdaugh-juror-left-a-dozen-eggs-in-jury-room-she-tells-judge/ | 2023-03-02 23:36:24 | 1 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national-news/excused-murdaugh-juror-left-a-dozen-eggs-in-jury-room-she-tells-judge/ |
ABILENE, Texas, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- First Financial Trust & Asset Management Company, N.A. has announced the election of Susie Stalcup to their Board of Directors. The announcement was made by Kirk W. Thaxton, Chairman, President & CEO of First Financial Trust.
"We are pleased to welcome Susie back to the First Financial Bank family," Thaxton said. "She developed an extensive and successful record throughout her career, and her background and experience will be an invaluable resource as we continue to grow."
Since 1991, Stalcup's career has been centered in higher education philanthropy, most recently serving as Vice Chancellor for Development and Alumni Relations at Vanderbilt University for 11 years, before retiring in 2020. She also was the Vice President of Development at Columbia University Medical Center for eight years, after holding the same position at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston the previous seven years. Stalcup got her start in philanthropy at Rice University. During her nearly 30 years in higher education, the universities she served exceeded $3 billion in combined giving.
Stalcup's appointment to the board is a return to First Financial Bank, where she worked as Senior Vice President from 1983-91. She began her career with Merrill Lynch in Oklahoma City in 1977.
Stalcup received a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Oklahoma and is a Certified Financial Planner. Professional memberships include the Association of Fundraising Professionals; Association for Healthcare Philanthropy; Council for the Advancement of Secondary Education and CASE 50; National Committee on Planned Giving, where she served as a trustee and treasurer; and Planned Giving Society of Houston, serving at treasurer and president.
About First Financial Trust & Asset Management Company, N.A.
First Financial Trust & Asset Management Company, N.A. has offices in Abilene, Beaumont, College Station, Fort Worth, Kingwood, Odessa, San Angelo, San Antonio, Stephenville and Sweetwater. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of First Financial Bankshares, Inc., a financial holding company that through its wholly-owned bank subsidiary, First Financial Bank, N.A., operates multiple banking regions with 78 locations in Texas, including Abilene, Acton, Albany, Aledo, Alvarado, Beaumont, Boyd, Bridgeport, Brock, Bryan, Burleson, Cisco, Cleburne, Clyde, College Station, Conroe, Cut and Shoot, Decatur, Eastland, El Campo, Fort Worth, Fulshear, Glen Rose, Granbury, Grapevine, Hereford, Huntsville, Keller, Kingwood, Magnolia, Mauriceville, Merkel, Midlothian, Mineral Wells, Montgomery, Moran, New Waverly, Newton, Odessa, Orange, Palacios, Port Arthur, Ranger, Rising Star, Roby, San Angelo, Southlake, Spring, Stephenville, Sweetwater, Tomball, Trent, Trophy Club, Vidor, Waxahachie, Weatherford, Willis, and Willow Park. The Company also operates First Technology Services, Inc., a technology operating company.
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TIANJIN, China, July 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The World Economic Forum (WEF)'s 14th Annual Meeting of the New Champions, also known as the "Summer Davos Forum", was held in Tianjin from June 27 to 29. Zhong Baoshen, Chairman of LONGi, was invited to the forum where he delivered speeches at the "Net-Zero Hero? The Decarbonization of Industry Clusters" and the "China Energy Transition Roundtable".
The theme of this year's forum was "Entrepreneurship: The Driving Force of the Global Economy." It was attended by over 1500 global leaders and innovators politics, business, academia, social organizations, and international organizations. Since the first Summer Davos in 2007, the forum has been successfully held 13 times and has become an important platform for communication between China and the world.
During his speech at the forum, Zhong proudly announced that LONGi, as the world's largest solar technology company, is projected to achieve a remarkable shipment volume of 85GW of cells and modules, along with 130GW of silicon wafers in 2023. He went on to add that it can generate about 150 billion tons of green electricity and significantly reduce carbon emissions.
LONGi has successively joined RE100, EP100, and EV100 initiatives and also participated in the Scientific Carbon Target (SBTi), becoming the earliest Chinese enterprise to simultaneously join the four international initiatives.
In 2021, LONGi kicked off the construction of the first "Zero-Carbon Factory" in the photovoltaic industry in Baoshan, Yunnan. Currently, the proportion of green electricity usage has reached 99.09%, reflecting the company's determination and confidence in actively practicing green development.
According to Zhong, the integration of photovoltaics with various applications is a groundbreaking direction for LONGi, representing an innovative approach. "In the past, large-scale power facilities required massive capital. Today, the installation of power generation facilities to address simple problems can be achieved at just $100. In arid areas that solely rely on the weather, solar energy can be used to run water pumps to increase soil. "
At present, climate change is a major global issue facing human society. Zhong believes that in the face of common challenges, everyone is on the same boat, and it is necessary for every individual, every country, and every region to take concrete action because timely action is more important than anything else. As the global consensus on 'carbon neutrality' strengthens, the world is poised for transformative changes, with carbon reduction trends and global action capabilities surpassing our expectations in terms of speed and intensity.
On June 27, the WEF also officially released the "Green Hydrogen in China: A Roadmap for Progress" during the summer's Davos Forum. The report was jointly published by the World Economic Forum, Accenture and the China Hydrogen Energy Alliance.
The report points out the challenges faced by China's green hydrogen industry and identifies six major obstacles and goals related to costs, infrastructure, market demand, industry standards and certification, technology, development evolution, and cooperation.
In order to overcome these challenges, the report lists 35 support measures and recommends implementing them in three stages from now to 2030. As a leading global provider of large-scale green hydrogen equipment and solutions, LONGi Hydrogen participated in the joint compilation of this report.
It is understood that China's annual carbon dioxide emissions surpass 10 billion tons, with the power system accounting for over 40%. "Deep decarbonization in the non-electric field requires the introduction of green hydrogen." said Li Zhenguo, Founder and President of LONGi. "We use optimized unit hydrogen production costs to create safe, reliable, and large-scale green hydrogen equipment and solutions, create value for global customers with technological progress, and actively promote the application and development of green hydrogen", he added.
At present, photovoltaic power generation has emerged as the world's most cost-effective clean energy source. The integrated advancement of photovoltaics and hydrogen production signifies the harmonious development of green electricity and green hydrogen. The two will promote each other and develop in synergy.
As photovoltaic costs continue to decline and the prices of hydrogen production system equipment experience rapid reductions, the feasibility of synergistic and complementary development between these two technologies has been firmly established.
In the future, LONGi will leverage its green power experience in the photovoltaic field to comprehensively enhance the global promotion and application of the "Green Power+ Green Hydrogen" solution, and work together with partners to build a "Greener World".
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CASTEL BOLOGNESE, Italy (AP) — Exceptional rains Wednesday in a drought-struck region of northern Italy swelled rivers over their banks, killing at least eight people, forcing the evacuation of thousands and prompting officials to warn that Italy needs a national plan to combat climate change-induced flooding.
The heavy rains also forced Formula One to cancel this weekend’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix to not overtax emergency crews that were already stretched thin in responding to the rivers of mud that have torn through the region, wreaking havoc on infrastructure and homes.
Days of rainstorms stretched across a broad swath of northern Italy and the Balkans, where “apocalyptic” floods, landslides and evacuations were also reported in Croatia, Bosnia and Slovenia.
The deputy governor of Emilia-Romagna, Irene Priolo, said eight people were killed and others unaccounted for in flooding that forced the evacuation of more than 10,000 people.
On Wednesday evening, authorities in the province of Ravenna, a tourist town famed for its Byzantine-era mosaics, about 14,000 people were ordered to leave their homes as a precaution because of fears that three rivers could overflow their banks.
Among the dead was a farmer who defied floodwaters to try to save equipment on his property, officials said. His wife was among the missing.
Rescue helicopters plucked people from rooftops as floodwaters rose ever higher in homes. In one rescue, a coast guard member pulled a woman out through a skylight from her home and held her tight as the two were winched to a hovering helicopter and pulled inside.
“Even upper floors aren’t safe any more,” Gian Luca Zattini, mayor of Forli’, one of the hardest-hit towns, told Sky TG24 TV.
Italian Civil Protection Minister Nello Musumeci called for a new nationwide hydraulic engineering plan to adapt to the impact of increasing incidents of floods and landslides. At a briefing, he noted that an average of 200 millimeters (7.9 inches) of rain had fallen in 36 hours in the region, with some areas registering 500 millimeters (19.7 inches) in that period.
“If you consider that this region averages 1,000 millimeters (39.3 inches) of rain in a year, you realize the impact that these rains have had in these hours,” Musumeci said.
Citing the November landslide in Ischia, which killed a dozen people, he said that Italy is increasingly experiencing tropical weather seen in parts of Africa and other areas around the world, with long periods of drought punctuated by intense rainfall that can’t be absorbed by the soil.
“Nothing will ever be the same again … and what has happened in these hours is evidence of that,” Musumeci said. “When soil remains dry for a long time, instead of increasing its absorption capacity, it ends up cementing and allowing rainfall to continue flowing over the surface and causing absolutely unimaginable damage.”
In Castel Bolognese, a town of around 9,000 people, the mayor said there was no electricity and many families were running out of food in an area that was hit by floods earlier this month. “Two weeks ago we had a flood and we were left to believe it happens once every 100 years,” Luca Della Godenza said.
Compounding Italy’s vulnerability to climate-change induced flooding are already fragile hydrological conditions in much of the country. Italy also must grapple with the decades-long practice of people building in areas prone to mudslides or floods — homes that are often allowed to stay in place thanks to occasional government amnesties.
Hillsides, pounded by the rain, gave way in many parts of Emilia-Romagna. In 48 towns or hamlets, a total of 250 mudslides were reported by residents, state television said. Walls of mud, rushing down, toppled trees and buckled roads in their path.
Musumeci said 50,000 people lost electricity, and more than 100,000 lost cellphone or landline use.
Many residents evacuating homes put vital belongings in the rubber boats they’d normally tow each summer to the region’s flourishing beach resorts on the Adriatic Sea and pulled them through deluged streets.
Some regional train routes remained suspended Wednesday around Bologna and Ravenna, with severe delays elsewhere, the Italian state railway said.
Premier Giorgia Meloni, who was traveling to the G-7 meeting in Japan, said the government was monitoring the situation and was prepared to approve emergency aid.
In the Balkans, the swollen Una river flooded parts of northern Croatia and northwestern Bosnia, where authorities announced a state of emergency. The mayor of the town of Bosanska Krupa in Bosnia said that hundreds of homes had been flooded.
“We have an apocalypse,” Amin Halitovic told regional N1 network. “We can no longer count the flooded buildings. It’s never been like this.”
Dozens of landslides were reported in eastern Slovenia, many of which endangered homes and infrastructure.
In Croatia, hundreds of soldiers and rescue teams continued bringing food and other necessities to people in flood-hit areas who have been isolated in their homes. No casualties have been reported so far.
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Previous versions of this story have been corrected to show that the last name of the Italian Civilian Protection Minister is Musumeci, not Musemeci, and that Meloni was en route to Japan, not coming home.
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Survey finds retirees are doing well, yet opportunities remain for near-retirees to seek guidance
on tax management, Social Security, and Medicare
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Guaranteed income, savings targets, and the complexity of Social Security and Medicare benefits are some of the themes examined by Allspring Global Investments in its annual retirement survey conducted by Escalent. As the survey celebrates its 20th year, Allspring again spoke directly with retirees and near-retirees, giving plan sponsors and advisors a clearer picture of tomorrow's retirement landscape. This year's report challenges conventional wisdom, with the purpose of giving plan sponsors and advisors insights that can help near-retirees become confident retirees and offer retirees options for a better retirement experience.
Commenting on the findings, Head of Retirement Nate Miles at Allspring said: "As fewer participants retire with employer-sponsored defined benefit plans, concerns of the newly retired are more evident with each passing year. These concerns place more options and choices in the hands of participants. As a result, we're seeing growing interest in better management of taxes and optimization of Social Security–claiming strategies. Long term, that means near-retirees and new retirees are going to need—and will be looking for—help from their employers and advisors to optimize choices."
Ron Cohen, Allspring's Head of Defined Contribution Investment Only Distribution, added: "A key takeaway from our research is retirees are doing well but near-retirees are struggling and concerned. This is an enormous opportunity for advisors and plan sponsors. The three biggest areas of concern we found revolved around taxation, Social Security, and Medicare, and these topics are ripe for guidance and education."
Findings from this year's survey reflect five retirement themes, and Allspring's analysis looks beyond each one to challenge or confirm the conventional wisdom. Complete results are available here.
A guaranteed source of income relieves financial stress.
The survey found that pension benefits continue to decline as concerns about Social Security solvency rise. Fortunately, near-retirees appear to be adapting financially and psychologically. Having a balance of both guaranteed and non-guaranteed retirement income sources is related to a more positive outlook on retirement, compared with mostly guaranteed retirement income sources.
Below is a summary of retirees' sources of income:
- Guaranteed sources of income: Social Security 37%, pension plan 25%, bank account 9%, and annuity 4%
- Non-guaranteed sources of income: IRA 10%, taxable brokerage account 6%, and DC plan 4%
Focus on setting and achieving a savings target.
The survey found that it's also important to look ahead and plan for the decumulation phase. Drawing down retirement income tax-efficiently should start with allocating where savings are held between taxable and non-taxable accounts during accumulation years.
- 53% of near-retirees plan to use an advisor to maximize retirement income sources, but 39% of near-retirees have not yet used an advisor.
- 71% of near-retirees are interested in learning how to minimize investment-related taxes.
You either reach your savings target or you don't.
The survey found that a retirement savings plan can help keep workers on track, but it represents several assumptions. Retirement expenses vary widely, while many retirees participate in part-time work and others stop working earlier than expected. Many will adjust their spending—by force or by choice.
- Each year of early retirement before 65 significantly increases the chance of running out of money in retirement.
- Even working 10 hours per week after 65 significantly decreases the chance of running out of money in retirement.
Social Security and Medicare are complicated.
The survey found that near-retirees who start this planning process early can enlist experts and maximize the benefits they receive through both programs. Putting it off or going it alone can lead to fewer options and suboptimal benefits overall.
- 47% of near-retirees are not sure they'll get the Social Security benefits they're entitled to.
- 50% rely on self-education to understand Social Security and Medicare.
Underserved segments have lower levels of retirement readiness.
The survey found that the wealth gap still exists for most women, African Americans, and Hispanics, adding an extra hurdle for these individuals going into retirement. The financial services industry needs to do better in serving these groups, including building diverse teams of investment professionals to support all communities, offering tailored guidance throughout their working years, and helping individuals optimize retirement readiness.
- 69% of women retirees are confident their savings will last, versus 87% of men.
- African Americans were affected more by the pandemic financially and expect to retire two years later, across income levels, yet they feel a greater sense of resiliency.
To learn more about Allspring and our mission to elevate investing, please visit www.allspringglobal.com.
About Allspring Global Investments
Allspring Global Investments is an independent asset management firm with more than $463 billion in assets under management*, offices around the world, and investment teams supported by 450 investment professionals. Allspring is committed to thoughtful investing, purposeful planning, and inspiring a new era of investing that pursues both financial returns and positive outcomes.
*As of September 30, 2022. AUM includes $93 billion from Galliard Capital Management, an investment advisor that is not part of the Allspring trade name/GIPS firm.
About the survey
On behalf of Allspring Global Investments, Escalent conducted a survey between August 15 and September 7, 2022, among 2,758 adults who reside in the U.S. and are primary or joint household financial decision-makers. The survey analyzed attitudes and behaviors around planning their finances, saving, and investing for retirement. The sample consisted of 1,504 working Americans (with an average age of 60) and 1,254 retired Americans (with an average age of 70). Data are weighted where necessary by assets, age, gender, race/ethnicity, and region to bring them into line with their actual proportions in the population.
This material is provided for informational purposes only and is for professional, institutional, or qualified clients/investors. Not for retail use outside the U.S.
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On April 23, 2013, a group of garment factories collapsed in Rana Plaza near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
The accident killed more than 1,100 people and injured at least 2,500. It’s considered the deadliest accident in the history of the modern garment industry.
It’s been a decade, but the garment industry is still far from safe for workers.
Factories like the one in Rana Plaza aren’t unique to Bangladesh. And safety for these workers is not just an issue overseas.
A survey published by the U.S. Department of Labor last year found that 80 percent of Southern California garment contractors had violated one or more provisions of The Fair Labor Standards Act.
How much has changed in the decade since the Rana Plaza collapse? And what can we—consumers—do to make sure the clothes we buy aren’t made at the expense of the safety of workers?
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VESTAL, NY (WIVT/WBGH) – The turkey tally is underway as Catholic Charities once again tries to raise enough frozen birds to feed the needy this holiday season.
Catholic Charities and I-Heart Radio are set-up outside the Walmart in Vestal for the 25th annual Thanks for Giving Turkey Drive.
Through this Friday, you will see an RV parked out front of the Walmart, with a goal of collecting 3,700 turkeys. Last year, the drive provided roughly 2,500 families with turkeys on Thanksgiving, and this year, the demand only went up.
Program Manager, Tracie Layton says that since COVID and the rise of inflation, the numbers continue to increase.
Program Manager at Catholic Charities of Broome County, Tracie Layton says, “We saw that this year in the numbers, we’re looking at potential record numbers of people signing up for baskets. We knew that right from the beginning. But we’re only serving a small percent. Those are people who have transportation to get to those pick-up sites, where there’s a lot of people out there that don’t.”
Catholic charities says that there is a record number of homeless people and families relying on food pantries.
You can donate by bringing a turkey or non-perishable foods to the RV, and the volunteers will load it into the refrigerated turkey truck.
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The death of Queen Elizabeth II closes a chapter in British history that lasted seven decades. But beyond the years, there's another way to mark her reign: in her lifetime, the queen met with a procession of 13 different U.S. presidents. The names and faces of the American head of state kept changing — while the queen and her crown remained a constant.
Her title was still Princess Elizabeth when she arrived in America for the first time in October 1951. Dignitaries on hand to meet the future queen on the crowded tarmac at Washington National Airport included President Harry Truman.
"It certainly is a very great pleasure for me as president of the United States to welcome you to the capital of our country," Truman said, adding, "I think your visit will improve — if that is possible — the cordial relations that exist between our two great countries, and I hope that while you are here you will have a very enjoyable time."
The 25-year-old Elizabeth — with husband Philip by her side — was there to represent her ailing father, King George VI.
Just months later, she'd be crowned queen.
Her next trip to America came in 1957 when President Dwight D. Eisenhower hosted her at a state dinner at the White House.
Eisenhower — dressed in white-tie and tails for the formal event — also wore a medal around his neck that the late King George VI had awarded him in recognition of his role as commander of allied forces in Europe during World War II.
John F. Kennedy was the first president Elizabeth hosted
News footage from 1961 shows the young president and first lady riding through London streets in an open top limousine. Crowds can be seen pressing forward, trying to get a closer look.
The Kennedys were invited to Buckingham Palace for dinner. Photos show the queen, Prince Philip and the Kennedys posing, all dressed in formal wear. But the visit has long been reported to have been more than a bit awkward.
There are stories of a queen jealous of the glamourous Jacqueline Kennedy. In fact, the encounter inspired the story-line for an episode of the Netflix Series, The Crown in 2017 — with the drama enhanced to be sure.
The series showed the queen getting word from a friend and confidant, Baron Patrick Plunket, of dismissive comments uttered later by Jackie Kennedy. In the series, Plunket tells the queen, "She found Buckingham Palace second-rate, dilapidated and sad, a much neglected provincial hotel. And that one came away with a sense of a tired institution without a place in the modern world."
The next president — Lyndon Johnson — was the only one Elizabeth did not meet. There's no definitive explanation as to why, but the meetings resumed with Richard Nixon.
President Gerald Ford would welcome the queen in a ceremony on White House South Lawn on the occasion of America's bicentennial, marking its break with the crown.
"Your Majesty, the wounds of our parting in 1776 healed long ago. Americans admire the United Kingdom as one of our truest allies and best friends," Ford said.
For her part, the queen described that past as long buried.
"History is not a fairy tale," she said in a toast at a state dinner that evening. "What is more important is that our shared language and traditions and history have given us a common vision of what is right and just."
President Jimmy Carter visited Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace in London a year later.
Then it was Ronald Reagan, the president with whom the queen seemed most comfortable. They went horseback riding together outside Windsor Castle and held long conversations with one another. Reagan later welcomed the queen to his home state of California, including a dinner in her honor in San Francisco.
President George H.W. Bush entertained the queen on her next U.S. visit, and he decided it was time that she got a look at America's pastime. Bush took the queen and Prince Philip her to a Major League Baseball game in Baltimore. She even held a receiving line with players in the Orioles dugout.
Such moments are symbolic and more. While presidents discuss policy with British prime ministers, with the monarch it's more about friendship and shared national values.
Elizabeth met Bill Clinton three times while he was president, including at ceremonies to mark the 50th anniversary of the D-Day landings on the European continent during WWII.
When George W. Bush was at the palace in 2003, the niceties of that visit were overshadowed by huge street demonstrations over the war in Iraq. Security was so tight during that trip, Bush's itinerary in London included no contact with the British people.
Four years later, Bush would host Elizabeth at the White House. During the welcome ceremony, Bush started to tell the audience that the queen had previously been there for the bicentennial in 1976 — but he misspoke and started to say she'd visited in 1776. He caught himself, paused, then looked over at the queen.
"She gave me a look that only a mother could give a child," Bush quipped.
The rest of the visit went smoothly, including a state dinner with a performance by the legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman afterward.
Proper etiquette is always paramount with the royals, but missteps do happen
When President and Michelle Obama were at the palace in 2009, at one point the first lady put her arm around the Queen. An affectionate gesture, but hugging the monarch is not something you're supposed to do.
Then there was President Trump's inspection of the Royal Guard on the palace grounds in 2018. It's an important ceremonial moment, but Trump suddenly cut right in front of the queen, blocking her path. It took a moment for them to sort it out and for Elizabeth to get herself into proper position to resume the inspection.
British tabloids took great notice. But in the case of both Trump and with Mrs. Obama, the queen appeared not to take offense.
In 2021, an economic summit brought President Biden to the UK. It's worth noting that every president before him who had met the queen had also met Prince Philip, who died two months prior to Biden's visit. As he began a major speech to the summit, Biden used the moment to first pay tribute to the queen's husband of 73 years.
'Today would have been Prince Philip's 100th birthday," Biden said, "I know there are a lot of people feeling his absence today."
Days later, the queen had the president and the first lady to the castle for tea.
Afterward, Biden told reporters that she had been gracious and that she reminded him a bit of his own mother.
He was the thirteenth sitting U.S. president Elizabeth would meet.
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WAUSAU – Wisconsin Rapids scored 14 times in its last three innings to race past Wausau East 16-4 in a Wisconsin Valley Conference softball game Tuesday at East High School.
East led 3-2 after three innings before the Raiders’ offense exploded over the final three frames.
Tristan Young had a single, a triple and an RBI, and Claire Coushman also had two hits and an RBI for East (3-9, 0-7 WVC).
Kristin Radtke and Saywer Holberg each drove in four runs for Wisconsin Rapids (11-2, 6-1 WVC).
East hosts Merrill on Thursday.
Raiders 16, Lumberjacks 4
Wisconsin Rapids 101 545 – 16 8 4
Wausau East 003 100 – 4 6 7
WP: Rhiannon Carroll. LP: Tristan Young.
SO: Carroll (5 inn.) 2, No. 24 (name not provided) (1 inn.) 0; Young 1. BB: Carroll 3, No. 24 0; Young 9.
Top hitters: WR, Carroll 2×4; Emily Friday 4 runs; Kristin Radtke 3×5, 2 runs, 4 RBI; Kendall Ziegahn 1×2, 2 RBI; Sawyer Holberg 4 RBI. WE, Young 2×4, 3B, RBI; Claire Coushman 2×3, RBI.
Records: Wisconsin Rapids 11-2, 6-1 Wisconsin Valley Conference; Wausau East 3-9, 0-7 Wisconsin Valley Conference. | https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2023/05/03/wisconsin-rapids-surges-past-wausau-east-softball/ | 2023-05-03 15:22:47 | 1 | https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2023/05/03/wisconsin-rapids-surges-past-wausau-east-softball/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Russian journalist's Nobel Peace Prize shatters auction record at $103.5M; proceeds to help Ukrainian child refugees.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy promised his country there would be no letup in the counteroffensive that has reclaimed towns and cities from Russian troops, as shelling continued Sunday across a wide stretch of Ukraine.
Zelenskyy ran through a list of towns that Ukraine has taken back in its lightning push across the northeast.
“Maybe now it seems to some of you that after a series of victories we have a certain lull,” he said in his nightly video address. “But this is not a lull. This is preparation for the next series… Because Ukraine must be free — all of it.”
Ukraine’s military command said its forces secured the eastern bank of the Oskil River on Saturday. The river, which flows south from Russia into Ukraine, had been a natural break in the newly emerged front lines since Kyiv’s counteroffensive began.
As Russian shells hit towns and cities over the weekend, the British defense ministry warned that Moscow is likely to increase attacks on civilian targets as it suffers battlefield defeats.
“In the last seven days, Russia has increased its targeting of civilian infrastructure even where it probably perceives no immediate military effect,” the ministry said in an online briefing. “As it faces setbacks on the front lines, Russia has likely extended the locations it is prepared to strike in an attempt to directly undermine the morale of the Ukrainian people and government.”
Russian fire killed four medics attempting to evacuate a psychiatric hospital in the Kharkiv region on Saturday, said governor Oleh Syniehubov. Two patients were wounded in the attack in Strelecha, he said.
Overnight shelling also hit a hospital in Mykolaiv, a significant Black Sea port, regional governor Vitaliy Kim said. And five people had died over the past day in Russian attacks in the Donetsk region, one of two Ukrainian regions that Russia recognizes as sovereign states, governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said.
The separatist forces that control much of Donetsk said Ukrainian shelling of a prisoner-of-war colony in Olenivka killed one prisoner and injured four. More than 50 POWs were reported killed in a July attack on the Olenivka prison; Russian and Ukrainian authorities blame each other.
A Washington-based think tank, the Institute for the Study of War, said Russian forces in Donetsk continue to conduct “meaningless operations” on villages as opposed to reinforcing the front line.
A top Vatican envoy and his entourage came under fire as they were distributing humanitarian supplies in Ukraine, the Vatican news service said on Sunday. It reported no injuries.
The incident took place near the city of Zaporizhzhia on Saturday, and forced Vatican Almoner Cardinal Konrad Krajewski and others to take cover.
“For the first time in my life, I didn’t know where to run. Because it is not enough to run, you have to know where to go,” said the Polish-born cardinal, whose office makes charitable contributions in the pope’s name.
Three people were wounded in nighttime shelling of Nikopol, across the river from Europe’s largest nuclear power station, said regional governor Valentyn Reznichenko. The six-reactor Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant was captured by Russian forces in March, but is operated by Ukrainian engineers. Its last reactor was switched off a week ago after repeated power failures because shelling put crucial safety systems at risk.
Meanwhile, prosecutors in Kharkiv are accusing Russia of torturing civilians in one village that was recently freed. In an online statement, they said they found a basement where Russian forces allegedly tortured prisoners in Kozacha Lopan, near the border with Russia.
In images they released, they showed a Russian military TA-57 telephone with additional wires and alligator clips attached to it. Ukrainian officials have accused Russian forces of using the Soviet-era radio telephones as a power source to shock prisoners during interrogation. It was not immediately possible to verify the Ukrainians’ claims.
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BERLIN (AP) — Daniel Barenboim was made a citizen of honor of Berlin on Friday, months after he ended his three-decade tenure as the general musical director of the Berlin State Opera for health reasons.
Mayor Franziska Giffey paid tribute to Barenboim’s musical talent and his commitment to communication between Israelis and Palestinians in a ceremony at city hall.
Giffey said that Barenboim “demonstrates incomparable mastery both at the grand piano and at the conductor’s stand,” German news agency dpa reported. She told him that “as an artist and as a person, you are truly a figure of the century.”
Barenboim, 80, was born in Argentina and raised there and in Israel. He has had long associations with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and with the Berlin State Opera, or Staatsoper, which he led from 1992 until early this year. He also co-founded the the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, which united musicians from Israel and the Arab world.
Giving up the Berlin post in January, he said that his health had worsened significantly over the past year and he could “no longer deliver the performance that is rightly demanded of a general music director.” But he has made clear that he’s determined to keep conducting as much as possible, saying in February that he “will take it day by day.”
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Third quarter domestic RevPAR exceeded 2019 levels by 15.2%; new domestic franchise agreements awarded in the quarter increased 38% versus the same period of 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md., Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH), one of the world's largest lodging franchisors, reported its results today for the three months ended September 30, 2022.
"Our third quarter results and the acquisition of the Radisson Hotels Americas business are a significant leap forward in the evolution of both Choice Hotels' competitive position and future growth potential. For 11 consecutive quarters, our RevPAR growth has outperformed the hotel industry, confirming that our strategy of focusing our investments and growth on RevPAR accretive hotel segments and locations is working. Our future growth is now enhanced by the addition of the Radisson Hotels Americas' brands to our best-in-class business delivery engine. Radisson Hotels Americas is expected to provide the company with significant incremental recurring adjusted EBITDA upon its full integration in early 2024," said Patrick Pacious, president and chief executive officer, Choice Hotels. "We exceeded our 2019 earnings last year, have built on that strength through the third quarter this year and are confident that the changes we are observing in leisure and business travel behavior that favor our brands will enable us to maximize growth opportunities well into the future."
Highlights of third quarter 2022 results include:1,2
- Domestic revenue per available room (RevPAR) growth accelerated quarter-over-quarter, increasing by 15.2% for third quarter 2022, compared to the same period of 2019, outperforming the total industry by 410 basis points.
- Domestic RevPAR growth has surpassed 2019 levels for 16 consecutive months through September 30, 2022, a trend that has continued in the fourth quarter 2022 with October RevPAR increasing approximately 20%, compared to October of 2019.
