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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the "Lucky For Life" game were:
04-15-28-32-45, Lucky Ball: 18
(four, fifteen, twenty-eight, thirty-two, forty-five; Lucky Ball: eighteen)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the "Lucky For Life" game were:
04-15-28-32-45, Lucky Ball: 18
(four, fifteen, twenty-eight, thirty-two, forty-five; Lucky Ball: eighteen) | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Lucky-For-Life-game-17647345.php | 2022-12-12 04:25:42 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Lucky-For-Life-game-17647345.php |
PHILADELPHIA (AP) —
A Catholic high school in Philadelphia says students responsible for a racist video that showed teenage white girls in blackface are “no longer members of this school community."
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The video circulated on social media and sparked a protest a week ago at St. Hubert Catholic High School for Girls. The protesters included parents of two former students who told The Philadelphia Inquirer their children faced a hostile and unwelcoming climate because they were Black.
The video showed several white teen girls, with one spray-painting the face of another with a dark color and yelling “Know your roots!” and “It’s February!” and “You’re nothing but a slave.” The girl with the blackface then declares: “I’m Black and I’m proud!” Other girls present laugh throughout the video.
“The severity of the situation at hand demanded and the repugnant nature of the behavior on the part of some of our students demanded that we swiftly conduct a thorough investigation,” St. Hubert’s officials said in a statement. “As a result, the young women ... responsible for this situation have been identified and they are no longer members of this school community.”
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Officials at the school and the archdiocese of Philadelphia didn't say whether the students had been expelled or were asked to withdraw. Those identified as participating did face suspensions before the investigation concluded, archdiocese spokesperson Ken Gavin told the Inquirer.
The school had said earlier that two girls were “no longer present” at the school and were being disciplined. The school switched last week to flexible instruction, with students completing coursework at home, after unspecified threats and canceled extracurricular activities. Students returned to in-person instruction Monday.
St. Hubert's plans schoolwide anti-bias workshops with the Anti-Defamation League and says it will also work with the Office for Black Catholics and the Archbishop’s Commission on Racial Healing to create new school programs focused on “dialogue and prayer to address racism and provide restorative resources,” the Inquirer said. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/students-no-longer-members-of-school-after-17786724.php | 2023-02-15 21:57:20 | 1 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/students-no-longer-members-of-school-after-17786724.php |
Former President Donald Trump is predicting America's destruction if his fellow Republicans don’t deliver a massive electoral wave on Tuesday. Democrats, led by President Joe Biden and two other former presidents, are warning that abortion rights, Social Security and even democracy itself are at stake.
Three of the six living presidents delivered dire closing messages Saturday in battleground Pennsylvania entering the final weekend of the 2022 midterm elections, but their words echoed across the country as millions of Americans cast ballots to decide the balance of power in Washington and in key state capitals. Polls across America will close on Tuesday, but more than 39 million people have already voted.
On Sunday, Biden was set to campaign in suburban New York, while Trump was headed to Florida.
“If you want to stop the destruction of our country and save the American dream, then on Tuesday you must vote Republican in a giant red wave,” Trump told thousands of cheering supporters as he campaigned Saturday in western Pennsylvania, describing the United States as “a country in decline.”
Earlier in the day, Biden shared the stage with former President Barack Obama in Philadelphia, the former running mates campaigning together for the first time since Biden took office. In neighboring New York, even former President Bill Clinton, largely absent from national politics in recent years, was out defending his party.
“Sulking and moping is not an option,” Obama charged. “On Tuesday, let’s make sure our country doesn’t get set back 50 years.”
Not everyone, it seemed, was on message as the weekend began.
Even before arriving in Pennsylvania, Biden was dealing with a fresh political mess after upsetting some in his party for promoting plans to shut down fossil fuel plants in favor of green energy. While he made the comments in California the day before, the fossil fuel industry is a major employer in Pennsylvania.
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said the president owed coal workers across the country an apology. He called Biden’s comments “offensive and disgusting.”
Trump seized on the riff in western Pennsylvania, charging that Biden “has resumed the war on coal, your coal.”
The White House said Biden’s words were “twisted to suggest a meaning that was not intended; he regrets it if anyone hearing these remarks took offense” and that he was “commenting on a fact of economics and technology.”
Democrats are deeply concerned about their narrow majorities in the House and Senate as voters sour on Biden’s leadership amid surging inflation, crime concerns and widespread pessimism about the direction of the country. History suggests that Democrats, as the party in power, will suffer significant losses in the midterms.
Trump peeked ahead toward Florida as he campaigned in Pennsylvania, slapping at the state's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis. After displaying recent presidential poll numbers on the big screens, Trump called DeSantis, a potential 2024 GOP rival, “Ron DeSanctimonious.”
Trump's weekend travels were part of a late blitz that will also take him to Ohio. He’s hoping a strong GOP showing on Tuesday will generate momentum for the 2024 run that he’s expected to launch in the days or weeks after polls close.
Over and over on Saturday, Trump falsely claimed he lost the 2020 election only because Democrats cheated, while raising the possibility of election fraud this coming week. In part, because of such rhetoric, federal intelligence agencies have warned of the possibility of political violence from far-right extremists in the coming days.
“Everybody, I promise you, in the very next — very, very, very short period of time, you’re going to be happy,” Trump said of another White House bid. “But first we have to win an historic victory for Republicans on Nov. 8.”
Biden’s Pennsylvania address was largely the same he has been giving for weeks — spotlighting a grab bag of his major legislative achievements, while warning that abortion rights, voting rights, Social Security and Medicare are at risk should Republicans take control of Congress.
The president highlighted the Inflation Reduction Action, passed in August by the Democratic-led Congress, which includes several health care provisions popular among older adults and the less well-off, including a $2,000 cap on out-of-pocket medical expenses and a $35 monthly cap per prescription on insulin. The new law also requires companies that raise prices faster than overall inflation to pay Medicare a rebate.
But with a bigger and more energetic audience in his home state, Biden’s energy seemed lifted.
"We have to reaffirm the values that have long defined us,” Biden said of threats to democracy. “We are good people. I know this.”
He added: “Get out and vote!”
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National memorial to honor fallen Jonesboro firefighter
JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - A Jonesboro man will be honored during the 42nd National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend.
This year’s tribute will honor 79 firefighters who died in the line of duty in 2022 and 65 firefighters who died in previous years.
Assistant Chief Dennis “Denny” Graham of the Southridge Fire Department is among those whose name will be inscribed on a bronze plaque on the national memorial in Maryland.
Graham died on March 1, 2017, after responding to two calls on Feb. 28.
When he returned home, he complained of having a severe headache and collapsed while taking himself to the hospital, according to a news release.
Graham later died at a local hospital from complications of a stroke.
The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation will host a candlelight service at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 6. The National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service will be held at 10 a.m. Sunday, May 7, in Emmitsburg, Maryland.
The NFFF will live stream both events on the NFFF’s website (firehero.org), YouTube channel, and Facebook page.
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Health secretary slams abortion pill ruling as ‘not America’
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s top health official said Sunday that a court ruling threatening the availability of a main drug used in medication abortion was “not America” and he did not rule out defying the judge’s order if necessary.
“We want the courts to overturn this reckless decision,” Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden’s health secretary, told CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We want, yes, that women continue to have access to a drug that’s proven itself safe. Millions of women have used this drug around the world.”
He stressed that for now, women do have access to the abortion medication mifepristone after a federal judge in Texas, Donald Trump-appointee Matthew Kacsmaryk, put his ruling from Friday on hold for a week so federal officials could file a challenge. The drug was approved in 2000 by the Food and Drug Administration, which is overseen by the Health and Human Services Department headed by Becerra.
Biden said his administration would fight the Texas ruling. Kacsmaryk’s 67-page order gave the government seven days to appeal.
“We intend to do everything to make sure it’s available to them not just in a week, but moving forward, period, because mifepristone is one of the safest and most effective medicines that we have seen over the last 20 years to help women with their health care, especially abortion care,” Becerra said.
Asked whether he might recommend that the FDA ignore a ban, Becerra said, “Everything is on the table.”
There is uncertainty about access to the most commonly used method of abortion in the United States following two separate and conflicting court rulings in Texas and Washington over the legality of mifepristone.
Kacsmaryk’s decision ordering a hold on federal approval of mifepristone overruled decades of scientific approval. But a ruling at nearly the same time in Washington state from that U.S. District Judge Thomas O. Rice, a Barack Obama appointee, directed U.S. authorities not to make any changes that would restrict access to the drug in at least 17 states where Democrats sued in an effort to protect availability.
Becerra said Kacsmaryk’s order could have dire ramifications for the legality of any FDA-approved drug, such as vaccines, insulin or new Alzheimer’s drugs coming onto the market because it seeks to “turn upside down” the entire FDA approval process.
The former California attorney general acknowledged a “good chance” that the case will ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court, which last year overturned Roe v. Wade and curtailed access to abortion across the country.
“If a judge decides to substitute his preference, his personal opinion for that of scientists and medical professionals, what drug isn’t subject to some kind of legal challenge? So we have to go to court,” he said.
“What you saw by that one judge in that one court, in that one state, that’s not America,” Becerra added. “America goes by the evidence. America does what’s fair. America does what is transparent and we can show that what we do is for the right reasons.”
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Brother of US man in Russian prison says contact resumed
By JIM HEINTZ
Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) — The family of Paul Whelan, an American imprisoned in Russia for espionage, says that he has resumed contact after unexpectedly becoming unreachable in November. Along with WNBA star Brittney Griner, Whelan is the focus of efforts by the United States to arrange a prisoner swap with Russia. The Associated Press and other news organizations have reported that Washington has offered to exchange Griner and Whelan for Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer who is serving a 25-year sentence in the U.S. and once earned the nickname the “merchant of death.” Whelan’s brother said Friday that Paul had called his parents early US time on Friday, the first time any family member had spoken with him since Nov. 23. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/12/02/brother-of-us-man-in-russian-prison-says-contact-resumed/ | 2022-12-02 18:05:41 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/12/02/brother-of-us-man-in-russian-prison-says-contact-resumed/ |
By TIM REYNOLDS
AP Basketball Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver was likely spared even stronger sanctioning by the NBA for his racist, misogynistic and hostile words and actions because of one key conclusion by investigators, Commissioner Adam Silver said Wednesday.
The law firm that spent nearly a year digging into the situation determined Sarver’s use of slurs “was not motivated by racial animus.”
Had that not been the case, Silver indicated, Sarver’s punishment — a one-year suspension and $10 million fine — would have been far more severe.
“It was relevant,” Silver said after the league’s Board of Governors meetings concluded. “I think if they had made findings that, in fact, his conduct was motivated by racial animus, absolutely that would have had an impact on on the ultimate outcome here. But that’s not what they found.”
And that, to Silver, is one of the key distinctions between the Sarver case and the one surrounding then-Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling in 2014, when he was banned for life and fined $2.5 million for racist comments.
The NBA had the option of giving Sarver a longer ban than the one-year suspension. The $10 million fine was the maximum allowable, as was the case with Sterling’s $2.5 million fine eight years ago; NBA rules on maximum fines were changed in 2019.
Another reason Silver, who was the ultimate decider of the penalty in this case, stopped short of suspending Sarver for longer or even banning him: He said he took into account a number of anonymous details that could not be revealed in the investigative report that was published Tuesday, along with other elements of Sarver’s actions in his 18 years owning the Suns and the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury.
“There were these terrible things,” Silver said. “There are also many, many people with very positive things to say about him through this process. And ultimately, I took all of that into account in making the decision that the one-year suspension plus the fine was appropriate.”
A 10-month investigation into Sarver’s behavior confirmed he had used racist language, made sexually inappropriate comments, left some employees — male and female — feeling uncomfortable with his words and actions, and took part in what would be considered workplace bullying.
“Indefensible is not strong enough,” Silver said.
But the league did not have discussions about removing Sarver as owner during the Board of Governors meetings. Silver permanently banned Sterling after tapes of him making racist comments were leaked to TMZ in a move that started the process of Sterling being forced to sell the franchise.
“This case is very different,” Silver said. “It’s not that one was captured on tape and the other isn’t. … Mr. Sarver ultimately acknowledged his behavior.”
Sarver did, and issued an apology Tuesday, though noted he did not agree with all of the report’s findings.
Silver was asked about how most employees of any company would likely face firings if they were to use racial slurs or partake in lewd actions or comments in the way that the investigation showed that Sarver did.
“It’s hard to make those comparisons to somebody who commits an inappropriate act in the workplace in somewhat of an anonymous fashion versus what is a huge public issue now around this person,” Silver said. “There’s no neat answer here, other than the rights that come with owning an NBA team, how that is set up within our Constitution. What it would take to remove that team from his control is a very involved process, and it’s different than holding a job. It just is. When you actually own a team, it’s just a very different proposition.”
A difference between the Sterling and Sarver cases is this: Sarver cooperated with the league’s investigation and Sterling, in many ways, did not. Sterling wound up suing the NBA for $1 billion in federal court after his lifetime ban was announced, saying his constitutional rights were violated.
The report said Sarver “repeated or purported to repeat the N-word on at least five occasions spanning his tenure with the Suns.”
“However, the investigation does not find that Sarver’s conduct in any of these instances was motivated by racial animus,” the report read, adding that investigators made “no finding that Sarver used this racially insensitive language with the intent to demean or denigrate.”
The Sterling investigation — from when the audio tapes of him making racist remarks to a girlfriend were released, to Silver’s announcement of the lifetime ban — took three days. The Sarver probe took 100 times longer, involved more than 320 interviews and the review of more than 80,000 documents and other materials.
Both investigations were handled by the same New York-based firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz. Attorney David Anders led both probes.
Sarver will be welcomed back in 2023, though Silver made clear that his words and actions going forward will be highly scrutinized.
“I don’t have the right to take away his team,” Silver said. “I don’t want to rest on that legal point because of course there could be a process to take away someone’s team in this league. It’s very involved, and I ultimately made the decision that it didn’t rise to that level. But to me, the consequences are severe here on Mr. Sarver.”
Sarver’s punishment is also similar to others levied in past high-profile examples of wrongdoing, either words, actions or both.
In 1993, then-Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott was fined $25,000 and suspended one year for making “racially and ethnically offensive remarks.” And last year, the NFL fined the Washington Commanders $10 million, plus investigative fees, after a probe found the team’s workplace environment for women was, in the words of Commissioner Roger Goodell, “highly unprofessional” — but stopped short of suspending owner Daniel Snyder.
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Detroit Catholic Central is one victory away from a perfect season and fourth straight state championship.
The three-time defending champion Shamrocks advanced to the Division 1 state championship Friday, when they beat Grand Rapids Hills Forest Central 5-0 in the semifinals at USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth.
It will be DCC’s 19th trip to the title game in the last 25 tournaments. (The event was canceled in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic). The Shamrocks have won 15 state championships in that stretch.
Catholic Central (26-0) will face Brighton (22-7) in the state championship game at 7:05 p.m. Saturday at USA Hockey Arena.
Five DCC players scored in the victory over Forest Hills Central (17-13).
Jackson Walsh scored in the first period, Ryan Wantuck and Sebastiano Iavasile tallied in the second period and Griffin Crampton and Nolan Galda connected in the third.
Wantuck scored while short-handed and the Shamrocks’ final two goals were on the power play.
Landon West had two assists for DCC, which blanked Forest Hills Central in four power-play opportunities and outshot the Rangers 42-18.
Goaltender Kyle Moore recorded the shutout.
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Brighton 4, Hartland 3 (3OT)
Evan Wohlart scored in the third overtime to give Brighton the victory and send the Bulldogs back to the Division 1 championship game for the second straight year.
They’ll face Detroit Catholic Central in a rematch of last year’s title game, which ended with DCC winning 5-1.
Brighton opened the scoring at 6:24 of the first period on a goal by Lane Petit before Jack L’Esperance and Ian Kastamo tallied to give Hartland a 2-1 lead heading to the second.
Brighton regained the lead on second-period goals by Aiden Seiter and another from Petit before Hartland’s Jacob Lewis tallied late in the third to force overtime.
After two scoreless overtimes, Wohlart ended it to hike Brighton’s record to 22-7.
Dominic Vincent had two assists for Brighton.
Nick Halonen had two assists for Hartland (21-7).
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Pep Guardiola has signed a new contract with Manchester City that will keep him at the Premier League club until 2025.
The Spanish manager’s current deal was set to expire at the end of the season, but he has committed to a further two years at the Etihad Stadium.
Guardiola joined City in 2016 and has overseen the most successful period in club history, winning four league titles and nine major trophies in total. But he has so far failed to win the Champions League with City.
The extension will take his time with the reigning Premier League champion to nine years, which far exceeds any of his previous coaching jobs.
Guardiola spent four seasons at Barcelona and three with Bayern Munich.
“I can’t say thank you enough to everyone at the club for trusting me,” he said Wednesday. “From day one I felt something special being here. I cannot be in a better place.
“I still have the feeling there is more we can achieve together and that is why I want to stay and continue fighting for trophies.”
Guardiola has taken charge of 374 games at City, which is second only to Les McDowall (587) on the list of the club’s post-war managers.
“He has already contributed so much to the success and fabric of this organization, and it’s exciting to think what might be possible given the energy, hunger and ambition that he clearly still has,” said chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak.
“Under his very special leadership our first team has accomplished so much, whilst continuously playing, and constantly evolving, a City style of football that is admired the world over. Like every City fan, I am looking forward to what lies ahead.”
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Updated July 16, 2023 at 6:03 PM ET
At least five people are dead in Pennsylvania after heavy rainfall Saturday evening produced destructive flash flooding, taking residents and drivers by surprise.
It was part of a band of strong to severe thunderstorms sweeping across the Northeast, affecting millions of people from Maryland to Maine.
Authorities in Upper Makefield Township, located along the Delaware River about 30 miles north of Philadelphia, said Sunday morning that three people died after being "swept away" by floodwaters. They later said two other bodies had been found, bringing the total to five fatalities.
"This is a mass casualty incident the likes of which we have not seen before," the township said in a Facebook post.
Two children are still missing: a 2-year-old girl and her 9-month-old brother.
The children were part of a family from Charleston, S.C., that was visiting friends and family in the area. The family was driving to a barbecue when they got caught in a flash flood.
The father was able to get his 4-year-old son to safety, but the mother, grandmother and two younger children were swept away by the floodwaters. Officials said Sunday that the mother died but the grandmother survived and was treated at a local hospital.
Emergency responders in Upper Makefield were continuing to scour "very difficult terrain" Sunday, and officials were warning residents to avoid some debris-ridden roadways.
Heavy rains douse a Northeast already soaked by recent storms
According to the National Weather Service, more than 40 million people across the Northeast were at moderate risk of excessive rainfall on Sunday, as major storms were inundating the Philadelphia, New York City, Hartford and Boston metro areas and beyond.
Officials say some parts of the region that have seen heavy rain over the past 10 days may already have "saturated and sensitive soils," which could increase the likelihood of flash flooding resulting from the weekend storms.
A MODERATE risk is in effect in our Day 1 Excessive Rainfall Outlook. More details: https://t.co/FQU5sbmsxo pic.twitter.com/5iywtVHPCO
— NWS Weather Prediction Center (@NWSWPC) July 16, 2023
A tornado watch was in effect on Sunday afternoon for parts of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island. There was at least one tornado warning in Pennsylvania as well as flash flood warnings for parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
Vermont was bracing for even more heavy rainfall as it is still recovering from damaging flash floods that occurred across the state less than a week ago.
"My team and I continue to monitor the situation as more rain falls in Vermont," Gov. Phil Scott said in a tweet. "There are flash flood warnings throughout the state today. Remain vigilant and be prepared."
Because of the severe weather, ground stops were in effect at several major airports across the Northeast at times on Sunday afternoon, including Newark Liberty International, John F. Kennedy International, LaGuardia and Boston Logan International.
More than 1,400 flights in the U.S. were canceled Sunday and more than 7,400 were delayed, according to the flight-tracking website FlightAware.
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Blue Spring State Park has long been a hot spot for tourism as visitors have traveled from near and far to swim in the azure-blue waters or see manatees, sometimes on kayak tours.
But local outfitters say the state has put a hold on their tour operations as of Aug. 1, handing out warnings to some paddle tour groups amid sudden enforcement of the Florida Administrative Code, which governs the Department of Environmental Protection and state parks.
“It came as a surprise, I think, to everybody. I was not contacted by anyone beforehand,” said Astrid Jackson, owner of Venture Outdoors. “I found out from other outfitters that they had been getting warnings.”
The issue revolves around French Landing, which is set on the St. Johns River at the end of unpaved West French Avenue past the gated entrance of Blue Spring State Park. Volusia County sold the boat ramp and surrounding land to the state in 1979 with a deed stating that the site must remain open 24 hours a day at no charge to users — unless DEP makes improvements including paving the road and adding a dock, changes the state is considering.
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Until recently, the ramp was unmarked and could be easily overlooked by unsuspecting park visitors. Now, a sign posted on the road welcomes passersby to French Landing and advises that “park rules in 62D-2 F.A.C. are enforced.”
A new sign near the water at French Landing details that “Guest Services Inc. is the only authorized kayak vendor for Blue Spring State Park. Other vendors operating within the park are in violation of rule 62D-2.014.” This part of the code specifies that companies other than the official state park concessionaire must receive a permit to conduct tours and rentals.
Greg Pflug, owner of Adventures in Florida, has been taking tour guests from French Landing for nearly three decades and said the news came as a shock to him.
“I’m now out of a job that I’ve had since 1995. In a day, we lost a third of our revenue. Two people have lost their jobs,” he said. “I’m watching my livelihood disappear.”
Jackson formerly worked for Pflug before starting her own business and buying a house near the state park, hedging her bets on tours at Blue Spring. Now, she is forced to pivot and take tours elsewhere.
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“I’ve not been able to get through to Guest Services. I did talk to Dustin Allen, the park manager … He told me that [Guest Services] is not really interested in subcontracting,” she said. “I didn’t really have a whole lot of time to prepare for this. As a small-business owner, this is really hard to deal with.”
Jackson counted at least a half dozen outfitters affected by this change, though there could be more. Kayaking Florida, owned and operated by Greg Braswell, is among local entrepreneurs feeling the grief.
“It’s just not right to say who can come in and who can’t in regards to accessing our natural resources, especially when you have a corporation calling the shots,” Braswell said. “I love my state parks, it’s just a shame they’re doing this.”
Alexandra Kuchta, the press secretary for Florida DEP, said the terms of the original agreement include the condition that French Avenue and French avenue boat ramp remain open to the public 24 hours a day at no charge to users.
“To be clear, this does not apply to unauthorized concession operations,” she said in an email statement. “Visitors wishing to rent recreation equipment are encouraged to visit the park’s official concessionaire, Blue Spring State Park Adventures.”
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Those amenities are run by Guest Services, Inc., which took over park concessions in 2020, offering river nature cruises, off-road segway excursions, kayak tours and rentals. Kuchta said outside tour companies were given the boot from French Landing over concerns from citizens and park visitors, such as “barriers to public access.”
“The recent new signage and enforcement actions at French Landing were spurred in part by an increase in feedback … about the direct and indirect effects of unauthorized businesses operating in the area,” she said. “For example, a kayak rental business operating at French Landing may require a disproportionate amount of space or create a heavy increase in traffic that would make it difficult for individuals or families to access the boat launch.”
Independent tour operators worry about their livelihood and their staff, but also a subpar guest experience when they only have one choice for kayak tours at Blue Spring.
“We have these big companies that are just going to be a general experience, rather than a very personal experience with what we outfitters, we locals, can do,” said Jackson, who is a certified kayak instructor and wilderness first responder. “For me, the relationship with the people and the environment is important. I don’t want to infringe on any of that or the manatees.”
In the wake of the rule enforcement at Blue Spring, Jackson and other outfitters are meeting to discuss their options in fighting for their access to this Florida waterway. In the meantime, Pflug also worries visitors won’t have access to experienced local guides as his business has been forced out of the park.
“Our economy in Florida is based on the guest experience. People don’t want to wait in line for a bad experience,” Pflug said. “Now people that are coming here are not getting 30 years of experience in a guide talking about manatees that they know by name.”
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Wild winter storm envelops US, snarling Christmas travel
A wild winter storm continued to envelop much of the United States on Saturday, bringing blinding blizzards, freezing rain, flooding and life-threatening cold that created mayhem for those traveling for the Christmas holiday.
Video above: More than 1,500 crashes caught on camera on Minnesota roads
The storm that arrived earlier in the week downed power lines, littered highways with piles of cars in deadly accidents and led to mass flight cancellations.
The storm was nearly unprecedented in its scope, stretching from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande along the border with Mexico. About 60% of the U.S. population faced some sort of winter weather advisory or warning, and temperatures plummeted drastically below normal from east of the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachians, the National Weather Service said.
Freezing rain coated much of the Pacific Northwest in a layer of ice, while people in the Northeast faced the threat of coastal and inland flooding.
The frigid temperatures and gusty winds were expected to produce “dangerously cold wind chills across much of the central and eastern U.S. this holiday weekend,” the weather service said, adding that the conditions “will create a potentially life-threatening hazard for travelers that become stranded.”
“In some areas, being outdoors could lead to frostbite in minutes," it said.
Video below: Time lapse of winter storm in Watertown, NY
Adding to the woes were power outages that by late Friday were still affecting more than a million homes and businesses, according to the website PowerOutage, which tracks utility reports.
As millions of Americans were traveling ahead of Christmas, more than 5,700 flights within, into or out of the U.S. were canceled Friday, according to the tracking site FlightAware.
Multiple highways were closed and crashes claimed at least six lives, officials said. Four people died in a massive pileup involving some 50 vehicles on the Ohio Turnpike. A Kansas City, Missouri, driver was killed Thursday after skidding into a creek, and three others died Wednesday in separate crashes on icy northern Kansas roads.
Video below: 50 vehicles involved in Ohio Turnpike crashes
In Canada, WestJet canceled all flights Friday at Toronto Pearson International Airport, as meteorologists there warned of a potential once-in-a-decade weather event. While in Mexico, migrants camped near the U.S. border in unusually cold temperatures as they awaited a U.S. Supreme Court decision on pandemic-era restrictions that prevent many from seeking asylum.
Forecasters said a bomb cyclone — when atmospheric pressure drops very quickly in a strong storm — had developed near the Great Lakes, stirring up blizzard conditions, including heavy winds and snow.
Even people in Florida were braced for unusually chilly weather as rare freeze warnings were issued for large parts of the state over the holiday weekend.
Activists were rushing to get homeless people out of the cold. Nearly 170 adults and children were keeping warm early Friday in Detroit at a shelter and a warming center that are designed to hold 100 people.
“This is a lot of extra people” but it wasn’t an option to turn anyone away, said Faith Fowler, the executive director of Cass Community Social Services, which runs both facilities.
Video below: Washington airport says to 'return home' after 700+ flights canceled
Emergency weather shelters in Portland, Oregon, called for volunteers amid high demand and staffing issues as snow, freezing rain, ice and frigid temperatures descended upon the area.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said she was deploying the National Guard to haul timber to the Oglala Sioux and Rosebud Sioux tribes and help with snow removal.
“We have families that are way out there that we haven’t heard from in two weeks,” said Wayne Boyd, chief of staff to the Rosebud Sioux president.
On the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Harlie Young was huddled with five children and her father around a wood stove as 12-foot snow drifts blocked the house.
“We’re just trying to look on the bright side that they’re still coming and they didn’t forget us,” she said Friday.
Calling it a “kitchen sink storm,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency. In parts of New York City, tidal flooding inundated roads, homes and businesses Friday morning.
In Boston, rain combined with a high tide, flooded some downtown streets on Friday.
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Bleed reported from Little Rock, Arkansas. Associated Press journalists Dee-Ann Durbin in Detroit; Gillian Flaccus in Portland, Oregon; Zeke Miller in Washington, D.C.; and Emily Wagster Pettus in Jackson, Mississippi, contributed to this report. | https://www.wesh.com/article/winter-storm-december-2022/42332350 | 2022-12-24 11:59:15 | 1 | https://www.wesh.com/article/winter-storm-december-2022/42332350 |
President Barack Obama operated under the mistaken assumption that China wanted to be a responsible member of the international community. President Donald Trump — with his nasty, xenophobic rhetoric, indifference toward human rights, alienation of democratic allies and counterproductive tariff wars — left the United States in a weaker position against China.
President Biden has taken a different tack: tougher than Obama’s and smarter than Trump’s. There’s growing evidence that this approach is paying off.
When Biden entered office, he — like his predecessors — promised to focus on the Indo-Pacific region. His withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan was largely to facilitate that refocus. But like other presidents, he faced a world full of challenges, including an ongoing pandemic, worldwide economic setbacks and Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine.
Fortunately, Biden’s foreign policy remains devoted to democratic alliances and revived diplomacy. The result has been a sea change in China policy, as he and Secretary of State Antony Blinken made clear during the president’s trip to Asia.
Biden’s remarks at a joint news conference with Japan’s prime minister last Monday stirred discussion that the United States was migrating away from its strategic ambiguity about Taiwan. "Yes,” Biden replied when asked if he would defend Taiwan if it were attacked by China. “That’s the commitment we made.” He then clarified, “We agree with the one-China policy. We signed on to it, and all the attendant agreements made from there, but the idea that it can be taken by force … is just not appropriate.”
