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BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- At the Mobile World Congress Barcelona, Taiwan Pavilion organized by Industrial Development Bureau (IDB), Ministry of Economic Affairs presented a variety of solutions ranging from network equipment, system software and integration service for 4G, 5G traditional Radio Access Network (RAN) and Open RAN infrastructure developed by Taiwanese companies. In Taiwan Pavilion, these companies are exhibiting Taiwan's leadership and technological capabilities from 27 February to 2 March.
The novelties presented has focus on infrastructure for 5G networks and connectivity platforms for private networks, offering industry partners the best-of-breed end-to-end (E2E) network solution to cater for massive commercial deployment in the global telecom market.
"Critical infrastructures such as public and private networks for different verticals are hugely important for society and underscore the essence of Taiwan's technological capabilities", says Ian Lee, ITRI Director.
Some of the most prominent companies presenting their solutions and products at Taiwan Pavilion are Alpha Networks Inc., Atalayan Inc., Compal Electronics Inc., Edgecore Networks Corp., Groundhog Technologies Inc., NEXCOM International Co., Ltd., Pegatron Corporation, Quanta Computer Inc., Synergy Design Technology Limited, Tailyn Technologies, INC., ThroughTek Co., Ltd., Ufi Space Co. Ltd., Wave-In Communication Inc., WHA YU Industrial Co., Ltd., Wiwynn Corporation and YTTEK Technology Corp.
About Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)
ITRI is a world-leading R&D organization focused on applied technology and technical services. Founded in 1973, ITRI has played a vital role in transforming Taiwan's economy from a labor-intensive industry to a high-tech industry.
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HELENA — Republican lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee greenlit bills to ban most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, add reporting requirements for medication abortions and increase medical interventions when non-viable infants are born alive — legislation all introduced within a week of a critical Friday deadline for transferring bills between chambers.
The surge of controversial policies came late in the Legislature’s first half, giving limited time for public input before the bills could be advanced to the Senate for further consideration. All three bills passed Tuesday, over the consistent opposition of the committee’s six Democrats, the same day and day after the proposals were scheduled for hearings.
House Bill 721, sponsored by House Speaker Matt Regier, R-Kalispell, would prohibit abortions after 12 weeks of gestation near the end of the first trimester, when health providers no longer recommend medication to terminate a pregnancy and instead use a dilation and evacuation procedure, also known as a procedural or surgical abortion.
Regier described that practice as “barbaric” when presenting the bill to lawmakers on the Republican majority committee Monday, urging them to focus only on what he described as “dismemberment” of a fetus rather than abortion in general.
“This bill is not to stop a woman from obtaining an abortion. The abortion debate is a very important debate and is one that Montanans will have here in the future,” Regier said. “The choice before you is one about procedure and one procedure only, and that is a dismemberment abortion procedure.”
Health care providers who practice such abortions described in Regier’s bill would face a $50,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison, as well as licensure penalties.
Opponents countered that HB 721 was medically inaccurate, inflammatory, criminalized the practice of medicine and would result in loss of second trimester abortion access, an infringement on Montana’s longstanding legal protections for abortion access.
“House Bill 721 is yet another abortion ban. It takes away safe and effective care,” said Nicole Smith, executive director of Blue Mountain Clinic in Missoula. “The ban would have the most detrimental impact on the most vulnerable Montanans: those who face challenges such as financial or travel-related reasons, which lead to delays in accessing care.”
Legislative staff attorneys also said the bill created “potential constitutional conformity issues” with the state Supreme Court’s 1999 ruling granting pre-viability abortion access from a chosen provider. While Regier said HB 721 makes exceptions for medically necessary abortions, attorneys in a legal note attached to the bill said the phrase “medical emergency” was “narrowly defined,” concluding that the bill would ban procedural abortions “at all stages of pregnancy in non-emergency and emergency situations.”
The bill passed Tuesday morning, as did House Bill 625, introduced by Rep. Kerri Seekins-Crowe, R-Billings, which would require medical professionals to work to “preserve the life and health” of an infant who is born alive, regardless of viability, a narrowed version of Legislative Referendum 131 that voters rejected in November.
The bill defines “alive” as an infant who “breathes, has a beating heart, or has definite movement of voluntary muscles, regardless of whether the umbilical cord has been cut and regardless of whether the expulsion or extraction occurs as a result of natural or induced labor, cesarean section, induced abortion, or another method.” It includes a mandatory reporting requirement for health care providers who are aware of violations.
Seekins-Crowe and other proponents said the bill goes beyond the existing state laws against infanticide by requiring medical care for babies who may not be considered medically viable.
HB 625 states the legislation should not be interpreted as curbing the rights of parents who decide not to pursue medical interventions to delay an infant’s imminent death. But opponents said that caveat fails to protect the privacy of individuals and families experiencing difficult pregnancies and miscarriages.
“[T]he idea that infants are killed following an abortion is a dangerous lie intended to stigmatize abortion and demonize patients and providers. House Bill 625 is just another tired attempt of legislators trying to interfere with private and personal medical decisions that should be between a patient and their health care provider,” said Julia Maxon with the group Montana Women Vote.
The committee reconvened Tuesday evening and also passed House Bill 786. The bill, brought by Rep. Lola Sheldon-Galloway, R-Great Falls, would require abortion providers to distribute information about potential risks from medication abortions to patients and report that disclosure to the state health department.
Supporters said the bill would increase awareness, while opponents countered that HB 786 would add red tape to an already safe and carefully monitored process.
The trio of reproductive restrictions stacked on top of two other bills of a similar nature advanced last week. House Bill 544, implementing prior authorizations for most abortions to be covered by Medicaid insurance, and House Bill 575, barring abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy unless the mother’s life is at risk, passed the House Judiciary Committee along party lines.
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-Consolidated Net Sales Increased 4%
-Full Year 2022 Adjusted EPS Guidance Revised to $2.60 to $2.80
-Repurchased Over 4 Million Shares and Maintained Leverage Ratio Within Target Range of 2 to 3 times
LEXINGTON, Ky., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tempur Sealy International, Inc. (NYSE: TPX) announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022. The Company also issued updated financial guidance for the full year 2022.
SECOND QUARTER 2022 FINANCIAL SUMMARY
- Total net sales increased 3.6% to $1,211.0 million as compared to $1,169.1 million in the second quarter of 2021. On a constant currency basis(1), total net sales increased 5.1%, with a decrease of 4.6% in the North America business segment and an increase of 68.2% in the International business segment, primarily driven by the acquisition of Dreams in August 2021.
- Gross margin was 41.0% as compared to the second quarter 2021 record of 44.3%. Adjusted gross margin(1) was 41.7% in the second quarter of 2022. There were no adjustments to gross margin in the second quarter of 2021.
- Operating income was $143.9 million as compared to the second quarter 2021 record of $223.3 million. Adjusted operating income(1) was $159.9 million as compared to $227.2 million in the second quarter of 2021.
- Net income was $90.6 million as compared to the second quarter 2021 record of $140.8 million. Adjusted net income(1) was $103.2 million as compared to $161.5 million in the second quarter of 2021.
- Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization ("EBITDA")(1) was $186.8 million as compared to the second quarter 2021 record of $266.1 million. Adjusted EBITDA(1) was $203.4 million as compared to $270.3 million in the second quarter of 2021.
- Earnings per diluted share ("EPS") was $0.51 as compared to the second quarter 2021 record of $0.69. Adjusted EPS(1) was $0.58 as compared to $0.79 in the second quarter of 2021.
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
Company Chairman and CEO Scott Thompson commented, "During the quarter, the overall North America operating environment deteriorated, driven by various macroeconomic pressures. We believe the overall U.S. mattress business, our largest market, had its toughest volume decline in 15 years, with industry units down 20 percent to 25 percent compared to last year's record second quarter volumes. We have adjusted our hiring expectations and near-term capacity investments, and we also implemented a price increase in the U.S. in late June to neutralize the dollar impact of commodity inflation. This environment gave us an opportunity to demonstrate the resilience of our business model, as we generated profits, invested in our business, returned capital to shareholders and outperformed the global bedding market. The team remains focused on delivering on our initiatives to drive continued success."
Business Segment Highlights
The Company's business segments include North America and International. Corporate operating expenses are not included in either of the business segments and are presented separately as a reconciling item to consolidated results.
North America net sales decreased 4.8% to $964.7 million as compared to $1,013.8 million in the second quarter of 2021. On a constant currency basis(1), North America net sales decreased 4.6% as compared to the second quarter of 2021. Gross margin was 37.9% as compared to 42.0% in the second quarter of 2021. Adjusted gross margin(1) was 38.7% in the second quarter of 2022. There were no adjustments to gross margin in the second quarter of 2021. Operating margin was 15.1% as compared to 21.4% in the second quarter of 2021. Adjusted operating margin(1) was 16.5% in the second quarter of 2022. There were no adjustments to operating margin in the second quarter of 2021.
North America net sales through the wholesale channel decreased $43.0 million, or 4.8%, to $847.8 million, as compared to the second quarter of 2021. North America net sales through the direct channel decreased $6.1 million, or 5.0%, to $116.9 million, as compared to the second quarter of 2021.
North America adjusted gross margin(1) declined 330 basis points as compared to gross margin in the second quarter of 2021. The decline was driven by operational investments to service our customers and pricing benefit to sales with no improvement to gross profit. These declines were partially offset by favorable brand mix. North America adjusted operating margin(1) declined 490 basis points as compared to operating margin in the second quarter of 2021. The decline was primarily driven by the decline in gross margin and Stearns & Foster® advertising investments ahead of the expected fourth quarter product launch.
International net sales increased 58.6% to $246.3 million as compared to $155.3 million in the second quarter of 2021. On a constant currency basis(1), International net sales increased 68.2% as compared to the second quarter of 2021. Gross margin was 53.1% as compared to 59.8% in the second quarter of 2021. Operating margin was 14.5% as compared to 27.9% in the second quarter of 2021.
International net sales through the wholesale channel decreased $23.3 million, or 20.3%, to $91.3 million as compared to the second quarter of 2021. International net sales through the direct channel increased $114.3 million, or 280.8%, to $155.0 million as compared to the second quarter of 2021. Prior to the Dreams acquisition in August 2021, net sales to Dreams were included in the wholesale channel. Following the acquisition, net sales for Dreams are included in the direct channel.
International gross margin declined 670 basis points as compared to the second quarter of 2021. The decline was primarily driven by the acquisition of Dreams, unfavorable mix and pricing benefit to sales with no improvement to gross profit. Dreams' margin profile is lower than our historical International margins as they sell a variety of products across a range of price points. International operating margin declined 1340 basis points as compared to the second quarter of 2021. The decline was primarily driven by the decline in gross margin, Asia joint venture performance due to COVID-19 related shutdowns and operating expense deleverage.
Corporate operating expense was $38.0 million, consistent with the second quarter of 2021.
Consolidated net income decreased to $90.6 million as compared to $140.8 million in the second quarter of 2021. Adjusted net income(1) decreased to $103.2 million as compared to $161.5 million in the second quarter of 2021. EPS decreased 26.1% to $0.51 as compared to $0.69 in the second quarter of 2021. Adjusted EPS(1) decreased 26.6% to $0.58 as compared to $0.79 in the second quarter of 2021.
The Company ended the second quarter of 2022 with total debt of $2.9 billion and consolidated indebtedness less netted cash(1) of $2.8 billion. Leverage based on the ratio of consolidated indebtedness less netted cash(1) to adjusted EBITDA(1) was 2.67 times for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2022.
During the second quarter of 2022, the Company repurchased 4.4 million shares of its common stock for a total cost of $117.2 million. Over the last twelve months, the Company has repurchased 27.1 million shares of its common stock for a total cost of $1.1 billion. As of June 30, 2022, the Company had approximately $834.5 million available under its existing share repurchase authorization.
Additionally, today the Company announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.10 per share, payable on August 25, 2022, to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 11, 2022.
Financial Guidance
The Company has updated its earnings guidance for the full year 2022, and currently expects adjusted EPS(1) between $2.60 to $2.80. This contemplates the Company's current outlook for full year 2022 consolidated sales to be consistent with prior year.
The Company noted that its expectations are based on information available at the time of this release, and are subject to changing conditions, many of which are outside the Company's control.
Conference Call Information
Tempur Sealy International, Inc. will host a live conference call to discuss financial results today, July 27, 2022, at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The call will be webcast and can be accessed on the Company's investor relations website at investor.tempursealy.com. After the conference call, a webcast replay will remain available on the investor relations section of the Company's website for 30 days.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Constant Currency Information
For additional information regarding EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EPS, adjusted net income, adjusted gross profit, adjusted gross margin, adjusted operating income (expense), adjusted operating margin, consolidated indebtedness and consolidated indebtedness less netted cash (all of which are non-GAAP financial measures), please refer to the reconciliations and other information included in the attached schedules. For information on the methodology used to present information on a constant currency basis, please refer to "Constant Currency Information" included in the attached schedules.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains statements that may be characterized as "forward-looking," within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Such statements might include information concerning one or more of the Company's plans, guidance, objectives, goals, strategies, and other information that is not historical information. When used in this release, the words "assumes," "estimates," "expects," "guidance," "anticipates," "might," "projects," "plans," "proposed," "targets," "intends," "believes," "will" and variations of such words or similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements relating to the Company's quarterly cash dividend, the Company's share repurchase targets, the Company's expectations regarding supply chain disruptions, geopolitical events including the war in Ukraine, the macroeconomic environment, COVID-19-related disruptions, net sales for 2022, EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA for 2022, and EPS and Adjusted EPS for 2022 and subsequent periods and the Company's expectations for increasing sales growth, product launches, channel growth, acquisitions and commodities outlook. Any forward-looking statements contained herein are based upon current expectations and beliefs and various assumptions. There can be no assurance that the Company will realize these expectations, meet its guidance, or that these beliefs will prove correct.
Numerous factors, many of which are beyond the Company's control, could cause actual results to differ materially from any that may be expressed herein as forward-looking statements. These potential risks include the factors discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and in the Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2022 and June 30, 2022. There may be other factors that may cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which such statement is made.
About Tempur Sealy International, Inc.
Tempur Sealy is committed to improving the sleep of more people, every night, all around the world. As a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of bedding products, we know how crucial a good night of sleep is to overall health and wellness. Utilizing over a century of knowledge and industry-leading innovation, we deliver award-winning products that provide breakthrough sleep solutions to consumers in over 100 countries.
Our highly recognized brands include Tempur-Pedic®, Sealy® featuring Posturepedic® Technology and Stearns & Foster® and our non-branded offerings include value-focused private label and OEM products. Our distinct brands allow for complimentary merchandising strategies and are sold through third-party retailers, our Company-owned stores and e-commerce channels. This omni-channel strategy ensures our products are offered where ever and how ever customers want to shop.
Lastly, we accept our global responsibility to serve all stakeholders, our community and environment. We have and are implementing programs consistent with our responsibilities.
Investor Relations Contact:
Aubrey Moore
Investor Relations
Tempur Sealy International, Inc.
800-805-3635
Investor.relations@tempursealy.com
TEMPUR SEALY INTERNATIONAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
(in millions, except percentages, ratios and per common share amounts)
The Company provides information regarding adjusted net income, adjusted EPS, adjusted gross profit, adjusted gross margin, adjusted operating income (expense), adjusted operating margin, EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA, consolidated indebtedness and consolidated indebtedness less netted cash, which are not recognized terms under GAAP and do not purport to be alternatives to net income, earnings per share, or an alternative to total debt as a measure of liquidity. The Company believes these non-GAAP financial measures provide investors with performance measures that better reflect the Company's underlying operations and trends, providing a perspective not immediately apparent from net income, gross profit, gross margin, operating income (expense) and operating margin. The adjustments management makes to derive the non-GAAP financial measures include adjustments to exclude items that may cause short-term fluctuations in the nearest GAAP financial measure, but which management does not consider to be the fundamental attributes or primary drivers of the Company's business.
The Company believes that exclusion of these items assists in providing a more complete understanding of the Company's underlying results from continuing operations and trends, and management uses these measures along with the corresponding GAAP financial measures to manage the Company's business, to evaluate its consolidated and business segment performance compared to prior periods and the marketplace, to establish operational goals and to provide continuity to investors for comparability purposes. Limitations associated with the use of these non-GAAP financial measures include that these measures do not present all of the amounts associated with the Company's results as determined in accordance with GAAP. These non-GAAP financial measures should be considered supplemental in nature and should not be construed as more significant than comparable financial measures defined by GAAP. Because not all companies use identical calculations, these presentations may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures of other companies. For more information about these non-GAAP financial measures and a reconciliation to the nearest GAAP financial measure, please refer to the reconciliations on the following pages.
Constant Currency Information
In this press release the Company refers to, and in other press releases and other communications with investors the Company may refer to, net sales, earnings or other historical financial information on a "constant currency basis," which is a non-GAAP financial measure. These references to constant currency do not include operational impacts that could result from fluctuations in foreign currency rates. To provide information on a constant currency basis, the applicable financial results are adjusted based on a simple mathematical model that translates current period results in local currency using the comparable prior corresponding period's currency conversion rate. This approach is used for countries where the functional currency is the local country currency. This information is provided so that certain financial results can be viewed without the impact of fluctuations in foreign currency rates, thereby facilitating period-to-period comparisons of business performance.
Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted EPS
A reconciliation of reported net income to adjusted net income and the calculation of adjusted EPS is provided below. Management believes that the use of these non-GAAP financial measures provides investors with additional useful information with respect to the impact of various adjustments as described in the footnotes at the end of this release.
The following table sets forth the reconciliation of the Company's reported net income to adjusted net income and the calculation of adjusted EPS for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021:
Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Gross Margin, Adjusted Operating Income (Expense) and Adjusted Operating Margin
A reconciliation of gross profit and gross margin to adjusted gross profit and adjusted gross margin, respectively, and operating income (expense) and operating margin to adjusted operating income (expense) and adjusted operating margin, respectively, are provided below. Management believes that the use of these non-GAAP financial measures provides investors with additional useful information with respect to the impact of various adjustments as described in the footnotes at the end of this release.
The following table sets forth the reconciliation of the Company's reported gross profit and operating income (expense) to the calculation of adjusted gross profit and adjusted operating income (expense) for the three months ended June 30, 2022.
The following table sets forth the Company's reported gross profit and the reconciliation of the Company's operating income (expense) to the calculation of adjusted operating (income) expense for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The Company had no adjustments to gross profit for the three months ended June 30, 2021.
EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA and Consolidated Indebtedness less Netted Cash
The following reconciliations are provided below:
- Net income to EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA
- Ratio of consolidated indebtedness less netted cash to adjusted EBITDA
- Total debt, net to consolidated indebtedness less netted cash
Management believes that presenting these non-GAAP measures provides investors with useful information with respect to the Company's operating performance, cash flow generation and comparisons from period to period, as well as general information about the Company's leverage.
The Company's credit agreement (the "2019 Credit Agreement") provides the definition of adjusted EBITDA. Accordingly, the Company presents adjusted EBITDA to provide information regarding the Company's compliance with requirements under the 2019 Credit Agreement.
The following table sets forth the reconciliation of the Company's reported net income to the calculations of EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021:
The following table sets forth the reconciliation of the Company's net income to the calculations of EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2022:
Under the 2019 Credit Agreement, the definition of adjusted EBITDA contains certain restrictions that limit adjustments to net income when calculating adjusted EBITDA. For the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2022, the Company's adjustments to net income when calculating adjusted EBITDA did not exceed the allowable amount under the 2019 Credit Agreement.
The ratio of consolidated indebtedness less netted cash to adjusted EBITDA is 2.67 times for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2022. The 2019 Credit Agreement requires the Company to maintain a ratio of consolidated indebtedness less netted cash to adjusted EBITDA of less than 5.00:1.00 times.
The following table sets forth the reconciliation of the Company's reported total debt to the calculation of consolidated indebtedness less netted cash as of June 30, 2022. "Consolidated Indebtedness" and "Netted Cash" are terms used in the 2019 Credit Agreement for purposes of certain financial covenants.
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PASCO COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A series of destructive events left a Florida woman dead and another man arrested in a high-speed chase, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The FHP said it began around 3:30 a.m. when a hit-and-run driver hit the 49-year-old Dade City woman as she walked along the highway’s grass shoulder.
Troopers said the driver’s sedan, possibly white or silver in color, left the highway for an unknown reason, hit a traffic sign, and then hit the woman, severing her body in half. The driver did not stop at the scene.
The chaos continued at 4:58 a.m. when a silver pickup drove through the area while Pasco County deputies and highway patrol troopers were at the scene.
The FHP said the driver, 23-year-old Andrew Thomas Krummen, ignored commands to stop and nearly hit two deputies. While driving through the crime scene, Krummen drove over the lower half of the victim from the previous collision.
Troopers chased Krummen for about 10 minutes until a trooper used a PIT maneuver to stop him.
Krummen was charged with aggravated assault with a motor vehicle upon a law enforcement officer, reckless driving, DUI, fleeing and eluding, destruction of evidence, driving while license revoked and false imprisonment of his passengers.
According to the FHP, the passengers, a 33-year-old Brooksville man and a 35-year-old Dade City woman, were trying to flag troopers down and exit the vehicle.
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BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — One person was killed and three others were wounded in a shooting early Saturday near the University of California, Berkeley, police said.
None of those involved were UC Berkeley students, the university said.
The shooting followed an early morning fight near Telegraph and Durant avenues, the Berkeley Police Department said in a brief statement.
Multiple people fled, and officers were quickly on the scene, the department said.
Firefighters responded and took the injured to a hospital where one later died, police said.
“The suspects in this case are currently still outstanding,” the statement said.
The police statement had no information about the identities of those involved.
The location is a commercial district of shops, eateries, other businesses and some university buildings known as the south campus area.
“According to the City of Berkeley Police Department, no one involved in the incident is a UC Berkeley student,” a university community advisory said.
“We realize the proximity of this incident to campus and our residence halls may be disturbing to members of our community,” it added, providing a link to support services. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/1-slain-3-wounded-in-Berkeley-California-17496212.php | 2022-10-08 21:31:16 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/1-slain-3-wounded-in-Berkeley-California-17496212.php |
MADRID, Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Connecting Green Hydrogen Europe (CGHE2023) 2023 – Advancing Towards Europe's Green Hydrogen Roadmap – is taking place on 5th – 6th July 2023 at Riu Plaza España Madrid, Spain.
As a region's high-end conference & exhibition toward a green hydrogen future in Europe, Connecting Green Hydrogen Europe 2023 will bring together the entire hydrogen value chain to focus on developing solutions and innovations for low-carbon hydrogen production, efficient storage and distribution, and applications in various stationary and mobile applications in Europe.
CGHE2023 creates a tailored setting where senior decision-makers could network, share pragmatic approaches supporting the green hydrogen growth, and green hydrogen industry hub in Europe, foster international partnerships to facilitate green hydrogen economics. The conference will carry professional opinions about the European hydrogen industry to attendees.
As the premier event focusing on the hydrogen industry, Connecting Green Hydrogen Europe has been held successfully in Madrid for two consecutive years. It is estimated that Connecting Green Hydrogen Europe will attract 1,000+ In-person Attendees, 100+ World-class Speakers and 50+ Sponsors & Exhibitors. More than 1,000+ attendees will come together to discuss and see, the latest technologies and engineering solutions, advanced materials, manufacturing equipment, infrastructure, as well as test and evaluation tools and services to finally commercialize hydrogen as a mainstream provider of clean, renewable energy.
Distinguished Government and Industry Companies in CGHE:
Government & Public Organizations will include the European Commission, The Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO), Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI), Centro Nacional del Hidrógeno (CNH2), International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), Hydrogen Europe, Eurogas, Clean Hydrogen Partnership, World Steel Association, Women in Green Hydrogen and more.
The Oil & Gas & IPP will include ENGIE, Enel Green Power, Shell, Bp, TotalEnergies, E.ON, ACCIONA, Repsol, Iberdrola, Air Liquide, EDP Renewables, Snam, Enagás, INEOS, Galp, Vattenfall, Naturgy, RHI Magnesita, BASF, Aperam, Hynamics, OMV, Hive Energy, EWE AG, Messer SE & Co. KGaA, PGNiG SA, Axens, PRF, H2 Green Steel, Verbund, Nortegas Energia Grupo and more.
For more information about CGHE2023, please visit https://www.europe.gh2events.com/
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Trump’s role in disappointing midterm elections could leave GOP in a box
Former President Trump’s dominant role looks to have limited the Republican Party’s ability to take full advantage of a midterm election opportunity.
But Trump’s demonstrated inability to walk away quietly could hamstring the party for the next two years and beyond as he continues to exercise outsized sway over the GOP base.
As vote-counting continued Wednesday morning, Republicans still had a chance to win both chambers of Congress.
Republicans, though in position to take the House, were still sweating it out Wednesday morning and would need to hold their narrow leads in many of the remaining races to eke out a narrow win. Races in California, where Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has focused attention, could prove decisive.
Paradoxically, a small majority for Republicans would likely give Trump more leverage in Congress, as McCarthy would have to depend on continued support from Trump acolytes such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to maintain power.
The Senate was locked in a 48-48 tie, with remaining races in Georgia, Arizona, New Mexico and Wisconsin to decide the outcome. If neither candidate wins more than 50% of the vote in Georgia, the race would go to a Dec. 6 runoff like the one that decided Senate control in 2020. A 50-50 split in the Senate would give Democrats control with Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote.
The close races for control of Congress defy history. The party that holds the White House usually absorbs big midterm election losses. President Biden’s low approval in polls, fueled by persistent inflation, made sizeable Republican gains even more likely, at least on paper.
“Definitely not a Republican wave, that’s for darn sure,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Tuesday night on NBC as he predicted a narrow win for Republicans in the Senate.
The combination of Trump’s low popularity, the generally weak general-election performance of the candidates he endorsed, the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection that he inspired and the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the right to an abortion this year appear to have drawn Democrats closer than expected. Exit polls conducted by media organizations showed two-thirds of independent voters hold an unfavorable view of the former president.
The latest blow to Republicans: Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin, a top target in the swing state of Michigan, was declared the winner overnight.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, another Democrat, also won her race, defeating Trump-backed candidate Tudor Dixon. Michigan voters also approved the most high-profile ballot measure to protect abortion rights.
The results highlight one of the Republican Party’s biggest disappointments. Trump attacked Whitmer relentlessly. Michigan was a key part of the 2016 coalition that propelled Trump’s surprising victory over Hillary Clinton. The state’s historic ties to manufacturing and large population of white working-class voters gave the party hope that the state would trend red as the GOP moved further toward Trump’s brand of populism aimed at capturing economic and cultural anxiety.
But Biden won the state back in 2020, stanching the party’s losses in the upper Midwest.
National exit polls this year showed inflation was a top concern among voters. But abortion ranked second. That, and the relative weakness of Trump-backed candidates, helped Democrats stay in the fight.
The Republicans’ loss of a Senate seat in Pennsylvania, another northern industrial state, could prove the most consequential if Democrats keep the chamber. Lt. Gov. John Fetterman defeated Dr. Mehmet Oz, a television doctor and first-time candidate backed by Trump. Fetterman, still recovering from the effects of a stroke, painted the untested Oz as an elite carpetbagger.
Many of the gubernatorial candidates Trump backed also lost or were in danger of losing as of Wednesday morning.
The exception was Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican who won reelection in a landslide. DeSantis is seen as Trump’s biggest threat for the 2024 presidential nomination. But even if party leaders prefer DeSantis, Trump has said he will run again. Opinion polls, at least for now, show him as the prohibitive favorite to capture the party’s nomination.
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More than $1.3 million awarded through new LLS Equity in Access Research Program.
RYE BROOK, N.Y., July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is dedicated to ensuring that all blood cancer patients and survivors have access to the care they need, when they need it. But for too many patients, this does not happen.
Some groups of people experience more barriers than others when it comes to getting the right diagnosis and treatment. The challenges faced often are rooted in structural disadvantages or discrimination related to patients' racial or ethnic group, religion, socioeconomic status, gender, mental health, disability, sexual orientation, geographic location or other factors.
"Blood cancer is hard enough for patients and their families, and these obstacles make it even harder," said Gwen Nichols, M.D., Chief Medical Officer at LLS. "That's why LLS created the Equity in Access Research Program. We want to better understand the underlying causes contributing to health disparities and inequities—and to identify solutions we can urge lawmakers and those in the healthcare industry to adopt. Together, we want to put an end to these disparities."
During its first year, the Equity in Access program funded seminal research to better understand how insurance status and type impact access to care for blood cancer patients and survivors.
Today, LLS is announcing the program's first cohort of award recipients— a group of outstanding health services researchers who received more than $1.3 million in combined funding:
- Xu Ji, Ph.D. and Sharon Castellino, M.D., M.Sc. of Emory University School of Medicine, whose research will provide insight into whether continuous insurance coverage can lead to increased blood cancer survival rates. They also will examine how Medicaid expansion impacts insurance continuity and what it means for children, adolescents and young adults with blood cancers.
- Stacie Dusetzina, Ph.D. of Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Lauren H. Nicholas, Ph.D., M.P.P. of the University of Colorado Denver - Anschutz Medical Campus, whose innovative research will evaluate the financial and health outcomes for individuals selecting different Medicare coverage options and how these outcomes vary by the presence and timing of a cancer diagnosis. The goal of this work is to identify opportunities to improve plan selection and reduce inequities in cancer care and outcomes.
- F. Lennie Wong, Ph.D. of the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, whose novel research will shed light on how insurance coverage and Medicaid expansion contribute to racial differences in multiple myeloma treatment patterns and their effects on survival.