- The company closed the acquisition of Radisson Hospitality, Inc. ("Radisson Hotels Americas") on August 11, 2022, for a purchase price of $674 million. As of September 30, 2022, the number of global rooms in the company's targeted upper-midscale and upscale segments open and in the development pipeline increased by over 73,000 as a result of the acquisition. At quarter-end, the company had over 730,000 global rooms open or in the development pipeline, including the incremental Radisson Hotels Americas rooms.
- During third quarter 2022, the company resumed share repurchases under its share repurchase program and returned over $230 million in shares, representing nearly 4% of shares outstanding as of September 30, 2022.3 This increased year-to-date returns to shareholders to over $286 million in the form of cash dividends and share repurchases as of September 30, 2022. The company's board of directors approved an increase in the company's share repurchase authorization by 5 million shares in third quarter 2022.
- The number of domestic franchise agreements awarded in third quarter 2022 increased by 38%, compared to the same period of the prior year.
- The company's total domestic pipeline as of September 30, 2022, increased 16% to 1,017 hotels, representing over 98,000 rooms, from September 30, 2021.4
- The company's domestic effective royalty rate was 5.04% for the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 5.05% for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, an increase of 5 basis points, compared to the respective 2021 periods.
- The company sold the Cambria Hotel Nashville, Tennessee, property in July 2022 for approximately $110 million and secured a 30-year franchise agreement with the buyer to continue to operate the hotel as a Cambria Hotel. The sale of this hotel increased the recycling of prior investments in Cambria Hotels development projects for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 to over $140 million.5
RevPAR Performance Trends
- RevPAR increased 15.2% for third quarter 2022, compared to the same period of 2019, driven primarily by an increase in average daily rate (ADR) of 15.1%, compared to third quarter 2019.
- The company's extended-stay portfolio has consistently exceeded 2019 RevPAR levels since April 2021 and achieved domestic RevPAR growth of 21.8% in third quarter 2022, compared to the same period of 2019. The WoodSpring Suites brand achieved RevPAR growth of 27.5% in third quarter 2022, compared to the same period of 2019, driven by occupancy levels of 81% and a 22% increase in ADR.
- The company's overall midscale portfolio has consistently surpassed 2019 RevPAR levels since June 2021 and achieved domestic RevPAR growth of 11.3% in third quarter 2022 compared to the same period of 2019. In third quarter 2022, the Comfort brand continued to achieve RevPAR share gains versus local competitors, and the brand's domestic RevPAR growth continued to outperform the upper-midscale chain scale, compared to the same period of 2019.
- The company's upscale portfolio achieved domestic RevPAR growth of 18.3% for third quarter 2022, compared to the same period of 2019, and outperformed the upscale chain scale by over 13 percentage points.
Financial Performance
- Total revenues increased 28% to $414.3 million for third quarter 2022, compared to the same period of 2021, and included $40.2 million revenue contribution from Radisson Hotels Americas. Total revenues, excluding reimbursable revenue from franchised and managed properties and an extraordinary one-time termination fee, increased 21% to $201 million for third quarter 2022, compared to the same period of 2021, and included $24.8 million revenue contribution from Radisson Hotels Americas.
- Net income was $103.1 million for third quarter 2022, representing diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.85.
- Third quarter adjusted net income, excluding certain items described in Exhibit 7, increased to $87.5 million from third quarter 2021, representing adjusted diluted EPS of $1.56.
- Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) for third quarter 2022 increased to $139.4 million from the same period of 2021 and included $6.8 million of adjusted EBITDA contribution from Radisson Hotels Americas.
- The company received a $67.4 million cash payment related to the previously disclosed one-time exit of 110 WoodSpring Suites hotels in third quarter 2022, resulting in an increase in total revenue of $22.6 million, which has been excluded from both total revenues, excluding reimbursable revenue from franchised and managed properties and an extraordinary one-time termination fee and adjusted EBITDA results.
- Third quarter 2022 domestic royalties totaled $131.7 million, a 7% increase from the same period of 2021.
- Procurement services revenues increased 11% to $14.4 million for third quarter 2022, compared to the same period of 2021.
Development
- Year-to-date through September 30, 2022, the number of domestic franchise agreements awarded increased 17%, compared to the same period of 2021. Excluding the multi-unit transaction for 22 properties as part of the company's strategic alliance with Penn National Gaming in 2021, domestic franchise agreements increased 27% in the first nine months of 2022, compared to the same period of 2021. Applications received for new domestic franchise agreements increased by 23% year-to-date through September 30, 2022, compared to the same period of 2021.
- The number of domestic franchise agreements awarded for conversion hotels increased by 42% in third quarter 2022, compared to the same period of 2021.
- The company's extended-stay domestic pipeline reached 468 hotels as of September 30, 2022, a 45% increase since September 30, 2021. In September 2022, the Everhome Suites brand, an all-new construction midscale extended stay brand, celebrated the opening of its first hotel in Corona, California, and the brand's domestic pipeline reached 56 hotels as of September 30, 2022.
- The number of domestic franchise agreements awarded for the company's midscale segment increased 39% in third quarter 2022, compared to the same period of 2021.
- The number of domestic franchise agreements awarded for the company's upscale segment nearly tripled for third quarter 2022, compared to the same period of 2021. The Cambria Hotels brand increased its number of domestic hotels open by 5.2% from September 30, 2021, and more than tripled the number of domestic franchise agreements awarded for both third quarter 2022 and the first nine months of 2022, compared to the same period of 2021.
- The number of domestic hotels and rooms, as of September 30, 2022, increased 5.4% and 5.5%, respectively, from September 30, 2021.6
Shareholder Returns
During the nine months ended September 30, 2022, the company paid cash dividends totaling approximately $40 million. Based on the current quarterly dividend rate of $0.2375 per common shares outstanding, the company expects to pay dividends of $53 million during 2022, compared to total dividends of $25 million paid in 2021.
During the nine months ended September 30, 2022, the company repurchased approximately 2 million shares of common stock for $247 million under its stock repurchase program as well as through repurchases from employees in connection with tax withholding and option exercises relating to awards under the company's equity incentive plans. As of September 30, 2022, the company had 6.3 million shares of common stock remaining under the current share repurchase authorization.
Outlook
The outlook information provided below includes forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures, which management uses in measuring performance. The company is not able to reconcile full-year 2022 projected adjusted EBITDA and full-year 2024 projected adjusted EBITDA contribution from the Radisson Hotels Americas business unit, in each case without unreasonable efforts because it is not possible to predict with a reasonable degree of certainty the final valuation and related allocation of the purchase price and other potential adjustments. The unavailable information could have a significant impact on the company's full-year 2022 and full-year 2024 reported financial results. The adjusted numbers in the company's outlook below exclude the net surplus or deficit generated from reimbursable revenue from franchised and managed properties, the gain (loss) on sales of assets, extraordinary one-time franchisee termination fees, due diligence and transition costs and other items:
- Adjusted EBITDA for full-year 2022 is expected to range between $465 million and $470 million, representing a 15% to 17% increase compared to full-year 2021 and a 25% to 26% increase compared to full-year 2019. The company's outlook for adjusted EBITDA includes a $14 to $15 million adjusted EBITDA contribution from the Radisson Hotels Americas business unit since the acquisition close through the end of December 2022.
- Annual adjusted EBITDA for the Radisson Hotels Americas business unit is expected to reach $80 million upon its full integration in early 2024.
- Excluding the impact of Radisson Hotels Americas, domestic RevPAR for full-year 2022 is expected to increase between 13% and 15%, compared to full-year 2019, which represents 11% to 12% growth, compared to full-year 2021.
- Excluding the impact of Radisson Hotels Americas, the domestic effective royalty rate for full-year 2022 is expected to continue to grow in the mid-single digits, compared to full-year 2021.
- The domestic number of units, including Radisson Hotels Americas and the impact of the previously announced one-time exit of the WoodSpring Suites hotels, is expected to grow approximately 7% for full-year 2022, compared to full-year 2021.
Conference Call
Choice Hotels International will conduct a conference call on, November 7, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss the company's third quarter 2022 earnings results. The dial-in number to listen to the call domestically is (888) 349-0087 and the number for international participants is (412) 317-5259. A live webcast and accompanying materials will also be available on the company's investor relations website, http://investor.choicehotels.com/ and can be accessed via the Financial Performance and Presentations tab.
About Choice Hotels®
Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH) is one of the largest lodging franchisors in the world. With nearly 7,500 hotels, representing nearly 630,000 rooms, in 46 countries and territories as of September 30, 2022, the Choice® family of hotel brands provides business and leisure travelers with a range of high-quality lodging options from limited service to full-service hotels in the upscale, midscale, extended-stay and economy segments. The award-winning Choice Privileges® loyalty program offers members benefits ranging from everyday rewards to exceptional experiences. For more information, visit www.choicehotels.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain matters discussed in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Certain, but not necessarily all, of such forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, such as "expect," "estimate," "believe," "anticipate," "should," "will," "forecast," "plan," "project," "assume," or similar words of futurity. All statements other than historical facts are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current beliefs, assumptions and expectations regarding future events, which, in turn, are based on information currently available to management. Such statements may relate to projections of the company's revenue, expenses, adjusted EBITDA, earnings, debt levels, ability to repay outstanding indebtedness, payment of dividends, repurchases of common stock and other financial and operational measures, including occupancy and open hotels, RevPAR, the company's ability to benefit from any rebound in travel demand, the company's liquidity, the impact of COVID-19 and economic conditions on our future operations, among other matters. We caution you not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements do not guarantee future performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors.
Several factors could cause actual results, performance or achievements of the company to differ materially from those expressed in or contemplated by the forward-looking statements. Such risks include, but are not limited to, the consummation of the acquisition of Radisson Hotels Americas, including the related incurrence of additional indebtedness; the company's ability to successfully integrate Radisson Hotels Americas' employees and operations; the ability to realize the anticipated benefits and synergies of the acquisition of Radisson Hotels Americas as rapidly or to the extent anticipated; the continuation or resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic, including with respect to new strains or variants; the rate, pace and effectiveness of vaccination in the broader population; changes in consumer demand and confidence, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on unemployment rates, consumer discretionary spending and the demand for travel, transient and group business; the impact of COVID-19 on the global hospitality industry, particularly but not exclusively in the U.S. travel market; the timing and amount of future dividends and share repurchases; changes to general, domestic and foreign economic conditions, including access to liquidity and capital; future domestic or global outbreaks of epidemics, pandemics or contagious diseases, or fear of such outbreaks; changes in law and regulation applicable to the travel, lodging or franchising industries; including with respect to the status of the relationship with employees of our franchisees; foreign currency fluctuations; impairments or declines in the value of the company's assets; operating risks common in the travel, lodging or franchising industries; changes to the desirability of our brands as viewed by hotel operators and customers; changes to the terms or termination of our contracts with franchisees and our relationships with our franchisees; our ability to keep pace with improvements in technology utilized for marketing and reservations systems and other operating systems; the commercial acceptance of our Software-as-a-Service ("SaaS") technology solutions division's products and services; our ability to grow our franchise system; exposure to risks related to our hotel development, financing and ownership activities; exposures to risks associated with our investments in new businesses; fluctuations in the supply and demand for hotel rooms; our ability to realize anticipated benefits from acquired businesses; impairments or losses relating to acquired businesses; the level of acceptance of alternative growth strategies we may implement; cyber security and data breach risks; ownership and financing activities; hotel closures or financial difficulties of our franchisees; operating risks associated with our international operations, especially in areas currently most affected by COVID-19; the outcome of litigation; and our ability to effectively manage our indebtedness, and secure our indebtedness, including additional indebtedness incurred as a result of the acquisition of Radisson Hotels Americas. These and other risk factors are discussed in detail in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K and, where applicable, our Quarter Reports on Form 10-Q. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
Non-GAAP Financial Measurements
The company evaluates its operations utilizing the performance metrics of adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margins, adjusted selling, general and administrative (SG&A) expenses, revenues excluding reimbursable revenue from franchised and managed properties and extraordinary termination fees from franchisee, adjusted net income and adjusted EPS, which are all non-GAAP financial measurements. These measures, which are reconciled to the comparable GAAP measures in Exhibit 7, should not be considered as an alternative to any measure of performance or liquidity as promulgated under or authorized by GAAP, such as net income, SG&A, EPS and total revenues. The company's calculation of these measurements may be different from the calculations used by other companies and comparability may therefore be limited. We discuss management's reasons for reporting these non-GAAP measures and how each non-GAAP measure is calculated below.
In addition to the specific adjustments noted below with respect to each measure, the non-GAAP measures presented herein also exclude restructuring of the company's operations including employee severance benefit, income taxes and legal costs, exceptional allowances recorded as a result of COVID-19's impact on the collectability of receivables, expenses associated with legal claims, acquisition related due diligence, transition and transaction costs, one-time franchise agreement termination fees received related to the purchase and rebranding of a 110 hotel portfolio of WoodSpring Suites hotels, and gains/losses on sale/disposal and impairment of assets primarily related to hotel ownership and development activities to allow for period-over-period comparison of ongoing core operations before the impact of these discrete and infrequent charges.
Adjusted SG&A, Adjusted Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization and Margin: Adjusted SG&A, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA Margin reflects net income excluding the impact of interest expense, interest income, provision for income taxes, depreciation and amortization, franchise-agreement acquisition cost amortization, other (gains) and losses, equity in net income (loss) of unconsolidated affiliates, mark-to-market adjustments on non-qualified retirement plan investments, share based compensation expense (benefit) and surplus or deficits generated by reimbursable revenue from franchised and managed properties. We consider adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margins to be an indicator of operating performance because it measures our ability to service debt, fund capital expenditures and expand our business. We also use these measures, as do analysts, lenders, investors and others, to evaluate companies because it excludes certain items that can vary widely across industries or among companies within the same industry. For example, interest expense can be dependent on a company's capital structure, debt levels and credit ratings, and share based compensation expense (benefit) is dependent on the design of compensation plans in place and the usage of them. Accordingly, the impact of interest expense and share based compensation expense (benefit) on earnings can vary significantly among companies. The tax positions of companies can also vary because of their differing abilities to take advantage of tax benefits and because of the tax policies of the jurisdictions in which they operate. As a result, effective tax rates and provision for income taxes can vary considerably among companies. These measures also exclude depreciation and amortization because companies utilize productive assets of different ages and use different methods of both acquiring and depreciating productive assets or amortizing franchise-agreement acquisition costs. These differences can result in considerable variability in the relative asset costs and estimated lives and, therefore, the depreciation and amortization expense among companies. Mark-to-market adjustments on non-qualified retirement-plan investments recorded in SG&A are excluded from EBITDA, as the company accounts for these investments in accordance with accounting for deferred-compensation arrangements when investments are held in a rabbi trust and invested. Changes in the fair value of the investments are recognized as both compensation expense in SG&A and other gains and losses. As a result, the changes in the fair value of the investments do not have a material impact on the company's net income. Surpluses and deficits generated from reimbursable revenues from franchised and managed properties are excluded, as the company's franchise and management agreements require these revenues to be used exclusively for expenses associated with providing franchise and management services, such as central reservation and property-management systems, hotel employee and operating costs, reservation delivery and national marketing and media advertising. Franchised and managed property owners are required to reimburse the company for any deficits generated from these activities and the company is required to spend any surpluses generated in future periods. Since these activities will be managed to break-even over time, quarterly or annual surpluses and deficits have been excluded from the measurements utilized to assess the company's operating performance.
Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted Earnings Per Share: Adjusted net income and EPS exclude the impact of surpluses or deficits generated from reimbursable revenue from franchised and managed properties. Surpluses and deficits generated from reimbursable revenue from franchised and managed properties are excluded, as the company's franchise agreements require these revenues to be used exclusively for expenses associated with providing franchised and managed services, such as central reservation and property-management systems, hotel employee and operating costs, reservation delivery and national marketing and media advertising. Franchised and managed property owners are required to reimburse the company for any deficits generated from activities and the company is required to spend any surpluses generated in future periods. Since these activities will be managed to break-even over time, quarterly or annual surpluses and deficits have been excluded from the measurements utilized to assess the company's operating performance. We consider adjusted net income and adjusted EPS to be indicators of operating performance because excluding these items allow for period-over-period comparisons of our ongoing operations.
Revenues, Excluding Reimbursable Revenue from Franchised and Managed Properties and Extraordinary Termination Fees from Franchisee: The company reports revenues, excluding reimbursable revenue from franchised and managed properties and extraordinary termination fees from franchisee. These non-GAAP measures we present are commonly used measures of performance in our industry and facilitate comparisons between the company and its competitors. Reimbursable revenues from franchised and managed properties are excluded, as the company's franchise and management agreements require revenues to be used exclusively for expenses associated with providing franchise and management services, such as central reservation and property-management systems, hotel employee and operating costs, reservation delivery and national marketing and media advertising. Franchisees are required to reimburse the company for any deficits generated from these activities and the company is required to spend any surpluses generated in future periods. Since these activities will be managed to break-even over time, quarterly or annual surpluses and deficits have been excluded from the measurements utilized to assess the company's operating performance. During the third quarter of 2022, the company earned one-time franchise agreement termination fees related to the purchase by a third-party from an existing franchisee and the subsequent rebranding of a 110 hotel portfolio of WoodSpring Suites hotels. These termination fees received are considered infrequent in nature and not representative of on-going operations and therefore have been excluded from the measurements utilized to assess the company's operating performance.
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WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman has left Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after six weeks of inpatient treatment for clinical depression, with plans to return to the Senate when the chamber resumes session in mid-April, his office said Friday.
In a statement, Fetterman's office said he is back home in Braddock, in western Pennsylvania, with his depression “in remission,” and gave details on his treatment — including that his depression was treated with medication and that he is wearing hearing aids for hearing loss.
It was the latest medical episode for Fetterman, who won last fall's most expensive Senate contest after suffering a stroke that he has said nearly killed him and from which he continues to recover.
Fetterman, who has a wife and three school-age children, said he is happy to be home.
“I’m excited to be the father and husband I want to be, and the senator Pennsylvania deserves. Pennsylvanians have always had my back, and I will always have theirs,” said Fetterman said. “I am extremely grateful to the incredible team at Walter Reed. The care they provided changed my life."
Fetterman will return to the Senate the week of April 17.
Doctors describe “remission” as when a patient responds to treatment so that they have returned to normal social function and they are indistinguishable from someone who has never had depression.
In an interview that will air on “CBS Sunday Morning,” Fetterman said the symptoms gathered strength after he won the November election.
“The whole thing about depression," he said, "is that objectively you may have won, but depression can absolutely convince you that you actually lost and that’s exactly what happened and that was the start of a downward spiral.”
He said he “had stopped leaving my bed, I’d stopped eating, I was dropping weight, I’d stopped engaging in some of the most — things that I love in my life.”
Fetterman checked into Walter Reed on Feb. 15 after weeks of what aides described as Fetterman being withdrawn and uninterested in eating, discussing work or the usual banter with staff.
At the time, Fetterman, 53, was barely a month into his service in Washington and still recovering from the aftereffects of the stroke he suffered last May when he went to Walter Reed on the advice of the Capitol physician, Dr. Brian P. Monahan.
Post-stroke depression is common and treatable through medical and talk therapy, doctors say.
Fetterman’s return will be welcome news for Democrats who have struggled to find votes for some nominations, in particular, without him in the Senate.
Fetterman's office also released details of his treatment under medical professionals led by Dr. David Williamson, a neuropsychiatrist.
When he was admitted, Fetterman had "severe symptoms of depression with low energy and motivation, minimal speech, poor sleep, slowed thinking, slowed movement, feelings of guilt and worthlessness, but no suicidal ideation," the statement attributed to Williamson said.
The symptoms had steadily worsened over the preceding eight weeks and Fetterman had stopped eating and drinking fluids. That caused low blood pressure, the statement said.
“His depression, now resolved, may have been a barrier to engagement,” it said.
Fetterman had the stroke last May as he was campaigning in a three-way Democratic primary race. He had surgery to implant a pacemaker with a defibrillator to manage two heart conditions, atrial fibrillation and cardiomyopathy.
One of Fetterman’s main aftereffects from the stroke is auditory processing disorder, which can render someone unable to speak fluidly and quickly process spoken conversation into meaning. Fetterman uses devices in conversations, meetings and congressional hearings that transcribe spoken words in real time. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/fetterman-leaves-walter-reed-depression-in-remission/507-ed7d93ae-7617-4122-b666-8638952743af | 2023-04-01 06:28:04 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/fetterman-leaves-walter-reed-depression-in-remission/507-ed7d93ae-7617-4122-b666-8638952743af |
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. – A new project at Punta Gorda Airport (PGD) could guarantee your bags make your flight before you do.
Airport leaders report more than a million checked bags pass through PGD every year, and a new $25 million project could move them from place to place much quicker.
Kaley Miller, marketing director at PGD, said the idea is to automate the system that takes your luggage from point A, the ticketing counter, to point B, the place handlers take your bag and load it up into the belly of the plane.
“So when you check a bag at the ticket counter, it goes behind the scenes through a screening process,” Miller said. “Right now, it’s very manual, and folks in TSA have to pick up and hand move these bags and hand examine them.”
That’s roughly 50 pounds, plus or minus, over and over again. With hundreds of bags coming through, that puts a lot physically on baggage handlers and leaves room for error with getting everything on board on time.
“Now the system will all be automated, so up to 2,100 bags will be screened per hour up from only 300 bags per hour,” Miller said. “Every morning, Allegiant has 8 to 9 planes leaving within a two-hour window, so it’s really important that those bags get on the plane quickly and efficiently.”
The project will be funded mostly through TSA and FDOT. However, some passenger facility fees will also be used.
This inline baggage system update and expansion will help in the overall future expansion of PGD, which will eventually include new gates and concession areas.
The project will go out for bid in March. | https://nbc-2.com/news/2023/02/27/new-screening-project-at-punta-gorda-airport-could-check-bags-faster/ | 2023-03-01 02:49:56 | 1 | https://nbc-2.com/news/2023/02/27/new-screening-project-at-punta-gorda-airport-could-check-bags-faster/ |
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Wednesday that Russia’s war on Ukraine “screams” that the world needs to stop importing oil and gas from Russia and instead move toward other forms of energy.
At an international forum on offshore wind energy in Atlantic City, Granholm said the U.S. as well as its energy industries “are on a war footing,” and called for a rapid acceleration of renewable energy including offshore wind power.
Her comments were echoed by Kadri Simson, the European Commissioner for Energy, who noted that Europe recently committed itself to a large-scale move away from Russian fossil fuel imports, and considers wind energy an important part of that transition.
Their comments came as Russia cut off natural gas to NATO members Poland and Bulgaria on Wednesday and threatened to do the same to other countries, dramatically escalating its standoff with the West over the war in Ukraine. European leaders decried the move as “blackmail.”
Germany and Italy are among Europe’s biggest consumers of Russian natural gas but have already been taking steps to reduce their dependence on Moscow.
“Russia is waging a war in Ukraine and the imperative to move away from Russian oil and gas, for the world to move away from Russian oil and gas screams that there is an imperative that we electrify,” said Granholm, the former Michigan governor. “Offshore wind is just a huge component in that.” | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/russia-ukraine-conflict/us-energy-secretary-pushes-for-move-away-from-russian-oil-and-gas-toward-renewable-energy | 2022-04-28 00:28:46 | 1 | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/russia-ukraine-conflict/us-energy-secretary-pushes-for-move-away-from-russian-oil-and-gas-toward-renewable-energy |
Amidst Wichita State’s coaching staff change Austin Henry enters transfer portal
Former Dell Rapids & Renner legion pitcher will have four years of college eligibility remaining
Published: Jun. 4, 2023 at 5:40 PM CDT|Updated: 32 minutes ago
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - A South Dakota prep baseball star is in search of a new college home.
Former Dell Rapids and Renner Legion pitcher Austin Henry announced via Twitter that he will be entering the transfer portal after one redshirt year at Wichita State citing changes in to the Shocker coaching staff.
Shockers’ head coach Eric Wedge stepped away from the program due to health issues back in October and never returned. The school announced earlier this week that his interim replacement, Loren Hibbs, won’t be retained either, leading Henry and many of his Wichita teammates to enter the portal.
Austin has four years of eligibility remaining.
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SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) _ Roper Technologies Inc. (ROP) on Friday reported second-quarter earnings of $268.8 million.
The Sarasota, Florida-based company said it had net income of $2.52 per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $3.95 per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $3.82 per share.
The industrial equipment maker posted revenue of $1.31 billion in the period, which missed Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $1.54 billion.
For the current quarter ending in October, Roper Technologies expects its per-share earnings to range from $3.42 to $3.46. Analysts surveyed by Zacks had forecast adjusted earnings per share of $3.91.
The company expects full-year earnings in the range of $13.46 to $13.62 per share.
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Jalen Hurts rushing touchdown gives Eagles 28-0 halftime lead
Hurts scores from 5 yards out as the Eagles are dominating the Giants.
With less than a minute left in the first half, Jalen Hurts ran for a 5-yard touchdown to make it 28-0 Eagles. After almost dropping the ball on the snap, Hurts managed to secure the ball and cut left to score untouched by the Giants defense.
Hurts has 31 rushing yards on seven attempts through the first half. | https://www.inquirer.com/eagles/eagles-giants-nfl-playoffs-jalen-hurts-20230121.html | 2023-01-22 04:36:50 | 0 | https://www.inquirer.com/eagles/eagles-giants-nfl-playoffs-jalen-hurts-20230121.html |
The Arkansas Military & First Responders Academy, an open-enrollment charter high school approved by the state Board of Education in September 2021, is moving toward an inaugural August opening for as many as 150 ninth graders.
Operators for the school -- in which every student will be part of a U.S. Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps program and will have opportunities to learn and train for emergency-responder jobs as well as take pre-engineering and coding courses -- will add a grade a year until grades nine through 12 are served, Lt. Col. Jason Smedley said last week.
Smedley, a Little Rock native and decorated U.S. Marine having served two tours to Iraq in 2003 and 2006, is commandant and spokesman for the new school that is to be housed in what is now the South City Church -- formerly Temple Baptist Church -- at 10710 Interstate 30 in Little Rock.
"It's going to be the first of its kind in Arkansas," Smedley said about the school-wide JROTC program in contrast to JROTC programs at other high schools in the state that don't require all students to participate.
"Students will wear an actual Marine uniform as their daily uniform," Smedley said. "This doesn't mean they have to go into the military. But they will have an awareness, they will participate and be active in the leadership, history and physical training aspect of any JROTC program."
The school's additional focus on first responders means that students will have course work and internships related to firefighting, law enforcement and medical emergencies. Course work on coding and pre-engineering will be offered in the 11th and 12th grades particularly for those students who may want to pursue those subjects in college.
"We want to make sure our students have an awareness of the different opportunities that exist -- to include college, the military and first responders," Smedley said.
The charter academy was originally scheduled to open to its first students last August but was granted a one-year extension by the state.
"During the planning stage, it became very clear any site we might select would require significant capital improvement," school planners told state officials last summer.
The organization said that the anticipated supply-chain constraints occurring nationally would be "a tremendous roadblock" for completing construction and equipping the ninth-through-12th-grade campus in time to open this year.
There have been other adjustments in the plans in the meantime -- including a transfer of the state charter from one organization to another.
At the time in 2021 that the school was approved by the Arkansas Charter Authorizing Panel and ultimately by the state Board of Education, the sponsoring nonprofit organization and the recipient of the state-issued charter necessary to operate was American Quality Schools.
Recent minutes of meetings held by the school's board of directors show that the state-issued charter is being transferred from American Quality Schools to Arkansas Military & First Responders Academy, which has applied to the federal Internal Revenue Service for the required status as a 501-c-3 not-for-profit organization. That IRS determination on nonprofit status was to be decided by Feb. 8, according to the meeting minutes.
Smedley said last week that the school leaders have submitted a request to the state to transfer the charter but have not received a response yet. He said a delay in receiving the nonprofit status should not impact the school opening in August "and we don't expect the IRS denying our nonprofit request."
Arkansas Code Annotated 6-23-303 on the authorization of taxpayer-funded charter schools states that "the authorizer shall review the application for an open-enrollment public charter school and may approve any application that ... establishes the eligible entity's status as a tax-exempt organization under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 before the first day of its operation with students."
While the military/first responder academy will be unique in Arkansas, there are such schools in other parts of the country -- Chicago and Philadelphia, for example, that have been sponsored by American Quality Schools. The Arkansas school planners have toured the New Orleans Military & Maritime Academy campus, in particular, and are considering a $40,000 contract with the New Orleans charter school that features a school-wide Marine Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps program.
"The contract is not solidified yet," Smedley said, but once it is finalized it would enable planners for the Arkansas school "to access curriculum and policies and allow AMFRA leadership to shadow [the New Orleans' school staff] during the spring semester."
Smedley said the Arkansas school will be located on about 25 acres in a church building that is being purchased by KLS Leasing, which is affiliated with the Walton Family Foundation of Bentonville.
The school will operate with what Smedley called a triple-net lease, meaning that the school will pay expenses associated with the building that would more typically be paid by a landlord. The school operators have an option to lease to own the property, he said.
The church membership will continue to use the property during non-school hours until they can transition elsewhere, Smedley said.
Smedley, who graduated from Little Rock Parkview Magnet High School in 1996, is a Howard University graduate with a Master's degree in business administration and a law degree from from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law.
Currently, he is the squadron commander of Marine Wing Support Squadron 471 and the chairman of the Arkansas Veterans Commission, according to his resume.
His experience includes work as a staffer for former Arkansas U.S. Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor. He was also the military liaison for Gov. Mike Beebe and an agricultural lobbyist for the Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation.
Planners of the Arkansas Military & First Responders Academy have established an online informational brochure for the campus -- using stock photographs and not actual Little Rock students -- and are seeking faculty members for the coming school year and asking potential students -- ninth graders -- to complete school enrollment interest forms.
More information about the school is available at the following website: https://amfra9-12.org.
Arkansas has about two dozen taxpayer-supported open-enrollment charter schools and charter school systems. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jan/08/new-charter-school-has-military-bearing/ | 2023-01-08 11:48:09 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jan/08/new-charter-school-has-military-bearing/ |
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Chesterfield County is expecting heavy traffic on the morning of Wednesday, March 28 when the funeral service of Irvo Otieno is held at First Baptist Church on Iron Bridge Road.