Had Biden omitted the initial “yes,” his response likely would not have raised eyebrows. Blinken later recited the traditional formula on U.S. policy toward Taiwan: “The United States remains committed to our one-China policy,” he said. He added that “we oppose any unilateral changes to the status quo from either side; we do not support Taiwan independence; and we expect cross-strait differences to be resolved by peaceful means.” Nevertheless, as is often the case with Biden’s foreign policy remarks (most plainly on Russia), his telltale bluntness was welcome.
On Thursday, Blinken reiterated the degree to which this administration takes the multifaceted threats from China seriously. “China is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power to do it,” he said. “Beijing’s vision would move us away from the universal values that have sustained so much of the world’s progress over the past 75 years.” Blinken added that “this is one of the most complex and consequential relationships of any that we have in the world today.”
More so than previous administrations, the Biden team has linked domestic economic policy (from infrastructure to supply chains to chip manufacturing) to the need to bolster the U.S. economy against China. With a bill designed to make U.S. tech production more competitive against China’s making its way through conference committee, Biden might claim a significant legislative victory.
Equally important would be revamping the U.S. immigration system. While, as Blinken said, “we’re lucky when the best global talent not only studies here but stays here,” the United States could be strategic in expanding visas both for students and for tech workers. America could also bolster democracy at home (e.g., pass voting rights reform) to demonstrate the inferiority of China’s authoritarian system and effectively denounce its human rights violations. As Blinken remarked, “Our task is to prove once again that democracy can meet urgent challenges, create opportunity, advance human dignity; that the future belongs to those who believe in freedom and that all countries will be free to chart their own paths without coercion.”
The Biden administration deserves credit for making good on its pledge to revive democratic alliances and use them as force multipliers in confronting China. It developed a new agreement with Australia and Britain to provide Australia with nuclear submarines. It also elevated the “Quad” — an informal group of nations that includes Australia, India, Japan and the United States — and enhanced the ASEAN alliance. Beyond national security, the administration has maximized the United States’ leverage by acting in concert with allies on climate change and trade. (While not directly applicable to Asia, the success in revitalizing NATO has not gone unnoticed in Beijing.)
Several points warrant emphasis when assessing the challenges that China poses. For starters, the administration’s policy is a work in progress. As a senior State Department official previewed in a call on Thursday, near-term announcements are expected that will refine U.S. tariffs and support for Taiwan’s national security. The administration seems determined to pursue a policy that is more robust, realistic and diplomatically adept than its predecessors.
Second, the senior State Department official conceded that regarding Ukraine, China’s conduct has been “mixed.” The official stressed that the administration has not seen China extend military aid or help Russia avoid sanctions. Nevertheless, China continues to defend Russia rhetorically and excuse its war crimes.
Finally, China’s failure to match the West in developing effective coronavirus vaccines, resulting in continued shutdowns and an anemic recovery, should dispel the notion that it has some inherent advantage over the West. To the contrary, newfound collaboration among Western democracies and a swiftly revived U.S. economy offer evidence that free societies retain substantial advantages over closed ones. The challenge remains in harnessing that collective strength against a nation that still relies on intellectual property theft, military intimidation and state propaganda to compete with the West. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/29/china-policy-biden-blinken-asia-trip-despite-war-ukraine-china-matters-most/ | 2022-05-29 14:53:23 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/29/china-policy-biden-blinken-asia-trip-despite-war-ukraine-china-matters-most/ |
CHICAGO, May 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ryerson Holding Corporation (NYSE: RYI) (the "Company" or "Ryerson") announced today the pricing of the previously announced secondary public offering of 2,630,700 shares of the Company's common stock (the "Offering") pursuant to a shelf registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") by its principal shareholder, an affiliate of Platinum Equity LLC (the "Selling Stockholder"). The Selling Stockholder will receive all of the net proceeds from the Offering. The Company is not offering any shares of its common stock in the Offering and will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of the shares offered by the Selling Stockholder.
The Company's previously announced share repurchase agreement with the Selling Stockholder (the "Share Repurchase Agreement") is also expected to settle and close on or about May 8, 2023. Under the Share Repurchase Agreement, the Company will separately repurchase 1,369,300 shares of the Company's common stock directly from the Selling Stockholder (the "Share Repurchase"). The Company expects to fund the Share Repurchase with cash on hand. Although the Share Repurchase is conditioned upon, among other things, the closing of the Offering, the closing of the Offering is not conditioned upon the closing of the Share Repurchase.
J.P. Morgan is acting as the sole underwriter for the Offering.
J.P. Morgan may offer the shares of common stock purchased from the Selling Stockholder from time to time for sale in one or more transaction to purchasers, directly or through agents, or through brokers in brokerage transactions, on the New York Stock Exchange, in the over-the-counter market, or through negotiated transactions or otherwise at market prices prevailing at the time of sale, at prices related to the prevailing market prices or at negotiated prices. Subject to customary closing conditions, the Offering is expected to settle and close on or about May 8, 2023.
A shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (including a prospectus) relating to these securities has been filed with and declared effective by the SEC. The Offering is being made solely by means of a prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus. You may obtain these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. When available, copies of the prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to the Offering may also be obtained by contacting: J.P. Morgan, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, New York 11717, by telephone: 1-866-803-9204, or by emailing: prospectus-eg_fi@jpmchase.com.
This press release is for informational purposes only and shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of any securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
About Ryerson
Ryerson is a leading value-added processor and distributor of industrial metals, with operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and China. Founded in 1842, Ryerson has around 4,200 employees in approximately 100 locations.
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Once again, disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein sits in a courtroom, on trial in Los Angeles while the reckoning the accusations against him launched marks a significant milestone this month: It’s been five years since a brief hashtag — #MeToo — galvanized a broad social movement.
The Associated Press went back to Louisette Geiss and Andrea Constand, accusers in two of the #MeToo era’s most momentous cases — Weinstein, already convicted in a New York case, and Bill Cosby, once convicted and now free — to learn how their lives have changed, whether they have any regrets, and how hopeful they feel after a decidedly mixed bag of legal results.
And we spoke to the woman who originally coined the phrase — Tarana Burke, a longtime advocate for sexual violence survivors and a survivor herself — about her own journey, the movement’s resilience, and the challenges ahead.
LOUISETTE GEISS: A LAWSUIT AND A MUSICAL
All in all, Louisette Geiss considers herself one of the luckier ones: When she tried to run out of a hotel room to escape Harvey Weinstein’s alleged advances, the door opened. She was able to flee.
Geiss, a former actress and screenwriter who, in 2017, accused Weinstein of attempting to force her to watch him masturbate in a hotel bathroom in 2008, was the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against his former studio.
But fighting through the justice system — an experience that has deeply frustrated her — was not the only means by which Geiss has attempted to cope. She’s also written a musical.
“The Right Girl” was waylaid by the pandemic but will be produced live onstage sometime in 2023. The show, with a high-profile production team that includes songwriter Diane Warren, tells the story of three women at various levels of power in a workplace plagued by a serial sexual predator.
“In the end, you see that the judicial system is still not in the right place to take him down,” Geiss said. “It’s really society that takes him down.”
It’s a reflection of Geiss’ view that the latter has moved faster than the former to absorb the lessons of #MeToo, albeit still imperfectly.
“I think the MeToo movement definitely gave predators pause to act on their inclinations,” she said. “I think that they have been warned. And so they are less likely to do it, but I do think they’re still doing it.”
At times, yes, she had regrets about coming forward. She worried about the effects on her children, now 7 and 5 — her youngest was only weeks old when the case exploded. But it was also her children that made her realize she had to fight.
“In the end, to make a bigger change for women and for children — for your child, and for my children — it was important that I step up and do it,” she said.
That’s also why Geiss, 48, continues to encourage younger survivors to speak out — even though she understands why they may not want to.
“You don’t want your name to be synonymous with Weinstein. Neither do I,” she said of her pitch to them. “But guess what? They’re not going to go away until we keep screaming about this.”
ANDREA CONSTAND: ‘IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO’
For Andrea Constand, the chief accuser in Cosby’s criminal case, the past five years have been turbulent, to say nothing of the preceding decade.
Cosby’s lawyers loudly derided her as a “con artist” during the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era, in 2018. Yet the jury nonetheless convicted the aging comedian of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2005 and a judge sent him to prison. Then, a Pennsylvania appeals court freed Cosby last year.
Constand had gone to police a year after the encounter with Cosby, which he called consensual. A prosecutor declined to press charges, later saying he had secretly promised Cosby he’d never be charged — a hotly debated claim that ultimately undid the conviction. And the first jury to hear her case, in 2017, couldn’t reach a verdict.
Through the yearslong storm, Constand has remained serene. She believes these are just early days for the movement.
“I think it was a much needed time to be able to address the issue (of) just how profound sexual violence is — in boardrooms, in corporations, in the entertainment industry and just generally all over,” Constand, 49, said this month from her home near Toronto, a rural retreat that she says brings her solitude and peace.
“A lot of trauma was released,” she added. “Keeping secrets can really can make you sick.”
The AP does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted, unless they come forward publicly.
She continues to work as a massage therapist, while pushing lawmakers to adopt a legal definition of consent. As jurors in both Cosby’s Pennsylvania trial and Weinstein’s in New York deliberated, they asked for the definition — but the law in both states was silent.
She has written a memoir, and started a foundation to help sexual assault survivors through their physical, spiritual and emotional recovery. She has also created a mobile app where survivors can seek trauma-informed services.
“I had everything to lose and nothing to gain. I was a loser, you know, really, going in,” Constand said of her 2006 police complaint.
But despite all the twists and turns, “it was the right thing to do,” she concluded, citing #MeToo movements around the world.
“You have … everybody coming out of that shame and out of that silence,” she said.
TARANA BURKE: KEEPING THE MOMENTUM GOING
Harvey Weinstein. R. Kelly. Bill Cosby. Two are in prison, one has been freed.
And that’s exactly how not to measure the success of the #MeToo movement, says Tarana Burke — as a scorecard of high-profile “wins” and “losses,” and through the lens of celebrity.
Rather, says the advocate for sexual violence survivors, cultural change should be the key metric. And by that standard, she says, the movement has achieved an “awe-inspiring” amount in five years.
“Five and a half years ago, we could not have a sustained global conversation about sexual violence that was framed inside social justice. It was always framed inside crime and punishment, or celebrity gossip,” she said.
Burke, 49, had coined “Me Too” as part of her advocacy work more than a decade before a hashtagged tweet from actor Alyssa Milano, in the wake of the Weinstein allegations, saw the phrase explode.
Just six months earlier, Burke recalls, she had been on an organizing retreat in California, handing out T-shirts and dreaming aloud about how she could revitalize her work and raise enough money to tour Black colleges and universities to raise awareness. When the spotlight shifted to #MeToo later in 2017, her first worry was that the work behind her phrase would be coopted. But she soon realized she had an enormous opportunity.
“The kind of shift we need to see sustainable change, we’re still working toward. But the shift we’ve had in the last five years would have taken 20 years to happen (without #MeToo), and that’s incredible,” she said.
Burke has spent the last few years building an organization to promote the movement, and has published a raw memoir, “Unbound,” which includes an account of how she herself was raped at seven years old.
Burke notes proudly that a new Pew study shows more than twice as many Americans support, rather than oppose, #MeToo. But, she says, struggles remain, especially in terms of bringing Black, Indigenous, trans and disabled women into the conversation, and in shoring up fundraising.
The goal now is to keep momentum going and restore the early enthusiasm.
Burke likes to remind people that within the first year, some 19 million people went on Twitter to say “me too,” attesting to their own experiences in a powerful collective reckoning.
“This is why we have a movement that cannot be ignored,” Burke says.
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Statewide health plan recognizes important role health centers play in health equity
LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- During National Health Center Week observed recently, Fidelis Care, a New York State health plan with more than 2.5 million members, proudly recognized Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and the vital work they do throughout the year. National Health Center Week is an annual celebration to raise awareness about the mission and accomplishments of FQHCs, which are dedicated to promoting health equity, improving health outcomes, and supporting vulnerable populations in underserved communities.
As the largest Medicaid Managed Care plan in the state, Fidelis Care serves more than 1.7 million Medicaid members, with a significant population receiving services from local health centers.
"Federally Qualified Health Centers provide preventive and primary care to thousands of New Yorkers in underserved communities, and are central to advancing the Fidelis Care mission of transforming the health of the community one person at a time," said Chief Medical Officer Vincent Marchello, MD. "Health centers are on the front lines of the health care system and play an important role in addressing issues related to the social determinants of health such as food insecurity and housing instability. We are grateful for their partnership and the outstanding commitment of each health center's providers and staff."
Fidelis Care's provider network includes more than 75 Federally Qualified Health Centers. Here are just a few highlights of Fidelis Care's ongoing partnership with local health centers:
Charles B. Wang Community Health Center provides high-quality, affordable primary care services to all at five convenient locations in Lower Manhattan and Queens regardless of their ability to pay, the language they speak, or their immigration history. Fidelis Care and CBWCHC partner together on community events to educate new immigrants about the importance of preventative and routine health care.
Community Health Center of Buffalo, Inc.: CHCB operates patient centers across Western New York in Erie and Niagara counties, in addition to a Mobile Healthcare Unit. Fidelis Care has partnered with Community Health Center of Buffalo on many community events, promoting wellness and addressing health disparities.
RefuahHealth has been a community cornerstone for 29 years, providing comprehensive medical, dental, and mental health care to residents of the lower Hudson Valley. Fidelis Care partners with RefuahHealth on an ongoing basis to narrow health disparities and reduce social, economic, and cultural barriers to care.
Ryan Health: The staff of Ryan Health work tirelessly to deliver exceptional primary care and specialty services to vulnerable New Yorkers, helping them to be healthy while improving the wellbeing of whole communities. Fidelis Care works with Ryan Health on key community events, including honoring the vital role of health care professionals.
Added Ryan Health President and CEO Brian McIndoe, MPH: "We are grateful to Fidelis Care for their collaboration and support to further the mission of both organizations to ensure access to high-quality healthcare for those who need it the most."
Fidelis Care is a subsidiary of Centene Corporation, a proud sponsor of National Health Center Week. For more information click here.
About Fidelis Care Fidelis Care is a mission-driven health plan offering quality, affordable coverage for children and adults of all ages and at all stages of life. With more than 2.5 million members statewide, Fidelis Care believes that all New Yorkers should have access to affordable, quality health insurance. Follow us on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/company/fidelis-care, on Twitter at @fideliscare, Instagram at @fideliscare, and on Facebook at facebook.com/fideliscare. For more information, call Fidelis Care at 1-888-FIDELIS (1-888-343-3547) or visit fideliscare.org.
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Former U.S. Mint Directors Weigh in on Why
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- It costs a pretty penny to make the cent coin—in fact, 2.72 cents, according to the U.S. Mint's just-released 2022 annual report. Two former Directors of the United States Mint discuss why keeping the penny makes sense, even though countries such as Canada stopped production of their one-cent coin in 2012.
Watch "In Conversation" here, hosted by Chuck Woolery, as Philip N. Diehl, 35th Director of the U.S. Mint (1994–2000) and President of U.S. Money Reserve, and Edmund C. Moy, 38th Director of the U.S. Mint (2006–2011) and U.S. Money Reserve's Senior IRA Strategist, discuss why we should keep the cent.
Moy said, "With the cost of a penny (and a nickel) far exceeding its face value, the debate on whether to continue making them is heating up. How rare and insightful to have this discussion with my colleague Philip Diehl, both of us have the distinction of serving as Mint Directors." Others have opinions, but these thoughts come right from "the horse's mouth."
Read the full annual report from the United States Mint here.
For more information or to speak with company leadership at U.S. Money Reserve, please contact Christol Farris at 512-568-9991 or cfarris@usmoneyreserve.com or visit www.usmoneyreserve.com.
About U.S. Money Reserve
U.S. Money Reserve, America's Gold Authority®, is one of the nation's largest private distributors of U.S. government–issued gold, silver, platinum, and palladium products.
Founded in 2001, U.S. Money Reserve has grown into one of the world's largest private distributors of U.S. and foreign government–issued gold, silver, platinum, and palladium legal-tender products, as well as precious metals IRAs. Hundreds of thousands of clients across the country rely on U.S. Money Reserve to diversify their assets with physical precious metals.
U.S. Money Reserve's uniquely trained team includes coin research and numismatic professionals equipped with the expert market knowledge to find products that offer the highest profit potential for precious metals buyers at every level. U.S. Money Reserve goes above the industry standard to provide superior customer service, with the goal of establishing a long-term relationship with each and every one of its customers. U.S. Money Reserve is based in Austin, Texas.
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LORETTO, Pa. (AP)Sean Hansen’s 26 points helped Cornell defeat Saint Francis (PA) 80-77 on Monday night.
Hansen had five rebounds, five assists, and three steals for the Big Red (2-1). Greg Dolan scored 18 points and added five rebounds. Isaiah Gray recorded 14 points and shot 6 of 9 from the field and 2 for 6 from the line.
Josh Cohen led the Red Flash (1-2) in scoring, finishing with 24 points, eight rebounds and four assists. Landon Moore added 15 points and four assists for Saint Francis (PA). In addition, Maxwell Land had 13 points and 11 rebounds.
NEXT UP
Cornell takes on Ithaca at home on Friday, and Saint Francis (PA) visits Butler on Thursday.
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Making dog racing great again in a new digital form that is cruelty-free
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Meta Dog World, the blockchain race-to-earn NFT dog racing metaverse, is opening the gates to its initial non-fungible token (NFT) offering, with the team aiming to digitize and gamify the sport with over 100 years of history. Meta Dog World is revolutionizing the industry via its use of the blockchain.
The reality of the sport can create conditions where dogs are raised in worsening conditions, while racing can cause injuries that can be fatal. There is also increased concern for dogs and their well-being once they are no longer racing.
The nature of Meta Dog World will ensure that the welfare of dogs and other animals traditionally involved in the sport do not come to harm by digitalising race dogs as NFTs on the blockchain that can race-to-earn.
As part of its 1.0 web platform release coming on July 8, those interested in Meta Dog World can enjoy multi-functional digital dog racing. Users will start raising their dogs, feeding, and taking care of them, training them to increase their statistics, and racing for a shot at the top prizes. There are also mechanics for trading and breeding implemented in the process as well.
"1.0 is only the beginning, and we are hoping to roll out version 1.1 in the third quarter of the year on both mobile and web platforms," shared Founder and CEO, Hoang Le, a former engineer at Unity Technologies with over 10 years of experience in game development.
"We will deliver even more comprehensive economic features and open up more ways for players to get involved at various stages of the racing ecosystem. Let us all work together and make dog racing a spectacle for more people to enjoy."
This will come in the form of dog services and supplies, where users can become shareholders of the various industries and make their mark in the metaverse. Expect the intricacies of a supply and demand chain to come into play, as well as a full rollout of the betting feature to follow. Ultimately, version 1.1 of Meta Dog World will take another step towards transforming dog racing into a safer, greater, and more popular sport through the metaverse.
The betting feature, only available in countries where it is legalized and supported by licensed partners, will enable users to race-to-earn and make the most of their hobby, governed by true transparency afforded by the blockchain. The formula used to calculate the result of a race will be deployed as a smart contract on the blockchain. Each race result will be a visible transaction for public viewing and understanding of the parameters, "A true practical application of blockchain technology into virtual sport betting," he further added.
Meta Dog World is also looking to introduce various dog breeds including non-race breeds such as Shiba Inus, Huskies, and Dachshunds that are more attractive to new players of the sport, encourage participation of players from all walks of life and unite dog lovers across the globe.
"Part of the revenue will be used to support the organizations that are working on dog welfare issues specifically and animal protection in general," said Founder and CEO, Hoang Le.
Meta Dog World is now open for fundraising of USD$1.8 million for 12% of the token share in the Private round. With a roadmap that includes community expansion, listing on exchanges, a mobile release, an initial DEX offering, and more planned for the rest of 2022, there is much to look forward to.
Interested partners can contact the team via business@metadogworld.io for more information on the fundraising details.
For more information on Meta Dog World, visit the official website, and follow on Facebook, Twitter, Telegram, and Discord.
About Meta Dog World
MetaDogWorld is a blockchain race-to-earn NFT dog racing metaverse where users can participate in dog races, safely breed NFT dogs, performance enhancements via training to increase success rates, share trading of the stadiums to earn a profit made from organizing races, participate in transparent betting and other earning features.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The contract imposed on railroad workers last fall didn’t resolve their quality-of-life issues, but already this year there are indications the major freight railroads are starting to address some of their concerns about demanding schedules that keep many of them on call 24-7 without paid sick time.
Still, most workers and their unions remain skeptical of the railroads because they say they have yet to see meaningful actions toward improving their lives on the job.
“I hope that they’re serious about putting their employees first. But the track record is less than stellar,” longtime Union Pacific engineer Ross Grooters said while on his way to work in Iowa earlier this week. Grooters is a leader with the Railroad Workers United coalition that tries to help workers in all 12 rail unions fight for better conditions.
The early signs of progress include a Union Pacific pilot program in the Kansas City area that’s testing out a new schedule for engineers that lets them plan on having four days off in a row after working 11 days straight. In addition, CSX made a set of changes to its attendance policy this month that allows workers to take time off for medical appointments without being penalized and eases the formula for docking workers points when they miss shifts.
There are other negotiations about these quality-of-life issues going on at all the major railroads. Those talks started after Congress blocked 115,000 rail workers from going on strike last month and forced them to accept a five-year deal that included 24% raises and $5,000 in bonuses but didn’t address these other concerns. Lawmakers and President Joe Biden said they had to intervene because the dire economic consequences of a rail strike would be too great.
It’s still too soon for those new talks to yield any significant changes. CSX CEO Joe Hinrichs said this week that he’s encouraged by the progress his railroad is making in those conversations with its unions, but he wouldn’t go into any detail about what is being considered or predict how quickly changes might be made.
There are some railroad jobs that have fairly regular schedules, but many do not. Train crews, in particular, are largely forced to be on call all the time. Workers and their unions say those unpredictable schedules, combined with the strict attendance rules railroads put in place after eliminating roughly one-third of all their jobs in recent years while overhauling their operations, make it hard to take time off for any reason.
Engineer Travis Dye said the new schedules Union Pacific has been testing out with about 60 workers on a run between Kansas City, Missouri, and Coffeyville, Kansas, since November got him to stop thinking about leaving the railroad. Even if it meant taking a pay cut, Dye said he was seriously considering getting another job with a better schedule.
“It just got to the point where if something hadn’t changed, it just wasn’t worth staying,” Dye said. “I think a lot of guys feel that way too — not just me. I know there’s a lot of guys who are still actively looking.”
Dye said being able to make definite plans with his family or knowing he can tackle a project around the house like installing the new hot water heater he just put in without being interrupted with a call to work is amazing. All too often, he said he has had to cancel plans he’s made with his 16-year-old daughter after she’d already circled something on the calendar she wanted to do with him.
“That’s huge for me not to have to break her heart,” said Dye, 40.
Another experienced engineer involved in the pilot project, Tyler Ray, said not being able to know when he’ll be off has clearly taken a toll on his own personal life and that of other railroaders.
“I’ve already been through one divorce,” Ray said. “I don’t think that was all of it, but the unpredictability and not being around for a lot of things didn’t help.”
That’s why the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen’s First Vice President Mark Wallace hopes UP will agree to expand this new scheduling model, or something similar to it, across the railroad quickly.
Wallace said he remembers all too well growing up as the son of a railroader and spending many Christmas mornings without his dad there. He later had to miss several Christmases with his own kids while he was away operating a train.
“I’m trying to put pressure on UP to do this sooner rather than later,” Wallace said. And he said having more regular schedules would help railroads recruit the new workers they need to handle all the freight companies want them to deliver.
Union Pacific CEO Lance Fritz said he likes the new schedule concept, but the railroad still needs to analyze it more before expanding it to verify that it helps ensure workers are more consistently available when they’re scheduled to work while also giving engineers the ability to know when they’ll be off. The railroad has yet to test out any new scheduling models for the conductors who work alongside engineers when operating trains.
Fritz has also said publicly that he wants to work this year on providing workers with the paid sick leave railroads refused to give them in the negotiations last fall, but he said Tuesday that’s a complicated question and “our employees tell us that predictable schedules is the most important thing to work on first.”
Even though track maintenance workers in the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division union aren’t on call the way train crews are, they are increasingly being sent on the road for days at a time to tackle construction projects and repairs, prompting many to reconsider whether the job is worth the sacrifice, union spokesman Clark Ballew said.
“To date, we haven’t seen genuine concern from management about these quality-of-life decisions that our members increasingly wrestle with,” Ballew said. “Their focus continues to be honed on operations and … the bottom line.” | https://www.localsyr.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-amid-gains-railroaders-seeking-quality-of-life-improvements/ | 2023-01-27 14:52:54 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-amid-gains-railroaders-seeking-quality-of-life-improvements/ |
Woman celebrating 107th birthday says smiling is her secret to a long life
MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK/Gray News) - A Mississippi woman celebrated turning 107 years old this week.
On Friday, Julia Mae Hunter-Rice celebrated her 107th birthday surrounded by her close friends and family.
Rice celebrated the day with her loved ones with some cake and hamburgers. The Meridian resident also danced as they sang happy birthday to her while smiling throughout the celebration.
When it comes to her secret for enjoying a long life, WTOK reports Rice told the team that she makes it a point to smile.
“Her secret is smiling and being fair,” Rice’s daughter, Dorthy Dickson, said. “She has always stood for what is right and at 107 she’s still the captain of the ship.”
Rice’s family shared that her motto has been to treat people the way you would want to be treated.
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JACKSON, MI -- The Jackson County Animal Shelter, 3770 Spring Arbor Road, has many pets available for adoption.
Here are two of them.
Otto is a 2-year-old Blue Heeler, which is also called an Australian cattle dog. These high energy dogs are extremely alert, intelligent and loyal.
Otto is house trained, knows some basic commands and loves the outdoors. When he sees the leash he does spins of excitement. Otto is currently being treated for heartworm and his activity should be reduced until he completes treatment.
Dutch is a male, brown tiger cat with a white chin. He came in as a stray and is smaller in size. Dutch gets along well with other cats, is calm in nature and friendly to everyone. Once you pet him, he will stand up and follow you for a little more loving.
A meet-and-greet with a dog is mandatory. A cat room walk-through is available to test reaction. The dog adoption fee is $150 for medium and large dogs and $250 for puppies and small dogs, which includes vaccinations, microchip and sterilization.
Cat adoption fees are $60 for one cat, $80 for two, which includes applicable tests, vaccines and spay/neutering.
Visiting the shelter is always best, but other adoption resources include online applications at https://www.jacksoncountyanimalshelter.org/, faxing 517-780-4750 or emailing animalshelter@mijackson.org.
The shelter’s current hours are 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
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BUFFALO, N.Y., June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Summer Street Capital Partners, LLC ("Summer Street") and Concentric Equity Partners ("CEP") announced the exit of their investment in Coastal Waste & Recycling, Inc. ("Coastal" or the "Company"), a leading Southeast solid waste collection, disposal and recycling company. A fund managed by Macquarie Asset Management ("MAM") has completed the recapitalization of Coastal, and become the majority owner of the business, to facilitate future growth. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 2017 by Summer Street and Chief Executive Officer, Brendon Pantano, Coastal Waste & Recycling is a vertically integrated waste services company providing waste collection, processing, and recycling services to residential, municipal, industrial, and commercial customers. Since its founding, Coastal has grown into one of the largest solid waste and recycling businesses in the Southeast with operations predominantly in Florida and Georgia, serving over 450,000 customers with a fleet of nearly 600 vehicles at 11 collection depots and 8 post collections facilities.
Over the course of the past 6 years, Coastal built its operations and geographic footprint through both organic growth and the completion of numerous acquisitions. "The foundation of our success at Coastal is the partnership we built with industry veteran, Brendon Pantano and his management team and their collective ability to consistently deliver exceptional service and value to Coastal's diverse customer base," stated Summer Street's Managing Partner, Brian D'Amico. CEP's Partner, Frank Reppenhagen continued, "Brendon recruited and developed an outstanding team of experienced and energetic leaders aligned on a vision of building a premier, fully integrated regional solid waste and recycling company. Through a shared vision and cohesive culture, Coastal was able to execute on the strategic plan that grew the Company into one of the largest privately-owned providers in the Southeast."
"Both Summer Street and CEP were critical to our success at Coastal. Their value goes beyond financial, strategic and M&A expertise; their network and decades of experience leading growth-focused waste and recycling companies, allowed me and the Coastal team to build a strong platform focused on providing exceptional service for our customers," stated CEO Brendon Pantano. CEP, Summer Street, and Pantano also partnered with Frontier Waste late last year to facilitate a new phase of growth at the Texas-based non-hazardous solid waste and recycling collection services company.
The recapitalization led by MAM will accelerate Coastal's growth trajectory and solidify its leadership position in the Southeast; the investment will have no impact on the company's existing services or operations in the communities in which Coastal serves. As part of the transaction, Brendon Pantano will continue as Chief Executive Officer and together with his management team and a portion of the current shareholders of Coastal, will retain ownership stakes in the company alongside MAM. Karl Kuchel, CEO of Macquarie Infrastructure Partners commented, "We look forward to partnering with the Coastal management team to support the next stage of the company's growth."
Houlihan Lokey acted as lead financial advisor and Winston & Strawn acted as legal counsel to Coastal, Summer Street, and CEP.
ABOUT COASTAL WASTE & RECYCLING
Headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, Coastal Waste & Recycling is a privately owned solid waste and recycling company with 19 locations in Florida and Georgia. Coastal's team provides residential, commercial, industrial, and municipal services to its customers in the regions it serves. Coastal's locations provide comprehensive solid waste services that include collection operations, transfer stations, portable restroom services, along with recycling, and disposal facilities. With a commitment to a culture focused on its core values and a vision of growth, both personal growth and business growth, Coastal has over 800 employees providing over 1 million services each month. Learn more at www.coastalwasteinc.com.