Findings will identify steps that policymakers can take to reduce health disparities in blood cancer patients. And LLS will work to transform these recommendations into state and federal policy proposals that its Office of Public Policy will work to implement.
The new program is just one avenue LLS is pursuing as part of its longstanding commitment to health equity. LLS staff and volunteers continue to advocate for changes in the law that minimize barriers to care for patients and promote equitable care. For example, we recently helped increase clinical trial access for more than 41 million people – including underserved populations – through adoption of the Clinical Treatment Act. And we continue to work to expand insurance coverage to patients stuck in the Medicaid coverage gap, 60% of whom are people of color.
LLS issued the second Equity in Access Research Program Request for Proposals (RFP) on July 6. We encourage you to share the opportunity with researchers who may be interested in applying. More information can be found here.
LLS is steadfast in its commitment to serving underrepresented communities through two more programs—the LLS IMPACT Research Grants initiative and Myeloma Link—which aim to promote health equity in clinical and community settings.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society® (LLS) is a global leader in the fight against cancer. The LLS mission: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma. LLS funds lifesaving blood cancer research around the world, provides free information and support services, and is the voice for all blood cancer patients seeking access to quality, affordable, coordinated care.
Founded in 1949 and headquartered in Rye Brook, NY, LLS has regional offices throughout the United States and Canada. To learn more, visit www.LLS.org. Patients should contact the LLS Information Resource Center at (800) 955-4572, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., ET.
For additional information visit lls.org/lls-newsnetwork. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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MADRID, July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LLYC (BME: LLYC). LLYC's (BME: LLYC) H1 FY23 results preview shows that the United States has become the company's third-largest market in terms of volume, behind only Spain and Mexico. This follows LLYC's March acquisition of San Diego-based BAM by LLYC, which specializes in providing PR and marketing services to venture-backed startups and tech companies. The report showed that LLYC USA accounted for 9% of operating revenue and 10% of recurring EBITDA, as well as 7% of total revenue and 8% of gross income.
The company also showed promising global outcomes in its results preview, reaching €39.9 million in operating revenue (+12% YOY), pending the audited final report. Total revenue grew 12% to €48.7 million, while recurring EBITDA rose 9% to €8.8 million. The company's performance for the first half of the year met the forecasted budget, and by the end of June, LLYC had achieved 50% of its revenue and EBITDA goals for the entire year.
"We are pleased with these outcomes, which were positive despite the complex global context," shared Alejandro Romero, Partner and Global CEO at LLYC. "We've seen a significant upswing in our numbers since Q2, and our digital and marketing solutions, as well as our focus on healthcare, give us every reason to remain optimistic about our future prospects. With LLYC's strength, diversification, and client trust, plus the commitment of our team of nearly 1,200 professionals, I know we will achieve our 2023 goals. It will be another year of double-digit growth."
The company's organic revenue growth was 8%, higher than what other communication companies reported. This was mainly due to volume growth in Madrid, Sao Paulo and Mexico.
LLYC's other business units account for:
- Deep Digital: 34% of operating revenue and 26% of recurring EBITDA.
- Europe: 34% of operating revenue and 40% of recurring EBITDA during H1.
- Latin America: 25% of operating revenue and 26% of recurring EBITDA.
Deep Digital, which encompasses digital marketing (creative, performance, and paid media), digital intelligence, and transformation solutions, has continued to grow both organically and through the acquisition of audio agency Voikers. Deep Digital's contribution to the firm's total revenue shows an upward trend. Overall, it increased its income by 25% in H1 FY23. This business unit is one of LLYC's 2023 Strategic Plan's most important assets.
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A look at what’s happening around the majors today:
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FINGERS CROSSED
The playoff-hopeful Seattle Mariners are holding their collective breath that All-Star rookie Julio Rodríguez isn’t seriously injured.
Rodríguez was hit on the back of his right hand near the wrist as he swung awkwardly at a pitch in the eighth inning Saturday night at Houston. He struck out, but played defense in the bottom half before exiting in the ninth.
Seattle manager Scott Servais said the outfielder would get X-rays later Saturday.
“He did not feel comfortable with a bat in his hand,” Servais said. “So, we’ll pray that it is not broken.”
Abraham Toro pinch-hit for Rodríguez and delivered a two-run single with two outs in the ninth as the Mariners rallied for a 5-4 victory.
The 21-year-old Rodríguez, who was 0 for 4 with three strikeouts, is batting .274 with 18 homers and 57 RBIs.
ALL RISE
Yankees slugger Aaron Judge has been on an incredible tear since the All-Star break, hitting .436 with nine homers and 21 RBIs in 10 games. He went deep again in Saturday’s victory over Kansas City, becoming the second-fastest player in major league history to reach 200 career home runs.
Judge’s 200th homer came in his 671st career game. Philadelphia’s Ryan Howard achieved the feat in 2009 in his 658th game.
Eligible for free agency after the season, Judge has 42 homers and is on pace for 67. He is tied with Sammy Sosa and two behind Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire for the most before Aug. 1 in MLB history. Bonds holds the season record with 73 homers in 2001.
The American League-leading Yankees try for a four-game sweep. They’ve won seven straight against the Royals and 10 of the last 11.
BEST OF THE METS
Taijuan Walker (8-2, 2.67 ERA) and the NL East-leading New York Mets go for their sixth straight victory and a three-game sweep in Miami when they take on Pablo López (7-5, 3.03) and the Marlins.
Through 100 games, the Mets (63-37) have the second-best record in club history. The 1986 World Series championship team was 68-32 at the same point.
The Marlins lost their sixth in a row at home. They have not homered in their own ballpark since July 5 — a stretch of 11 games.
E-ROD EMERGES
Tigers left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez will report to Detroit’s spring training facility in Florida and could pitch for Class A Lakeland next week.
Rodriguez signed a $77 million, five-year contract last November but hasn’t pitched for the Tigers since May 18, when he left a game against Tampa Bay in the first inning with sprained ribs. He was then placed on the restricted list June 13 due to personal reasons.
The ex-Boston Red Sox pitcher is 1-3 with a 4.38 ERA in eight starts. The Tigers spent big on him and shortstop Javier Báez last winter but have struggled this season, going into Sunday’s game at Toronto 41-61.
OUCH!
Holding a slim lead in the AL Central, the Minnesota Twins will be without two dangerous hitters for a while.
The team placed outfielder Max Kepler and infielder Miguel Sanó on the 10-day injured list Saturday, a big setback for a squad with playoff aspirations.
Sanó’s return to the IL with left knee inflammation is particularly tough because he had returned just four days earlier from missing 75 games after having surgery in May to repair torn meniscus in the knee. He apparently aggravated the knee during his recent rehab assignment.
The Twins say he will undergo an MRI when they return to Minneapolis after a weekend series at San Diego.
Sanó went 0 for 6 in his three games back.
Kepler broke the fifth toe on his right foot when he was hit by a pitch at Detroit last Sunday. He had gone through workouts and the Twins hoped to keep him on the active roster but decided to shut him down.
Kepler was hitting .244 with nine homers and 39 RBIs.
GUARD DOWN
Guardians breakout slugger Josh Naylor is sidelined and set to meet with team doctors after experiencing numbness in the same right ankle he severely injured in June 2021.
Naylor was scratched from the lineup Saturday before a 6-4 loss to the Rays, and manager Terry Francona said Naylor will be evaluated when the team returns home after Sunday’s series finale.
“He was on his way to go get loose and said it went numb on him and it was hard for him to walk,” Francona said. “It’s hard to imagine that something significant happened when he was on his way to get loose, so that’s hopeful.”
In a game at Minnesota on June 27, 2021, Naylor was in right field and chasing a shallow flyball when he collided with second baseman Ernie Clement on Jorge Polanco’s single.
Naylor is hitting .282 with 14 homers, 53 RBIs and an .846 OPS in 70 games this season.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Injured Mets ace Max Scherzer confirmed Saturday that his dog bit his pitching hand this week, but he says the wound won’t slow his recovery from an oblique strain.
The New York Post reported Saturday that the right-handed Scherzer was bitten by a dog on his left hand, a second bizarre injury for New York this week after shortstop Francisco Lindor got his right hand caught in a hotel door and fractured the tip of his middle finger.
Schezer, who has been out since May 18 and isn’t expected back until at least late June, confirmed the dog bite on Twitter, saying it was actually his pitching hand that got nipped. He also said his timeline for a return hasn’t changed.
“Just clearing up a few things,” Scherzer wrote. “My dog Rafi hurt her leg on a run. She was howling in pain and I went to calm her down by putting my hands on her. When I did that she bit my right hand. Fortunately it wasn’t a bad bite. I took one day off from throwing and was able to long toss the next day. This will have no effect on my rehab and this is literally a non story.”
Scherzer is 5-1 with a 2.54 ERA in his first season with New York after signing a $130 million, three-year deal in December.
Lindor missed the opener of a four-game series against the Dodgers but returned to the lineup Friday. The Mets remain atop the NL East at 35-19, challenging Los Angeles for the best record in the National League despite missing Jacob deGrom all season due to a shoulder injury.
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Prominent technology leader recognized for driving transformation of higher education
RESTON, Va., Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ellucian, the leading higher education technology solutions provider, today announced that President and CEO Laura Ipsen has been recognized as one of the 2022 Top 50 Women Leaders in SaaS by The Software Report.
The list highlights individuals based on their demonstrated leadership capabilities, career track record, and quantifiable contributions to the SaaS industry. More than 400 entries were reviewed and honorees were identified by The Software Report based on nominations and extensive research.
"It is an honor to be recognized in The Software Report's 2022 list of the Top 50 Women Leaders in SaaS," said Laura Ipsen, President & CEO, Ellucian. "Any recognition of a leader is made possible by the strength of an amazing team to drive results. Together, we are accelerating the digital transformation of higher education to empower institutions to modernize, increase operational efficiencies, and most importantly, enable student success. Our SaaS-based solutions are supporting more innovative, more secure, and more sustainable institutions that can deliver the modern experience that today's students demand."
With 15+ years of experience delivering cloud solutions, and over 50 years of experience supporting higher education, Ellucian was the first to market with two fully functional SaaS-based SIS systems, Banner and Colleague. And with the Ellucian Experience Platform demonstrates an approach to SaaS solutions that is open, interoperable, personalized, and secure.
Learn more about Ellucian cloud solutions here: https://www.ellucian.com/solutions/ellucian-cloud
Ellucian is the market leader charting the digital future of higher education with a portfolio of cloud-ready technology solutions and services. From student recruitment to workforce analytics; from fundraising opportunities to alumni engagement; Ellucian's comprehensive suite of data-rich tools gives colleges and universities the information they need to lead with confidence.
Working with a community of more than 2,900 customers in over 50 countries, Ellucian keeps innovating as higher education keeps evolving. Drawing on its comprehensive higher education business acumen and suite of services, Ellucian guides its customers through manageable, sustainable digital transformation—so that every type of institution and student can thrive in today's fast-changing landscape. To find out what's next in higher education solutions and services, visit Ellucian at www.ellucian.com.
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FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — Fort Campbell staff are using controlled burn techniques to manage a fire that started in a training area last week, the post said.
The fire started Friday near Trigg County, Kentucky, during routine training, Fort Campbell said in a news release Tuesday.
Clinton Allen, Directorate of Public Works conservation branch chief, said workers are using back fires to make a buffer.
“The back burns will help keep it from getting closer to the boundary with Land Between the Lakes,” Allen said.
The Forestry Section of the DPW Environmental Division annually burns about 20,000 acres to support training operations and preserve the natural environment, the post said. The fire has burned through several hundred acres in an area where controlled burns are held.
Anyone across the installation's rear training area should watch for potential hazards if they see smoke and fire and contact dispatch, range control or the fire desk at (270) 798-4122 if they're concerned, DPW forester J.P. Hart said.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — This weekend’s SMU-UCF college football game has been rescheduled again due to Hurricane Ian, this time shifting from Sunday to Wednesday.
The American Athletic Conference made the announcement Friday. The game at UCF’s on-campus stadium initially was scheduled to be played Saturday.
Ian made landfall on Florida’s west coast before moving across the state, impacting Orlando and other communities in the storm’s path.
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Some northwest Bismarck homeowners are upset with a planned business development, but the project developer says he tried to compromise with them and found it impossible.
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The North Dakota Highway Patrol has identified the driver of a pickup truck who was killed Tuesday in a collision with a train in Kidder County.
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PetSmart welcomes people and pets to show their Pride with the You Are Loved collection
PHOENIX, May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PetSmart is celebrating Pride Month with the all-new 2023 You Are Loved collection of Pride themed clothing, toys and accessories for pets of multiple species. First launched in 2019, the proprietary collection was created in partnership with the associate resource group, PetSmart PRIDE AT WORK, and is a representation of the company's commitment to supporting associates and community members of all orientations, gender identities and expressions.
View the You Are Loved collection at www.petsmart.com/featured-shops/pride-shop
Furthering its commitment to the LGBTQ+ community, PetSmart has donated $200,000 to GLSEN, a leading organization dedicated to ending violence, harassment and discrimination against LGBTQ+ youth in K-12 schools. This marks the fourth consecutive year PetSmart has donated to GLSEN, with contributions totaling $600,000 to date.
"PetSmart is proud to elevate the voices and experiences of the LGBTQ+ community – from our associates and the pet parents we serve, to members of the community and allies," said Kristin Shane, senior vice president and chief merchandising officer at PetSmart and executive sponsor of Petsmart PRIDE AT WORK. "Our You Are Loved collection was initiated and inspired by our associate resource group team members to help pet parents and their pets celebrate the spirit of Pride and share our values of inclusion and unconditional love."
For pet parents looking to show their Pride, PetSmart's You Are Loved collection offers a variety of clothing, toys and accessories for cat, dog, aquatic and small pet friends to enjoy, including:
- You Are Loved Pride Dog Bikini
- You Are Loved Pride Bucket Dog Hat
- You Are Loved Pride Rainbow Bone Dog Toy
- You Are Loved Pride Rainbow Butterfly Cat Leash & Harness
- You Are Loved Pride Rainbow Pop-Up Tunnel Cat Toy
- You Are Loved Pride Reptile Cape Costume
- You Are Loved Rainbow Circle Swim-Thru Aquarium Ornament
For more information on the You Are Loved collection, including ways to shop, visit www.PetSmart.com. And for more information about how PetSmart supports Belonging all year long, visit www.LifeatPetSmart.com.
About PetSmart
PetSmart LLC is the leading pet retailer offering products, services and solutions for the lifetime needs of pets. At PetSmart, we love pets and we believe pets make us better people. Every day with every connection, PetSmart's passionate associates help bring pet parents closer to their pets so together they can live more fulfilled lives. This vision impacts everything we do for our customers, the way we support our associates and how we give back to our communities.
PetSmart operates approximately 1,660 pet stores in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, as well as more than 200 in-store PetSmart PetsHotel® dog and cat boarding facilities. We provide a broad range of competitively priced pet food and products, as well as services such as dog training, pet grooming, pet boarding, PetSmart Doggie Day Camp™ and pet adoption.
PetSmart, PetSmart Charities® and PetSmart Charities® of Canada work with nearly 4,000 animal welfare organizations to bring adoptable pets into stores so they have the best chance possible of finding a forever home.
Through this in-store adoption program and other signature events, PetSmart has facilitated over 10 million adoptions, more than any other brick-and-mortar organization.
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There is a national child care crisis, and programs are looking for ways to help alleviate some of the issues families are facing when trying to secure child care.
Some parents are needing to wait between nine and 12 months to secure a spot on a waiting list. To help solve this problem, programs are turning towards education for refugees and immigrants to add them into the workforce.
“As refugees and immigrants come into our economy, we want them to enter into jobs right way,” said Deborah Young, the co-founder of Pamoja Early Childhood Education. “There are 27,000 teachers that are missing, so this is a great match. We have a huge talent force, and we have a need for them.”
The Pamoja Early Childhood Education workforce program is made up of refugees and immigrants from all over the world to serve as a pipeline for new early childhood educators.
Fatima Jafari, who is from Afghanistan, is in the program.
“For two years, I have studied early childhood education, and I am working as a teacher in the center,” Jafari said. “The program is so important for all the women in my community. They come into the United States, and they need to learn to communicate with the children and how to live in the United States in a new environment. They also need to learn to grow their kids in a new country.”
According to Child care Aware of America research, it shows that nearly 9,000 daycares closed in 37 states between 2019 and 2021. While there are also less day cares, child care center costs increased across the country at an average rate of 41%.
For this reason, Pamoja Early Childhood is utilizing refugees and immigrants by not only giving them the education to start a new life in this country but to help decrease the childcare worker shortage and promote diverse people in the industry.
“We need childcare, and we don’t have enough childcare. We don’t have enough childcare workers, mostly because we do not give professional wages or living wages even,” Young said. “Really investing in our refugees and our immigrants to get higher education, to get the credentials and knowledge and get into the workforce, they’re contributing in one way or another to our society, let’s get them to contribute in ways that creates the whole increase in well-being for everybody in our communities.”
According to the CDC, 94% of childcare workers are female and 40% of those are people of color.
“Right now, almost two years ago, I started the study of the children,” Jafari said. “One of my children is a little bit delayed, but I just want to learn a lot about the behavior and learn about growing the brain for him. Also, I want to help others who have children like me, and I can help them.”
“We want childcare workers to speak the same language and look the same as the child,” Young said. “We want child identity to really be confident in who they are who their family are and what their background and historical context are. And most of the background of teachers and leadership positions look like me.”
The developers of this program believe that bringing in women of color who speak multiple languages can help provide more options for child care to the country and overcome cultural differences while also closing the work shortage gap. | https://www.wptv.com/news/national/refugees-and-immigrants-key-to-child-care-worker-shortage | 2022-09-23 21:41:40 | 1 | https://www.wptv.com/news/national/refugees-and-immigrants-key-to-child-care-worker-shortage |
Studio art senior finds purpose in community
Studio art senior April Enelly Galvan considers a home to be more than just a house. Though their art at first glance is unassuming, appearing just as childlike endeavors on paper, the meaning behind each piece explores topics like homesickness, childhood and growing up.
“It is so simple, but I just like it because you don’t know what’s inside,” Galvan said. “You don’t know what kind of emotions are in the house or why.”
Galvan began exploring the house or home as one of her chosen motifs as a university art student. They said digging into the meaning of “home” through each piece has brought them comfort in their creative element and continues to help them learn more about themself.
“I think it’s more like my longing for a home or being at home,” Galvan said. “I also drew a lot of houses growing up so […] it’s like bringing back those memories that I had growing up, because now I don’t live in a house, but a temporary apartment. […] I’ve kind of recently connected those things and I think I still have more to discover about that, but that’s what I’m getting from it right now.”
Galvan credits most of their recent growth to an experimental drawing and painting course they took at the university this past spring. Galvan said over the past few months, they have steadily gained more confidence and expansive knowledge in how they want to pursue several mediums and subjects, like their home motif.
“Art is about experimenting, getting out of your comfort zone and doing things that you’ve never done before,” Galvan said. “My own style changes with time, so I feel like, eventually, it will change again.”
Currently, Galvan said most of their works embody “childlike” qualities reminiscent of adolescent drawings or crafts. They said although it was difficult at first, they are now confident in their anti-realistic approach to art, and hope other artists can also learn to set and meet different standards in terms of aesthetic quality.
“A lot of people feel intimidated if they can make something realistic, and that shouldn’t be the goal,” Galvan said, “You normally hear people be happy or amazed about realistic paintings, but I don’t think that’s necessary, because that’s not always fun to everyone. Having fun is what it’s really all about.”
Visiting assistant College of Visual Arts and Design professor Donny Nie, who taught Galvan’s experimental course, said it has been “so precious” to see Galvan’s growth throughout the year. She said the openness and intimacy found in Galvan’s work is what truly encapsulates their artistic personality.
“I think their audience will really feel the warm personality of their work, which encourages direct communication between the artist and the audience,” Nie said. “That invites closer possibilities in a relationship where you could invite the formation of a community or a friendship. I find that that is a very unique possibility that lies in their practice.”
Since last October, Galvan has crafted an art community of their own through monthly sketchbook parties. There, creatives from all levels of experience are invited to join together to create in a communal environment.
Galvan, who considers themselves to be a longtime introvert, said the parties have helped them expand in both artistic and social practices. They hope that as the meetings continue, that others can grow alongside their fellow artists toward pursuing art without fear of failing to be perfect.
“Giving and receiving supportive comments while we’re making is so rewarding,” Galvan said. “Even though they might feel awkward at first, it’s a way to kind of connect more and create a stronger bond between me, them and the group as a whole. I really like that vulnerability.”
Galvan has also pursued creative collaborations with other artists of a less physical medium through what they have dubbed “Art Jams.” Joining forces with their friend, musician and university alum Joseph Sioui, Galvan and other artists would meet up with musicians to create a collaborative piece of sorts. As the musicians improvise, so do the artist, resulting in on-the-spot creations inspired by each of the two groups.
“We kind of communicate with each other through the sound and the visual of the painting,” Galvan said. “I guess it could be considered kind of like a spiritual practice too. We’re not planning what music is going to be played, what rhythm or what colors will be used. We’re completely free and improvising.”
Sioui hopes to collaborate with Galvan again, as he believes the community the two artists fostered is one of the most flexible and spontaneous he has participated in.
“When it’s right and no one is afraid, it encourages you to get out of your comfort zone and do things that are more natural to what you actually want to do,” Sioui said.
Galvan attributes their growth over the past year to fellow artists like Sioui, Nie and others they have met across other community environments. As they continue to pursue personal artistic projects, Galvan hopes others can see how others’ influence has impacted their ever evolving artistic qualities and identity.
“The community that has helped me whether they realize it or not,” Galvan said. “It’s just people showing up and being supportive that has really helped me realize I can do more things as an artist and for the people around me.”
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MAJURO, Marshall Islands, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The cryptocurrency exchange Gate.io has made its Merkle Tree Proof of Reserves solution open-source. Announced by Gate.io's Founder and CEO, Dr. Lin Han today, the exchange hopes other platforms can use its open-source solution to increase transparency and industry health and welcomes other exchanges to receive consultancy and advisory support.
In cooperation with leading U.S. firm Armanino LLP, Gate.io was the first to conduct Proof of Reserves audits in this manner back in 2020. Recently, the pair completed another audit. As outlined in a report from Armanino LLP, Gate.io holds an excess of BTC and ETH reserves at 108% and 104%, respectively.
Gate.io has been vocal about its commitment to enhancing confidence in the market since announcing the new audit this year and hopes that other exchanges will follow suit. Gate.io's audit solution combines certified third-party assessments with cryptographic Merkle Trees, one of the core components of blockchain technology. It allows users to openly and independently verify their assets are included in the audit and increases the transparency of users' balances on exchanges. Following the announcement, it is now open-source and publicly available for any exchange to implement.
100% PoR Solution: https://www.gate.io/proof_of_reserves
Open-Source on GitHub: https://github.com/gateio/proof-of-reserves
Second PoR audit report by Armanino LLP: https://proof-of-reserves.trustexplorer.io/clients/gate.io
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Some schools closed in Minnesota district where 2 were shot
Published 1:18 pm Monday, September 26, 2022
RICHFIELD — Administrators closed secondary schools in a Minnesota school district Monday after receiving online threats following a shooting during a homecoming game last week.
The Richfield School District said unspecified online threats were made early in the morning leading to the closure of the middle and high school, South Education Center and Richfield College Experience Program.
“While we have been partnering with police to investigate the credibility of the threats, due to the timing and the recent events outside our homecoming game, we have made the decision to close our secondary schools today,” the district’s announcement said.
The district did not disclose the nature of the threats or where they may have originated, the Star Tribune reported.
Officials said all elementary schools will remain open because they were not the target of the threats, however police will step up patrols during the day and extra staff will be assigned.
On Friday, two people, ages 18 and 21, were wounded by gunfire outside the football field where Richfield High School was playing its homecoming game against Bloomington Kennedy.
Richfield police announced Sunday that a 16-year-old former student and a 15-year-old current student have been arrested in the shooting. No motive was released.
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LONDON, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ZomPot (ZPOT) is a multi-asset investment opportunity project, which uses the native ZPOT token for trading, will distribute around 175,000,000 ZPOT to the public.The distributed tokens, which make up 80% of available tokens, have been designated to create a balanced ecosystem, where both everyday crypto users and dedicated crypto investors can make the most out of their ZomPot (ZPOT) investments.
The token is built on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC), which provides stability, reliability, and low transaction costs. Stability and reliability in the ZomPot (ZPOT) ecosystem will give uncertain investors proof of the value of blockchain technology, in turn drawing in new users to continue growing the project.
In the near future the company will also launch an NFT marketplace, where users can create their own tokens for use in their own metaverses. One of the biggest aspects ZomPot (ZPOT) intends to utilise is its metaverse. In this project, users will be able to create their own universes within the ZomPot (ZPOT) metaverse, including having unique tokens, which can be formed in the ZomPot (ZPOT) NFT market. For investors, this unlimited metaverse potential gives the token a huge value, and an opportunity to reach a wide crypto audience. Security is ZomPot's (ZPOT) number one priority, as it intends to be the platform to convert crypto sceptics to crypto believers. This will be done in multiple ways. By utilising the specific benefits of the Binance Smart Chain (BSC), ZomPot (ZPOT) can guarantee a reliable and secure ecosystem, where cheap transaction fees will encourage an active economy. ZomPot (ZPOT) will also bring about a reliable ecosystem through its token distribution.
ZomPot (ZPOT) aims to counter their project, to show the many benefits that investing with crypto can provide. The security of blockchain technology is one of its biggest selling points. Despite this, there is still hesitance for some in getting involved in blockchain technology and cryptocurrency.
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LEXINGTON, Ky., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tempur Sealy International, Inc. (NYSE: TPX, "Company" or "Tempur Sealy") announced today that it will participate in a fireside chat at the Piper Sandler Growth Frontiers Conference on September 14, 2022.
Date: September 14, 2022
Time: 10:00 a.m. ET / 9:00 a.m. CT
Presenter: Scott Thompson, Chairman, President and CEO
The fireside chat is being webcast and will be accessible on the Company's investor relations website at investor.tempursealy.com. Time listed is subject to change.
About Tempur Sealy International, Inc.
Tempur Sealy is committed to improving the sleep of more people, every night, all around the world. As a leading designer, manufacturer, distributor and retailer of bedding products worldwide, we know how crucial a good night of sleep is to overall health and wellness. Utilizing over a century of knowledge and industry-leading innovation, we deliver award-winning products that provide breakthrough sleep solutions to consumers in over 100 countries.
Our highly recognized brands include Tempur-Pedic®, Sealy® and Stearns & Foster® and our popular non-branded offerings consist of value-focused private label and OEM products. At Tempur Sealy we understand the importance of meeting our customers wherever and however they want to shop and have developed a powerful omni-channel retail strategy. Our products allow for complementary merchandising strategies and are sold through third-party retailers, our 650+ Company-owned stores worldwide and our e-commerce channels. With the range of our offerings and variety of purchasing options, we are dedicated to continuing to turn our mission to improve the sleep of more people, every night, all around the world into a reality.
Importantly, we are committed to carrying out our global responsibility to protect the environment and the communities in which we operate. As part of that commitment, we have established the goal of achieving carbon neutrality for our global wholly owned operations by 2040.
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MOUNT DESERT, Maine — In September of 2021, Mount Desert Island High School led the state as the first school to make the switch to electric school buses, thanks to a grant from the Volkswagen Emissions Fraud Settlement.
After one year, the school shares its opinions on how the ride has been. Operations Manager for the school, Eric Hann, says the experience has been smooth, despite a learning curve and the occasional range anxiety.
"There are some hiccups, we had some hiccups in the beginning but we're running very smooth now," Hann said.
Initially, the school faced some repairs for the bus and the realization that long field trips were not viable with the electric buses due to the restriction of miles on a single charge and lack of charging stations.
However, other positives have emerged. According to an analysis done by the Vermont Energy Investment Corporation, the Lion electric bus saved over 30,000 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions in less than a year and ranked three times as efficient as its diesel-engine counterpart.
"We've saved twenty-four hundred gallons of diesel fuel and the associated carbon emissions and my lungs," bus driver Andrew Keblinsky said. "So I like it. I like that bus."
Keblinsky has been driving diesel buses for fourteen years, and now drives electric. With his route, which he says can be rough during the winter months, he can answer the question many are wondering about:
"[If] Electric bus going to perform as well, traction wise and braking wise as bus two, which was a brand new Thomas bus, and yeah, it does," Keblinsky said.
Others are eyeing the success, with a handful of schools reaching out to MDI for advice on making the switch, according to Hann. Just this past week, Camden-Rockport schools debuted its electric school bus, ready to hit the road in a few days.
"Add into it the savings of about one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars over the life of a bus in terms of energy and maintenance. From an accounting standpoint, that's just a no-brainer," Camden-Rockport schools business manager Pete Orne affirmed.
Mount Desert Island High School is already taking the steps to acquire six more electric buses to its fleet through the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.
"I think it's the way to go. I was always skeptical of electric vehicles, but I think it's awesome," Keblinsky stated. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/education/electric-school-bus-mount-desert-island/97-ee50e54b-4995-4b41-af2d-d956f7a279bd | 2022-10-25 16:16:48 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/education/electric-school-bus-mount-desert-island/97-ee50e54b-4995-4b41-af2d-d956f7a279bd |
Baseball fans Emoke Rock and Steven Wayne were heading to another Mariners game on a warm summer evening when a light-rail train pulled into Columbia City Station, heading north toward the ballpark.