Drivers should expect heavy traffic near Iron Bridge Road, Omo Road and Chippenham Parkway between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Wednesday. Police will also be in the area to monitor and direct traffic beginning at 10 a.m.
Drivers who are not attending the funeral should plan to avoid that area during those times.
Attendees of the funeral who are driving on Chippenham Parkway and eastbound Iron Bridge Road will need to make a U-turn at Omo Road to arrive at First Baptist Church. There is no left turn from Iron Bridge Road directly into the church parking lot.
According to ABC News, the funeral will beginning at 11:30 a.m. Civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton and civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing Otieno’s family, are expected to speak during the service. | https://www.wric.com/traffic/road-projects-and-closures/heavy-traffic-expected-on-iron-bridge-road-during-irvo-otienos-funeral/ | 2023-03-28 21:01:57 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/traffic/road-projects-and-closures/heavy-traffic-expected-on-iron-bridge-road-during-irvo-otienos-funeral/ |
The increased sophistication of software and connectivity in new cars means it’s possible for automakers to lock and unlock some features using over-the-air updates, thus enabling them to offer the features via subscription.
A prime example are driver-assist features. We’ve already seen Cadillac introduce a monthly subscription for Super Cruise, which is required after a free trial period ends. In some markets, automakers have even started offering features like heated seats or automatic headlights on a subscription basis.
Not everyone is keen on such business practices being introduced. Two members of the New Jersey General Assembly, Paul Moriarty and Joe Danielsen, in September introduced a bill (No. 4519) that aims to make it illegal for automakers and dealers to sell subscriptions for features that use hardware already installed in the vehicle at the time of purchase.
However, the bill leaves a caveat for features that require ongoing expenses to the automaker, dealer, or any third-party service provider. This means features that are constantly improved, like Cadillac’s Super Cruise—which can be upgraded with new functionalities and greater map coverage—could remain as a subscription. The same would also be true for features that deliver content, like streaming.
The bill is also specifically for subscriptions, so even if it passed an automaker would still be able to charge a one-off fee for features that could be unlocked on demand. This could actually be advantageous to a buyer as they could decide later whether they really want a feature instead of paying extra for it at the time of purchase.
Hyundai only last week announced its next-generation vehicles will offer so-called Feature-on-Demand products. Hyundai said owners will be able to upgrade the performance and functionality of their vehicles over the air, though the automaker didn’t say whether these would come with a one-off fee or a subscription.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — People in and around Mississippi’s capital city were bracing for possible flooding as the Pearl River was approaching a crest after last week’s heavy rainfall.
Officials said about 100 to 150 homes in the Jackson area could be impacted by Monday night. The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said Monday on Twitter that the river was predicted to crest at 35.5 feet (10.8 meters). The agency said that would just avoid hitting the major flood stage level of 36 feet (10.97 meters).
“Roads are still flooded. We ask that you don’t return home until your local officials say it’s safe to do so,” the agency said.
Some Jackson residents started moving furniture and appliances out of their homes late last week. Others were stocking up on sandbags. The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency had deployed 126,000 sandbags to act as water barriers in preparation for flooding.
Two years ago, torrential downpours caused the Pearl River to reach 36.7 feet (11.2 meters) and Jackson homes in the hardest-hit neighborhoods were filled with dirty, snake-infested flood water.
Oscar Day, an inventory control worker at a sandbag distribution site, said Jackson residents started preparing their homes for potential flood damage earlier than in 2020.
“A lot of people took the heat last time,” Day said Sunday.
The Red Cross opened a temporary shelter at the Jackson Police Department Training Academy.
The floodwaters in Mississippi arrive after severe flooding caused death and destruction in Kentucky last month. Those floods caused at least 39 deaths and robbed thousands of families of all of their possessions. Nearly a month later, residents are wrestling with whether to rebuild at the place they call home or to start over somewhere else. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/ap-mississippi-residents-brace-for-flood-as-river-reaches-crest/ | 2022-08-29 19:52:31 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/ap-mississippi-residents-brace-for-flood-as-river-reaches-crest/ |
As Californians look down the barrel of gasoline prices just cents away from hitting another all-time record, Gov. Gavin Newsom is quick to blame the oil industry for “ripping you off.” But even as Sacramento considers levying a punitive tax on oil companies, experts say state regulators have woefully little insight into an industry that zealously guards information on pricing and operations as confidential trade secrets.
Gas prices in California reached $6.41 a gallon on Tuesday – a dizzying 96-cent increase over the past two weeks – according to AAA. But the California Energy Commission, the state’s main energy policy body, can’t fully explain what is behind the punishing hike.
“I wouldn’t even call it flying blind,” Severin Borenstein an energy economist at UC Berkeley, said of the commission. “Everybody scrambles to say, ‘Well, we should do something about this.’ And then the price goes back down and they and everybody go back to ignoring it.”
Newsom’s call for a “windfall profits tax” on oil companies last week comes amid a new wrinkle in Golden State drivers’ long-standing misery at the pump.
While fuel prices in California are historically higher than the nation – in large part due to the state’s taxes and environmental regulations – the price differential between California and the rest of the country has exploded to $2.60 a gallon. That is the highest price gap ever.
To take one comparison: Florida, which was racked by Hurricane Ian last week, has average gas prices that are $3.23 cheaper per gallon than California, according to AAA.
It’s a problem that may only get worse.
As the state transitions away from fossil fuels in the coming years, oil refineries are closing down. That leaves drivers who lack an electric vehicle reliant on a dwindling industry that is increasingly concentrated among a handful of companies and prone to price swings. The most recent price spike only underscores the state’s shaky grasp on the oil-to-gasoline supply chain as Newsom looks to phase out most gas-powered cars by 2035, experts say.
“The long-term problem remains the same. How do you treat an industry that you want to put out of business?” said Tom Kloza, an analyst with OPIS, the Oil Price Information Service. “How do you do that without alienating your constituents with $10 gas prices?”
Through publicly available information, energy analysts know that the recent price spike is tied to reduced gas production among the state’s oil refiners, which include Marathon Petroleum, Chevron, and PBF Energy. The limited supply and strong fuel demand is causing gas prices on the commodity market to surge well above the normal gap between California and the rest of the country.
But what’s behind that drop in production is a bigger mystery. Some of the reduced gas flow is due to an unplanned refinery outage in September and infrastructure maintenance that brings capacity offline, according to the California Energy Commission. Still, historically, price hikes of this magnitude are typically brought on by refinery catastrophes — and there have been none of those.
That has left the state’s Energy Commission staff, who are tasked with providing a window into the state’s oil industry, scratching their heads.
“The only thing you could point to are these very minor refinery repairs, which don’t explain it,” said CEC Commissioner David Hochschild.
The lack of transparency is extreme enough that Hochschild turned to oil companies last week asking them to volunteer a basic explanation of the problem. In a letter addressed to major gas producers, he also asked the companies to detail why they allowed their fuel reserves to dwindle, even though the industry typically beefs up reserves ahead of planned maintenance to prevent price shocks. “We wouldn’t be asking for this information if we had it already,” said Hochschild. “We’re doing the best we can with the information we have.”
Borenstein, who has been researching the state’s perplexing gasoline industry for years, said the letter highlights a longstanding complaint of his: The California Energy Commission is ill-equipped to provide oversight of the oil industry.
“They are data collectors, and they can be very valuable inputs about industry practices and operations,” he said. “But ultimately the state needs a set of economists and market analysts who really understand the dynamics in the market.”
The oil industry’s inner mechanics have long been shrouded in secrecy not just in California. It’s a level of confidentiality that has given rise to an entire industry of trade publications, including OPIS, that work to pry out information often based on anonymous sources and sell those details to commodities traders.
Oil companies treat their operations “like a trade secret on the order of the riddle of the Sphinx or the nuclear codes,” said Kloza, the OPIS analyst. Kloza said there is often good reason for the secrecy – oil companies are always on guard against commodities traders looking to capitalize on gasoline supply constraints and make “a pretty penny.”
California’s main oil refiners did not respond to requests for detailed comments.
But Kara Greene, a spokesperson for Western States Petroleum Association, an oil industry trade group, pushed back on contentions that oil companies keep information from regulators. “In times like this they are on daily, sometimes hourly communications, with the California Energy Commission,” she said.
Even so, Greene said the oil industry needs to protect “business sensitive information” just as Apple seeks to safeguard iPhone technology.
Hochschild and Borenstein said the price spike raises concerns of illegal market manipulation, although both said there is currently no evidence to support that concern.
Next year, regulators will have one more oversight tool. Under SB 1322, which Newsom recently signed into law, oil companies will be required to provide the public with a more detailed breakdown of their profit margins on the gasoline they sell every month in California.
But the legislation, which goes into effect in January, will come too late for drivers seeking a deeper understanding of how gas prices went haywire this month, said Jamie Court, president of the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog.
“We won’t know what they’re making now,” he said. “It’s a black box inside a black box.” | https://www.chicoer.com/2022/10/05/california-gas-prices-shrouded-in-secrecy-amid-historic-cost-spike/ | 2022-10-05 15:58:19 | 1 | https://www.chicoer.com/2022/10/05/california-gas-prices-shrouded-in-secrecy-amid-historic-cost-spike/ |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Homeless people and their advocates are asking a federal judge for an emergency order to stop the city of San Francisco from dismantling tent encampments and forcing unhoused people to move along from public property until the city has enough shelter beds to offer as alternatives.
The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California is assisting with the San Francisco lawsuit filed by homeless people and their advocates, which alleges that the city clears out encampments not to connect homeless people to services and housing but in response to neighborhood complaints.
Plaintiffs also want a preliminary injunction to stop San Francisco from seizing tents, clothing and other belongings of homeless people unless it follows its own policies of bagging and tagging items for safekeeping for up to 90 days. They will ask the court at a hearing Thursday for a special master to keep tabs on the city.
Attorneys for San Francisco say its policies balance the rights of the unhoused with a need to keep San Francisco’s public spaces clean and safe. In court documents, attorneys said that homeless people are asked to leave an encampment only after receiving and declining an offer of shelter.
They also said that city policies allow them to dispose of certain items, including garbage and items that present a health or safety risk, but that other items are bagged and tagged and stored for 90 days.
“San Francisco aims to provide permanent, secure housing to all who need it. We look forward to discussing with the court the city’s services-first approach and the significant investments the city has made to address our homelessness crisis,” said Jen Kwart, spokeswoman for the office of City Attorney David Chiu.
The Coalition on Homelessness and seven people who are homeless or formerly homeless sued the city in September, the latest in a yearslong battle between politically liberal San Francisco and the thousands of people sleeping on sidewalks and in vehicles along neighborhood streets.
It’s a battle playing out in other western U.S. states, where more homeless people tend to live unsheltered outdoors than inside shelters, frustrating homeowners, businesses and government leaders. In 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled it unconstitutional to cite or arrest people for sleeping in public when there is no shelter available.
Last week, a federal judge issued an emergency injunction to stop the city of Phoenix from conducting sweeps of a large homeless encampment downtown, in response to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Arizona. Authorities cannot enforce camping bans on anyone unable to obtain a shelter bed and can only seize property that is illegal or a threat.
The ACLU of New Mexico and others sued the city of Albuquerque this week, alleging officials are destroying encampments and criminalizing people for being homeless.
Zal K. Shroff, senior attorney with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, another legal organization representing the coalition, said San Francisco needs at least an additional 4,000 shelter beds and much more affordable housing.
Homeless people are ordered to pack up and leave even before outreach workers know the number and kinds of beds available that day, resulting in offers of shelter that are largely performative, he said.
“Clearing tents just means throwing someone’s entire life into a garbage can. That is not solving homelessness,” said Shroff. “It’s a temporary fix so people can think that their neighborhood looks nicer for a day.”
But attorneys for San Francisco described in documents a more methodical process in which the director of the Healthy Streets Operations Center, the city office that coordinates encampment cleanups, identifies by mid-week spots to clean the following week, taking into account the number of beds projected to be available.
Outreach workers go to targeted encampments over the weekend to explain what will happen, assess residents for housing, and post written notices of the upcoming cleanup, according to court documents. The Department of Public Works will not begin cleaning until outreach is complete, the city states.
“San Francisco trains its employees on these policies and through effective oversight ensures these policies are followed,” attorneys for the city wrote. “In the absence of systemic training failures, plaintiffs have offered no basis for imposing municipal liability on San Francisco.” | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national/ap-homeless-people-ask-court-to-stop-san-francisco-tent-sweeps/ | 2022-12-22 23:46:40 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national/ap-homeless-people-ask-court-to-stop-san-francisco-tent-sweeps/ |
Even Taylor Swift‘s mom says Taylor’s doppelgänger is Ashley Leechin. Leechin posted a reaction video to Taylor promoting Midnights and the singer commented, “My mom just saw this and said ‘she looks like you.'”
David Archuleta released the new song “Faith in Me” and is about to head out on a holiday tour. Tickets for his 14-date The More The Merrier Christmas Tour, starring November 18, are already on sale on his official website.
Lindsey Stirling is heading out on her Snow Waltz tour on November 17, in support of her newly announced album of the same name, which arrives October 7. She has released another song off the album, “Joy To The World,” which is inspired by Celtic music.
Jewel loves sleeping in a cold bedroom and dubs it “survival sleeping.” In a new TikTok, the hitmaker revealed, “I like it so cold in my room at night, that as I’m falling asleep, I wonder if I will make it through the night.” She wants to know if her fans are guilty of doing the same.
Harry Styles is teasing something new coming to his Pleasing beauty venture. He shared to Instagram a preview of people wearing bright clothes and wrote, “Coming soon. Find your pleasing.” Harry launched Pleasing in December.
Meghan Trainor revealed her favorite music videos to Allure. “All About That Bass,” “Lips Are Moving,” “Title,” “Me Too,” “Nice to Meet Ya” and “Bad for Me” are her picks, in chronological order.
Frankie Grande — Ariana Grande‘s big bro — revealed he defied Madonna‘s advice to not be in a throuple — or in a relationship with two other people. She told him, “That’s not going to end well,” and he admits to Billboard she was right.
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BOSTON (AP) — Jaylen Brown scored 37 points, completing a tying three-point play with 4.1 seconds left in regulation and adding 11 more in overtime as the NBA-leading Boston Celtics snapped a three-game losing streak by beating the archrival Los Angeles Lakers 125-121 on Saturday night.
Brown added nine rebounds, Jayson Tatum had 30 points and 11 rebounds, and Malcom Brogdon scored 15 of his 26 points in the second half of a see-saw game that had 19 lead changes — six in the fourth quarter — and 15 ties.
LeBron James had 41 points, nine rebounds and eight assists for Los Angeles. Anthony Davis scored 16 points with 10 rebounds, coming off the bench for the second game in a row after missing 20 with a foot injury.
Patrick Beverly had 15 points, twice giving the Lakers the lead in the final minute of the fourth. But he also missed a foul shot that might have clinched it and was called for a technical foul on the contentious last play of regulation. Tatum made the free throw, and Boston never trailed in the extra period.
With Celtics Hall of Famer Paul Pierce cheering his former team on from the sideline and the team’s broadcasters — Boston’s Cedric Maxwell and L.A.’s Mychal Thompson — talking trash on press row, the Celtics swept their longtime rivals in the two-game season series.
Beverly hit a 3-pointer to give the Lakers the lead with 52 seconds left and then, after Boston tied it, scored on a putback dunk that made it 104-102 with 19 seconds to play. But after Brown missed a 3, Beverly missed one of two free throws; Al Horford missed a 3, and Brown scored on the putback and picked up a delayed foul call.
One game after missing a pair of free throws in the final seconds of a one-point game, Brown hit this one to tie it 105-all with 4.1 seconds to play.
The Lakers had a chance to win it in regulation, and James drove to the basket. He missed the layup – and the referees missed Tatum swiping his arm on the shot. An enraged James gesticulated wildly, and Beverly picked up a technical foul in the ensuing hubbub.
The Celtics (36-15) have the NBA’s best record despite losing their previous three games, including an overtime loss to the Knicks on Thursday night when Brown missed two free throws trailing by one with 8 seconds left.
There was a vocal contingent of Lakers fans making noise when the visitors opened an 11-point lead in the third quarter. But they were out-shouted by the locals when Tatum, who scored 15 in the third, including three 3-pointers, helped erase an 11-point deficit.
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Pierce was wearing what appeared to be shamrock pajama pants. … Westbrook missed his first six shots, as the crowd taunted him to shoot, before finishing with 12 points on 4 of 14 shooting. … Brown picked up his fifth foul on the first possession of the fourth quarter. … The Celtics beat the Lakers 122-118 in L.A. on Dec. 13. Tatum scored 44 points. Davis had 37 points and 12 rebounds. James scored 33 with nine boards and nine assists. … The Celtics were without point guard Marcus Smart and big man Robert Williams III, who both have sprained ankles.
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DARIEN, Conn., Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Smile Compostable Solution's coffee pods and straws are now Lomi Approved – making it that much easier for consumers to make a positive environmental impact while drinking a gourmet cup of coffee. The approval is for non-food compostable items that can be broken down by Lomi, an innovative machine that sits sleekly on your countertop and works to make composting waste a simple, speedy, mess-free process. With the push of a button, Lomi turns food waste (and now, your Smile pod) into Lomi Earth that can feed your compost, lawn, garden or houseplants.
The US sends more food waste to landfills than any other material, accounting for 15% of the country's methane gas emissions.1 Lomi makes reducing your waste easy. The machine simulates and accelerates the composting process and produces nutrient-rich earth in as little as four hours. It's a convenient, odor-free way to keep your waste out of landfills.
A guilt-free and convenient single-use coffee experience is finally here. Smile's entire pod can be thrown straight into the machine after use. With more than 112,837 households already using Lomi to reduce their food waste, composting couldn't get any easier. All of Smile's products, including our home compostable straws and pods that are compatible with Keurig and Nespresso Original brewers, are now Lomi Approved.
"We love what Lomi is doing to encourage composting at home," states CEO and Co-Founder Michael Sands. "It fits well with our goal of helping to reduce the 15 billion single-use plastic coffee capsules burned or going into landfills each year. This sustainable, single-use coffee experience is a convenient substitute for consumers."
"We're excited to work with Smile Beverage Werks and our Lomi Approved partners," says Matt Bertulli, Lomi CEO. "We want to make it easy for families to make the best, most sustainable decisions for their home and lifestyle."
Lomi Approved products meet third party standard compost certification requirements and are tested to ensure products break down after a single Lomi cycle. The mark is meant to make it easy for users to determine which products can be composted.
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BEIJING, Aug. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "'Without the Communist Party, there would be no new China.' These lyrics succinctly capture the fundamental reason why China has achieved unprecedented progress in human history," Argentine Ambassador to China, Sabino Vaca Narvaja told the Global Times in an exclusive interview.
The Ambassador said one thing that impressed him the most in China was the moment when he heard the song "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China" at Tiananmen Square one early morning at a ceremony marking the centenary of the founding of the CPC in 2021, because the lyrics also expressed his true feelings. Narvaja said he was impressed by China's admirable economic, technological, and social development particularly in relation to people's livelihoods over the last decade, especially in its efforts to reduce poverty and address the inequities brought about by development.
When speaking of the ambassador, many Chinese people are instantly curious about his Chinese name, Niu Wangdao. Why does an ambassador from Latin America have such a bookish Chinese name? How does his Chinese name Niu Wangdao express his feelings and thoughts about China?
Narvaja told the Global Times that before coming to China, he had noticed that many Chinese immigrants in Latin America gave themselves a Spanish name to facilitate communication with the locals, which he believed is a friendly move. Therefore, after coming to China as ambassador, he decided to take a Chinese name to express his goodwill to China. So, the name "Wangdao" occurred to him.
He revealed that he chose this name for two reasons. First, it was from the name of Chen Wangdao - the first person who translated The Communist Manifesto into Chinese. "I am very interested in how China integrates its own theories with Marxism, which is what you call the 'Sinicization of Marxism.'"
The Argentine diplomat recalled that Chen Wangdao played an important role and has historical significance in China and for the CPC. Chen and other young people at that time launched an ideological debate, thus creating the prelude to a major change in China.
Additionally, "dao" is also the abbreviation of "Taoism" in Chinese traditional culture. In Narvaja's view, "Wangdao" also has the meaning of "focusing on the road underfoot," which also coincides with his interest in exploring the developmental paths of various countries.
Narvaja was born in Cuba where he spent his childhood before returning to Argentina after finishing primary school.
"My experience in Cuba was my first approach to communism, and it also made me understand communism differently from many Westerners. So I always say, you have to experience it firsthand to really understand communism and socialist systems," he said.
His interest in communism, which was "ignited" by Cuba, further grew in the research and exploration of China, because in his opinion, China is one of the most successful socialist countries. After returning to Argentina, he studied a lot of courses related to China ranging from China's national conditions and economy to China's development model. He even studied China in graduate school.
"Long before I came to China as an ambassador, I had started researching this eastern country. I'm particularly interested in how the country has made such marvelous achievements in such a short period of time, especially since the CPC came to power in China." He told the Global Times that he has published many academic works on China's development, the latest of which is on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Narvaja became the Argentine Ambassador to China in April 2021. In just a little more than a year since his arrival, he has traveled to more than 20 provinces in China and said that he was "deeply impressed" by the diversity and rapid development of China, which has also helped him accumulate rich firsthand information for his exploration and research on China.
"I used to study the BRI, but now I have become a participant in promoting Argentina's participation in the BRI. It was very exciting for me because I could see my ideas slowly become reality," he said.
"Under the leadership of the CPC, China's economic and social development in the last decade has been admirable," the ambassador noted to the Global Times, when talking about his experience of visiting various places in China.
He stressed that China's development and change have been remarkable over the last decade under the leadership of Xi Jinping, especially in the field of science and technology. "China has been at the forefront of the world in electronic communications, 5G, and other fields. The aircraft carriers' development has made breakthroughs, and it has also made breakthroughs in the field of aviation." Among the series of changes in China, the diplomat particularly appreciated China's effort in poverty alleviation. "It is an extremely positive thing to lift hundreds of millions of people out of absolute poverty, which is not only of great significance to China, but also a major contribution to the world," he said.
In his view, this showed that China began to solve the problem of imbalanced development after a period of rapid development, through means such as making use of the development of the eastern coastal areas to drive the prosperity of the relatively underdeveloped western region of the country.
"I see the great determination of the Chinese government and President Xi to reduce inequality and address the imbalance of development. Development always brings about the gap between the rich and the poor, but China is working very hard to solve it. This is very meaningful work," he said.
Narvaja told the Global Times that he has had many memorable experiences during his time as an ambassador in China, but the most memorable was hearing the lyrics "Without the Communist Party, there would be no new China" in July 2021.
"I was in Tiananmen Square on July 1, 2021, while participating in a ceremony marking the centenary of the founding of the CPC. I remember that morning, there were chants of 'without the Communist Party, there would be no new China' all over the square. This song strongly grabbed my attention," the Argentine diplomat recalled.
"I especially like this line of lyrics, because it explains why China has made such unprecedented achievements in human history, and why China has changed from a feudal society to an advanced country."
These lyrics have since often echoed in Narvaja's mind. In February, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez was invited to visit China. After the meeting between President Xi and President Fernandez, Narvaja, who listened to the conversations between the two leaders on China's development and cooperation, once again thought of the lyrics "Without the Communist Party, there would be no new China."
"I have met President Xi a few times before, and I think he is a very kind, enthusiastic, and knowledgeable person. So I couldn't help but read the lyrics to him, 'Without the Communist Party, there would be no new China.' He smiled at me very happily. I was also very happy because I expressed my truest feelings," Narvaja recalled to the Global Times with a smile.
The ambassador stressed that it is a misconception that a particular development model can be used universally. He said that what development model a country should adopt is determined by that country's own history and its people.
"Demonizing communism is essentially reviving the misconceptions of the Cold War, which artificially divided the world into 'good' and 'bad.' It's downright wrong and it's sparking conflicts," said the ambassador. "For human beings, there is nothing better than diversity. We should respect the different political and organizational forms in different countries. Only in this way will the world be more diverse and people's minds become richer."
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Bradley Beal will soon be part of the NBA’s newest Big 3, after agreeing Sunday to be traded to the Phoenix Suns and team up with Kevin Durant and Devin Booker in a trio with serious offensive firepower and championship aspirations.
The Suns agreed to send Chris Paul, Landry Shamet, and a package of future second-round picks to Washington, according to a person with knowledge of the negotiations. Some pick swaps will also be part of the trade, said the person, who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the deal is still pending league approval.
But the biggest domino to fall was this: Beal waived his no-trade clause to be sent to the Suns, agent Mark Bartelstein said Sunday. There is a chance that the trade could eventually include a third team, particularly if a club wants to acquire Paul, but the basic framework is done.
The deal was struck less than a week after Denver topped Miami in the NBA Finals, and with the Heat having also spent the last few days working with the Wizards on the possibility of acquiring Beal.
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It is the second major acquisition for owner Mat Ishbia in Phoenix. He landed Durant for a massive combination of players and first-round draft picks just days after formally taking over the team in February.
Beal, Durant, and Booker will make about $130 million combined next season, meaning the Suns will pay a ransom in salary and tax for this title shot.
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Which Ostrich Pillow is best?
If you’ve ever been on any long-distance journey, you’re well aware of how unglamorous travel can be in reality. Travel is grueling and difficult. It requires you to get up early, wait long hours and stay up late into the night. The best way to transform this process into something more bearable is with a quality travel pillow. The Ostrich Pillow is a traveler favorite.
While the original, full-face Ostrich Pillow design may have been what catapulted the company into stardom, many users have fallen in love with the OSTRICH PILLOW LIGHT Travel Pillow.
What to know before you buy an Ostrich Pillow
Ostrich Pillow story
The Ostrich Pillow dates back to a 2012 Kickstarter campaign. Something that began as a dream has grown into a functioning business helping increase traveler comfort. The original pillow was marketed as a “Napping Pillow” with a cocoon-like design. It provided comfort wherever nappers happened to find themselves. It was only a matter of time before more users discovered the Napping Pillow as a means of improving their travel experience. Soon, commuters and cross-country travelers alike began using Ostrich Pillow to improve the quality of their naps even on busy days.
Design-conscious creations
When choosing a travel pillow, go with a product designed with you in mind. All Ostrich Pillows are manufactured as environmentally conscious solutions to a traveler’s long, dreary day. With a goal of increasing comfortability on planes, cars and trains, the Ostrich Pillow also works to be as globally conscious as possible. The company pays attention to the materials used in its designs as well as the packaging, manufacturing and shipping to help make its products better and as eco-friendly as possible.
Versatility
A big reason the Ostrich Pillow became so popular is due to its unique shape. While the company has many designs now, it began with a versatile one-size-fits-all pillow to suit people with various-sized heads. It remains inclusive and creative as it manufactures more unique pillows.
What to look for in a quality Ostrich Pillow
Fit
Proper fit is essential when it comes to any type of travel pillow. Something that fits poorly makes your travel experience more uncomfortable. Most Ostrich Pillow products are designed with adjustable closures to allow for customizable fits. Their ergonomic shapes offer support for your head and neck without pinching or squeezing.
Comfort
The best Ostrich Pillow is cushy and comfortable. If you can, test out your Ostrich Pillow before the long plane ride or road trip. This helps ensure you don’t end up with a crick in your neck from hours spent in an uncomfortable design. If you can, test your pillow in a seat similar to what you’ll be riding in. Certain designs work better for different users and purposes.
How much you can expect to spend on an Ostrich Pillow
Depending on the design you choose, an Ostrich Pillow costs $30-$100.
Ostrich Pillow FAQ
Can you machine wash an Ostrich Pillow?
A. Avoid washing your Ostrich Pillow in the washing machine. You should also avoid using your electric dryer, iron, bleach or a dry-cleaner. Failing to properly care for your Ostrich Pillow can make it wear out faster or end up damaged beyond repair. You can gently spot-clean your Ostrich Pillow with soap and water when necessary.
What is the purpose of an Ostrich Pillow?
A. The purpose of the Ostrich Pillow is to increase the quality of rest, even for short periods. Essentially, it’s designed for power naps. With an Ostrich Pillow, you can take a nap anywhere and at any time you need, either in public spaces or private ones.
What’s the best Ostrich Pillow to buy?
Top Ostrich Pillow
OSTRICH PILLOW LIGHT Travel Pillow
What you need to know: You can wear this Ostrich Pillow around your head, cover your eyes or support your neck.
What you’ll love: Handmade with high-quality materials, its microbead filling is meant to keep you relaxed even while on the go.
What you should consider: There have been multiple complaints about the quality of craftsmanship in this pillow, with some users saying the seams come loose quickly.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Ostrich Pillow for the money
What you need to know: If you’re the type of traveler who only likes to keep their eyes covered, this ergonomic eye mask Ostrich Pillow is a great choice.
What you’ll love: The unique design of this pillow creates more opportunities for relaxation during travels. A hook-and-loop closure helps you secure an ideal fit.
What you should consider: Some users said this sleep pillow falls off your face too easily and the stuffing has a tendency to come out.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Luxury Travel Pillow With Memory Foam
What you need to know: It is interesting to look at, easy to carry, supportive to wear and adjustable.
What you’ll love: High-density memory foam provides optimal neck and head support. This pillow can easily fit inside your carry-on and an adjustable strap creates a custom fit. Allow your pillow enough time to air out before use. Twenty-four hours should give the memory foam enough time to fully expand.
What you should consider: Some users reported the hook-and-loop strap wasn’t a secure fit and could end up scratching clothes and exposed skin.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s energy minister was told Tuesday he was speaking “nonsense” as he met with activists protesting a wind farm they say hinders the rights of the Sami Indigenous people to raise reindeer in Arctic Norway.
The activists, mainly teenagers, are blocking the entrance to several ministries in the Norwegian capital. They are protesting a wind farm that's still operating despite a ruling by Norway’s Supreme Court in October 2021 which said that the construction of the wind turbines violated the rights of the Sami, who have been using the land to raise reindeer for centuries.
Oil and Energy Minister Terje Aasland told the activists - some of whom donned the Sami’s traditional bright-colored dress - that the government will make a “new decision” on the wind farm, but he could not give any specifics “until we have a sufficient knowledge basis for it.”