ABOUT SUMMER STREET CAPITAL PARTNERS LLC
Summer Street Capital Partners, LLC, founded in 1999, is a Buffalo, NY-based private equity fund manager with committed capital focused on investing in small and middle-market companies in environmental services and manufacturing. The firm is a leading investor in the environmental services sector, with 20 years of experience acquiring and building companies in waste collection, transportation, and disposal across the eastern United States. Summer Street's investments support management buyouts, family transitions, corporate divestitures, growth financings, and recapitalizations. www.summerstreetcapital.com
ABOUT CONCENTRIC EQUITY PARTNERS
Concentric Equity Partners is a private investment firm that partners with leading middle market companies by providing capital and strategic advisory to accelerate long-term value creation. CEP's approach is simple: support entrepreneurs and operators by providing the resources required to achieve extraordinary results. The firm's investment team is made up of individuals with distinguished track records as operators and professional investors across a variety of growth-oriented middle-market companies. Concentric Equity Partners is the direct investing arm of Financial Investments Corporation, a private asset management firm and family office with over $2 billion in investment commitments under management. Financial Investments Corporation was founded in 1994 by father and daughter Harrison and Jennifer Steans and has been partnering with private companies for more than 25 years. www.ficcep.com
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A mountain lion snuck up on a man and his wife Saturday night as they were soaking in a hot tub west of Nathrop, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said in a release.
The two sat in their vacation rental’s tub around 8 p.m., when the man felt something grab his head, CPW spokesman Bill Vogrin said in a release.
“He and his wife began screaming and splashing water at the animal,” Vogrin said.
The woman grabbed a flashlight and shined it on the lion, which began to back up a bit, Vogrin said. As the couple continued to scream, the lion moved to the top of a nearby hill where it continued to watch the couple, who then left the tub and went back into the Chaffee County house.
Inside, the couple cleaned the man’s wounds and called state wildlife officials, who arrived and began searching for the lion, Vogrin said.
The man suffered four scratches to the top of his head and near his right ear, he declined any additional medical assistance, Vogrin said. State wildlife officials decided against tracking the lion with dogs because of the nearby housing developments and hot springs resort. Instead they set a trap to try and catch the predator.
“We think it’s likely the mountain lion saw the man’s head move in the darkness at ground-level but didn’t recognize the people in the hot tub,” Sean Shepherd, CPW area wildlife manager based in Salida, said. “The couple did the right thing by making noise and shining a light on the lion.”
“Although this victim had only minor injuries, we take this incident seriously. We have alerted neighbors and posted signs warning of lion activity,” Shepherd continued. “And we will continue to track the lion and lion activity.”
Saturday’s report marks the first time a lion has attacked a person since Feb. 27, 2022, Vogrin said, and it’s the 24th reported lion attack on a human since 1990 that resulted in an injury.
Some mountain lions in Colorado have been more active lately and encountered pets more frequently, in part because more people are moving into their habitat.
If you encounter a mountain lion you can report the sighting to Colorado Parks and Wildlife by calling their headquarters at 303-297-1192. Additional information is available online at cpw.state.co.us.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, next week will become the highest-profile U.S. official to visit Samoa, as the Biden administration steps up its outreach to Pacific island nations.
Emhoff will meet with government officials, community leaders and female entrepreneurs during his July 23-24 visit to Samoa’s capital, Apia. His communications director, Liza Acevedo, said Wednesday he will be the first White House principal to visit the country. His visit comes as the U.S. is aiming to deepen diplomatic and economic ties to Samoa and other countries in the region.
The renewed focus on the Pacific islands is part of a yearslong strategic shift in U.S. focus toward the area. It is meant in part to counter China’s efforts to significantly expand its military, economic and diplomatic influence across the Pacific.
Emhoff will visit Samoa after he leads the official U.S. delegation to the opening of the Women’s World Cup in Auckland, New Zealand. The State Department has announced that Samoa will soon receive a dedicated ambassador on the island, among other diplomatic expansions in the region.
Acevedo said Emhoff’s visit “will underscore the strong U.S. relationship with Samoa and the commitment of the United States to the Pacific Islands.”
“The second gentleman will highlight our shared work to address the climate crisis, enhance disaster preparedness, promote sustainable and inclusive economic development, and invest in the economic empowerment of women,” Acevedo said.
Earlier this year, the Peace Corps returned to Samoa for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and the U.S. opened its second American Corner in the country, which provides the only free internet on the island of Savaiʻi. The U.S. Coast Guard is also helping Samoa patrol its exclusive economic zone and deepening ties with the country’s maritime and fisheries agencies.
President Joe Biden was to have been the first American president to visit Papua New Guinea earlier this year, but he had to cancel the stop to return to Washington for negotiations with Congress over raising the U.S. debt limit. | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-emhoff-will-become-the-highest-profile-us-official-to-visit-samoa-as-us-makes-a-pacific-islands-push/ | 2023-07-19 21:30:57 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-emhoff-will-become-the-highest-profile-us-official-to-visit-samoa-as-us-makes-a-pacific-islands-push/ |
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) — Tyson Jackson scored six of his 22 points in overtime as New Orleans pulled away in overtime to post a 85-79 win over Incarnate Word on Thursday.
Jackson shot 9 of 9 from the field and 4 for 8 from the line for the Privateers (6-9, 3-1 Southland Conference). Jordan Johnson scored 13 points while going 3 of 13 from the floor, including 1 for 6 from distance, and 6 for 6 from the line, and added six assists. Jamond Vincent shot 4 of 6 from the field and 4 for 4 from the line to finish with 12 points, while adding 12 rebounds.
Trey Miller finished with 22 points, five assists and six steals for the Cardinals (6-11, 0-4). Brandon Swaby added 15 points and 10 rebounds for Incarnate Word. In addition, Davante Dennis finished with 12 points and eight rebounds.
NEXT UP
Both teams play on Saturday. New Orleans visits Texas A&M-CC while Incarnate Word hosts SE Louisiana.
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ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Darden Restaurants, Inc., (NYSE:DRI) plans to release its fiscal 2023 third quarter financial results before the market opens on Thursday, March 23, 2023, with a conference call to follow at 8:30 am ET. Rick Cardenas, CEO, and other senior management will discuss third quarter results, and conduct a question and answer session. For those who cannot listen to the live broadcast, a replay will be available shortly after the call.
About Darden
Darden is a restaurant company featuring a portfolio of differentiated brands that include Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen, Yard House, The Capital Grille, Seasons 52, Bahama Breeze and Eddie V's. For more information, please visit www.darden.com.
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Feb. 18 — NextEra Energy 250 (Zane Smith)
March 4 — Victoria's Voice Foundation 200 (Chandler Smith)
March 19 — Fr8 208 (Corey Heim)
March 26 — XPEL 225 (Zane Smith)
April 7 — Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 200 (William Byron)
April 16 — x-Qualifying Race 1 (Austin Dillon)
April 16 — x-Qualifying Race 2 (Ty Majeski)
April 16 — x-Qualifying Race 3 (Joey Logano)
April 16 — x-Qualifying Race 4 (Chandler Smith)
April 16 — Pinty’s Truck Race on Dirt (Ben Rhodes)
May 6 — Dead On Tools 200 (John H. Nemechek)
May 14 — Heart Of America 200 (Zane Smith)
May 20 — SpeedyCash.com 220 (Stewart Friesen)
May 27 — North Carolina Education Lottery 200 (Ross Chastain)
June 4 — Toyota 200 (Corey Heim)
June 11 — DoorDash 250 (Kyle Busch)
June 18 — x-Qualifying Race 1 (John H. Nemechek)
June 18 — x-Qualifying Race 2 (Carson Hocevar)
June 18 — x-Qualifying Race 3 (Hailie Deegan)
June 18 — x-Qualifying Race 4 (Todd Gilliland)
June 18 — Clean Harbors 150 (Todd Gilliland)
June 24 — Rackley Roofing 200 (Ryan Preece)
July 9 — O’Reilly Auto Parts 150, Lexington, Ohio
July 23 — CRC Brakleen 150, Long Pond, Pa.
July 29 — TSport 200, Indianapolis
Aug. 13 — Worldwide Express 250, Richmond, Va.
Sept. 9 — NASCAR Trucks Series Race at Kansas, Kansas City, Kan.
Sept. 15 — UNOH 200 presented by Ohio Logistics, Bristol, Tenn.
Oct. 1 — Talladega 250, Talladega, Ala.
Oct. 22 — Baptist Health 200, Homestead, Fla.
Nov. 4 — Lucas Oil 150, Avondale, Ariz. | https://www.mrt.com/sports/article/NASCAR-Gander-Outdoors-Truck-Schedule-Winners-17271817.php | 2022-06-28 19:34:52 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/sports/article/NASCAR-Gander-Outdoors-Truck-Schedule-Winners-17271817.php |
NEW YORK (AP) — Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step right up and witness Coney Island’s Luna Park like you’ve never seen it before.
The beachfront tourist destination will soon be introducing three new attractions and pedestrian plazas on several acres along the iconic Coney Island, New York, boardwalk as part of Luna Park’s expansion.
“Coney Island been this great, rich place with so much legacy and emotions and memories for all — not just New Yorkers, but Americans,” said Alessandro Zamperla of Central Amusement International, which operates the park.
Of the three new attractions are two intertwined rides: a roller coaster called “Tony’s Express” and a log flume ride called “Leti’s Treasure.” The two rides are designed to pay homage to classic, 19th century Coney Island rides, as well as Zamperla’s family, which has been involved in circuses, carnivals and amusement parks for generations. The rides are named after Zamperla’s late grandparents, Antonio and Letizia.
Tony’s Express is modeled after America’s first roller coaster, the Switchback Railway, which opened on Coney Island in 1884. Leti’s Treasure is a throwback to Shoot the Chutes, another Coney Island classic, which opened a year later in 1885.
As part of the expansion, Luna Park will also introduce a 50-foot (15-meter) Sky Chaser Ropes Course and pedestrian plazas that will increase the size of the park by 50%, using land that has been vacant for almost half a century.
Coney Island’s original Luna Park was destroyed by a fire and then sold in the 1940s, but the park was reborn in 2010 with the construction of a new Luna Park, which has been evolving and expanding since then.
“We’ve been blessed to be in the amusement park industry and overall entertainment for more than five generations,” Zamperla said. “So for us to be here and to be really associated with the revitalization and really kind of rebirth of Coney Island is extremely exciting and a great honor.”
The new attractions, excluding Tony’s Express, are still under construction, but Zamperla said he hopes the new rides and plazas will be open to the public by the middle of summer. | https://fox59.com/strange/ap-strange-news/coney-islands-luna-park-to-expand-introduce-3-attractions/ | 2022-07-01 10:19:08 | 0 | https://fox59.com/strange/ap-strange-news/coney-islands-luna-park-to-expand-introduce-3-attractions/ |
SINGAPORE, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Turbo VPN, developed by Innovative Connecting, a Singapore-based VPN provider, is providing worldwide access to content and endless entertainment for global users. Reputable for its super-fast and secure connection, this VPN service was established in 2018 and is trusted by 300 million users. Featuring a new tagline of "VPN for Everyone," Turbo VPN has quickly expanded its reach and is ready to serve internet users in more than 150 different countries. Turbo VPN uses an ultra-fast VPN to facilitate live streaming and gaming in high definition. Using secure, military-grade encryption and a no-logs policy, Turbo VPN is able to protect online data and minimize risks. Users can watch worldwide entertainment with just one click with Turbo VPN, including social media, streaming, and gaming.
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Business Activity Index at 64.7%; New Orders Index at 56%; Employment Index at 51.5%; Supplier Deliveries Index at 53.8%
TEMPE, Ariz., Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Economic activity in the services sector grew in November for the 30th month in a row — with the Services PMI® registering 56.5 percent — say the nation's purchasing and supply executives in the latest Services ISM® Report On Business®.
The report was issued today by Anthony Nieves, CPSM, C.P.M., A.P.P., CFPM, Chair of the Institute for Supply Management® (ISM®) Services Business Survey Committee: "In November, the Services PMI® registered 56.5 percent, 2.1 percentage points higher than October's reading of 54.4 percent. The Business Activity Index registered 64.7 percent, a substantial increase of 9 percentage points compared to the reading of 55.7 percent in October. The New Orders Index figure of 56 percent is 0.5 percentage point lower than the October reading of 56.5 percent.
"The Supplier Deliveries Index registered 53.8 percent, 2.4 percentage points lower than the 56.2 percent reported in October. (Supplier Deliveries is the only ISM® Report On Business® index that is inversed; a reading of above 50 percent indicates slower deliveries, which is typical as the economy improves and customer demand increases.)
"The Prices Index was down 0.7 percentage point in November, to 70 percent. Services businesses still continue to struggle to replenish their stocks, as the Inventories Index contracted for the sixth consecutive month; the reading of 47.9 percent is up 0.7 percentage point from October's figure of 47.2 percent. The Inventory Sentiment Index (44.2 percent, down 2.2 percentage points from October's reading of 46.4 percent) contracted for the fourth month in a row.
"According to the Services PMI®, 13 industries reported growth. The composite index indicated growth for the 30th consecutive month after a two-month contraction in April and May 2020. Growth continues at a faster rate for the services sector, which has expanded for all but two of the last 154 months. The sector had an uptick in growth after pulling back in the previous two months. The rate of growth increased in November due to increases in business activity and employment."
Nieves continues, "Supplier deliveries continued to slow, albeit at a slower rate in November. Based on comments from Business Survey Committee respondents, increased capacity and shorter lead times have resulted in a continued improvement in supply chain and logistics performance. A new fiscal period and the holiday season have contributed to stronger business activity and increased employment."
INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE
The 13 services industries reporting growth in November — listed in order — are: Real Estate, Rental & Leasing; Mining; Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting; Other Services; Construction; Health Care & Social Assistance; Public Administration; Retail Trade; Professional, Scientific & Technical Services; Accommodation & Food Services; Utilities; Transportation & Warehousing; and Educational Services. The three industries reporting a decrease in the month of November are: Management of Companies & Support Services; Wholesale Trade; and Information.
WHAT RESPONDENTS ARE SAYING
- "Business is doing well, almost back to pre-coronavirus pandemic volumes." [Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting]
- "Generally unchanged month over month. New business requests are solid, with costs rising steadily for materials, meals and lodging." [Construction]
- "Still long lead times for service-related needs. A slight downturn in fuel costs in this region, but we are still experiencing supply chain shortages and delays." [Educational Services]
- "The labor forecast has improved, which has led to our ability to increase caseload, translating to higher surgical volumes. Some medical/surgical goods categories remain constrained — Vacutainer (blood collection tubes), wound care kits, syringes, hypodermic needles — but seeing modest improvement in other categories. Despite the uptick in RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) and flu, we anticipate that business activity will remain strong through the end of 2022." [Health Care & Social Assistance]
- "The demand for energy services remains very strong for the foreseeable future." [Mining]
- "No change from previous months — strong RFQ activity from our customers, but we're struggling to get electronic materials. Suppliers are still holding to lead times between eight and 12 months for simple components. We don't see this improving in 2023." [Other Services]
- "Job openings are seemingly continuing to decrease, but with demand for top talent still high and availability still rather scarce, the opportunity for growth is still there." [Professional, Scientific & Technical Services]
- "Overall business is stable. Employment is low and inflation is lower than last month. Supply chain issues are stabilizing." [Retail Trade]
- "Still struggling with recruitment, though we are starting to see more (higher quality) applicants, and (we are) hopeful the situation will quantitatively change in the first quarter of 2023. There are still struggles with longer-than-usual lead times affecting monthly delivery schedules." [Transportation & Warehousing]
- "Local, regional and national supply constraints continue to create supply chain complexities and challenges." [Utilities]
- "Business volume appears to be leveling out based on a month-over-month comparison, although we are up significantly when compared to the same month last year." [Wholesale Trade]
Services ISM® Report On Business® data is seasonally adjusted for the Business Activity, New Orders, Employment and Prices indexes. Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® data is seasonally adjusted for New Orders, Production, Employment and Inventories indexes.
*Number of months moving in current direction.
COMMODITIES REPORTED UP/DOWN IN PRICE, AND IN SHORT SUPPLY
Commodities Up in Price
Batteries; Construction Services; Diesel Fuel (2); Electrical Components (22); Fuel* (2); Gasoline* (2); Janitorial Maintenance Supplies; Labor (24); Labor — Full-Time; Labor — Technology and Web Related; Needles and Syringes; Pallets; and Services.
Commodities Down in Price
Fuel* (4); Gasoline* (4); and Steel Products.
Commodities in Short Supply
Chemicals; Concrete (2); Electronic Components; Janitorial Supplies; Labor; Plastic Products; Semiconductors (2); Transformers (3); and Vehicles (5).
Note: The number of consecutive months the commodity is listed is indicated after each item. *Indicates both up and down in price.
NOVEMBER 2022 SERVICES INDEX SUMMARIES
Services PMI®
In November, the Services PMI® registered 56.5 percent, a 2.1-percentage point increase compared to the October reading of 54.4 percent. The 12-month average is 57.2 percent, reflecting consistently strong growth in the services sector, which has expanded for 30 consecutive months. A reading above 50 percent indicates the services sector economy is generally expanding; below 50 percent indicates it is generally contracting.
A Services PMI® above 50.1 percent, over time, generally indicates an expansion of the overall economy. Therefore, the November Services PMI® indicates the overall economy has followed the same path as the services sector: expansion for 30 straight months following two months of contraction and a preceding period of 122 months of growth. Nieves says, "The past relationship between the Services PMI® and the overall economy indicates that the Services PMI® for November (56.5 percent) corresponds to a 2.3-percent increase in real gross domestic product (GDP) on an annualized basis."
SERVICES PMI® HISTORY
Business Activity
ISM®'s Business Activity Index registered 64.7 percent in November, a notable increase of 9 percentage points from the reading of 55.7 percent in October, indicating growth for the 30th consecutive month. Comments from respondents include: "Gaining more business" and "Demand for our services is increasing."
The 13 industries reporting an increase in business activity for the month of November — listed in order — are: Real Estate, Rental & Leasing; Accommodation & Food Services; Mining; Other Services; Public Administration; Construction; Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting; Health Care & Social Assistance; Information; Professional, Scientific & Technical Services; Retail Trade; Transportation & Warehousing; and Wholesale Trade. The one industry reporting a decrease in business activity for the month of November is Finance & Insurance.
New Orders
ISM®'s New Orders Index registered 56 percent, down 0.5 percentage point from the October reading of 56.5 percent. New orders grew for the 30th consecutive month after two months of contraction and a preceding period of 128 months of expansion. Comments from respondents include: "New customers added as our business continues to grow" and "Starting new fiscal year; ramping up projects."
Twelve industries reported growth of new orders in November, in the following order: Real Estate, Rental & Leasing; Other Services; Retail Trade; Accommodation & Food Services; Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting; Mining; Public Administration; Transportation & Warehousing; Health Care & Social Assistance; Construction; Professional, Scientific & Technical Services; and Utilities. The four industries reporting a decrease in new orders in November are: Management of Companies & Support Services; Wholesale Trade; Information; and Educational Services.
Employment
Employment activity in the services sector grew in November after contracting in October. ISM®'s Employment Index registered 51.5 percent, up 2.4 percentage points from the October reading of 49.1 percent. Comments from respondents include: "Slow improvement in staffing levels" and "Recruitment fairs have helped enable open positions to be filled."
The nine industries reporting an increase in employment in November — listed in order — are: Mining; Retail Trade; Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting; Arts, Entertainment & Recreation; Construction; Public Administration; Health Care & Social Assistance; Professional, Scientific & Technical Services; and Utilities. The six industries reporting a decrease in employment in November — listed in order — are: Management of Companies & Support Services; Transportation & Warehousing; Accommodation & Food Services; Information; Educational Services; and Finance & Insurance.
Supplier Deliveries
The Supplier Deliveries Index registered 53.8 percent, down 2.4 percentage points from the 56.2 percent recorded in October. A reading above 50 percent indicates slower deliveries, while a reading below 50 percent indicates faster deliveries. Comments from respondents include: "Supply chain issues easing" and "Reduced production times and transit times."
The nine industries reporting slower deliveries in November — listed in order — are: Real Estate, Rental & Leasing; Mining; Health Care & Social Assistance; Construction; Finance & Insurance; Educational Services; Other Services; Transportation & Warehousing; and Utilities. The six industries reporting faster supplier deliveries for the month of November — listed in order — are: Wholesale Trade; Retail Trade; Arts, Entertainment & Recreation; Accommodation & Food Services; Information; and Professional, Scientific & Technical Services.
Inventories
The Inventories Index contracted in November for the sixth consecutive month after four straight months of growth preceded by an eight-month period of contraction. The reading of 47.9 percent was a 0.7-percentage point increase from the 47.2 percent reported in October. Of the total respondents in November, 34 percent indicated they do not have inventories or do not measure them. Comments from respondents include: "Trying to unload back stock purchased during supplier shortage period" and "Supply chain is improving; production and services are up." Also: "No need to stock up more than needed, as inventory is being used faster than expected."
The nine industries reporting an increase in inventories in November — listed in order — are: Arts, Entertainment & Recreation; Public Administration; Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting; Utilities; Information; Wholesale Trade; Educational Services; Health Care & Social Assistance; and Professional, Scientific & Technical Services. The six industries reporting a decrease in inventories in November — listed in order — are: Accommodation & Food Services; Real Estate, Rental & Leasing; Management of Companies & Support Services; Mining; Retail Trade; and Construction.
Prices
Prices paid by services organizations for materials and services increased in November for the 66th consecutive month, with the index registering 70 percent, 0.7 percentage point lower than the 70.7 percent recorded in October. The Prices Index continues to indicate movement toward equilibrium, with a fifth consecutive reading near or below 70 percent, following nine straight months of readings above 80 percent.
Sixteen services industries reported an increase in prices paid during the month of November, in the following order: Accommodation & Food Services; Real Estate, Rental & Leasing; Health Care & Social Assistance; Management of Companies & Support Services; Public Administration; Educational Services; Utilities; Information; Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting; Other Services; Professional, Scientific & Technical Services; Arts, Entertainment & Recreation; Mining; Retail Trade; Transportation & Warehousing; and Finance & Insurance. The two industries reporting prices unchanged in the month of November are: Wholesale Trade; and Construction. No industry reported a decrease in prices for November.
NOTE: Commodities reported as up in price and down in price are listed in the commodities section of this report.
Backlog of Orders
The ISM® Services Backlog of Orders Index grew in November for the 23rd consecutive month. The index registered 51.8 percent, 0.4 percentage point lower than the October reading of 52.2 percent. Of the total respondents in November, 32 percent indicated they do not measure backlog of orders. Respondent comments include: "Supply chain transportation improvements" and "Slightly more capacity in the supply chain."
The eight industries reporting an increase in order backlogs in November — listed in order — are: Accommodation & Food Services; Real Estate, Rental & Leasing; Information; Other Services; Educational Services; Health Care & Social Assistance; Construction; and Professional, Scientific & Technical Services. The five industries reporting a decrease in order backlogs in November are: Management of Companies & Support Services; Finance & Insurance; Public Administration; Wholesale Trade; and Utilities.
New Export Orders
Orders and requests for services and other non-manufacturing activities to be provided outside of the U.S. by domestically based companies contracted in November for the second consecutive month after an eight-month period of growth. The New Export Orders Index registered 38.4 percent, its lowest reading since April 2020 (36.3 percent) and a 9.3-percentage point decrease from the 47.7 percent reported in October. Of the total respondents in November, 78 percent indicated they do not perform, or do not separately measure, orders for work outside of the U.S.
The three industries reporting an increase in new export orders in November are: Mining; Utilities; and Wholesale Trade. The eight industries reporting a decrease in new export orders in November — listed in order — are: Real Estate, Rental & Leasing; Management of Companies & Support Services; Construction; Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting; Other Services; Accommodation & Food Services; Educational Services; and Transportation & Warehousing. Seven industries indicated no change in new export orders in November.
Imports
The Imports Index grew for the third consecutive month in November after three previous months of contraction, registering 59.5 percent, up 9.1 percentage points from October's reading of 50.4 percent. Seventy-five percent of respondents reported that they do not use, or do not track the use of, imported materials.
The six industries reporting an increase in imports for the month of November — listed in order — are: Real Estate, Rental & Leasing; Information; Retail Trade; Construction; Wholesale Trade; and Utilities. The five industries that reported a decrease in imports in November are: Arts, Entertainment & Recreation; Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting; Accommodation & Food Services; Educational Services; and Health Care & Social Assistance. Seven industries reported no change in imports in November.
Inventory Sentiment
The ISM® Services Inventory Sentiment Index contracted in November for the fourth straight month and the 18th time in the last 20 months. The index registered 44.2 percent, a 2.2-percentage point decrease from October's figure of 46.4 percent. This reading indicates that respondents feel their inventories are too low when correlated to business activity levels.
The eight industries reporting sentiment that their inventories were too high in November — listed in order — are: Accommodation & Food Services; Arts, Entertainment & Recreation; Wholesale Trade; Retail Trade; Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting; Construction; Health Care & Social Assistance; and Utilities. The five industries reporting a feeling that their inventories were too low in November are: Real Estate, Rental & Leasing; Other Services; Management of Companies & Support Services; Professional, Scientific & Technical Services; and Educational Services.
About This Report
DO NOT CONFUSE THIS NATIONAL REPORT with the various regional purchasing reports released across the country. The national report's information reflects the entire U.S., while the regional reports contain primarily regional data from their local vicinities. Also, the information in the regional reports is not used in calculating the results of the national report. The information compiled in this report is for the month of November 2022.
The data presented herein is obtained from a survey of supply executives in the services sector based on information they have collected within their respective organizations. ISM® makes no representation, other than that stated within this release, regarding the individual company data collection procedures. The data should be compared to all other economic data sources when used in decision-making.
Data and Method of Presentation
The Services ISM® Report On Business® (formerly the Non-Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®) is based on data compiled from purchasing and supply executives nationwide. Membership of the Services Business Survey Committee (formerly Non-Manufacturing Business Survey Committee) is diversified by NAICS, based on each industry's contribution to gross domestic product (GDP). The Services Business Survey Committee responses are divided into the following NAICS code categories: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting; Mining; Utilities; Construction; Wholesale Trade; Retail Trade; Transportation & Warehousing; Information; Finance & Insurance; Real Estate, Rental & Leasing; Professional, Scientific & Technical Services; Management of Companies & Support Services; Educational Services; Health Care & Social Assistance; Arts, Entertainment & Recreation; Accommodation & Food Services; Public Administration; and Other Services (services such as Equipment & Machinery Repairing; Promoting or Administering Religious Activities; Grantmaking; Advocacy; and Providing Dry-Cleaning & Laundry Services, Personal Care Services, Death Care Services, Pet Care Services, Photofinishing Services, Temporary Parking Services, and Dating Services). The data are weighted based on each industry's contribution to GDP. According to the BEA estimates for 2020 GDP (released December 22, 2021), the six largest services sectors are: Real Estate, Rental & Leasing; Government; Professional, Scientific, & Technical Services; Health Care & Social Assistance; Information; and Finance & Insurance. Beginning in February 2020 with January 2020 data, computation of the indexes is accomplished utilizing unrounded numbers.
Survey responses reflect the change, if any, in the current month compared to the previous month. For each of the indicators measured (Business Activity, New Orders, Backlog of Orders, New Export Orders, Inventory Change, Inventory Sentiment, Imports, Prices, Employment and Supplier Deliveries), this report shows the percentage reporting each response and the diffusion index. Responses represent raw data and are never changed. Data is seasonally adjusted for Business Activity, New Orders, Prices and Employment. All seasonal adjustment factors are subject annually to relatively minor changes when conditions warrant them. The remaining indexes have not indicated significant seasonality.
The Services PMI® is a composite index based on the diffusion indexes for four of the indicators with equal weights: Business Activity (seasonally adjusted), New Orders (seasonally adjusted), Employment (seasonally adjusted) and Supplier Deliveries. Diffusion indexes have the properties of leading indicators and are convenient summary measures showing the prevailing direction of change and the scope of change. An index reading above 50 percent indicates that the services economy is generally expanding; below 50 percent indicates that it is generally declining. Supplier Deliveries is an exception. A Supplier Deliveries Index above 50 percent indicates slower deliveries and below 50 percent indicates faster deliveries.
A Services PMI® above 50.1 percent, over time, indicates that the overall economy, or gross domestic product (GDP), is generally expanding; below 50.1 percent, it is generally declining. The distance from 50 percent or 50.1 percent is indicative of the strength of the expansion or decline.
The Services ISM® Report On Business® survey is sent out to Services Business Survey Committee respondents the first part of each month. Respondents are asked to ONLY report on U.S. operations for the current month. ISM® receives survey responses throughout most of any given month, with the majority of respondents generally waiting until late in the month to submit responses to give the most accurate picture of current business activity. ISM® then compiles the report for release on the third business day of the following month.
The industries reporting growth, as indicated in the Services ISM® Report On Business® monthly report, are listed in the order of most growth to least growth. For the industries reporting contraction or decreases, those are listed in the order of the highest level of contraction/decrease to the least level of contraction/decrease.
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MORAGA, Calif. (AP) — Randy Bennett earned his 500th win as Saint Mary’s coach when the 18th-ranked Gaels beat San Francisco 68-59 on Thursday night for their 11th straight victory.