To reach the northbound platform, they needed to cross two pairs of tracks in the median of a five-lane street — first the southbound tracks, then the north. As they made their way, a southbound train rolled in from their left. The train operator perceived they were pausing, but the couple took another step. The train couldn’t stop in time.
At the final moment, Wayne was looking toward the station boarding area, while Rock, in her blue baseball jersey, glanced toward her feet and the rails, train-cab video showed.
“Neither of them looked at the approaching train,” said the investigation by King County Metro, which operates light rail for Sound Transit. Rock, a 76-year-old former real estate broker and schoolteacher, died at the scene, while the 66-year-old Wayne, also a real estate broker, was declared dead at Harborview Medical Center. The train operator went to Harborview for mental trauma.
The two fatalities make July 2, 2021, the worst day in the history of Sound Transit light rail. The crash added urgency to a project by safety managers to reduce hazards in Rainier Valley, the line’s most dangerous stretch.
Columbia City Station is within a 4-mile segment where tracks were built on the surface of Martin Luther King Jr. Way South. There, trains mix with cars, trucks, bikes and pedestrians, unlike most of the 24-mile line where tracks are elevated or tunneled.
Since service began in mid-2009, trains have hit a vehicle, person or object 136 times in the tracks of MLK Way and four at MLK Way stations. There was a total of 168 such incidents along the entire line from Angle Lake to Northgate, according to a Seattle Times review of crash reports.
Eight people have been killed and about 54 injured on MLK Way, records show. Two more people were killed and 11 injured on surface tracks in Sodo or downtown tunnel stations. Another 188 close calls were reported on MLK Way, transit consultants found, in a January draft report, released through Seattle Times public records requests.
The latest severe crash happened May 19, when a pedestrian was struck by a northbound train entering Othello Station. The woman was critically hurt.
According to Sound Transit’s preliminary notice to state and federal agencies, she was using a phone as she walked along the South Othello Street crosswalk. Instead of turning toward the station platform, she stepped into the trackway, the report said.
Throughout the MLK segment, only a few feet separate station entrances and pedestrian-control fences from the tracks, leaving transit operators unsure where people will step, until it’s too late.
Dangers predicted
The design and signals in the early 2000s were considered state-of-the-art, and still exceed federal safety requirements for urban transit. “These warning and control devices likely [have] contributed to a relatively good collision record,” the agency reported five years ago. Nearly all incidents resulted from driver or pedestrian mistakes.
Nonetheless, safety professionals nowadays echo the viewpoint neighborhood residents shouted a generation ago: Surface tracks pose a built-in threat.
“Based on the severity and probability, the risk of collision between pedestrians and LRVs [light-rail vehicles] along the MLK corridor presents an ‘undesirable’ hazard,” says a 2019 analysis by Metro safety administrators, prompted by a spike in crashes. That followed an earlier label of “unacceptable hazard” in 2017.
Beyond the human toll, collisions interrupt service between downtown and SeaTac, making light rail less reliable.
Surface collisions have received little to no political attention, but staffers at Sound Transit, Seattle Department of Transportation, and Metro formed a work group to consider gates, pedestrian spaces, train speeds and other possible safety upgrades.
Sound Transit Chief Safety Officer David H. Wright, hired in 2020, says he’s researching strategies and costs to recommend to the board this fall. Seattle City Councilmember Tammy Morales of South Seattle has called for a safety analysis by city staff by Sept. 1.
Sound Transit Chair Kent Keel said he looks forward to learning more.
“We need to come up with some improvements there because what we have seen, in terms of some incidents, shows it’s not adequate,” said Keel, a council member from University Place, Pierce County.
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy called the search for solutions in Seattle and other regions “long overdue, and a welcome shift.” Homendy compared rail and road to the aviation industry, which since the 1980s evolved from blaming pilots to a searing look at technical, ergonomic and environmental factors.
“I think, in most of these situations, what would be better is if they redesigned the crossing to separate pedestrians and cyclists and passengers from having to cross the tracks,” Homendy said. “Go under the track. Or, move the track.”
More people, more risk
Rainier Valley’s surface tracks are a legacy from the late 20th century, when the Federal Transit Administration and mid-sized cities like Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis and Denver embraced light-rail technology because it’s versatile. Trains draw electricity from an overhead power wire, enabling tracks to be built overhead like a monorail, at the surface like a streetcar, or underground like a subway. That makes construction cheaper than a New York-style train powered by an electric third rail.
Recent safety reports cite increased population and travel in Rainier Valley to explain a late-2010s rise in collisions. “System designed at grade with frequent public crossings and did not account for rapid growth of the MLK Corridor,” said a Metro root-cause analysis after the July 2 deaths.
But a thriving neighborhood and more people on foot were significant reasons to build light rail.
Sound Transit’s environmental-impact statement in 1999 predicted three pedestrian strikes and 29 vehicle collisions per year, based on frequency of crashes in other light-rail systems. A safety director and consultants who worked on that statement later said MLK would be safer than their figures suggested, because of modern design features. Sound Transit forecast only one death per 131 years caused by operator error, a finding that satisfied federal standards.
The pro-tunnel group Save Our Valley filed an unsuccessful federal lawsuit accusing Sound Transit of civil-rights violations because it chose surface tracks in the ethnically diverse, lower-income Rainier Valley, while offering underground trains to the whiter and wealthier North End.
FTA voiced the opposite rationale, arguing rail access and economic growth would benefit minority populations, to award Sound Transit a high social-equity rating and a $500 million grant.
During the 2010s, light-rail ridership grew from 18,000 to about 40,000 daily riders between downtown and SeaTac, as pedestrians and apartments arrived post-recession.
“Listen, this light rail was sold to the South End based on the investment and growth that was going to come. So now for Sound Transit to say we didn’t expect this growth and these safety issues that are arising because of the growth, is bunk,” Morales said. The neighborhood’s South Seattle Emerald has repeatedly highlighted the line’s shortcomings.
The transit agencies’ call for change is better explained by a policy shift, where exasperated safety professionals take a harder line.
They’re surfing two cultural waves. “Vision Zero” is a worldwide pledge co-signed by Seattle and Washington state to eliminate traffic casualties by 2030. The other is the Safe Systems Approach, to make travel foolproof by methodically removing hazards.
“We realize we’re dealing with human beings, who will make mistakes,” said Jim Curtin, SDOT project development director. “We need to design our systems so that when a mistake is made, the result isn’t severe injuries or death.”
Seattle attorney James S. Rogers filed formal claims against Sound Transit on May 20 on behalf of the Rock and Wayne families for unspecified dollar amounts, as the precursor to a lawsuit.
“This was predictable, this was foreseeable. This cost two lives and we don’t want to see that anymore,” Rogers said.
How crashes happen
To make surface crossings safer, it’s useful to know how crashes happen.
The most common types involved drivers in left-turn lanes of MLK Way who ran red-light arrows, crash reports show.
Others made left or U-turns from through lanes, into the tracks, which caused the only motorist death.
“It’s exceedingly dangerous,” said Scott Parr, a professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida who has researched grade crossings. “You don’t look back on the left, because you’re worried about the oncoming car hitting you on the passenger side.”
From the outset, Sound Transit installed signs above road lanes that flash a train icon when trains approach.
Nonetheless, some people missed them and collided with trains.
“The signs are not big enough for me,” a 78-year-old driver told police. A trucker said he was following GPS prompts before an impact that spilled cases of Mountain Dew into the street. A British Columbia man, visiting for dragon boat races, was unfamiliar with MLK Way traffic lights. An Oregon man in Seattle for medical care tried a U-turn while experiencing a reaction to low blood sugar. Seven people drove or ran from vehicles after hitting trains. Police arrested another for drunken driving.
“Most of the events that happen are not high severity,” said Molly Hughes, state rail-safety coordinator. “It’s almost like you’re getting lucky. If enough of these fender-bender accidents happen, eventually one of those is going to be really, really bad.”
Most of the 168 crashes were ruled “non-preventable,” meaning an alert operator could not have avoided impact, or that a safety officer said trains were operated correctly. About 10% were ruled preventable, or the train operator’s actions were deemed a contributing factor, or someone was sent to retraining.
Of the 10 fatalities along the entire line, nine were pedestrians, including two determined to be suicides.
A misstep can put somebody within the airspace of an approaching train.
A woman suffered minor head and leg injuries when she leaned over a steel pedestrian-refuge fence between trackways at Columbia City Station. A man crossing at South Holly Street was whacked in the face by a train “beyond the yellow line” next to a fence; the police report said he and a companion smelled of marijuana. A 38-year-old man was hospitalized in late 2020 after stepping past the pedestrian corral into a train he didn’t notice at South Thistle Street.
Some had hoodies that blocked peripheral vision, or wore earphones. Two teenage girls were hit by a train they didn’t see while running to a bus near South Graham Street. An Olympia man going to a Mariners game was killed in 2013 by a southbound train at Rainier Beach Station while he rushed to meet a northbound train.
Metro field observers found 30% to 60% of all pedestrians walk against red signals, though most look for cars and trains. Long waits, such as 70 seconds between pedestrian signals at Columbia City Station, create temptations to walk on red.
Safety solutions
In recent months, new signs were installed at Columbia City, Othello and Rainier Beach stations near pedestrian level. They stay dark until trains arrive, then flash a railcar icon toward walkways and boarding platforms. They’re augmented by the phrase “ANOTHER TRAIN COMING” during dual passes.
Seattle DOT also improved electronic warning signs for drivers in 27 locations, so the traditional train icon now alternates with a no-left-turn symbol, said Dusty Rasmussen, Seattle’s interim traffic operations director.
The process moves slowly. SDOT hoped to complete flashing pedestrian signs by December 2018, which slid to September 2020. Officials blamed a three-month fabrication time, and “resource ability this year to install signs due to COVID,” agency logs say. Most are now in place, and the project should be complete in late 2022, Rasmussen said.
X-shaped icons with the letters R/R, known as a crossbuck, have been stenciled onto left-turn lanes.
Jittery train operators in Sodo took it upon themselves years ago to decelerate and blow horns after accidents and close calls at South Holgate Street, near a drug-treatment center and encampments. Sound Transit built gates for pedestrians to swing open, as a reminder of train presence. Still, from March to November 2020, Metro recorded eight “unsafe events” of trespassers, one of whom appeared to be resting on the ground when a train struck and injured him.
After the deaths last summer at Columbia City Station, Metro Transit Safety Administrator Jonathan Flomerfelt suggested horn blasts become routine at Rainier Valley crossings, but noted there are anti-noise agreements with the city.
His team is also looking to lower speeds through MLK Way to 25 mph, said a Sound Transit report after the fatal July 2 crash.
Trains require 7 to 8.5 seconds including operators reaction time, and roll 180 to 257 feet, to brake from Sound Transit’s standard 35 mph cruising speed to zero.
In Metro’s opinion, dropping to a 25 mph standard will be essential to improve the line’s official “undesirable” safety rating (probable vehicle collisions, and/or occasional serious pedestrian injuries) to “acceptable with management review,” a report said.
Passengers would lose 2½ minutes per trip, studies say. That could make transit a less-appealing alternative to driving for airport travelers and South King County commuters.
Morales wonders if greater frequency could offset time losses, if trains arrive every 7½ minutes rather than 10 minutes apart.
That might require more railcars at $4 million each. Signal re-timings would snarl motorists. “This is likely a multi-year process,” the safety-team log acknowledges.
For now, safety administrators have enacted an experimental 20 mph operating rule since September, just before trains approach three Rainier Valley stations.
More options appear in a Sound Transit safety team planning study, written in January 2022 by consulting firm David Evans and Associates, that leans heavily on Los Angeles Metro pilot projects:
- Short gates, as used in parking garages, could deter driving through left-turn lanes on red.
- SDOT could install red-light enforcement cameras at Sound Transit crossings, like the new Crenshaw Line to LAX.
- Red pavement lights parallel to the rails, flashing when trains pass, have reduced illegal turns in field tests, researchers at Cal State-Fullerton found.
- Handheld swing gates, like those in Sodo, are also suggested for Rainier Valley. Seattle DOT already decided to install more Z-shaped steel fences, which force pedestrians to look toward trains, Rasmussen said.
- A few awkward intersections, notably MLK at South Dawson Street, could add a left-turn lane northbound, so confused drivers don’t turn from a northbound thru lane.
The new report mentions, but doesn’t propose, some curbs and barriers at secondary street crossings to block drivers from turning toward rails in the medians. Cars would enter MLK Way from side streets via right-turns only.
Some cities, such as Austin, are considering state-of-the-art “quadrant gates” that block car intrusions from all angles for commuter trains. But four gates plus signals cost at least $1 million per crossing.
Sound Transit eschewed gates on MLK Way while designing the line in the ’00s, to save on cost and land. Federal regulations allow gateless crossings for trains 35 mph or slower. (Sound Transit does operate three sets of conventional train gates in Sodo where tracks aren’t splitting a city street.)
The FTA is studying high-tech devices nationally, such as radar and lasers to detect obstacles farther than a train operator can see; visual and alarm warnings that shoo people off the tracks; or automated braking alerts that calculate real-time crash probability. Brain and eye-monitoring devices could check operator alertness.
Rebuild the railway?
A foolproof solution — move the valley’s tracks overhead or underground — hasn’t been debated. Grade separation would enable quicker travel, or automation like Vancouver, B.C.’s SkyTrain.
Transit-board member Claudia Balducci of Bellevue, who chairs the system expansion committee, called the Rainier Valley segment “an outlier” that produces too many collisions, making grade separation a fair long-term question. “I think we need to find a way to start talking about it,” she said.
Elevated guideways cost roughly $250 million per mile, plus the challenge to install tracks among live trains. A shallow tunnel alongside might be simpler but require severe traffic closures.
“That’s in the billions of dollars, and a lot of concrete. That’s a number with a B in it,” said Keel. “That kind of number would require voters to vote on it.”
Seattle Subway, a volunteer advocacy group, considers such a do-over unrealistic. Members prefer an express line from downtown to Georgetown and SeaTac, while Rainier Valley tracks endure as a slower local loop, Executive Director Efrain Hudnell said.
NTSB’s Homendy said service and safety on Amtrak’s high-speed Northeast Corridor have benefitted from retrofits that separate roads from trains. She’d endorse that strategy for Seattle, even at $1 billion or $2 billion, to prevent future suffering.
“When you’re talking about somebody’s life, that’s priceless,” she said.
Even a couple billion dollars is a fraction of Sound Transit’s latest financial plan, which totals $142 billion from 2017 to 2046, to build and operate 12 rail and bus lines serving 750,000 people a day. Sound Transit is expecting a $2.8 billion long-term boost in federal aid based on Biden administration infrastructure packages.
Keel says residents across Snohomish, King and Pierce counties would take a dim view of another construction try in Rainier Valley, while their own communities don’t have trains yet. | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/the-worst-spots-for-light-rail-crashes-in-seattle-and-how-to-fix-them/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-06-19 14:21:29 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/the-worst-spots-for-light-rail-crashes-in-seattle-and-how-to-fix-them/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Warmer weather is well on its way and the sun is shining brighter than ever.
But it’s not all smiles when it comes to sunshine. We dove in to the importance of protecting ourselves from the heat and sun.
“A lot of people don’t realize this but heat is the number one related weather killer. So anything that you have that can kill you weather-related, heat is the number one killer,” KX News Meteorologist Amber Wheeler said.
She explained what the warning signs of heat exhaustion and heat stroke are and the best way to stay cool in heated situations.
“Things to watch out for would be being faint or dizzy, pale clammy skin and of course muscle cramps. A lot of folks get that when they’re outdoors. But then things start getting into that danger zone if you will, into the heatstroke possibility here. When you get that throbbing headache, and the big one here is no sweating. That means that your body has lost all the moisture that it’s using to cool itself down,” said Wheeler.
It doesn’t take long for a person or a pet to get heat exhaustion, even in cooler temperatures.
“SLeaving your pets in your car, even with a relatively cool day, the 60s and 70s can be dangerous. That sun just heats up the inside of that car, and when it heats that up on the inside, it has nowhere to go when the windows are shut. So, it just continues to heat up until you, of course, open up a door to let that heat out,” Wheeler added.
If you or someone you know is experiencing heat exhaustion, it’s best to get indoors to cool down and drink water.
If things get into the danger zone and you begin to experience heat stroke symptoms, call 911 immediately.
And there are other potential threats that the sun can have on our health.
Kylie Buccholz, a nurse practitioner at the Institute of Facial Surgery & Skin, explained what dangers the sun’s rays can have on the skin.
“The sun causes multiple issues for us. So number one is skin cancer. We know that the UVA and UVB affect our skin and can damage our DNA, which then leads to cancer. But also, it causes photodamage or dark spots on the face and on the body and then premature aging,” Buccholz said.
Buccholz says sunscreen acts as a chemical and physical barrier between the sun and our skin. So when should it be applied and what kind should you use?
“The one thing that everybody should know about sunscreen is that it should be reapplied every two hours.
That is how long it takes to break down on our skin. So an SPF 30 blocks about 97% of the sun’s rays, but there’s no sunscreen out there that protects us 100 percent. So as long as you have an SPF 30 or above, you’re pretty well protected,” she added.
Sunburns can come when you least expect it. What most people don’t realize is you can still get burned by the sun even behind the wheel.
“A surprising thing is that we always see more photodamage on the left side of the face. That’s because our car window isn’t UV protected. So, most of our sun damage that we get throughout our life is cumulative.
So, yes, it’s damaging to lay outside in the sun in the summer, but more of that damage comes from having that window on the left side. So that’s why reapplication is super important. Even if you’re just hopping in your car,” Buccholz said.
You don’t always have to be under direct sunlight to receive the harmful effects of the sun’s UV rays.
“People think that even when it’s cloudy out we don’t need sunscreen. But even with the clouds, about 80 percent of the sun’s rays still penetrate through that. So, it’s important that we wear sunscreen every single day because we’re always being exposed,” Buccholz said.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma is suing the Federal Bureau of Prisons for custody of a state death row inmate whom the bureau is refusing to hand over, with the state saying the man’s scheduled execution cannot be carried out in December if he’s not returned soon.
A federal lawsuit was filed Tuesday by state Attorney General John O’Connor urging that the bureau be ordered to transfer John Hanson back to Oklahoma by Nov. 9 from a federal prison in Pollock, Louisiana. That lawsuit, which also names three federal prison officials, has the support of Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler.
Hanson, 58, has a clemency hearing set for Nov. 9. Unless clemency is recommended and granted by Gov. Kevin Stitt, the inmate is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Dec. 15 for his conviction in the 1999 killing of an elderly woman.
Mary Agnes Bowles, 77, was killed in a carjacking and kidnapping outside a Tulsa mall in 1999.
The U.S. Justice Department under Democratic President Joe Biden — who has vowed to work to end the death penalty — announced last year that it was halting federal executions. That step came after a historic use of capital punishment under Donald Trump’s presidency, with 13 executions carried out in six months. The Bureau of Prisons’ refusal to turn over Hanson raises questions about whether the agency is using its power to deliver on the president’s political pledge.
Hanson is serving a life sentence for numerous federal convictions, including being a career criminal, that predate his state death sentence.
Attorneys listed as representing Hanson did not return phone calls for comment Thursday.
Kunzweiler said he asked O’Connor’s support for the return of the inmate. The district attorney said he sought the attorney general’s help after his August letter requesting Hanson’s transfer was denied by the warden of the Louisiana facility as being “not in the public’s best interest.”
The decision was “infuriating,” Kunzweiler said.
“I’ve never in my 33 years as a prosecutor encountered this level of refusal to transfer an inmate from one jurisdiction to another,” Kunzweiler said.
After being contacted by Kunzweiler, O’Connor sent a request for Hanson’s transfer to Bureau of Prisons Regional Director Heriberto Tellez in Grand Prairie, Texas, which also was denied.
“As inmate Hanson is presently subject to a life term imposed in federal court, his transfer to state authorities for a state execution is not in the public interest,” according to the Oct. 17 letter from Tellez.
Robert Dunham, executive director of the national Death Penalty Information Center, said he is unaware of the bureau previously declining to transfer an inmate to a state for execution. But he noted that such a transfer is not required.
“The question here is, is this an abuse of discretion (by the bureau),” Dunham said. “It’s hard to make a determination about that because the letter doesn’t explain.”
Dunham said it was not clear whether the refusal to transfer Hanson is related to the federal government’s halting of executions under the Biden administration.
“Given Oklahoma’s history of botched executions, that’s an appropriate question,” Dunham said.
The prisons bureau declined comment, citing the official’s previous responses.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, which represents the BOP, also declined to comment and said a response will be filed by the expedited Oct. 30 deadline set by the court.
The lawsuit, filed in the Northern District of Texas because that is where Tellez is based, contends Oklahoma faces “imminent harm” if Hanson is not returned.
“Oklahoma’s execution policy begins thirty-five days prior to the execution date” of Dec. 15, according to the filing. “The Oklahoma Department of Corrections must be able to initiate the process on Nov. 10, 2022, with Hanson in custody before that date.”
The filing also argues that the federal government’s refusal to surrender Hanson usurps the state’s authority.
“Defendants have also, in essence, lawlessly threatened to commute Hanson’s sentence to life imprisonment,” from the death penalty he received.
Oklahoma has put to death six inmates since resuming executions in October 2021. The state had one of the nation’s busiest death chambers until problems in 2014 and 2015 led to a de facto moratorium. That included prison officials realizing they received the wrong lethal drug just hours away from executing Richard Glossip in September 2015. It was later learned the same wrong drug had been used to execute an inmate in January 2015.
The drug mix-ups followed a botched execution in April 2014 in which inmate Clayton Lockett struggled on a gurney before dying 43 minutes into his lethal injection — and after the state’s prisons chief ordered executioners to stop.
The state’s next scheduled execution, that of Richard Stephen Fairchild for the beating death of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son in 1993, is set for Nov. 17.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson is retiring from full-time racing.
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MIDLAND, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) – We’re about a month into tax season and its in full swing. The internal revenue services began accepting and processing 2022 tax year returns.
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Teen says she was sexually assaulted by boys at Greg Norman’s home after being served alcohol
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — LIV Golf leader Greg Norman and his wife are being sued by a high school girl who says she was sexually assaulted at their Florida home by two boys during a party where alcohol was served to her, her alleged attackers and other minors.
The lawsuit alleges that Norman, 68, and his wife, interior designer Kirsten Kutner, served alcohol to minors during a pool party her teenage daughter hosted for her Oxbridge Academy classmates and other teens at their Palm Beach Gardens mansion in September 2021.
The girl and her parents allege that Kutner served her daughter and the girl drinks before other guests arrived.
More alcohol was served throughout the party, the lawsuit alleges, and the girl became “incapable of standing on her own and was seen stumbling around the party.”
The girl alleges that two boys, who also had been drinking at the party, then sexually assaulted her on the grass next to the pool.
The lawsuit, which was filed in March, alleges that Norman and Kutner failed to ensure the girl’s safety, well-being and sobriety at their home by illegally providing alcohol to her and the other teens.
The lawsuit is seeking unspecified damages for pain, suffering, mental anguish and loss of enjoyment.
Norman leads the controversial, Saudi-backed LIV Golf tour, which announced last week that it would merge with the PGA and European tours.
Attorneys for the girl did not immediately respond to a phone call seeking comment. The names of the girl, her parents and the alleged assailants are not given in the lawsuit.
A Norman spokesperson had no immediate comment Friday. Norman and Kutner have been married since 2010. The daughter named in the lawsuit is Kutner’s from a previous relationship. The couple purchased the 12,000-square-foot (1,100-square-meter) mansion five months before the alleged attack for $12 million, tax records show.
Norman, a native Australian, won 20 PGA tournaments and another 71 internationally, including two wins at the British Open. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2001.
Norman has also had a successful business career, including golf course design, clothing, wine and real estate. Forbes Magazine estimates his net worth at $400 million.
A spokesperson for the Palm Beach Gardens police department did not immediately return a phone call asking whether a criminal complaint was ever filed by the girl or her parents.
The lawsuit was first reported Friday by The Daily Mail.
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Police say Aviani Brown, 1, was last seen wearing a white beanie, black jacket, a gray onesie with the word “Unity” and orange sweatpants. She has black hair and brown eyes and weighs 23 lbs.
The suspect is Jaeshaun Brown, 20. He is a Black man, 5’7″ and 130 lbs, and has brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing black clothing.
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The suspect vehicle is a white 2020 Honda Accord with the license plate number PJB2582.
Call the San Antonio Police Department at 210-207-7660 with any information.
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Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says the numbers are upsetting.
“As a father and an educator, it’s disturbing,” Cardona said.
He blames both the pandemic and the Trump administration for the scores.
“The efforts were not there to safely reopen schools. It was a lot of rhetoric but no action,” Cardona said.
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“We are pedal to the medal to help kids achieve, recover and thrive,” Weingarten said.
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SCOTTSDALE, AZ — Police say a suspect who shot a Scottsdale officer and died in a separate police shooting was a “violent criminal” with a criminal history.
Scottsdale police announced Thursday that an initial incident occurred in October 2022 when there were reports of a violent sexual assault involving a 70-year-old victim.
The victim told police the suspect got into the victim's apartment through an open patio door and had a weapon during the assault. Video was obtained throughout the investigation showing a possible suspect and vehicle.
In November, police released information asking the public for help, and the community was able to provide anonymous tips leading to the suspect's identity.
Officials worked for several months to confirm information about the attack and the suspect, who was later identified as 37-year-old Kenneth Hearne.
In January, Hearne moved from being a witness to a person of interest and knew that police were looking for him. Police say Hearne was avoiding officers throughout the investigation.
Hearne was located on Jan. 6 in downtown Phoenix, which is when a police shooting occurred while officers were attempting to serve a search warrant. Hearne reportedly shot through a wall and hit a Scottsdale officer in the abdomen before fleeing the scene.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB).
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WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, October 25, 2022
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FREEZE WARNING
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
302 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30.
* WHERE...Bailey, Cochran, Hale, Lamb, Castro, Parmer, and Swisher
Counties.
* WHEN...Until 9 AM CDT today.
* IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other
sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor
plumbing.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
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Texas plans to place charging stations for electric cars every 50 miles on most interstates
AUSTIN, Texas (THE TEXAS TRIBUNE) - Texas is planning to add enough electric vehicle charging stations throughout the state to support 1 million electric vehicles with dozens of new stations to allow for easier long-distance travel.
In a draft plan released this month, the Texas Department of Transportation broke down a five-year plan to create a network of chargers throughout the state, starting along main corridors and interstate highways before building stations in rural areas.
The plan is to have charging stations every 50 miles along most non-business interstate routes.
In most other areas in the state, there will be charging stations within 70 miles, according to the plan. Each station is designed to have multiple stalls so there will likely be one available whenever someone stops to charge.
The chargers will be high-powered at 150kW, able to bring most electric vehicles from 10% to 80% in about half an hour, according to the report.
The funding is coming from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed last year, which is estimated to allocate about $408 million over five years to Texas for the purpose of expanding its electric vehicle charging network. No funds from the state budget will be used. Nationally, the goal is to create a network of 500,000 convenient and reliable electric vehicle chargers by 2030. In total from the infrastructure act, Texas is expected to receive about $35.44 billion over five years for roads, bridges, pipes, ports, broadband access and other projects.
Less than 1% of Texans’ registered vehicles are electric. As of May 31, there were 129,010 electric vehicles registered in Texas, according to the report.
“However, since 2020, the total number of electric vehicles across Texas has nearly tripled as more people adopt the technology,” TxDOT stated in its report. “With rapidly growing adoption rates, it is necessary to ensure Texas will be able to meet the demand of these new vehicles on the road.”
The state is gathering public comment on the plan, after which it will be finalized. To receive the funds, TxDOT must submit a finalized plan by Aug. 1 to the Federal Highway Administration.
Officials plan to award contracts for construction starting in January.
During the first year of implementation, Texas plans to add around 48 new locations to satisfy the 50-mile FHWA requirement. This is in addition to 27 existing private sector locations and 26 planned locations funded by a separate grant.
The next year, the focus will turn to stations in rural counties, small urban areas and areas advised by metropolitan planning organizations.
After that, during the third through fifth year of implementation, Texas will continue building out charging infrastructure in smaller and rural areas. The report states that charging stations might be equipped with a combination of solar and battery equipment to supplement their power supplies.
Gov. Greg Abbott stressed the importance of including rural areas in TxDOT’s plan in a March 22 letter.
“Texas’ sheer volume of roadway miles leaves ample opportunity for EV charging deployment. The plan should ensure that every Texan can access the infrastructure they need to charge an EV,” Abbott wrote. “Additionally, I direct TxDOT and stakeholders to include in the plan a way for Texans to easily get from Beaumont to El Paso and Texline to Brownsville in an EV–with a focus on rural placement and connectivity.”
Chandra Bhat, a University of Texas transportation engineering professor and the director of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Center on Data-Supported Transportation Operations and Planning, said the additional charging stations are a welcome upgrade to Texas transportation. Some of Bhat’s research has been funded by TxDOT.
Bhat said there are several barriers to electric vehicle adoption by consumers: the upfront cost, anxiety over how far a driver can travel and the wait times for charging.
This new plan addresses range anxiety by providing many options only 50 miles apart — however, it doesn’t address cost or fully address wait times, he said. Although the planned chargers will be high speed, it still takes around half an hour, he said. A driver might not know how long they may have to wait if someone else is already using the stalls.
That uncertainty can cause consumers to pass on purchasing electric vehicles altogether, he said.