“I fully respect the rights of indigenous peoples,” Aasland said to demonstrators sitting outside the entrance to his ministry.
Activist Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen told Aasland, “I can’t stand you sitting here talking the same nonsense."
“We cannot start talking about the future until you acknowledge the past and the ongoing violation of human rights that is going on right now," added Isaksen.
Police said that they had removed nine people from the front of the Norwegian Finance Ministry on Tuesday.
The activists have been protesting outside the Energy Ministry since Thursday. But they began blocking the entrances to other ministries on Tuesday. On Monday, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg briefly joined the demonstrators. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/world/article/protesters-to-norway-s-energy-minister-you-talk-17810102.php | 2023-02-28 13:42:41 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/world/article/protesters-to-norway-s-energy-minister-you-talk-17810102.php |
Saturday's outing turned into an endurance test that Dunlap passed in a 47-44 victory at Washington's expense for an Illinois girls basketball victory on February 4.
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Nigeria vs. Canada: Women’s World Cup Group B Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 20
In the opening round of Group B matches at the 2023 Women's World Cup, on July 20 at 10:30 PM ET, Canada will meet Nigeria.
For this group-stage match, Canada is -327 to win and Nigeria is +858, with the draw at +419. An over/under of 3 goals (with the over at +105 and the under at -148) has been set for this game.
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Canada vs. Nigeria Game Info
- Date: Thursday, July 20, 2023
- Time: 10:30 PM ET
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Venue: Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 3
- Canada Moneyline: -327
- Nigeria Moneyline: 858
Canada Last World Cup Performance
In the Round of 16 of the 2019 World Cup, Canada was eliminated 1-0 by Sweden. Its top scorers at the previous World Cup, with one goal apiece, were Kadeisha Buchanan and Nichelle Prince.
Nigeria Last World Cup Performance
After advancing to the Round of 16 of the 2019 World Cup in France, Nigeria lost to Germany 3-0. Asisat Oshoala scored a team-best one goal in the tournament.
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Canada vs. Nigeria Recent Performance
- In 2022, Canada went 10-3-3 against teams that qualified for the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +15. This year its record versus fellow World Cup squads is 1-0-3 (-4 goal differential).
- Canada's previous match against a fellow 2023 Women's World Cup squad was a 2-1 loss to France on April 11.
- So far this year, Nigeria is 3-0-1 versus fellow 2023 Women's World Cup squads, with a goal differential of +4. In 2022, it was 0-1-7 in such matches (-11 goal differential).
- Nigeria's most recent match against a fellow 2023 Women's World Cup squad was a 3-0 win over New Zealand on April 11.
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The Biden administration announced an "enhanced nationwide vaccination strategy" to curb the spread of monkeypox in the U.S.
In a call with reporters on Tuesday, top federal health officials — including director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. Rochelle Walensky and Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator — laid out the administration's plan to expand the availability of a vaccine for monkeypox.
The Department of Health and Human Services will make 296,000 doses available in the coming weeks — within that amount, 56,000 doses will be made available immediately — and expects a total of 1.6 million doses to be available in the U.S. by the end of the year. The vaccine being distributed is the JYNNEOS vaccine, which is administered in two doses given 28 days apart.
There are now more than 300 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the U.S., according to the CDC.
As NPR has reported, a lack of testing for monkeypox means the outbreak is likely bigger than the case count suggests.
There have been no reported deaths from monkeypox in the U.S. during the current outbreak.
Under this new strategy, the vaccine will now be given to people with confirmed and presumed monkeypox exposure. That includes "those who had close physical contact with someone diagnosed with monkeypox, those who know their sexual partner was diagnosed with monkeypox, and men who have sex with men who have recently had multiple sex partners in a venue where there was known to be monkeypox or in an area where monkeypox is spreading," according to an HHS press release.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia lawmakers passed up the chance Friday to become the first state to approve new legislation restricting access to abortions since the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last month removing its protected status as a constitutional right.
The Republican-dominated Senate adopted its version of a bill along with amendments, one of which removes criminal penalties for physicians who perform illegal abortions. Late Friday night the House of Delegates, which passed its bill Wednesday, refused to concur with the Senate amendments, instead asking for a conference committee to iron out differences among the bills.
Both chambers then adjourned until they are called back sometime next month.
Several GOP-led states had "trigger" abortion bans in place in advance of the court ruling, but West Virginia lawmakers are taking action because of legal uncertainty over whether a ban from the 1800s that was upended by the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision could be enforced now.
As in other states dominated by socially conservative lawmakers, there's not much question about whether abortion will be banned generally now that states have the power to do so — but whether the ban will apply to pregnancies caused by rape or incest.
In South Carolina, a ban without the exceptions has been introduced. In Arkansas, outgoing GOP Gov. Asa Hutchinson would prefer to add them to the ban that's already in effect, but he has balked at asking lawmakers to address the issue in a special session.
The high-profile example of a 10-year-old rape victim in Ohio, a state without an exception for rape in its abortion restrictions, who traveled to Indiana for an abortion has amplified the debate.
Tension over the question gripped the Indiana Senate in a session that began Thursday and finally wrapped up after midnight. A final vote there is expected Saturday on the bill, which includes exceptions for rape and incest.
The West Virginia bill, which some lawmakers have complained was not vetted by any Senate committees, would ban abortions except in case of rape or incest.
The Senate approved an amendment sponsored by a physician, Kanawha County Republican Tom Takubo, that removes criminal penalties of three to 10 years upon conviction for any medical provider who performs an abortion.
Takubo said the bill already would subject a physician to the difficult loss of their license for performing an illegal abortion. He also said West Virginia already has problems retaining medical professionals, and if the criminal penalties are retained it could have a chilling effect on the practice.
Another approved amendment offered by Greenbrier County Democrat Stephen Baldwin would allow a minor to report a rape to someone covered as a "mandated reporter," such as a pastor or school counselor, who would be required to report the case to authorities. The House version requires law enforcement to be directly contacted.
The measure allows exemptions for victims of rape and incest up to 14 weeks of pregnancy. The bill also provides other exceptions for an ectopic pregnancy, a "nonmedically viable fetus" or a medical emergency that could kill or cause a substantial and irreversible injury.
A dozen of the 34 senators gave impassioned speeches before the 21-10 vote. Three senators were absent. Some who said they supported the bill also indicated they weren't happy with it. Some Republicans wanted a blanket ban on abortion. Others wanted the criminal penalties for physicians restored.
The state's only abortion clinic initially stopped offering abortions after the latest ruling, but resumed this month as it mounted a court challenge on whether the old ban applied. On July 18, a Charleston judge barred the state from enforcing the ban, ruling it had been superseded by a slew of conflicting modern laws such as a ban on abortion after 20 weeks.
Republican Gov. Jim Justice called the special legislative session to consider an abortion ban. He didn't indicate whether he would sign either bill, and the governor's office didn't immediately return an email Thursday requesting comment.
On Friday, people seated in the packed galleries above the Senate chamber shouted "shame on you" when the afternoon session went into recess almost as soon as it started.
When the debate finally began hours later, Democrats complained that they did not have a final version of the Senate's bill prior to the start of Friday's session that included a dozen amendments.
"This has been a slow-motion train wreck," Senate Democratic leader Stephen Baldwin of Greenbrier County. "This bill would put doctors in jail for doing their job and for following their oath."
In Indiana on Thursday, there was a nearly four-hour delay in a Senate session as lawmakers met privately to discuss the exceptions, which were ultimately left in over strong objections from some conservative lawmakers.
"Exceptions equal death for unborn innocent children," said Sen. Mike Young, the Republican who filed an amendment that would only allow abortions to protect the life of the mother.
Eighteen Republicans ultimately joined 10 Democrats in voting to keep the rape and incest exceptions in the proposal. But the votes of many of the Republicans who voted for eliminating the exceptions will be needed for the bill to advance to the House. If not enough switch, it could keep abortion would remain legal in the state for now.
A final vote there is expected Saturday.
While legislative battles over abortion have begun, much of the fallout from the Supreme Court's decision has played out in the court system. In Louisiana, enforcement began of a near-total ban but was halted by a judge earlier this month. On Friday, a judge ruled enforcement could resume — though it was not immediately clear when.
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Associated Press writers Sara Cline in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Geoff Mulvihill in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and Arleigh Rodgers in Indianapolis contributed to this report. Rodgers is a corps members for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/west-virginia-delays-chance-to-pass-first-new-bill-since-abortion-ruling | 2022-07-30 03:34:56 | 1 | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/west-virginia-delays-chance-to-pass-first-new-bill-since-abortion-ruling |
Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano erupts for first time since 1984
HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK - Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano began erupting on Sunday night for the first time in 38 years, and residents have been told to start reviewing emergency plans in case lava flows threaten local communities, according to the United States Geological Survey.
The USGS said the eruption began around 11:30 p.m. local time inside Mokuaweoweo, the summit caldera of Mauna Loa.
According to the USGS, lava flows are contained within the summit area and are not threatening any downslope communities.
However, winds may carry volcanic gas, ash, and Pele's hair downwind.
Pele's hair is thin glass fibers formed by gas during a volcanic eruption.
WORLD'S LARGEST VOLCANO SHOWING SIGNS OF INCREASED ACTIVITY ON HAWAII'S BIG ISLAND
Ashfall Advisories have been issued in Hawaii after Mauna Loa erupted on Sunday night. (FOX Weather)
Because of the eruption of Mauna Loa, Ashfall Advisories have been issued on the Big Island of Hawaii until 6 a.m. local time.
Residents at risk of lava flows from Mauna Loa have been asked to begin reviewing emergency plans and to refer to Hawaii County's civil defense for further guidance and information.
"Based on past events, the early stages of a Mauna Loa eruption can be very dynamic, and the location and advance of lava flows can change rapidly," the USGS said in a statement.
Lava flows will most likely remain within the caldera walls of Mauna Loa if the eruption remains inside of Mokuaweoweo. However, lava flows could quickly move downslope if vents form outside of its walls.
WATCH: DRONES CAPTURE VIDEO OF THREE ACTIVE VOLCANOES AROUND THE WORLD
The USGS said the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory has been in close contact with emergency officials and is monitoring Mauna Loa.
An aerial reconnaissance mission will be conducted to further monitor Mauna Loa's eruption and assess other hazards.
Since 1843, Mauna Loa has erupted 33 times, averaging an eruption every five years.
However, most eruptions prior to 1950 have averaged eruptions every 3.5 years.
Since 1950, there have only been two eruptions – a summit eruption 25 years later in 1975 and a rift eruption in 1984.
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Sonoma County authorities say they seized more than 3 pounds of methamphetamine from a Santa Rosa man with the help of a K9 dog.
A K9 deputy was on patrol Tuesday with his partner, Max, when he saw a pickup truck weaving in its lane and suspected the driver might be under the influence. The deputy stopped the driver, identified as Eddie Mendonca, 50, on Todd Road just east of Stony Point Road.
Mendonca was on pretrial release for a weapons and drug sale case, and the terms of his release made him subject to a warrantless search and seizure of himself and his home. The dog searched Mendonca’s car and found about 3 pounds of meth, sheriff’s officials said.
After interviewing Mendonca, detectives said they believed he had more drugs at home. A search of his property uncovered about a half pound of meth.
Mendonca was booked on charges of possessing and transporting drugs, as well as violating his pretrial release. He posted $25,000 bail and was released, officials said.
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WACO, Texas (AP) — Keyonte George and No. 17 Baylor keep finding ways to win despite their recent struggles shooting the ball.
The true freshman scored 24 points, including seven in a row down the stretch, and the Bears edged Arkansas 67-64 in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge on Saturday.
Baylor has a six-game winning streak even with its three worst shooting games of the season all coming in the last week.
“We had to gut that one out," George said. "We preach controlling what you can control. ... We played hard, fought hard and got a good home win.”
LJ Cryer had 20 points for the Bears (16-5), who shot a season-low 33.9% (20 of 59) from the field. They offset that by making 21 of 24 free throws, including two by Cryer with 10 seconds left and two by George with 4.3 seconds remaining.
“As a coach, you just want to have good shots,” Baylor coach Scott Drew said. “Our guys really did a great job on the free-throw line, and made tough free throws down the stretch.”
Ricky Council IV scored 25 points for Arkansas (14-7). Davonte Davis had 16 points, but missed the front end of a 1-plus-1 with 2.3 seconds left. The ball got knocked out to Joseph Pinion in the right corner, but the freshman missed wildly on a 3-pointer as time ran out.
“The one thing that you always want from your basketball team is to play as hard as they possibly can,” Razorbacks coach Eric Musselman said. “Anybody that was here walked away and saw a great basketball game. I feel for the locker room.”
Baylor fell behind by as many as eight points in the second half after an early 11-point lead. But the Bears closed it out after Flo Thamba made two free throws for a 55-53 lead with 3:37 left.
Then came the strong spurt by George, who made a floater, scored on a strong move inside and then hit a step-back 3-pointer with 1:21 left for a seven-point lead.
“I feel like I’ve proven myself to be able to take those shots in those last couple of minutes,” George said. “Anybody can do it, it was just me tonight.”
The Bears led 19-8 on George's 3-pointer with 10:36 left in the first half. They then missed 16 of their last 17 shots before halftime.
Arkansas made 11 of 12 shots during that same stretch, and went up 33-27 after a half-ending 11-0 run capped by back-to-back baskets by Davis.
LONG HISTORY
The former Southwest Conference rivals met for the 145th time, but only the fourth since Arkansas left the old SWC for the SEC in 1991. The Bears won the previous meeting 81-72 in the NCAA Elite Eight two seasons ago on their way to the national title.
BIG PICTURE
Arkansas: The Razorbacks were coming off a 60-40 win over LSU, and had righted things with consecutive wins after a four-game losing streak.
Baylor: The Bears are 8-2 in SEC/Big 12 Challenge games, including 5-0 in Waco. ... Baylor shot 37.1% against Kansas on Monday, after winning at Oklahoma last weekend while shooting 36.2%.
5-POINT PLAY
Arkansas tied the game at 20 on Council's shot with 6 1/2 minutes left in the first half. George then drove through the lane and collided with 6-foot-10 Makhel Mitchell while making a layup that Musselman thought should have been a charge. Cryer hit two free throws after a technical foul against the coach, and George finished his three-point play for a 25-20 lead.
BAYLOR CONNECTION
Both of Arkansas freshman guard Anthony Black’s parents were athletes at Baylor. His mother played soccer for the Bears and his father, Terry Black, averaged 13.4 points and 8.1 rebounds while starting all 60 of his games over two seasons, 1999-2001. Anthony Black finished with seven points and six rebounds.
UP NEXT
Arkansas is back in SEC play Tuesday night at home against Texas A&M.
Baylor returns to Big 12 play Monday night at 10th-ranked Texas.
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Mother hit, killed while crossing road after putting child on school bus
Published: Nov. 15, 2022 at 5:31 PM EST|Updated: 1 hour ago
CAMDEN, S.C. (WIS/Gray News) - Authorities in South Carolina are investigating a deadly crash where a mother died Tuesday morning.
WIS reports 41-year-old Donna Gearhart was struck and killed by a vehicle on Highway 34 in Kershaw County.
According to the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the woman was crossing the road after putting her child on a school bus.
Authorities said the cause of the crash remains under investigation.
The SCHP didn’t immediately release any further information regarding the collision.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Calling it a “long” couple of weeks, Golden State guard Jordan Poole is ready to chase a repeat championship alongside Draymond Green after the fourth-year pro took a punch to the face from Green at practice.
Poole wasn’t injured by the violent punch Oct. 5. Green rejoined the team after a leave of absence, and he met with Poole in the days before they played together again Friday night against the Nuggets.
“He apologized, and we plan on handling ourselves that way, we’re going to play basketball,” Poole said Sunday in his first public remarks since the fight and after video leaked from the incident. “Everybody in the locker room and on our team knows what it takes to win a championship and we’re going to do that on the court. That’s really all I have to say on the matter, we’re here to win a championship and keep hanging banners.”
The 23-year-old Poole finalized a $140 million, four-year extension with the defending NBA champions on Sunday, giving the guard something to celebrate and a bit of relief with a ring ceremony right around the corner.
Poole has previously referred to being “brothers” with Green and noted Sunday, “If I said it I meant it.”
“We're here to play basketball, and our teammates and the coaching staff and the organization, everybody, knows what it takes to win,” Poole said.
One of those teammates who will be with Poole for the near future is Andrew Wiggins, who also signed a four-year contract extension beginning for the 2023-24 campaign. Golden State hosts the Lakers on Tuesday night to open the season.
“Obviously this is life-changing for Jordan and his family,” coach Steve Kerr said of Poole, who toiled through the G League as a rookie in the pandemic-interrupted season of 2019-20. “Pretty remarkable. You’re right, I never would have guessed it. His rookie year, he was lost, quite frankly. Most rookies are.”
Poole said he knew the time immediately after returning from two exhibition wins against the Wizards in Japan would be all about getting this deal done.
“No, the Draymond incident didn’t have any impact on how we moved through these things, these had been on-going discussions,” general manager Bob Myers said.
Before the fight, Green had said he didn't expect his own extension before the season. He and Myers spoke Sunday.
“Draymond's in a great spot. He's got a player option. It's a great position for a player to be in. You control your own destiny," Myers said. "I think he's excited about the year and he wants to win another championship. He sees the opportunity in front of him. I talked to him this morning, I don't sense any issues there or any problems with that. I imagine he's going to have a fantastic year, I actually think he will have a great year, he's got a lot on the line. Usually when Draymond has a lot on the line he performs.”
Kerr will call on Poole to play better defense with the hopes of using him up to 32 minutes a game off the bench.
Poole has emerged as a talented scoring threat. He had 30 and 29 points, respectively, in his first two career playoff games last spring against Denver, just missing a chance to become the first Warriors player ever to score 30 in his first two playoff games.
Poole and Wiggins quickly became close once Wiggins arrived in a trade from the Timberwolves in February 2020. They both knew these big paydays were coming, even if Myers wasn't sure they'd both get done.
"It wouldn’t have been as special if we didn’t win a championship,” said Poole, who credited his “mental toughness” and faith for overcoming any obstacle that comes his way.
“It’s a blessing, I’m happy for him,” Wiggins said. “It's a joy. ... I'm happy here. We have a chance to do something special.”
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Sorenson offered more than 50,000 hours of instruction in sign language in 2022
Sorenson wants to impact lives through communication and ensure high quality services for the deaf community.
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February 13th, 2023Sorenson, the industry leader in providing language services to deaf, hard-of-hearing and diverse communities, recently announced that it offered more than 50,000 hours of instruction last year thanks to a series of events moving towards the development of an American Sign Language teaching program (ASL).
In addition to conducting 17 panel webinars for nearly 1,000 underrepresented interpreters and interpreting students, Sorenson also helped more than 275 new interpreters start their careers via Video Relay Service (VRS) and its Emerald Program, designed to close the gap between school and work that delays the employment of many interpreters.
Jorge Rodríguez, CEO of Sorenson, noted:
We are committed to providing ongoing professional training and development of American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters because we know the tremendous and meaningful impact it has in the lives of the communities we serve.
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With 50 experienced educators who are diverse and passionate about teaching interpreting, Sorenson continues to lead the industry in ASL interpreter training.
With the goal of ensuring that the more than 5,000 diverse interpreters receive training and education that enhances their skills and propels them forward in their interpreting careers, Sorenson affirms its support for the communication needs of people who are deaf, hard of hearing, and deafblind.
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“Diversity and inclusion are values that are reflected in Sorenson’s interpreting education — over half of the Sorenson interpreter educators are themselves deaf or heritage language users,” said Stephanie Criner, Sorenson’s Interpreter Education and Professional Development Executive Director.
Sorenson provided 50,000+ hours of interpreter training last year…and that’s just one part of our programs to support a satisfying interpreter experience. https://t.co/xroKxQTnBO
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Improving lives
Thanks to the support of the Corporate Consortium — Sorenson's program in partnership with Amazon — 29 new and diverse interpreters in the field of interpreting were promoted last year, including six trilingual interpreters.
For its part, Sorenson's Compass program, administered by educators who are deaf or with deaf parents, provided personalized educational and employment opportunities to more than 100 participants in 2022. Over the past five years, Compass has supported more than 450 participants with parents who are deaf and almost fluent in their journey to becoming professional interpreters for Sorenson and their local communities.
Sorenson's Deaf Interpreter Academy (DIA), which works to promote best practice and employment of deaf interpreters, also hosted monthly affinity mentoring for deaf interpreters from traditionally underrepresented communities and supported over 75 deaf interpreters’ transition into and level up in their professional interpreting work.
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San Jose Sharks coach David Quinn, a huge baseball fan, watched Team USA play Japan in the riveting final of the World Baseball Classic in Miami.
Like millions of others, Quinn, whose family for years had Boston Red Sox season tickets, was glued to the television Tuesday night as pitcher Shohei Ohtani faced slugger Mike Trout in a matchup between baseball’s two best players. With two out in the ninth inning, Ohtani struck out his Los Angeles Angels teammate, giving Japan a stirring 3-2 victory.
“Oh yeah, I sure did,” watch, Quinn said. “It was exciting.”
It was also a reminder that hockey hasn’t had a similar best-on-best tournament in seven years — and won’t for at least another two or three.
The 2016 World Cup of Hockey in Toronto, won by a Canadian team that featured current Sharks Logan Couture and Marc-Edouard Vlasic, and former Sharks Joe Thornton and Brent Burns, marked the last time all of the sport’s best players were in one setting.
Since then, no Olympic games that have included all of the world’s best have been held, nor has another World Cup been played.
In 2018, the NHL, citing opposition by team owners, and the International Olympic Committee’s refusal to pay travel and insurance-related costs, skipped the Winter Olympics in South Korea, much to the dismay of the NHL Players’ Association. The league then scrapped plans to pause its schedule during the 2022 Games in Beijing, saying it needed that time last February to make up the number of games that had already been postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Another World Cup of Hockey was slated for Feb. 2024. But the NHL announced in November that the event would be postponed for at least another year, as the league’s suspension of all business relationships with Russia, following the invasion of Ukraine, remains in effect. The International Ice Hockey Federation has also suspended Russia from all international competitions until further notice.
The NHL and NHLPA have agreed to play at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy, but, again, that is contingent on the league reaching a deal with the IIHF and IOC. IIHF President Luc Tardif said in January that he wants a resolution on NHL participation in the next Olympics by Spring 2024.
“I think obviously with COVID, it took that (Olympic) opportunity away last year,” Quinn said. “I know our sport wants it. I know the NHL wants it. I know the Players Association wants it, and certainly, our fan base wants it. I think you will be seeing something like that before the (next) Olympics, is my guess.”
In the meantime, the newest generation of NHL stars, particularly North Americans, haven’t had the chance to compete for their respective countries on the biggest stages.
“It’s what we’ve been asking for in hockey for a long time. Best on best,” Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid said Wednesday. “Look, everyone’s been talking about baseball and ‘did you see Ohtani vs. Trout?’ That’s what hockey’s been missing for about a decade now.”
Quinn was once again chosen to coach Team USA at the IIHF World Championship in May, and will no doubt lead a group of standout American players, including, perhaps, one or two from within the Sharks’ organization.
But with the NHL playoffs still in full swing, several top American players likely won’t participate. That group could include Dallas’ Jason Robertson, New Jersey’s Jack Hughes, Toronto’s Auston Matthews, who was born in San Ramon, and the New York Rangers’ Adam Fox.
It would be a treat to watch all of these stars play on the same team one day, like it would to see the best from Canada, Finland, Sweden, and other countries all in the same venue.
Just like we saw at the WBC.
“A lot’s changed for American Hockey, anyway, since our last World Cup,” Quinn said. “Our talent base has just improved, the depth has improved. So, I think for our country, it would be a huge step forward for the growth of American Hockey to be able to have another World Cup before the Olympics.”
ROSTER UPDATES: Defensemen Radim Simek could play Thursday when the Sharks continue their road trip Thursday in Vancouver, Quinn said. Simek, who has not played since March 4 when he suffered a concussion in a game against the Washington Capitals, practiced Wednesday. Jacob MacDonald, injured since March 6, is also nearing a return, Quinn said. Forward Jonah Gadjovich is also on the road trip but will not play Thursday.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s new government has urged China to lift trade sanctions if it wants to reset a bilateral relationship that plumbed new depths under the previous administration.
The Chinese premier’s congratulatory letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on his election victory was widely seen as a relaxation of Beijing’s two-year ban on high-level government contact with Australia. Premier Li Keqiang said China was ready to work with Australia to development the bilateral relationship.
But Albanese said it was China, not Australia, that had changed since his center-left Labor Party was last in power in 2013.
China has created a series of official and unofficial trade barriers in recent years to a range of Australian exports worth billions of dollars including coal, wine, barley, beef and seafood.
“It is China that has placed sanctions on Australia,” Albanese told reporters Tuesday at a Tokyo summit that he attended with President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“There is no justification for doing that and that’s why they should be removed,” Albanese added.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers also called for China to immediately lift trade barriers between the free-trade partners.
“We would certainly like to see those sanctions and those tariffs lifted. They are damaging our economy. They are making life harder for some of our employers and workers here in Australia and so obviously we would like to see those measures lifted,” Chalmers said on Wednesday.
China has announced its Foreign Minister Wang Yi would soon visit the Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and East Timor in a 10-day trip.
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong was expected to fly to Fiji on Thursday, a day after returning to Sydney from Japan as the new government hastens to counter Chinese influence in the South Pacific, The Australian newspaper reported. Wong’s office did not immediately respond to a request for confirmation.
Before Albanese and Wong boarded a plane to return to Australia from Tokyo, he thanked Australian voters who, in Saturday’s election, gave him the “extraordinary honor of representing Australia at important international forums.”
“I will always act with integrity. I will always act with honesty in my dealings with other leaders and our friends and partners,” Albanese said, in comments that could be aimed at his predecessor, Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
During a National Press Club speech last week, Albanese blamed Morrison for damaging relationships with other countries.
He said Morrison misled the United States that Labor supported a secret plan to provide Australia with a fleet of submarines powered with U.S. nuclear technology. In fact, Albanese’s party wasn’t told of the plan until the day before it was announced in September.
Albanese also accused Morrison of leaking to the media personal text messages from Emmanuel Macron to discredit the French president’s complaint that Australia had given no warning that a French submarine contract would be canceled. Macron also accused Morrison of lying to him, and French Ambassador Jean-Pierre Thebault described the leak as a warning to other world leaders that the Australian government could weaponize their private communications. | https://www.koin.com/news/international/australias-government-urges-china-to-remove-trade-barriers/ | 2022-05-25 15:00:24 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/news/international/australias-government-urges-china-to-remove-trade-barriers/ |
How to Watch the WNBA on Friday: TV Channel, Game Times and Odds
The WNBA slate today, which includes the Indiana Fever squaring off against the Washington Mystics as one of four contests, should provide some fireworks.
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Today's WNBA Games
The Washington Mystics play host to the Indiana Fever
The Fever go on the road to face the Mystics on Friday at 7:00 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: ION
- Game Time: 7:00 PM ET
Records and Stats
- WAS Record: 9-7
- IND Record: 5-12
- WAS Stats: 79.5 PPG (eighth in WNBA), 76.8 Opp. PPG (first)
- IND Stats: 81.9 PPG (sixth in WNBA), 85.4 Opp. PPG (ninth)
Players to Watch
- WAS Key Player: Elena Delle Donne (19.5 PPG, 6.3 RPG, 2.6 APG)
- IND Key Player: Aliyah Boston (15.0 PPG, 8.5 RPG, 2.4 APG)
Vegas Odds and Betting Lines
- Spread: -3.5
- WAS Odds to Win: -176
- IND Odds to Win: +146
- Total: 159.5 points
The Dallas Wings host the Las Vegas Aces
The Aces travel to face the Wings on Friday at 8:00 PM ET.
How to Watch
Records and Stats
- DAL Record: 8-9
- LVA Record: 16-1
- DAL Stats: 84.2 PPG (fifth in WNBA), 83.4 Opp. PPG (seventh)
- LVA Stats: 93.4 PPG (first in WNBA), 78.3 Opp. PPG (second)
Players to Watch
- DAL Key Player: Satou Sabally (18.5 PPG, 9.8 RPG, 3.4 APG)
- LVA Key Player: A'ja Wilson (19.8 PPG, 9.5 RPG, 2.3 APG)
Vegas Odds and Betting Lines
- Spread: -10
- LVA Odds to Win: -558
- DAL Odds to Win: +401
- Total: 174.5 points
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The Minnesota Lynx play the Phoenix Mercury
The Mercury look to pull off an away win at the Lynx on Friday at 8:00 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: ION
- Game Time: 8:00 PM ET
Records and Stats
- MIN Record: 8-9
- PHO Record: 3-13
- MIN Stats: 80.2 PPG (seventh in WNBA), 83.9 Opp. PPG (eighth)
- PHO Stats: 77.8 PPG (12th in WNBA), 86.6 Opp. PPG (11th)
Players to Watch
- MIN Key Player: Napheesa Collier (22.6 PPG, 7.8 RPG, 2.5 APG)
- PHO Key Player: Brittney Griner (19.8 PPG, 6.2 RPG, 1.8 APG)
Vegas Odds and Betting Lines
- Spread: -4
- MIN Odds to Win: -172
- PHO Odds to Win: +143
- Total: 163.5 points
The Chicago Sky take on the Atlanta Dream
The Dream travel to face the Sky on Friday at 8:00 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: ION
- Game Time: 8:00 PM ET
Records and Stats
- CHI Record: 8-9
- ATL Record: 8-8
- CHI Stats: 78.6 PPG (11th in WNBA), 81.3 Opp. PPG (fifth)
- ATL Stats: 86.9 PPG (third in WNBA), 88.8 Opp. PPG (12th)
Players to Watch
- CHI Key Player: Courtney Williams (9.6 PPG, 6.4 RPG, 6.1 APG)
- ATL Key Player: Rhyne Howard (18.0 PPG, 4.6 RPG, 3.5 APG)
Vegas Odds and Betting Lines
- Spread: -1
- CHI Odds to Win: -119
- ATL Odds to Win: -103
- Total: 169.5 points
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DETROIT (AP) — A challenger defeated the president of the United Auto Workers in a close election and vowed Saturday to take a more confrontational stance in negotiating with the big automakers.