Alex Ducas had 18 points and Aidan Mahaney scored 13 of his 17 in the second half to lead the Gaels (20-4, 9-0 West Coast Conference) on a milestone night for Bennett.
But his focus was on beating a neighborhood rival and remaining perfect in conference play.
“It’s really hard to think about it in any other way than that right now,” Bennett said. “In time you’ll reflect back, and the memories you’ll have of the players and coaches. That’s why we’re sitting here. We’ve had really good players, really good assistant coaches and great administration, and I work at a great place.”
Bennett took over a team coming off a 2-27 season in 2001 and has built Saint Mary’s into one of the most consistent winners on the West Coast over more than two decades at the small school in the San Francisco suburbs.
The Gaels have won at least 20 games in 15 of the last 16 seasons — missing out only in the pandemic-shortened 2020-21 season — and his 500 wins are the sixth-most among active coaches at their current school.
“That’s special,” he said about winning 500 games at one school. “It’s hard to do. It’s just cool to do it at one place, so hopefully we’ll get some more. I’m glad it happened at one place.”
Khalil Shabazz scored 16 points and Marcus Williams added 15 for San Francisco (15-10, 4-6).
The Dons had won three in a row since losing at home to Saint Mary’s last month, but struggled down the stretch and lost the rematch.
“Just a few minor mistakes like offensive rebounds,” Williams said. “It comes down to tough plays and mental toughness. For some reason we couldn’t get that down.”
San Francisco trailed by 13 early in the second half but used a 12-0 run fueled by a pair of 3-pointers from Williams to take a 50-49 lead with less than six minutes left.
But the Gaels responded and scored eight straight points capped by Mahaney’s 3 that made it 61-55 with 1:45 to play.
They sealed it at the free throw line and then celebrated with a photo at midcourt of Bennett and his players — followed by an ice-cold water bath in the locker room.
“It’s beautiful,” guard Logan Johnson said. “Just to be a part of his 500th, that’s huge. It’s an honor to be a point guard for him right now.”
Both teams struggled offensively in the first half, combining to go nearly five minutes without making a shot from the field.
But the Gaels managed to get to the foul line frequently, making 11 of 12 free throws, and led 36-27 at the break after Johnson hit a 3-pointer in the closing seconds.
BIG PICTURE
San Francisco: The Dons have lost eight straight in the series but nearly broke through under first-year coach Chris Gerlufsen. They fell to 3-31 against ranked teams since the start of the 2012-13 season, with one of the wins coming earlier this season against Arizona State.
Saint Mary’s: The Gaels were far from their best in this game, missing 14 of 15 shots from the field during one stretch in the second half and shooting 32.7% for the game. But they made 32 of 37 free throws to maintain their perfect conference record.
HONORING A LEGEND
The teams honored late Dons star Bill Russell, who died last summer at age 88. Russell led San Francisco to back-to-back national titles in 1955 and ’56 before going on to have a Hall of Fame career in the NBA with the Boston Celtics, winning 11 championships in 13 seasons.
The players wore shirts with Russell’s No. 6 during warmups and there was a brief video tribute to him.
UP NEXT
San Francisco: Hosts Santa Clara on Saturday night.
Saint Mary’s: Hosts No. 12 Gonzaga in a WCC showdown Saturday night.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Wichita police are looking for a man who apparently attacked a person with a sword on Tuesday.
It happened around 1:20 p.m. in the 700 block of W. 2nd St. The victim has non-life-threatening injuries.
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MILAN (AP) — U.S. designer Rhuigi Villasenor is leaving his position as creative director of Swiss fashion house Bally, a move announced Tuesday as a joint decision.
Villasenor has led the creative team at Bally since January 2022, helping boost the brand’s visibility with a return to the runway after 20 years and front-row celebrity guests including Adrien Brody, Emily Ratajkowski and Ella Emhoff.
The Filipino-American designer’s debut in Milan in September coincided with a flurry of ethnically diverse designers showing collections in Italy’s fashion capital.
In a statement, Villasenor called his tenure at Bally “an incredible honor.”
Bally CEO Nicolas Girotto said Villasenor’s “passion energy and creativity helped catapult Bally back into the spotlight,’’ citing his “modern, glamorous lens.”
An in-house team at the 170-year-old brand will design collections until “a new creative organization is announced,’’ the fashion house said. Bally plans to present a co-ed collection during Milan Fashion Week in September.
Villasenor’s departure comes as the brand reports that sales so far this year are up 20% over the previous year. As part of the brand’s relaunch, it reopened its New York flagship store and announced a series of capsule collections with Brody, which are set to debut in January 2024. | https://cbs4indy.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/u-s-designer-villasenor-leaves-swiss-luxury-house-bally-after-helping-boost-visibility/ | 2023-05-17 04:18:13 | 0 | https://cbs4indy.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/u-s-designer-villasenor-leaves-swiss-luxury-house-bally-after-helping-boost-visibility/ |
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In the weeks before Kimbrady Carriker opened fire at random with an AR-15 in southwest Philadelphia killing five people and wounding four others including several children, the few people close to him had watched him grow increasingly agitated and erratic, sometimes pacing the house wearing a bulletproof vest, prosecutors and others have said.
Now, in the wake of Monday’s bloodshed, officials are urging people to call police or the city’s mental health resource line when they see suspicious social media posts or think somebody might need help. And as Carriker’s possible mental health issues increasingly come into focus, the community he left shattered is trying to find ways to heal their own psychological trauma.
Prosecutors earlier this week declined to speak to whether Carriker’s mental health played a role in the shooting. No one called to report his erratic behavior, and Carriker did not leave a long history of brushes with police or behavioral health crisis providers.
But posts on Carriker’s Facebook page, which has since been taken down, showed a fervor for guns and self-protection and mentioned community patrols he had gone on seemingly alone. Other recent posts shared articles about what to do if you think an evil spirit is following you.
The 40-year-old is charged with five counts of murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault and weapons counts. Family and previous roommates have declined to comment or not returned phone messages left by The Associated Press.
“If we are talking about somebody who is armed and not in their right mind and capable of doing harm, the option is to call 911,” said Chief Inspector Michael Cram, with the Philadelphia Police Department’s Homeland Security Bureau. “There is no better option if someone is in that type of crisis.”
Cram heads the department’s new Behavioral Health Unit, which was started late last year. It includes a new co-responders program that pairs police officers with clinicians to respond to calls where someone might need behavioral health services.
It’s one of a handful of directed efforts from the city and the police department to better address mental health concerns in the community.
More than 2,000 of Philadelphia’s roughly 6,000 police officers have gone through Crisis Intervention Team training— a 40-hour module on mental health issues and how to respond to someone who is in a crisis, Cram said.
Operators at the city’s 911 call center also receive that training to be able to identify calls that might be better suited for mental health professionals.
Jill Bowen, deputy commissioner of Philadelphia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services, said the city amplified its efforts to build out its behavioral health crisis system after the killing of Walter Wallace Jr. in October 2020 and the protests that followed.
Wallace’s family called for help because he was in the midst of a mental health episode. When two Philadelphia police officers arrived, they found Wallace armed with a knife. He refused commands to drop the weapon and amidst pleas from his mother to stop, the officers shot Wallace multiple times. Cellphone video captured the encounter and spurred protests throughout the community.
Bowen said since 2020, calls to the city’s crisis services number and 988— the national suicide and crisis prevention hotline that went live last year— have increased every month.
The city has added a mobile crisis unit, which sends people from or familiar with the communities to respond whenever possible, and distributed many trauma cards, which outline local resources and other information, she said.
“You don’t have to wonder should I call? Or is this the right number? Just call. Whatever the question or need is… they will direct you appropriately,” Bowen said
Meanwhile, in the days immediately following the shooting, the streets in the Kingsessing neighborhood were largely quiet — under a blanket of collective trauma. Community organizations and faith leaders wondered how they could give people a safe place to heal when such a large swath of the neighborhood had become a crime scene.
The victims: Lashyd Merritt, 21; Dymire Stanton, 29; Ralph Moralis, 59; Joseph Wamah Jr., 31; and DaJuan Brown, 15, were killed while they were going to the store, visiting their grandparents, headed out to meet friends and living their lives.
Rev. Cean James of the Salt & Light Church, which is a few blocks from where the shootings took place, opened his doors the next morning to anyone. He’s hosted vigils and invited both congregants and people outside the church to speak to a counselor or spiritual advisor on staff to process the shooting.
“There’s an old saying in the African American community that Black people don’t go to therapy, they go to church,” James said. “A few years ago, I started wondering, what if people could go to church for therapy?”
One of the pastors in the church has a Ph.D. in mental health counseling and the church pays for his services so that people can see him free of charge. James said the cost of counseling is prohibitive to many people in the community, and a lot of Black people have also had negative experiences with counselors that did not understand them, their culture or their community.
James said he thinks people have started to feel a return to safety, in part because of having a safe space to talk and grieve with neighbors, but also as more information is released about Carriker and the seemingly isolated nature of the shooting.
“People are out more than normal really (Friday), out comforting each other, talking with each other, being community for one another,” he said. “This is a strong and resilient community.” | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/ap-philadelphia-community-tries-to-heal-from-trauma-as-shooters-mental-health-comes-into-focus/ | 2023-07-08 05:23:26 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/ap-philadelphia-community-tries-to-heal-from-trauma-as-shooters-mental-health-comes-into-focus/ |
The National Science Foundation is funding a new $20-million, five-year, data science and diversity effort at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and the University of Colorado Boulder.
The new Environmental Data Science Innovation and Inclusion Lab, or ESIIL, “will enable work that illuminates the biological impacts of climate change and the loss of biodiversity, helps planners prepare for extreme disturbances such as wildfires and floods, and above all, includes diverse voices and responds to community needs,” according to a CU news release.
The program, which is funded for five years, “will support collaborative research and education involving huge biological and environmental science datasets, innovative cyber infrastructure, machine-learning approaches to analysis, and engagement with decision makers and other stakeholders,” CU said.
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(WTAJ) — Longtime NASCAR sponsor Anheuser-Busch is offering its fans a chance at a $2 million victory if one legendary driver wins the 2023 Daytona 500.
The beer brand is rallying race fans to cheer for NASCAR Cup Series Champion Kevin Harvick who they believe has what it takes to win the Great American Race. The company said they are so confident he will win, they are giving away $2 million to one lucky fan who votes for Harvick as the favorite to win.
Fans 21 years of age or order can enter the contest online by visiting busch.com/winthepurse. The promotion began on Friday, Jan. 13 and will be available to enter until Saturday, Feb. 18.
Busch Light has been a sponsor of Harvick for over seven years and has previously offered fans various promotions including a chance to have a real job on Harvick’s race team, turning one of Harvick’s race cars into collectible Busch Light cans and letting fans choose the name of a NASCAR race.
“Our relationship with Kevin has extended beyond what we believed was even possible as a sponsor in NASCAR,” Anheuser-Busch Head of Marketing Krystyn Stow said. “We want to go BIG for his final season and rally his fans to support him at his last Daytona 500, kickstarting the most explosive season of his career. We’re going to be right beside him, cold Busch Lights at the ready in Victory Lane all season long.”
Harvick will climb into his #4 Ford Mustang to compete in his last Daytona 500 on Sunday, Feb. 19. He announced his retirement from NASCAR on Thursday, Jan. 12 and will end his career at the conclusion of the 2023 season.
“There are so many factors that go into building a successful career like the one I’ve been blessed to have, but without a doubt, the support of my fans has been something I couldn’t have done it without,” Harvick said in a statement provided by Busch Light. “Busch Light has always seen that, put fans first and led the rallying cry. Now for my final race at Daytona, there’s really no better gesture than to let the ones who helped get me here share in the winnings. I’m grateful to Busch Light for stepping up and making that possible.”
Harvick, who is also known by his nickname “The Closer,” won the Daytona 500 in 2007 where he took the checkered flag edging out veteran driver Mark Martin at the line. At the time, Harvick drove for Richard Childress Racing.
After Harvick began driving for Stewart-Haas Racing in 2014, he continued to win in other crown jewel races and won his only Cup Series Championship the same year. However, he has not returned to victory lane in the Daytona 500 since 2007.
In 2021, Harvick finished the 500 in 4th after starting the race in eighth. His attempt in the 2022 edition of the race had ended prematurely when he was involved in a six car accident on lap 190.
Harvick was running in the top 10 at the time of the crash and was forced to exit the race under NASCAR’s damaged vehicle policy. Harvick finished in 30th out of the 40 car field. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/busch-light-to-give-fan-2m-prize-if-kevin-harvick-wins-daytona-500/ | 2023-01-21 18:58:42 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/busch-light-to-give-fan-2m-prize-if-kevin-harvick-wins-daytona-500/ |
GLENDALE, Ariz. (NEXSTAR) — Rob Gronkowski knows how to beat the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl. Alongside his pal Tom Brady, the pair helped propel the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a big game victory in February 2021.
Gronkowski won four Super Bowls with Brady, including three in New England. One of those games was in the same stadium as Sunday’s epic showdown.
“That was my first Super Bowl I’ve won,” Gronk recalled of the game versus Seattle. “You get one Super Bowl, you want two Super Bowls.”
The four-time All-Pro tight end ended his career with 621 catches for 9,286 yards and 92 touchdowns in the regular season. He had 98 receptions for 1,389 yards and 15 TDs in the postseason.
Rob isn’t the only Gronkowski with an impressive resume. He has 5 brothers; 4 of them have been professional athletes. Chris Gronkowski played for the Dallas Cowboys, Indianapolis Colts, and Denver Broncos.
The Gronkowski brothers are now teaming up in the business world with their own protein shaker bottle company. They were able to pitch their Ice Shaker brand on the TV show “Shark Tank” and went on to sell more than a million bottles.
You can check out their product at iceshaker.com.
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DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rotary, part of Vehicle Service Group (VSG) and Dover (NYSE: DOV), today announced a partnership with TEXA, a global leader in the design, development and production of diagnostic tools for the vehicle repair industry, that will enable Rotary to expand its automotive service offerings.
The partnership will position Rotary to offer collision and repair shops a new mobile Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) solution as well as fully automatic air conditioning (A/C) charging stations.
"With this exciting partnership, we strengthen our commitment to 'Serving the Shop' with the most comprehensive set of solutions on the market," said Ian Wendler, Vice President & General Manager for VSG – the Americas. "Rotary's expanded ADAS line and the debut of new A/C equipment complements our vehicle lifts, wheel service, calibration and alignment products, and will make ADAS and A/C processes more seamless and cost-effective."
The mobile ADAS solution offers repair service professionals a convenient and cost-efficient way to recalibrate cameras, radars, LIDARs and sensors when replacement is required and additional measures are necessary, such as replacing the windshield and bumper, repairing suspensions, aligning wheels, changing tires and replacing the engine control unit.
The new A/C machines will offer customers a quick and profitable way to recover, recycle and recharge R134a and R1234yf refrigerant gases.
"Our products are both highly technical and intuitive, enabling automotive mechanics and repair service personnel to achieve the greatest accuracy and precision," said Bruno Vianello, Founder and President of the TEXA Group.
"We're excited to partner with such an iconic and forward-thinking brand as Rotary and look forward to supporting these game-changing new products," added Dario Peruch, President and Managing Director of TEXA USA.
Rotary is the leading manufacturer of vehicle lifts and wheel service products for use in professional automotive service, commercial truck and transit industries. In 1925, Peter Lunati designed, built and patented the first fully hydraulic automotive lift and gave rise to a new industry. Rotary's pursuit of innovation has built the world's most trusted lifts, designed to increase shop efficiency and productivity. Today, there are more Rotary Lift products used in vehicle repair facilities around the world than any other brand. Rotary is part of Vehicle Service Group, an operating company of Dover Corporation's Engineered Products sector. For more information, visit rotarylift.com.
TEXA is a global leader in the design, development and production of multibrand diagnostic tools, exhaust gas analysers, air conditioning recharge stations and telediagnostic devices for cars, bikes, trucks, boats and farm machinery. TEXA has an extensive, worldwide distribution network with an ultra-modern production plant based in Monastier di Treviso, Italy. For more information, visit texa.com.
As an operating company of the Dover Corporation, Vehicle Service Group (VSG) offers the world's premier brands in vehicle lifting, wheel service, collision repair and aftermarket OEM equipment. With over 95 years of experience, we design, test, manufacture, sell and support our products with one thing in mind, our customer. For more information, visit www.vsgdover.com.
Dover is a diversified global manufacturer and solutions provider with annual revenue of over $8 billion. We deliver innovative equipment and components, consumable supplies, aftermarket parts, software and digital solutions, and support services through five operating segments: Engineered Products, Clean Energy & Fueling, Imaging & Identification, Pumps & Process Solutions and Climate & Sustainability Technologies. Dover combines global scale with operational agility to lead the markets we serve. Recognized for our entrepreneurial approach for over 65 years, our team of over 25,000 employees takes an ownership mindset, collaborating with customers to redefine what's possible. Headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, Dover trades on the New York Stock Exchange under "DOV." Additional information is available at dovercorporation.com.
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Consumer prices increased again last month, although the rate of inflation continued to decrease.
Inflation in the Midwest was up 5.6% in February compared to the same month in 2022, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In January, that year-over-year increase was 6%, and inflation rates have declined during the last eight months from a national high of 9.1% last June.
Rachel Blakeman, director of the Community Research Institute at Purdue Fort Wayne, said inflation remains “uncomfortably high” in the region.
“Inflation has been stubbornly persistent for well over a year, although the recent price increases – especially outside foods and beverages – has lessened,” she said in an email.
Although the 0.5% month-over-month increase in February was lower than the monthly jumps in the middle of last year, Blakeman said that many are still “feeling pinched” if they haven’t seen corresponding raises to their incomes.
In the Midwest, the food and beverage price increases remained high year-over-year at 10.1%, compared to 9.2% nationally. Household energy prices also increased at 7% during the last 12 months, although that regional rise was much lower than the national rate of 12.9%.
Nationwide, nearly three-quarters of last month's price increase was driven by housing costs.
What those numbers mean for the Federal Reserve’s next move “is anyone’s guess right now,” Blakeman said, noting the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and New York-based Signature Bank could throw a wrench into the central bank’s plans.
“Looking at CPI alone indicates another rate hike is coming,” she said. “Add in the strong job numbers earlier this month, and an increase looks inevitable but the recent failures of two banks and the concern about the stability of the financial markets means nothing is certain right now.”
Even though prices are rising much faster than the Fed wants, some economists expect the central bank to suspend its year-long streak of interest rate hikes when it meets next week.
With the collapse of two large banks since Friday fueling anxiety about other regional banks, the Fed, for now, may focus more on boosting confidence in the financial system than on its long-term drive to tame inflation.
“We would be surprised if, just one week after going to great lengths to support financial stability, policymakers risked undermining their efforts by raising interest rates again,” Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs, wrote in a note Monday.
Hatzius said Goldman now thinks the Federal Reserve’s policymakers will pause their rate increases next week. Goldman had previously predicted a quarter-point hike. In a separate note to clients, Hatzius said the Federal Reserve, for now, appears even more focused on calming the banking sector and the financial markets than on fighting inflation.
That is a sharp shift from just a week ago, when Chair Jerome Powell suggested to a Senate committee that if inflation didn’t cool, the Federal Reserve could raise its benchmark interest rate by a substantial half-point at its meeting March 21-22. When the Federal Reserve raises its key rate, it typically leads to higher rates on mortgages, auto loans, credit cards and many business loans.
“These data support a quarter-point rate hike at the Fed’s meeting next week,” Rubeela Farooqi, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics, said in a research note. “The decision ultimately will depend not only on the economic data but also financial stability concerns, which could keep the Fed on the sidelines next week.”
The Associated Press contributed to this story. | https://www.journalgazette.net/business/midwest-inflation-eases-still-uncomfortably-high/article_09e9f6f4-c288-11ed-a66d-0fc7c802fbdd.html | 2023-03-14 19:33:43 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/business/midwest-inflation-eases-still-uncomfortably-high/article_09e9f6f4-c288-11ed-a66d-0fc7c802fbdd.html |
WASHINGTON — Around 7.5 million baby shark bath toys are being recalled due to a risk of impalement for children.
The recall includes both the full-size Robo Alive Junior Baby Shark Sing & Swim Bath Toys and the Robo Alive Junior Mini Baby Shark Swimming Bath Toys.
The recalled bath toys were sold nationwide at Walmart, CVS, Dollar General, Family Dollar , HEB, Meijer, Target, TJX Companies, Ross, and Walgreens stores. They were also sold online through Amazon and other websites.
Both versions have a hard plastic top fin that could impale, cut or puncture a child's skin if they fall or sit on one of the bath toys. According to the recall, the company is aware of 12 reports of children being injured by the full-size sing and swim toys, including nine incidents where they needed stiches or medical attention.
Full-size toys
The full-size toys, which sing and swim when placed in the water, were sold individually and in packs of three. Only full-size toys with a hard plastic top fin (with three grooves on one side) are included in this recall.
Mini toys
The recalled Mini Baby Shark bath toys swim when placed in the water but do not sing and have a hard plastic top fin. The mini versions were sold individually, in packs of two or three, and as part of a Baby Shark Music Water Park playset.
Consumers with one of the recalled bath toys should immediately stop using the products and contact Zuru through its website for a refund of $14 for each full-size toy or $6 for each mini-size toy.
As part of the refund process, consumers will be asked to disable the tail fin (by cutting it on the full-size bath toy or by bending it on the mini-size bath toy), mark the body of the shark bath toy with the word “recalled” and the unique code provided during registration for the recall, then upload a photo of the product, showing it is disabled and marked, at https://www.recallrtr.com/bathshark. Upon receipt of the photo, Zuru will issue a refund to purchasers in the form of a prepaid virtual Mastercard.
In a company announcement, Zuru noted that that the recall only impacts the versions of the baby shark toys with a hard plastic fin. The newest toys, which have a silicone fin, are not part of the recall, Zuru said.
“We want to assure our customers that we are committed to the highest levels of safety and quality of all our products, and we have implemented measures to prevent future incidents by working to promptly remove these products from retail and replace them with a newly designed product,” Zuru wrote. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/nation-world/baby-shark-bath-toy-recall/507-6b12069f-c3de-4cd2-a226-3de1158be304 | 2023-06-23 16:48:26 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/nation-world/baby-shark-bath-toy-recall/507-6b12069f-c3de-4cd2-a226-3de1158be304 |
Troy Reeder pinpoints super similarities between Chargers and old team, champion Rams
Determined to improve their chances, the Chargers added plenty in the offseason, including four Super Bowl champions.
Two of them — linebacker Troy Reeder and defensive tackle Sebastian Joseph-Day — are reigning champions, having won with the Rams last season.
On Tuesday, Reeder said that when he looks at the 2022 Chargers he can detect a bit of the 2021 Rams.
“I was blessed to be around a group that did do it the right way every day,” he said about last season with the Rams. “I see so many similarities in that here. I think this team has what it takes. We just have to put it all together.”
Asked for specifics, Reeder mentioned the leadership of both teams. He also talked about having a quarterback who can “put up any number of points in any given game” and a defense that “can potentially shut out any team.”
Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson received a only six-game suspension from a disciplinary officer for violating the NFL personal conduct policy.
Justin Herbert made the Pro Bowl in his second year quarterbacking an offense that finished in the top five NFL-wide in points and total yards.
The Chargers then rebuilt their defense, adding talent and depth throughout, moves that helped lead to a significant increase in expectations for a franchise that hasn’t made the playoffs since the 2018 season.
“The pieces are there,” Reeder said. “It’s about doing it week in and week out and staying healthy and peaking at the right time. Those are things that, some are out of your control, some are in your control.”
Along with acquiring the two former Rams in free agency, the Chargers also signed linebacker Kyle Van Noy and cornerback J.C. Jackson. They were on the 2018 New England team that won the Super Bowl. Van Noy won another title with the 2016 Patriots.
After those four, the Chargers have no other players with Super Bowl rings. Tight end Gerald Everett (with the 2018 Rams) and long snapper Josh Harris (with the 2016 Atlanta Falcons) have lost Super Bowls.
Defensive lineman Morgan Fox also was a member of the 2018 Rams but missed the season because of injury.
Coach Brandon Staley has talked often about the importance of having players with championship experience on a roster that’s trying to build toward its own title.
“You know week in and week out in the NFL it’s not just about that last game,” Staley said. “It’s about the entire journey to get there. Those guys know about the journey to get there, what it takes on a day-to-day basis, and that mindset that you need to have every single day. … It’s not any one thing. It’s a lot of little things that happen all of the time. I’m really glad that they’re here because they’re going to help us in a big way.”
The Chargers have gone 21-28 overall while missing the playoffs in each of the last three seasons. The franchise has made it to one Super Bowl, losing to San Francisco in 1995.
“That really starts right now, and it seems kind of crazy being that it just turned into August,” Reeder said. “The habits that we’re creating right now are stuff that is going to drive us all the way through September, October, November, and then hopefully into mid-February.”
Are Chargers on shaky ground with only Austin Ekeler to count on? They’ve drafted running backs three years in a row hoping to find an alternative. They better find an answer.
Practice observations
The Chargers had their longest practice of camp to date Tuesday, going more than two hours. Some highlights:
- In the first 11-on-11 period, Joshua Kelley had a strong run up the middle as he battles for the No. 2 running back spot. Herbert followed with a sizable completion over the middle to Keenan Allen. Defensively, linebacker Damon Lloyd continued his strong play with a sack and a stop of Larry Rountree III in short yardage. Defensive lineman Andrew Brown cut through to wreck a running play.
- The offense then went into a two-minute period meant to simulate the end of the first half. Herbert, flushed from the pocket, hooked up with Jalen Guyton for a long catch and run. After linebacker Nick Niemann sacked Herbert to thwart the drive, Dustin Hopkins missed a field-goal attempt from about 50 yards. Easton Stick then led the second-team offense into field-goal territory, where rookie James McCourt made a 45-yarder.
- During the next 11-on-11 session, the Chargers opened by running Everett on a sweep. The veteran tight end is expected to be employed several ways this season. Everett was the recipient of a screen pass earlier in camp. On back-to-back plays later in the possession, Herbert was sacked by Joey Bosa and hit tight end Donald Parham Jr. in the seam for a long gain. Rookie defensive back Ja’Sir Taylor ended the session with a nifty third-down pass breakup.
- The final 11-on-11 period included safety Nasir Adderley picking off Herbert on a pass over the middle. It was Herbert’s second interception of training camp. Adderley has one career interception in 34 regular-season games.
The Chargers practiced in pads for the first time in training camp, and coach Brandon Staley liked what he saw. Plus, the revamped defense steps up again.
Not money on kicks
Hopkins had a tough day, finishing five for nine overall. He signed a three-year contract worth up to $9 million with $3.52 million guaranteed at signing in March. McCourt is a rookie free agent out of Illinois.
Etc.
Safety Derwin James Jr. (contract negotiation), linebacker Drue Tranquill (groin), tight end Tre’ McKitty (undisclosed) and wide receiver Jason Moore Jr. (undisclosed) did not practice. … Van Noy was down briefly after a collision with wide receiver DeAndre Carter but was able to remain on the field.
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Authorities in Nevada want to find the person who has been breaking into rooms at a resort and fondling women's feet.
The first incident happened on July 2 in Stateline, which is home to numerous Lake Tahoe lodging accommodations.
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office said the person entered the room through an unsecured exterior screen door and began fondling a woman's feet while she was asleep. The intruder reportedly left as soon as the woman woke up.
Authorities said the same thing happened to another woman on July 3, at approximately 4:30 a.m.
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The sheriff's office said the victims were staying in rooms on the ground floor at the unnamed resort.
The women were not physically harmed, authorities said.
A description of the suspect has not been released, but the sheriff's office said it's "actively working this investigation."
The incidents also prompted the sheriff's office to issue a warning to people staying in the area.
"Residents and guests staying in the Lake Tahoe area are reminded to secure all exterior doors to their homes/rented rooms," the sheriff's office said in a statement.
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IRONTON — A Lawrence County grand jury returned more than a dozen indictments Wednesday on drug and other charges.
Michael Anthony Lusk II, 23, of County Road 52, Ironton, was charged with two counts of aggravated trafficking in drugs, tampering with evidence and possession of a fentanyl-related compound.
Leon Adams Jr., 63, of County Road 60, South Point, was charged with two counts of trafficking in a fentanyl-related compound, having weapons while under disability and possession of a fentanyl-related compound.
Samantha E. Canterbury, 43, of the 1800 block of 5th Avenue, Huntington, was charged with aggravated trafficking and possession of meth and aggravated possession of drugs.
Freddie A. Knipp Jr., 51, of Township Road 347, Ironton, was charged with aggravated trafficking and possession of meth.
Bradley M. Spoljaric, 29, of the 1200 block of 10th Street, Ironton, was charged with aggravated possession of meth and tampering with evidence.
Traci J. Fields, 50, of Ohio 141, Patriot, Ohio, was charged with aggravated trafficking and possession of meth and trafficking in drugs.
Jason E. Broughton, 45, of County Road 1, South Point, was charged with aggravated trafficking and possession of meth, possession of drugs with a prior drug conviction and trafficking in drugs.
Logan J. Sizemore, 19, of County Road 181, Ironton, was indicted on a charge of making a terroristic threat.
Jordan G. Loftus, 27, of Rockford, Tennessee, was charged with aggravated possession of drugs and receiving stolen property.
Mitchell W. Glancy, 65, of McKenzie Avenue, Flatwoods, Kentucky, was charged with having weapons while under disability.