Bhat said he thinks allowing drivers to reserve charging stations at specific times might help reduce that uncertainty. But still, Bhat said he is optimistic that more people will adopt electric vehicles in Texas due to the planned infrastructure upgrades. He also hopes the state will invest in putting information in front of consumers about the increased availability of chargers.
“We will see a clear uptick in the next two or three years, I believe,” Bhat said. “And if we get an announcement that batteries are going to be lasting longer and are going to be less expensive, you’re gonna see them bought by the droves.”
Texas plans to place charging stations for electric cars every 50 miles on most interstates was originally published in The Texas Tribune. The Texas Tribune is a nonpartisan, nonprofit media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them – about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.
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WASHINGTON, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA has selected Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to advance spacewalking capabilities in low-Earth orbit and at the Moon, by buying services that provide astronauts with next generation spacesuit and spacewalk systems to work outside the International Space Station, explore the lunar surface on Artemis missions, and prepare for human missions to Mars.
The awards leverage NASA expertise with commercial innovation to support continued science at the orbiting laboratory and long-term human exploration at the Moon under Artemis, including landing the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface.
"With these awards, NASA and our partners will develop advanced, reliable spacesuits that allow humans to explore the cosmos unlike ever before," said Vanessa Wyche, director of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. "By partnering with industry, we are efficiently advancing the necessary technology to keep Americans on a path of successful discovery on the International Space Station and as we set our sights on exploring the lunar surface."
The companies selected were chosen from the Exploration Extravehicular Activity Services (xEVAS) contract solicitation. The contract enables selected vendors to compete for task orders for missions that will provide a full suite of capabilities for NASA's spacewalking needs during the period of performance through 2034. The indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity, milestone-based xEVAS contract has a combined maximum potential value of $3.5 billion for all task order awards. The first task orders to be competed under the contract will include the development and services for the first demonstration outside the space station in low-Earth orbit and for the Artemis III lunar landing.
Each partner has invested a significant amount of its own money into development. Partners will own the spacesuits and are encouraged to explore other non-NASA commercial applications for data and technologies they co-develop with NASA. This new approach to spacewalk services encourages an emerging commercial market for a range of customers, and grants NASA the right to use the same data and technologies within the agency and on future exploration program procurements.
NASA experts defined the technical and safety standards by which the spacesuits will be built, and the chosen companies agreed to meet these key agency requirements. The commercial partners will be responsible for design, development, qualification, certification, and production of spacesuits and support equipment to enable space station and Artemis missions.
"Our commercial partnerships will help realize our human exploration goals," said Mark Kirasich, deputy associate administrator of NASA's Artemis Campaign Development Division. "We look forward to using these services for NASA's continued presence in low-Earth orbit and our upcoming achievement of returning American astronauts to the Moon's surface. We are confident our collaboration with industry and leveraging NASA's expertise gained through over 60 years of space exploration will enable us to achieve these goals together."
The agency will continue to make flight- and ground-based test data from NASA-led space station spacewalks and NASA's Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU) development project available to companies through the EVA Technical Library. This will encourage an accelerated transition to industry while reducing risks and providing access to previous NASA investments in advanced exploration spacesuit development.
NASA designed the contract to endure and evolve with needs of the agency and space industry. The contract also provides the agency with an optional mechanism to add additional vendors that were not selected in the original award announcement as the commercial space services market evolves.
The xEVAS contract is managed by the EVA & Human Surface Mobility Program at NASA Johnson. NASA's goal is to provide safe, reliable, and effective capabilities that allow astronauts to survive and work outside the confines of a spacecraft to maintain space station and explore the areas on and around the Moon.
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Moscow-held regions of Ukraine in ‘sham’ vote to join Russia
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Voting began Friday in Moscow-held regions of Ukraine on referendums to become part of Russia, Russian-backed officials there said.
The Kremlin-orchestrated referendums, which have been widely denounced by Ukraine and the West as shams without any legal force, are seen as a step toward annexing the territories by Russia.
The votes are being held in the Luhansk, Kherson and partly Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions.
The vote, which asks residents if they want their regions to be part of Russia, is certain to go Moscow’s way. That would give Russia the pretext to claim that attempts by Ukrainian forces to regain control are attacks on Russia itself, dramatically escalating the seven-month war.
The referendums follow Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order of a partial mobilization, which could add about 300,000 Russian troops to the fight. The balloting will continue for five days through Tuesday.
As the votes was getting underway in the occupied regions, Russian social media sites were full of dramatic scenes of tearful families bidding farewell to men departing from military mobilization centers. In cities across the vast country, men hugged their weeping family members before departing as part of the draft. Russian anti-war activists, in the meantime, planned more protests against the mobilization.
Election officials will be bringing ballots to people’s homes and setting up makeshift polling stations near residential buildings during the first four days of the referendums, according to Russian-installed officials in the occupied regions, who cited safety reasons. Tuesday will be the only day when the voters will be invited to come to regular polls.
Polls also opened in Russia, where refugees from the occupied regions can cast their votes.
Denis Pushilin, separatist leader of Moscow-backed authorities in the Donetsk region, called the referendum on Friday “a historical milestone.”
Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, addressed the occupied regions Friday in an online statement, saying: “If you decide to become part of the Russian Federation — we will support you.”
Valentina Matviyenko, chair of Russia’s upper parliament house, said that residents of the occupied regions were voting for “life or death” at the referendums.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy only briefly mentioned the “sham referenda” in his nightly address in which he switched from speaking in Ukrainian to Russian to directly tell Russian citizens they are being “thrown to their deaths.”
“You are already accomplices in all these crimes, murders and torture of Ukrainians,” he said. “Because you were silent. Because you are silent. And now it’s time for you to choose. For men in Russia, this is a choice to die or live, to become a cripple or to preserve health. For women in Russia, the choice is to lose their husbands, sons, grandchildren forever, or still try to protect them from death, from war, from one person.”
The voting takes place against the backdrop of incessant fighting in Ukraine, with Russian and Ukrainian forces exchanging fire as both sides refuse to concede ground.
On Friday morning, pro-Russia officials in the Zaporizhzhia region reported a loud blast in the center of Melitopol, a city that Moscow captured early on in the war. Official Vladimir Rogov didn’t offer any details as to what caused the explosion and whether there was damage and casualties.
Moscow-backed authorities in the Donetsk region also accused Ukrainian forces of shelling the city of Donetsk, the region’s capital, and the nearby city of Yasynuvata.
Ukrainian officials, in turn, reported new rounds of Russian shelling in various parts of the country. Vitaliy Kim, governor of the Mykolaiv region in southern Ukraine that borders the Kherson region, said explosions rang out in the city of Mykolaiv in the early hours of Friday.
Valentyn Reznichenko, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, said the Russians unleashed a barrage of shelling on Nikopol, a city across from the Dnieper River from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, on Friday morning.
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The Copper Village Museum and Art Center and Discover Anaconda are preparing for their Oktoberfest celebration.
"Oktoberfest has been running for a long time, more than 25 years," said Shannon Warner.
Shannon Warner, the director of Copper Village museum and art center, has been hard at work planning Anaconda’s Oktoberfest as a thank you to the community in support of what they do.
"We hold a lot of events for our fundraising purposes, but this one was always meant to be a thank you," said Warner.
It’s a celebration of the seasons changing and Anaconda’s diverse communities.
When Anaconda was founded in 1883, Irish, Italian, and Slavic immigrants created the earliest enclaves in the Smelter City. In the 1890s, Germans, Scandinavians, and African Americans moved in to work at the copper smelter.
The celebration will start inside the Copper Village Museum and Art Center where food and craft vendors will be located. Outside in Friendship Park is where the Brewfest will be happening at 2 PM.
During Brewfest, there will be six different breweries from across Montana serving drinks, a stein hoisting competition, a lederhosen competition, and more.
"This is just another event to bring more people to Anaconda and see what we can offer and just kind of welcome that fall going into wintertime," said Fuller.
The celebration begins October 8 at 9 AM. It will cost $20 to enter the Brew fest. There will also be a golf tournament at the Old Works golf course. | https://www.kbzk.com/news/montana-news/annual-oktoberfest-event-returning-to-anaconda | 2022-09-28 23:23:35 | 1 | https://www.kbzk.com/news/montana-news/annual-oktoberfest-event-returning-to-anaconda |
The latest northeast Wisconsin weather forecast from Storm Team 5…
Clouds and scattered light rain showers to begin Wednesday. This will mainly be for the morning, then the clouds should break up for some sunshine in the afternoon/evening. Highs will be hit in the evening on either side of 60 degrees.
Some of your evening will be dry, but we’ll keep an eye on some possible thundershowers to move in from the north from 7pm to midnight tonight. After midnight the clouds will be clearing a bit. The low is 51 degrees.
Warmer again tomorrow as highs span the 70s in northeast Wisconsin! Sunny in the morning, but we’ll keep a close eye on a chance for PM thunderstorms. The possible storms for the evening/overnight could be strong with a slight risk for severe weather. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/weather/unsettled-weather-with-off-on-rain-and-thunderstorms/ | 2022-05-18 11:36:41 | 1 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/weather/unsettled-weather-with-off-on-rain-and-thunderstorms/ |
NEW ORLEANS – Sunny skies and unusually warm weather fueled the street party fervor in New Orleans as the city celebrated Mardi Gras — Fat Tuesday — the annual, ebullient climax of Carnival season, marked by shoulder-to-shoulder crowds on raucous Bourbon Street and thousand lining St. Charles Avenue for family-friendly parades.
Celebrations began before dawn in some parts of the city. TV crews captured images of The North Side Skull and Bones Gang — skeleton-costumed revelers — spreading out through the Tremé area to awaken people for Mardi Gras. As the sun rose, parade watchers were already claiming spots along the parade route. Barbecue smells wafted through the Central Business District.
Revelers were undeterred by violence that marred a glitzy weekend parade. Gunfire that broke out during a parade Sunday night left a teenager dead and four others injured, including a 4-year-old girl. Police quickly arrested Mansour Mbodj, 21, for illegally carrying a weapon, then upgraded the charge to second-degree murder.
Officials stressed Monday that the shooting was an isolated event.
“It's discouraging, but it's not going to stop me from coming,” said Roz Walker, 55. She and her friend Tracy Dunbar are Baton Rouge residents who were among the crowd awaiting the parades of the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club and the Rex Organization. They have been visiting New Orleans on Mardi Gras for decades.
“In our 40-plus years of coming to Mardi Gras we've never been involved in a situation at all,” she said.
First-time Mardi Gras participant Ken Traylor of Houston had heard about the shooting, but shrugged it off. “I just think you have to be careful with your surroundings,” he said. “Things happen nowadays everywhere."
Crime has contributed to dissatisfaction with New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell. She won reelection easily in 2021, but has suffered a myriad of political problems since, including criticism about crime, the slow pace of major street repairs and questions over her personal use of a city-owned French Quarter apartment.
A recall petition launched last year is nearing a Wednesday deadline. One of the organizers, Eileen Carter, said she believes the movement has enough signatures, but will make a last-minute push.
“We're going to have people canvassing the parade routes,” Carter said. “That's been really helpful to us.”
There was no sign of political rancor as Cantrell watched St. Charles Avenue parades from a restricted access reviewing stand with city council members in front of Gallier Hall, the 19th century Greek Revival style building that once served as City Hall. She greeted leaders with hearty shouts of “Hail Zulu!” and “Hail Rex,” traditional mayoral tributes.
It was in stark contrast to a scene from the weekend when Cantrell was captured in a social media video gesturing with her middle-finger as a parade passed a city reviewing stand. What sparked the gesture was unclear. The mayor's press office did not respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press. A statement given to The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate shed little light.
“Mardi Gras is a time where satire and jest are on full display,” spokesperson Gregory Joseph said in a prepared statement. “The city has been enjoying a safe and healthy Carnival,” the statement said, adding that the mayor was looking forward to continuing the celebration.
It was a continuous costume party along French Quarter streets, where carnival revelers typically gather for a more naughty experience. Attire ran the gamut from skimpy lingerie to full nun's habits. Some costumes shimmered with sequins. Some evoked historical eras. And some evoked current events.
Jerome FitzGibbons wore a phony nose, mustache and glasses and carried binoculars as he strolled Chartres Street with a large white sphere strapped to the top of his head — he was a Chinese spy balloon. He and his similarly-clad wife, Jennifer, moved to New Orleans from New Jersey.
“This is our kind of crazy,” she said.
Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is the culmination of Carnival season, which officially begins each year on Jan. 6, the 12th day after Christmas, and closes with the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday.
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany plans to buy more than 100 Australian-made combat vehicles as it moves ahead with plans to modernize its armed forces, the government said Thursday.
German and Australian officials signed an agreement to cooperate on the procurement of the new combat reconnaissance vehicles, based on the Boxer family of armored fighting vehicles and equipped with a 30-millimeter gun. The aim is for deliveries to start in 2025, the Defense Ministry said.
It didn’t give a price for the purchase. However, it said the money will come from a special 100 billion-euro ($108 billion) fund for the modernization of the military that Germany approved after Russia invaded Ukraine last year.
The new vehicles will replace the German army’s Wiesel 2 armored vehicles, the Defense Ministry said.
Germany’s military is widely acknowledged to be suffering from years of neglect and in particular from aging, poorly functioning equipment.
The German government has faced criticism for making a slow start to spending the special fund, but has said that 30 billion euros has already been committed to contracts.
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Al Roker to return to the ‘Today’ show this week
Published: Jan. 3, 2023 at 2:29 PM EST|Updated: 49 minutes ago
(CNN) – Fans of the “Today” show are getting some good news.
Al Roker is set to return to the show Friday.
The longtime weatherman has been out of work since November after a blood clot in his leg traveled to his lungs.
The blood clot led to two hospitalizations.
Roker missed weeks of work, and the issue also caused him to miss hosting the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the lighting of the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center.
Roker’s presence has been a staple at both of those traditions for years.
His co-workers on the show announced his expected return Tuesday.
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- ~$710 million unaudited 2022 total revenue, representing an impressive over 30% year-over-year growth –
- $940 million - $1.0 billion 2023 total revenue guidance –
- Results from three registration-directed clinical trials expected in 2023 –
- One additional registration-directed clinical trial expected to initiate in 2023 –
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J., Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTCT) will present an update on its commercial progress and R&D pipeline at the 41st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference today, Monday January 9, at 10:30am EST/7:30am PST. Matthew Klein, M.D., Chief Operating Officer of PTC Therapeutics, will provide an update on 2022 accomplishments and highlight upcoming 2023 potential value-creating milestones. Preliminary 2022 unaudited financial results and 2023 financial guidance will also be provided. The presentation will be webcast live on the Events and Presentations page of the Investors section of PTC Therapeutics website at www.ptcbio.com.
- Upstaza™, the first direct-administered gene therapy into the brain, was approved in the EU and UK for AADC deficiency patients.
- Unaudited net product revenue of $535 million in 2022 representing 25% year-over-year growth.
- Translarna growth was driven by new patients in existing geographies and continued geographic expansion.
- Emflaza growth was due to continued new prescriptions, high compliance, fewer patient discontinuations and more favorable access.
- Evrysdi® (risdiplam) is now approved in more than 90 countries. It has established market leadership in all major markets and is on track to become the global market leader in treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Evrysdi is a product of the SMA collaboration between PTC, the SMA Foundation and Roche.
- PTC successfully advanced its clinical pipeline in 2022:
- Results from the placebo-controlled portion of APHENITY, the Phase 3 registration-directed clinical trial of sepiapterin in patients with PKU, are expected in the first quarter of 2023.
- Results from MIT-E, the Phase 2/3 registration-directed clinical trial of vatiquinone in mitochondrial disease associated seizures, are expected in the first quarter of 2023.
- Results from MOVE-FA, the Phase 3 registration-directed clinical trial of vatiquinone in Friedreich ataxia, are expected in the second quarter of 2023.
- Results from the 12-week portion of PIVOT-HD, the Phase 2 study of PTC518 in Huntington's disease, are expected in the second quarter of 2023.
- Submission of a Biologics License Application (BLA) to the FDA for Upstaza is expected in the first half of 2023.
- A Phase 2/3 clinical trial of unesbulin in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioblastoma is expected to initiate in the fourth quarter of 2023.
- Total unaudited net revenue for full year 2022 was approximately $710 million.
- Total unaudited net product revenue for full year 2022 was approximately $535 million.
- DMD franchise unaudited revenue for full year 2022 was approximately $507 million, including net product revenue for Translarna of approximately $289 million and for Emflaza of approximately $218 million.
- PTC expects to report approximately $175 million in 2022 collaboration and royalty revenue associated with Evrysdi.
PTC is currently in the process of finalizing its financial results for the 2022 fiscal year. The above information is based on preliminary unaudited information and management estimates for the full year 2022, subject to the completion of PTC's financial closing procedures. Evrysdi royalty revenue estimates are based on sell side analyst consensus estimates.
- PTC anticipates total revenues for the full year 2023 to be between $940 million and $1.0 billion.
- PTC anticipates net product revenues for the DMD franchise for the full year 2023 to be between $545 and $565 million.
- PTC anticipates GAAP R&D and SG&A expense for the full year 2023 to be between $1.01 and $1.06 billion.
- PTC anticipates Non-GAAP R&D and SG&A expense for the full year 2023 to be between $890 and $940 million, excluding estimated non-cash, stock-based compensation expense of $120 million. PTC anticipates up to $80 million of one-time payments upon achievement of potential clinical and regulatory success-based milestones from previous acquisitions.
In this press release, the financial results and financial guidance of PTC are provided in accordance with GAAP and using certain non-GAAP financial measures. In particular, the non-GAAP financial measures exclude non-cash, stock-based compensation expense. These non-GAAP financial measures are provided as a complement to financial measures reported in GAAP because management uses these non-GAAP financial measures when assessing and identifying operational trends. In management's opinion, these non-GAAP financial measures are useful to investors and other users of PTC's financial statements by providing greater transparency into the historical and projected operating performance of PTC and the company's future outlook. Non-GAAP financial measures are not an alternative for financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. Quantitative reconciliations of the non-GAAP financial measures to their respective closest equivalent GAAP financial measures are included in the table below.
PTC is a science-driven, global biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of clinically differentiated medicines that provide benefits to patients with rare disorders. PTC's ability to innovate to identify new therapies and to globally commercialize products is the foundation that drives investment in a robust and diversified pipeline of transformative medicines. PTC's mission is to provide access to best-in-class treatments for patients who have little to no treatment options. PTC's strategy is to leverage its strong scientific and clinical expertise and global commercial infrastructure to bring therapies to patients. PTC believes this allows it to maximize value for all its stakeholders. To learn more about PTC, please visit us at www.ptcbio.com and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
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In a world where behemoth, legacy airlines dominate, and the only ones daring enough to start a new airline are those going after travelers on an ultra-tight budget, a new airline company is bucking the trend.
"It’s gonna be a real uphill battle for them to win market share and actually be successful,"said Zach Griff, a senior reporter with The Points Guy.
Starlux Airlines, a Taiwan-based carrier, just launched service to the U.S., billing itself as a luxury airline.
Scripps News correspondent James Packard got to step inside one of their aircrafts.
"We just got on a Starlux plane. And everyone's first class is fancy, so I came back here to economy and it’s still pretty nice. It even smells good in here. Starlux says their whole thing is about 'delighting and soothing the senses.' When’s the last time you heard an airline say that?," Packard said.
Starlux is partnering with Alaska Airlines to allow passengers on both airlines to earn miles with their preferred carrier. It’s a move Starlux hopes will attract U.S. customers. But transpacific flights are usually a money-losing venture for U.S. airlines.
And, the U.S. is home to the strongest demand globally for low-cost plane travel, according to the consulting firm CDI.
So what makes this new airline team think a luxury trans-pacific flight is a winning recipe?
"You know, I kind of disagree that American passengers only fly on the cheap. We segregate the different markets. From the very beginning we position ourselves [to] target premium carriers," said Simon Liu, chief strategic officer at Starlux Airlines.
"Price is the ultimate thing that people will book on, and if Starlux is gonna charge extra for a better experience, they will get a few customers paying for it, but it’s gonna be really hard for them," Griff said.
While round-trip fares to Taipei run about $1,200 on Starlux, which is fairly typical, the new competition for trans-pacific routes could drive prices down for U.S. travelers.
But in the long term, could this new airline start to pressure the industry to bring back the good old days of flying? When comfort and style was the name of the game?
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HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — While working nearby, Hillsborough County deputies sprung into action when they noticed a home engulfed in flames on Friday morning.
Deputies said they were working near Yorkshire Road in Town ‘n’ Country when a home nearby caught fire.
Deputies said they worked quickly to find out if anyone was inside. After no one answered the door, the sheriff’s office said deputies put their lives in danger and entered the home.
Inside, they found three people and a dog sleeping.
Deputies said they were able to get the family and their dog out of the home safely.
The Hillsborough County Fire Rescue responded to the home and put out the flames.
We are so glad our deputies were at the right place at the right time,” said Sheriff Chad Chronister. “Had #teamHCSO not been there, this could have ended very differently.”
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Xenia Venture Capital Ltd., ( www.xenia.co.il) an Israeli investment company engaged in the establishment, development, and investment in life sciences startups, has announced that Olympus Corporation, a global medical technology company that acquired Israeli Medi-Tate's iTind Procedure for BPH in May 2021, announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) would increase payment rates for the iTind procedure performed in the hospital-based outpatient department (HOPD) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC). The proposed rule was finalized and announced on November 1, 2022, and rates will be effective January 1, 2023.
"I'm glad about the impressive achievement by Medi-Tate. This development is a huge and long-awaited milestone for the commercialization of the iTind Procedure, which will enable its widespread availability in the US market", said Xenia CEO Eli Sorzon.
Xenia Venture Capital is an investment company engaged in investing mainly in life science companies in Israel. Xenia also holds 50% of VLX, a technological incubator operating under the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) incubator program.
In addition to financing, Xenia provides its companies with top-notch mentoring, business and strategic counseling, fundraising assistance, and exit planning.
Since its inception Xenia has invested in over 40 companies, which have attained significant technology and business achievements, resulting in substantial valuation increases, as well as strategic transactions with leading companies in the world, in each relevant field.
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Driven by its innovative approach to Agile transformations and dedication to supporting non-technical teams, AgileSherpas posts three-year revenue growth of 518 percent
NEW YORK, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Led by increasingly strong customer demand, AgileSherpas (agilesherpas.com) has just been recognized as No. 827 on the annual Inc. 5000 List, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. AgileSherpas joins companies such as Intuit, Zappos, Chobani, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known brand names that gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000 List.
"AgileSherpas has been rapidly iterating ever since we were founded just over five years ago, and this award is a powerful validation of that market-driven evolution. We've grown organically yet very intentionally from a small band of trainers and coaches focused on Agile marketing training into a world-class team of agilists supporting end-to-end, enterprise-grade Agile transformations," said AgileSherpas CEO and Co-Founder Andrea Fryrear. "Our year-over-year revenue growth directly reflects the ever-growing need for these services."
The companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 List have not only been successful but have also demonstrated resilience amid labor shortages, travel restrictions, supply chain woes, and other impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the second quarter of 2020, AgileSherpas quickly pivoted to 100% online, remote delivery of all services, and has continued to scale its digital offerings through innovative combinations of instructor-led workshops, self-directed courses, virtual coaching, and new hybrid learning offerings. Later this year, the company will launch Transformation as a Service (TaaS)SM, opening an entirely new path to agility for its enterprise customers.
"The accomplishment of building one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., in light of recent economic roadblocks, cannot be overstated," says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. Magazine. "Inc. is thrilled to honor the companies that have established themselves through innovation, hard work, and rising to the challenges of today."
AgileSherpas' Head of Training and Delivery, Ross Libby, praised his team for their role in earning this recognition: "Our Sherpas are deeply passionate about their work; we all firmly believe that Agile ways of working help individuals, teams, and organizations thrive in this now human-capital centric world. Their commitment to delivering outstanding outcomes ensures our customers recognize the results they came to us seeking."
Founded in 2017, AgileSherpas originally made a splash in the Agile market by co-authoring the world's first internationally recognized Agile marketing training course with the International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile). The AgileSherpas team quickly expanded their offerings to include long-term coaching for teams and leadership, organizational design, and all other aspects of Agile transformation. Known as Agility AscensionTM, their transformation approach provides a flexible yet data-driven and customized path to the peak of agility for marketers and other teams outside the technical realms of software development and IT.
Protracted demand for this specialized approach has enabled AgileSherpas to triple their headcount over the past 18 months, which has sustainably catapulted AgileSherpas to its place on the Inc. 5000 List. Leadership now looks to capitalize on the embrace of online and hybrid learning that the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated by creating the world's first Transformation-as-a-Service (TaaS)SM approach.
"By leveraging anywhere, anytime access to this enterprise-grade approach, TaaS aims to make Agile transformation less risky and more likely to succeed," said Fryrear. "We look forward to deploying this unique approach in order to best support even more departments, business units, and organizations in their broad understanding and adoption of Agile ways of working."
Complete results of the Inc. 5000 List, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000.
Companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 List are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2018 to 2021. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2018. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2021. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2018 is $100,000; the minimum for 2021 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to four decimal places.
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50 years after her murder, the FBI has identified 'Lady of the Dunes' using DNA and genealogy
The “Lady of the Dunes” — Massachusetts' oldest unidentified homicide victim — was identified Monday, nearly 50 years after she was found dead and dismembered in Provincetown.
Ruth Marie Terry, 37, of Tennessee, was found dead in the dunes about one mile east of the Race Point Ranger Station on July 26, 1974. Police believe she was murdered several weeks before her body was found.
The FBI identified Terry using investigative genealogy — a unique method that can generate new leads for unsolved homicides, as well as help identify unknown victims, officials said.
The official cause of death was listed as blunt-force trauma to the head with signs of strangulation and sexual assault. Both of the victim’s hands were amputated, and it appeared the killer tried to take her teeth, officials said.
No weapon was found at the crime scene. Terry's nude body was discovered lying on a beach blanket with her head resting on folded jeans.
"This is, without a doubt, a major break in the investigation that will, hopefully, bring all of us closer to identifying her killer," FBI Boston Special Agent in Charge Joseph Bonavolonta said.
FBI special agents and victim specialists, along with troopers from the Massachusetts State Police, delivered the news to the victim’s family Monday.
For nearly five decades, investigators have worked to identify the victim through various means, including neighborhood canvasses; reviews of thousands of missing-person cases; clay model facial reconstruction and age-regression drawings, officials said.
"For all who knew loved and miss her, for the sake of justice we will redouble and reaffirm our mission to seek for Ruth Marie Terry," said MSP Col. Christopher Mason.
Since the crime was committed, many investigative and scientific techniques have either improved or been created through new advances in technology.
One of the methods is investigative genealogy, which combines the use of DNA analysis with traditional genealogy research and historical records to generate investigative leads for unsolved violent crimes.
As investigators, cases like this one haunt us, and the agencies represented here today are constantly re-evaluating and coming up with new investigative strategies to try and advance them. We also realize that while we have identified Ruth as the victim of this horrific murder, it does not ease the pain for her family—nothing can—but hopefully it answers some questions while we continue to look for her killer," Bonavolonta said.
In addition to Tennessee, investigators believe Terry had ties to California, Massachusetts and Michigan.
The case is being investigated as a homicide by the Massachusetts State Police assigned to the Office of the Cape and Islands District Attorney, the Provincetown Police Department, and the FBI.
The FBI released a new seeking information poster and asked anyone with information to call the FBI's tipline at 1-800-225-5324 or the Massachusetts State Police at 1-800-527-8873 or submit a tip online at tips.fbi.gov or MSPtips@pol.state.ma.us. | https://www.wisn.com/article/fbi-identifies-lady-of-the-dunes/41826225 | 2022-11-01 02:25:50 | 0 | https://www.wisn.com/article/fbi-identifies-lady-of-the-dunes/41826225 |
Top Saint Mary's (CA) Players to Watch vs. VCU - First Round
Friday's first-round NCAA tournament game between the Saint Mary's Gaels (26-7) and the VCU Rams (27-7) at MVP Arena at 2:00 PM ET features the Gaels' Logan Johnson and the Rams' Adrian Baldwin Jr. as players to watch.
In the article below, we'll give you all the info you need to know about who to look out for in this matchup on TBS.
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How to Watch Saint Mary's (CA) vs. VCU
- Game Day: Friday, March 17
- Game Time: 2:00 PM ET
- Arena: MVP Arena
- Location: Albany, New York
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Saint Mary's (CA)'s Last Game
In its most recent game, Saint Mary's (CA) fell to Gonzaga on Tuesday, 77-51. Its top scorer was Johnson with 20 points.
VCU's Last Game
On Sunday, in its most recent game, VCU topped Dayton 68-56. With 16 points, Baldwin was its high scorer.
Saint Mary's (CA) Players to Watch
Mitchell Saxen leads his team in rebounds per game (7.8), and also posts 11.6 points and 1.7 assists. At the other end, he puts up 0.8 steals and 1.1 blocked shots.
Aidan Mahaney puts up 14.5 points, 2.3 rebounds and 2 assists per contest, shooting 43.7% from the field and 41.2% from beyond the arc with 2.2 made 3-pointers per game.
Alex Ducas posts 12.5 points, 4.2 rebounds and 0.9 assists per contest, shooting 43.1% from the floor and 41.8% from beyond the arc with 2.5 made 3-pointers per contest.
Kyle Bowen averages 5.3 points, 7.2 rebounds and 1.7 assists per contest, shooting 42.8% from the floor and 39.5% from downtown with 1 made 3-pointers per game.
VCU Players to Watch
Jalen DeLoach is the Rams' top rebounder (7 per game), and he delivers 10 points and 1.1 assists.