A court-appointed monitor declared challenger Shawn Fain the winner over incumbent Ray Curry. Fain’s slate of candidates won control of the big union, as workers rejected most incumbents in the wake of a bribery and embezzlement scandal
It was the 372,000-member union’s first direct election of its 14-member International Executive Board, which came in the wake of the wide-ranging scandal that landed two former presidents in prison.
The vote count had been going on since March 1, and the outcome was uncertain going into Saturday because of challenges against several hundred ballots.
Curry had filed a protest alleging election irregularities and campaign-financing violations. But he conceded Saturday and said Fain would be sworn in on Sunday.
Fain said members clearly wanted the union to become more aggressive in dealing with the auto makers.
“Today we put the companies on notice the fighting UAW is back,” Fain said in a video.
Fain vowed to end two-tiered contracts that provide lower pay and fewer benefits for some workers. He said the UAW will fight against factory closures that result in lost union jobs.
“We’ve seen plant after plant close without any serious fight from our union,” he said. “We’ve lost 40% of our active membership over the past 20 years. That ends here.”
Fain also promised to clean up the union.
Fain, 54, now an administrator with the international union in Detroit, had 69,459 votes, or 50.2%, while Curry had 68,976 votes, or 49.8%, according to an unofficial tally as the counting neared completion.
Earlier, Curry had asked court-appointed monitor Neil Barofsky to hold another runoff election because of the alleged irregularities, but Barofsky denied the request.
Fain’s UAW Members United slate now holds seven of 14 seats on the board, with one independent member siding with his slate. The Curry Solidarity Team slate has six board members. Four of five top officers are from Fain’s slate, including the secretary-treasurer and two of three vice presidents.
The new leadership will have to move quickly to gear up for what are expected to be contentious contract talks coming up this summer with Detroit’s three automakers, Ford, General Motors and Stellantis.
Many in the industry expect strikes against the companies by the union.
Fain will have little time to prepare for the union’s bargaining convention, which is scheduled to start Monday in Detroit. Delegates to the convention decide what the union will want in upcoming contract talks.
In the past, contracts with the Detroit Three set the standard for manufacturing wages nationwide. Fain’s statement said he wants to return to the union setting the wage and benefit standard for other sectors of the economy.
Fain and his slate will have to deal with member demands to restore concessions made when the automakers were headed into financial trouble starting in 2007. Many want cost-of-living pay raises, general raises, defined-benefit pensions for all workers, and eliminating tiers of workers so they all get the same pay and benefits.
Automakers prefer annual profit-sharing checks instead of raises so they pay workers when times are good and can cut expenses during economic downturns.
In a February draft of a transition plan, Fain wrote about a big shakeup coming in his first 30 days in office. Jobs will change, and new things will be expected of workers, some of whom will leave, it said.
“Everything we do, at every stage, must be reinforcing the message: there is a new sheriff in town,” Fain’s memo said.
The memo talks about a campaign to prepare workers for strikes.
Mike Booth, one of the new vice presidents, said the automakers are starting to argue that they are financially strapped because they have to fund the development of new electric vehicles. “You can’t develop an electric vehicle product on the backs of UAW members,” he said.
Strikes are possible as the union pushes to organize joint-venture battery plants being built by the companies, and to reverse a Stellantis decision to begin closing a plant in Belvidere, Illinois. Under Curry’s leadership for nearly the past two years, the UAW has taken a more aggressive stance in labor talks, having gone on strike against Volvo Trucks, John Deere, the University of California and CNHI, a maker of agricultural and construction equipment.
When asked about new UAW leadership on Friday, Ford CEO Jim Farley said his company gets along with the union. “Whomever is leading the UAW, we’ll have a great relationship with, and we’ll work hard to improve our industry … We’ll welcome whoever leads UAW,” he said.
Curry, who was not part of the scandal, was elected to the UAW’s top post by the executive board in June 2021.
The leadership change came after union members decided to directly vote on leaders for the first time in the union’s 87-year history. Under the old system, leaders were picked by delegates to a convention who were selected by local union offices. The new slate of officers was picked by the current leadership, and rarely was there serious opposition.
The direct voting came after 11 union officials and a late official’s spouse pleaded guilty in the corruption probe, including the two former presidents who were sentenced to prison. The first criminal charges in the probe were filed in 2017.
To avoid a federal takeover, the union agreed to reforms and Barofsky’s appointment to oversee the UAW and elections of the executive board.
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This story has been corrected to say that it was Shawn Fain, not Ray Curry, who said he wants to return to the United Auto Workers setting the wage and benefit standard for other sectors of the economy.
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Associated Press writers Adrian Sainz in Memphis, Tennessee, and David Koenig in Dallas contributed to this report. | https://cw33.com/news/u-s-news/ap-us-headlines/challenger-claims-win-in-race-to-lead-united-auto-workers/ | 2023-03-26 03:02:51 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/u-s-news/ap-us-headlines/challenger-claims-win-in-race-to-lead-united-auto-workers/ |
Customers can now use the scalability, reliability, and agility of Microsoft Azure to deploy KPI 360 to improve manufacturing operations.
PALO ALTO, Calif., March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SymphonyAI, a leader in high-value enterprise AI software solutions for strategic industries, today announced the availability of its manufacturing operations insights solution, KPI 360, in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. KPI 360 customers can now take advantage of streamlined deployment and management through the Microsoft Azure cloud platform to improve manufacturing operations and accelerate autonomous plant operations.
KPI 360, a product of the SymphonyAI Industrial vertical, uses highly advanced AI and real-time data monitoring to provide manufacturers with actionable operating insights at all levels of a plant by combining multiple data sources into a single, complete industrial dashboard. KPI 360 uses SymphonyAI Industrial's domain knowledge engine and offers pre-built KPIs for industrial assets and applications so manufacturers can pull from data sources directly or through an API. These unique features make it easy for users to set up, maintain, and expand dashboards over time without needing any software expertise.
KPI 360 joins other SymphonyAI Industrial solutions available in the Azure Marketplace: Performance 360, Vision 360, APM 360, MOM 360, Proceedix, and Batch 360. SymphonyAI also offers software applications from the company's financial services, retail, and IT service management verticals in the Azure Marketplace.
"KPI 360 is a self-service product that enables users to get a clear view of business operations across a manufacturing plant without having to write a single line of code," said SymphonyAI Industrial CEO Dominic Gallello. "Efficiency and flexibility are the core of KPI 360. By making it available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace, we streamline the deployment process for manufacturers looking to overhaul and optimize their operations."
"With the power of vertical industry-specific AI, our software applications are breaking new ground in operational intelligence for today's agile factories worldwide," said Kumar Abhimanyu, SVP of strategic partnerships at SymphonyAI. "In partnership with Microsoft, we offer AI-powered solutions that drive digital transformation for industrial enterprises. The integration of KPI 360 with Microsoft Azure delivers a secure, accessible, and cutting-edge solution, using industry-specific AI to turn data into valuable insights and power agile, data-driven operations manufacturing everywhere."
"Microsoft Azure Marketplace lets customers worldwide discover, try, and deploy software solutions that are certified and optimized to run on Azure," said Jake Zborowski, general manager, Microsoft Azure Platform at Microsoft Corp. "Azure Marketplace helps solutions like KPI 360 reach more customers and markets."
Additional SymphonyAI vertical software applications available through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace include:
- Retail category management and optimization: SymphonyAI Retail CPG solutions for category management and optimization ingest and analyze multiple data sources to reveal insights and recommendations that help CPG manufacturers optimize assortment, shelf planning and intelligence, and promotions.
- Enterprise and IT service management: SymphonyAI Summit IT Service Management (ITSM) provides enterprise-grade process support and enterprise security and compliance for advanced AI-based service management for organizations of all sizes. SymphonyAI Summit is easy for IT teams and end users to use, manage, and implement.
- Financial crime management: SymphonyAI NetReveal's Transaction Screening, Name Screening, and Customer Due Diligence capabilities help financial institutions comply with sanctions regulations by dynamically screening customers, employees, connected parties, entities, and transactions against rapidly changing, complex watch lists. Similarly, SymphonyAI Sensa's SensaAML solution uncovers criminal activity and suspicious behavior by analyzing, discovering, and interpreting financial data.
The SymphonyAI software applications available through the Azure Marketplace are sold both by SymphonyAI and Microsoft. All SymphonyAI software applications available through the Azure Marketplace run on Azure, removing the added cost of storage and computational capabilities required when running AI outside a cloud ecosystem.
About SymphonyAI
SymphonyAI is building the leading enterprise AI SaaS company for digital transformation across the most critical and resilient growth verticals, including retail, consumer packaged goods, finance, manufacturing, media, and IT/enterprise service management. SymphonyAI verticals have many leading enterprises as clients. Since its founding in 2017, SymphonyAI has grown rapidly to 3,000 talented leaders, data scientists, and other professionals. SymphonyAI is a SAIGroup company, backed by a $1 billion commitment from successful entrepreneur and philanthropist Dr. Romesh Wadhwani.
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Twelve Senate Republicans on Tuesday supported final approval of a bill securing federal protections for same-sex marriage, allowing it to surpass the 60-vote threshold needed for passage.
The Republicans in the upper chamber who backed the bill were Sens. Susan Collins (Maine); Lisa Murkowski (Alaska); Rob Portman (Ohio); Thom Tillis (N.C.); Mitt Romney (Utah); Roy Blunt (Mo.); Cynthia Lummis (Wyo.); Richard Burr (N.C.); Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.); Dan Sullivan (Alaska); Joni Ernst (Iowa); and Todd Young (Ind.).
The GOP senators’ support came as no surprise since they all supported advancing the legislation in a series of recent votes, and Tuesday’s 61-36 vote now sends the legislation back to the House, which previously passed a similar version.
Three of the bill’s Republican supporters — Collins, Portman and Tillis — served as lead negotiators.
The five-member group, which also included Democratic Sens. Tammy Baldwin (Wis.) and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.), had punted the legislation until after the midterm elections to improve its chances of passing, also adding provisions to alleviate other Republicans’ religious liberty concerns.
“Tonight, the Senate took a historic step to help prevent discrimination, promote equality and protect the rights of all Americans by passing the Respect for Marriage Act that @SenatorBaldwin and I authored,” Collins wrote on Twitter. “Our bill would help ensure everyone is treated with respect and dignity.”
Blunt, who had publicly expressed support for the delay, cited the religious liberty protection additions in voting for the bill.
Blunt, Portman and Burr did not seek reelection this year and will retire from the upper chamber in January.
Some Republicans who supported the bill, like Lummis, said they did so while still holding personal disagreements with gay marriage.
“Wyoming is the Equality State, and while I firmly believe marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman, I respect that others hold different beliefs,” Lummis said in a statement, citing her state’s constitution.
Romney, who earlier this fall was still undecided on the bill, similarly voiced approval after the Mormon Church announced it supported the legislation. Romney is a longtime active member of the church.
“While I believe in traditional marriage, Obergefell is and has been the law of the land upon which LGBTQ individuals have relied. This legislation provides certainty to many LGBTQ Americans, and it signals that Congress — and I — esteem and love all of our fellow Americans equally,” Romney wrote in a statement after an earlier vote to advance the legislation.
With the exception of Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), who missed Tuesday’s vote as he campaigned for Georgia’s upcoming runoff, all Senate Democrats supported the legislation.
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- Company to break ground in October, complete construction in early 2025 with plan to invest 15 trillion won over 5 years
- M15X to be first new fab since company commemorated 10th anniversary this year
- Investment during economic downturn to lay foundation for future growth
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SK hynix Inc. (or "the company", www.skhynix.com) announced today that it will build the M15X(eXtension), a new fabrication plant, in Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, in preparation for future growth.
The company will start construction of the M15 extension on the site it secured previously earlier than initially planned, considering various market situations.
The new plant will be built from October on the 60,000㎡ land located in the Cheongju Technopolis industrial complex and completed early 2025. A total of 15 trillion won will be injected over the next five years to build the fab and set up production facilities. The fab will be a two-story building equivalent to a combination of M11 and M12 in size.
As for the next M17 fab, the company will decide construction plan after reviewing overall business environment including changes in the semiconductor business cycle.
"Looking back on the past 10 years, SK hynix could grow into a global company as it boldly carried out investment during crisis," said Vice Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Park Jung-ho. "As we look to prepare for the next 10 years now, I believe starting the M15X will be a first step to lay foundation for a solid future growth."
SK hynix has so far solidified its leadership in the memory market through preemptive and bold investments despite rapid changes in business environment. In 2012, when the broader industry was scaling back investments and the company was in the red, SK hynix decided to increase investment by more than 10% compared with a year ago, resulting in a dramatic turnaround by the end of the year. Market uncertainties continued to linger, but in 2015, the company built the M14 fab in Icheon to prepare for the next boom in the memory business, which led to record-high financial results for two straight years from 2017.
Since it became a member of SK Group in 2012, SK hynix has pushed forward investments for the next 10 years in accordance with the Future Vision it has made public in 2015. The Vision was the company's pledge that it will invest 46 trillion won from 2014 to build three more fabrication plants including the M14 in Icheon. Such promise was met earlier than targeted following completion of the M15 in Cheongju and the M16 in Icheon in 2018 and 2021, respectively.
Demand for memory chips is rapidly falling in the wake of the global economic slowdown and instability of the supply chain, but experts foresee that the business will start to recover steadily from 2024 and rebound in 2025 as the memory business cycle is increasingly getting less volatile in recent years.
The plan to build the M15X comes as SK hynix prepares for the next upturn expected to come in 2025. With the construction of the M15X, the company will be ready to provide more memory chips when the industry enters a boom again.
About SK hynix Inc.
SK hynix Inc., headquartered in Korea, is the world's top tier semiconductor supplier offering Dynamic Random Access Memory chips ("DRAM"), flash memory chips ("NAND flash") and CMOS Image Sensors ("CIS") for a wide range of distinguished customers globally. The Company's shares are traded on the Korea Exchange, and the Global Depository shares are listed on the Luxemburg Stock Exchange. Further information about SK hynix is available at www.skhynix.com, news.skhynix.com.
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ROME — Scorching temperatures across Europe forced the closure of the Acropolis in Athens for a second day as officials warned Saturday of even hotter weather next week, when the mercury is forecast to top 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in several popular Mediterranean tourist destinations.
In cities, those venturing out at all drenched themselves in fountains while others sought out pools, the sea or shade in hopes of relief from the heat wave caused by Cerberus. The high-pressure anticyclone coming from the south was named after the three-headed dog in ancient Greek mythology who guarded the gates to the underworld.
Fifteen cities in Italy, most of them in the country's center and south, were under heat advisories signaling a high level of risk for older adults, the infirm, infants and other vulnerable people. Temperatures remained in the mid-30s C (mid-90s F) across much of the Italian peninsula Saturday but were expected to reach between 38 C (100.4 F) and 40 C (104 C) in Sardinia, Sicily and Puglia.
The cities under alerts included the high-tourism destinations of Bologna, Florence and Rome. The capital hit a high of 35 C (95 F) Saturday and was expected to see temperatures as high as 42 C (107.6 F) on Tuesday when other Italian cities could be even hotter.
In Greece's capital, where the temperature was forecast to reach 41 C (105.8 F), officials decided to keep the sun-baked Acropolis monument closed from noon to 5:30 p.m. as they did Friday.
Czech temperatures soared to a new record high for any July 15. The thermometer hit 38.6 Celsius (101.5 F) at Plzen-Bolevec in western Czechia, up from the previous record of 36.8 Celsius for this day set in Podebrady, east of Prague in 2007, the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute said.
Temperatures were milder in Spain's Canary Islands, but a wildfire on the island of La Palma caused a preventive evacuation of some 500 people. Officials warned that shifting winds and the area's rain-parched dry terrain could increase the number of evacuees.
In Turkey, coastal cities in the south and southwest reached the high 30s (about 97-102 F) and low 40s (104-109 F). The tourism hot spot of Antalya saw a high of 44 C (111.2 F).
In the northwestern cities of Edirne, Kırklareli and Tekirdag, 48 people were taken to emergency rooms with symptoms of heat stroke in the past two days, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
The heat wave also was taking its toll on water levels in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city. The main water supply at the Omerli Dam reservoir, already at 41% capacity due to low rainfall, was losing 17,000 tons of water an hour during the early afternoon, Levent Kurnaz of Bosphorus University's Center for Climate Change and Policy Studies told local media.
European countries father north also sweltered on Saturday. Authorities in Poland warned older adults in particular to stay indoors or in the shade and well-hydrated as temperatures reached 35 C (95 F).
In downtown Warsaw, and in other cities, makeshift hose fountains were arranged to let people and their pets cool off. Police issued warnings about not leaving children or pets unattended inside cars.
And in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appealed on people to drink water and act safely in the scorching summer after he was rushed to hospital on Saturday for dehydration following a day spent in the sun without a hat and without water.
To cool off their four-legged friends, some Italian dog owners took their pets to a beach near Rome especially equipped for canines. Known as "Baubeach," or Woofbeach in English, the area can welcome up to 150 dogs per day. They're allowed to roam on the beach unleashed.
"The sea breeze, as you can feel, is something very pleasant that oxygenates and also gives this feeling of almost natural nebulization. There, this is pleasant for both people and dogs," Baubeach owner Patrizia Daffina said.
Carlo Cerese took his dog there Friday. "Here he is very active all day," he said. "Actually when he gets home he takes a good nap. I think that here at least he doesn't suffer from the heat."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department prosecutors investigating the mishandling of classified documents at Donald Trump’s Florida estate are seeking to pierce the attorney-client privilege and want to again question one of the former president’s lawyers before a grand jury, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday night.
The privilege protects lawyers from having to tell prosecutors about confidential conversations their clients have with them. But prosecutors can get around that privilege if they can convince a judge that the communications they want information about were made in furtherance of a crime — a principle known as the crime-fraud exception.
Prosecutors have already questioned M. Evan Corcoran before a grand jury, but he repeatedly invoked attorney-client privilege in declining to answer certain questions, according to the person who spoke with The Associated Press and insisted on anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. They’re seeking to question him again, and want to be able to move past attorney-client privilege, the person said.
The request from prosecutors working with special counsel Jack Smith is expected to lead to closed-door arguments before the chief judge of the District of Columbia federal court about whether prosecutors can compel Corcoran to answer their questions about his conversations with Trump.
It is not the first time during the course of the investigation prosecutors have raised the specter of criminal conduct in connection with the Mar-a-Lago investigation. Last August the Justice Department revealed in a search warrant affidavit that it had probable cause to investigate the unlawful retention of national defense information as well as efforts to obstruct that probe.
It remains unclear whether Trump or anyone else will be charged, though the move is a notably aggressive act by Smith’s team. A war crimes prosecutor who previously led the Justice Department’s public corruption section, Smith is separately investigating efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election and recently subpoenaed former Vice President Mike Pence as part of that probe.
A spokesman for Smith did not return a call seeking comment Tuesday night, and Corcoran did not return an email seeking comment.
Trump’s lawyers and representatives have featured prominently for months in the investigation into the retention by Trump of roughly 300 documents with classified markings at Mar-a-Lago. The Justice Department issued a subpoena last May to recover any remaining classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, but officials who visited the property were given a folder containing only about three dozen records.
One of Trump’s lawyers, Christina Bobb, signed a letter stating that a “diligent search” had been conducted for classified documents and that all such records had been returned to the government. She told FBI investigators in an interview last fall that she had had not drafted the letter and that Corcoran was the one who prepared it and asked her to sign it in her role as custodian of records.
But Justice Department say they subsequently developed evidence that led them to suspect that additional classified records remained at the property. FBI agents returned in August with a search warrant, removing roughly 100 documents with classified markings.
The New York Times first reported that the Justice Department was seeking to pierce attorney-client privilege.
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Healthy Houston Collective includes a multipronged approach to addressing key disparities in the Houston area
HOUSTON, Oct. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bread of Life, Inc. announced the launch of the Healthy Houston Collective program, in partnership with the Quest Diagnostics Foundation, to improve access to affordable healthcare in underserved communities and reduce health disparities in Houston for more than 9,000 people.
"We are celebrating 30 years of service to this community and the only way we have been able to do this work is through partnerships like the private public collaboration with the Quest Foundation we are celebrating today," said Senior Pastor Rudy Rasmus, St. John's United Methodist Church & Executive Director, Bread of Life, Inc. "We are fighting for health equity. Every month we help thousands of families with food insecurities who continue to need our support and this initiative will help expand the opportunities for health equity in our city."
Bread of Life, Inc. (BOL), is a non-profit organization formed by St. John's Church in Houston. BOL provides a full spectrum of services and addresses inequities impacting individuals and families living in Houston and the surrounding area. BOL was awarded a $3.8 million-dollar grant from the Quest Diagnostics Foundation as part of Quest for Health Equity (Q4HE), a multi-year initiative of Quest Diagnostics and the Quest Foundation focused on providing a combination of donated testing services, education programs, and funding to support initiatives to close the gap in healthcare disparities in underserved communities across the U.S.
"The Quest Foundation is proud to announce the Bread of Life Health Houston Collective, one of our largest commitments to date through our Quest for Health Equity initiative," said Michael Prevoznik, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Co-Executive Sponsor of Q4HE, Quest Diagnostics. "At Quest we are fond of saying that health care is a team sport. We know that no one entity alone will be able to close the gaps in health care and we are committed to working together to help address critical health issues for underserved communities in Houston."
Funds will support the BOL Healthy Houston Collective, which is a multi-year initiative focused on addressing healthcare disparities in underserved communities in Houston and Harris County through four program areas: the Community Care Program, the Bread of Life Academy and Eco-Life Staffing, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) collaborations, and the Community Based Organization (CBO) Regranting Program.
"The Healthy Houston Collective will help underserved Houston communities bridge the gap between the residents and the health care system that so often leaves the community behind," said Pastor Yvette Tarrant, CEO, Bread of Life, Inc. "We are currently in a public health crisis and I'm happy and hopeful to be joining forces with Quest to bring health services, training for healthcare workers, testing and job opportunities to under-resourced communities."
The Community Care Program utilizes certified Community Health Workers who live within underserved communities to help connect their neighbors to the healthcare system. While they are not doctors or healthcare professionals, they serve as powerful advocates. The Community Health Workers will work with and empower individuals by addressing social determinant barriers and support with long-term health gains through health education and connections to services.
Through the Community Care Program, BOL is collaborating with the Patient Care Intervention Center, a nonprofit organization that leverages technology, health data sharing, and public health best practices to empower patients and providers to achieve enduring health outcomes and financial sustainability. This data driven approach will be used to develop specific strategies to improve patients' outcomes.
"Seventy percent of our health is influenced by things we are not always aware of; things like education, employment, economic stability and access," said Dr. Sarah Simmons, Director of Health Outcomes, Bread of Life, Inc. "The Healthy Houston Collective is our solution to make an impact in our community, through strong community partnerships we will be able to collaborate to utilize the great resources that already exist in Houston and make them available to the people who need them."
In conjunction with the University of Houston Community Health Worker Initiative, the Bread of Life Academy for health careers provides training for phlebotomists and community health workers. This affords graduates stable employment opportunities and supports the local healthcare system needs. These graduates will receive additional support from the community partner Community Care Cooperative to offer ownership and economic mobility opportunities. Quest has also paved the way for certified Community Health Workers to help supplement 75 Quest locations with staffing for either short-term or long-term employment opportunities.
The BOL Healthy Houston Collective includes an FQHC collaboration with charity clinics to provide greater access to quality healthcare. By adding a larger and more diverse network of FQHC partners, the BOL Community Health Workers will be able to support patient social needs to help improve health engagement and outcomes.
In response to providing grassroots community-based programs that align with the larger community needs, the BOL Healthy Houston Collective is also adding a CBO Regranting Program to support nutrition and behavioral health services. According to the Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research, more than 500,000 Houstonians live in food deserts, or low-income areas where the nearest grocery store in an urban area is more than a mile away. One of the CBO Regrants that will target senior citizens facing this issue is a partnership with Lucille's 1913. Lucille's 1913 operates as a non-profit entity, and their "Better Measure Program" will provide nutritious meals to 100 homebound seniors during a 90-day period. Community health workers along with other health professionals will visit the homes of those in the program to identify barriers, conduct diagnostic tests and collect data to gauge the effectiveness of the program.
"We are proud to be a part of this important initiative and have the opportunity to provide nutritious meals for homebound seniors to help improve their health," said Dr. Robertine Jefferson, CEO, Lucille's 1913. "Our program includes delivering culturally relevant meals to best support diverse communities in a way that recognizes their backgrounds and empowers them to choose healthy options that align with their traditions and cultural preferences."
The BOL Healthy Houston Collective is partnering with the following professional entities supporting the four areas of this program: University of Houston Community Health Worker Initiative; Professional Healthcare Education Services; Eco-Life Staffing; Avenue 360 Health and Wellness (FQHC); Vecino Health Center; Christ Clinic; Lucille's 1913; and the Community Care Cooperative.
St. John's Church was established in 1992 under the leadership of Pastors Rudy and Juanita Rasmus with a simple mission to serve hot nutritious meals to homeless men and women in the downtown Houston area. In 1994, the church formed the Bread of Life, Inc. (BOL), a non-profit organization that provides a full spectrum of services and addresses inequities impacting individuals and families living in Houston and the surrounding area. Nearly 30 years later, BOL is still focused on supporting underserved communities and restoring hope in Houston through its program areas. BOL has had a huge impact in the Bayou City in the expanse of homelessness, hunger, disaster relief, as well as boosting health outcomes and continues to help create an improved quality of life for the people of Houston. Bread Of Life, Inc. (breadoflifeinc.org)
Quest for Health Equity is an initiative of Quest Diagnostics and the Quest Diagnostics Foundation focused on providing resources, funding, testing services and education to address health disparities in underserved communities across the U.S.
The Quest Diagnostics Foundation was formed in 2001 to promote the benefits of healthcare and wellness, drive the prevention, early detection, monitoring and treatment of disease, and educate the general public and healthcare professionals on healthcare issues. Together with Quest Diagnostics, the Foundation sponsors Quest for Health Equity.
Quest Diagnostics empowers people to take action to improve health outcomes. Derived from the world's largest database of clinical lab results, Quest's diagnostic insights reveal new avenues to identify and treat disease, inspire healthy behaviors and improve health care management. Quest Diagnostics annually serves one in three adult Americans and half the physicians and hospitals in the United States, and our nearly 50,000 employees understand that, in the right hands and with the right context, our diagnostic insights can inspire actions that transform lives. www.QuestDiagnostics.com.
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TACOMA, Wash. — The Lincoln Abes football team won a 2nd straight PCL conference title this season and they've also advanced to the state tournament.
Lincoln High School senior Gabarri Johnson is the state's highest rated quarterback and for good reason.
Over the past three years the 4-star quarterback has passed and rushed for over 100 touchdowns and totaled nearly 10,000 yards.
He has a golden arm, and fast feet, but Johnson says it's his mindset that's been his driving force.
"I think confidence is one thing, as a quarterback you got to have confidence, when you're playing quarterback, you've got to be confident, for your line, your receivers, and the whole team in general, even people playing defense. So, confidence is one and two is just being smart, knowing where to go, which reads are best, reading the defenses, knowing what the defense is doing, knowing where someone's going to be open, " says Gabarri Johnson.
"What makes him good, his throwing ability and his IQ, He's very smart, like he's one of the smartest people. Every time I come in on offense after a long defensive drive, I ask him what's the defense doing, what's going on, and he always tells me which hole and which gap to take, how to cut and I just listen to him," his teammate John John Nelson said.
Johnson has been playing with many of his teammates since the 6th grade, but his parents got him into football long before that.
"My parents started me early. I don't know how they did it, but they got me in a year early. So, I started playing in kindergarten and I just fell in love with it. I actually played running back and that's why I love just getting the ball and running through people and just scoring long touchdowns," says Johnson.
From his Pee Wee days with the Tacoma Riders to the Lincoln Abes, Johnson has always led by example.
He didn't miss one off-season work-out this year and during the pandemic, Johnson and other team leaders volunteered and rallied the team to help out at the Tacoma Rescue Mission.
"Yeah, leadership is definitely a big one. You've got to be someone that the team wants to follow behind and have their faith in and that's something I picked up especially here. Not just being the most athletic and knowing how to score but knowing how to talk to my guys knowing how to uplift people when they're down," says Johnson.
He had offers to play for the UW, WSU, Oregon State and Arizona State, but he decided to head to the midwest and play for the Missouri Tigers.
"When I went down there, I fell in love with Columbia of Missouri. Amazing town, the players on the team. They were all just amazing to me and I liked every single coach while I was there," says Johnson.
But before he bolts for the SEC, he's all about representing the 253.
"I've always lived five minutes from Lincoln my whole life, so I had to come here, I didn't want to go to East Side or Lakes or anywhere else. I just wanted to come play for the city and do something big for Tacoma," says Johnson.
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Priceline offers more ways to save as consumers gear up for what's expected to be a record travel season
NORWALK, Conn., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Appetite for travel is high this summer and the industry is on track for a record season. But with inflation and rising gas prices, getting away for a weekend is coming at a high cost—average hotel rates are up 14% and average roundtrip airfares are up 39% compared to last summer.1 To help travelers save on their summer vacations, Priceline is launching its Summer Sale on June 20 and sharing the most affordable destinations for the Fourth of July holiday. To keep the deals coming year round, Priceline is also launching an exciting expansion of its VIP Loyalty program called VIP Family.
"This summer, the travel industry is experiencing a significant boom, and we want to help ensure that our customers are getting the best deals, despite current economic stressors like inflation," said Brett Keller, CEO of Priceline. "With our everyday deals, Summer Sale and VIP program we're helping fight back against inflation to make travel more affordable and accessible."
Unlock More Savings—Even When You're Not Traveling
Travelers can access savings 3x faster with VIP Family, the newest benefit of Priceline's award-winning loyalty program. On average, VIP Member savings on hotels are already 50% bigger than non-member savings. Now, loyalty members can also create a VIP Family for faster access to even more exclusive discounts, coupons, and travel perks. The program is free and all you have to do is sign up to start saving.