Dara L. Rowe, 43, of Private Drive 338, Ironton, was charged with having weapons while under disability.
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A ghost revealed itself to Davóne Tines the other day, in the Park Avenue Armory's cavernous Wade Thompson Drill Hall. Tines, an acclaimed operatic bass-baritone, was there in the midst of marathon rehearsals for Monochromatic Light (Afterlife), an epic piece by composer Tyshawn Sorey, which opens in the New York performance space this evening in a limited run. The work — which Sorey created in intense collaboration with theater director Peter Sellars, visual artist Julie Mehretu and choreographer Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray — is staged within an arena-like enclosure flanked on each of its eight sides by Mehretu's abstract paintings, looming at least 24 feet high. It was one of these canvases that gave Tines, the vocal soloist in the piece, his phantasmic vision.
"Yesterday, we were talking," he said on a recent afternoon, "and I looked up and saw a person — honest to God, a human figure that was in shadow relief, in a kind of medium plane. I thought, 'Wow, where did that come from? I guess that 13-foot-tall giant's been there the whole time.'" He burst into knowing laughter, along with Sorey, Mehretu and Sellars, seated in the Armory's ornate Veterans Room. After several weeks of focused work onsite, and months of preparation, they all embrace the idea that their creation still harbors fathomless secrets.
Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) is, at its mysterious core, conceived in part out of ghost traces. Earlier this year, Sorey premiered the deep, deliberative piece at the Rothko Chapel in Houston. That version — a co-commission of the Park Avenue Armory, the presenting organization DACAMERA and the ecumenical chapel itself, for its 50th anniversary — emphasized Sorey's affinities not only with the dark, brooding Mark Rothko paintings on permanent installation in the space but also with the modernist composer Morton Feldman, who wrote a piece for its opening. But where Feldman's Rothko Chapel, now considered a landmark, takes about 25 minutes in performance, Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) ran twice that long in Houston.
Now, in its ravishing new production — featuring an ambitiously expanded role for Tines, along with Sellars' absorbing stage design, Mehretu's evocative paintings and Regg Roc's elevated street dance — the piece has roughly doubled in length again, to 90 minutes. "I don't think I went deep enough," Sorey says of the previous version, "in terms of what I wanted to convey in the piece, and everything I wanted to get to."
At the Rothko Chapel, certain limitations were built into the piece: the intimate scale of the octagonal sanctuary, a space for hushed reflection; the sepulchral depth of Rothko's paintings, which seem at first glance to be bathed in black; the solemn beauty of Feldman's musical response. Sellars, who was with Sorey during his first visit to the chapel last year, knew he wanted to preserve a meditative quality at the Park Avenue Armory, but he also understood how much space they had to fill.
For the Armory production, each of Mehretu's works — made with ink and acrylic on canvas, then printed on muslin, and framed and hung in the Drill Hall — is paired with a dancer fluent in the Brooklyn street style known as Flexn, derived from Jamaican "bruk up" dance and marked by striking physical contortions. "We decided to keep the octagon as a sacred enclosure," said Sellars, "and Julie set to work to make a painting on each side of it. Then we decided to have one dancer for each painting, so that every painting was alive with a human presence. That created a zone that was charged with spiritual energy."
Sellars was the creative connector between Sorey, Mehretu and Regg Roc, and has been instrumental in its Armory stage design, which looks from the outside like a spaceship docked in the Drill Hall. Entering the space creates a form of sensory immersion, as an audience member is dwarfed on all sides by Mehretu's paintings — far from monochromatic, as it happens, but bristling with swoops and strokes, and maybe some of the rude grace of graffiti on a concrete wall. The piece's shifting lighting design, by James F. Ingalls, activates different layers and textures in the paintings, drawing a viewer in.
"Tyshawn has put us in a place where the duration calls upon a whole other level of attention and endurance," says Sellars. "And the paintings also call for that. Rarely does a museum experience set you up for that. This experience is not a quick one. What you're being asked is not simple. Where we're all sitting is charged with lots of history, and lots of urgency to make new history. I think the space has that triple charge: because of the music, because of the imagery and because of the dancers, you're getting this concentration that is really unusual."
Sorey has always courted, or perhaps insisted on, this level of deep concentration with his work. The many moving parts in Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) gave him a clearer means to grapple with some recent American sociocultural and historical convulsions, from pandemic lockdowns to #BlackLivesMatter protests to the Capitol insurrection on January 6 of last year. In that sense, it's a work blazingly in tune with our current moment, though Sorey insists on a broader frame. "I'm thinking of our past history, from a trauma perspective," he says. "Dealing with Black trauma and Black grief. A lot of my music does deal with that, though I don't really say it very often. Now, I think this is dealing with that subject in its most explicit form."
There is, however, a key distinction between the explicit and the explicable, one that Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) invites an audience member to consider intuitively. "Abstraction can negotiate those spaces that are really hard to give language to," says Mehretu, who encoded certain elements in her paintings that convey largely shadow meanings.
"There are blurred images of the insurrection in these paintings," she confides. "In fact, the figure that Davóne was talking about, that giant netherworld phantom, is from those blurred photos. And there are #BlackLivesMatter protests in some of the paintings as well. So, you have all these different visual references that are blurred. And for me they're blurred not to frustrate anyone. These paintings are not about trying to 'read' something; they're not about legibility. They're actually about being illegible, and viscerally experienced."
That enigmatic quality is further embodied by the Flexn dancers, with whom she has been in dialogue throughout the rehearsal process. "When you talk about these dancers, very rarely do we get into Black interiority," Mehretu says. "There's so much complexity. It's not readable. No one is trying to tell you who they are."
Referring to the overwhelming multisensory impression of the piece, she adds: "You're participating in an experience of processing all of this rich history, texture, time."
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Sorey, 42, has centered much of his work on the play of texture and time, with history flowing as a current underground. Born in Newark, N.J. and now based in Philadelphia, where he's a Presidential Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania, he's a drummer, trombonist and pianist as well as a composer, commanding a rare degree of respect in both improvisational music ("jazz," though he doesn't use the term) and formal notated music ("classical," same deal). Since he was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2017 — joining an elite cohort that already included Sellars and Mehretu — Sorey has created works on every scale from solo piano to symphony orchestra. Taking the measure of his prolific and varied output over the course of 2020, the New York Times declared him "the composer of the year."
Earlier this year, Sorey had several new-music pieces, including "For Orchestra" and "For Roscoe Mitchell," performed at Spoleto Festival USA. He also released Mesmerism, a disarmingly straight-ahead "jazz" album with pianist Aaron Diehl and bassist Matt Brewer. Next month, Pi Recordings will release The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism, a three-volume set recorded at The Jazz Gallery just before New York City's initial Covid lockdown; it finds Sorey driving a rugged, rangy ensemble with Diehl, bassist Russell Hall and a post-bop elder, alto saxophonist Greg Osby.
For Monochromatic Light (Afterlife), Sorey entrusts his music to violist Kim Kashkashian, pianist Sarah Rothenberg and percussionist Steven Schick, exceptional artists who all contributed to a noted recording of Feldman's Rothko Chapel, on ECM's New Series. In Houston, where Rothenberg is the artistic director of DACAMERA, they worked alongside Tines and the Houston Chamber Choir. Schick, the ensemble member who has the most extensive history with Sorey, frames the evolution from Rothko Chapel to Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) not just in terms of duration: "The invitation in the Feldman is to be compact, rather than complex."
Speaking near the stage during a rehearsal break, Schick added that he felt precisely situated in Sorey's piece as a percussionist: "The tympani largely grounds the harmonies, but then the vibraphone plays in the same realm as the piano. And every once in a while, it feels like the bass drum links up to the viola, in terms of its lyrical voice. In that way, the percussion is the universal donor in this piece: It links to the chorus, it links to the depth of Julie's work. It's been amazing to feel what it's like to find those resonances here."
But that process of ongoing discovery — through Sorey's expansion and attentive fine-tuning of the score, continuing almost to the last minute — isn't as comfortable for everyone. "Concert musicians are used to having a score presented to them, and it is what it is," Sorey mused in the Veterans Room. In that model, he said, "there are no changes that will be made other than interpretation. That's it — not the structure of the piece." He chuckled. "So, one big challenge is having the time to go over some of these changes with the musicians. In fact, we made a change yesterday that has an effect on what's happening in the music."
Hours later, Sorey was in rehearsals, worrying over the mechanics of a few troublesome passages in the piece. The sight of him at the podium — a large Black man in a hoodie, brow furrowed, baton in hand — underscored both his unique position in the contemporary classical establishment and some of the gravely embodied considerations at the heart of his work.
What he was focused on in this moment were some details in the choral parts, handled here by the Choir of Trinity Wall Street. At measure 518, he noticed a tonal imperfection in one darkly translucent chord, stopping the choir. "The altos should sing a bit louder there," he said. Then, still not hearing what he wanted, he asked the basses and tenors to sing their part, and then added altos and sopranos in a staggered overlay. Hearing the result, he nodded. "Maybe that's how I'll do it," he said. "I think that will be helpful. We'll put a fermata at the top of 518. Lower voices come in first, and then we'll bring the upper voices in."
This plan met with a tentative silence. Someone asked: "Is this for rehearsal or performance?"
"For performance," Sorey replied firmly. A pause, then: "Do you think we should run it?"
Seemingly every member of the choir voiced an affirmative, punctuated by nervous laughter. Some began to make markings on their sheet music. Sorey gave a cue and the ensemble picked up again. "Yeah, I think we've got it," he said, immediately after hearing the results. "That's what we'll do."
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Along with its monumental scale, riveting kinetic movement and dramatically shifting hues — a combined result of Sellars' earnest engagement with Sorey's aims — the new Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) departs from its previous iteration with at least one major musical recalibration. Sorey had always designated a home in the piece for the spiritual "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child," sung in powerfully abstracted form by Tines. On reflection, Sorey decided to draw out that element, making Tines a more pivotal presence in the work and weaving the hymn into the fabric of the piece.
"Occasionally you hear words from the hymn, but also you hear parts of my recomposition of that song pop up every now and again," Sorey explained in the Veterans Room. "So, it's almost like you have a cassette tape with a recording of that hymn that's looped, but then you've recorded over it using other information that has some sort of relation to it." This approach effectively refashions the hymn into a haunting: "It's always coming in and going out, but the material itself — no matter how abstract it may seem to the listener, and no matter how far removed it may seem from the hymn — a lot of the elements in that hymn are always at play the entire time."
Tines is one of the leading new stars in his field, and a transformative one: Last fall, New Yorker critic Alex Ross profiled him with an article bearing the headline "Davóne Tines Is Changing What It Means to Be a Classical Singer." He is the only vocalist Sorey ever envisioned for the bass-baritone part in Monochromatic Light (Afterlife), and since they embarked on the project, it has led to other collaborative work. The idea of opening up his role made every kind of sense.
"One reason I love this piece and it's so exciting for me to do right now is because I love Negro spirituals," Tines affirms. "I will say, like Leontyne Price said, that these are our lieder. They're the songs I feel most connected to — and even physically, that I think my voice is able to live in, in its fullness, more than a German song or a French song. And this piece in particular offers the wild opportunity and blessing to explore: Well, how did those songs get made? How did those songs get born? Where did they come from? In performing spirituals, it's contending with these incredible things that have been produced by humanity's greatest adversity and darkness. So, that's why I also love the continuing journey of the piece, because I get to dig into places that I've never been able to before."
The emotional power of that digging becomes transfixingly clear in performance. During a complete run-through of Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) on Saturday night, Tines moved slowly and carefully through the aisles, his resonant voice seeming to envelop the vaulting space. His posture and movement were controlled, forming an occasional contrast with the Flexn dancers twisting and flowing against the backdrop of Mehretu's work.
Regg Roc is one of the creators of Flexn, and has worked with Sellars on a previous Park Avenue Armory production that foregrounded the style. He told me that the demands of Monochromatic Light (Afterlife), which has the dancers fully engaged for the entirety of its 90 minutes, had created "a whole new vocabulary" for the Flexn movement.
"First thing, as a dancer, you start to try to find rhythm," he said, speaking in the Drill Hall during rehearsals. "And then you realize, there's not a rhythm in this piece." Instead of seeking rhythmic prompts, then, the dancers in the piece are drawing on sonic and emotional texture. "Everything felt like it meant something," he said. "So it was important to find those movements of detail. How to focus on those sounds and the feeling that it's uncovering."
Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) is suffused with sound and feeling, and also with no small amount of silence. Opening with a soft, sustaining chime of tubular bells, it eventually creates space for Kashkashian's exquisitely expressive viola, and for Rothenberg's precise articulation on both piano and celesta. There are cycles of action and even disruption in the music, but they happen on a gradual timescale, like ripples across the surface of a pond.
That slowly shifting perspective extends to the play of color in Mehretu's enormous paintings, which she describes as "time-based experiences." Depending on the lighting cue, they can evoke art-historical references — Rothko, of course, but also Basquiat and Miró — or form the perimeter of an immersive shadow realm. Occasionally, the dancers slip behind the muslin canvases so that their silhouettes become a moving part of the picture plane. Tines, who spends much of the piece gazing up at the paintings, told me that he has begun to see them as part of his score: "Quite honestly, there are moments where I very slowly turn and look and can take in different things. This orange bend, or this new circle, shapes the expression — if I'm being honest and present."
That state of being is, in many ways, the promise and challenge of Monochromatic Light (Afterlife). "Every time I've heard Tyshawn's piece — and I've heard it a few thousand times in the last eight months — I hear a different piece," reflects Sellars. "I mean, Tyshawn's music just constantly reaches you in different ways, and opens different portals in your depth of feeling and imagination and historical consciousness."
Sellars uses the word "ritual" to describe the experiential impression of the piece. It's a word that Sorey favors as well, especially in contrast to "performance," with its scaffolding of artifice and display. The Park Avenue Armory piece is just the most complex expression of something he always brings to his work, which demands patient engagement from a listener, if not a form of spiritual surrender.
"I don't want them to come here to listen to a piece of music," Sorey said. "I want them to experience the totality of the entire work. What they experience depends on who they are. And if who they are is a person who is interested in seeing how this might affect them, or what their relationship is to it, they're left with no choice but to come to terms with what the totality of everything means to them. It requires them to go deeper inside themselves."
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EIGHTY FOUR, Pa., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 84 Lumber, the nation's largest privately held building materials supplier, is recruiting for 10 immediate openings at its truss plant location in Franklin, IN, as the company's business continues to expand nationwide. Interested job seekers can interview for open positions at a hiring event on July 20, 2022, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the company's Franklin location (1850 N Graham Road Franklin, IN 46131).
"At 84 Lumber, we are on the leading edge of the ongoing rise in residential construction across the nation," said Mark Vinson, area manager at 84 Lumber. "Greater demand for our products means a need for more motivated, dedicated employees who want to take advantage of the phenomenal growth opportunity in our industry. If you have a strong work ethic and are eager for something new, you could be the perfect fit for us."
Hiring event attendees will participate in job interviews and learn more about 84 Lumber's company culture. Some attendees may receive a job offer on site.
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"As a family-owned company, 84 Lumber is committed to helping our employees build a long-term career with us. We are proud to say that 95% of our store managers started in our manager trainee program," Vinson said. "We believe that a wide variety of candidates can find a home with the company and open doors for themselves – a person with no construction experience but a desire to learn, military veterans ready to open their next chapter, or someone simply ready to make a fresh start. We'll give every one of them the tools to grow."
Candidates interested in participating in the Hiring Event should pre-register online and complete the form. Registrants will then receive an email from 84 Lumber with the link to apply for the desired position. To save time, Vinson strongly encourages candidates to apply for positions online before they attend the event.
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Parents sue over son’s death after he took kratom supplement
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ATLANTA (AP) — The parents of a 23-year-old Georgia man who died after using kratom have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against about a dozen people, companies and organizations connected to the manufacturing, marketing and sale of the herbal supplement. Extracted from a tropical tree native to Southeast Asia, kratom is used to make capsules, powders and liquids and is marketed as an aid for pain, anxiety and drug dependence. A Georgia Bureau of Investigation autopsy found that Ethan Pope died from mitragynine intoxication. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says mitragynine is a psychoactive compound in kratom. The lawsuit was originally filed in May, and an expanded version was filed earlier this week. | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/10/27/parents-sue-over-sons-death-after-he-took-kratom-supplement/ | 2022-10-28 00:09:46 | 1 | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/10/27/parents-sue-over-sons-death-after-he-took-kratom-supplement/ |
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‘Tis the season of norovirus
According to the CDC, there are about 2,500 reported norovirus outbreaks in the United States every year. This number can increase by as much as 50% when there’s a new strain. Currently, we’re experiencing an uptick in outbreaks across the country. While there is no treatment that cures norovirus, there are items you should have on hand to help get you through the sickness as well as preventative measures you can take that can keep you from getting the virus altogether.
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Although norovirus mostly affects children, it’s very contagious, so people of all ages can become infected at any time of year. The only immunity to norovirus is through infection (there is no vaccine), but this will only protect you against a very specific type of norovirus. And, it isn’t known how long that immunity lasts. Because there are so many different types of noroviruses and immunity is fleeting, you can get norovirus illness repeatedly throughout your life.
How do you get norovirus?
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People with norovirus illness shed billions of norovirus particles, but it only takes a few of those particles to make someone else sick. This means the virus can also spread by having direct contact with an infected person or consuming food or beverages that another person contaminated.
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Norovirus illness can be debilitating. You may spend the night on the bathroom floor, have a fever and feel completely wiped out. The good news is it doesn’t last very long. The average person is only sick for one to two days. Infants and the frail or elderly are the populations that are most at risk. Dehydration is the biggest concern, and according to the CDC, “One in 160 will be hospitalized” and “One in 110,000 will die from norovirus.”
How do you prevent norovirus?
Since there is no vaccine or medication that prevents norovirus and you might not know if a person is infectious, you have to be proactive if you want to prevent norovirus illness. According to Dr. Huynh, the single best way to do that is to wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water.
The CDC instructs, “Wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. You can use hand sanitizers in addition to hand washing, but hand sanitizer is not a substitute for washing your hands with warm water and soap.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s gross national debt has surpassed $31 trillion, according to a U.S. Treasury report released Tuesday that logs America’s daily finances.
Edging closer to the statutory ceiling of roughly $31.4 trillion — an artificial cap Congress placed on the U.S. government’s ability to borrow — the debt numbers hit an already tenuous economy facing high inflation, rising interest rates and a strong U.S. dollar.
And while President Joe Biden has touted his administration’s deficit reduction efforts this year and recently signed the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, which attempts to tame 40-year high price increases caused by a variety of economic factors, economists say the latest debt numbers are a cause for concern.
Owen Zidar, a Princeton economist, said rising interest rates will exacerbate the nation’s growing debt issues and make the debt itself more costly. The Federal Reserve has raised rates several times this year in an effort to combat inflation.
Zidar said the debt “should encourage us to consider some tax policies that almost passed through the legislative process but didn’t get enough support,” like imposing higher taxes on the wealthy and closing the carried interest loophole, which allows money managers to treat their income as capital gains.
“I think the point here is if you weren’t worried before about the debt before, you should be — and if you were worried before, you should be even more worried,” Zidar said.
The Congressional Budget Office earlier this year released a report on America’s debt load, warning in its 30-year outlook that, if unaddressed, the debt will soon spiral upward to new highs that could ultimately imperil the U.S. economy.
In its August Mid-Session Review, the administration forecasted that this year’s budget deficit will be nearly $400 billion lower than it estimated back in March, due in part to stronger than expected revenues, reduced spending, and an economy that has recovered all the jobs lost during the multi-year pandemic.
In full, this year’s deficit will decline by $1.7 trillion, representing the single largest decline in the federal deficit in American history, the Office of Management and Budget said in August.
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget said in an emailed statement Tuesday, “This is a new record no one should be proud of.”
“In the past 18 months, we’ve witnessed inflation rise to a 40-year high, interest rates climbing in part to combat this inflation, and several budget-busting pieces of legislation and executive actions,” MacGuineas said. “We are addicted to debt.”
A representative from the Treasury Department was not immediately available for comment.
Sung Won Sohn, an economics professor at Loyola Marymount University, said “it took this nation 200 years to pile up its first trillion dollars in national debt, and since the pandemic we have been adding at the rate of 1 trillion nearly every quarter.”
Predicting high inflation for the “foreseeable future,” he said, “when you increase government spending and money supply, you will pay the price later.” | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/ap-us-starts-fiscal-year-with-record-31-trillion-in-debt/ | 2022-10-05 12:35:56 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/ap-us-starts-fiscal-year-with-record-31-trillion-in-debt/ |
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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Troy Terry saw his teammate go down, the referee's hand go up for a major penalty and kept skating. Using some nifty stickhandling, he weaved around a defender and scored before the offending Arizona player could be sent to the penalty box.
Cam Fowler scored once the power play started and the Anaheim Ducks used a rare fast start to beat the Coyotes 5-2 on Tuesday night.
“That’s Troy,” Ducks coach Dallas Eakins said “He has that ability to go through people. He’s unbelievable at putting pucks underneath guys sticks and controlling it that way. He could easily have had a couple more.”
Plagued by slow recent starts, the Ducks jumped on the Coyotes early and scored twice after a game misconduct was called on Arizona’s Juuso Valimaki. Fowler had two goals and assist. Frank Vatrano added a goal and assist to give Anaheim a 4-0 lead after falling behind three goals in each of the previous two games.
“It feels like we’ve been spotting other teams goals in the first period, just through mental errors, and I thought we limited that,” said Terry, who had two assists. “I thought we had a lot of energy to start.”
Arizona's didn't come until late.
The Coyotes picked up the intensity after Fowler's second goal, cutting Anaheim's lead in half on goals by Barrett Hayton and Nick Schmaltz.
Adam Henrique ended Arizona's hopes of completing the comeback on an empty-net goal with 3 1/2 minutes left.
Connor Ingram had 39 saves for Arizona, which has lost 12 of 14.
“I like the no quit at the end,” Coyotes coach Andre Tourigny said. “I did not like our start. A little bit sloppy defensively and they're a skilled team.”
The Ducks had to rally from three-goal deficits their last two games, beating Columbus 5-3 and losing to Buffalo 6-3.
Anaheim got off to a much better start against Arizona, scoring late in the first period when Vatrano beat Ingram with a one-timer from the slot.
In the second period, Anaheim took advantage after Valimaki received a five-minute major and game misconduct for a retaliatory slash to the back of Max Jones.
Terry scored before Valimaki was sent off, stick handling his way around Dylan Guenther then beating Ingram to the glove side on a delayed penalty.
“I had a lot of space to get some speed going,” Terry said. “That’s kind of exciting as it’s tough to get the pockets with space in the National Hockey League. So when there’s a delayed penalty, you take advantage of times like that.”
Fowler made it 3-0 on the power play, beating Ingram through traffic from just inside the blue line. He scored again from near the blue line early in the second period on a shot Ingram had trouble seeing through a screen.
The Coyotes fought back.
Hayton scored on a short breakaway midway through the third period after Ducks defenseman Simon Benoit turned it over in his own end. Schmaltz scored on a power play less than four minutes later, punching in a rebound after Jakob Chychrun broke his stick on a shot.
“We crawled back in it,” Tourigny said. “A lot of fight and the guys never quit.”
They just started too late.
KELEMAN'S DEBUT
Coyotes forward Milos Keleman made his NHL debut after being called up from Tucson of the AHL.
He was nervous, as expected, even during his traditional solo warmup lap.
“I had to be careful because maybe I'd fall and it would be funny,” he said. “I was careful, but it was amazing.”
The 23-year-old Slovakian had one shot and three hits in 10 minutes of ice time.
NOTES: Anaheim D John Klingberg didn't play due to an illness. ... The Coyotes signed Valimaki to a one-year contract extension earlier Tuesday. The 24-year-old Finnish player has five goals and 23 assists in 125 career NHL games with Arizona and Calgary. ... Anaheim F Trevor Zegras had an assist on Fowler's first goal to extend his point streak to six games.
UP NEXT
Ducks At Colorado on Thursday night.
Coyotes: Hosts St. Louis on Thursday night.
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Editor’s note: Some testimony contains graphic language and descriptions of sexual and physical assault.
Testimony concluded Thursday in the civil trial over a libel lawsuit filed by Johnny Depp against his ex-wife Amber Heard. Heard’s legal team rested after she returned to the stand as a rebuttal witness called by her attorneys.
Depp is suing Heard in Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia for $50 million over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” His lawyers say he was defamed by the article even though it never mentioned his name. Heard is countersuing for $100 million, claiming Depp’s attorney defamed her by calling her abuse allegations a hoax.
Heard said she is “harassed, humiliated, threatened every single day” thanks to Depp and his attorney Adam Waldman’s statements about her.
“Even just walking into this courtroom, sitting here in front of the world, having the worst parts of my life and things I’ve lived through used to humiliate me. People want to kill me, and they tell me so every day. People want to put my baby in a microwave, and they tell me that,” she said.
Heard says she receives death threats and has been mocked for her testimony about being assaulted, which she described as “agonizing” and “painful.”
Depp has denied he ever struck Heard and says she was the abuser in the relationship. Heard has testified about more than a dozen separate instances of physical abuse she says she suffered at Depp’s hands.
Depp’s legal team rested its case earlier in the day after calling its own rebuttal witnesses, including Depp himself.
Depp testified Wednesday, calling Heard’s accusations “insane.”
“Ridiculous, humiliating, ludicrous, painful, savage, unbelievably brutal, cruel, and all false,” Depp said when asked about his reaction to hearing Heard’s allegations when she testified earlier in the trial.
Both he and Heard each testified extensively earlier in the trial.
Also Wednesday, supermodel Kate Moss, a former girlfriend of Depp, denied that she had ever been pushed or assaulted by Depp during the course of their relationship. Heard, in her testimony, had made a reference to Moss and a rumor that Depp had pushed Moss down a set of stairs when the two dated in the 1990s. | https://blackchronicle.com/testimony-concludes-in-civil-trial-between-johnny-depp-and-amber-heard-after-heard-returned-to-the-stand/ | 2022-05-27 16:03:59 | 1 | https://blackchronicle.com/testimony-concludes-in-civil-trial-between-johnny-depp-and-amber-heard-after-heard-returned-to-the-stand/ |
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian pleaded guilty on Thursday to the manslaughter of an American who fell to his death 35 years ago from a Sydney clifftop that was known as a gay meeting place, with the victim’s family welcoming the latest twist in their long campaign for justice.
Scott White’s admission in the New South Wales state Supreme Court comes three months after he had his conviction for murdering Scott Johnson overturned by an appeals court.
The family of the Los Angeles-born Johnson had fought for years to overturn an initial finding that the 27-year-old mathematician had taken his own life in 1988.
Johnson’s Boston-based older brother Steve Johnson told Australian Broadcasting Corp. that Thursday’s proceedings “might be the most emotional moment yet.” The sibling had watched the Sydney court hearing online from the United States.
“The police work that continued during the appeal and after the appeal to get that one last piece of evidence that brought him to the table … so that we could negotiate this, I’m incredibly thankful,” Johnson said.
He did not say what the new evidence was. But media have reported police had intercepted a prison phone call between White and a relative in October last year in which he confessed to striking his victim at the clifftop.
Johnson said he had already read the facts of the crime agreed between prosecutors and defense lawyers as part of a plea deal that will be presented to a judge when White returns to court on June 6 to be sentenced.
“Reading the black and white of his confession, in which he states that he threw the first punch, which I imagine was the only punch and my brother must have been very close to the cliff … makes me pretty angry,” Johnson said.
Johnson said a question that remained unanswered in his mind was whether White had gone to the North Head cliff on a Friday summer night on Dec. 9, 1988 “to hunt my brother.”
A coroner ruled in 2017 that Scott Johnson “fell from the clifftop as a result of actual or threatened violence” by unknown assailants who “attacked him because they perceived him to be homosexual.”
The coroner also found that gangs of men roamed various Sydney locations in search of gay men to assault, resulting in the deaths of some victims. Some people were also robbed.
It was the third inquest into the tragedy following pressure from the family. A coroner had initially ruled in 1989 that the openly gay man had taken his own life, while a second coroner in 2012 could not explain how he died.
Steve Johnson, a wealthy entrepreneur, in 2020 offered a 1 million Australian dollar ($704,000) reward for information that matched a reward already offered by police.
White, 52, was arrested in Sydney that year and pleaded not guilty to the murder of Johnson, who was an Australian National University Ph.D. student living in the capital, Canberra, when he died.
Police have suggested the reward led to the arrest, saying they expected it would be collected after White’s conviction.
White took his lawyers by surprise in January last year by pleading guilty to murder during a pretrial hearing.
About 20 minutes later, White signed a statement saying that he had been “confused” when he pleaded guilty, had not caused Johnson’s death and wanted to plead not guilty.
But the judge recorded the guilty plea and White was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison.
In sentencing White, the judge said she did not find beyond reasonable doubt that the murder was a gay hate crime, which would have led to a longer prison term.
In November, three judges of the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal in Sydney ruled that White should have been allowed to reverse his guilty plea, quashing his conviction and sentence.
The judges said there was a question about White’s culpability for murder that could have been raised in a trial. A trial could have resulted in his acquittal or conviction of the lesser crime of manslaughter.
White on Thursday pleaded not guilty to murder and guilty to manslaughter. Prosecutors had earlier agreed with White’s lawyers to accept the plea.
Police Deputy Chief Inspector Peter Yeomans told reporters outside court that the conviction vindicated the Johnson family’s long fight for justice.