The Rams receive 11.8 points, 5.3 rebounds and 0.8 assists per game from Brandon Johns Jr..
Jamir Watkins gets the Rams 9.6 points, 5.4 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game. He also delivers 1.2 steals and 0.7 blocked shots.
Jayden Nunn gives the Rams 9.3 points, 2.4 rebounds and 1.6 assists per contest. He also delivers 1.5 steals and 0.6 blocked shots.
Saint Mary's (CA) Top Performers (Last 10 Games)
VCU Top Performers (Last 10 Games)
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Car IQ brings innovation to the $600 billion connected vehicle payment market by enabling vehicles to control the purchase of their own fuel and services.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Car IQ Inc., a leader in vehicle payments, today announced it exceeded its fundraising target with a $15 million addition to the Series B. The round was led by Forte Ventures with participation from existing investors including State Farm Ventures®, TELUS Ventures, and Avanta Ventures (the corporate venture arm of CSAA Insurance Group). New strategic investors Visa, Bridgestone, Navistar, and Circle K also joined the round, which brings the total funding raised to-date to $42 million.
Founded in 2016, Car IQ created a new form of machine identity verification allowing vehicles to connect directly with banks and service providers and make purchases without the use of a physical credit card. The company's product, Car IQ Pay, offers commercial fleets an easier way to pay for fuel, tolls, and parking by leveraging vehicle data to automate the payment process. This allows fleets to manage their spending more effectively, develop unique insights, and reduce fraud. Currently Car IQ Pay is accepted at over 21,500 fuel stations nationwide including Shell, Sunoco and others across the US.
The new funds will be used to accelerate the expansion of the Car IQ payment platform in the face of increasing demand from customers and merchants, and to add new commerce categories such as electric vehicle charging, repairs, registration, and insurance.
"These funds will allow us to move faster and meet the market demands from fleets in the commercial and OTR trucking spaces," said Sterling Pratz, CEO of Car IQ. "Incorporating vehicle data to the payment transaction is a game-changer: we can determine what the vehicle needs before it buys, validate the purchase after the fact, and make the experience for the driver completely frictionless."
"Car IQ continues to excel in today's challenging economic climate," said Louis Rajczi, partner of Forte Ventures. "The company's patented technology, ability to attract strategic investments from major fintech and automotive companies, and high-level commercial partnerships are laying the groundwork for rapid growth of their vehicle payment solution."
Market sizing source: Ptolemus Consulting Group, The Connected Vehicle Payments Global Study, 2020.
About Car IQ Inc.
Car IQ® has created a payment network for cars that eliminates the need for physical credit cards and enables vehicles to connect to merchants and transact securely. Using Car IQ Pay vehicles can automatically initiate and complete payments for services ranging from fueling, toll management, paid parking, EV charging, and more. Car IQ's payment solution delivers value by reducing fraud and risk for fleets and participating merchants. For more information, visit https://www.gocariq.com
About Forte Ventures
With offices in Atlanta and Silicon Valley, Forte Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm that collaborates and co-invests with corporate strategic partners in technology companies throughout the U.S. and Canada. The team simultaneously focuses on helping entrepreneurs navigate the complexities of corporate investment and on serving as trusted partners to institutional and corporate strategic syndicate partners. For more information, visit www.forteventures.com
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Keno" game were:
01-04-11-12-13-15-18-19-23-25-30-34-36-39-44-45-46-51-52-59
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MUNICH (AP) — Matthias Weniger put on a pair of white cloth gloves and carefully lifted a tarnished silver candleholder, looking for a yellowed sticker on the bottom of it.
The candlestick is one of 111 silver objects at the Bavarian National Museum that the Nazis stole from Jews during the Third Reich in 1939. That’s when they ordered all German Jews to bring their personal silver objects to pawn shops across the Reich — one of many laws created to humiliate, punish and exclude Jews.
What started with anti-Jewish discrimination and persecution in 1933, after the Nazis were voted to power in Germany, led to the murder of 6 million European Jews and others in the Holocaust before World War II ended with Germany’s surrender in 1945.
Weniger, who is a curator at the Munich museum and oversees its restitution efforts, has made it his mission to return as many of the silver objects as possible to the descendants of the original owners.
“These silver objects handed in at the pawn shops are often the only material things that remain from an existence wiped out in the Holocaust,” Weniger told The Associated Press in an interview last week at the museum’s workshop where he displayed some silver items that have yet to be restituted.
“Therefore it’s really important to try to find the families and give back the objects to them,” he added.
Thousands of the pieces taken from the Jews were melted into around 135 tons of silver, and used to help Germany’s war efforts. But several museums ended up with hundreds of silver pieces such as candlesticks used to light candles on the eve of Shabbat, Kiddush cups to bless the wine, silver spoons and cake servers.
Some of the items were returned to Holocaust survivors in the 1950s and 1960s, if they came forward and actively tried to retrieve their stolen possessions. But many former owners were murdered in the Holocaust or, if they succeeded to flee from the Nazis, had ended up in far-flung corners of the globe.
“Two thirds of the last owners did not survive the Shoah,” Weniger said.
Despite these odds, and with a combination of thorough detective work, dedication and deep knowledge of history, Weniger has so far managed to return about 50 objects to the family members and relatives of the original owners.
He’s convinced that he may be able to return almost all remaining objects by the end of this year.
First, he searches for the identity of the original owners. The little yellowed paper stickers on some of the pieces often help his efforts. They were put on the objects by the pawn shops — a testament to Germans’ obsessive bureaucracy even in times of dictatorship and war. The numbers on the stickers are also listed on more than 80-year-old documents naming the Jews who had to give away their silver — sometimes beloved heirlooms that had been passed down in families for many generations.
Once Weniger discovers the names of the original owners, he starts looking up Jewish obituary and genealogy databases, in hopes that direct descendants or more distant relatives may have posted their names online.
“And so you get from one generation to the next generation and you end up with telephone books … with LinkedIn, with Facebook, with Instagram or email addresses that correspond to a member of the younger generation of that family,” the researcher explained.
In most of the cases, Weniger says he gets lucky and is able to track down the right relatives.
The majority of descendants live in the United States and Israel, but the museum has already or is in the process of also restituting silver pieces to France, the United Kingdom, Australia and Mexico.
Weniger makes a point of personally delivering the pieces to the families. He traveled to the U.S. earlier this year, and last week, he returned 19 pieces to families in Israel.
There, Weniger met up with Hila Gutmann, 53, and her father Benjamin Gutmann, 86, at his home in Kfar Shmaryahu north of Tel Aviv, and gave them a small silver cup.
Weniger had managed to track down the family with the help of the tracing service of Magen David Adom — Israel’s version of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The cup was likely used for Kiddush to bless the wine on the eve of Shabbat — but nobody knows for sure because the original owners, Bavarian cattle dealer Salomon Gutmann and his wife Karolina, who were the grandparents of Benjamin, were murdered by the Nazis in the Treblinka extermination camp.
“It was a mixed feeling for us to get back the cup,” Hila Gutmann said. “Because you understand it’s the only thing that’s left of them.”
While the grandparents of Benjamin Gutmann were murdered in the Holocaust, their son Max — Benjamin’s father — survived because he fled from the Nazis to the British-mandated territory of Palestine, in what is now Israel.
Despite the pain triggered by the loss and return of the silver cup, the Gutmanns say they’re happy to have it back and plan to use it in a ceremony with all their other relatives on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, in September.
As for Weniger, the bearer of the cup, the Gutmann’s have nothing but praise for him and his work.
“He’s really dedicated to it,” Hila Gutmann said. “He treats these little objects with so much care — like they are holy.”
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By STEVE KARNOWSKI and MOHAMED IBRAHIM
Associated Press
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minneapolis Police Department has engaged in a pattern of race discrimination for at least a decade, including stopping and arresting Black people at a higher rate than white people, using force more often on people of color and maintaining a culture where racist language is tolerated, a state investigation launched after George Floyd’s killing found.
The report released Wednesday by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights following a nearly two-year investigation said the agency and the city would negotiate a court-enforceable agreement to address the long list of problems identified in the report, with input from residents, officers, city staff and others.
The report said police department data “demonstrates significant racial disparities with respect to officers’ use of force, traffic stops, searches, citations, and arrests.” And it said officers “used covert social media to surveil Black individuals and Black organizations, unrelated to criminal activity, and maintain an organizational culture where some officers and supervisors use racist, misogynistic, and disrespectful language with impunity.”
Human Rights Commissioner Rebecca Lucero said during a news conference after the report was released that it doesn’t single out any officers or city leaders.
“This investigation is not about one individual or one incident,” Lucero said.
Asked how long the agreement with the city, known as a consent decree, might have to remain in force, Lucero said, “As long as it takes to do it right.” Neither she nor the report laid out a timeline for the negotiations. Consent decrees in federal cases often remain in place for years.
The report said the city and police department “do not need to wait to institute immediate changes to begin to address the causes of discrimination that weaken the City’s public safety system and harm community members.” It listed several steps that the city can take now, including implementing stronger internal oversight to hold officers accountable for their conduct, better training, and better communication with the public about critical incidents such as officer-involved shootings.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said he was disturbed by the report and vowed to cooperate with the state to make the needed changes.
“I found the contents to be repugnant, at times horrific,” Frey said at a news conference. “It made me sick to my stomach and outraged, and I think that our community feels the same way. … I talked with leaders from our Black community this morning, and they’re not surprised at all. They’ve been saying this for years, for decades and for generations.”
Interim Police Chief Amelia Huffman told reporters the points raised in the report are “deeply concerning to everyone.” But she said her department has been moving forward with reforms in the two years since the investigation began and isn’t going to wait to make further changes.
“We’re committed to providing effective, constitutional police service, the service that people across our community want and need and deserve,” Huffman said.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump and his partners, who won a $27 million settlement from the city for the Floyd family, called the report “historic” and “monumental in its importance.” They said they were “grateful and deeply hopeful” that change is imminent.
“We call on city, state, and Police leaders to accept the challenge of these findings and make meaningful change at last to create trust between communities of color in Minneapolis and those who are sworn to protect and serve them,” the lawyers said in a statement.
Michelle Gross, president of Communities United Against Police Brutality, called the finding “obvious.”
“The findings were no surprise, but now there’s an agency with the muscle to make those changes happen,” Gross said. She said a critical next step is who will monitor a consent decree to make sure changes actually happen, and said she would demand that community members take part. Gross said she was meeting Thursday with Lucero’s department and that monitoring a decree would top her agenda.
The Department of Human Rights launched its investigation barely a week after Floyd’s death on May 25, 2020. Then-Officer Derek Chauvin used his knee to pin the Black man to the pavement for 9 1/2 minutes in a case that sparked protests around the world against police racism and brutality. Chauvin, who is white, was convicted last spring of murder. Three other fired officers — Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng — were convicted this year of violating Floyd’s civil rights in a federal trial and they face a state trial starting in June.
State investigators reviewed a decade’s worth of information, including data on traffic stops, searches, arrests and uses of force, and examined policies and training. The review included around 700 hours of body camera video and nearly 480,000 pages of city and police department documents. Lucero said investigators interviewed officers throughout the department and “overwhelmingly, we found officers being very forthcoming.” The investigators also invited citizens to submit their own stories of encounters with Minneapolis police.
The Minnesota Department of Human Rights is the state’s civil rights enforcement agency. Its duties include enforcing the Minnesota Human Rights Act which, among other things, makes it illegal for a police department to discriminate against someone because of their race.
“Race-based policing is unlawful and especially harms people of color and Indigenous individuals — sometimes costing community members their lives,” the report said.
People of color or Indigenous individuals comprise about 42% of the city’s population, the report said, while about 19% of city residents are Black.
The police department has come under pressure from multiple directions since Floyd’s death. The U.S. Department of Justice is also investigating Minneapolis policing practices, though it is not thought to be close to a conclusion.
Several City Council members and residents have pushed to replace the department with a new public safety unit that they argue could take a more comprehensive public health approach to policing, including dropping a required minimum number of police officers. Voters rejected the idea last year.
Frey and Chief Medaria Arradondo, before his retirement in January, also made a range of changes in department policies and practices, including requiring officers to document their attempts to de-escalate situations, and no longer stopping motorists for minor traffic violations.
But community anger at police flared anew in February when police officers serving a no-knock warrant shot and killed Amir Locke, a 22-year-old Black man who was staying on a couch in his cousin’s apartment. Prosecutors declined to charge the officer who shot Locke, saying body camera video showed him pointing a gun at the officer, a claim his family disputed. The city has since banned no-knock warrants except in the most extreme circumstances, such as a hostage situation.
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The midterm elections will decide which political party controls Congress.
Photographers at NPR member stations captured voting across the country. And they documented Election Day in their areas.
Here's what they saw.
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Col. Roman Kostenko strode down the dirt and gravel road of his home village in Ukraine's Kherson region carrying his country's flag in hand.
An elderly neighbor greeted him with a bouquet of blue and yellow flowers, wrapped her arms around his shoulders and wept, according to a video Kostenko provided NPR.
"It was scary," the woman tells Kostenko, referring to the occupation of the village by Russian troops. "We've been waiting for almost 9 months now."
"We've missed you so much," said a villager in a black watch cap addressing the colonel and the soldiers accompanying him: Kostenko's brother, Andriy, and their cousin, Denys.
"Glory to the heroes," said another.
Kostenko then walked into the courtyard of the one-story house where he had grown up and where Russian troops had lived since March. He passed a vulgar sign they had left painted on a wall and then stepped inside.
"The windows were broken," Kostenko recalled in a text message with NPR. "Almost all the furniture and things were stolen," including his body armor and medals. All that remained was a bed, some old wardrobes and a grenade the Russians had left behind.
"I'm very proud to return to my home," said Kostenko, with the flag he had carried in now flying from a trellis in his yard. "I cried."
It was a cathartic return for Kostenko and many other soldiers from Kherson who had spent months trying to liberate their homes. The Russian retreat last week was also a major blow to Moscow's war effort. Kherson city was the only regional capital to fall to the Russians, who saw it as a stepping stone in their long-shot strategy to take over Ukraine's Black Sea coast.
Ukraine took Kherson by targeting Russian supply lines
Ukrainian soldiers said they forced the Russians out of this part of the Kherson region by cutting off their ammunition and food and backing their forces up against the Dnieper River.
"We pretty much denied those troops their supply chains," says Stanislav Volovyk, a Ukrainian drone operator who helps guide the fire of howitzers. "We blew up the bridges. We got their supply routes under fire control with HIMARS and artillery."
HIMARS — or High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems — are high-precision, American-made rockets with a range of about 50 miles. Volovyk says that without access to their supplies, the Russians had little choice but to withdraw to the other side of the river.
"Otherwise it was just going to be a matter of time before we pretty much killed them all," he said.
Various factors led to Ukraine's routing of the Russians in this part of Kherson, but soldiers say the HIMARS had a big impact because they provided a range and level of accuracy the Ukrainians had never had before.
A reconnaissance soldier from Kherson who goes by the battle nickname Fox said he helped target a HIMAR that flew 24 miles before killing 20 Russian soldiers hiding in a bunker — a direct hit.
"At the moment, in this place, HIMARS are the best weapon," he said.
Euphoria and joy — but a tough, dangerous road ahead
Before the war, Fox worked as a seaman on a cargo ship out of the port of Kherson. He fled on the first day of the war, then joined the army and became part of a reconnaissance team. Last weekend, he returned to his neighborhood to a hero's welcome. His neighbors had no idea he'd become a soldier.
"They were completely surprised," said Fox, who arrived in full battle gear. "I didn't tell them I had joined the army because it could've caused them problems as they were in Russian-occupied territory."
Fox, who has been shuttling food into Kherson city over the weekend, said his homecoming filled him with joy: "I don't remember such a happy moment, such a light moment, in my life as today."
Fox said the people of Kherson were so euphoric, they seemed, for the moment, to forget the difficulties that still lie ahead.
"They think Kherson has come back home to Ukraine, that the war is finished, that there is no more fighting," said Fox, "but it's wrong."
Fox pointed out that before they left, the Russians sabotaged the city's water, electrical and mobile communications systems — the latter is in the process of being restored, according to the local military administration.
And although the Russians retreated across the Dnieper River to avoid annihilation, they could dig in and continue the fight within easy artillery range of the city.
Producer Valeria Fokina contributed to this story from Kyiv.
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DETROIT (AP) — Auston Matthews and William Nylander scored 51 seconds apart in the first period, Mitch Marner extended his point streak to 17 games and the T oronto Maple Leafs beat the Detroit Red Wings 4-2 Monday night.
Rasmus Sandin also scored and Matt Murray made 38 saves for the Maple Leafs, who have won a season-high four straight and earned a point in nine consecutive games.
Moritz Seider had an early goal for Detroit, finishing a four-shot flurry, but the lead didn't last long. Matthews' wrist shot beat Ville Husso glove side a few minutes later and Nylander scored on a power play to put the Maple Leafs ahead 2-1 midway through the first period.
Marner scored to extend his point streak — one short of the franchise record — in the opening minute of the second. Sandin put Toronto up 4-1 midway through the period, chasing Husso.
Detroit's breakout goalie was pulled from a game for the first time this season after giving up four goals on 13 shots. He entered with an NHL-high three shutouts, matching his previous career total.
Alex Nedeljkovic entered in relief and stopped all 10 shots he faced for the Red Wings, who had won a season-best four consecutive games.
Midway through the third, Seider's shot was redirected by teammate Adam Erne in front to pull the Red Wings within two.
Detroit pulled Nedeljkovic late for an extra skater but couldn't score.
CHASING HISTORY
Marner's 17-game point streak is one shy of the single-season Maple Leafs record set by Darryl Sittler during the 1977-78 season and matched 12 years later by Ed Olczyk.
DUELING FANS
A lot of fans crossed the border to attend the game at Little Caesars Arena. When Detroit fans chanted, “Let's Go Red Wings," Toronto fans responded, “Go Leafs, Go!”
ONE-TIMERS
Toronto extended its point streak against Detroit to 14 games. ... The Maple Leafs closed the month 6-0 on the road.
UP NEXT
Maple Leafs: Host the San Jose Sharks on Wednesday night.
Red Wings: Play the Buffalo Sabres at home Wednesday night.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Two men have been convicted of helping Somali pirates who kidnapped a U.S. journalist for ransom and held him for 2 1/2 years, prosecutors said.
Mohamed Tahlil Mohamed and Abdi Yusuf Hassan were convicted by a federal court jury in New York on Feb. 24 of hostage-taking, conspiracy, providing material support for acts of terrorism and other crimes that carry potential life sentences.
Michael Scott Moore, a German-American journalist, was abducted in January 2012 in Galkayo, Somalia, 400 miles (643.7 kilometers) northeast of the capital of Mogadishu. He was working as a freelancer for the German publication Spiegel Online and researching a book about piracy.
The kidnappers demanded $20 million in ransom and at one point released a video showing Moore surrounded by masked kidnappers who pointed a machine gun and rocket-propelled grenade at him.
Moore was freed in September 2014. Moore has said his family raised $1.6 million for his release.
“Tahlil, a Somali Army officer, left his post to take command of the pirates holding Moore captive and obtained the machine guns and grenade launchers used to threaten and hold Moore,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement. “Hassan, the Minister of Interior and Security for the province in Somalia where Moore was held hostage, abused his government position and led the pirates’ efforts to extort a massive ransom from Moore’s mother.”
Hassan, who was born in Mogadishu, is a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was arrested in Minneapolis in 2019 and charged with federal crimes.
Details of Tahlil’s arrest haven’t been disclosed but he was jailed in New York City in 2018.
In a 2018 book Moore wrote about his captivity, he said that Tahlil got in touch with him from Somalia by Facebook two months after the journalist’s release and included a photograph. Moore recognized him as the “”boss” of his guards.
The men began a correspondence.
“I hope u are fine,” Tahlil said, according to the book. “The pirates who held u hostage killed each other over group vendetta and money issues.”
According to the criminal complaint reported by the New York Times, that was consistent with reports that some pirates were killed in a dispute over division of Moore’s ransom.
Hassan and Tahlil were scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 6.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Kobe Brown made 9 of 12 from the field and finished with 25 points and eight rebounds to help Missouri beat Southeast Missouri State 96-89 Sunday.
Brown made 2 of 3 from 3-point range and added four assists and four steals. Sean East II added 21 points on 8-of-12 shooting with six assists and four steals for Missouri (9-0), D'Moi Hodge scored 15 points and Nick Honor had 11 points and four steals. The Tigers are off to their best start since winning the first 10 games of the 2013-14 season.
East hit a jumper in the lane and made a layup before Brown threw down two dunks and then hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to cap an 11-0 run that gave Missouri a 10-point halftime lead. Israel Barnes converted a three-point play and hit a 3-pointer in the opening seconds of the second half for the Redhawks but Brown answered with a 3 to spark a 12-1 run that made it 65-47 with 14:35 to play. Brow
Phillip Russell hit five 3-pointers and led Southeast Missouri State (5-4) with 26 points. Barnes finished with 21 points and Josh Earley scored 15 on 7-of-9 shooting.
The Redhawks shot 54% (34 of 63) from the field and hit 13 of 26 from 3-point range but made just 8 of 15 (53%) from the free-throw line.
Barnes hit two 3-pointers in a 16-6 run that trimmed Southeast Missouri State's deficit to 93-87 with 57 seconds left but the Redhawks got no closer.
The Tigers scored 29 points off 18 Southeast Missouri State turnovers, including 14 Missouri steals.
Southeast Missouri State returns home to play Wednesday against Fort Wayne and Missouri plays No. 9 Kansas Saturday at home.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping will speak Thursday, according to a U.S. official, their first conversation in four months coming amid new tension between Washington and Beijing over China's claims on Taiwan.
The planned talks between the two leaders — the fifth in a series of regular check-ins — have been in the works for weeks. But the possibility of a visit to Taiwan by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the top congressional Democrat and second in line of succession to the presidency, has added fresh strain to the complicated relationship.
Beijing is warning that it will take “forceful measures” should Pelosi visit the self-ruled island of Taiwan that China claims as part of its territory.
The U.S. official declined to be identified ahead of the public announcement. The schedule was first reported by Bloomberg.
Pelosi hasn't confirmed plans to visit Taiwan, but Biden last week told reporters that U.S. military officials believed it was “not a good idea” for the speaker to visit the island at the moment. Biden's comments came after the Financial Times reported last week that Pelosi planned to visit Taiwan in August, a trip she had originally planned to make in April but postponed after she tested positive for COVID-19.
The speaker has declined to comment on whether she plans to visit Taiwan, citing security protocol on her travel. But she said Biden's comment stemmed from military brass being "afraid our plane would get shot down, or something like that, by the Chinese.” She would be the highest-ranking U.S. elected official to visit Taiwan since Republican Newt Gingrich visited the island in 1997 when he served as House speaker.
“It’s important for us to show support for Taiwan,” Pelosi said. “None of us have ever said we’re for independence when it comes to Taiwan. That’s up to Taiwan to decide.”
Administration officials have privately stressed to Pelosi that traveling to Taiwan could further complicate a delicate status quo.
Chinese officials aren’t mincing words, sending a message that a visit by Pelosi would be viewed as a change in U.S. policy and treated as a provocation.
“If the U.S. insists on going its own way, China will take forceful measures to resolutely respond and counter it, and we will do what we say,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin.
The U.S. has a longstanding commitment to the “One China” policy that recognizes Beijing as the government of China but allows informal relations and defense ties with Taipei. China has stepped up its military provocations against Taiwan in recent years, and there are fears that it’s trying to intimidate the island into accepting Beijing’s demands to unify with the communist mainland.
The talks between Biden and Xi could also include discussion of North Korea’s nuclear program, differences between Beijing and Washington over Russia’s war in Ukraine, efforts by the Biden administration to revive the Iran nuclear deal and the status of the U.S. administration’s review of tough tariffs imposed on China by the Trump administration.
“There are issues of tension in this relationship,” John Kirby, a national security spokesperson for the White House, said Tuesday. “But there’s also issues where we believe cooperation is not only possible, but mandatory, for instance on climate change, which affects us greatly.”
Long-simmering differences over Taiwan have come into intense focus in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion and ongoing efforts to annex swaths of eastern Ukraine.
As the U.S. scrambled to assemble a global coalition to hit the Russian economy with heavy sanctions following Vladimir Putin’s ordered invasion of Ukraine, Biden warned allies — particularly those in the Indo-Pacific — that Beijing would be watching closely how democracies responded as it considers its next steps on Taiwan.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Friday he fears that Beijing might be gleaning some “concerning” takeaways from the five-month-old war in eastern Europe. But he suggested the moment has also led to careful reflection in Taipei.
“Not as many people ask ‘Is Taiwan learning lessons from Ukraine?’ and you can bet they are,” Sullivan said during an appearance at the Aspen Security Forum. “They’re learning lessons about citizen mobilization and territorial defense. They’re learning lessons about information warfare, and how to set the information space. And they’re learning lessons about how to prepare for a potential contingency involving China and they’re working rapidly at that.”
Taiwan was a central topic during Biden and Xi’s last call in March, about three weeks after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.
China has repeatedly threatened to assert its claim to Taiwan by force, and has dispatched hundreds of sorties in Taiwanese airspace since Biden took office 18 months ago. The U.S. is legally obligated to ensure the self-governing island democracy can defend itself and treats threats to it with grave concern.
The conversation also comes as Biden’s national security and economic aides near the completion of a review of U.S. tariff policy and prepare to make recommendations to the president.
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BAY CITY, MI - As the community continues to push past the pandemic, a COVID-era assistance program in Bay County will be shuttering next month.
Bay County’s Household Assistance Program will officially close to applications on April 15. Any applications received for assistance prior to this date will continue to be processed through May 22.
In June 2022, the Bay County Board of Commissioners set aside $1,000,000 in American Rescue Plan Act, or ARPA, funds to create the program. The program was designed to give a helping hand to Bay County households by helping to pay for costs such as delinquent property taxes as well as delinquent rent, mortgage and utility payments.
Under the program, qualified households could receive up to $3,000 in one-time grant funding for approved costs. Applicants to the Bay County program must have a COVID-related hardship and live inside the county limits of Bay County but outside the city limits of Bay City.
The income thresholds for the program are:
- Family size of 1: $38,640
- Family size of 2: $52,260
- Family size of 3: $65,880
- Family size of 4: $79,500
- Family size of 5: $93,120
- Family size of 6: $106,740
- Family size of 7: $120,360
- Family size of 8: $133,980
Applications are available online at bay county-mi.gov/HouseholdAssistanceProgram/Household-Assistance-Program.aspx, by calling 989-895-4297, or by emailing householdassistance@baycounty.net.
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BERLIN (AP) — The European Central Bank said Tuesday that its president, Christine Lagarde, was targeted in a hacking attempt but no information was compromised.
The attempt took place “recently,” the Frankfurt-based central bank for the 19 countries that use the euro said in an emailed response to a query about a report by Business Insider. The bank added that “it was identified and halted quickly” but that it had nothing more to say amid an investigation.
Business Insider reported, without naming sources, that Lagarde was contacted by text message from what appeared to be former German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cellphone number by someone claiming that Merkel wanted to communicate with her by WhatsApp because that would be more secure.
It said that Lagarde then contacted Merkel by phone to ask whether she really wanted to communicate by WhatsApp and that whoever was behind the attempt apparently aimed to gain control of the accounts of various prominent figures on WhatsApp and other messaging services. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/European-Central-Bank-head-targeted-in-17299204.php | 2022-07-12 17:59:52 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/European-Central-Bank-head-targeted-in-17299204.php |
After Friday’s first practice of a two-day Vikings rookie minicamp, general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and rookie linebacker Brian Asamoah chatted on the field for more than five minutes. It wasn’t exactly a typical NFL conversation.
“We were actually speaking African,’’ Asamoah said. “It’s called Twi.”
Twi is a widely spoken language in the West Africa nation of Ghana, which has a population of 31 million. Both Adofo-Mensah and Asamoah are of Ghanaian descent and speak Twi fluently.
“It’s like my first time ever meeting him,’’ said Asamoah, selected in the third round of last month’s draft out of Oklahoma. “It was just cool because you don’t see this ever happening, a general manager from your hometown (the capital city of Accra), being able to speak in a different language with him and just show my appreciation to him for even choosing me.’’
After the Vikings selected Asamoah on April 29, Adofo-Mensah made note of their shared heritage.
“That was a special call for me,’’ said the first-year general manager. “I told him, ‘Did you ever think you’d fulfill your NFL dream with somebody named Kwesi?’ … That was a cool moment for both of us. You talk about the circle of life and all of that stuff.”
When the two first met in person Friday, they hugged. Asamoah said their conversation touched upon the improbability of two people of Ghanaian descent having now joined forces in the NFL.
“He was just kind of lacing me up on just how things are going to go and make the most of your opportunity, and I was telling him I appreciate the opportunity and I’m not going to let him down,’’ Asamoah said. “Where we come from, a lot of people don’t make it to this spot specifically, being the general manager or playing football at the highest level. So it’s a level of appreciation on both sides.”
Asamoah, a native of Columbus, Ohio, is the son of Lawrence and Agnes, who were both born in Ghana. Asamoah, 22, has visited Ghana once, going in 2010.
“It was cool,’’ said Asamoah, who plans to return to Ghana next year. “It was an experience. I got to understand the cultural differences between here and America, and how much of an opportunity you have here in America.’’
After starring at St. Francis De Sales High School in Columbus, Asamoah arrived at Oklahoma in 2018. He redshirted as a freshman and then continued to get better in three seasons with the Sooners, including being named to the All-Big 12 second team in 2021.