While each member maintains their own private account, this new feature allows three users to pool status by creating a VIP Family. Individual family members' completed trip totals are tallied into one status level, helping families attain a higher status and unlock more benefits, faster. As your VIP status increases, so do your savings.
Where to Travel and How to Save this Fourth of July
For those looking to save on a last-minute Fourth of July getaway, Priceline analyzed pricing data to determine the most affordable cities available to book now. Travelers can find great deals on hotels for both international and domestic travel in these top destinations, where average room rates are less than $155 per night, as well as additional deals on flights and car rentals.
Domestic
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- Houston, Texas ($135)
- Bloomington, Minnesota ($135)
- Charlotte, North Carolina ($148)
- Kissimmee, Florida ($151)
International
- Calgary, Canada ($127)
- Milan, Italy ($145)
- Prague, Czech Republic ($146)
- Istanbul, Turkey ($147)
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Summer Sale
Whether travelers are looking to explore a new city, head to the beach or discover new hiking routes, Priceline has a deal for everyone. To help travelers save even more this summer, including on Fourth of July travel, Priceline is kicking off its annual Summer Sale on June 20. In addition to coupons, thousands of hotels will be on sale for 15% or more.2
- Save $20 on Express Deals® hotels when spending at least $125.
- Save $100 on Express Deals® hotels when spending at least $500.
To book your trip, and for more information on the Summer Sale and VIP Family, visit Priceline.com.
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Priceline, part of Booking Holdings Inc. [NASDAQ: BKNG], is a leader in online travel deals. Priceline offers exclusive discounts on hotels, flights, alternative accommodations, rental cars, cruises and packages. We offer more than a million lodging properties, helping travelers find the right accommodation at the right price. We negotiate great deals every day, and put our best pricing on the Priceline app. With free cancellation for many rates, 24-hour customer assistance and the option for both pre-paid and pay upon arrival reservations, Priceline helps millions of travelers be there for the moments that matter. For us, and for our customers, every trip is a big deal.
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Historically high temperatures threaten to impact vulnerable communities
ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Salvation Army has activated new services and evolved existing services across the country to help provide hydration and shade for homeless individuals, senior citizens, and other vulnerable populations at risk of suffering from heat stroke and other heat-related conditions.
The life-threatening heat wave currently impacting approximately 35 million Americans marks the beginning of what experts predict will be a "hotter-than-usual" summer.
In fact, extreme heat is deadlier than hurricanes, tornadoes, or floods annually, with approximately 1,500 people dying per year in the United States. In some areas, unsheltered individuals account for nearly half of these deaths. Communities in nearly every part of the country are under heat advisories following unseasonably intense spikes in temperature. Unsheltered individuals in these areas face dehydration, sunburn, heat stroke, and infections from sweat-soaked clothing that goes unwashed.
"Most Americans don't know how serious of a threat these soaring temperatures can be to unsheltered people and other vulnerable populations," said Commissioner Kenneth G. Hodder, national commander of The Salvation Army. "Because of the generous support of our donors, we are able to offer heat relief at many of our 7,200 locations across the country, which can be lifesaving amid a hotter-than-usual summer."
Examples of some of The Salvation Army's services across the country:
- Dallas, Texas: The Carr P. Collins Social Service Center is being utilized as a cooling station, and more than 13 other locations nearby are also offering shelter, hydration, and snacks.
- Macon, Ga.: As temperatures in Middle Georgia are expected to skyrocket, The Salvation Army in Macon has opened its facility to stay cool and has encouraged the community to donate items like water or snacks for guests.
- Phoenix metro area, Ariz.: Eight heat-relief stations and a mobile hydration unit are being activated on any day the National Weather Service issues an excessive heat warning. Locations include Apache Junction, Avondale, Chandler, Glendale, Mesa, Phoenix, Surprise, and Tempe.
- Las Vegas, Nev.: The Salvation Army is reopening one of its facilities to provide residents relief from the heat. Those at the shelter will be able to take showers, do laundry, and stay hydrated while also having the chance to work with case managers for additional services and referrals.
- St. Louis, Mo.: In addition to opening a cooling center for unsheltered individuals, The Salvation Army has distributed more than 100 air conditioning units to local families in need.
- Portsmouth, Ohio: Opened their corps lobby as a cooling center for people to hydrate and receive shade.
Across the country, The Salvation Army is opening cooling centers for those who need water and shade, as well as providing utility support for the elderly or other vulnerable individuals in affected communities.
The best way to support these efforts is by making a financial contribution, which allows The Salvation Army to meet immediate and long-term needs. To learn more about The Salvation Army's response, visit SalvationArmyUSA.org.
To learn more about staying safe in extreme heat, click here.
Those who are able to donate can do so through a variety of convenient and safe methods:
- Visit HelpSalvationArmy.org
- Call 1-800-SAL-ARMY
- Make a contribution through Amazon Alexa by saying, "Alexa, make a donation to The Salvation Army"
About The Salvation Army USA
The Salvation Army annually helps more than 25 million Americans overcome poverty, addiction, and economic hardships through a range of social services. By providing food for the hungry, emergency relief for disaster survivors, rehabilitation for those suffering from drug and alcohol abuse, and clothing and shelter for people in need, The Salvation Army is doing the most good at 7,200 centers of operation around the country. In 2021, The Salvation Army was ranked No. 2 on the list of "America's Favorite Charities" by The Chronicle of Philanthropy. For more information, visit SalvationArmyUSA.org. Follow us on Twitter @SalvationArmyUS and #DoingTheMostGood.
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Meghan to receive Ms. Foundation’s Women of Vision Award
NEW YORK (AP) — Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown will receive the Ms. Foundation’s Women of Vision Award in May, the nation’s oldest women’s foundation announced Monday.
The awards will be handed out at the Ms. Foundation’s annual gala on May 16 at New York City’s Ziegfeld Ballroom, part of its 50th anniversary celebration where funds raised will go toward the organization’s equity-centered initiatives.
The foundation will also honor Wanda Irving, co-founder of Dr. Shalon’s Maternal Action Project, and Kimberly Inez McGuire, executive director of URGE, as well as emerging leaders abortion rights activist Olivia Julianna and LGBTQ+ advocate Rebekah Bruesehoff.
“Meghan, LaTosha, Wanda, Kimberly, Olivia, and Rebekah are incredible leaders,” Teresa C. Younger, Ms. Foundation president and CEO, said in a statement. “We are grateful to be able to shine a light on their many accomplishments and tireless work on behalf of gender and racial equity across the country and the world.”
Meghan will receive the award for “her global advocacy to empower and advocate on behalf of women and girls” from Gloria Steinem, Ms. Foundation co-founder. With her husband, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Meghan directs their philanthropy through their Archewell Foundation.
According to its 2022 annual report, the organization provided 12.66 million COVID-19 vaccines with partner Global Citizen and helped resettle nearly 175,000 refugees from Ukraine and Afghanistan in the United States with partner Welcome.US. The foundation also helped build a community play space in Uvalde, Texas, following the school shooting there that killed 19 children and two teachers.
Brown will receive her award for “her tireless activism and work to bring about social change” through Black Voters Matter, which works with communities to make their voting more effective. According to the group’s most recent impact report, the Black Voters Matter Fund now works with more than 400 partners in 25 states and the District of Columbia. The Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute funds voter education, registrations and other programs to expand access to voting.
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Tigers' Hinch to manage MLB squad in South Korea series next month
Detroit — Major League Baseball has selected the Tigers' AJ Hinch to manage a squad of Major League players in the Korea Series, which takes place Nov. 11-12 in Busan and Nov. 14-15 in Seoul.
“I’m very excited to lead this group of Major Leaguers in the upcoming Korea Series,” Hinch said in a statement released through the Tigers. “South Korea has a rich baseball tradition and I’m looking forward to seeing our players matchup against some of the top talent from the KBO.
“I’m also honored to play a part in Major League Baseball’s continued focus on expanding our game’s international footprint, and know that our work in South Korea this fall will help spread the message that baseball is for everyone.”
The series will mark the first time MLB players have traveled to the country to play games since 1922.
So far, six players are confirmed: Padres shortstop and Korea native Ha-Seong Kim, Mets first baseman Darin Ruf, Royals catcher Salvador Perez, Cubs third baseman Patrick Wisdom, Guardians outfielder Steven Kwan and Orioles outfielder Anthony Santander.
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By TALES AZZONI
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Neymar is working “24 hours a day” to try to recover from his ankle injury and play again at the World Cup, Brazil teammate Marquinhos said Sunday.
Neymar damaged ligaments in his right ankle in the team’s 2-0 opening win over Serbia on Thursday and will miss the match against Switzerland on Monday. He remained hopeful of recovering but team doctors still haven’t given a timetable on his return — or said if he will return at all.
“He is sleeping in physiotherapy, 24 hours a day,” Marquinhos said. “That shows how much he wants to be back with us. We don’t know when it’s going to happen, but we hope we will have him with us again as soon as possible and in good health mentally and physically.”
Brazil coach Tite said he had to “force” Neymar and right back Danilo — who is also injured — to stop their treatment on Sunday and go be with teammates at the last training before the match against Switzerland. Tite said after the match against Serbia, Neymar was in physiotherapy until five or six in the morning.
Neymar had said Saturday on Instagram that he was “sure” he would “have a chance to return.” He posted photos of his ankle still looking very swollen.
Marquinhos said Neymar had been feeling down after the injury but was getting more upbeat.
“I see him very well and confident about returning,” the defender said ahead of the match against Switzerland. “He is very focused on coming back.”
Tite remained optimistic about the return of both Neymar and Danilo, who sprained his ankle against Serbia.
“I’m not a doctor, I’m not an expert,” Tite said. “But I still believe that Neymar and Danilo will play in the World Cup. I think we will still be able to use them.”
Tite has plenty of options to fill in for Neymar but admitted it’s hard to replace the talent of a player like him.
“These great talents can show up two or three times and make the difference,” Tite said. “And that’s what Neymar can do for us.”
The coach did not say who would replace Neymar or Danilo in the starting lineup on Monday. The options to replace Danilo included Dani Alves or Éder Militão.
The 30-year-old Neymar is second on Brazil’s scoring list with 75 goals, two behind Pelé’s record with the national team. He has yet to win a major title with Brazil.
Neymar had to leave the 2014 World Cup in Brazil after hurting his back in the quarterfinals against Colombia. He also missed the 2019 Copa América because of a right ankle injury.
Brazil, seeking its first World Cup title in two decades, faces Cameroon in its last Group G match. The team can reach the round of 16 with a win on Monday if Cameroon doesn’t defeat Serbia in the other group match.
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DALLAS, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CECO Environmental Corp. (Nasdaq: CECE), a leading environmentally focused, diversified industrial company whose solutions protect people, the environment and industrial equipment, today announced that Todd Gleason, Chief Executive Officer, will present at the H.C. Wainwright 24th Annual Global Investment Conference on Sep. 13 in New York. Management will also host one-on-one investor meetings throughout the day.
Additionally, management will present and host one-on-one meetings at the Lake Street 6th Annual Best IDEAS Growth Big 6 Conference on Sep. 14 in New York. The presentation can be accessed on the Lake Street conference portal for registered participants and the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at www.CECOEnviro.com.
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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) is set to highlight the 40-year age difference between her and President Biden as she delivers the Republican Party’s official rebuttal to his State of the Union address Tuesday night.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) selected Sanders to deliver the GOP response, touting the 40-year-old as the nation’s youngest governor and representative of a new generation of Republican leaders.
Sanders is set to emphasize in her speech that 80-year-old Biden is double her age, a spokesperson for the governor told The Hill on Tuesday ahead of the high-profile remarks.
As the nation’s oldest president and the first octogenarian to hold the Oval Office, the president’s age has been a major point of contention amid speculation that Biden will launch a reelection bid for another four years in the White House. If he runs and wins, Biden would be 86 by the end of his second term.
Sanders will also lean on her campaign trail urging to usher in a “new generation” of the GOP, a clarion call used by many to suggest moving past longtime leadership like Biden or former President Trump.
“The youngest governor in America, Sarah is fighting on behalf of parents, small businesses, and ordinary taxpayers. She is bringing new ideas for a changing future, while also applying the wisdom of the past. … Everyone, including President Biden, should listen carefully,” McCarthy said of Sanders.
The governor has said she plans to “contrast the GOP’s optimistic vision for the future against the failures of President Biden and the Democrats” in her remarks.
Sanders is set to give an on-air rebuttal from Little Rock, Ark., after Biden addresses a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill, scheduled for 9 p.m. ET.
Trump is also expected to release a response to Biden’s speech, separate from the official GOP response. | https://www.ksn.com/hill-politics/sarah-huckabee-sanders-to-highlight-age-difference-in-response-to-bidens-state-of-the-union/ | 2023-02-08 00:26:52 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/hill-politics/sarah-huckabee-sanders-to-highlight-age-difference-in-response-to-bidens-state-of-the-union/ |
Naples man arrested for body-slamming teen named suspect in racially charged rant at park, Cape Coral couple in court over child abuse death, deputies search for Cape Coral driver behind hit-and-run accident, first day of summer – staying hot and humid.
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Woman fatally shot while riding in Uber in Atlanta
ATLANTA (WANF/Gray News) - Police in Atlanta say they believe a woman who was fatally shot while riding in an Uber was targeted.
Officials identified the woman killed as 31-year-old Teisha Brewley. She was riding in the back of an Uber at around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood when someone shot into the black Cadillac SUV, according to investigators.
In a 911 call, a man, who is believed to the rideshare driver, can be heard saying “somebody shot in my car.” He then frantically gives dispatch his location of Lindbergh Drive and Adina Drive, WANF reports.
“I’m scared. Somebody shot, somebody killed in my car,” he said.
A second call was made to Atlanta 911′s non-emergency number from a security company on behalf of the person who ordered the rideshare for Brewley.
“He stated he ordered an Uber for a friend who hasn’t arrived to his location yet, and the driver’s location is showing to be in one spot for a long period of time,” the caller said. “He said she was supposed to have arrived at his location by 4:31 a.m., and she had not.”
Police believe Brewley was targeted, according to WANF.
Deputy Police Chief Charles Hampton Jr. said more than one gun was fired, but they are not sure if there was an exchange of gunfire. More than one vehicle was involved, and one is described as possibly a light-colored sedan. No arrests have been made at this time.
Investigators are also working to determine whether this shooting is connected to another shooting nearby at Buford Highway and Lenox Road.
An Uber spokesperson released a statement on the incident:
We are horrified by the news of this chilling attack. We have been in touch with the driver to check on his well-being, and our thoughts are with the victim’s family during this heartbreaking time. We are standing by to assist police with their investigation.
If you have any information regarding this incident, please contact the Atlanta Police Department or Crime Stoppers.
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(The Hill) – President Biden’s statement this week that it “remains to be seen” if he’ll run for reelection has prompted more Democratic chatter about whether they’ll have a different candidate for the White House in 2024.
If Biden doesn’t run again, a number of Democrats are expected to wade into the presidential waters. But even Vice President Harris isn’t seen as a definitive leading contender in such a situation, Democrats acknowledge privately.
“There’s not one clear candidate and there’s not a rising star,” said one top Democratic donor.
Here’s who is generating the most talk and the most confidence.
Kamala Harris
While Harris, 57, has seen her own approval ratings fall at times during an up-and-down tenure as vice president, she remains the top non-Biden possibility for 2024.
Strategists say it would be difficult to convince Black women — who helped catapult Biden to the White House — to vote for anyone else as the party’s standard-bearer.
And as one strategist pointed out, “No one is going to win the nomination without winning in the South.”
While Harris had a rocky start during the first year of the administration, generating headlines for both gaffes and a string of staff departures, she has settled into the role.
She has also made women’s rights one of her issues out on the trail, an issue that can only help her political prospects with the Democratic base as the Supreme Court decision overturning the Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion rights continues to reverberate.
Pete Buttigieg
The Transportation secretary has been a popular figure in the Democratic Party since his 2020 presidential run, when he surprised the base with his come-out-of-nowhere ascent.
Buttigieg’s current role has sent him around the country to boast about popular infrastructure projects —something that can only help him down the road.
Just last month, Buttigieg, 40, appeared in the swing states of Florida, New Hampshire, Nevada and Ohio. Buttigieg’s stature with voters could have taken a beating with the railway strike earlier this month but after Biden’s late-hour intervention, it never amounted, solidifying his standing with Democratic voters.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
The two Biden administration fixtures are the top two non-Biden Democrats on our list.
The most likely alternatives after them are two governors.
The first is Michigan’s governor, who came closer than many realize to being Biden’s pick for vice president.
Now Whitmer, 51, is catching the eyes of Democrats as she runs for reelection.
This week, she opened up a 16-point lead over her Republican opponent Tudor Dixon in a Detroit Free Press poll.
Whitmer has made it a point to lean in on abortion rights, in particular. At a recent event she highlighted her role in the fight.
“The only reason Michigan continues to be pro-choice state is because of my veto and my lawsuit,” she said, according to CNN. The remarks refer to a lawsuit Whitmer filed to prevent a Michigan abortion ban from happening.
She often points out she filed the lawsuit even before Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court in June, a move that will surely appeal to the base in the coming years.
Gov. Gavin Newsom
At a time when Democrats have been craving a leader who would get in the faces of Republicans, Newsom, the California governor, appeared to do battle.
Newsom, 54, made headlines in July when he took the fight directly to Ron DeSantis (R), running an ad in the Sunshine State blasting the Florida governor and the conservative culture there.
“Freedom, it’s under attack in your state. Republican leaders, they’re banning books, making it harder to vote, restricting speech in classrooms, even criminalizing women and doctors,” he said in the spot, which ran on Fox News programming throughout the state.
Earlier this month, he continued his aggressive stance by paying for billboards in some conservative states including Mississippi, Texas, Indiana and Oklahoma. His message? That abortion is still legal in California.
“He has still got a lot to prove but he has certainly made Democrats pay attention,” one strategist said.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)
The one-time presidential hopeful has made it clear she has one race on her mind in 2024: her own reelection to the Senate.
But Democrats say there would be a place for her if Biden decides not to run again.
Warren, 73, has continued to be a top advocate on Capitol Hill for issues important to Democrats including climate change, abortion rights and gun safety.
But when she’s asked about the next presidential election, she consistently punts.
“We’ve got to stop the catnip about 2024,” she told Axios this summer. “If we start getting tangled up on 2024, and fail to pay attention to business in 2022, that is not only going to hurt us in 2022. It is going to bite us on the rear end in 2024.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)
It’s tough for some Democrats to see the senator from Vermont launching another presidential campaign.
After all, he is 81 years old and — if elected — would be nearing 90 by the end of his term.
But Sanders has become such a staple of the Democratic Party since his first White House bid in 2016 that it’s hard to rule out a run. And if he did compete, he’d definitely have support.
Whenever there’s a debate that matters to the base — on student loans or climate change — he’s at the heart of it, one strategist pointed out.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.)
Almost no one in the Democratic Party has had the meteoric rise of “AOC,” as she’s known.
And while most strategists doubt that the congresswoman from New York will run for president just yet, her name is constantly bandied about when Democrats complain that their bench is weak.
The number one question strategists ask when they talk about her is whether she’ll even be of age to run for the highest office in the land. The answer is just barely: she turns 35 a month before the 2024 election.
Besides her age, another question that would undoubtedly come up is whether Ocasio-Cortez’s politics are too liberal to win a Democratic primary or general election.
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REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft on Tuesday reported a 9% increase in profit for the January-March quarter, as growth in cloud computing sales helped bolster its plans to expand its use of artificial intelligence.
The company reported quarterly profit of $18.3 billion, or $2.45 per share, beating Wall Street expectations for earnings of $2.24 a share.
The software maker posted revenue of $52.9 billion in the period, its third fiscal quarter, up 7% from the same period a year ago. Analysts polled by FactSet expected Microsoft to post revenue of $51.02 billion for the quarter.
The quarter marked an ambitious push by Microsoft to capitalize on its investments in artificial intelligence and close partnership with San Francisco-based startup OpenAI with the February release of a new AI chatbot feature on its search engine Bing.
Microsoft is also integrating similar AI tools into the cloud computing and software products it sells to big businesses and organizations, though it’s not immediately apparent to what extent the AI features are playing a role in overall sales.
Microsoft’s personal computing business, centered on its Windows software, was widely expected to continue a deterioration that began last year due to economic uncertainties and crimped demand. Quarterly sales from that segment dropped 9% to $13.3 billion, the company said Tuesday.
Making up for that decline was a 16% increase in revenue from Microsoft’s cloud-based business segment, to $22.1 billion for the quarter. Revenue also grew 11% to $17.5 billion from Microsoft’s productivity software segment centered around its Office suite of workplace products such as email. | https://cbs4indy.com/business/ap-business/microsoft-reports-boost-in-profits-revenue-as-it-pushes-ai/ | 2023-04-26 20:04:01 | 0 | https://cbs4indy.com/business/ap-business/microsoft-reports-boost-in-profits-revenue-as-it-pushes-ai/ |
HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A resource officer at a North Carolina elementary school has been placed on administrative leave after he got into a fight with a student, officials said.
Henderson County Public Schools issued a statement on Thursday saying the principal at Fletcher Elementary School reported the fight, which occurred on Monday, to system administrators. The administrators reported the incident to the Henderson County Sheriff's Office, according to the statement.
The school system said information about the fight has been shared with the parents of the student.
The Henderson County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the officer was placed on administrative leave. Spokesman Johnny Duncan said Thursday that after the office was notified of the incident by the school system and during an internal investigation, it was decided that the sheriff's office would ask the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation to look into the matter.
Duncan said that because it was a personnel matter, and because of the active NCSBI investigation, no further information would be released. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/School-resource-officer-on-leave-after-fight-with-17171110.php | 2022-05-13 18:00:11 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/School-resource-officer-on-leave-after-fight-with-17171110.php |
AP sources: Biden to sign executive order on policing
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order on policing on Wednesday, the second anniversary of George Floyd’s death, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The order would require federal law enforcement to review and revise policies on use of force, and it would restrict the flow of surplus military equipment to local police. In addition, the order would encourage limitations on chokeholds and no-knock warrants by attaching strings to federal funding.
The people who described the order spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of any public announcement. Biden is expected to sign the order alongside relatives of Floyd, whose killing by Minneapolis police sparked nationwide protests.
The order reflects a less extensive approach than Biden originally wanted because Congress was unable to agree on legislation that would have increased oversight of law enforcement. It is the result of months of negotiations among White House officials, civil rights groups and police organizations.
The administration began working on executive action after bipartisan talks to pass police reform legislation in Congress stalled last year.
“We know full well that an executive order cannot address America’s policing crisis the same way Congress has the ability to, but we’ve got to do everything we can,” said a statement from NAACP President Derrick Johnson.
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Associated Press writer Chris Megerian contributed to this report.
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran, the United States and the European Union said Wednesday they would send senior representatives to Vienna amid what appears to be a last-ditch effort at reviving talks over Tehran’s tattered 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
It wasn’t immediately clear if all other parties to the landmark accord would attend the surprise summit, nor if there had been any progress after a monthslong stalemate and recent fruitless round of indirect talks between Iran and the U.S. in Doha.
The European Union official who chairs the talks, Enrique Mora, said the negotiations would focus on the most recent draft to restore the agreement, while Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani, said he was heading to the Austrian capital “to advance the negotiations.”
U.S. Special Representative for Iran Rob Malley wrote on Twitter that he was preparing to travel to Vienna for talks. He cautioned that American “expectations are in check” ahead of the negotiations.
“The United States welcomes EU efforts and is prepared for a good faith attempt to reach a deal. It will shortly be clear if Iran is prepared for the same,” Malley added.
The German Foreign Ministry said Berlin would be represented at an “expert level” at the talks in Vienna, adding it supported efforts to fully revive the deal “even if hopes are very small.” It again pushed Iran to conclude the deal and said that would mean “giving up maximalist positions in areas beyond” the nuclear agreement.
Russia’s chief representative at the talks, Mikhail Ulyanov, also wrote on Twitter that negotiators from Russia, a key signatory of the nuclear deal, “stand ready for constructive talks in order to finalize the agreement.”
The prospects for the deal’s restoration have darkened in the past few months with major sticking points remaining, including Tehran’s demand that Washington provide guarantees that it won’t again quit the pact and that it lift terrorism sanctions on Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
The abruptly called meeting in Vienna comes after EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell has repeatedly pushed to break the deadlock and salvage the deal in past weeks. He recently wrote in The Financial Times that “the space for additional significant compromises has been exhausted.”
Former President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the 2015 deal, which lifted most international sanctions on Tehran in exchange for tight restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program. Since then, Iran has massively expanded its nuclear work and now has enough highly enriched uranium to fuel one nuclear weapon, according to nonproliferation experts.
However, Iran still would need to design a bomb and a delivery system for it, likely a monthslong project. Iran insists its program is for peaceful purposes, though U.N. experts and Western intelligence agencies say Iran had an organized military nuclear program through 2003.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Rev. Steven Marsh never thought he would see the day his church in Laguna Woods, California — a town of 16,500 populated largely by retirees — would be spending $20,000 a month for security.
Then a gunman opened fire on May 15 during a luncheon at Geneva Presbyterian Church, where Marsh is senior pastor, killing one and injuring five other members of a Taiwanese congregation that met there. Officials said the man, who was motivated by political hatred against Taiwan, chained the church’s doors shut and hid firebombs inside before shooting at the gathering of elderly church members.
Houses of worship are meant to be places of shelter, reflection and peace, where strangers are welcome. But the recent string of high-profile mass shootings in the U.S. is a reminder violence can happen anywhere, prompting some faith leaders to ramp up security.
At Geneva Presbyterian, armed security guards now stand watch every weekday and during Sunday services. The church also is adding more security cameras, developing an active shooter plan and applying for Department of Homeland Security funding.
“We’re not trying to militarize the church,” Marsh said. “We prayed about it and made a decision to have armed security as an act of faith.”
Without the new security measures, Marsh predicted that a mass exodus by the congregation and the schools on the church’s campus would have followed the shooting.
Creating a space that is both safe and welcoming is possible, said Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, the former spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas.
In January, he and three others were taken hostage by a pistol-wielding man during a Shabbat service. Cytron-Walker threw a chair at the gunman — a courageous act that helped them safely escape — after a nearly 11-hour standoff. He credits the several rounds of active shooter training he has taken.
“When you are unable to run away or find a hiding place, you need to find a way to act and to fight back,” Cytron-Walker said. “When we were most afraid he was going to kill us, I saw a moment I had been looking for all day long.”
Cytron-Walker now leads Temple Emanuel in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. As he works on a security plan with his new congregation, he is being mindful of how a welcoming synagogue can enhance safety “because someone who wants to do harm can see that they are not going to be able to walk in anonymous.”
Historically, sanctuaries have been vulnerable to violent attacks — from bombings at Black churches during the Civil Rights era to more recent shootings in the U.S. at mosques and Sikh gurdwaras. In the U.S., FBI hate crime statistics show that incidents in churches, synagogues, temples and mosques increased 34.8% between 2014 and 2018.
“All faiths are under attack in America by radicals and extremists,” said Alon Stivi, a security consultant for synagogues, Jewish community centers and day schools. Some congregants are reticent to show up.
“They’re asking a lot more questions: ‘Should I come to the weekly services or just come for the holidays? And if I come, should I bring my kids?’”
Religious leaders who once preferred to leave security in the hands of the divine are taking precautions that seemed unthinkable years prior, Stivi said. More congregants are carrying concealed handguns to services, too, he said.
From $25 million in 2016 to $180 million last year, the federal government has steadily increased the amount of funding it sets aside to help the faith community with security costs, Stivi said. But not all faith leaders are aware they can apply for it, he said.
Past attacks on houses of worship and other public spaces have prompted faith leaders to evaluate — sometimes for the first time — if there is more that can be done to keep their flocks safe.
Today an armed police officer watches over Sunday services at Mt. Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, said the Rev. Kylon Middleton, who leads the congregation. When an officer is unable to be on campus for church events, members carrying concealed weapons keep watch.
“It is sad, but we are in such times where we must have armed security to protect our people,” he said.
The church is two blocks away from Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. In 2015, a self-proclaimed white supremacist opened fire during Bible study and killed nine worshippers, including the senior pastor. Middleton said the late pastor was like a brother to him.
In the wake of the massacre, security discussions at Mt. Zion factor worship style into the equation, including the need for some to always keep their eyes open, especially when most have theirs closed in prayer, Middleton said.
“No one ever thought mass shootings would happen in churches, which are sacred sanctuaries where you can escape the world and seek spiritual refuge,” he said. “When that space has been violated, it creates a restlessness of spirit.”
After the 2018 massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Rabbi Jon Leener met with local New York police to discuss safety for Base BKLYN, his home-based ministry that has welcomed thousands.
For years, he and his wife, Faith, would unlock their front door right before Shabbat dinners, believing in a Judaism where no door is shut or locked. That changed after Tree of Life — the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. Leener also installed a security camera and a buzz-in system for visitors. He hired an armed guard after this year’s hostage situation in Texas.
“It’s terribly unfortunate that we live in an age when we need to compromise our value of openness for the threat of violence, but that is just the reality at the moment,” Leener said.
It is a balancing act for many. Marsh said the shooting in his church happened because members of the Taiwanese congregation were welcoming to the shooter — a person they didn’t know.
“The church needs to be welcoming to all people, and we cannot lose that,” he said.
“Are there ways an active shooter could get on our campus again? Yes. But we have to be willing to have this happen again. Otherwise, we would all have to go through metal detectors. It would no longer be a church.”
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Henao reported from New York.
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Lori Lightfoot, who defied expectations four years ago to win the Chicago mayoral race as a political outsider, finds herself once again the underdog as she seeks to fend off multiple challengers in a tough reelection bid.
The city’s top executive is facing a crowded field of eight other candidates. Though Lightfoot campaigned as a reformer in 2019, voters are signaling they might be ready for another fresh start, and she finds herself trailing some of her rivals in recent polls.
Should she fail to become one of the top two vote-getters in Tuesday’s primary, she could become the first incumbent Chicago mayor in more than three decades to lose an election.