“Look, a very emotional day for everyone, especially the Johnson family, who’ve been through a very traumatic time over the past 34 years and today really vindicates that family, what they’ve done over many, many years,” Yeomans said.
“We’re very, very happy from a police point of view, but obviously, more importantly for the Johnson family, it just comes to an end a very, very long saga in their lives, some 34 years this has been going on for, that they’ve fought for justice, and finally (it’s) come to fruition today,” he added.
A New South Wales government inquiry began hearing evidence in November of unsolved deaths resulting from gay hate crimes over four decades in Australia’s most populous state, where police were notoriously indifferent to such violence.
Violence against gay men in Sydney was particularly prevalent from the mid-1980s until the early 1990s due to increased hostility and fear stemming from the AIDS epidemic, an HIV support group, ACON, told the inquiry.
The Special Commission of Inquiry into LGBTIQ Hate Crimes in New South Wales will report on June 30.
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Advisors now have the option of purchasing the entire FP Alpha suite of advanced planning solutions which includes all Tax, Estate, and Insurance capabilities, or the Estate Planning Module, individually.
NEW YORK, March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FP Alpha, an AI-driven advanced planning platform for financial advisors, announced several new developments today including unbundling of their Estate Planning Module, The Estate Lab 2.0 with significant enhancements to overall functionality, and the introduction of their new P&C Snapshot, a first of its kind tool that uploads home and auto insurance documents enabling advisors to obtain a visual summary illustrating clients' current coverage.
"Advisors spoke and we listened," says Andrew Altfest, Founder and CEO of FP Alpha.
"Instead of exclusively packaging the FP Alpha platform with all 16 planning disciplines, The Estate Module will be available for purchase as a standalone product. With estate planning being incorporated more and more into the comprehensive advice process, we wanted to ensure as many advisors as possible had access to our solution."
In addition to the unbundling, The Estate Lab added new capabilities. FP Alpha will now be able to automatically transfer key data points from wills and trusts to the enhanced Estate Planning Lab. This will allow advisors to easily compare alternative estate planning scenarios to the current one, by pulling in assets to illustrate how those assets would transfer at death today and at death of the first and second spouse. The Lab will also display changes in beneficiaries or placement of assets by incorporating several simple and complex estate vehicles including various gifting strategies, catering to the needs of advisors' full spectrum of clients.
These tools allow advisors to have client ready deliverables without spending excessive amounts of hours manually reading estate documents or in PowerPoint creating flowcharts while still providing tremendous value to clients, completely unrelated to investments or retirement planning. A huge differentiator and competitive advantage for advisors.
The first of its kind P&C Snapshot will allow advisors to distinguish themselves from peers and provide a huge value add to clients, bringing significant peace of mind to have a second review on their insurance coverage by highlighting gaps or deficiencies in current coverage and more. The P&C Snapshot will save time by reading home, umbrella, and insurance policies for advisors then recommending how to improve clients' current situation.
"In a few short months, the snapshot feature will visually depict, in a client friendly deliverable, the key data points associated with each policy," says Rachel Schwab, Product Manager for FP Alpha. "Studies show that most clients want their advisors to help with P&C, but almost no one is getting it. There are simply no tools available, but our technology is going to solve that. With our innovative P&C Snapshot, advisors can use this deliverable to guide the conversation and leave something tangible with the client after the meeting. Offering to review policies is not only an added bonus to clients, but also an opportunity to save clients from detrimental insurance exposure," she continued.
About FP Alpha
Founded by financial planner and industry leader, Andrew Altfest, CFP ®, FP Alpha is an AI-driven advanced planning solution that helps advisors identify actionable recommendations to clients, in a scalable, intelligent, and cost-efficient manner. FP Alpha is designed to integrate seamlessly into the many stages of the financial planning process and is complementary to the advisor's current financial planning software, starting where they stop. By leveraging AI learning and subject matter experts across 16 financial planning disciplines, including tax, estate and insurance, this innovative platform allows advisors to uncover new planning opportunities and provide clients with more holistic advice. For more information, please visit: https://fpalpha.com
Patent Pending.
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KEENE, Texas (AP) — A 12-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man have been arrested on a murder warrant in the fatal shooting of a Sonic Drive-In employee in Texas, police said.
Matthew Davis, 32, was shot and killed Saturday night as he fought with Angel Gomez, 20, in the parking lot of the restaurant in Keene, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southwest of Dallas, police said.
The boy was at the restaurant with Gomez, who was causing an unspecified disturbance in the parking lot, and shot Davis several times after taking a gun from Gomez’s vehicle, according to a police statement.
Davis was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said.
The boy used an AR-style rifle in the shooting, Police Chief James Kidd told The Dallas Morning News on Tuesday.
Both Gomez and the boy fled the scene, but Gomez later returned and was arrested on a murder warrant and the boy, whose name has not been released, was found and arrested in the nearby town of Rio Vista, said police.
Court records do not show that formal charges have been filed.
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Los Angeles based nonprofit, If You Heard What I Heard, is proud to announce the release of Josh Gad's interview as part of its digital story-telling collection to preserve Holocaust memory and make it relatable for today. Gad's interview is one of 40 interviews in total and is the nonprofit's first celebrity interview since launching in April, 2021.
"To be able to share my grandfather's story of survival during the Holocaust at a time where we're seeing so much antisemitism, I hope those watching will gain a better understanding of the dangers of antisemitism, and how important it is that we all stand up to it," said Gad. About participating in If You Heard What I Heard, Gad continued, "The work being done by If You Heard What I Heard is critical to ensuring we, as a society, make sure the world will never forget stories like the harrowing ones my grandparents shared with me."
Of working with Gad, Founder and Executive Director, Carolyn Siegel shared "Josh is an exceptional storyteller, and he's able to bring the audience into his grandfather's experience in an immersive way. You come away from his interview inspired by the resilience with which Josh's grandparents rebuilt their lives." She continued, "Working with Josh has been a meaningful experience from the start. Our goal is to make sure the world will never forget about the Holocaust, and having his dedication and passion for sharing his grandfather's story helps us in achieving that goal. I'm honored Josh trusted If You Heard What I Heard with sharing his grandfather's story, and Josh's important takeaways for all of us for today."
Self-filmed on iPhone by Gad, Siegel collaborated with professional filmmaker Steven Hentges to edit the footage, ensuring the audience would be both captivated and inspired by Josh's words.
As of today, the public can get a glimpse into Gad's personal history and relationship with his grandparents by watching his interview exclusively at www.ifyouheardwhatiheard.com.
If You Heard What I Heard is a nonprofit organization focused on capturing the stories of grandchildren of Holocaust survivors - the last generation to ever hear survivor stories firsthand.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Mortgage executive and former Michigan State guard Mat Ishbia is the new majority owner of the Phoenix Suns and WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, after the NBA’s board of governors approved his plan to purchase the controlling stake of those franchises from Robert Sarver.
The league announced the approval Monday night, saying the transaction will be finalized later this week. The vote was 29-0, with the Cleveland Cavaliers abstaining, according to a person who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the final decision had not yet been announced publicly.
Ishbia agreed on Dec. 20 to the deal, one that put the total value of the Suns and Mercury at $4 billion. Ishbia and his brother Justin said then that they would be acquiring more than 50% of the franchises, which includes the entirety of the embattled Sarver’s share as well as some holdings from minority partners.
Mat Ishbia will be the Suns’ governor, Justin Ishbia will be alternate governor. They now can assume those roles just days before Thursday’s NBA trade deadline, and with the Suns squarely in the middle of the Western Conference playoff race.
There are tentative plans to introduce Mat Ishbia on Wednesday at a news conference in Phoenix.
No other sale in NBA history has been completed with a $4 billion valuation of the franchise involved. Joe Tsai bought the Brooklyn Nets and Barclays Center for $3.3 billion in 2019, and Tilman Fertitta purchased the Houston Rockets for $2.2 billion in 2017.
The sale was finalized hours after Jason Rowley — who was the Suns president and CEO — decided to leave the team in anticipation of the leadership changes, a person familiar with the matter told AP. That person, speaking on condition of anonymity because Rowley’s resignation was not shared outside of the organization, said Rowley’s departure was “shared internally” within the Suns organization on Monday.
Mat Ishbia is the chairman, president and chief executive of United Wholesale Mortgage, which bills itself as the nation’s largest mortgage lender. He had to successfully complete a vetting process by the NBA before the transaction could be finalized, and then the league’s other owners cast their ballots for or against the move.
Forbes recently listed his net worth as just over $5 billion. Ishbia’s company went public in January 2021 and is a rival to Quicken Loans — the company that has Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert as its founder and chairman.
Ishbia played at Michigan State under coach Tom Izzo and was a member of the Spartans’ NCAA championship team in 2000.
The NBA suspended Sarver in September for one year, plus fined him $10 million, after an investigation found he had engaged in what the league called “workplace misconduct and organizational deficiencies.”
The punishment came nearly a year after the NBA asked a law firm to investigate allegations that Sarver had a history of racist, misogynistic and hostile incidents over his nearly two-decade tenure overseeing the franchise.
Shortly afterward, Sarver announced he would be looking to sell the Suns and the Mercury. He bought the Suns in 2004 for $401 million, which at the time was an NBA record.
Ishbia has been mentioned before as a possible buyer of pro franchises — the NFL’s Washington Commanders, among them — and he is a prominent Michigan State donor.
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Reynolds reported from Miami.
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INDIANA, Pa., July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- S&T Bancorp, Inc. (S&T) (NASDAQ: STBA), the holding company for S&T Bank with operations in five markets including Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Pennsylvania, Northeast Ohio, Central Ohio and Upstate New York, announced today that a conference call detailing the company's second quarter 2022 earnings will be held live over the Internet at 1:00 p.m. ET on Thursday, July 21, 2022. Christopher J. McComish, chief executive officer, David G. Antolik, president, and Mark Kochvar, chief financial officer, will conduct the conference call. The public is invited to listen.
S&T Bancorp, Inc. intends to release its second quarter earnings before the market opens on Thursday, July 21, 2022.
PERTINENT USER INFORMATION:
To access the webcast, go to S&T Bancorp's webpage at the address listed above and click on "Events & Presentations." Select "2nd Quarter 2022 Conference Call" and follow the instructions. After the live presentation, the webcast will be archived on this website for at least 90 days. A replay of the call will also be available until July 28, 2022, by dialing 1.877.481.4010; the Conference ID is 45770.
Prior to the webcast, please email questions to investor.relations@stbank.com. Also, participants who log into the conference call will have an opportunity to email their questions directly from the webpage beginning at 12:55 p.m. ET until the conclusion of the presentation.
The S&T Bancorp, Inc. Second Quarter Earnings Press Release can be accessed on Thursday,
July 21, 2022 at www.stbancorp.com. Click on "Press Releases."
S&T Bancorp, Inc. is a $9.4 billion bank holding company that is headquartered in Indiana, Pennsylvania and trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol STBA. Its principal subsidiary, S&T Bank was established in 1902 and operates in five markets including Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Pennsylvania, Northeast Ohio, Central Ohio and Upstate New York. S&T Bank recently received the highest ranking in customer satisfaction for retail banking in the Pennsylvania region by J.D. Power. For more information visit stbancorp.com or stbank.com. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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Caro isn't solely interested in telling the stories of famous men. Instead, he says, "I wanted to use their lives to show how political power worked." Originally broadcast in 2013 and 2019.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Thunderstorms will continue to fire up and spread out heading into Monday evening, impacting commuters headed home.
A few storms have already turned severe Monday, but there could be a few more with the potential to produce strong wind gusts up to 60 mph and even coin-sized hail. Torrential rainfall will bring visibility down heavily on the roadways.
A special weather statement was issued for Apopka, Lake Mary and Mount Dora until 7 p.m.
A special weather statement has been issued for Apopka FL, Lake Mary FL and Mount Dora FL until 7:00 PM EDT pic.twitter.com/MeegmSxNea
— NWS Melbourne (@NWSMelbourne) May 22, 2023
A flood advisory was issued for portions of north Lake County and west Volusia County through 8:15 p.m. Minor flooding has been ongoing and an additional inch of rain is expected.
611pm | A Flood Advisory has been issued for portions of northern Lake and western Volusia counties through 815pm. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly in the advisory area. Between 1.5-3" of rain have fallen. An additional 1" is expected. https://t.co/ugOcJf5gWe
— NWS Melbourne (@NWSMelbourne) May 22, 2023
There will also be standing water on the roads, especially in low lying areas and construction zones. The storms are moving slowly which will result in rainfall accumulations, with over 2 inches of rain possible in areas that see prolonged heavy rain or repeated heavy downpours.
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Most of the rain begins to clear getting closer to sunset. A few showers could linger through late tonight before clearing out, leaving behind partly to mostly cloudy skies.
The unsettled weather pattern continues as a frontal boundary moves south into Central Florida on Tuesday. The moisture pooling ahead of the front will be high. You may have noticed the humidity in the air before the rain arrived. This trend will continue as the front stalls out, keeping rain chances high through at least Thursday.
On Tuesday, Central Florida will experience rain with a marginal risk for severe storms, mainly in the afternoon through the evening.
All of the heavy rain will add up through midweek. There could be flood watches issued.
Rainfall accumulations are estimated to reach 3-5 inches by late Thursday.
An area of low pressure is expected to develop near or over the east coast of Central Florida by midweek along the stalled front.
The unsettled weather will begin to lessen as the area of low pressure moves away from Central Florida.
Slightly drier air will then move in just in time for Memorial Day weekend.
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Princeton was named the top school in U.S. News & World Report's list of 2022-2023 Best Colleges.
The publication said it evaluated 1,500 private and public colleges and universities on up to 17 measures. Those measures included graduation rates, retention rates, graduate indebtedness and social mobility.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) followed Princeton on the list of top national universities. Harvard, Stanford and Yale tied for third. Princeton, Harvard and Yale are Ivy League schools.
While the top five schools are known for offering an elite education, they also come with a high price tag. Tuition at the top five schools is more than $50,000 a year.
Princeton announced last week that it would offer free college for students whose families earn less than $100,000 a year. The university expects about 1,500 undergraduates to benefit from the financial aid program. Princeton said that's more than 25% of the undergraduate student body.
U.S. News & World Report also ranked the top public schools. The top five schools on the list have in-state tuition for under $20,000 a year.
1. University of California, Berkeley (tie)
1. University of California, Los Angeles (tie)
3. University of Michigan – Ann Arbor (tie)
3. University of Virginia (tie)
5. University of Florida
5. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Baltimore Orioles CEO John Angelos was accused in a lawsuit this week of seizing control of the team at the expense of his brother Lou — and in defiance of their father Peter’s wishes.
Peter Angelos became the Orioles’ owner in 1993, but his public role has diminished in recent years and he turns 93 next month.
John Angelos is the club’s chairman and CEO, with Peter and Lou listed on the team’s website as part of its limited partnership group. In a lawsuit filed Thursday in Baltimore County Circuit Court, Lou Angelos said John has tried to take control of their father’s estate while excluding Lou.
“In 2018, (Peter) Angelos became disabled,” the suit said. “Shortly thereafter, John embarked on a series of steps to arrogate to himself complete control over Mr. Angelos’ assets. He accomplished this by manipulating his mother, Mrs. Georgia Angelos, who is now eighty years old, thereby bending her to his will.”
Lou Angelos is the plaintiff in the lawsuit. John and Georgia Angelos are defendants.
According to the suit, Peter Angelos had surgery after his aortic valve failed in 2017. Around then, he executed a revocable trust and durable power of attorney.
“A principle purpose of these documents was to ensure that Mr. Angelos’ sons worked together in support of their mother, shared decision-making and enjoyed equal rights of inheritance,” the suit said. “Mr. Angelos never intended that one son should wield control over his estate to the exclusion of his other son.”
The suit accuses John Angelos of working to undermine Georgia Angelos’ confidence in Lou, and to exclude him from the Orioles’ business matters.
“The corrupting effect of John’s actions has been to thoroughly frustrate Mr. Angelos’ intentions,” the suit said. “John intends to maintain absolute control over the Orioles — to manage, to sell or, if he chooses, to move to Tennessee (where he has a home and where his wife’s career is headquartered) — without having to answer to anyone.”
The suit didn’t elaborate on whether there’s any significant likelihood of the team moving. It did claim Mrs. Angelos felt it was in the trust’s best interest to sell the team — but that John Angelos has attempted to prevent that.
The lawsuit also claims that in 2019, John Angelos ordered former Orioles outfielder Brady Anderson fired as part of an effort to remove people who would oppose his actions. Anderson, who spent almost all of his 15-year playing career with Baltimore, had returned to the organization and become a vice president of baseball operations.
The Orioles declined comment Friday when asked if the team or John Angelos had any response.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Go ahead, keep taking things away from Texas. Keep forcing these Longhorns to replace what everybody else believes is irreplaceable, and just watch them laugh.
Take away the coach who they supposedly couldn’t survive without, and watch them play freer and smarter and better than they ever had before.
Take away their breakout star of the NCAA Tournament — put a bone bruise on his foot and put that foot in a walking boot — and watch them shrug their shoulders and throw lobs to his backup for dunk after dunk.
Take away their two best guards with foul trouble, and watch a third one snap his fingers and turn himself into Steph Curry, just like that.
Keep trying to make things impossibly difficult for the program that for ages has made everything way too hard, and these guys keep responding by making it look historically easy.
That’s what the Longhorns did Friday night at T-Mobile Center, where in their first Sweet 16 game since 2008 they throttled Xavier 83-71 while trotting out an endless string of unlikely stars ready to rise to the occasion.
“We have a lot of guys who aren’t scared of the moment,” said senior forward Timmy Allen, whose running, off-the-glass 3-pointer at the first-half buzzer typified a night — and a season, so far — in which the Longhorns were immune to anything resembling bad vibes.
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Rodney Terry, continuing his three-month coaching masterclass, had a plan for everything again, even after second-round sensation Dylan Disu limped to the bench less than two minutes into Friday’s game, unable to go on. Disu had carried the Longhorns last week against Penn State, but couldn’t overcome a bone bruise against third-seeded Xavier.
It didn’t matter. Christian Bishop, a local Kansas City kid who’d served mostly as a role player, stepped in and scored a career-high 18 points.
Guards Marcus Carr and Sir’Jabari Rice played well for much of the night, too, but fouls sent both of them to the bench at what looked like potentially precarious moments. But the precariousness never materialized, because Tyrese Hunter, who’d spent a long chunk of the season in an ugly shooting slump, swished all three of his deep 3-point attempts on his way to a 19-point night.
“I feel like I’m a playmaker,” Hunter said. “I told them, ‘I’m gonna step up.’”
For UT — the No. 2 seed in the Midwest Region and now the highest remaining seed in the Elite Eight — stepping up is almost getting boring. The Longhorns will face perhaps their biggest test so far on Sunday against Miami, which outshot and outworked top-seeded Houston on Friday.
But UT has remained unshakeable to this point, partly because the players have a firm grasp of who they are, and what they do well.
“Standing where our feet are,” is what Terry calls it, although Rice was more succinct when he stared at the Xavier crowd late in Friday’s game as UT was pulling away.
“We’re here,” Rice yelled.
If it sounded defiant, that’s because it was. These Longhorns keep defying everything.
They've defied the program's long-standing reputation for self-sabotage, one earned during so many moments of truth over the past 15 years. The only thing UT is overcomplicating right now is the job title of Terry, the interim head coach who has removed all doubt he should keep the gig for good.
They've defied their usual formula. For more than a decade, the Longhorns were the guys who always had at least one or two surefire NBA prospects but couldn't turn that into March success. Among the stars who never made it past the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament were Kevin Durant, Avery Bradley, Tristan Thompson, Myles Turner and Mo Bamba. This team doesn't feature a single slam-dunk lottery pick, and it could whip every one of the past Longhorns squads with those aforementioned pros.
That defies logic, just like the Longhorns did when they endured a mid-season coaching change and the whole college basketball world expected them to implode. After Chris Beard's December arrest led to his suspension and firing, few outsiders gave Terry much of a chance. They figured he'd just keep the seat warm, supervise another underwhelming finish, and let UT be UT by pursuing a big name like John Calipari, Nate Oats, Eric Musselman or Kelvin Sampson in the offseason.
Sunday evening, all of those coaches will have free time to watch Terry coach in the Elite Eight. None of their teams are still playing.
And if they tune in, they might marvel at Terry's squad the way so many others have.
For more than three months now, people keep trying to take things away from these Longhorns.
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The Human Rights Campaign declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. on Tuesday and released a guidebook pointing to laws it deems discriminatory in each state, along with “know your rights” information and resources to help people relocate to states with stronger LGBTQ+ protections.
Sounding the alarm about the current political climate, the nation’s largest organization devoted to the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Americans said travel advisories aren’t enough to help people already living in states where lawmakers have targeted LGBTQ+ people.
“We need champions right now,” HRC President Kelley Robinson said in an interview with The Associated Press. President Joe Biden and other LGBTQ+ rights supporters with decision-making authorities, she said, need to be more than just allies.
The declaration is a call to action for “people in power at every level” of government and the business community, she said, urging them to fight for LGBTQ+ rights with the same fervor as they’ve fought for abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer.
“When Dobbs fell, you saw a federal response to deal with the abortion crisis that we’re in,” Robinson said. “We are in a crisis of even greater scale to the health and well-being of the LGBTQ+ community, and we need that same sort of response.”
Just a few days into Pride Month, the campaign said it’s taking action in response to an “unprecedented and dangerous” spike in discriminatory legislation sweeping state houses this year, with more than 525 anti-LGBTQ+ bills introduced and more than 70 signed into law so far in 2023 — more than double last year’s number.
A recent Associated Press analysis found that many bills seeking to ban or restrict gender-affirming health care for transgender youth, who have been the primary targets of state legislation this year, sprang not from grassroots or constituent demand, but from the pens of a few powerful conservative interest groups.
The HRC guidebook, meanwhile, provides information about filing complaints for civil rights violations and points to resources for financing moves and finding employment, particularly in the 17 states with a trifecta of Democratic leadership in both legislative chambers and the governor’s office.
“The amount of calls I get every day from parents asking how they can move to another state because they’d rather mourn their home than their child is real,” Robinson said. “This is a different level of urgency and demanded a different level of response.”
The emergency declaration is the first in the 43-year history of the HRC, which encompasses a foundation focusing on research, advocacy and education, national and state lobbying campaigns and a political action committee that supports and opposes candidates for office. It comes as Republican-dominated legislatures around the country have restricted various aspects of transgender existence, from pronoun usage and bathroom access to medical care and more.
Louisiana is poised to become the latest state to enact new restrictions, after the veto-proof GOP-controlled Legislature on Tuesday sent a package to the governor that includes a ban on gender-affirming care for minors. Lawmakers also overwhelming passed a bill outlining pronoun usage for students and another that would broadly ban K-12 public school employees from discussing sexual orientation or gender identity in the classroom. The legislation is similar to the Florida law critics call “Don’t Say Gay.”
As many LGBTQ+ Americans are celebrating their identities this month against the backdrop of a dizzying array of new restrictions, some trans people and their families are scrambling to flee their home states.
For Debi Jackson, the mother of a trans child in Kansas City, Missouri, a recently rolled back emergency rule from the Republican attorney general, which would have restricted gender-affirming care for minors and some adults, pushed the family to its breaking point.
“My kiddo has decided that they’ve had enough of having to think every single day about what the government is going to do to torment them next,” said Jackson, 49.
Her child, 16-year-old Avery, gained national notoriety in 2017 when they became the first trans person to grace the cover of National Geographic magazine at age 9. Jackson, who has since become an outspoken advocate for her child and others in the region, said her family had once pledged to stay in the state and keep fighting.
“Because we are so visible, we kind of worried, if we pack up and go, what message does that send other people, and would it seem like we were leaving them behind?” she said. “But moving doesn’t mean we’re giving up or throwing in the towel. If anything, it demonstrates just how dire this crisis has become.”
An increasing number of trans people this year have suddenly found themselves without access to the medical care many credit as life-saving. Some are turning to often-dangerous “do-it-yourself” hormone treatments to avoid involuntarily reversing their physical transitions.
And as Pride Month festivities kick off this week, organizers are beefing up security amid threatened protests by some extremist groups. A mass shooting last fall inside a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs left many LGBTQ+ community members feeling especially vulnerable.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Sue Bird became the WNBA’s leader in career wins with 324 on Wednesday night as the Seattle Storm beat the Las Vegas Aces 88-78.
Bird, who has announced this will be her final season, passed former Minnesota star Lindsay Whalen.
Jewell Loyd led Seattle (12-7) with 24 points, and Breanna Stewart had 14 points and seven rebounds. Stephanie Talbot added 15 points and Bird had 13 points and six assists. Tina Charles scored four points in her debut for the Storm.
Bird made a 3-pointer in transition to cap Seattle’s 13-0 run for a 55-47 lead midway through the third quarter. But Las Vegas tied it at 60 later in the quarter after a 13-2 run.
A’ja Wilson had 17 points and 16 rebounds for the Aces (14-5). Kelsey Plum scored 16 points, Jackie Young added 13 points, eight rebounds and five assists, and Chelsea Gray had 10 points and eight assists. Iliana Rupert scored 11 points off the bench.
Wilson had a double-double in the first half with 11 points and 11 rebounds to help Las Vegas lead 47-44.
The game featured seven former No. 1 draft picks in Bird, Charles, Loyd, Stewart, Wilson, Plum and Young.
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Beaumont police are investigating a drive-by shooting that occurred Friday morning at a home on the 4300 block of Fonville Avenue -- the second shooting at the same home within a week’s time.
Beaumont PD Sgt. Thomas Swope said a 26-year-old man at the home Friday morning was shot and taken to Baptist Hospital. The victim’s expected to survive.
“He was inside the house when he was struck by the gunfire,” Swope said.
Swope said Friday’s shooting happened at the same home where an 8-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl were shot on Oct. 29, but it’s unknown whether the two incidents are connected.
“At this time, that’s still under investigation to see if those are related incidents,” Swope said.
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Swope also said a brown car was reportedly seen speeding away from the scene after Friday’s shooting. No information on a license plate, make or model was available.
“We have officers canvassing the entire area possibly looking for that description,” Swope said.
Swope said BPD’s Criminal Investigations Unit is on the scene looking at evidence from Friday’s shooting, but didn’t have any specifics on what was being collected. The possible motive also remains under investigation, he said.
“Our detectives are on scene investigating further, interviewing witnesses,” Swope said.
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Akron man who skipped sentencing after shooting at juveniles arrested
AKRON, Ohio (WOIO) - Members of the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force arrested 21-year-old Tyler Duncan Tuesday.
Duncan was wanted by the Summit County Sheriff’s Office for failure to appear at an April sentencing.
In October of 2020, Duncan shot at two teens who were playing basketball in the street on Rockaway Street in Akron.
After pleading guilty, Duncan was scheduled to be sentenced on April 8 but never showed up for the hearing.
Members of the NOVFTF and Akron Police Department S.W.A.T. Unit arrested Duncan at a residence in the 1400 block of Grant Street in Akron.
Duncan initially barricaded himself in an upstairs bedroom of the residence with a firearm. S.W.A.T. arrived on the scene and eventually negotiated with Duncan to surrender.
Three guns were seized from the residence after the arrest.
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CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — Coastal Carolina has hired North Carolina State offensive coordinator Tim Beck to replace Jamey Chadwell, who left to coach Liberty.
Joe Moglia, Coastal Carolina’s athletic chairman and executive director for football, announced the move Sunday, the same day Chadwell was named the Flames’ head coach.
Beck brings 18 seasons of Power Five coaching experience to the Chanticleers, who have gone 31-6 and been ranked in the AP Top 25 the past three seasons under Chadwell.
Beck spent the past 12 years as offensive coordinator at Nebraska, Ohio State, Texas and N.C. State. Most recently, he helped the Wolfpack to three straight eight-plus winning seasons and three consecutive bowl appearances.
Moglia said in a statement that he’d known Beck since returning to coaching at Nebraska in 2009. “I take a lot of pride in what our program has accomplished in the last 10 years,” said Moglia, who was the Chants’ head coach for six seasons (2012-16, 2018). “Tim will do a great job building on that.”
Beck said he understands what Coastal has accomplished and how expectations for success have risen the past three seasons. “I fully embrace the expectations for how we will run this program each and every day,” he said.
Beck has worked with top-level quarterbacks at N.C. State (Devin Leary), Texas (Sam Ehlinger) and Ohio State (Cardale Jones and J.T. Barrett).
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CORK, Ireland, June 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Technologies' (NYSE: RTX) Collins Aerospace business has been selected to participate in eight projects under the European Union's SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking (SESAR 3 JU). A collaboration between European private and public partners, the SESAR 3 JU aims to accelerate the delivery of the Digital European Sky through the development of new technologies to manage conventional aircraft, drones, air taxis and vehicles flying at higher altitudes.
As part of the initiative, Collins will work with the air traffic management value chain, including air navigation service providers, airlines, aircraft OEMs, system providers and academia to help create new innovations in key technology focus areas such as connectivity, U-space, trajectory-based operations, airport solutions, autonomy and data services. Collins will lead the JARVIS (Just A Rather Very Intelligent System) project that will leverage artificial intelligence-based technologies to increase automation in the flight deck and control tower operations as a way to reduce pilot and operator workload while enhancing safety and security.
"Collins has decades of experience in avionics and air traffic management that we will bring to bear under the EU's SESAR 3 JU as we work with our industry partners to chart the future of the European sky," said Mauro Atalla, senior vice president, Engineering & Technology for Collins. "Together, we will develop new solutions that will form the foundation of a future system that is more efficient, safe and secure."