The Vikings like the range the athletic 6-foot, 226-pound Asamoah has at inside linebacker. With Minnesota starting organized team activities on Tuesday, he expects to fit in well in the 3-4 scheme under new defensive coordinator Ed Donatell.
“I’ve seen the opportunity for me to just run sideline to sideline and just really opening up a lot,’’ Asamoah said. “But also being able to just cover tight ends and running backs, Putting me man to man, that’s something I think I do really well.’’
The initial most noticeable thing about Asamoah on the field is his wearing of No. 33, which was star running back Dalvin Cook’s number in his first five seasons before he switched to 4.
Asamoah noted that he wore No. 6 in high school, No. 24 in college, which adds up to six, and now has another number that adds up to six. He has an idea about what fans with old Cook No. 33 jerseys should do.
“I think that people are just going to put tape over it with Asamoah on it,’’ he said with a laugh.
But if the linebacker develops the way the Vikings hope he will, there will be new No. 33 jerseys with Asamoah on the back hanging in local stores. | https://www.twincities.com/2022/05/15/vikings-rookie-brian-asamoah-proud-to-share-ghanaian-heritage-with-gm-kwesi-adofo-mensah/ | 2022-05-15 17:35:54 | 1 | https://www.twincities.com/2022/05/15/vikings-rookie-brian-asamoah-proud-to-share-ghanaian-heritage-with-gm-kwesi-adofo-mensah/ |
MADISON, Wis. -- Dane County Sheriff's deputies responded to four calls involving intoxicated drivers within a four-hour window Sunday afternoon, officials said.
Deputies were called to State Highway 19 in Mazomanie just after 1:30 p.m. after a 63-year-old man crashed into a power pole. He was cited for operating while intoxicated.
Just after 2:45 p.m. a 911 caller reported that a vehicle had crashed into her garage in the 600 block of North Fair Oaks Ave. in Blooming Grove. A 53-year-old woman was cited for operating while intoxicated and not having registration.
Ten minutes later, deputies were called to the intersection of Vinburn Road and County Highway C in Windsor for a report of a red sedan stopped in the middle of the road. A 54-year-old woman was cited for operating while intoxicated.
At around 5:45 p.m., deputies were called to the intersection of U.S. Highway 12 and Deerfield Road in Cottage Grove for a report of a crash. Officials said a 46-year-old man tried to leave the scene but was stopped and arrested for operating while intoxicated. He was also cited for multiple traffic violations.
Two people who were in the other vehicle involved in the crash were taken to a local hospital with minor injuries.
Officials said this was the first OWI offense for all four drivers.
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HOOVER, Ala. (WIAT) — The city of Hoover is gearing up for the SEC Baseball Tournament next week. The Hoover Met is expected to be packed with fans as the city welcomes 12 teams and their fans.
This comes after the city just wrapped up the Regions Tradition Golf Tournament, so the city has had its hands full this month. But, these events are just a practice run for the biggest event, The World Games. Softball will be hosted at the Hoover Met during the games.
Mayor Frank Brocato said he is excited to showcase Hoover on a national and international scale.
“You’ll see around the Met it’s just developed spectacularly. And with walking distance now you can go to a brewery, restaurants, ice cream, whatever,” Brocato said. “Everything is right there for you and we’re excited about that and we’re excited to showcase our city.”
The Hoover Met has a new lighting package just in time for these big events. Mayor Brocato said this will enhance the experience for fans, coaches and players.
The SEC Baseball Tournament kicks off one week from Tuesday on May 24. The World Games begin on July 7. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/city-of-hoover-gearing-up-to-host-sec-baseball-tournament-and-the-world-games/ | 2022-05-18 04:29:16 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/city-of-hoover-gearing-up-to-host-sec-baseball-tournament-and-the-world-games/ |
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NEW YORK (AP) — One day in 2020, at the pandemic’s height, an earnest-looking man with long hair the color of Buffalo sauce stepped up to a podium in Lincoln, Nebraska, to address his city council during its public comment period. His unexpected topic, as he framed it: It was time to end the deception.
“I propose that we as a city remove the name `boneless wings’ from our menus and from our hearts,” said Ander Christensen, who managed to be both persuasive and tongue-in-cheek all at once. “We’ve been living a lie for far too long.”
With the Super Bowl at hand, behold the cheerful untruth that has been perpetrated upon (and generally with the blessing of) the chicken-consuming citizens of the United States on menus across the land: a “boneless wing” that isn’t a wing at all.
Odds are you already knew that — though spot checks over the past year at a smattering of wing joints (see what we did there?) suggest that a healthy amount of Americans don’t. But those little white-meat nuggets, tasty as they may be, offer a glimpse into how things are marketed, how people believe them — and whether it matters to anyone but the chicken.
This weekend, according to the National Chicken Council, Americans are set to eat 1.45 billion chicken wings. So if you ever wanted a deep dive into what it means to eat the wings that aren’t — and how the chicken wing’s proximity to beer, good times and football sent it soaring — now’s the time.
Today’s food landscape is brimming with these gentle impostors — things we eat that pass as other things we eat.
Surimi is fish that effectively becomes crab or lobster meat for many of us — and stars in California rolls across the land. Carrots are cut and buffed until their edges are curved and smooth, becoming “ baby carrots ” or, slightly more truthfully, “baby-cut carrots.” Impossible Burgers are plant-based delicacies that carry many of meat’s characteristics without ever having been near an animal. And “Chilean sea bass”? Not a bass at all, but a rebrand of something called a Patagonian toothfish.
Part of the reason for the rise of the “boneless wing” is money. In recent years, with prices of actual chicken wings rising, the alternative became more cost effective. The average price for prepared “boneless wings” is $4.99 a pound compared with $8.38 a pound for bone-in wings, according to Tom Super, senior vice president of communications for the National Chicken Council, citing the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He calls it “a way to move more boneless/skinless breast meat that continues currently to be in ample supply.”
“While many wing consumers argue that the wing needs a bone to impart a special taste, the ongoing success of the boneless wings has proven there are plenty of boneless wing diners,” Super said in an email.
Why? Part of it is because “boneless wings” — the quotation marks will remain for the duration of our time together — summon a powerful backstory.
“You’re associating it with the Super Bowl and parties and fun, so you transform the perception of the product,” says Christopher Kimball, founder of Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street, a company whose magazine and instructional TV show help people cook and teach them about food.
“Most people have no idea where any of this stuff comes from,” Kimball says. “You can blame the food companies, but we’re buying it.”
We accept them — embrace them, even. And what does it really matter, you say? They’re delicious, they’re convenient. So why poke into things that pair so perfectly with beer and make the sports-watching world a better place?
Here’s one possible reason: Could they be a microcosm of the national willingness to accept things that aren’t what they purport to be? And isn’t that something that this country struggles with mightily, particularly in the misinformation- and disinformation-saturated years since the “boneless wing” entered our world?
“It’s not really wrong, but are we tricking people?” wonders Matthew Read, who teaches advertising at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, after two decades with ad agencies. He hosts a cooking show on local television called “Spatchcock Funk.”
“The wing,” he says, “has gone from being an actual part of chicken to being just something you can sauce and eat with your hands.”
Whether cut from actual flying-related appendages or not, “boneless wings” have taken hold. The chicken council, which credits the behemoth chain Buffalo Wild Wings with inventing them, asked wing eaters in 2018 which kind of wings they preferred, and 40% placed themselves on Team Boneless. Previous years were even higher.
Christensen, a chemical engineer by day, has been on his wing crusade for years. It began when he was in college, and a group of friends had all just split with their girlfriends. Suddenly they had extra money and time, so they started going to wing restaurants three times a week. He began noticing how many “boneless wings” were ordered with no sense that they weren’t what they purported to be. A semi-comedic cause was born.
“I’m looking around and saying, `Why doesn’t anybody care?’” he said in an interview this week.
He has done informal surveys, accosting people about their wing habits, including at one recent college football game in Ohio. “The vast majority of people have no clue. Most people think it’s part of the wing. Some think it’s part of the thigh. A small group realized that it was from the chicken breast.”
His theory: Generations that grew up on chicken nuggets turn to “boneless wings” as a way of allowing themselves to continue those eating habits. “They get to pretend they’re eating like adults,” he says.
Could the very definition of the word “wing” be changing? Many wing places now offer a “cauliflower wing” alternative, whose only relationship with an actual wing is the sauce. And some vegan “wing” recipes even suggest inserting a popsicle stick into the cauliflower to approximate a chicken bone.
“Our idea of what a wing is comes from what we’re told we’re eating,” says Alexandra Plakias, who teaches at Hamilton College in New York and is the author of “Thinking Through Food: A Philosophical Introduction.”
“These kinds of mini-deceptions that seem fun kind of normalize manipulation,” Plakias says. “Is a wing a part of a bird, or is a wing a style of sauce? And that ambiguity is where I think we open up room for deception.”
And so perhaps the language evolves, though there are pockets of skeptics.
“Personally, I do think it matters. I want to know exactly what it is that I’m ordering and what’s in my food,” says Natalie Visconti, 20, of Bridgewater, New Jersey, a sophomore at Penn State University and a self-described “traditional wing” aficionado.
Christensen vows to carry on, and mentions — almost in passing — that he’s gunning to become “the world’s first chicken-wing lobbyist.” His efforts have drawn some scorn; people right and left accuse him of carrying a coded message about something political. He insists it’s nothing more than culinary truth-seeking.
“Genuinely, I really only care about boneless wings,” he says. “I have one small hill to die on. But it’s mine.”
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Ted Anthony, director of new storytelling and newsroom innovation for The Associated Press, has been writing about American culture since 1990. Follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/anthonyted | https://www.kxxv.com/news/national/how-the-boneless-wing-became-a-tasty-culinary-lie | 2023-02-11 22:53:58 | 0 | https://www.kxxv.com/news/national/how-the-boneless-wing-became-a-tasty-culinary-lie |
We don’t really “do” fries in Australia. Oh, of course you can order a side of battered and fried potatoes most anywhere, but much like our stuffy big brother Britain, we prefer to call them “chips”. Some of my fondest childhood memories involve tearing open a fresh package of hot chips wrapped in butcher’s paper. Whether picnicking at the park, or lounging at the beach — odds are there would be a fish and chip shop somewhere nearby. One of the greatest glories of being a senior at my high school was we were permitted to leave the school grounds at lunchtime (or maybe we just did it anyway? Such rebellion!). Popping quickly across the road to the local fish and chip shop and returning with a potatoey glorious bounty was one way to ensure you had company for lunch: a small crowd of students would inevitably gather, hanging around like a pesky flock of seagulls, hoping to scab a chip or two.
Why such enthusiasm? Because in Australia there is an x-factor that makes our tubers tantalizingly tasty and puts them over the top. Chicken salt.
What is Chicken Salt?
You mean, besides being one of Australia’s greatest inventions? Well, to be more helpfully specific, chicken salt is a savory, umami-packed salty seasoning that has just a hint of sweetness. Originally created by Peter Brinkworth in the 1970s to season his rotisserie chickens at his family-owned neighborhood chicken shop, legend has it that one day he accidentally seasoned the chips with the delectable concoction. Chicken-salty potatoes were an immediate hit with customers, and eventually chicken salt was picked up by food manufacturer Mitani and released commercially in 1979. It wasn’t long before chicken salt had become a favorite staple on hot potato chips all throughout Australia. As a kid I thought chicken salt was a magic dust only available if delivered by the fryer-wizard working behind a counter. As I became an adult, I realized you could just buy it for yourself. Mind. Blown.
Although the original recipe did in fact include chicken bouillon, now there are many different varieties and brands that offer the seasoning, and 9/10 of them don’t actually have any chicken in them! In fact, the shaker that I bought off amazon recently in a fit of homesickness lists wheat, sugar, salt, onion powder, bell pepper powder, soy sauce powder and herbs as its primary components… as well as Beef Fat! Wait what? Is everything a lie?
Whatever. I quickly built a delicious bridge and got over it. Chicken salt is phenomenal, whatever it’s made of. You could say that it’s made by massaging regular salt through the ruffled feathers of freshly bathed brooding hens, and I’d respond with a nod “how very interesting… can you please shake the packet as you sprinkle, to make sure it gets on all of the chips?”
If you’re a vegetarian, no worries, mate! Most chicken salt doesn’t contain any meat, only onion salt and paprika and other ingredients of that ilk. The Mitani brand which is also available on amazon is vegetarian friendly.
I highly recommend you get some for yourself. It goes well on everything -eggs, popcorn, as a marinade for (surprise surprise) chicken. But I suggest most of all that you try it out on potatoes. That’s the true Aussie way.
If you’re looking to impress or seduce an Australian, might I suggest you do the following:
Get a couple of classic Russet or Idaho potatoes (the high starch content in these kinds make them ideal for frying) and peel them. Cut the potatoes into sticks, aiming to get them all a similar size so that they cook at the same rate. Toss the chopped potatoes in olive oil and chicken salt.
Spread your oiled potatoes in the air fryer basket in a single layer -don’t cram them in, you want some space between the individual chips for the hot air to circulate, browning on all sides. Air fry at 380 for 12 to 15 minutes, flipping them halfway. Remove them from the fryer when they’re crisp and brown on the edges.
Repeat this process as many times as necessary to cook the remaining potatoes. When you’ve finished cooking them all, add all of your fries (chips, whatever!) back into the basket (don’t worry about crowding them this time) and cook for 2 minutes to warm them back up again. When they’re crispy and hot, take them out. Feel free to give another generous dusting with the chicken salt. And then ENJOY!
Canada has its poutine, Germans will dip spuds into mayo, and of course there’s nothing more American than fries with Ketchup. But Down Under, we’ll take a healthy shake of the chicken salt, ta love. Our chippys are in the nud without it. | https://www.sfgate.com/shopping/article/What-is-chicken-salt-17268976.php | 2022-06-27 22:30:03 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/shopping/article/What-is-chicken-salt-17268976.php |
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Beginning Thursday, April 27 at 9 a.m., a four-person crew given the moniker Inclusion 1 made their way inside a sealed, pressurized habitat within the Biosphere 2 compound.
The crew will stay inside the habitat, known as the Space Analog for the Moon and Mars (or 'SAM'), for 6 days. SAM was built by Biosphere 2 researchers as an "experimental prototype" to understand how humans might live and work in space.
UArizona's Controlled Environment Agriculture Center, Paragon Space Development Corporation, as well as NASA assisted in the development of SAM.
"Thirty years ago, eight people sealed themselves inside Biosphere 2 for two years. For the first time since, a crew will seal themselves inside of an analog habitat at this historic location," said Kai Staats, director of research for SAM at Biosphere 2.
"It's a machine, it's a spaceship without rockets," Staats added Thursday. “It’s not just the experiments they’re running inside, it’s the building itself is the experiment. This is not a finished product, it’s just the beginning.”
The crew, known as the Inclusive I team, consists of:
- Cassandra Klos: mission commander and photographer
- Eiman Jahangir: mission medical officer
- Bailey Burns: mission engineer
- Sheri Wells-Jensen: mission communications officer
Wells-Jensen is also blind, and will help address accessibility concerns within the habitat.
“Right now, we’re sort of set up for able-bodied people to go to space," she said Thursday. "And we have not done enough consideration of how people with different bodies and different abilities will fit into that program. And we really cannot afford to go to space and leave 25 percent of humanity behind. Twenty-five percent of people identify as having a disability… We need to go to space with everybody.”
You can read more about the team and their extensive collective experience here.
The Inclusive I team will exit the SAM on May 2.
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As an educator, I was initially thrilled by the announcement that the state and the Lilly Foundation are partnering to invest millions toward improving early literacy rates. It is alarming to see a nearly 10% decrease in the number of third graders who have met reading benchmarks over the past 10 years.
As I read on, however, I grew disappointed.
I appreciate that funds are being directed toward teacher training and the creation of a Department of Education Literacy Center, but there is one research-based method to improve student achievement and bolster early literacy that is notably absent from this $111 million dollar plan: bring back certified school librarians.
Over the past few decades, education researchers such as Keith Curry Lance have found time and again that a school district’s employment of certified school librarians typically results in higher reading scores for their students – and the loss of school librarians often has a negative impact on test scores.
Certified school librarians hold teaching licenses and have been through the same teacher training as classroom teachers. We work directly with students, which allows us to meet our students where they are and guide them toward professionally selected reading materials that educate, entertain and encourage continued reading and growth. We collaborate with classroom teachers on literacy and research instruction, reducing some of the strain driving many teachers to burnout.
And we teach with the goal of growing lifelong readers, aiming well beyond the reading benchmarks measured by standardized tests.
And yet certified school librarians have been seen as expendable: According to Lance’s SLIDE Project, Indiana saw a 35.5% loss in school librarian employment between 2010 and 2019. I am lucky enough to work for one of the few school districts left in the state that still values certified school librarians enough to ensure we have one in every building.
Many districts have replaced school librarians with paraprofessionals or volunteers, especially in elementary schools, relying on a single certified librarian to coordinate library lessons and programs for an entire district. This eliminates our ability to work directly with students and instead places the burden of delivering instruction on people who are not trained (nor adequately compensated) to teach.
Many of the remaining school librarians have taken on the additional task of supporting our schools’ one-to-one technology initiatives, leaving less time for one-on-one interactions with our students. Our Indiana library education content standards, last updated in 2010, were left out of the DOE’s standards update schedule and have since disappeared from their website altogether.
We have been left out of local and state conversations about literacy instruction, our expertise forgotten or ignored. But the research shows that Indiana needs us – our students need us. And I hope Gov. Eric Holcomb and Secretary of Education Katie Jenner realize this before it is too late.
Emily Wilt is a librarian at Chesterton High School and current chair of the Association of Indiana School Library Educators. This piece originally appeared at indiana capital chronicle.com. | https://www.journalgazette.net/opinion/columnists/certified-librarians-are-an-asset-for-students/article_39eafcf0-3a7e-11ed-a83e-2b7873bbb1de.html | 2022-09-23 05:38:45 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/opinion/columnists/certified-librarians-are-an-asset-for-students/article_39eafcf0-3a7e-11ed-a83e-2b7873bbb1de.html |
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System enables load balancing, data normalization, aggregation of loan data, and reporting across multiple diligence vendors and transactions
MERCER ISLAND, Wash., Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LauraMac announces the launch of the Loan Acquisition System (LAS), their newest technology solution for the mortgage capital markets. The cloud-based LAS streamlines, among other things, the diligence vendor management process by connecting sellers, buyers, and Third-Party Review (TPR) firms in a technological ecosystem that enables real time communications and a seamless exchange of documents and data without the need for emails or spreadsheets.
Features include:
- Easy-to-use tape mapping
- Automated processes to perform document classification and condition for minimum required documents
- Push-button diligence review ordering with Instantaneous delivery of documents and data
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- Management and resolution of findings directly with counterparties or indirectly through TPRs
- Aggregated data and findings reporting
- Pooling for analytics and assignment of loans to investors with TPR firms
"We are very excited about the efficiency our technology can bring to the process of buying loans," said LauraMac CEO Bob Fulton. "The ability to automatically normalize data coming from the TPR firms and run reports off aggregated data alone presents a huge time savings for our clients."
In addition to the features described above, LAS will incorporate modular solutions for all facets of the acquisition process, including pricing, contract management, collateral reviews, settlement, and more.
"LauraMac is transforming the way the secondary market works," said Jordan Cohen, LAS General Manager at LauraMac. "Coming out of the gates, LAS provides our clients an unparalleled ability to articulate and control their due diligence processes and realize significant operating efficiencies along the way."
To learn more about LauraMac and LAS, visit www.LauraMac.com.
LauraMac was formed in 2019 by a team of leaders with deep experience in the mortgage capital markets and the development of technology. LauraMac provides modern SaaS technology solutions to the mortgage secondary and capital markets with products for document recognition and management, data extraction, loan due diligence, quality control, pricing and transaction management, and servicing transfer. The power of the LauraMac Platform is in the versatility of its design.
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LONDON, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The European Central Bank released on 29th September 2022, their latest progress report on the investigation phase of their digital euro project and elaborates on foundational design features approved by the Governing Council. The report highlights key operational transfer mechanism requirements for the digital euro including:
- Online validation by third-parties
- Offline functionality (where payee or payer are not connected to the internet) and peer-to-peer validation
- Privacy level at least equal to current private sector digital solutions
- Compatibility with current regulatory framework
Further detailed information can be found at the following ECB link.
Aureum is Fluency's proprietary blockchain account-based ledger technology designed to enable the implementation and on-going operation of CBDC systems. Specifically, Aureum, with its unique account-based ledger architecture, achieves:
- Peer-to-peer validation;
- Online payments validation by certified third-parties;
- Dual offline functionality (when neither payee or payer has mobile or internet connection);
- Instantaneous and programmable payments; and
- Double spending protection through its ledger stored architecture
Inga Mullins, Fluency's CEO and founder, stated "We are extremely pleased to see that our solution, Aureum, fulfils all foundational design aspects for the digital euro as approved by the ECB's Governing Council, and look forward to continuing our ongoing engagements with the world's major central banks focusing on Central Bank Digital Currency".
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NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Jennings is CEO of the Lambda Legal organization, a prominent advocate for LGBTQ rights. He sees his mission in part as fulfilling that hallowed American principle: “All men are created equal.”
“Those words say to me, ‘Do better, America.’ And what I mean by that is we have never been a country where people were truly equal,” Jennings says. “It's an aspiration to continue to work towards, and we're not there yet.”
Ryan T. Anderson is president of the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center. He, too, believes that “all men are created equal.” For him, the words mean we all have “the same dignity, we all count equally, no one is disposable, no one a second-class citizen." At the same time, he says, not everyone has an equal right to marry — what he and other conservatives regard as the legal union of a man and woman.
"I don't think human equality requires redefining what marriage is," he says.
Few words in American history are invoked as often as those from the preamble to the Declaration of Independence, published nearly 250 years ago. And few are more difficult to define. The music, and the economy, of “all men are created equal” make it both universal and elusive, adaptable to viewpoints — social, racial, economic — otherwise with little or no common ground. How we use them often depends less on how we came into this world than on what kind world we want to live in.
It’s as if “All men are created equal” leads us to ask: “And then what?”
“We say ‘All men are created equal’ but does that mean we need to make everyone entirely equal at all times, or does it mean everyone gets a fair shot?” says Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center for Justice. “Individualism is baked into that phrase, but also a broader, more egalitarian vision. There's a lot there.”
Thomas Jefferson helped immortalize the expression, but he didn't invent it. The words in some form date back centuries before the Declaration and were even preceded in 1776 by Virginia's Declaration of Rights, which stated that “all men are by nature equally free and independent.” Peter Onuf, a professor emeritus at the University of Virginia whose books include “The Mind of Thomas Jefferson,” notes that Jefferson himself did not claim to have said something radically new and wrote in 1825 that the Declaration lacked “originality of principle or sentiment.”
The Declaration was an indictment of the British monarchy, but not a statement of justice for all. For the slave owning Jefferson “and most of his fellow patriots, enslaved people were property and therefore not included in these new polities, leaving their status unchanged,” Onuf says. He added that “did not mean he did not recognize his enslaved people to be people, just that they could only enjoy those universal, natural rights elsewhere, in a country of their own: emancipation and expatriation.”
Hannah Spahn, a professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute in Berlin and author of the upcoming “Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition,” says that a draft version of the Declaration made clear that Jefferson meant “all humans” were created equal but not necessarily that that all humans were equal under the law. Spahn, like such leading Revolutionary War scholars as Jack Rakove, believes that “all men are created equal” originally referred less to individual equality than to the rights of a people as a whole to self-government.
Once the Declaration had been issued, perceptions began to change. Black Americans were among the first to change them, notably the New England-based clergyman Lemuel Haynes. Soon after July 4, Haynes wrote “Liberty Further Extended: Or Free Thoughts on the Illegality of Slave-Keeping,” an essay not published until 1983 but seen as reflecting the feelings of many in the Black community, with its call to “affirm, that Even an affrican, has Equally as good a right to his Liberty in common with Englishmen.”
Spahn finds Haynes’ response “philosophically innovative," because he isolated the passage containing the famous phrase from the rest of the Declaration and made it express “timeless, universally binding norms."
“He deliberately downplayed Jefferson’s original emphasis on problems of collective assent and consent,” she says.
The words have since been endlessly adapted and reinterpreted. By feminists at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 who stated “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal.” By civil rights leaders from Frederick Douglass to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who in his “I Have a Dream” speech held up the phrase as a sacred promise to Black Americans. By Abraham Lincoln, who invoked them in the Gettysburg Address and elsewhere, but with a narrower scope than what King imagined a century later.
In Lincoln's time, according to historian Eric Foner, “they made a careful distinction between natural, civil, political and social rights. One could enjoy equality in one but not another.”
“Lincoln spoke of equality in natural rights — life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” says Foner, whose books include the Pulitzer Prize winning “The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.” “That’s why slavery is wrong and why people have an equal right to the fruits of their labor. Political rights were determined by the majority and could be limited by them."
The words have been denied entirely. John C. Calhoun, the South Carolina senator and vehement defender of slavery, found “not a word of truth” in them as he attacked the phrase during a speech in 1848. Vice President Alexander H. Stephens of the Confederate States contended in 1861 that “the great truth" is "the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition.”
The overturning of Roe v. Wade and other recent Supreme Court decisions has led some activists to wonder if “All men are created equal” still has any meaning. Robin Marty, author of “Handbook for a Post-Roe America,” calls the phrase a “bromide” for those “who ignore how unequal our lives truly are.”
Marty added that the upending of abortion rights has given the unborn “greater protection than most,” a contention echoed in part by Roe opponents who have said that “All men are created equal” includes the unborn.
Among contemporary politicians and other public figures, the words are applied to very different ends.
— President Donald Trump cited them in October 2020 (“The divine truth our Founders enshrined in the fabric of our Nation: that all people are created equal”) in a statement forbidding federal agencies from teaching “Critical Race Theory.” President Joe Biden echoed the language of Seneca Falls (“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal”) while praising labor unions last month as he addressed an AFL-CIO gathering in Philadelphia.
— Morse Tan, dean of Liberty University, the evangelical school co-founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell Sr., says the words uphold a “classic, longstanding” Judeo-Christian notion: "The irreducible worth and value that all human beings have because they (are) created in the image of God.” Secular humanists note Jefferson's own religious skepticism and fit his words and worldview within 18th century Enlightenment thinking, emphasizing human reason over faith.
— Conservative organizations from the Claremont Institute to the Heritage Center regard “all men are created equal” as proof that affirmative action and other government programs addressing racism are unnecessary and contrary to the ideal of a “color-blind” system.
Ibram X. Kendi, the award-winning author and director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, says the words can serve what he calls both “antiracist” and “assimilationist” perspectives.
“The anti-racist idea suggests that all racial groups are biologically, inherently equal. The assimilationist idea is that all racial groups are created equal, but it leaves open the idea some racial groups become inferior by nurture, meaning some racial groups are inferior culturally or behaviorally,” says Kendi, whose books include ”Stamped from the Beginning" and “How to Be an Antiracist.”
“To be an anti-racist is to recognize that it’s not just that we are created equal, or biologically equal. It’s that all racial groups are equals. And if there are disparities between those equal racial groups, then it is the result of racist policy or structural racism and not the inferiority or superiority of a racial group.” | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/The-long-ongoing-debate-over-All-men-are-17281979.php | 2022-07-03 09:28:53 | 0 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/The-long-ongoing-debate-over-All-men-are-17281979.php |
NEW YORK, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, Inc. ("IEA" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: IEA), in connection with the proposed acquisition of the Company by MasTec, Inc. ("MasTec") (NYSE: MTZ). Under the terms of the merger agreement, the Company's shareholders will receive $14.00 per share in cash and 0.0483 shares of MasTec common stock for each IEA share owned, representing implied per-share merger consideration of approximately $49.03 based upon MasTec's July 22, 2022 closing price of $72.52.
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MEBANE, N.C., Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Results Physiotherapy opened an outpatient clinic today at 3978 Wilson Road.
The clinic is open 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday and 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. To make an appointment, call 919-246-9033 or visit resultspt.com.
The clinic specializes in physical therapy, including manual therapy, hand therapy, injury prevention, return to performance, total joint replacement, dry needling, concussion management, headaches and vestibular rehabilitation.
Clinic director Dylan Higgins earned a doctor of physical therapy degree from Mercer University. Higgins is an orthopedic clinical specialist and is certified in orthopedic manual therapy.
He is a teaching assistant and instructor for High Point University's doctor of physical therapy program and the Institute of Advanced Musculoskeletal Treatments.
Results has more than 200 clinics in Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
Results is part of the Upstream Rehabilitation family of clinical care, which offers access to care within 24 hours and works with all insurance types.
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YONGKANG, China, May 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On the afternoon of May 26, the 2nd World Hardware Development Conference opened in Yongkang, Zhejiang. This is an important platform for high-end exchanges, deepening cooperation, and sharing and win-win results in the global hardware industry. Well-known enterprises in the hardware industry at home and abroad, as well as upstream and downstream related industries, gathered together around the theme of "Innovation leads a new era of hardware intelligent manufacturing for a win-win world", to discuss the development plan of the hardware industry, and to jointly seek good strategies for the development of hardware intelligent manufacturing.
This is an industrial revolution that leads the future. At this conference, the "Global Hardware Industry Innovation and Development Index" was released, which conducted a multi-dimensional analysis of the development status and innovation trends of the global hardware industry, and drew a new digital blueprint for the development of the hardware industry.