“She’s an underdog this time around for different reasons than she was an underdog last time,” said longtime political operative Victor Reyes, who is supporting challenger Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-Ill.) but not advising him.
“Last time, she was an unknown and she was the counter to the traditional political establishment folks, and the vote split was happening in a different way back then. And this time, she’s like the target of everybody’s ire, right?” Reyes continued. “She’s getting attacked from the left; she’s getting attacked from the right. And she doesn’t have any ground footing with any significant solid base of votes.”
Multiple polls over the past month have shown Lightfoot either tied with or trailing a mix of the other three frontrunners: García; former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas; and Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson. Still, Lightfoot is no stranger to being counted out. During the 2019 Chicago mayoral race, she polled as low as in the single digits ahead of that year’s February primary and surprised many when she made it into the runoff that year along with Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle.
But the reformer candidate who broke barriers as the first Black woman and first openly gay candidate to be elected as Chicago’s mayor is facing a steep path to reelection as she battles perceptions that she’s too combative along with concerns over crime and public safety.
Lightfoot’s campaign argues she has the support be reelected.
“Under Mayor Lightfoot’s leadership, Chicago has made progress like this city has never seen before,” Lightfoot campaign spokeswoman Hannah Goss said in a statement. “In just four years, she has spurred economic development in every corner of the city — not just downtown. The Mayor has secured record investments in affordable housing, expanded access to mental health services, raised the minimum wage to $15, made key reforms to our police department — and more.”
Twyla Blackmond Larnell, an assistant professor of political science at Loyola University Chicago, argued that identity politics are playing a significant role in the race, and that while Lightfoot has courted Black and white voters in the past, it’s not clear if she has their support.
“And so my question has always been who’s going to turn out to vote for [Lightfoot] in this election, at least … vote for her enough to get her to the runoff?” Larnell said.
Lightfoot appeared to nod toward that question while speaking to voters last weekend.
“Any vote coming out of the South Side for somebody not named Lightfoot is a vote for Chuy García or Paul Vallas,” she said, according to footage from NBC5 Chicago.
She later walked back those statements following criticism for the remarks. “If I said anything other than everybody everywhere needs to vote then I misspoke in the heat of a campaign rally,” she said.
At the same time, Vallas, García and Johnson are not without their own challenges ahead of next Tuesday. Lightfoot, for example, has sought to portray Vallas as a Republican — an insult in the heavily blue city of Chicago — and has pointed to his endorsement from the Fraternal Order of Police. News coverage has also reported on Vallas’s donors, some of whom have given to Republicans in the past.
A spokesperson for Vallas’s campaign suggested those attacks “show a little bit of desperation” and noted that “the facts of it are pretty straightforward: He’s a lifelong Democrat, he’s run for public office multiple times, even statewide office, as a Democrat. He is completely pro-choice and has publicly said that he would make sure that Chicago remains a reproductive safe haven.”
Meanwhile, Lightfoot has sought to tie García to FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and disgraced former state House Speaker Mike Madigan (D) in one of her earlier ads.
The Chicago Tribune noted that Bankman-Fried donated $2,900 to the congressman’s campaign while more than $150,000 was spent by a political action committee with ties to the FTX founder to support García’s reelection efforts. More recently, the Tribune reported that an unidentified member of Congress referenced in court documents related to a probe involving Madigan is García himself.
García’s campaign has said that the congressman donated the direct contribution from Bankman-Fried, and the congressman has publicly said he was not involved with the independent expenditure that was made outside his campaign. The campaign also told the Tribune that he is not involved in the Madigan probe or any other related probe. No wrongdoing has been alleged against him.
“Because Lori Lightfoot has no accomplishments of her own to tout, she has resorted to phony, desperate attacks on the Congressman to distract from the fact she has failed to keep Chicagoans safe and has failed to reform city government as she once promised,” García campaign spokesperson Antoine Givens said in a statement to The Hill.
In a sign that Ligthfoot views Johnson as a possible contender, Lightfoot also released an ad targeting the Cook County commissioner’s previous comments in which he voiced support for defunding the police — an attack line often used by Republicans against Democrats but less often seen among intraparty disputes.
Johnson would not say directly whether he would cut spending from the Chicago Police Department, noting instead he would be “investing in what works.” But the Cook County commissioner also accused Lightfoot’s and former Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administrations of defunding city services and institutions.
“She’s not an underdog, she’s a disappointment,” Johnson told The Hill.
“This administration [and] the previous administration have moved on the defunding of all of the critical services that the people of Chicago not only rely upon but deserve,” Johnson said. “I am running to become the investor-in-chief.”
Still, observers argue not to count her out.
Dick Simpson, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois Chicago who’s long been a fixture in Chicago politics, explained he was supporting her because “she did carry out the ethics of good government reforms.”
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IN THIS ARTICLE:
- Mighty Mint Rodent Repellent
- Bell + Howell Ultrasonic Pest Repellers
- Victor Scent-Away Natural Rodent Repeller Packs, 5-Count
Living in a small space has its advantages, like being relatively affordable and energy-efficient. However, when pests show up in a small place, there’s little room for distance.
An effective pest control product is a must when unwanted crawling visitors arrive in your home. But just like the pests themselves, chemicals can be overwhelming in small, enclosed areas. Because they are made without chemicals, non-toxic pest control methods are excellent alternatives to synthetic pesticides when you need to keep your compact digs pest-free.
Common household pests
Insects, arachnids and rodents are frequently found lurking in homes, apartments and condos. The most common unwelcome visitors include flies, mosquitos, ants, spiders, bed bugs, fleas, mice, rats and roaches.
Reasons pests come inside
Flying and crawling pests often move indoors in search of food, water, or a warm place to stay when the weather turns cold. Clutter and improperly stored food also attract them. Regardless, if you’ve found bugs or rodents in your home, the top priority is getting rid of them.
Chemical vs non-toxic pest control
The major downside of non-toxic pest control options is that they typically aren’t quite as effective as synthetic chemical-based pesticides that kill many pests on contact. However, this trade-off is acceptable for consumers who don’t like to use chemicals in their indoor living space.
Synthetic pesticides can cause headaches, skin rashes, digestive system upset and eye irritation. What’s more, there’s some concern that long-term exposure poses the risk of developing various types of cancer. Although there are some safety concerns associated with non-toxic methods, they are minimal and easy to curtail by closely following instructions.
Most popular non-toxic pest control methods
Cleaning and decluttering
One of the main reasons that bugs and rodents gather indoors is to seek food. If you notice pests at your place, tidying up may help. Using simple soap and water on hard floors and surfaces will deter some bugs. Placing food in storage containers will keep it from tempting pests. Organizing or tossing out clutter will eliminate hiding places where small critters often lurk.
Traps
Insect traps lure pests with lights, scents or a vacuum. Many eliminate bugs by dehydrating them once they enter the unit. Additionally, some traps work with adhesive strips that pests can’t escape once they land on them. Some traps have a simple, disposable design, while others are reusable and powered by electricity.
Natural pesticides
Natural products are popular for controlling all types of common household pests. They are easy to use and rely on natural ingredients like botanicals, essential oils, diatom-based diatomaceous earth, citric acid and herbs to kill or deter pests. Natural pesticides come in powder, liquid and spray forms. Mess-free pouches that can be placed in areas where pests linger are also available.
Ultrasonic repellers
It’s the power of high-frequency sound that’s undetectable to humans that makes ultrasonic pest repellers effective at deterring pests like spiders, rodents and crawling insects. Powered by electricity or batteries, the units emit ultrasonic frequencies that keep pests away. Although ultrasonic repellers aren’t ideal for eliminating most flying insects or ants, they are inexpensive, can be used in any room and don’t produce messes.
Electronic zappers
When it comes to killing flying insects fast and efficiently, an electronic bug zapper is a good choice. This type of pest control attracts insects with light then electrocutes them when they land on an encased electrical component. Dead bugs are caught in a collection tray at the bottom of the zapper, which is simple to empty, clean and replace.
Many zappers are designed for use on a porch or patio or in a yard. However, some models are made for indoor use. When used inside of a home, a bug zapper should not be placed near curtains or fabrics, or used unattended around children. In addition, there are some concerns about germs being released into the air when bugs are zapped, so a zapper should never be used where food is prepared or consumed.
What you need to buy to control pests with non-toxic methods
Bell + Howell Ultrasonic Pest Repellers
These ultrasonic pest repellers plug into outlets and produce ultrasonic waves that deter many types of crawling pests, including mice. The bundle includes three repellers, each with a built-in nightlight.
Sold by Home Depot and Amazon
Victor Scent-Away Natural Rodent Repeller Packs, 5-Count
With mint-infused granules, these small packs can be placed in hidden spaces to deter mice. Each pack lasts as long as 30 days.
Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Mighty Mint repels rodents with peppermint, a safe and natural oil that mice and rats find offensive. The long-lasting formula is concentrated and makes up to a gallon of repellent.
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Eliminating bed bugs naturally is easy with this non-toxic spray that’s made with geranium oil and a coconut-based sulfate. It’s easy to apply, thanks to the handy spray nozzle.
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ECOVENGER Natural and Non-Toxic Ant and Crawling Insect Killer
Not only does ECOVENGER kill crawling insects, but its botanical-based formula works on other pests like flies, fleas, spiders and more. It has a nice citrus scent that smells pleasant when spritzed around the house.
Sold by Home Depot
Gardner FlyWeb Plug-In Adhesive Trap
This electric-powered trap lures flying pests with light, then captures them with adhesive strips. It’s quiet, easy to use and suitable for any room.
Sold by Amazon
Harris Diatomaceous Earth Crawling Insect Killer
Sprinkle Harris’s diatomaceous earth in cracks, crevices and other tight spaces, and crawling critters like ants, roaches and fleas will be eliminated within 48 hours of contact. It comes in a puffer bottle with a nozzle for easy application.
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MAHWAH, N.J., Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Inc., USA (Glenmark) is pleased to announce it has launched Bumetanide Injection USP, 1 mg/4 mL (0.25 mg/mL) Single-Dose Vials and 2.5 mg/10 mL (0.25 mg/mL) Multi-Dose Vials, the generic version of Bumex®1 Injection, 0.25 mg/mL, of Validus Pharmaceuticals LLC.
Commenting on the launch, Vijay Raghavan, Senior Vice President, Business Development Portfolio, Product Launch & Strategy, said, "We are very pleased to bring to market a lower cost alternative to Bumex® Injection, 0.25 mg/mL. This launch of Bumetanide Injection USP, 1 mg/4 mL (0.25 mg/mL) Single-Dose Vials and 2.5 mg/10 mL (0.25 mg/mL) Multi-Dose Vials affirms our commitment to Glenmark's continued focus on institutional business."
According to IQVIATM sales data for the 12-month period ending November 2022, the Bumex® Injection, 0.25 mg/mL market2 achieved annual sales of approximately $16.5 million*.
Glenmark's current portfolio consists of 179 products authorized for distribution in the U.S. marketplace and 46 ANDA's pending approval with the U.S. FDA. In addition to these internal filings, Glenmark continues to identify and explore external development partnerships to supplement and accelerate the growth of its existing pipeline and portfolio.
About Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (BSE: 532296) (NSE: GLENMARK) is an innovation–driven global pharmaceutical company with a presence across Specialty, Generics and OTC businesses. It focuses on the key therapeutic areas of respiratory, dermatology and oncology. The company has 10 world–class manufacturing facilities spread across 4 continents and operations in over 80 countries. Glenmark is ranked among the world's top 100 biopharmaceutical companies (Top 100 Companies Ranked by Research and Development, and Pharmaceutical Sales, 2021, by In Vivo/Scrip 100); and among the world's top 50 companies in the off–patent sector (Top 50 Generics and Biosimilars Companies ranked by Sales, 2021, by Generics Bulletin/In Vivo). The company was listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), one of the world's most respected and widely accepted sustainability benchmarks, under the category of emerging markets (2021) for the fourth consecutive year. For more information, visit www.glenmarkpharma.com, LinkedIn (Glenmark Pharmaceuticals), Instagram (glenmark_pharma).
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PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Coco Life Foundation (Cocolife.black), launched in 2019, is a 501(c)(3) organization based in Philadelphia, PA. Its goal is to eliminate racial disparities in care and improve maternal health outcomes for Black mothers nationwide. Essential services include doulas, mental health counseling, paternal health, professional development, infant care, and community education. The organization accomplishes its goal through Mombassadors, an intergenerational team of community members. They help women to navigate the healthcare system and offer support to promote a healthy transition from pregnancy to postpartum. Recognizing the global magnitude of the problem, Cocolife.black launched a Global Mombassador Movement.
Addressing the social determinants of health and race-related disparities can be daunting. "Cocolife.black educates and empowers Black communities on the importance of supporting Black mothers in having healthy pregnancies," says the organization's founder, Alexia Doumbouya. She continues: "The Black maternal health crisis in the United States cannot be understated. CDC statistics show Black mothers are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than white mothers, regardless of education or economic position. In addition, 50% of Black mothers are more likely to deliver premature babies. Black babies are twice as likely to die after birth. The growing rate of race-related healthcare disparities has worsened. This grim situation calls for immediate action to save Black mothers and their babies and ensure the healthy life they deserve. Therefore, we engage dads, grandparents, cousins, dad-advocates, and others in supporting moms toward healthy deliveries. We also have a national resource list of medical and mental health professionals, birth workers, and business strategists and make it available to Black mothers and their support networks. Our ultimate goal is to create a haven for Black moms where they can find trusted providers, dedicated community support, and access to critical resources from pregnancy to motherhood," Alexia concludes.
The CDC and HHS speak of Cocolife.black's exemplary performance since its founding. In addition, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and Governor Tom Wolf issued proclamations to recognize its work. The American Psychological Association and Cayaba Care, providers of maternity support, are among its partners. Also, the organization's Global Mombassador Movement is attracting interest in other countries where Black maternal health and infant mortality are at risk. To learn more about Coco Life Foundation and how you can join the Mombassador Movement, visit https://www.cocolife.black.
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GREENWICH, Conn., Jan. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Starwood Energy Group Global ("Starwood Energy"), founded in 2005, today announced the creation of Lotus Infrastructure Partners ("Lotus Infra" or the "Firm"), the successor firm to Starwood Energy, effective as of January 1st, 2023.
Himanshu Saxena, CEO of the former Starwood Energy, will serve as the Firm's Chairman and CEO. Lotus Infra, with approximately $7 billion in assets under management, will serve as the new brand name of Starwood Energy. The employees of Starwood Energy (the "Lotus Team") have been transferred to Lotus Infra and will continue to manage all investor capital and fund investments on behalf of its existing investors and partners. Starwood Capital Group ("Starwood Capital"), a private investment firm, will remain a passive minority investor in Lotus Infra.
"We are pleased to introduce Lotus. Re-branding Starwood Energy is an important step in positioning our firm for the future. We are a leading infrastructure investor with approximately 20 years of experience investing in all facets of energy and infrastructure assets. Lotus Infra will continue this track record with a clear focus on sustainability and environmental stewardship, while creating attractive value for our investors and partners. Our world-class team looks forward to continuing to grow Lotus Infra in this very constructive environment for infrastructure investing," said Himanshu Saxena.
Lotus Infra is currently in the process of completing construction of TenWest Link transmission line, a transmission superhighway that will enable thousands of megawatts of renewable wind and solar energy to be delivered into California. Lotus Infra is also in the final stages of completing GCA, a 1.4 million tons per year Ammonia facility currently under construction in Texas. Once completed, GCA will supply Ammonia in the global markets for energy and agricultural uses.
"I would like to congratulate the Lotus Team," said Barry Sternlicht, Chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital. "I look forward to the continued success of Lotus Infra and we remain committed to supporting Himanshu and his team to successfully grow this business to new heights."
Lotus Infra is led by an experienced management team with more than 200 years of cumulative and relevant industry experience for developing and building sustainable and profitable assets and businesses in the energy and infrastructure space.
About Lotus Infrastructure Partners
Lotus Infrastructure Partners is a private equity investment firm based in Greenwich, Conn., that specializes in energy infrastructure investments. Through existing general opportunity funds raised by Starwood Energy, and affiliated investment vehicles, the Lotus Team has raised in excess of $3 billion of equity capital and executed transactions totaling more than $9 billion in enterprise value. For more information, please visit www.lotusinfrastructure.com.
About Starwood Capital Group
Starwood Capital Group is a private investment firm with a core focus on global real estate, energy infrastructure and oil & gas. The Firm and its affiliates maintain 16 offices in seven countries around the world, and currently have approximately 4,500 employees. Since its inception in 1991, Starwood Capital Group has raised over $70 billion of capital, and currently has over $120 billion of assets under management. Through a series of comingled opportunity funds, the Firm has invested in virtually every category of real estate on a global basis, opportunistically shifting asset classes, geographies and positions in the capital stack as it perceives risk/reward dynamics to be evolving. Over the past 30 years, Starwood Capital Group and its affiliates have successfully executed an investment strategy that involves building enterprises in both the private and public markets. Additional information can be found at www.starwoodcapital.com.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Zack Wheeler threw seven shutout innings of four-hit ball and Rhys Hoskins and J.T. Realmuto slugged home runs as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-0 Sunday night.
The Phillies won two of three games in the series against a team they are chasing for a National League wild-card spot.
“A series win is always a plus,” Wheeler said. “Hopefully, we can continue this and keep it up."
Since Rob Thomson took over as interim manager following the firing of Joe Girardi on June 3, Philadelphia has gone 20-9 and moved within 1 1/2 games of the Cardinals for the NL’s third wild card. The teams will meet next weekend in St. Louis for a four-game series.
“We haven't played a lot of the Central, but to come away with a series win now and a series win over the Brewers (in early June in Milwaukee) is a good measuring stick of where we are against the National League.," Hoskins said. "It's big. We see them again in a week and it will be another big test for us. So we'll see where it goes.”
Wheeler didn’t allow more than one Cardinals baserunner to reach in an inning, scattered four singles through seven innings while striking out five and walking one in improving to 7-4 with a 2.66 ERA. It is the third time this season that Wheeler has been a part of a combined shutout, which was finished off by relievers Nick Nelson and Corey Knebel.
“They worked him over a little bit early and the pitch count got a little bit high, but I thought he was really good," Thomson said. “He had really good velocity and his stuff was really good.”
Wheele's effort followed back-to-back nights in which the Phillies were forced to use three key arms at the back end of the bullpen — Siranthony Dominiquez, Brad Hand and Andrew Bellatti. None of them were available for the Phillies on Sunday, forcing Wheeler to go more economic after racking up 60 pitches in the first three innings.
“I knew as the pitch count went up that I was going to have to get contact,” Wheeler said. “I thought that after those early innings, we did that and the defense behind me played well.”
Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said: “He was just overpowering with his stuff."
Hoskins continued his torrid stretch since June 8. In the last 25 games, the first baseman has a .341 average with nine homers, 17 RBIs, and 18 runs scored. That includes four homers in his last five games after breaking the scoring ice in the bottom of the fourth with a solo homer on a cutter by Adam Wainwright that hung over the middle of the plate.
In his career against Wainwright, Hoskins is now 6 for 10 (.600) with three homers and three RBIs.
“Everybody has those guys who they see well,” Hoskins said. “He does a great job of mixing pitches. But yeah, I see him well.”
In the sixth, Hoskins doubled off the center-field wall to start the inning and scored on a Nick Castellanos single up the middle. Two hitters later, Realmuto plated Castellanos with his sixth homer of the season.
Both Hoskins and Realmuto went 2 for 4 — the only hitters for either team with multiple hits. Both are seen as critical offensive pieces if Philadelphia is going to weather the storm caused by Bryce Harper's broken thumb for the next six-plus week.
“We've talked about how you can't replace a player of his caliber,” Hoskins said. “You shouldn't really try, there's a few of them in the whole world. But you have to be focused on being the best that you can and we have some good players in here. We're better when he's in the lineup, but we have a lot of good hitters around here.”
Wainwright (6-6) allowed four runs on eight hits in 5 2/3 innings, striking out five and walking one.
“I didn't think he was wearing down,” Marmol said. “His cutter didn't play today, so he was pitching off the sinker. He used his fastball accordingly with a couple change-ups. Usually, the cutter makes an effective weapon. But he battled through that.”
FAULTY STARTERS
The Phillies placed LHP Ranger Suarez on the 15-day injured list on Sunday because of lower back spasms. Suarez, who had a 6-5 record with a 4.33 ERA in 15 starts this year for the Phillies, was scheduled to make the start on Tuesday against the Washington Nationals.
It is the second Phillies starting pitcher within a week to head to the injured list. RHP Zach Eflin was placed on the injured list on June 26 with a right knee bruise that could keep him out until after the All-Star break. Bailey Falter is replacing Eflin's turn in the rotation.
After Sunday's game, Thomson confirmed that Cristopher Sanchez, who has started two games in the past two years for the Phillies, will get the ball on Tuesday night. Sanchez was scratched Sunday night for Triple-A Lehigh Valley to make the start for Philadelphia.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cardinals: OF Harrison Bader, who is on the 10-day injured list with plantar fasciitis in his right foot, is expected to begin throwing and hitting on Monday. OF Tyler O'Neill, who has been out for 12 games with a left hamstring strain, is expected at Triple-A Memphis as part of his rehab assignment.
Phillies: SS Didi Gregorius had an injection in his left knee and sat for his second straight game on Sunday night. Phillies interim manager Rob Thomson said that the club would have a better indication of Gregorius' availability on Tuesday, when the club returns from its day off. Gregorius missed a month because of a left knee sprain in May.
UP NEXT
Cardinals: St. Louis travels to Atlanta to begin a four-game set Monday. RHP Dakota Hudson (6-4, 3.83) is scheduled to get the start against Braves' RHP Kyle Wright (9-4, 3.03)
Phillies: In a scheduling quirk, the Phillies will have a scheduled off day on the 4th of July for the first time since 1916. The only previous times the club has not played on the holiday since were 1981 during the two-month players strike and the 2020 pandemic-shortened season, which didn’t begin until July 24. They will host Washington on Tuesday.
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Family seeks justice for teen shot in head while trying to pick up siblings at wrong address
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) - Protestors gathered to speak out for justice after a teenage boy was shot twice while attempting to pick up his younger siblings at the wrong residential address.
Ralph Yarl, 16, is currently in the hospital, recovering from severe gunshot injuries in the head after a man allegedly shot him twice. The family has started a GoFundMe account to help with medical costs and fees.
According to his aunt, Faith Spoonmore, around 10 p.m., Thursday evening, Yarl was heading to pick up his siblings and arrived at the wrong address.
The Kansas City police department stated the incident took place in the 1100 block of NE 115th Street just after 9:50 p.m.
The correct address Yarl was attempting to go to was a block away. According to Spoonmore, the homeowner opened his door and then opened fire on Yarl.
The man, whose identity has not been released yet, allegedly took a second shot at Yarl, hitting him in the head again.
Yarl was able to get up and run to get help. He attempted to ask for help from three neighboring residential homes until someone was able to get help for him.
Hundreds gather in the Northland to support teen shot on Thursday night
Kansas City Police Chief Stacy Graves held a press conference Sunday afternoon along with Mayor Quinton Lucas, stating that detectives are committed to making a thorough investigation of the case.
“As a parent, I certainly feel for the mother of the victim and others in the family. My heart goes out to them,” Lucas said at the press conference.
On Spoonmore’s Instagram page, she has posted many of Yarl’s accomplishments and fond photos of him, with the text stating “tell his story so they won’t change his character.”
Yarl is a section leader in his school’s marching band and is said to be a top-base clarinet player in the state of Missouri. Spoonmore listed several activities that Yarl is a part of, including being a member of the Technology Student Association, Science Olympia team and Competition Jazz Band. Yarl recently earned the Missouri All-State Band recognition with an honorable mention.
The homeowner suspected of the shooting was brought to a police station to make a statement and was released shortly thereafter.
At Sunday’s press conference, Lucas acknowledged the racial aspects of this case.
“This is not something that has been dismissed, marginalized, diminished in any way. This is something that is getting the full attention of the Kansas City Police Department,” he said.
Lee Merritt, a nationally recognized civil rights activist lawyer, widely known for representing the family of Ahmaud Arbery, has taken the case. Another well-known journalist and activist assisting with the case is Shaun King, who has shared this story on his social media platform.
Since Yarl’s story has received national attention, many leaders, activists and celebrities have flooded social media with their support.
Bernice King, daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. tweeted of the need to work for legislation and the heart to change to prevent these tragedies.
Celebrities such as Halle Berry and Kerry Washington pleaded with the public to call the Clay County prosecutor, Zachary Thompson, and demand an immediate arrest.
Jennifer Hudson also tweeted that she is heartbroken for the 16-year-old and his family, and praying for a speedy recovery.
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TORRANCE, Calif., Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CarParts.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRTS) will hold a conference call on Wednesday, November 9, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time (5:00 p.m. Eastern Time) to discuss its financial results for the third quarter ended October 1, 2022. The results will be reported in a press release prior to the call.
CarParts.com, Inc. CEO David Meniane and CFO Ryan Lockwood will host the conference call live via an audio webcast, followed by a question and answer period. To access the conference call as a participant, please pre-register using this link. Registrants will receive a confirmation email with dial-in details.
The live webcast of the event can be accessed at www.carparts.com/investor/news-events.
A replay of the webcast will be archived on the Company's website at www.carparts.com/investor.
With over 25 years of experience, and more than 50 million parts delivered, we've streamlined our website and sourcing network to better serve the way drivers get the parts they need. Utilizing the latest technologies and design principles, we've created an easy-to-use, mobile-friendly shopping experience that, alongside our own nationwide distribution network, cuts out the brick-and-mortar supply chain costs and provides quality parts at a budget-friendly price.
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LSU Gymnastics enhancing security after fans of TikTok star Olivia Dunne disrupt meet
The head coach of Louisiana State University's gymnastics team said there will be added security when it travels to an away meet after an incident last week where fans of Tigers gymnast and TikTok influencer Olivia Dunne disrupted a meet against the University of Utah earlier this week in Salt Lake City.
Jay Clark on Wednesday went as far as describing the situation in Salt Lake City on January 6 as "mob-like."
"The safety of our student athletes is paramount to me as a father and as a coach of these amazing young women," he told reporters Wednesday when explaining the reason for the changes.
Videos posted to social media show the fans, mostly young men, waving posters and a life-size cutout of Dunne and chanting "We want Livvy! Give us Livvy!" as other athletes were trying to compete. Dunne did not participate in the meet due to injury.
"They made themselves very much a part of the environment. They were drawing attention away from what was going on on the floor," Clark said.
"So it was a little bit disconcerting, I think, the level of intensity that went with it. There was a mob-like kind of feel out there, and that was disconcerting to me as someone who takes the responsibility for the welfare of our kids."
Dunne tweeted Sunday, "I will always appreciate and love the support from you guys, but if you come to a meet, I want to ask you to please be respectful of the other gymnasts and the gymnastics community as we are just doing our job."
After the meet, ESPN analyst Sam Peszek shared video on social media showing dozens of screaming male fans waiting outside the arena for Dunne to emerge. Peszek described the scene as "so scary and disturbing and cringey."
Clark said he found the pitch of the scene outside the arena "inappropriate."
"When we go on the road, we will have security detail with us now, and we will be working to create a perimeter around where we load and disembark on the bus," Clark announced.
The 20-year-old Dunne has amassed 6.7 million followers on TikTok and is the top-earning female collegiate athlete in name, image and likeness, or NIL, sponsorships, according to Sports Illustrated.
Clark said he feels the scene in Utah was "an unintended consequence and byproduct of the society that we're in now."
"It's not about Olivia or NIL or social media, it's just I guess sort of the sense of entitlement that some people feel they can behave a certain way and that what we saw go on out there was a behavior that I didn't think was appropriate," Clark said. "That's not normal autograph seeking behavior, you know, engagement with an athlete with fans and that kind of stuff. There was a, there was a mob sense to that scene that that was very disconcerting to me and that's what I hope is not going to become the norm."
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THOMASVILLE, Ga., May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Flowers Foods, Inc. (NYSE: FLO) is voluntarily recalling certain Tastykake® Chocolate Kandy Kakes due to undeclared peanuts. People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to peanuts run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume this product.
The product being recalled was distributed on May 11, 2023 to retail customers in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, and West Virginia. The packages have an "Enjoy By" date of June 5, 2023 on the side of the package, and UPC 0 25600 00225 4.
The recall was initiated after the firm discovered that certain packages of Tastykake® Chocolate Kandy Kakes contained Tastykake® Peanut Butter Kandy Kakes. The ingredient statement for the Chocolate Kandy Kakes does not declare that peanuts are in the product. No related illnesses or incidents have been reported to date.
Following is information about the product involved in the recall. People allergic to peanuts should not consume this product if the "Enjoy By" date, UPC and/or Product Code below are printed on the package.
Affected product should be discarded or may be returned to the place of purchase for a full refund. Consumers with questions may call Flowers' Consumer Relations Center at 1-866-245-8921. The center is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Consumers also may contact the center via e-mail by visiting www.flowersfoods.com/contact/consumers.
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Headquartered in Thomasville, Ga., Flowers Foods, Inc. (NYSE: FLO) is one of the largest producers of packaged bakery foods in the United States with 2022 sales of $4.8 billion. Flowers operates bakeries across the country that produce a wide range of bakery products. Among the company's top brands are Nature's Own, Dave's Killer Bread, Wonder, Canyon Bakehouse, and Tastykake. Learn more at www.flowersfoods.com.
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Calamu Named as One of Just 16 Standout Cybersecurity Companies Worldwide
CLINTON, N.J., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Calamu, a pioneer of data-first security, today announced it was selected as a SINET16 Innovator Award winner for 2022. The SINET16 award recognizes emerging companies as the most innovative and compelling technologies in their fields to address cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities. Calamu was selected from a pool of 194 applications from 18 countries, following two rounds of evaluations by the esteemed judging committee.
"We are honored to be selected as one of the SINET16 Innovators, an award that highlights the importance of advancing the field of data security," said Paul Lewis, CEO and Founder of Calamu. "Modern ransomware is focused on stealing data and weaponizing it against businesses, a tactic that has rendered many existing defenses ineffective. Calamu addresses this gap with a data-first approach that works independently from the cloud provider or storage media to keep information safe, even in the event of a breach."