Below is a full list of the SESAR research projects Collins has been selected to participate in. Collins' Applied Research and Technology (ART) organization will work in collaboration with the company's Avionics and Connected Aviation Solutions strategic business units to support the projects from Collins' sites across France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and the UK.
- CNS DSP (Demonstration of a CNS Data Service Provision)
- ECHO 2 (European Concept for Higher Altitude Operations Phase 2)
- ENSURE (atm-uspacE iNterface and airSpace reconfigURation sErvice)
- JARVIS (Just A Rather Very Intelligent System)
- FCDI (Future Connectivity and Digital Infrastructure)
- NETWORK TBO (Network Trajectory-Based Operations)
- SEC-AIRSPACE (Cyber SECurity Risk Assessment in virtualized AIRSPACE scenarios)
- SPATIO (u-Space sePAraTIOn management)
About Collins Aerospace
Collins Aerospace is a business of Raytheon Technologies, the largest aerospace and defense company in the world. Our global team of 73,000 employees dreams, designs and delivers smarter, more connected solutions for passenger safety and comfort, mission success, space exploration, and operational efficiency and sustainability. We make the most powerful concepts in aerospace a reality.
About Raytheon Technologies
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) is the world's largest aerospace and defense company. Our global team of 180,000 employees pushes the limits of known science and redefines how we connect and protect our world. We are advancing aviation, building smarter defense systems and creating innovations to take us deeper into space. The company, with 2022 sales of $67 billion, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
About SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking
The SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking is an institutionalised European partnership between private and public sector partners set up to accelerate through research and innovation the delivery of the Digital European Sky. It is harnessing, developing and accelerating the take-up of the most cutting-edge technological solutions to manage conventional aircraft, drones, air taxis and vehicles flying at higher altitudes. www.sesarju.eu
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The thousands of oranges scattered on the ground by Hurricane Ian’s fierce winds like so many green and yellow marbles are only the start of the disaster for citrus grower Roy Petteway.
The fruit strewn about his 100-acre (40-hectare) grove in central Florida since the storm swept through will mostly go to waste. But what is even worse is the flood and rain waters that weakened the orange trees in ways that are difficult to see right away.
“For the next six months we'll be evaluating the damage,” Petteway said in an interview at his farm, where he estimates about a 40% crop loss. “You're going to have a lot of damage that will rear its head.”
Citrus is big business in Florida, with more than 375,000 acres (152,000 hectares) in the state devoted to oranges, grapefruit, tangerines and the like for an industry valued at more than $6 billion annually. Hurricane Ian hit the citrus groves hard, as well as the state's large cattle industry, dairy operations, vegetables like tomatoes and peppers, and even hundreds of thousands of bees essential to many growers.
“This year will be tough, no one is disputing that, but I believe in the tenacity and passion of our citrus industry professionals to come back stronger than ever," said Nikki Fried, commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
The orange forecast for 2022-2023, released Wednesday, puts production at about 28 million boxes, or 1.26 million tons, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department. That's 32% below the year before and does not account for damage from the hurricane, which will surely worsen those numbers.
Most Florida oranges are used to make juice, and this season’s drastically lower harvest, combined with the still-unquantified slam from Ian, will press prices upward and force producers to rely even more heavily on California and imported oranges from Latin America.
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“This is a gut punch. There's no doubt about it,” said Matt Joyner, CEO of the Florida Citrus Mutual trade association. “You've really got about 72 hours to get the water off these trees before you start sustaining significant damage if not mortality. Trees need water to grow. They don't need to be standing in water.”
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, who appeared at a Florida Citrus Mutual event this week in Zolfo Springs, about 75 miles (120 kilometers) southeast of Tampa, said about $3 billion in federal funding is needed to cover costs from loss of crops and trees. And, Rubio told about 500 people at the gathering, it's crucial not to let the storm make agricultural land disappear.
“When you lose land, and what happens is people can't afford to keep doing this anymore, and that land is taken. It's gone,” the Republican senator said. “I've never seen a mall turned back into agricultural land.”
Then there are the bees.
The University of Florida estimates that about 380,000 known bee colonies were in the path of Hurricane Ian as it bisected the state. The storm not only damaged the beehives themselves, but also blew off blossoms, leading some bees to raid other colonies for the honey they need to eat.
“Masses of honeybee colonies submerged in water are in distress,” the Florida Farm Bureau said in a statement. “Bee pollination is critical to the livelihood of our state's plants and crops, and is just one example of the long-term effects of this deadly storm.”
More than 100 people died in Florida from the storm, about half of those in hardest-hit Lee County, where the powerful Category 4 hurricane came ashore with 155 mph (259 kph) winds on Sept 28.
Hardee County, home to Petteway's citrus and cattle operation, recorded four of those storm-related deaths. Adding to that tragedy, the long-term effects on the farm industry will add broad impacts on the community.
“If you eat, you're part of agriculture,” Petteway, a fifth-generation Floridian, said during the tour of his groves. “We were anticipating a very good crop this year. Sadly, there's nothing we can do about it. It's just a devastating thing.”
As Petteway drove around on a golf cart, in a neighboring pasture he spotted a brand-new donkey foal he hadn't noticed before the hurricane. Coincidentally, not long after the storm passed, his wife gave birth to a daughter, now just over a week old.
The people in these rural parts of Florida, he said, will recover as they always have.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — A U.S. tourist was shot in the leg by unidentified assailants at a resort town on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, prosecutors in the coastal state of Quintana Roo said Tuesday.
They said the shooting occurred in the low-key town of Puerto Morelos, just south of Cancun.
Prosecutors said the American was approached by several suspects near midnight Monday and they shot him in the leg. The motive remains under investigation.
The wounded man was taken to a hospital in Cancun for treatment, and his injury was judged to be not life-threatening.
The U.S. State Department issued a travel alert earlier this month warning travelers to “exercise increased caution,” especially after dark, at Mexico's Caribbean beach resorts like Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tulum, which have been plagued by drug gang violence in the past.
There have been a series of brazen acts of violence along the Caribbean coast, the crown jewel of Mexico’s tourism industry.
In 2022, two Canadians were killed in Playa del Carmen, apparently because of debts between international drug and weapons trafficking gangs.
In 2021, farther south in the laid-back destination of Tulum, two tourists — one a California travel blogger born in India and the other German — were killed when they apparently were caught in the crossfire of a gunfight between rival drug dealers. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/world/article/us-tourist-shot-in-leg-at-mexican-resort-of-17865783.php | 2023-03-29 03:00:53 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/world/article/us-tourist-shot-in-leg-at-mexican-resort-of-17865783.php |
MILAN (AP) — The first of some 300 Afghan refugees arrived in Rome on Monday along a new humanitarian corridor organized by the Italian government and civil society, charities and international organizations, Italy's Foreign Ministry announced.
The humanitarian corridor aims to give “additional refugees and persecuted Afghans the possibility of a future in dignity and security” following the U.S. withdrawal last August and the Taliban’s reassertion of control, the ministry said.
Thousands of Afghan citizens were evacuated after the fall of Kabul, but many who risked Taliban retribution were left behind. The Foreign Ministry said the corridor, which envisions the transfer of 1,200 refugees from Iran and Pakistan and other neighboring countries, would give priority to women and children.
The first nine Afghan refugees arrived on a flight from Tehran. Another 200 are scheduled to be flown from Islamabad on Wednesday with a third group arriving from Tehran on Thursday.
At the same time, the number of Afghan refugees taking smuggling routes is growing, with some 3,280 arriving in Italy by sea so far this year, according to the U.N. Refugee agency. The International Organization for Migration, meanwhile, said Afghans are the top nationality daring the perilous central Mediterranean Sea route to European shores, with 8,121 arrivals through last Friday.
Both organizations were involved in organizing the corridor transfers, along with Italy’s foreign and interior ministries and charities including the Community of Sant’Egidio and Caritas. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Italy-opens-humanitarian-corridor-for-300-Afghan-17326954.php | 2022-07-25 15:41:00 | 0 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Italy-opens-humanitarian-corridor-for-300-Afghan-17326954.php |
PHOENIX, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Technical Institute, Inc. (NYSE: UTI), a leading provider of transportation and technical training programs, today announced that it plans to report results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2022 on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, after market close. Jerome Grant, chief executive officer, and Troy Anderson, chief financial officer, will host a conference call at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time on the same day to discuss the financial results and operating performance.
To participate in the live call, investors are invited to dial (844) 881-0138 (domestic) or (412) 317-6790 (international). A live webcast of the call will be available via the Universal Technical Institute investor relations website at https://investor.uti.edu. Please go to the website at least 10 minutes early to register, download and install any necessary audio software. The conference call webcast will be archived for fourteen days at https://investor.uti.edu. Alternatively, the telephone replay can be accessed through August 17, 2022, by dialing (877) 344-7529 (domestic) or (412) 317-0088 (international) and entering passcode 8868532.
Founded in 1965 and headquartered in Phoenix, Universal Technical Institute's (NYSE: UTI) mission is to serve our students, partners, and communities by providing quality education and support services for in-demand careers. Approximately 250,000 students have graduated from one of UTI's 15 campuses located across Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Texas. UTI's campuses are accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC), while its employer-aligned technical training programs are offered under four brands: Universal Technical Institute, Motorcycle Mechanics Institute / Marine Mechanics Institute, NASCAR Technical Institute, and MIAT College of Technology. For more information and a complete list of all programs offered, please visit www.uti.edu or follow on LinkedIn @UniversalTechnicalInstitute and on Twitter @news_UTI.
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CAMPBELL, Calif., Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Halo Microelectronics (SSE: 688173), a maker of analog and power management integrated circuits enabling energy-efficient smart systems, announced an agreement to sell the remaining interest in its AC-DC silicon controller IC joint venture to Navitas Semiconductor for a total sale price of US $20 million in Navitas' stock.
In 2021, Halo Microelectronics and Navitas created a joint venture to develop application-specific silicon controllers that are optimized to work in combination with GaN ICs to set new standards for high efficiency, density, cost, and integration for a wide range of applications.
Through their joint venture, the first family of products developed and released to production addressed the AC-DC power supply applications across the mobile, consumer, white goods, and auxiliary power supplies in the enterprise, renewables, and other related markets.
"The successful culmination of our partnership to provide innovative GaN and controller copak enabled us the highest efficiency and smallest solutions for mobile fast charging was a win-win for both companies," said David Nam, CEO of Halo Microelectronics.
"This is another strategic acquisition for Navitas as we integrate critical silicon controller capabilities with our leading-edge GaN and SiC technologies," said Navitas CEO and co-founder Gene Sheridan.
Navitas Semiconductor is the only pure-play, next-generation power-semiconductor company, founded in 2014. GaNFast™ power ICs integrate gallium nitride (GaN) power and drive, with control, sensing, and protection to enable faster charging, higher power density, and greater energy savings. Complementary GeneSiC™ power devices are optimized high-power, high-voltage, and high-reliability silicon carbide (SiC) solutions. Focus markets include mobile, consumer, data center, EV, solar, wind, smart grid, and industrial. Over 185 Navitas patents are issued or pending. Over 70 million GaN units have been shipped, now with the industry's first and only 20-year warranty. Navitas was the world's first semiconductor company to be CarbonNeutral® certified.
Halo Microelectronics develops analog and power management integrated circuits enabling energy-efficient smart systems. Since 2012, Halo Microelectronics has been driving innovation in Mobile, IoT, and Automotive systems. Find out more at https://halomicro.com.
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WASHINGTON, July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The CPSC announces today the following recalls are posted in cooperation with the firms listed below. Recalls can be viewed at www.cpsc.gov.
VRURC Portable Chargers Recalled Due to Fire Hazard; Sold Exclusively on Amazon.com by VRURC; Caught Fire on Commercial Flight
woom Bikes USA Recalls woom ORIGINAL Kids' Bicycles Due to Fall Hazard
Husqvarna Recalls Residential 300 Series Snow Blowers Due to Injury Hazard
About the U.S. CPSC
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risk of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product-related incidents cost the nation more than $1 trillion annually. CPSC's work to ensure the safety of consumer products has contributed to a decline in the rate of injuries associated with consumer products over the past 50 years.
Federal law prohibits any person from selling products subject to a Commission ordered recall or a voluntary recall undertaken in consultation with the CPSC.
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Partnership will make significant investments in security, traffic, and mass transit improvements, accelerate economic recovery for surrounding businesses and create good-paying union jobs for New Yorkers
LAS VEGAS and RENO, Nev., Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SL Green Realty Corp. ("SL Green") and Caesars Entertainment ("Caesars") announced a partnership to redevelop 1515 Broadway as a premiere entertainment and gaming destination in the heart of Times Square, one of the most visited destinations in the world. Caesars Palace Times Square will not only provide billions in tax revenue to New York City and State, it will also accelerate New York's economic recovery through strategic partnerships with area businesses utilizing its industry-leading loyalty program Caesars Rewards, home to more than 65 million members. Caesars Rewards members will be able to use credits at Broadway shows, local hotels, restaurants, retail stores, comedy clubs, entertainment venues, and more, driving more tourists to area businesses and creating thousands of direct and indirect jobs in and around Times Square.
In addition to major economic benefits to all Times Square stakeholders, SL Green and Caesars are proposing significant security and traffic improvements as part of their proposal, which would boost Mayor Adams and the NYPD's efforts in Times Square. These efforts will make visitors feel safer, improve mass transit, encourage pedestrian travel, and mitigate vehicle congestion in the area, pursuant to a proposed traffic plan to be included as part of the project.
Caesars Palace Times Square will be designed to include a Broadway Theater for The Lion King. The development will also bring Caesars Entertainment's more than 50 years of globally-recognized excellence in entertainment, food & beverage, and gaming to New York to deliver a best-in-class experience that will be authentic and complementary to the Times Square entertainment district.
"We believe that Times Square offers the best location for a new resort casino that can attract tourists and benefit local businesses. We're excited to pursue this license with Caesars and our many local partners. Our approach will ensure that under-represented communities benefit both in terms of employment and investment opportunities," said Marc Holliday, CEO of SL Green. "A casino in Times Square is in keeping with existing uses in the area. Times Square is the center of the entertainment universe. Because we are proposing a renovation, once the license is issued, we can open quicker than other facilities, which require entirely new construction, changes in law, and will be disruptive to their local communities."
"Caesars is thrilled to partner with SL Green in connection with a five-star project that will meet and exceed New Yorkers' expectations for world-class entertainment, immediately enhancing New York City's tourism engine and elevating this one-of-a-kind global destination to new heights," said Tom Reeg, CEO of Caesars. "As one of the largest mobile sports books in New York, Caesars is passionate about New York itself. Caesars is also deeply invested in New York-based restaurant groups, chefs, and entertainers from across the Empire State."
Actors' Equity stated, "The proposal from the developer for a Times Square Casino would be a game changer that boosts security and safety in the Times Square neighborhood with increased security staff, more sanitation equipment, and new cameras. We applaud the developer's commitment to make the neighborhood safer for arts workers and audience members alike."
"Carmine's has been in business in Times Square for over 30 years, and the public-private investments that were made in the late 90s and early 2000s literally transformed Midtown," said Jeffrey Bank, President and CEO of the Alicart Restaurant Group, which operates Carmine's and Virgil's BBQ. "It is time for us to reinvest again - Times Square is the beating heart of New York, but everyone in Times Square is still hurting from the pandemic. The Caesars Palace proposal is the key to bringing tourists back, making Times Square safer, and is exactly the economic driver we need to not only recover but continue to grow and create more jobs."
"A successful bid will provide a much-needed boost to area theaters, hotels, restaurants, and businesses and commit to fund a wide range of neighborhood initiatives and improvements to make Times Square the safest, cleanest, and most pedestrian-friendly entertainment district in the world," said Michael Prohaska, Business Manager of Laborers' Local 79. "This would mean bringing thousands of good union jobs to Midtown and enabling innovative new training and apprenticeship programs — initiatives that will provide disadvantaged community members with pathways to sustainable employment."
"A trip to New York isn't complete without a visit to Times Square – it's the crossroads of the world," said Geoff Ballotti, President and CEO Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, which franchises 38 hotels in Manhattan and the Great State of New York. "A project of this scale and scope will help bring more tourists back to Times Square, fill hotel rooms not only here, but all across the City and create great jobs at the same time."
"We know how to bring crime rates down in Times Square because we've done it before. With better security infrastructure and 24/7 monitoring, we can anticipate and prevent crime – we just need the financial and political willpower to do so," said former New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton. "SL Green and Caesars' proposal for Times Square goes beyond routine, in-house security and would invest millions in a new public-private safety initiative. This investment will ensure Times Square is safe for years to come."
Caesars is the largest North American gaming operator with more than 50 casino properties across its portfolio, retail and/or mobile sports betting in 27 jurisdictions, and iGaming in five jurisdictions. Caesars Palace Times Square will be 100% privately funded. Caesars will license its brand and manage the operations under a long-term management contract.
In addition to its breadth of experience in operations and development, Caesars prides itself on its 30-year legacy in responsible gaming. Since creating the industry's first responsible gaming program in 1989, Caesars has devoted millions to organizations working to combat problem gaming. Its pioneering responsible gaming training program reaches every Team Member through Operation Bet Smart, a required company-wide course devoted to problem gaming awareness training, and Project 21, a required class focused on preventing underage gambling. Additionally, the company has more than 1,600 Responsible Gaming Chairpersons and Ambassadors who are specially trained to assist guests who may show signs of a potential gaming problem.
Recently named to the Civic 50 as one of America's 50 Most Community-Minded Companies, Caesars' PEOPLE PLANET PLAY framework ensures it acts with integrity and care for its Team Members, communities, and the environment, with stated goals around environmental impact, diversity, equity and inclusion, and community support. Among those goals is a commitment to increase representation of women and people of color in leadership roles to achieve full gender and racial parity by 2025, the promise to reduce water consumption by 20% per square foot by 2035, and a pledge to divert from landfills 65% of all waste generated at our properties by 2030.
About SL Green Realty Corp.
SL Green Realty Corp., Manhattan's largest office landlord, is a fully integrated real estate investment trust, or REIT, that is focused primarily on acquiring, managing and maximizing value of Manhattan commercial properties. As of September 30, 2022, SL Green held interests in 62 buildings totaling 33.6 million square feet. This included ownership interests in 29.3 million square feet of Manhattan buildings and 3.5 million square feet securing debt and preferred equity investments.
About Caesars Entertainment, Inc.
Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: CZR) is the largest casino-entertainment company in the US and one of the world's most diversified casino-entertainment providers. Since its beginning in Reno, NV, in 1937, Caesars Entertainment, Inc. has grown through development of new resorts, expansions, and acquisitions. Caesars Entertainment, Inc.'s resorts operate primarily under the Caesars®, Harrah's®, Horseshoe®, and Eldorado® brand names. Caesars Entertainment, Inc. offers diversified gaming, entertainment, and hospitality amenities, one-of-a-kind destinations, and a full suite of online gaming and sports betting experiences. All tied to its industry-leading Caesars Rewards loyalty program, the company focuses on building value with its guests through a unique combination of impeccable service, operational excellence, and technology leadership. Caesars is committed to its employees, suppliers, communities, and the environment through its PEOPLE PLANET PLAY framework. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-522-4700. For more information, please visit. www.caesars.com/corporate.
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NEW YORK — U.S. health officials are advising people to stop using over-the-counter eye drops that have been linked to an outbreak of drug-resistant infections.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday night sent a health alert to physicians, saying the outbreak includes at least 55 people in 12 states. One died.
Disease investigators have linked the infections, including some found in blood, urine and lungs, to EzriCare Artificial Tears. Many of the patients said they had used the product, which is a lubricant used to treat irritation and dryness.
The infections were all caused by a bacteria called Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Investigators detected that kind of bacteria in open EzriCare bottles, but further testing was underway to see if the strains matched.
EzriCare said it is not aware of any evidence definitively linking the outbreak to the product, but that it has stopped distributing the eye drops. It also has a notice on its website urging consumers to stop using the drops.
“To the greatest extent possible, we have been contacting customers to advise them against continued use of the product. We also immediately reached out to both CDC and FDA and indicated our willingness to cooperate with any requests they may have of us,” the company said.
Two weeks ago, the CDC warned medical professional societies about the possible connection between the drops and the infections. The Wednesday alert was a broader, more public warning.
Infections were diagnosed in patients in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Nevada, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin. One patient — in Washington — died with a blood infection. At least five others suffered permanent vision loss.
The outbreak is considered particularly worrisome because the bacteria driving it are resistant to standard antibiotics.
Investigators found the bacteria were not susceptible to any antibiotics routinely tested at public health laboratories. However, a newer antibiotic named cefiderocol did seem to work.
How could eye drops cause infections in the blood or lungs? The eye connects to the nasal cavity through the tear ducts. Bacteria can move from the nasal cavity into the lungs. Also, bacteria in these parts of the body can seed infections at other sites such as in the blood or wounds, CDC officials said.
The product is manufactured in India by Global Pharma Healthcare Pvt Ltd., EzriCare said.
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DENVER (AP) — Javier Guillen just wanted to get to the United States as he endured a three-month trek from Venezuela, hiking through Central American jungles and spending four days clinging to the roof of a Mexican train known as “the beast” to avoid police and kidnappers.
But when he finally arrived in El Paso, Texas, last week, the 32-year-old settled on a new destination, only one relatively cheap bus ride away — Denver, an additional 680 miles (1,094 kilometers) north from the border.
“It’s the easiest place, closest to Texas, and there are people who’ll help immigrants here,” Guillen said before making his way to one of a network of shelters the city has scrambled to set up.
Over the past month, nearly 4,000 immigrants, almost all Venezuelans, have arrived unannounced in icy Denver, with nowhere to stay and sometimes dressed in nothing more than T-shirts and flip-flops. The influx took city officials by surprise as they grappled with a spate of winter storms that plunged temperatures to record lows and disrupted transit out of the area.
When they appealed to the state to open new shelters, Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat who had allocated $4 million to help care for the migrants, arranged for those who wanted to travel onward to go by bus to Chicago and New York. That led New York Mayor Eric Adams, also a Democrat, who had already warned his city was being overwhelmed by new migrants, to complain about the transfers from Denver.
The situation illustrates how record numbers crossing the southern border are reverberating northward to cities like Denver, New York and Washington that have long been destinations for immigrants — but not busloads of them showing up all at once, straight from the border and with no resources.
“They are getting a taste of what border cities have been facing,” said Julia Gelatt, a senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington. “The fact that people are showing up in groups with a need for basic services really is new for northern cities.”
In some instances, Republican governors — primarily Texas Gov. Greg Abbott — have tried to drive home that message by transporting immigrants straight from the border to New York or near Vice President Kamala Harris’ Washington residence in the nation’s capital. Last year Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis also sent some to the resort island of Martha’s Vineyard.
It’s not clear precisely how Denver became a new destination for Venezuelans fleeing their country’s economic and political chaos. Advocates had detected small numbers arriving from the border earlier in 2022 and warned the route was becoming increasingly popular.
Then, last fall, many traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border in hopes the Biden administration would end a pandemic regulation that lets the country automatically return asylum seekers to Mexico. Instead, President Joe Biden added Venezuelans to the nationalities covered by the rule in October. Venezuelan crossings dropped at the border, but then something changed in Denver.
Whatever the trigger, the number of migrants arriving in the city spiked dramatically in December to sometimes 200 a day, just as a bitter winter freeze and record low temperatures swept through. The storms snarled roads out of the city and canceled several scheduled bus trips to points east, stranding many in a city already struggling to shelter its homeless population.
In response, Denver converted three recreation centers into emergency shelters for migrants and paid for families with children to stay at hotels, allocating $3 million to deal with the influx. It reassigned workers to process the new arrivals, assign them to shelters and help them get on buses. Residents donated piles of winter clothing.
“Cities and states are ill-equipped to deal with this,” Mayor Michael Hancock said in an interview. “Whether you’re on the border or in Denver, Colorado, cities are not set up for this.”
Amelia Iraheta, a city public health employee reassigned to work with the migrants, said one man reported walking from the border and arrived with a broken foot. One woman, who reached Denver barefoot, still had her feet covered with cactus spines after walking through the borderland desert. Most wore just the clothes on their back — woefully insufficient for the subzero temperatures.
“Coming into Denver in the peak of winter, conditions were not exactly what I think they had been expecting,” Iraheta said.
Most weren’t intending to stay long. The city and state say about 70% of the more than 3,800 migrants who’ve come to Denver since they began tracking on Dec. 9 planned to go elsewhere ultimately. More than 1,600, the city says, have already left town on their own accord.
Polis’ office said he was not available for an interview. “The state’s priority is ensuring people are receiving the resources they need and can reach their desired final destination, which is the opposite of actions other states have taken to send people to places they likely had no intention of going to,” spokesman Conor Cahill said in a statement.
Jennifer Piper of the American Friends Service Committee, which has worked with the city and several nonprofits to help the migrants, inspected one of the buses before it left Denver. She said all passengers agreed they were on it voluntarily and that almost all had friends or family in New York or Chicago to stay with.
“These are grown-ups in control of their own destiny,” Piper said. “The reality is they were going to be on Greyhound buses eventually.”
The city has set a 14-day limit on stays in the emergency shelters and is talking to other agencies and nonprofits about opening longer-term facilities. It’s unclear how Biden’s new immigration policy, which opens an additional 30,000 monthly slots for asylum applicants from Venezuela and three other Latin American nations, will affect the flow into Denver.
“I really think this is not a flash in the pan,” Piper said. “Denver is now on that route, and I don’t think that will shift for at least the next 5-6 months.”
It may last longer. Alexander Perez, 23, took the same daunting, monthslong overland journey through Colombia, Central America and Mexico as many other Venezuelans. It includes a particularly brutal stretch of jungle isthmus into Panama known as the Darien Gap, devoid of any roads and plagued by armed marauders and deadly natural perils.
Along the way he kept thinking about joining a cousin in New York. Following a week in El Paso, he hopped a bus to Denver with the intent of continuing northeast. But after finding a warm welcome and, eventually, a hotel room, he began to reconsider his itinerary. He needed to make some money before heading on.
“Sometimes God leads you places,” Perez said, standing outside a supermarket, eyeing mounds of dirty snow.
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Micron will invest $15 billion though the end of the decade on a new semiconductor plant in its hometown that the chipmaker said will create 17,000 American jobs.
The CHIPS law sets aside $52 billion to bolster the semiconductor industry, which due to COVID-related supply chain constraints beginning in 2020, has struggled to manufacture the diminutive chips that power everything from smartphones to computers to automobiles.
“Our new leading-edge memory manufacturing fab will fuel U.S. technology leadership, ensuring a reliable domestic supply of semiconductors that is critical to economic and national security,” Mehrotra said.
Micron said locating the manufacturing plant at the company’s operational headquarter will improve efficiency and help get products to market faster.
Boise Mayor Lauren McLean said the partnership will help the city’s economy grow and attract and diverse workforce.
“This is a once in a generation investment in Boise from a home-grown company that is critical to the economic vitality of our community, our state and our nation,” McLean wrote on Twitter.
McLean and Mehrotra last month attended President Biden’s bill signing ceremony for the CHIPS and Science Act. Idaho’s entire congressional delegation, all Republicans, voted against it.
Biden called the Micron announcement “another big win for America.”
Micron is one of Idaho’s largest employers. The company has several chip manufacturing plants around the world, including in Singapore and Taiwan.
Last week, the chipmaker Intel Corp. announced that it would break ground Sept. 9 on its planned $20 billion Ohio semiconductor facilities. The factories, known as fabs, are expected to open in 2025. President Biden is scheduled to attend the groundbreaking.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md., Nov. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: CZR) ("Caesars") today announced its sports wagering mobile app, Caesars Sportsbook, is accepting sports bets in the state of Maryland. Eligible sports fans can now enjoy an elevated mobile sports wagering experience on iOS, Android, or desktop while taking advantage of industry-leading rewards and special sign-up offers.
"The launch of the Caesars Sportsbook app in Maryland strengthens our offering for customers in the state," said Eric Hession, President of Caesars Digital. "With a historically jam-packed sports calendar, customers can now enjoy access to the same unmatched rewards they've experienced when betting at Horseshoe Casino Baltimore, in the palm of their hands."
Caesars has a longstanding legacy in Maryland through Horseshoe Baltimore's offering of premium entertainment experiences. Caesars Sportsbook at Horseshoe Baltimore has offered in-person sports betting since its grand opening in December 2021 and will shortly accept cash deposits to fund sports wagering mobile accounts on the Caesars Sportsbook app.
The Caesars Sportsbook app is anchored by intuitive features with a focus on speed, ease of use, multiple ways to deposit funds, and faster payouts. Getting a bet down on the app has never been easier and sports bettors can enjoy live scoreboards, expanded in-play betting options, as well as same-game parlays, new cashout functionality, and thousands of additional markets.
Starting today, eligible sports fans in Maryland can download the Caesars Sportsbook app, register, and deposit funds to take advantage of one of two special sign-up offers for first-time users.
- Make a first bet of $20-$100; receive a $100 bet credit:
- Make a first bet of more than $100; receive a bet credit of up to $1,500
Caesars Sportsbook is the only app in Maryland that combines sports wagering with world-class rewards through the industry-leading customer loyalty program, Caesars Rewards. Maryland sports bettors can now earn Tier Credits for status and Reward Credits with every mobile wager placed that can be redeemed for unforgettable Caesars Rewards experiences like discounted getaways at Caesars destinations across the United States, and more. In Maryland specifically, customers can get special access to tickets, merchandise, and meet-and-greets with Baltimore Ravens' legends made possible through Caesars Sportsbook's designation as Premier Sports Betting Partner and Horseshoe Baltimore's status as the only Official Casino Partner of the team.