This is a solid bridge for win-win cooperation. At this conference, the signing of international economic and trade strategic partners was held to deepen cooperation in key areas of the global hardware industry, and jointly promote the high-quality development of the global hardware manufacturing industry.
Starting from the new, the future has come. In the new stage of development, Yongkang firmly grasps the trend of digital transformation, based on the new stage of development, closely follows the development trend of high-end, intelligent and green manufacturing, and strides forward on the road of striving to create "the world hardware capital of quality and vitality Yongkang."
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HAVANA (AP) — The young people come and go on their electric motorcycles at this highway outside Cuba’s capital where they perform stunts and talk about their two-wheelers, which would be largely silent if it weren’t for the music blasting from speakers.
Cuba has been flooded in recent years with “motorinas,” as the electric scooters are called on the island, which have been promoted by the government as efficient alternatives amid extreme gas and diesel shortages, and as a solution to the country’s transportation problems.
Authorities permitted their importation last decade – Cubans cannot import motorcycles with gasoline or diesel engines – and since then about 300,000 of them have circulated on the island, said Col. Mario Ríos Labrada, head of vehicle registry at the National Transit Directorate. In comparison there are an estimated 500,000 cars.
The motorcycles can cost between $2,000 and $5,000. Many originate in China and are imported to Cuba through Panama. Cuban officials say a locally made electric motorcycle called the “Minerva” is being produced at an old bicycle manufacturing warehouse in Villa Clara.
“There is an ‘outbreak’ of electric motorcycles, everyone likes them,” said Ernesto José Salazar, 20, who works in a paint shop. “We got to meet up with 200 motorcycles, honking and listening to music.”
Young riders organize through social networks and spend hours discussing the benefits of a battery or where to buy tires or find the best workshop.
“Fuel is a lost cause, you have to look for it and queue up, right now having an electric motorcycle here is life itself,” said Alejandro Vasallo, 23.
Cuban drivers face shortages of fuel, especially diesel, which is also used to power the electricity generators that feed the nation’s power grid, which collapsed this summer. Oil shortages have been caused by difficulties in Venezuela – an ally and supplier of the island – and U.S. sanctions.
Electric scooter drivers recharge the batteries through normal power sockets and are out of luck when the supply goes down.
Authorities in Cuba promote electric motorcycles as energy efficient and as an alternative to a public transportation system plagued shortages of parts to repair broken down buses and a lack fuel.
“Electricity will always be cheaper than diesel fuel and gasoline, and in addition, electric motors are much more efficient than combustion engines, you can save up to 70% of the cost of fuel,” Ramsés Montes Calzadilla, strategy director of the Ministry of Energy and Mines, said in an interview with news website Cubadebate.
Electric motorcycles are changing the urban landscape in Cuba and also creating challenges: the batteries tend to catch fire and their relative silence accompanied by driver inexperience is causing traffic accidents.
The latest figures available from the Fire Department indicated that in the first half of 2020 there were 263 fires from motorcycles with gel or lithium batteries, a notable increase compared to 208 for the entire year 2019. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Electric-motorcycles-flood-Havana-amid-diesel-17313389.php | 2022-07-19 00:08:34 | 0 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Electric-motorcycles-flood-Havana-amid-diesel-17313389.php |
Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop announced Tuesday he will not seek re-election in 2025, sealing his mayoral career at three terms and unofficially kicking off a 2025 gubernatorial run, several Hudson County political insiders told The Jersey Journal.
The decision to make the announcement just one year into his latest term was intended to signal his intentions for the governor’s seat, a Hudson County Democratic party source said. Three other sources close to Hudson County politics said Fulop is definitely preparing to run to succeed two-term Gov. Phil Murphy, also a Democrat. | https://www.nj.com/hudson/2023/01/jersey-city-mayor-unofficially-announces-2025-gubernatorial-run.html | 2023-01-03 22:08:30 | 1 | https://www.nj.com/hudson/2023/01/jersey-city-mayor-unofficially-announces-2025-gubernatorial-run.html |
PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered armed members of a group monitoring ballot drop boxes in Arizona to stay at least 250 feet away from the locations following complaints that people wearing masks and carrying guns were intimidating voters.
U.S. District Court Judge Michael Liburdi said members of Clean Elections USA, its leader and anyone working with them are also barred from filming or following anyone within 75 feet (23 meters) of a ballot drop box or the entrance to a building that houses one. They also cannot speak to or yell at individuals within that perimeter unless spoken to first.
The temporary restraining order was requested by the League of Women Voters of Arizona after Clean Elections USA, encouraged people to watch 24-hour ballot boxes in Maricopa County, Arizona’s most populous county.
“It is paramount that we balance the rights of the defendant to engage in their constitutionally protected First Amendment activity with the interest in the plaintiffs and in voters casting a vote free of harassment and intimidation,” Liburdi said.
A second set of defendants in rural Yavapai County — groups known as the Lions of Liberty and the Yavapai County Preparedness team, who are associated with the far-right anti-government group Oath Keepers — were dismissed from the case on Monday after they pledged to stand down their operations.
Local and federal law enforcement have been alarmed by reports of people, some armed, watching 24-hour ballot boxes in the two counties as midterm elections near. Some voters have complained alleging voter intimidation after people watching the boxes took photos and videos, and followed voters.
Sheriff’s deputies have been providing security around the two outdoor drop boxes in Maricopa County after a pair of people carrying guns and wearing bulletproof vests showed up at a box in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa. The county’s other 24-hour outdoor drop box is at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center in downtown Phoenix, which is now surrounded by a chain link fence.
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, a Republican, has called on voters to immediately report any intimidation to police and file a complaint with his office. Arizona’s Secretary of State Katie Hobbs last week said her office received six cases of potential voter intimidation to the state attorney general and the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as a threatening email sent to the state elections director.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Arizona has vowed to prosecute any violations of federal law but said local police were at the “front line in efforts to ensure that all qualified voters are able to exercise their right to vote free of intimidation or other election abuses.”
The temporary order issued by Liburdi on Tuesday will be in effect for two weeks and the cooperation from the monitoring group “shall not be construed as an admission they have engaged in any of these activities,” the judge added.
The 250 foot (76 meter) perimeter around drop boxes also applies to group members wearing body armor.
Other stipulations include the groups post on their websites and social media that it is untrue that dropping off multiple ballots is illegal in all cases. Exceptions are allowed for family members, members of the same household and caregivers.
Alexander Kolodin, the lead attorney for the defendants, said the League of Women Voters of Arizona ultimately failed to completely shut down the monitors’ mission. Still, the groups are not happy about the limits, since he said they could prevent them from discouraging ballot box stuffing.
“They’re worried they can’t record what happens within the 75 feet. They may have missed an opportunity to deter unlawful conduct,” Kolodin said. “Today’s order may make drop box voting a little less secure.”
An Associated Press review this summer found no major fraud from the expanded use of ballot drops boxes in the 2020 election.
The League of Women Voters of Arizona encouraged voters to keep using the drop boxes.
“Today’s U.S. District Court decision is a victory for the voters of Arizona who have the right to cast their ballots free from intimidation, threats, or coercion,” Pinny Sheoran, the group’s president, said in a statement.
This lawsuit was folded into another case before Liburdi.
On Friday, the judge said Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans failed to make its argument against Clean Elections USA. Another defendant, Voto Latino, was also removed from the case.
“Defendants have not made any statements threatening to commit acts of unlawful violence to a particular individual or group of individuals,” the judge wrote.
Liburdi concluded that “while this case certainly presents serious questions, the Court cannot craft an injunction without violating the First Amendment.” The judge is a Trump appointee and a member of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal organization.
The Department of Justice on Monday said it would join the case, saying that the actions raised serious concerns about voter intimidation.
Luke Cilano, a Lions of Liberty board member, said the organization had dropped its “Operation Drop Box” initiative last Wednesday “due to being lumped in with people who don’t adhere to the law and our rules of engagement.”
The Lions of Liberty are not associated with Clean Elections USA, he said. They are connected to the Yavapai County Preparedness Team. But he says the team was not involved in ballot box monitoring.
Similar groups around the United States have embraced a film that has been discredited called “2000 Mules” that claims people were paid to travel among drop boxes and stuff them with fraudulent ballots during the 2020 presidential vote.
There’s no evidence for the notion that a network of Democrat-associated ballot “mules” has conspired to collect and deliver ballots to drop boxes, either in the 2020 presidential vote or in the upcoming midterm elections. | https://www.kron4.com/news/armed-group-ordered-to-stay-away-from-ballot-drop-boxes/ | 2022-11-02 12:44:24 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/armed-group-ordered-to-stay-away-from-ballot-drop-boxes/ |
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KYIV—Explosions rang out across Ukraine's capital early Monday, a week after nation-wide strikes rocked the city for the first time since June.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said five drones struck central Kyiv in the morning attack and appeared to be targeting energy infrastructure. A four-story residential building and energy facilities near Kyiv's busy train station were damaged in the attack.
Volodymyr Grytsan was leaving the train station and talking to a friend when the drones buzzed low overhead. "Police started firing at it with assault rifles and machine guns and then it suddenly turned towards us and we ran underground," he said. People were leaping over security gates and running up escalators with their luggage, seeking shelter.
Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said 18 people were pulled from the rubble of one residential building. Bulldozers could be seen driving past a police cordon that had been set up on the street. Smoke could be seen coming from at least two buildings.
At least four people were hospitalized and at least three people were killed in the attack, according to Kyrylo Tymoshenko, a top emergency response adviser to Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
"The enemy can attack our cities, but it won't be able to break us. The occupiers will get only fair punishment and condemnation of future generations, and we will get victory," wrote Zelenskyy.
Zelenskyy's chief-of-staff, Andriy Yermak, again called on the west to provide Ukraine with more air defense systems. "We have no time for slow actions," he said online.
Many Kyiv residents, including some of NPR's Ukrainian staff, recorded videos of Ukrainian air defense systems firing at drones over the city.
Yermak said the drones were Shahed models, known for crashing into the targets with explosive payloads. Ukraine estimates that Russia ordered 2,400 of the drones from Iran, a number that overwhelms Ukrainian air defense systems. As of 10am, Ukraine's Air Force claims to have shot down 11 drones. Klitschko said that 28 drones were detected in the Kyiv region on Monday morning.
Klitshchko posted a photo of shrapnel labeled "Geran-2," Russian's designation for the Iranian drones, but he removed the picture after commenters criticized him for confirming a Russian strike.
European Union foreign ministers are scheduled to meet today in Luxembourg. Before the meeting, Josep Borrell, the EU's top diplomat, told reporters that the bloc would look into "concrete evidence" of Iran's involvement in Ukraine.
Iran has denied supplying weapons to the war.
Additional reporting by Kateryna Malofieieva.
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Tagwa Mohmed remembers harvesting ripe, red tomatoes as a child growing up in her native country of Sudan. Gardening there was just part of life, and her family planted everything under the sun.
"Any kind of vegetable," she said, "we would plant."
Charlie Wortmann helps Tagwa Mohmed (center) and Pyoe Aye lift a wheelbarrow to fill a garden bed with dirt outside Lincoln Northeast High School.
KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star
So Mohmed — with her green thumb and blue gardening gloves — naturally fit in with the other English language learners moving soil, shoveling mulch and planting marigolds and oregano in the garden boxes at Lincoln Northeast High School on Wednesday.
A garden by the students, for the students.
The idea came to Brooke David and her ELL students at Northeast last year after they had finished reading Paul Fleischmann's book "Seedfolks." The novella tells the story of a Vietnamese girl and a group of immigrants who turn a vacant city lot into a community garden. But not just any garden — a garden that represented each character, with crops from their home country.
The students at Northeast wanted to bring a similar project to their school.
"Each country knows about gardening," said Mohmed, who moved to the U.S. in 2018.
So they got permission from Principal Keri Applebee and added partners along the way: Civic Nebraska, which runs the school's Community Learning Center, the Kiwanis Club and Northeast's Food, Energy, Water and Societal Systems focus program.
The students then spent the year researching what it takes to care for a garden, in addition to learning about food scarcity and the impacts of food deserts.
They picked what vegetables and herbs they intended to plant: sweet peppers, hot peppers, thyme, cilantro, chives, broccoli, cauliflower, cherry tomatoes, basil, sage, cucumbers. Flowers in their own separate bed to act as pollinators and to repel insects.
"Some of the vegetables come from recipes they've made with their families, and so it's just an opportunity for them to share those traditions with us," David said.
And they figured out where to plant everything, too: on the south side of the school, where the garden will get plenty of sun.
Then on a hot May afternoon that contained hints of summer came the fun part.
LNE students gather various plants and markers on an organizational chart while planning a community garden outside the school.
KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
With drills and hammers and the help of staff, Kiwanis members and Civic Nebraska, students erected four garden boxes with wooden frames and corrugated-steel walls. With shovels, they scooped mountains of dirt and mulch into wheelbarrows. And with careful precision and planning, they planted the herbs, seeds and flowers (consulting the homemade map at all times).
"They researched how many (seeds) we can put in each square foot of our garden, like spinach, for example, they know that they can put nine seeds in that space, so they made a map and everything to figure out how many they needed to purchase," said Bailey Feit, coordinator of the FEWSS focus program.
The garden is empowering to the students, Feit said, and a way for them to connect to the school and a community they might be totally new to.
"They're going to want to come here so they can see all of the hard work they've put in," she said.
There are plans to expand the garden in the future with a greenhouse and additional garden boxes.
And come harvest time, there are plans to share the spoils with the community.
"We're hoping we can have family community nights to harvest the vegetables," David said. "This will just be a place for the community to gather and learn from each and get to know each other."
Breaking down Lincoln's public schools: Enrollment, test scores and more
Adams
Adams Elementary: 7401 Jacobs Creek Drive
Enrollment : 776 students
77.9% white, 2.3% Black or African American, 9.6% Asian, 4.9% Hispanic/Latino, 5.4% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 8.6% free, 2.3% reduced
Gifted students: 10.4%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 73 language arts; 76 math
LPS
Arnold
Arnold Elementary: 5000 Mike Scholl St.
Enrollment: 742 students
57.1% white, 1.5% American Indian or Alaska Native, 8.4% Black or African American, 1.5% Asian, 19.2% Hispanic/Latino, 0.3% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 12% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 46.7% free, 12.7% reduced
Gifted: 2.8%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 44 language arts, 32 math
LPS
Beattie
Beattie Elementary: 1901 Calvert St.
Enrollment: 368 students
73.6% white, 0.5% American Indian or Alaska Native, 3.3% Black or African American, 1.1% Asian, 8.2% Hispanic/Latino, 13.3% two or more races
Free or reduced-price lunch participation: 25.3% free, 8.2% reduced price
Gifted: 6.0%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 59 language arts, 55 math
LPS
Belmont
Belmont Elementary: 3425 N. 14th St.
Enrollment: 829 students
42.4% white, 0.9% American Indian or Alaska Native, 15.7% Black or African American, 2.2% Asian, 26.9% Hispanic/Latino, 11.8% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 67.5% free, 11.0% reduced
Gifted: 3.7%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 44 language arts, 34 math
LPS
Brownell
Brownell Elementary: 6000 Aylesworth Ave.
Enrollment: 320 students
65.9% white, 4.9% Black or African American, 0.3% Asian, 14.8% Hispanic/Latino, 14.1% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 45.2% free, 10.5% reduced
Gifted: 2.3%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 50 language arts, 37 math
LPS
Calvert
Calvert Elementary: 3709 S. 46th St.
Enrollment: 361 students
62.9% white, 1.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 7.1% Black or African American, 1.5% Asian, 12.0% Hispanic/Latino, 15.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 45.7% free, 6.7% reduced
Gifted: 11.3%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 47 language arts, 31 math
LPS
Campbell
Campbell Elementary: 2200 Dodge St.
Enrollment: 591 students
46.6% white, 0.4% American Indian or Alaska Native, 14.3% Black or African American, 11.3% Asian, 16.6% Hispanic/Latino, 10.9% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 59.4% free, 10.5% reduced
Gifted: 4.2%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 38 language arts, 34 math
LPS
Cavett
Cavett Elementary: 7701 S. 36th St.
Enrollment: 580 students
77.0% white, 0.5% American Indian or Alaska Native, 2.9% Black or African American, 4.0% Asian, 8.9% Hispanic, 6.6% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 10.4% free, 3.6% reduced
Gifted: 13.3%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 70 language arts, 69 math
LPS
Clinton
Clinton Elementary: 1520 N. 29th St.
Enrollment: 392 students
39.2% white, 0.3% American Indian or Alaska Native, 24.3% Black or African American, 4.7% Asian, 21.0% Hispanic/Latino, 10.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 81.2% free, 10.5% reduced
Gifted: 3.6%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 30 language arts, 30 math
LPS
Eastridge
Eastridge Elementary: 6245 L St.
Enrollment: 291 students
72.9% white, 1.0% American Indian or Alaska Native, 4.5% Black or African American, 1.4% Asian, 10.3% Hispanic/Latino, 10.0% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 25.8% free, 10.0% reduced
Gifted: 7.9%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 55 language arts, 51 math
LPS
Elliott
Elliott Elementary: 225 S. 25th St.
Enrollment: 383 students
23.3% white, 1.8% American Indian or Alaska Native, 13.7% Black or African American, 12.8% Asian, 33.7% Hispanic/Latino, 0.3% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 14.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 76.4% free, 6.3% reduced
Gifted: 4.5%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 42 language arts, 35 math
LPS
Everett
Everett Elementary: 1123 C St.
Enrollment: 374 students
27.8% white, 0.9% American Indian or Alaska Native, 13.5% Black or African American, 9.9% Asian, 40.4% Hispanic/Latino, 7.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 73.7% free, 8.7% reduced
Gifted: 5.4%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 37 language arts, 24 math
LPS
Fredstrom
Fredstrom Elementary, 5700 N.W. 10th St.
Enrollment: 437 students
74.0% white, 0.5% American Indian or Alaska Native, 1.7% Black or African American, 3.6% Asian, 9.7% Hispanic, 10.4% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 22.3% free, 6.3% reduced
Gifted: 7.5%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 52 language arts, 54 math
LPS
Hartley
Hartley Elementary, 730 N. 33rd St.
Enrollment: 339 students
37.5% white, 2.3% American Indian or Alaska Native, 17.5% Black or African American, 3.6% Asian, 25.9% Hispanic/Latino, 1.0% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 12.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 71.5% free, 9.4% reduced
Gifted: 3.2%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 38 language arts, 28 math
LPS
Hill
Hill Elementary , 5230 Tipperary Trail
Enrollment: 449 students
72.2% white, 0.5% American Indian or Alaska Native, 4.8% Black or African American, 5.3% Asian, 10.3% Hispanic/Latino, 7.0% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 24.0% free, 5.0% reduced
Gifted: 10.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 70 language arts, 59 math
LPS
Holmes
Holmes Elementary , 5230 Sumner St.
Enrollment: 393 students
70.7% white, 3.5% Black or African American, 3.5% Asian, 10.1% Hispanic/Latino, 0.3% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 11.9% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 37.1% free, 7.0% reduced
Gifted: 11.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 61 language arts, 47 math
LPS
Humann
Humann Elementary, 6720 Rockwood Lane
Enrollment: 564 students
78.8% white, 0.6% American Indian or Alaska Native, 4.2% Black or African American, 1.3% Asian, 5.9% Hispanic/Latino, 9.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 23.9% free, 4.0% reduced
Gifted: 16.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 72 language arts, 67 math
LPS
Huntington
Huntington Elementary , 2900 N. 46th St.
Enrollment: 370 students
45.0% white, 0.6% American Indian or Alaska Native, 12.0% Black or African American, 1.5% Asian, 24.6% Hispanic/Latino, 16.2% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 67.0% free, 14.1% reduced
Gifted: 4.8%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 32 language arts, 23 math
LPS
Kahoa
Kahoa Elementary, 7700 Leighton Ave.
Enrollment: 537 students
78.8% white, 0.4% American Indian or Alaska Native, 3.9% Black or African American, 2.6% Asian, 6.7% Hispanic/Latino, 7.6% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 22.9% free, 7.3% reduced
Gifted: 6.9%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 66 language arts, 64 math
LPS
Kloefkorn
Kloefkorn Elementary, 6601 Glass Ridge Drive
Enrollment: 488 students
83.7% white, 0.7% American Indian or Alaska Native, 1.5% Black or African American, 4.4% Asian, 5.3% Hispanic/Latino, 4.4% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 6.2% free, 2.0% reduced
Gifted: 11.9%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 77 language arts, 72 math
LPS
Kooser
Kooser Elementary, 7301 N. 13th St.
Enrollment: 821 students
63.5% white, 0.1% American Indian or Alaska Native, 5.6% Black or African American, 11.9% Asian, 11.1% Hispanic/Latino, 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 7.6% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 30.0% free, 8.3% reduced
Gifted: 2.9%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 55 language arts, 49 math
LPS
Lakeview
Lakeview Elementary, 300 Capitol Beach Blvd.
Enrollment: 400 students
53.0% white, 0.8% American Indian or Alaska Native, 9.3% Black or African American, 3.8% Asian, 22.8% Hispanic/Latino, 10.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 57.0% free, 9.5% reduced
Gifted: 1.8%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 35 language arts, 29 math
LPS
Maxey
Maxey Elementary, 5200 S. 75th St.
Enrollment: 683 students
75.9% white, 0.3% American Indian or Alaska Native, 1.2% Black or African American, 13.5% Asian, 3.4% Hispanic/Latino, 0.2% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 5.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 10.6% free, 3.4% reduced
Gifted: 10.4%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 70 language arts, 69 math
LPS
McPhee
McPhee Elementary, 820 Goodhue Blvd.
Enrollment: 304 students
26.8% white, 1.4% American Indian or Alaska Native, 16.3% Black or African American, 12.7% Asian, 35.9% Hispanic/Latino and 6.9% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 77.2% free, 6.9% reduced
Gifted: 4.0%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 36 language arts, 22 math
LPS
Meadow Lane
Meadow Lane Elementary, 7200 Vine St.
Enrollment: 620 students
72.1% white, 0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 2.8% Black or African American, 2.6% Asian, 13.8% Hispanic/Latino, 8.6% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 33.6% free, 8.1% reduced
Gifted: 8.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 51 language arts, 39 math
LPS
Morley
Morley Elementary, 6800 Monterey Drive
Enrollment: 421 students
78.1% white, 0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 3.8% Black or African American, 0.2% Asian, 7.4% Hispanic, 0.5% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 9.7% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 20.2% free, 5.5% reduced
Gifted: 15.4%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 69 language arts, 56 math
LPS
Norwood Park
Norwood Park Elementary, 4710 N. 72nd St.
Enrollment: 238 students
68.0% white, 4.4% Black or African American, 2.4% Asian, 18.9% Hispanic/Latino, 6.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 46.6% free, 15.0% reduced
Gifted: 4.9%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 43 language arts, 30 math
LPS
Pershing
Pershing Elementary, 6402 Judson St.
Enrollment: 430 students
57.5% white, 0.5% American Indian or Alaska Native, 6.6% Black or African American, 3.3% Asian, 20.6% Hispanic/Latino, 11.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 54.5% free, 12.7% reduced
Gifted: 4.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 49 language arts, 50 math
LPS
Prescott
Prescott Elementary, 1930 S. 20th St.
Enrollment: 492 students
44.9% white, 0.9% American Indian or Alaska Native, 13.8% Black or African American, 7.3% Asian, 18.8% Hispanic/Latino, 0.5% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 13.8% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 51.2% free, 9.5% reduced
Gifted: 7.5%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 52 language arts, 36 math
LPS
Pyrtle
Pyrtle Elementary, 721 Cottonwood Drive
Enrollment: 454 students
78.9% white, 1.9% Black or African American, 2.6% Asian, 10.0% Hispanic/Latino, 6.7% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 17.3% free, 3.6% reduced
Gifted: 17.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 68 language arts, 60 math
LPS
Randolph
Randolph Elementary, 1024 S. 37th St.
Enrollment: 428 students
61.4% white, 0.9% American Indian or Alaska Native, 5.6% Black or African American, 3.7% Asian, 16.4% Hispanic/Latino, 0.5% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 11.4% two or more races
Free and reduced-lunch participation: 45.6% free, 8.9% reduced
Gifted: 3.0%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 53 language arts, 40 math
LPS
Riley
Riley Elementary, 5021 Orchard St.
Enrollment: 321 students
49.5% white, 0.6% American Indian or Alaska Native, 6.9% Black or African American, 3.4% Asian, 22.7% Hispanic/Latino, 16.8% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 55.1% free, 10.0% reduced
Gifted: 5.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 44 language arts, 42 math
LPS
Roper
Roper Elementary, 2323 S. Coddington
Enrollment: 803 students
53.5% white, 0.4% American Indian or Alaska Native, 9.9% Black or African American, 6.9% Asian, 21.2% Hispanic/Latino, 8.1% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 40.0% free, 10.4% reduced
Gifted: 6.5%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 44 language arts, 46 math
LPS
Rousseau
Rousseau Elementary, 3701 S 33rd St.
Enrollment: 531 students
72.9% white, 0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 4.0% Black or African American, 3.4% Asian, 7.0% Hispanic/Latino, 0.2% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 12.2% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 22.7% free, 8.4% reduced
Gifted: 14.7%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 68 language arts, 63 math
LPS
Saratoga
Saratoga Elementary, 2215 S. 13th St.
Enrollment: 235 students
48.5% white, 1.5% American Indian or Alaska Native, 7.8% Black or African American, 3.4% Asian, 26.2% Hispanic/Latino, 12.6% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 61.7% free, 9.7% reduced
Gifted: 5.8%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 36 language arts, 25 math
LPS
Sheridan
Sheridan Elementary, 3100 Plymouth Ave.
Enrollment: 407 students
86.0% white, 0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 1.5% Black or African American, 0.5% Asian, 4.9% Hispanic/Latino, 6.9% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 12.0% free, 5.2% reduced
Gifted: 17.4%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 74 language arts, 64 math
LPS
West Lincoln
West Lincoln Elementary, 630 W. Dawes Ave.
Enrollment: 505 students
37.0% white, 0.4% American Indian or Alaska Native, 9.7% Black or African American, 2.4% Asian, 41.2% Hispanic, 9.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 72.1% free, 10.3% reduced
Gifted: 3.8%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 32 language arts, 29 math
LPS
Wysong
Wysong Elementary, 7901 Blanchard Blvd.
Enrollment: 684 students
89.9% white, 0.1% Black or African American, 2.2% Asian, 3.8% Hispanic/Latino, 3.9% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 3.9% free, 1.5% reduced
Gifted: 7.5%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 75 language arts, 68 math
LPS
Zeman
Zeman Elementary, 4900 S. 52nd St.
Enrollment: 440 students
63.0% white, 0.9% American Indian or Alaska Native, 4.8% Black or African American, 3.0% Asian, 16.1% Hispanic/Latino, 12.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 29.5% free, 9.3% reduced
Gifted: 3.4%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 58 language arts, 49 math
LPS
Culler
Culler Middle School, 5201 Vine St.
Enrollment: 708 students
39.4% white, 1.0% American Indian or Alaska Native, 14.7% Black or African American, 7.1% Asian, 27.3% Hispanic/Latino, 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 10.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 60.9% free, 9.3% reduced
Gifted: 8.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 32 language arts, 30 math
LPS
Dawes
Dawes Middle School, 5130 Colfax Ave.
Enrollment: 398 students
55.0% white, 0.3% American Indian or Alaska Native, 8.3% Black or African American, 2.3% Asian, 19.8% Hispanic/Latino, 14.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 53.3% free, 13.1% reduced
Gifted: 10.6%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 37 language arts, 32 math
LPS
Goodrich
Goodrich Middle School, 4600 Lewis Ave.
Enrollment: 818 students
42.9% white, 1.1% American Indian or Alaska Native, 13.0% Black or African American, 4.0% Asian, 29.5% Hispanic/Latino, 9.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 61.6% free, 11.1% reduced
Gifted: 9.7%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 36 language arts, 38 math
LPS
Irving
Irving Middle School, 2745 S. 22nd St.
Enrollment: 910 students
62.7% white, 0.8% American Indian or Alaska Native, 6.5% Black or African American, 3.2% Asian, 14.3% Hispanic/Latino, 12.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 35.4% free, 8.1% reduced
Gifted: 26.6%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 55 language arts, 49 math
LPS
Lefler
Lefler Middle School, 1100 S. 48th St.
Enrollment: 558 students
57.9% white, 0.7% American Indian or Alaska Native, 9.5% Black or African American, 4.7% Asian, 15.8% Hispanic/Latino, 0.2% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 11.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 43.7% free, 12.0% reduced
Gifted: 13.8%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 45 language arts, 45 math
LPS
Lux
Lux Middle School, 7800 High St.
Enrollment: 789 students
80.0% white, 0.1% American Indian or Alaska Native, 2.7% Black or African American, 3.8% Asian, 7.2% Hispanic/Latino, 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 6.1% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 10.5% free, 6.3% reduced
Gifted: 28.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 66 language arts, 68 math
LPS
Mickle
Mickle Middle School, 2500 N. 67th St.
Enrollment: 719 students
70.9% white, 0.1% American Indian or Alaska Native, 2.8% Black or African American, 1.5% Asian, 11.8% Hispanic/Latino, 12.8% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 34.9% free, 9.5% reduced
Gifted: 17.1%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 55 language arts, 53 math
LPS
Moore
Moore Middle School, 8700 Yankee Woods Drive
Enrollment: 646 students
86.4% white, 0.6% American Indian or Alaska Native, 0.6% Black or African American, 4.3% Asian, 3.4% Hispanic/Latino, 4.6% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 7.0% free, 2.3% reduced
Gifted: 27.6%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 69 language arts, 78 math
LPS
Park
Park Middle School, 855 S. Eighth St.