Calamu's flagship product, Calamu Protect, is an advanced Cyberstorage solution that enables businesses to safely adopt cloud storage by dramatically reducing the risk of data being stolen or exfiltrated by bad actors. The product's unique advantage is its ability to scatter data fragments across multiple cloud hyperscalers, neutralizing ransomware and making nefarious access nearly impossible.
"This year's class of SINET16 Innovators are delivering important security advancements towards the protection of corporations who are the fabric of our nation's critical infrastructures and national security and economic interests," said Robert D. Rodriguez, Chairman of SINET. "As in past years, the applicant pool of early-stage and emerging technology solution providers continues to become more competitive. We are proud to play a role in accelerating innovation into a global marketplace by increasing the awareness of value-add companies and look forward to watching these companies continue to mature on their amazing entrepreneurial journeys."
For more information and to see how Calamu Protect works, check out this video.
Calamu was founded by experts in cybersecurity and data privacy with the mission of making the cyber world a safer place. The company is pioneering the use of data-first technology to automatically mitigate the impact of a ransomware attack or data breach, whether data is stored in the cloud, on-premises, or in a hybrid environment. The Calamu platform enables businesses to maintain complete ownership of their data, preventing unauthorized access and dramatically simplifying regulatory requirements around data privacy and protection. For more information on Calamu visit www.calamu.com.
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Every February, Americans celebrate Black History Month. Its origins date back to 1915 when historian Dr. Carter G. Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.
The organization, which now goes by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History External, held the first "Negro History Week" in February 1926, according to the Library of Congress.
He reportedly selected the week because it featured the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Lincoln played an important role in history, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, which held that all slaves "shall be free." Douglass was also an important leader in the 1800s. He escaped from slavery and became an activist for equality.
With the growth of the civil rights movement, President Gerald Ford issued a Message on the Observance of Black History Week in 1975.
"It is most appropriate that Americans set aside a week to recognize the important contribution made to our nation's life and culture by our black citizens," he said.
A year later, Ford would issue another message, this time observing Black History Month.
"I urge my fellow citizens to join me in tribute to Black History Month and to the message of courage and perseverance it brings to all of us," he stated.
In 1986, Congress passed a joint resolution declaring February 1986 as "National Black (Afro-American) History Month." The resolution states that the month offers learning institutions the opportunity to "gain a deeper understanding and knowledge of the many contributions of Black Americans to our country and the world."
According to the Library of Congress, presidents have issued annual proclamations for National Black History Month every year since 1996.
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Dodgers vs. Royals Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 1
Saturday's game that pits the Los Angeles Dodgers (46-35) versus the Kansas City Royals (23-59) at Kauffman Stadium should be a close matchup based on our computer prediction, which projects a final score of 5-4 in favor of the Dodgers. First pitch is at 7:15 PM ET on July 1.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Dodgers will send Julio Urias (5-4) to the mound, while Daniel Lynch (1-3) will take the ball for the Royals.
Dodgers vs. Royals Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, July 1, 2023 at 7:15 PM ET
- Where: Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri
- How to Watch on TV: FOX
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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Dodgers vs. Royals Score Prediction
Our prediction for this game is Dodgers 5, Royals 4.
Total Prediction for Dodgers vs. Royals
- Total Prediction: Under 9.5 runs
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Dodgers Performance Insights
- In nine games as the favorite over the last 10 matchups, the Dodgers have a record of 6-3.
- In its last 10 games with a total, Los Angeles and its opponents have combined to hit the over six times.
- Over their last 10 games, the Dodgers are 3-1-0 against the spread.
- This season, the Dodgers have won 40 out of the 68 games, or 58.8%, in which they've been favored.
- Los Angeles has a record of 7-3, a 70% win rate, when favored by -250 or more by oddsmakers this season.
- The bookmakers' moneyline implies a 71.4% chance of a victory for the Dodgers.
- Los Angeles has scored the fourth-most runs in the majors this season with 445.
- The Dodgers have the 21st-ranked team ERA across all MLB pitching staffs (4.49).
Royals Performance Insights
- The Royals have played as the underdog in 10 of their past 10 games and have gone 4-6 in those contests.
- In its previous 10 matchups with a total posted by oddsmakers, Kansas City and its foes are 6-4-0 when it comes to hitting the over.
- The Royals have gone 2-1-0 against the runline over their past 10 contests (three of those matchups had a spread listed by bookmakers).
- The Royals have been chosen as underdogs in 69 games this year and have walked away with the win 20 times (29%) in those games.
- This season, Kansas City has come away with a win two times in seven chances when named as an underdog of at least +200 or worse on the moneyline.
- The moneyline set for this matchup implies the Royals have a 33.3% chance of walking away with the win.
- The offense for Kansas City is No. 29 in baseball scoring 3.7 runs per game (304 total runs).
- The Royals have pitched to a 5.22 ERA this season, which ranks 28th in baseball.
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WASHINGTON — The white woman whose claims of improper advances led to the brutal lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955 has died.
Carolyn Bryant Donham died Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana, according to a death report filed Thursday in Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office in Louisiana.
Donham, 88, was suffering from cancer and was receiving hospice care at the end of her life, according to Mississippi Today.
In 1955, Till had traveled south from Chicago to visit relatives in Mississippi in August 1955. Donham accused him of making improper advances on her at a grocery store in the small community of Money. A cousin of Till who was there has said Till whistled at the woman, an act that flew in the face of Mississippi’s racist social codes of the era.
Evidence indicates a woman, possibly Donham, identified Till to her then-husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam, who killed the teenager.
Weeks after Till’s body was found, Roy Bryant and Milam were tried for murder and acquitted by an all-white jury. Months later, the men confessed in a paid interview with Look magazine.
The torture and killing of Till in the Mississippi Delta became a catalyst for the civil rights movement after his mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in Chicago and Jet magazine published photos of his mutilated body.
Last June, a team doing research at the courthouse in Leflore County, Mississippi, found an unserved warrant for Donham's arrest from 1955. In July, the office of Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch said there was no new evidence to pursue a criminal case against Donham. In August, a district attorney said a Leflore County grand jury declined to indict Donham.
In court filings released less than two weeks before her death, the Mississippi sheriff who has jurisdiction over the Till case said there was no point in serving the arrest warrant against Donham, because a grand jury had decided not to indict her.
“Since the Grand Jury found no probable cause to indict Donham on the charges of kidnapping and manslaughter, there is no probable cause to support the 1955 Arrest Warrant,” Charles J. Swayze III, an attorney for Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Banks, wrote in court papers filed Thursday.
Till's cousin Priscilla Sterling filed a federal lawsuit against Banks on Feb. 7, seeking to compel him to serve the 1955 warrant on Donham. In the response earlier this month, Swayze asked a judge to dismiss the suit. | https://www.12news.com/article/news/nation-world/woman-who-accused-emmett-till-dies/507-6e71fccd-a449-42d5-a4ab-f5a89d85d66a | 2023-04-27 19:22:52 | 1 | https://www.12news.com/article/news/nation-world/woman-who-accused-emmett-till-dies/507-6e71fccd-a449-42d5-a4ab-f5a89d85d66a |
FREMONT, Calif., May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leopard Imaging Inc. (Leopard Imaging), a global leader in embedded vision systems design and manufacturing, is exhibiting their latest embedded vision systems based on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin™ developer kit at Embedded Vision Summit 2022 in Santa Clara, California.
The NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin developer kit delivers 275 trillion operations per second (TOPS), packing over 8x the processing power of its predecessor, Jetson AGX Xavier. Jetson AGX Orin enables developers to build and deploy the largest, most complex models needed to solve edge AI and robotics challenges in 3D perception, multisensor fusion and other areas. Offering server-class performance for edge AI, new Jetson AGX Orin production modules will be available in July, while Orin NX modules are coming in September.
As an Elite member in the NVIDIA Partner Network, Leopard Imaging works closely with NVIDIA to develop embedded vision systems to address increasing demand in robotics, edge AI, industrial machine vision, and autonomous machines applications. This joint effort enables Leopard Imaging to offer hardware and software development and comprehensive design and manufacturing services for its clients.
Leopard Imaging is displaying several embedded vision system demos running on the NVIDIA Jetson edge AI platform. One of the demos will be a 4K ultra-high-definition camera capable of supporting high dynamic range video at 30 frames per second for applications like gesture recognition. Leveraging the new Jetson AGX Orin, Leopard Imaging will demonstrate a complete advanced AI 4K embedded system for demanding edge AI and autonomous applications.
Leopard Imaging is also showing its 3D Depth stereo Hawk Camera, which offers a wide horizontal field of view of 120 degrees and integrates two onsemi AR0234CS 120 frame per second global shutter color image sensors with an active-pixel array of 1920(H) x 1200(V). The 3D camera also couples with a 6-axis IMU for highly accurate (sub-microsecond) timestamping of the camera frames relative to the IMU which is needed for high-precision robotics perception.
In addition to stereoscopic 3D cameras, Leopard Imaging is also showing the latest ToF (Time of Flight)-based depth camera launched in March this year. The Leopard Imaging ToF camera is optimized to provide high accuracy depth perception. Using the NVIDIA Jetson platform, the Leopard Imaging ToF camera operates without contrast, edges, and angles. It is also designed to support high speed movements and near real-time operation.
Leopard Imaging is at the 2022 Embedded Vision Summit May 17-18 in Santa Clara Convention Center to meet customers and partners and exhibit the imaging solutions. Please visit us at Booth 709.
About Leopard Imaging Inc.
Leopard Imaging is a global leader that provides high definition (HD) embedded cameras and AI-based camera solutions—focusing on core technologies that improve image processing in autonomous vehicles, drones, IoT, robotics, and healthcare devices. As a NVIDIA Elite Partner and a member of the AWS Partner Network, Leopard Imaging also works closely with Sony, ON Semiconductor OMNIVISION, and established sensor companies in producing advanced camera solutions for global customers. With Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) services, Leopard Imaging provides camera solutions for Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook, ZOOX, Cruise, Boston Dynamics, and many other established organizations. More information at https://www.leopardimaging.com.
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(AP) – Longtime ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale says he has been diagnosed with cancer for a third time.
Vitale tweeted Wednesday that he had surgery in Boston this week, and tests revealed that he has vocal cord cancer. He said he will undergo six weeks of radiation treatments.
“I plan to fight like hell to be ready to call games when the college hoops season kicks off in the fall,” Vitale tweeted, adding that his doctor “feels that scenario is entirely possible.”
The 84-year-old Vitale has previously been treated for melanoma and lymphoma. He celebrated being cancer-free in April of last year.
Vitale has been with ESPN since 1979, the year the network launched. He called ESPN’s first college basketball broadcast. He’s also a longtime fundraiser for cancer research.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Standard Motor Products, Inc. (NYSE: SMP), a leading automotive parts manufacturer and distributor, reported today its consolidated financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022.
Net sales for the second quarter of 2022 were $359.4 million, compared to consolidated net sales of $342.1 million during the comparable quarter in 2021. Earnings from continuing operations for the second quarter of 2022 were $20.8 million or $0.93 cents per diluted share, compared to $28.0 million or $1.23 cents per diluted share in the second quarter of 2021. Excluding non-operational gains and losses identified on the attached reconciliation of GAAP and non-GAAP measures, earnings from continuing operations for the second quarter of 2022 were $20.8 million or $0.93 cents per diluted share, compared to $28.6 million or $1.26 per diluted share in the second quarter of 2021.
Consolidated net sales for the six months ended June 30, 2022, were $682.2 million, compared to consolidated net sales of $618.6 million during the comparable period in 2021. Earnings from continuing operations for the six months ended June 30, 2022, were $41.4 million or $1.85 per diluted share, compared to $50.2 million or $2.21 per diluted share in the comparable period of 2021. Excluding non-operational gains and losses identified on the attached reconciliation of GAAP and non-GAAP measures, earnings from continuing operations for the six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021 were $41.4 million or $1.85 per diluted share and $50.7 million or $2.23 per diluted share, respectively.
Mr. Eric Sills, Standard Motor Products' Chief Executive Officer and President stated, "Although we faced a challenging macroeconomic environment in the second quarter, we are pleased with our sales results, particularly against the record sales in the comparable period last year. Our sales improved 5.1% over last year's strong second quarter, with particular strength in our Temperature Control division.
"By division, Engine Management sales increased 3.7% in the quarter, driven largely by acquisitions made in 2021 as well as price increases that were implemented during the quarter. Customer POS remained solid throughout the quarter against record levels from 2021, excluding Wire and Cable, which has returned to its secular decline.
"Turning to Temperature Control, an early start to the summer season provided a favorable tailwind against the challenging comparison from last year. Sales grew 7.5% year over year due to a combination of new business wins, price increases, and solid customer demand. Record heat has continued into the 3rd quarter across the country, and while weather trends are hard to predict, we are hopeful for ongoing strong customer demand, although we face a difficult comparison relative to last year's long, hot summer.
"We were also pleased with the performance of our specialized non-aftermarket channels. To remind you, this focuses on custom-engineered products for niche end markets such as medium and heavy-duty vehicles, construction and agricultural equipment, power sports, and others. Over the past few years we have doubled this business to a run rate of $300 million. We continue to make progress integrating our recent acquisitions, and are making inroads as we identify cross-selling opportunities.
"Consolidated operating margins were below expectations at 7.8% in the second quarter. Inflationary pressures across many cost inputs remain a headwind, and we continue to implement price increases in an effort to offset these higher costs. Additionally, the rapid rise in interest rates has resulted in increased costs related to customer supply chain finance programs. We are actively pursuing initiatives to help offset these elevated operating costs.
"Given this year's inflationary and supply chain challenges, we expect our consolidated gross margin will be lower than originally anticipated at approximately 27% for the full year. We also note that with the projected interest rate hikes and the associated impact on our factoring program expenses, we expect our operating profit will be in the range of 7-8% of net sales.
"As previously announced, during the quarter we entered into a new five-year $500 million credit facility that includes a $100 million term loan and $400 million revolving credit facility. In addition, SMP entered into an interest rate swap agreement to fix the interest rate on $100 million of borrowings under the new facility. This new credit facility is expected to afford us the flexibility we need to support our growth and continue to execute on strategic priorities. The new facility should also allow for our continued focus on returning value to our shareholders with quarterly dividends and opportunistic share repurchases.
"To that point, the Board of Directors has approved payment of a quarterly dividend of 27 cents per share on the common stock outstanding, which will be paid on September 1, 2022 to stockholders of record on August 15, 2022. Furthermore, we repurchased shares of our common stock in the amount of $19.6 million during the quarter. To date as of this release, we have exhausted the remaining balance of the prior $30 million share repurchase authorization. As a result, the Board of Directors has authorized a new $30 million common share repurchase plan.
"Lastly, as recently announced, we were deeply saddened by the passing of John Gethin, a Director for the company since 2016. Prior to that, John was a long-tenured leader at SMP, including many years as our Chief Operating Officer and President. He will be sorely missed. In connection with John's passing, the Board of Directors decreased the size of the Board from ten to nine directors, effective as of July 28, 2022.
"In closing, there remains much uncertainty as we head into the second half of 2022 with respect to inflation, interest rates and the increasing risk of potential recession. Yet we remain confident in our business and the industry's resilience based on performance during past turbulent markets. Underlying tailwinds including an aging fleet, limited new vehicle availability and favorable summer weather to date should help offset some of the potential near-term challenges that may persist. Furthermore, we believe our go-to-market strategy of being a full-line full-service supplier of professional grade products continues to resonate with our customers, and our favorable manufacturing footprint which relies less on the Far East than many of our peers provides us with structural advantages to better control our supply chain. We also remain bullish on our expansion into new markets, and see vast potential in growing this business. Finally, we thank all of our people for their effort in working with us through challenging times."
Conference Call
Standard Motor Products, Inc. will hold a conference call at 10:30 AM, Eastern Time, on Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022. This call will be web cast and can be accessed on the Investor Relations page of our website at www.smpcorp.com and clicking on the SMPQ22022 Earnings Webcast link. Investors may also listen to the call by dialing 866-952-8559 (domestic) or 785-424-1877 (international). Our playback will be made available for dial in immediately following the call. For those choosing to listen to the replay by webcast, the link should be active on our website within 24 hours after the call. The playback number is 800-934-8221 (domestic) or 402-220-6990 (international). The participant passcode is 94640.
Under the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Standard Motor Products cautions investors that any forward-looking statements made by the company, including those that may be made in this press release, are based on management's expectations at the time they are made, but they are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results, events or performance to differ materially from those contemplated by such forward looking statements. Among the factors that could cause actual results, events or performance to differ materially from those risks and uncertainties discussed in this press release are those detailed from time-to-time in prior press releases and in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the company's annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. By making these forward-looking statements, Standard Motor Products undertakes no obligation or intention to update these statements after the date of this release.
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While not a magic bullet, the modest effectiveness of lecanemab reported by Eisai/Biogen would give physicians one part of the treatment puzzle—combination therapies remain the holy grail
NEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) is encouraged to see the positive data reported today by Eisai and Biogen for their amyloid-clearing monoclonal antibody lecanemab. According to the companies, lecanemab reduced cognitive decline by 27% compared to placebo and reduced amyloid levels in the brain in the phase 3 CLARITY AD clinical trial.
"The combination of the biomarker change – reduced amyloid – plus slowing of cognitive decline in this study is encouraging news for the 57 million patients around the world living with Alzheimer's," said Dr. Howard Fillit, Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer at the ADDF. "However, amyloid-clearing drugs will provide an incremental benefit at best and there is still a pressing need for the next generation of drugs focused on other targets based on our knowledge of the biology of aging. We are optimistic about the future as many of these drugs are in development, with 75% of drugs in the pipeline now targeting non-amyloid pathways of neurodegeneration."
Eisai and Biogen will present the study results in November at the Clinical Trials on Alzheimer's Disease conference (CTAD) in San Francisco. The conference will also feature presentations on a broad range of diverse drug targets, informed by the biology of aging, as a driver of this new era of Alzheimer's research.
According to Dr. Fillit, our success in fighting Alzheimer's disease and other dementias will come from the kind of combination therapies that are the standard of care for other major diseases of aging, such as heart disease, cancer, and hypertension. The goal, which we are closer to than ever, is to develop a toolbox of novel biomarkers and effective treatments against a range of targets in the brain so physicians can zero in on the causes of each patient's Alzheimer's and tailor combinations to meet their individual needs, creating a precision medicine approach to the disease.
"As we celebrate today's news, decades of research and expertise allow us to clearly see the path forward to a world where Alzheimer's is a treatable, and even curable, disease," said Dr. Fillit.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Yusef Salaam, who as a child was part of a group of teenagers wrongly accused, convicted and imprisoned for the rape of a woman jogging in Central Park, took a commanding lead Tuesday in a Democratic primary for a City Council seat in New York.
Salaam faces two veteran politicians, New York Assembly members Al Taylor, 65, and Inez Dickens, 73, in the race for a seat representing part of Harlem. The incumbent, democratic socialist Kristin Richardson Jordan, dropped out of the race in May but remained on the ballot.
The contest comes more than two decades after Salaam and four other men — known as the “Central Park Five” — were exonerated by DNA evidence in one of the city’s most notorious and racially fraught crimes.
The Associated Press has not declared a winner in the race and the election’s outcome might not be certain for days because of New York’s ranked choice voting rules. That system kicks in if no candidate claims more than 50% of the total vote.
It was unclear early Wednesday whether Salaam would stay above that threshold. With about 95% of votes counted, Salaam had a little less than 51% of the vote, with Dickens trailing substantially in second place.
Salaam nonetheless declared victory in a speech to supporters late Tuesday.
“What has happened in this campaign has restored my faith in knowing that I was born for this,” he said.
Salaam likened his youthful imprisonment to being “kidnapped,” but he also called his nearly seven years in prison a gift that allowed him to see a racially unjust criminal justice system from the “belly of the beast.”
“I am here because, Harlem, you believed in me,” he said.
Dickens conceded late Tuesday, but promised to “continue to fight for what my community needs.”
If Salaam were to prevail in the primary it would virtually assure him a general election victory in a district unlikely to elect a Republican. It is his first time seeking public office.
While all three candidates focused on promoting affordable housing, controlling gentrification and easing poverty in Harlem, Salaam capitalized on his celebrity in neighborhoods that consider the Central Park Five — also called the Exonerated Five — living symbols of the injustices faced by the Black and Latino residents who make up about three-fourths of the district’s population.
Salaam was 15 when he was arrested in 1989 and accused, along with four other Black and brown teenagers — Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise — of beating and raping a woman in Central Park.
Members of the group served between five and 12 years in prison before prosecutors agreed to reexamine the case. DNA evidence and a confession ultimately linked a serial rapist and murderer to the attack. The convictions were vacated in 2002 and the city ultimately agreed in a legal settlement to pay the exonerated men $41 million.
“When people look at me and they they know my story, they resonate with it,” Salaam told the AP in an interview before the election. “But now here we are 34 years later, and I’m able to use that platform that I have and repurpose the pain, help people as we climb out of despair.”
New York City’s ranked choice voting rules allows voters to rank the candidates by order of preference. Because of the complexity of the system, it has become tricky to forecast a winner.
If one candidate is the first choice of a majority of voters — more than 50% — that person wins the race outright, just like in a traditional election. But if that threshold isn’t met, the eventual winner will be determined by ranked choice voting. That means the vote count is conducted in rounds. In each round, the candidate with the lowest number of first-choice votes is eliminated, and that person’s votes are redistributed to those voters’ second choices.
That analysis can’t be performed until all absentee ballots have been received, a process expected to take around a week.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut lawmakers are set to discuss gasoline taxes, heating-bill help, pandemic pay for essential workers and other issues when they convene Monday for a special legislative session.
Gov. Ned Lamont said Wednesday he was calling the General Assembly into session to help Connecticut residents cope with “rising prices due to a number of international dynamics and market instability.”
His proposals include extending the suspension of Connecticut's 25-cent-per-gallon gasoline tax. The suspension is currently set to end Nov. 30. The Democratic governor wants to keep the tax on hold through the end of the year, and then start adding back five cents per month until hitting the prior 25-cent-per-gallon amount in May.
The governor also is asking the Democrat-led Assembly to put more money into Connecticut's heat and utility assistance program for eligible households; to extend free public bus fares through March 30; and to allow stores to sell off their existing inventory amid forthcoming changes to the state's returnable-bottle-deposit law.
Lamont also wants to triple funding — to $90 million — for “hero pay” for eligible, private-sector essential workers who helped Connecticut get through the coronavirus pandemic.
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As Bexar County homeowners were reminded last year, property values can increase drastically seemingly overnight. That matters because your property taxes are based on your property’s value – and in Texas, which has no income tax, local governments rely heavily on property taxes to pay for schools, public safety and other services.
Nor only are property taxes high in Texas – they’re really complicated. Numerous levels of government impose different tax rates. There are all kinds of discounts based on age, military service and other factors. And the property values that determine how much you’ll have to pay are changing all the time.
That’s why we created this explainer to walk you through the process—from appraisal to final bill—and offer guidance and how to exercise your rights and possibly even reduce your tax burden. We’ll also explore where your tax dollars are going and what you’re getting in return.
What’s on your bill
Let’s walk through what’s actually on your tax bill.
That’s been a great relief to homeowners in the San Antonio region, where values rose 22% last year.
That’s just an average. In some places, the increase was even higher. In ZIP code 78207, on San Antonio’s near West Side, home values went up nearly 31% from 2021 to 2022.
Limiting year-to-year increases in appraised values protects property owners in hot real estate markets. According to Zillow home value data, the homestead cap has shaved between $700 and $800 off the typical San Antonio residential property tax bill.
What's the process
Once you've got a bill in your hand, there's little you can do to bring those taxes down. Let's walk through how your tax bill is set and see the points where you can influence the process.
- January to April: Appraisals are conducted; applications for exemptions are accepted.
- April to May: Homeowners are sent notices of appraised value.
- May to July: Appraisal protests are heard; taxing units prepare their budgets and set tax rates.
- April to September: Taxing units finalize tax rates, advertise changes and hold public hearings.
- October 1: Tax bills are sent to homeowners.
- January 31 (following year): Payments are due to the Bexar County Tax Assessor-Collector.
Appraisals and exemptions - January to April
The Bexar Appraisal District determines how much your home is worth. To do so, it examines current home values, prices of recently sold homes and any recent renovations you've made.
During this time, the district also accepts applications for exemptions. Based on your age, occupation and other characteristics, a variety of exemptions may be available to you. Each one removes either a percentage or a flat dollar amount from your property’s value before taxes are applied. That lowers your taxes overall.
A single taxpayer can receive multiple exemptions. The most common is the homestead exemption, which you receive for your primary residence – the place where you live. Someone claiming the homestead exemption can also claim the over-65 exemption. There are also exemptions for people with disabilities and for disabled veterans and their survivors. Once you qualify for an exemption, you do not need to reapply for it every year.
Notices of Appraised Value - April to May
After appraisals are complete, the Bexar Appraisal District will mail you a notice detailing your home's appraised value by the end of April. If you do not receive a notice, you can check your home's appraised value using the the district's property search tool.
Appraisal protests - May to July
If you think your appraised value is too high, you can file an appeal, which is called a “protest.”
You can start the process by filling out and submitting the protest form included with your appraisal notice. You can also register online at bcadonline.org to start the process.
The first step in an appraisal protest is an informal review. Either online, by phone or in a virtual meeting, you produce documents that show why you think your appraised value is too high. The documents can include information on recent home sales in your neighborhood, engineering reports on work your home needs or general documentation on your home's condition.
After reviewing this information, the district will offer you a settlement. If you’re not satisfied with the settlement, you can go before the Appraisal Review Board, a judicial body separate from the appraisal district. You and a representative from the district will present documentation bearing on the value of your home. The review board will ask questions of each side and make a ruling. Any further appeal must go to binding arbitration or to state district court.
The deadline to file a protest is May 15 or 30 days after the date on your appraisal notice. If May 15 falls on a weekend, the protest deadline is the next business day.
Taxing unit rates - April to September
There are 69 entities in Bexar County that can collect money from you through your property tax bill. These entities, called taxing units, are required to inform taxpayers of any changes in tax rates and to give them an opportunity to oppose increases.
Beginning in late April, taxing units determine what their tax rates will be for the year. They advertise the rates on their websites and hold public hearings in late summer.
Tax bills sent to property owners - October 1
With appraisals completed, exemptions approved, protests settled and tax rates established, the Bexar County Tax Assessor-Collector calculates your bill and mails it in the first week of October. Payments are due by Jan. 31 of the following year.
How your tax dollars are spent
Who gets your money?
Counties, cities and towns, water districts, community college districts, public hospital districts and independent school districts are among the taxing units that receive property tax money.
There are more than 4,000 taxing units in Texas’ 254 counties. Sparsely populated counties such as Borden, King and Loving have only two each; Harris County (Houston) has more than 600. The number can change from year to year. In 2022, Bexar County had 69 taxing units.
How much can they charge?
Each taxing unit drafts a budget every year and determines a tax rate that will apply to all property owners within its boundaries.
In preparing a budget, taxing units decide how much revenue they’ll need to pay their expenses for the year.
In February, March and April, the Bexar Appraisal District sends each taxing unit an estimated value of all property subject to taxation by that unit. In 2022, the appraisal roll for the entire county (which includes both residential and commercial property) was valued at $270,076,627,911, nearly 21% more than the year before.
These figures help the taxing units determine how much revenue they’ll be able to collect and what tax rate they should set for the year.
Taxing units cannot raise rates more than 3.5% from year to year without going to the voters for approval.
Where do your tax dollars go?
Your property taxes pay for the operating expenses of taxing units and the interest on their debt. Just like mortgages and personal credit cards, bonds and other public debt come with interest payments.
The 12 independent school districts in Bexar County use property tax dollars to pay for salaries, supplies and keep the lights on in their buildings, among other things. In 2022, 42% of San Antonio school districts’ revenue came from property taxes.
If you live in one of these school districts, you won't see a school tax on your Bexar County property tax bill. A different county will send you a separate bill for school taxes:
- Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City
- Randolph Field
- Fort Sam Houston
- Medina Valley
- Boerne
- Comal
- Floresville
- Lackland
The 24 cities in Bexar County use property tax dollars to fund salaries and benefits, road maintenance and police and fire protection, and to pay interest on bonds they sold to build police stations, library branches and other infrastructure.
The Alamo College District uses tax dollars to support its five accredited colleges, seven “educational training centers,” AlamoONLINE, Early College High Schools (ECHS) and P-TECH, a work-based early-college high school.
The 12 emergency service districts in Bexar County use tax dollars for fire departments and ambulance crews to serve areas outside the city of San Antonio.
The 11 Bexar County public improvement districts use tax dollars to pay for engineering and consulting services that would ordinarily be provided by a city government. In some cases, they also pay for collection of trash and recyclables.
The property tax dollars that go to Bexar County make up about 20% of the county's total revenue. That money is used primarily for infrastructure such as roads, bridges and flood mitigation projects.
The San Antonio River Authority uses tax dollars to keep creeks and rivers clean, safe for wildlife and available for recreation. River Authority projects include the Mission Reach Ecosystem Restoration and Recreation Program which will restore native grasslands and control flooding, the Westside Ecosystem Restoration Project which will restore bird and aquatic habitats along 11 miles of creeks, and the San Pedro Creek Project to beautify, deepen and widen the creek.
The University Hospital District operates a teaching hospital and more than two dozen outpatient specialty and family medicine clinics throughout Bexar County. About 19% of its $472.2 million budget comes from property taxes.
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What to expect at this year’s Louisiana Business Symposium
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Business leaders all over our part of the world are coming together in a few hours to talk about the economic trends forecast, the Top 100 and more at the 2022 Louisiana Business Symposium.
It’s happening at the Crowne Plaza located at 4728 Constitution Avenue in Baton Rouge.
Dr. Loren Scott will unveil his economic trends forecast for Louisiana and Baton Rouge, delivered in a style of homespun humor known as “economic comedy.” He is on the 50-member National Business Economic Issues Council, which meets quarterly to discuss issues of state, national and international interest.
Dr. Scott is a co-developer of the Louisiana econometric model, a model used for providing annual forecasts of the Louisiana economy.
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