Enrollment: 833 students
41.2% white, 0.6% American Indian or Alaska Native, 11.9% Black or African American, 6.7% Asian, 30.1% Hispanic/Latino, 0.2% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 9.2% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 55.8% free, 10.4% reduced
Gifted: 9.8%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 37 language arts, 37 math
LPS
Pound
Pound Middle School, 4740 S. 45th St.
Enrollment: 700 students
67.6% white, 0.6% American Indian or Alaska Native, 4.6% Black or African American, 2.4% Asian, 12.4% Hispanic/Latino, 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 12.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 25.7% free, 8.6% reduced
Gifted: 22.4%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 59 language arts, 60 math
LPS
Schoo
Schoo Middle School, 700 Penrose Drive
Enrollment: 898 students
63.9% white, 0.4% American Indian or Alaska Native, 7.2% Black or African American, 5.0% Asian, 12.1% Hispanic/Latino, 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 11.1% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 30.3% free, 9.7% reduced
Gifted: 15.5%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 50 language arts, 48 math
LPS
Scott
Scott Middle School, 2200 Pine Lake Road
Enrollment: 1,182 students
77.7% white, 0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 3.2% Black or African American, 4.6% Asian, 7.2% Hispanic/Latino, 7.1% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 13.1% free, 4.3% reduced
Gifted: 30.1%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 65 language arts, 70 math
LPS
East
East High School, 1000 S. 70th St.
Enrollment: 2,250 students
78.7% white, 0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 2.2% Black or African American, 4.6% Asian, 8.4% Hispanic/Latino, 5.8% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 14.6% free, 5.3% reduced
Gifted: 24.4%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 59 language arts, 58 math, 63 science
LPS
Lincoln High
Lincoln High School, 2229 J St.
Enrollment: 2,320 students
42.6% white, 1.7% American Indian or Alaska Native, 11.9% Black or African American, 8.9% Asian, 23.3% Hispanic/Latino, 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 11.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 47.5% free, 9.7% reduced
Gifted: 15.5%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 36 language arts, 34 math, 34 science
LPS
North Star
North Star High School, 5801 N. 33rd St.
Enrollment: 2,243 students
54.9% white, 0.4% American Indian or Alaska Native, 8.7% Black or African American, 6.5% Asian, 21.5% Hispanic/Latino, 7.9% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 42.1% free, 9.7% reduced
Gifted: 10.1%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 29 language arts, 31 math, 34 science
LPS
Northeast
Northeast High School, 2635 N. 63rd St.
Enrollment: 1,869 students
59.4% white, 1.3% American Indian or Alaska Native, 9.7% Black or African American, 2.4% Asian, 17.1% Hispanic/Latino, 0.2% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 10.0% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 49.9% free, 10.8% reduced
Gifted: 10.6%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 32 language arts, 30 math, 34 science
LPS
Southeast
Southeast High School, 2930 S. 37th St.
Enrollment: 1,980 students
73.4% white, 1.1% American Indian or Alaska Native, 3.8% Black or African American, 1.2% Asian, 10.6% Hispanic/Latino, 0.3% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 9.6% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 25.1% free, 7.6% reduced
Gifted: 22.6%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 49 language arts, 48 math, 53 science
LPS
Southwest
Southwest High School, 7001 S. 14th St.
Enrollment: 2,196 students
76.8% white, 0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 3.9% Black or African American, 3.8% Asian, 9.6% Hispanic/Latino, 5.7% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 17.7% free, 5.1% reduced
Gifted: 24.4%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 62 language arts, 58 math, 64 science
LPS
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In an Instagram livestream, Alexander was shown approaching Spears’s home in Thousand Oaks, California, and entering before being stopped by security officers.
“Don’t put your hands on me,” he is heard saying at the beginning of the video. “Please don’t put your hands on me.”
He continued live streaming and exited the home, approaching an event tent.
“Hey, where’s Britney at?” he asked a bystander. “I’m Jason Alexander, her first husband, I’m here to crash the wedding, brother.”
He was later accosted by officers and arrested for an out-of-county warrant, the Ventura Country Sheriff’s department confirmed to The Hill. Police are still investigating the scene.
TMZ first reported the arrest.
Alexander and Spears married in 2004 in Las Vegas. The pair, who were childhood sweethearts, had the union annulled only 55 hours later.
Spears was set to marry Asghari, a 28-year-old personal trainer, on Thursday. It will be her third marriage.
The two were engaged in September after Spears was freed from her 13-year conservatorship. | https://phl17.com/nmw/britney-spearss-ex-husband-arrested-after-crashing-her-wedding/ | 2022-06-10 12:31:33 | 1 | https://phl17.com/nmw/britney-spearss-ex-husband-arrested-after-crashing-her-wedding/ |
Contrast's Secure Code Platform Recognized for Industry Advancement and Support, Customer Testimony, Talent Development, and Inclusion Initiatives
LOS ALTOS, Calif., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Contrast Security (Contrast), the leader in code security that empowers developers to secure-as-they code, today announced that it has been named to the Enterprise Security Tech Cyber Top 20 List. The exclusive group of top cybersecurity companies are determined by the most value to the market based on their technical innovation, analyst recognition, customer testimony, diversity and inclusion initiatives, talent development initiatives, and that give back to the cyber community.
"It is an honor to be recognized in 2022 Enterprise Security Tech's Cyber Top 20 List," said Steve Wilson, Chief Product Officer at Contrast Security. "With the speed and advancement of modern cyberattacks, organizations must be able to analyze their code in real-time with accurate scan results to save time chasing fixes and better prioritize which libraries are invoked at runtime. Gaining this ability enables DevSecOps teams to innovate faster, while accelerating digital transformation initiatives."
The Contrast Secure Code Platform is the only platform on the market that embeds intelligent agents directly into the code to enable developers to detect vulnerabilities during and post-production. The platform is recognized for its ability to leverage a new unified DevSecOps approach that delivers accurate, continuous results within the integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline and developer tools.
The Contrast Secure Code Platform also accelerates DevOps by removing security bottlenecks from application development. This includes delivering scan times 10x faster than the industry average and fixing code defects 45x faster. Contrast also reduces the noise of false positive alerts with 200% more accuracy, and helps scale security across all applications and throughout their lifespan without the need for specialized training and staff. It also provides runtime observability of application code in production to protect both known and unknown vulnerabilities from being exploited.
"The cybersecurity industry is going through an evolution right now," said Jack Campbell, Editor, Enterprise Security Tech. "The threat landscape is growing at a faster pace than organizations can keep up with – so companies need innovative tools and services that leverage automation and simplification to combat threats at scale. We're honored to be able to recognize these leaders for the value that they are bringing to the market and their contributions to the fight against cyber threats."
For more information about the Contrast Secure Code Platform, please visit this page.
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Contrast Security secures the code that global business relies on. It is the industry's most modern and comprehensive Code Security Platform, removing security roadblock inefficiencies and empowering enterprise developers to write and release secure application code faster. Embedding code analysis and attack prevention directly into software with instrumentation, the Contrast platform automatically detects vulnerabilities while developers write code, eliminates false positives, and provides context-specific how-to-fix guidance for easy and fast vulnerability remediation. Doing so enables application and development teams to collaborate more effectively and to innovate faster while accelerating digital transformation initiatives. This is why a growing number of the world's largest private and public sector organizations rely on Contrast to secure their applications in development and extend protection to cloud and on-premise applications in production.
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Eighteen tornadoes were reported in the southern U.S. on Tuesday as a large storm system sweeps across the country.
According to the Caddo County Sheriff’s Office, two people were killed in a tornado near Keithville, Louisiana. Authorities said a young boy was found dead in a wooded area where his home was destroyed. Overnight, the body of his mother was found one street over.
Another person was injured in the Keithville tornado.
Responders used K-9 teams and volunteers to search the area for victims.
Earlier on Tuesday, a tornado touched down near Grapevine, Texas, injuring five. Tornadoes were also reported late Tuesday in Mississippi.
The tornadic activity was expected to continue in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama on Wednesday. The Storm Prediction Center said some of the tornadoes could be strong.
The large storm system, which also caused blizzard-like conditions in the upper Plains, is expected to move to the north and east. An ice storm warning was issued for parts of Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Ice of up to a half inch could cause traffic difficulties and power outages in the area. | https://www.kxxv.com/news/national/mother-son-killed-amid-southern-tornado-outbreak | 2022-12-14 15:19:38 | 1 | https://www.kxxv.com/news/national/mother-son-killed-amid-southern-tornado-outbreak |
BERLIN (AP) — A self-portrait painted during World War II by German expressionist artist Max Beckmann sold Thursday in Berlin for 20 million euros ($20.7 million), a price that appears to be a record for an art auction in Germany.
The buyer of Beckmann’s “Self-Portrait Yellow-Pink” at the Grisebach auction house in the German capital wasn’t identified. Bidding started at 13 million euros (about $13.7 million). Factoring in additional costs, the buyer will have to pay out 23.2 million euros (about $24.4 million).
Beckmann was born in Leipzig in 1884. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, he was among the artists whose work was classified as “degenerate art,” and hundreds of his works were seized from German museums.
He emigrated to Amsterdam, where in 1943 he painted the somber self-portrait that was auctioned off on Thursday. Beckmann gave the painting to his wife, Mathilde Kaulbach, who kept it until her death in 1986.
Beckmann moved to the United States in 1947 and died in New York in 1950.
According to German media, the 9.5 million-euro sale last year of a 15th-century bronze sculpture of a Buddhist deity from China had held the art auction record in Germany. That beat the 4.7 million euros for which another Beckmann painting, “The Egyptian,” was sold at Grisebach in 2018. | https://www.wane.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-max-beckmann-self-portrait-sold-at-german-auction-for-20-7m/ | 2022-12-01 23:02:40 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-max-beckmann-self-portrait-sold-at-german-auction-for-20-7m/ |
HOUSTON, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Orbital Infrastructure Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: OIG) ("OIG") today announced that its subsidiary, Orbital Power Inc. ("OPI"), has been awarded a multi-year electric distribution project for an Investor-Owned Utility customer in Texas.
The scope of work includes a reconductor and pole replacement program on approximately a 20 mile overhead and underground electric distribution circuit and related maintenance on feeder and service lines in conjunction with the system upgrade. The project will take approximately two years to complete.
"This project award is the result of the Orbital Power team's solid and safe execution of smaller projects for this customer over the past eighteen months," said Jim O'Neil, OIG's Vice Chairman & CEO. "This award demonstrates OIG's ability to win and deliver large scale multi-million dollar projects, as we continue to gain momentum in our electric power infrastructure segment. A key component of our strategic plan is to build our customer relationships by providing best in class service, expand our market share, and, thereby, increase our shareholder value."
Orbital Infrastructure Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: OIG) is a diversified infrastructure services platform, providing engineering, design, construction, and maintenance services to customers in three operating segments; electric power, telecommunications, and renewables.
Beginning in April 2021, Orbital Infrastructure Group transformed its infrastructure strategy with the acquisitions of GTS and Front Line Power Construction, the company's telecommunications and electric power segment platforms, as well as three synergistic "tuck in" acquisitions (IMMCO, Inc, Full Moon Telecom, and Coax Fiber) and the divestiture of its legacy Orbital Gas Systems business. The Company is now positioned to profitably grow its infrastructure services platform for years to come, organically and through synergistic acquisitions to capitalize on strong multi-year end market drivers in the industries we serve.
Orbital Infrastructure Group is dedicated to maximizing shareholder value, by striving to exceed our customers' expectations, building a diverse workforce, and making a positive difference in the lives of our employees and the communities in which we operate, and contributing to reducing the carbon footprint through the services we provide.
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BISMARCK, N.D. (KXNET) — A campaign finance complaint was filed against North Dakota State Representative Jim Kasper on Monday.
According to a news release, Kasper is being accused of hiding $5,000 in donations from his campaign.
Scott Tillman filed the complaint, showing that Kasper cashed a check for $5,00 without reporting the donation, showing any associated campaign spending, or the total funds with the donation on hand at the end of the campaign.
“A lot of time and effort went into the North Dakota Ethics Amendment citizen’s initiative in an effort to improve our political system,” Tillman said. “If lawmakers are ignoring voter-approved campaign reporting, it’s impossible for citizens to know how much is being spent on legitimate campaign expenses and what is being spent inappropriately.”
Tillman referred to the 2018 Ethics Amendment that was passed after citizens gathered more than 30,000 signatures and put campaign transparency to a vote of the people.
“By ignoring campaign reporting as enacted by citizen initiative, Kasper has a very high level of contempt for North Dakota voters,” Tillman continued. “this is further evidenced by Kasper also leading a legislative effort to gut terms limits approved by the voters last November. Kapsper teamed up with Rep. Jason Dockter in this effort to weaken term limits. Dockter also has ethics concerns as he is under investigation for overbilling the state for office space.”
Other legislators cosponsoring the anti-term limit bills are Koppelman, Lefor, Louser, Luick, Myrdal, Paulson, Rohr, Ruby, Steiner, and Vetter.
“Kasper is not a political rookie,” said Tillman. “He’s been in the legislature for more than 22 years and was involved in creating the campaign finance laws. He has no excuse. He sees the bank statements and knows his reported totals were wrong. If the money is still in his campaign account, it should be reported as such. Otherwise, he is deliberately misreporting his financials. If the money has not been accounted for, further violations must be investigated.”
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(The Hill) – A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel on Tuesday recommended the agency expand the authorization of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine to children and teenagers ages 6 to 17.
The vaccine is currently approved for adults only.
The panel voted 22-0 to recommend authorizing Moderna’s two-dose vaccine for adolescents and teenagers ages 12 to 17. The panel similarly voted 22-0 to recommend authorizing the shot for 6-to-11 year olds.
Children ages 6 to 11 would receive smaller 50 microgram shots, while teens ages 12 to 17 would receive the same dosage as adults at 100 micrograms.
The FDA is likely to follow the panel’s advice in the coming days, but there ultimately won’t likely be much of an impact on vaccination rates, since children and teenagers have had access to Pfizer-BioNTech”s vaccine since last year.
After the FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will consider the matter as early as Friday.
Moderna initially asked the FDA to clear its vaccine for adolescents ages 12 to 17 last June, but concerns over a rare heart condition led officials to delay authorization.
On Tuesday, health officials said the risks for myocarditis and pericarditis may be higher in adolescent males, but the overall incidence is relatively rare and not statistically significant enough to draw definitive conclusions. In addition, the vast majority who suffer the side effect fully recover.
Several panel members expressed concern that the emergency authorization would only be for a two-dose primary series, even though there’s evidence that a third dose will be needed.
Moderna’s clinical trials were conducted before the omicron variant became dominant throughout the country. The data was based on variants that are no longer a threat.
FDA’s Doran Fink said Moderna will present data on a third dose soon.
“I think the benefits clearly outweigh the risks, but I say that with the comfort being provided that there will be a third dose,” said panel member Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “If that was not true, I wouldn’t feel the same way. We’re not in the same part of this pandemic anymore. It’s a different time.” | https://www.ksn.com/news/health/coronavirus/panel-recommends-fda-authorize-moderna-vaccine-for-kids-teens-6-to-17/ | 2022-06-15 01:41:14 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/health/coronavirus/panel-recommends-fda-authorize-moderna-vaccine-for-kids-teens-6-to-17/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday called on Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to resign over management of the U.S. southern border with Mexico, warning that the new House GOP majority will open investigations that could lead to impeachment proceedings.
McCarthy, who is positioned to become the new House speaker when the new Congress convenes in January, said the Republican majority would use "the power of the purse and the power of the subpoena" to hold President Joe Biden's administration accountable for border security.
“If Secretary Majority does not resign, House Republicans will investigate every order, every action and every failure to determine whether we can begin an impeachment inquiry,” McCarthy said at a press conference in El Paso, Texas.
“This investigation could lead to an impeachment inquiry,” he said.
Standing with fellow House Republicans mostly from Texas, McCarthy said he had spoken with the incoming chairmen of the relevant investigatory committees and given his “full support” to Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, at the Judiciary Committee and Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., at the Oversight Committee to open investigations.
McCarthy said he expects Mayorkas' resignation by Jan. 3, when the new Congress convenes. Investigations would begin on day one, he said. “Enough is enough,” he said.
House Republicans have put border security among their top priorities — and Mayorkas among their top officials to investigate and try to remove from office, potentially through impeachment.
McCarthy has not yet secured the votes from House Republicans to become speaker, and he is working swiftly to shore up support before the vote from what is expected to be a slim, few-seat majority.
The California Republican particularly needs votes from his conservative right-flank lawmakers, who are eager to begin impeachment proceedings against Mayorkas and other Biden administration officials.
The lawmakers pledged to hold public hearings at the border to highlight the security concerns.
“Alejando Mayorkas must resign,” said Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., who joined the group at the border. “And if he doesn't we will make him.” | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/gops-mccarthy-threatens-to-impeach-mayorkas-over-border/ZHBYUD7UBND37CTIZ6RK3WOI6Q/ | 2022-11-23 00:23:57 | 0 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/gops-mccarthy-threatens-to-impeach-mayorkas-over-border/ZHBYUD7UBND37CTIZ6RK3WOI6Q/ |
MIAMI, June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Harvard Maintenance and Healthcare Realty today announced plans to co-present at The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International 2023 Annual Conference and Expo in Kansas City, MO on June 26 at 12pm.
Harvard Maintenance Director of Account Management Jean Drzewiecki will take the stage with Healthcare Realty Portfolio Manager Meghan Kimmell to share how the two companies have increased tenant and building satisfaction through a long-standing partnership. Both speakers will provide insight into how their respective companies have achieved continued success and growth through collaboration within the real estate industry.
"This session is the perfect opportunity for sharing how Harvard and Healthcare Realty have partnered for almost a decade together to achieve building and partnership stabilization through trust and transparency," says Drzewiecki. "We hope conference attendees will hear our story and takeaway learnings from our successes to use as they develop strong and trusted partnerships within the industry."
Harvard Maintenance, the largest family-owned janitorial services company in the United States, maintains more than 350 million square feet across the country. Through the development of partnerships with companies such as Healthcare Realty Trust, Harvard Maintenance supports long-term wellness—focusing on health and safety, sustainability, and asset preservation of client facilities.
BOMA 2023 is the premier commercial real estate event for education, networking, and technology solutions. The conference provides opportunities to discover the latest developments in evolving workplaces, workforce development, emerging technologies, and the BOMA International initiatives. To learn more about BOMA 2023, visit the event website at www.bomaconvention.org.
To learn more about Harvard Maintenance, visit www.harvardmaint.com.
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Always placing service quality above business volume, the Harvard Companies have grown to over 10,000 employees and provide services in 48 states. The growth stems from being client-centric and offering unique differentiators including Service Excellence, the Inverted Pyramid® philosophy and Innovative Leadership. Established in New York in 1961, Harvard is headquartered in Miami, FL.
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Snoopy returning to space as ‘zero-G indicator’ on Artemis I flight
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - When NASA’s Artemis I mission reaches space, there won’t be any astronauts aboard but a familiar face will be floating around the Orion capsule. Snoopy, the famous comic strip beagle, is serving as a "zero-gravity indicator" for the flight.
Artemis I is a test flight for NASA’s giant new Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft. The capsule will spend several weeks in space, swinging around the moon before returning to Earth – trying out a variety of things the space program hasn’t accomplished since the Apollo days, which is when the Snoopy-NASA association began.
During the moon race of the 1960s, ‘Peanuts’ creator Charles M. Schulz created ‘Snoopy on the Moon’ comic strips, helping capture public excitement about the space program. The communications caps worn by Apollo astronauts under their helmets became known as "Snoopy caps" because of their distinctive black and white appearance.
And just two months before the Apollo 11 lunar landing, the astronauts of Apollo 10 came within a few miles of landing on the moon, riding aboard a lunar module nicknamed ‘Snoopy’ and a command module they dubbed ‘Charlie Brown.’
It’s also NASA tradition to hand out ‘Silver Snoopy’ awards to employees and contractors to celebrate mission success and program safety achievements. The silver pins are all flown in space, and Artemis I will be carrying some as well.
Snoopy himself finally made it to space aboard space shuttle Columbia’s STS-32 mission in 1990. Now, he’s headed for lunar orbit aboard Artemis I as the zero-G indicator – a visual indicator that the spacecraft has reached the weightlessness of space.
Also aboard will be a pen nib that Charles Schulz used to draw his iconic characters. Schulz passed away in 2000, but the museum that carries on his legacy provided the nib, which will be wrapped in a space-themed comic strip.
The Peanuts gang continues to inspire kids with new ‘Snoopy in Space’ episodes on Apple TV+. (Apple image)
LEGO figures, tree seeds, and some Apollo 11 artifacts are among the other items aboard the flight, in addition to manikins that will be wearing flight suits and other sensors to collect as much information as possible about the flight from an astronaut’s perspective.
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Quantinuum to conduct joint materials research with JSR Corporation, a global pioneer in materials innovation. The collaboration will include the use of Quantinuum's Model H1 hardware, Powered by Honeywell, and InQuanto, its computational quantum chemistry software platform, to model complex organic and inorganic semiconductor materials
TOKYO and CAMBRIDGE, England, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantinuum, the world's leading integrated quantum computing company, has announced a global collaboration with materials technology leader JSR Corporation of Japan to explore the application of quantum computing methods in semiconductor research.
The collaboration brings together JSR's world-leading materials scientists with quantum computing experts at Quantinuum in Japan, Europe, and the USA. The joint team will use the state-of-the-art InQuanto software platform to explore methods using quantum computers to model semiconducting materials, such as metal complexes and transition metal oxides.
These materials are essential to microelectronics. It is hoped that new modeling methods using quantum computers may achieve accurate predictions of their physical properties, which in the future could accelerate the identification of new candidate molecules and materials, and open the way to future microelectronic device paradigms.[1]
Rei Sakuma, Principal Researcher of the Materials Informatics Initiative of JSR, said: "We are delighted to have formed this new collaboration with Quantinuum, which builds on our previous work together. The Quantinuum team continues to lead the field in quantum computing hardware and software, complementing our scientists' deep expertise in materials innovation. Our aspiration is to develop materials that can enrich society and the environment. Quantinuum's software platform InQuanto is already helping our team to gain a greater understanding of how quantum computing may help us accelerate our path towards that ambitious goal."
One focus of the collaboration will be developing quantum algorithms and methods based on dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT). This approach could provide a more accurate understanding of the electronic properties of complex organic and inorganic materials in the real world, such as optical absorption and conductivity, which could pave the way for future progress in the silicon-based information age.
Quantinuum and JSR will use InQuanto to explore new methods to model these complex molecular systems and defect subsystems. The new methods discovered will be incorporated into InQuanto, and will become available for the use of other scientists and researchers using the software platform.
Ilyas Khan, CEO of Quantinuum, said: "The work we do with JSR is at the absolute cutting edge of materials science using quantum computers, and we are thrilled to continue our relationship. This work will further develop InQuanto's functionality, making sure that new developments will become available to other users in the future. This is the value of such a collaboration: JSR's scientists know materials science, we know quantum computing, and the scientific community benefits."
InQuanto was recently launched as a standalone platform and brings together the latest algorithms, methods, and noise mitigation techniques used by molecular and materials scientists and researchers on quantum computers and emulators. It will give JSR's scientists and researchers a greater understanding of the capabilities of quantum computers in their path towards quantum advantage in computational chemistry.
As a recognized leader in quantum computing, Quantinuum has active collaborations with industrial partners across automotive, chemicals, pharmaceutical and energy. InQuanto is enabled by Quantinuum's TKET toolkit making it simple for researchers to re-target algorithms from one device or simulator to another.
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Quantinuum is the world's largest integrated quantum computing company, formed by the combination of Honeywell Quantum Solutions' world leading hardware and Cambridge Quantum's class leading middleware and applications.
Quantinuum employs over 450 people including 350 scientists, at eight sites in the US, Europe, and Japan.
Science led and enterprise driven, Quantinuum accelerates quantum computing and the development of applications across chemistry, cybersecurity, finance, and optimization. Quantinuum's focus is to create scalable and commercial quantum solutions to solve the world's most pressing problems, in fields such as energy, logistics, climate change, and health.
Quantinuum's open-source developer toolkit TKET provides platform-inclusive access to the world's leading quantum hardware and simulators and enhances the performance of every Quantinuum product, including cybersecurity key-generation platform Quantum Origin, quantum computational chemistry and materials science package InQuanto, and λambeq, Quantinuum's quantum natural language processing and computational linguistics toolkit.
Quantinuum's H1 generation quantum computer, Powered by Honeywell, is one of the most advanced in the world and was the first to pass the industry standard quantum volume 4096 benchmark. In March of 2020, Quantinuum (as Honeywell Quantum Solutions) committed to increasing the quantum volume of its commercial H-Series quantum computers by an order of magnitude each year for the subsequent five years.
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ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – Record rainfall hit the St. Louis region Tuesday morning, and flash flooding has consumed cars, homes and businesses all around the area.
As many as 11 inches of rain fell Tuesday in St. Charles County. Nearly 10.5 inches fell in the city of Clayton, the highest reported total in St. Louis County.
Many roads and interstates had closures or delays amid the flash flooding. A section of Interstate 70 was closed in St. Peters, and many other roadways were flooded. Some vehicles were completely submerged. The Missouri State Highway Patrol on Twitter urged drivers to avoid I-70. Some motorists took to social media to report being stranded for several hours.
At one point, sections of interstates 64, 55 and 44 also were closed in the St. Louis area.
Flooding was so bad that the iconic Gateway Arch even closed for the day.
There were no immediate reports of injuries to people, but several puppies drowned when water got into a building at Stray Paws Adoptables, a stray dog rescue operation in St. Peters. Firefighters in boats were able to rescue other dogs from the building.
In the city of St. Louis, the fire department rescued people from 18 homes in the same general area after floodwaters made it into houses. The fire department said on Twitter that six people and six dogs were rescued by boat, while 15 others declined to leave their homes.
While the St. Louis region got the worst of it, other places were soaked, too. The central Missouri town of Mexico received more than 6 inches of rain. Similar rainfall totals were reported in parts of southern Illinois.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/flash-flooding-hits-st-louis-area/ | 2022-07-26 18:47:33 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/flash-flooding-hits-st-louis-area/ |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Police in New Mexico's largest city fatally shot a man they said lunged at officers with a knife early Thursday, marking a record 17 police shootings this year in Albuquerque, the city's police chief said.
The shooting happened after police received calls Wednesday about a man who had allegedly broke a window at a bank and threatened a person over frustrations about not being able to use his debit card, Albuquerque police Chief Harold Medina said during a news conference. It would be another 12 hours before officers would run into the man outside the police prison transport center. An officer tried to talk to him, but he fled.
The police chief said the man had been arrested three times over the past three months and that authorities had been working with a crisis intervention unit to get him help. Instead, officers ended up trying to negotiate with him at 2 a.m. along the side of a downtown building.
Medina said the man had a knife and ran toward officers, who opened fire.
“Yesterday’s shooting is just a grim reminder that we need to work with our state legislators, we need to work with our partners in the criminal justice system, we have to find answers,” the chief said. “We have to find answers as to how we can reduce the number of contacts with these individuals.”
He noted that a review of shootings by Albuquerque police between 2018 and 2022 identified three common circumstances: when officers are attempting to apprehend violent suspects; when individuals are experiencing some kind of mental health episode; and when people with little criminal history are under the influence of drugs or alcohol and make bad decisions.
The data shared by the Albuquerque Police Department showed there have been 54 police shootings dating back to 2018. Of the cases reviewed, 85% involved people who were armed with a gun or a weapon that appeared to be a firearm.
Authorities also found that about 55% of the cases involved people under the influence of drugs or alcohol, while there were only two cases in which intoxication did not play a role. Without toxicology tests, it was unknown whether drugs or alcohol played a role in the remainder of the cases.
Statewide, authorities said the number of shootings in which officers opened fire stands at 50 for the year.
Gilbert Gallegos, a spokesman for the Albuquerque Police Department, said the figures indicate it's not just a problem in Albuquerque — where authorities and elected officials have been grappling with record-high homicides and violent crime.
Albuquerque came into the spotlight nearly a decade ago as community members and activists began protesting a pattern of excessive force by officers, resulting in an investigation by the U.S. Justice Department. Federal officials harshly criticized the police force but reached an agreement with the city to improve training and dismantle troubled units.
The latest report by a federal monitor indicated continued progress by the city in meeting the mandates.
A coalition of community organizations and individuals pushing for more changes still has concerns, mostly recently demanding that the Albuquerque Police Department release more details about a shooting last weekend.
Barron Jones, a member of APD Forward and a senior policy strategist with the American Civil Liberties Union in New Mexico, said earlier this week that transparency is needed to better understand what, if anything, could be done to prevent shooting deaths at the hands of officers.
The recent cases underscore the need for a statewide use-of-force policy that includes clear, consistent protocols for deescalating interactions with the public “to avoid these kinds of tragic incidents,” he said.
Medina said the department continues to work on policy changes and training with the goal of reducing the likelihood of using deadly force. While much of the focus has been on deescalating situations, he said disengagement needs to be part of the equation.
The data released by the department shows that over the last five years, six officers underwent additional training as a result of shooting someone; five letters of reprimand were issued; three verbal reprimands were given; two officers were fired; and one was suspended. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Albuquerque-marks-record-number-of-police-17575842.php | 2022-11-11 02:14:14 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Albuquerque-marks-record-number-of-police-17575842.php |
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