In January 2021, Caesars and Horseshoe Baltimore committed to seeking a mobile sports betting license in which diversity partners would hold an interest of at least 25 percent. This goal was accomplished for mobile sports betting's launch with women and minority partners holding a 40 percent ownership interest in the approved mobile gaming license utilized by Caesars Sportsbook.
The Caesars Sportsbook & Casino Truck is currently parked at Horseshoe Baltimore to engage and educate customers on how to download the app and sports wager responsibly. Caesars is an industry leader in responsible gaming with a continued focus on responsible gaming education as Caesars Sportsbook continues to expand into new markets. The Caesars Sportsbook app has tools to encourage responsible play, including Deposit Limits, Spending Limits, Daily Time Limits, and Cool Off Time Limits.
For real-time industry updates and to join the empire of like-minded Caesars, players can engage with the Caesars Sportsbook social handle @CaesarsSports on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
About Caesars Entertainment, Inc.
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Last November, Gov. Kathy Hochul and state Commissioner of Agriculture Richard Ball announced round table discussions to strengthen New York’s county fairs. Oswego County Fair board members say they felt the support this year.
Tim Ridgeway Sr., vice president of the Oswego County Fair Board, said over the last few years it is harder to find sponsorships to host events, but the county has been incredibly helpful.
“They were very, very supportive this year. They jumped in with both feet and we received support this year from Cornell Cooperative Extension as well,” Ridgeway said.
Due to challenges with funding, they have had to change events over the last few years, Ridgeway said.
“We don’t do the harness racing anymore, but we brought back the tractor pulls this year and we haven’t had those since 2019,” he said.
The Oswego County Fair has been held annually since 1859 with the exceptions of 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fair board President Harold Smith said despite challenges with the weather, fair attendance was good.
“On Friday when we opened, we had the wildfire smoke from Canada, and on Saturday, we had 90-degree heat, so Sunday was our golden day,” Smith said.
He believes they had approximately 5,000 visitors to the fair per day.
One purpose of county fairs is for exhibitors to qualify for the State Fair, Smith said. While the numbers were low for some livestock, others were very high.
“The numbers were down for sheep and swine, but other than that we had an open goat show that had over 100 goats competing, not just from our county, but from all New York state,” Smith said.
The Department of Agriculture and Markets supported the fair in a few different ways, Smith said.
“They had their own display in our A.G. building and they actually helped out in the agriculture building and with coordination,” Smith said. “We couldn’t ask for more. They gave us a big support.”
Commissioner of Agriculture Richard Ball said county fairs serve as a connection between urban and agricultural communities.
“It is a great opportunity to connect peple who really have been disconnected by a few generations from agriculture to kind of bring them back home again and I think that’s more relevant now than it’s probably ever been,” Ball said.
The purpose of the round table discussions, Commissioner Ball said, was to look at the agricultural impact of not just the State Fair, but of all fairs across the state.
“We put in this year’s budget, a $2 million investment to help them with marketing and promotion programs to enhance the vision of improved coordination -- so we’ve got a statewide strategy for marketing the fairs,” Ball said. “There will be room for them to individually do some things, but this can help them collectively drive people to those county fairs.”
In addition, the Agricultural Infrastructure Improvement Program, which has been in place since 2016, allocates approximately $5 million per year for county fairs to make improvements to things like grandstands, buildings and water facilities.
Commissioner Ball said they would like to continue to expand county fairs, Future Farmers of America and 4H programs, and the number of agricultural teachers available in New York state to continue encouraging young people to enter the industry.
“Frankly, a lesson we learned from the pandemic is that we need a pretty resilient and responsive food system here in New York and this is a vehicle to communicate to young people and perhaps interested in careers, not just milking cows or growing vegetables, but actually being part of the food system which includes many more things,” Ball said. | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2023/07/14/a-look-at-new-york-state-s-support-of-county-fairs- | 2023-07-14 18:53:12 | 0 | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2023/07/14/a-look-at-new-york-state-s-support-of-county-fairs- |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump were in court Friday for sealed arguments as part of the ongoing investigation into the presence of classified information at the former president’s Florida estate.
The proceedings were taking place before U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, the chief judge of the federal court in the District of Columbia. Defense lawyers were seen entering the courtroom around 2 p.m. and were still inside more than an hour later.
A lawyer for The Associated Press and other news organizations had submitted a letter earlier Friday requesting media access to the hearing, but despite that, lawyers spoke behind closed doors.
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It was not immediately clear what the outcome of the proceedings were. The Washington Post, relying on anonymous sources, reported on Thursday that the Justice Department had earlier asked Howell to hold Trump’s office in contempt for failure to fully comply with a May subpoena that sought the return of classified documents in his possession. The department also wants the Trump team to appoint a custodian of records who could attest that all classified documents have been returned, according to the Post.
Lawyers for Trump declined to comment ahead of the hearing. A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment also declined to comment on the matter.
The 100 or so documents the FBI took from Mar-a-Lago in August were on top of 37 bearing classification markings that Trump lawyers retrieved from the home during a June visit. In addition, 15 boxes containing about 184 classified documents were recovered in January by the National Archives and Records Administration.
The possibility that the Justice Department had not yet recovered all classified materials has existed for months.
The FBI’s August search of the home came after investigators developed evidence indicating that additional sensitive documents remained there, even though Trump representatives had certified in June that all classified documents requested in a Justice Department subpoena had been located and returned.
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The Trump lawyer who made that representation and who was serving as the custodian of his records at the time, Christina Bobb, met with the FBI in October. She told investigators that she had not drafted the letter but that another Trump lawyer who she said actually prepared it had asked her to sign it in her role as a designated custodian of Trump’s records, according to a person familiar with her account.
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LOS ANGELES, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Singer Amaka Kai'ro set to host radio show with NAAB Radio Monday nights at 8PM. The show is titled "The Amaka Show" and will feature celebrity guests like Snoop Dogg, Taye Diggs and Lamar Odom.
The show is set to be filmed at the NAAB Radio station in Woodland Hills. Celebrity guests join Amaka at the station and discuss upcoming projects, their favorite things, spirituality and gossip. The show airs on iHeart radio, NAAB Radio Official Worldwide, Monday nights at 8PM PST. NAAB Radio, Amaka and celebrity guests will also go live on their IG during the show. In addition to on-air, fans can watch full episodes of the show on NAAB Radio YouTube.
The iHeart radio affiliate NAAB Radio delivers a platform of over 2 million listeners per broadcast throughout the United States with iHeart having a reach of over 220 million listeners worldwide. Plus, nearly 100,000 viewers on NAAB Radio's YouTube channel. The demographics across NAAB Radio's live broadcast, IG and YouTube platforms are 68% African American 22% White American, with Latin and Asian communities filling the final 10%. Listeners are 62% male and 38% female.
The first episode of "The Amaka Show" will air Monday night July 11th at 8PM PST on iHeart radio. To tune in, go to iHeart.com or the iHeart app and get NAAB Radio Official Worldwide. You can also tune in at naabradio.com, using the NAAB radio app, or naab. radio on Instagram.
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Republican billionaire Harlan Crow says his friend Clarence Thomas is the victim of a “political hit job” amid outrage over reports that the Supreme Court justice failed to disclose various luxury vacations Crow paid for, as well as a real estate deal.
“I think it’s a political hit job,” Crow said in an interview with the Dallas Morning News, adding that he doesn’t think the media cares as much about him as they do about Thomas.
“But I think that the media, and this ProPublica group in particular, funded by leftists, has an agenda to destabilize the court. What they’ve done is not truthful. It lacks integrity. They’ve done a pretty good job in the last week or two of unfairly slamming me and more importantly than that, unfairly slamming Justice Thomas,” Crow said.
The initial report from ProPublica — an independent, nonprofit news organization — earlier this month found that Crow paid for Thomas to take part in multiple expensive vacations over two decades — trips the justice never reported. A follow-up article from last week reported that Thomas also didn’t disclose a 2014 real estate deal he’d made with the Texas billionaire.
Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica’s editor in chief, told the Dallas Morning News that both Crow and Thomas were “given detailed, written questions in advance” of the stories, and that while Thomas declined to respond, Crow’s answers “were included in full.”
Thomas said after the first article that he was “advised” that he did not need to disclose the luxury trips.
Crow in the Dallas Morning News interview repeated his assertion given to ProPublica that he’d bought the Georgia home that Thomas’s mother was living in to eventually turn it into a museum on Thomas.
The findings from ProPublica have ignited outrage from Democrats about ethical standards on the country’s highest court.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) called for Thomas to be impeached over the findings, and Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats have urged Chief Justice John Roberts to investigate.
“A lot of people that have opinions about this seem to think that there’s something wrong with this friendship. You know, it’s possible that people are just really friends,” Crow told the Morning News, adding that he wouldn’t try to influence the justice on matters such as abortion.
Asked whether he would be friends with Thomas if he didn’t have the Supreme Court justice title, Crow told the outlet, “It’s an interesting, good question. I don’t know how to answer that. Maybe not. Maybe yes. I don’t know.”
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Twins vs. Orioles Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 7
The Minnesota Twins (45-43) host the Baltimore Orioles (51-35) to open a three-game series at Target Field, with first pitch at 8:10 PM ET on Friday. The Twins are on the back of a series victory over the Royals, and the Orioles a series split with the Yankees.
The Twins will give the nod to Bailey Ober (5-4, 2.70 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 6 on the season, and the Orioles will counter with Cole Irvin (1-3, 6.32 ERA).
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- Date: Friday, July 7, 2023
- Time: 8:10 PM ET
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- Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Venue: Target Field
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- Probable Pitchers: Ober - MIN (5-4, 2.70 ERA) vs Irvin - BAL (1-3, 6.32 ERA)
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Twins Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Bailey Ober
- Ober (5-4) will take the mound for the Twins, his 14th start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Saturday, when he threw seven scoreless innings against the Baltimore Orioles while allowing two hits.
- The 27-year-old has pitched in 13 games this season with a 2.70 ERA and 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings with a batting average against of .208.
- He's looking to extend his four-game quality start streak.
- Ober has 13 starts in a row of five innings or more.
- In 13 appearances this season, he has finished three without allowing an earned run.
Bailey Ober vs. Orioles
- The Orioles rank ninth in MLB with 418 runs scored this season. They have a .253 batting average this campaign with 101 home runs (14th in the league).
- The Orioles have gone 2-for-23 in one game against the right-hander this season.
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Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Cole Irvin
- Irvin makes the start for the Orioles, his eighth of the season. He is 1-3 with a 6.32 ERA and 28 strikeouts in 31 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his most recent appearance on Sunday, the lefty threw five innings against the Minnesota Twins, giving up one earned run while surrendering six hits.
- The 29-year-old has amassed an ERA of 6.32, with 8 strikeouts per nine innings in nine games this season. Opposing hitters have a .308 batting average against him.
- Irvin has yet to notch a quality start this season.
- Irvin is trying to collect his third start of five or more innings this year in this matchup.
- He has had one outing this season that he kept his opponents to zero earned runs.
Cole Irvin vs. Twins
- The opposing Twins offense has a collective .233 batting average, and is 23rd in the league with 687 total hits and 21st in MLB play with 375 runs scored. They have the 17th-ranked slugging percentage (.402) and are eighth in all of MLB with 114 home runs.
- Head-to-head against the Twins this season, Irvin has pitched five innings, giving up one earned run on six hits while striking out one.
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It was just an all-star game. No championships could be won for these seniors, or even wins for the record books. That was all over. Practically everyone wore different jerseys, shaded white for the home South players and the various colors for the North players.
Southern coach Will Maynard, tasked with leading the South All-Star boys team in the 32nd annual Anne Arundel County Senior All-Star Basketball Classic, wanted his side to think about this differently.
He brought his boys into a huddle, a collection of St. Mary’s, Annapolis, Crofton, Broadneck, Severna Park, South River and Southern players. They were all boys who saw their seasons end with a loss; even Saints Aidan Harris and Ajani Lomax, who captured the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association B Conference title, turned around to drop a game to Landon in a tournament two days later.
Now, they looked set to lose the all-star game, too, trailing 62-52 in the third quarter to the North.
Maynard gave them a simple message: this is your last high school game. This is your last game in Anne Arundel County. Win it.
“South River had a great season, Broadneck won the region, St. Mary’s. Our guys had a winning season,” Maynard said. “We had a lot of guys with a winning mentality. They’ve been in that situation before and understood the game is never over.”
The South boys took their coach’s words to heart by rallying twice in the fourth quarter to beat North, 87-85, for their first victory in the event since 2015.
The boy playing Achilles to his Greek army and the game Most Valuable Player was none other than Harris, the MIAA B Conference Player of the Year and unquestioned scoring leader for the two-time champ St. Mary’s, who added 14 of his court-high 26 points in the fourth quarter alone to spear the comeback.
“I knew,” Maynard said, “from watching Aidan play over the years and watching him in practice on Sunday, that a game like this was good for him. He’s going to hit the glass. He’s physical. I knew he’d be successful.”
Alongside his abundant point total, just five shy of his final MIAA performance, Harris accounted for a team-leading eight rebounds and two blocks, as well as two steals and three assists. It was his 3-pointer that secured South’s lead for the final time and his block and forced turnover that prevented Meade’s Xavion Roberson and the North squad from overtaking them in the last minute.
Harris celebrated with his South teammates on a high school floor for the first time — except, of course, for Lomax, who the Saints senior felt grateful to play one last game with.
But to spend one more high school day with boys he grew up with, playing real basketball, was special to Harris.
“I always wanted to play in the county,” he said, “to prove what I’m worth.”
From the very start, Harris moved fluidly with South River’s Blake Burrows and Cash Herndon, both members of his AAU team DMV Stags. Herndon went up for an assist, and the 6-foot-7 Harris was there to tip it in. At the end, Harris, Herndon and Burrows, as well as Meade’s Roberson and Shawn Jones — who of course played for team North — all swapped jerseys to recognize their AAU teamwork and lasting friendship in their last game on a high school court.
Burrows would’ve given anything to have Harris play for South River these past four years than St. Mary’s, knowing his presence would’ve been a catalyzing force in the public school scene.
“If we had a season with Aidan, things might’ve been a little different,” Burrows said. “Not that we couldn’t have done it without him, but — 4A champs for sure.
“But he had a great career where he was, and I couldn’t have asked for a better teammate this summer.”
To celebrate a final game with Herndon, Seahawks star Trashaun Timmons and teammates who helped create a win was a healing moment for Burrows. To that point, his last high school game resulted in heartbreak, tears and a long, sorrowful locker room talk as South River surrendered the 4A East Region II championship to Broadneck — the last chance he and his longtime friends would ever have at bringing the Seahawks their first boys basketball region crown.
It was no short of a tragedy for South River then, Burrows said. But this game wasn’t just huge for him, he said. It’s good to showcase the county.
“Ending it and making memories with all the guys I played with since fifth, fourth grade, kindergarten, sometimes friends, sometimes rivals, and capping it off with a win?” Burrows said. “That was huge.”
Although Kyndall Crawford finished on the losing end of the game with the North team, the Indian Creek senior cherished it all. Like Harris, the North team’s MVP played a varsity career mostly sequestered to private school play, either because of pandemic restrictions in 2021 or simply the barriers of playing MIAA ball.
His senior-year coach Pete Corriero slated more public school games for the Eagles this season, giving Crawford a brush with his childhood friends again. But Tuesday night fully immersed him.
“We do exactly this stuff outside of this,” Crawford said. “In the summer, we go to the gym, go play, but now, here, we got to showcase this in front of people.”
Crawford played a momentum-shifting role in the third quarter, scoring half of his 10-point total to secure North’s lead. The Arcadia University commit also collected nine rebounds, two steals and two blocks.
His play exemplified a shift in the 2023 rendition of the 32-year-long all-star game. Previous high school senior showcases, particularly on the boys’ side, featured 100-point-plus scores because friends just ran to the basket and dunked on one another.
Crawford knew his particular generation would handle things differently.
“Everyone thought it was going to be a run and dunk, but since we’re boys, we wanted to go at each other,” Crawford said.
Harris was not the only game-changer in the fourth quarter. Arundel’s Eric Beavers and Devon Marshall combined for three 3-pointers to give South its first lead. Glen Burnie’s Jordan Canoles scored five points to close the gap, and then Roberson just exploded, unleashing eight straight points to push North ahead.
“I loved it,” Maynard said. “It’s good to be able to coach the South River kids, the Broadneck, the Arundel, cause I’ve prepared game plans against them. I hope college coaches were able to see something in some of these guys.
“And, it’s good to win.”
South girls rally to beat North, 66-64
Old Mill senior Nevaeh Brown felt the same about 90 minutes before tip-off.
She’d forgotten her Patriots jersey for the girls’ all-star game, dressing in a Crofton No. 3 instead. Ironic, considering she’d put on for Old Mill in a statistical and emotional way, garnering 13 points, six rebounds, four steals and three assists to be named the South team’s MVP.
Her efforts, alongside Patriots teammates and those from Annapolis, Broadneck, Crofton, Severna Park and Southern, spearheaded the South’s 66-64 come-from-behind win over the North, its second in a row since the last game in 2019.
The moral victory landed with Brown. Today’s Old Mill seniors haven’t beaten fierce rivals Glen Burnie once since the Gophers began their meteoric rise last year: not in the regular season, two region championship games or their county championship meeting.
“Obviously I wanted to get them in the regular season,” Brown said. “But it does feel good to end of my senior year at least beating our rival team a little bit. At least once.”
Amourie Porter, the North MVP and a star for the Class 4A state champion Gophers, recognized the stakes from the moment she saw Glen Burnie players had been placed on one all-star team, Old Mill and Severna Park — the team that played Glen Burnie in the county championship and state semifinal — the other.
Porter (11 points, seven rebounds, four blocks, three steals, three assists) looked at her new teammates and said: “Lets go.”
“But,” Porter said, grinning, “at the end of the day. It was fun.”
The South stared at a 12-3 deficit at the end of the first. In the spirit of the game, they decided to have a little fun with that.
Cassidy Wilkerson decided to replay the highlight of a different Glen Burnie game instead, hitting a 3-pointer to open the second quarter just as she did to spur the Gophers to their state title last Friday.
Hers was the appetizer to the quarter of threes. After Wilkerson, Crofton’s Cora Shafer and Brown strung eight points together to put the deficit at five, soon aided by Southern’s Kate Seymour and Severna Park’s Karli Kirchenheiter.
Despite the heat of the environment, players who typically only broke their game faces for screams hardly let smiles leave their faces, grinning during and after jumpers, blocks, even their own fouls.
As such, North’s lead shrunk by halftime, 28-22 — and shriveled to almost nothing shortly into the third quarter. Old Mill’s Amaya Douglas and Amani Watts (14 rebounds) twice narrowed the margin to one, most recently at 35-34.
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Amourie Porter and North were having none of it. After putting away a layup-and-one, she turned around and smiled wide, arms up as Annapolis Area Christian School’s Gabby Barnes sunk her second 3. Porter then cut a no-look pass to a fellow No. 15, Chesapeake’s Natalie Forman, to establish the 45-42 third quarter lead.
Glen Burnie’s Lania Nick landed the last 3 of her high school career, which the Gophers had come to rely on so fiercely, as did Deamani Davis for Meade and North — twice — and Brown for South — twice.
“I enjoyed playing with these different girls, because [GB] doesn’t cut that much, but [others] do,” Porter said. “Seeing that, gives me something in the bag.”
Severn’s Madison Vernon flushed a layup in response, cementing a 10-4 run and a 64-59 lead that drove South to a timeout.
Seymour scored, then Watts and Severna Park’s Hanna Verreault. Brown spiced it with a 3-pointer, and the score would never change again.
For Annapolis coach Henry Meiklejohn, getting to coach the victorious South team was a gifted sight to a possible future. In his first year, the Panthers coach turned a winless 2022 team into one with 15 of them. But to handle a group of seasoned players and at the peak of their success showed him what level was still waiting for him.
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Fresh starts are nice. That largely explains our natural drive to celebrate the New Year with such hope and joy. After a year like 2022, and especially for retired investors, I’d say a fresh start is well deserved!
Before looking forward, let’s first run the numbers for 2022. With stocks declining about 20% and with bonds dropping about 13% for the year, there were very few places to hide.
Given the dual decline in both stocks and bonds, the primary risk management tool of asset allocation failed to deliver.
The end result? Last year was one of the worst on record for conservative investors with balanced portfolios.
Today, on the other hand, a broadly diversified bond portfolio made up of a combination of U.S. Treasuries, mortgages and corporate bonds now sports a yield-to-maturity of about 5%. From an income perspective, bonds are now putting up a real fight against stocks.
With interest rates having been pinned down by the Federal Reserve for much of the last 15 years, this hasn’t been the case in a long, long time.
For those sitting with a lot of cash in the bank or parked in a money market fund, it might be enticing to just do nothing and keep that money safe.
That’s especially true with short-term cash now earning around 4%.
But, remember, if the economy slows next year as expected, short-term rates could just as easily decline once again. In other words, that 4% yield on cash could be short-lived.
Looking at following a careful process of investing some of your excess cash in bonds is worthy of consideration.
The last two months of inflation reports are showing a breaking of the inflation fever.
While inflation will be slow to fully recede, a careful reading of the tea leaves points to the Fed now starting to shift their focus to the economy.
It’s about time, because many investors worry that the Fed has already raised interest rates too high and too fast.
Their big fear? A recession. In fact, this might be the most widely-anticipated recession ever.
Nothing in financial markets is certain, of course.
Even with bonds finally showing promise, the Fed has not yet fully vanquished inflation. If inflation so much as ticks higher, expect talk of more rate hikes than currently anticipated.
And, even with so many investors openly predicting a recession, stock prices haven’t fully baked in that scenario. We’re not yet out of the woods.
Without sounding too mealy-mouthed, we’re still in a moment that calls for careful, but not crazy, risk taking.
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TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. — A person has been killed after being hit by a vehicle Tuesday evening in Treasure Island, authorities say.
Drivers are asked to avoid the area of 108th Avenue and Gulf Boulevard.
The Treasure Island Police Department and Treasure Island Fire Rescue are working to gather more information on the crash.
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The elective program will help students discover hidden talents, skills, and abilities while paving the way for high school course selections, career exploration, and college studies.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Time4Learning, an award-winning online homeschooling curriculum, has launched its first-ever suite of elective courses for middle school students. The new courses are now available as add-on options to the homeschooling program.
Time4Learning's electives offer middle school students a diverse selection of courses. From courses that teach critical life skills, such as time and stress management, to those that allow students to increase their proficiency in Microsoft Word®, Excel®, Outlook®, and PowerPoint®, its robust lineup of electives is the perfect complement to its main subjects.
"Just as core subjects - math and language arts - are vital for strengthening students' cognitive abilities and critical thinking skills, electives offer a pathway for them to uncover passions and learn about themselves," said John Edelson, founder and president of Time4lLearning. "Our high school electives have helped families deepen their children's education, and we wanted to provide this same opportunity for middle schoolers."
With an abundance of offerings allowing students to explore new areas and discover their strengths, the new middle school electives feature practical computer courses that appeal to today's digital natives, as well as programs that tap into popular interests. "Middle School Computer Science," "Introduction to Art" and "Lifetime Fitness" are some of the options provided to students in grades six through eight. Time4Learning's new middle school electives join its existing high school electives courses.
Since 2014, Time4Learning has provided homeschoolers with diverse learning experiences that allow parents to focus on their child's needs and interests. Not only do electives allow students to explore personal interests, they also can offer middle school students a creative outlet to express themselves.
"Middle school is a critical age where children begin to explore who they are by making their own choices," said Edelson. "Giving children a say in their education provides pre-teens with an outlet to exercise their curiosity and independence in a productive way."
Time4Learning is $24.95 per month for PreK-8th grade for the first student, and $14.95 for each additional student. High school monthly enrollment is $34.95 per student. In addition to electives, Time4Learning offers Time4MathFacts and Time4Languages to active members for an additional fee.
Interested families may visit Time4Learning.com for information on getting started, including member stories and video demos.
About Time4Learning
Time4Learning, a Cambium Learning Group company, is an award-winning, online curriculum for at-home use. The PreK-12th grade coursework teaches math, language arts, science, social studies and more. The interactive, student-paced curriculum features thousands of multimedia-based lessons, activities, and printable worksheets. In addition to the Time4Learning curriculum, Time4MathFacts is also available to help with that skill area. Parents use the popular platform to reinforce key concepts during summer, supplement schoolwork, or as a main academic curriculum for homeschooling.
About Cambium Learning Group
Cambium Learning® Group is the education essentials company, providing award-winning education technology and services for K-12 markets. With an intentionally curated portfolio of respected global brands, Cambium serves as a leader in the education space, helping millions of educators and students feel more universally valued each and every day. In everything it does, the company focuses on the elements that are most essential to the success of education, delivering simpler, more certain solutions that make a meaningful difference right now. To learn more, visit www.cambiumlearning.com or follow Cambium on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Medium. The Cambium family of brands includes: Cambium Assessment, Lexia® Learning, Learning A-Z®, Voyager Sopris Learning®, ExploreLearning®, Time4Learning®, and Kurzweil Education®.
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Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin is reminding Louisianians that the deadlines to register to vote in the Nov. 8 Open Congressional Primary Election are fast approaching. The in-person or by mail registration deadline is Tuesday, Oct. 11, and the deadline for registering through the GeauxVote Online Registration System is Tuesday, Oct. 18. These deadlines are for citizens who have never registered to vote as well as voters who would like to make changes to their registration.
Citizens may check their registration or register to vote online at www.GeauxVote.com; at their parish’s Registrar of Voters Office; while obtaining services at the Office of Motor Vehicles, public assistance agencies and disability services offices; or by mail. Louisianians can also utilize the GeauxVote Mobile smartphone app to access registration, ballot and polling place information.
After registering, voters should download the GeauxVote Mobile smartphone app. The app provides registration information as well as voting districts, sample ballots, polling place information and election results.
Early voting for the Nov. 8 election is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 25 through Tuesday, Nov. 1 (excluding Sunday, Oct. 30), from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. For more information about the Secretary of State’s Elections Division, visit www.GeauxVote.com or call the Elections Hotline at 800.883.2805. | https://bossierpress.com/voter-registration-deadlines-for-the-nov-8-open-congressional-primary-election/ | 2022-10-06 22:53:29 | 1 | https://bossierpress.com/voter-registration-deadlines-for-the-nov-8-open-congressional-primary-election/ |
RICHLAND, Wash., Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LISI GLOBAL, Inc., announced its participation in the latest US Department of Agriculture/National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant focused on methyl bromide replacement. In partnership with researchers from Oregon State University and the USDA Agricultural Research Service at OSU, Lisi Global will adapt its breakthrough Directed Energy technology to explore alternative approaches to soil fumigation using electric pulses applied to the soil to control target organisms, and continuous electrical current to heat the soil as a means of disinfection. The two-year study also includes economic analysis to determine how cost-effective these pest management tools will be.
According to OSU professor Dr. Marcelo Moretti, the grant's Principal Investigator, "Lisi Global's technology demonstrated efficacy in early greenhouse trials and the impressive results produced in the early stages of their turf pest control efforts make it worthy of evaluating on a larger scale. We are grateful to the USDA/NIFA for the opportunity to look closely at DE Technology as an alternative to fumigation."
"This is an important opportunity to expand DE Technology into agriculture," said Jason Crisp, CEO, Lisi Global, "agriculture has been our goal from the beginning. Although our initial market focus has been golf and sports turf with Direct|Turf, the plan has always been to take what we learn on the golf green and apply it to agriculture." Crisp continued, "That these distinguished researchers recognize its true potential is validation that our technology can impact how growers manage their crops while displacing some of the most harmful chemicals."
The phase-out of methyl bromide as an agricultural fumigant began two decades ago with no alternatives to take its place. As a result, infestations and crop losses are increasing. Ever since, researchers have been looking for effective alternatives to methyl bromide and similar fumigants with little success. Lisi Global's Directed Energy Technology is the first of its kind in agriculture, using tailored doses of electricity applied directly to the soil to effectively control soil borne organisms like nematodes and fungal pathogens. Peer-reviewed results can be found here: https://www.lisiglobal.com/published-results.html
Lisi Global is developing ground-breaking applications in the electrification of soil pest control and is the only technology in this very important market space. www.lisiglobal.com
Media contact: Director of Partnerships, Conan Doherty, conan@lisiglobal.com
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has rolled out several changes to make the naturalization process more accessible for applicants with disabilities.
After months of public feedback, the federal agency has shortened and simplified its disability waiver, which is used to exempt immigrants with physical, mental or learning disabilities from the English and civics test requirements.
The revisions largely undo efforts by the former Trump administration to expand requirements for disabled applicants seeking to naturalize.
"The recent policy change is a big step in the right direction and a major improvement over the old policy," Laura Burdick, who works on disability waiver policies with the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, told NPR.
"It takes a much more humane approach," she added.
In a statement last week, USCIS Director Ur Jaddo said the revisions were part of President Biden's executive order to restore faith in the U.S. immigration system.
Among the steps to become voting citizens, immigrants are tested on how well they read, write and understand English and how much they grasp U.S. history and government. Since 1994, the federal government has allowed immigrants with disabilities to receive waivers for such requirements.
In 2020, the Trump administration nearly doubled the length of the disability waiver and added unnecessary complexity, Burdick said. USCIS itself has described some parts of the application as "redundant" and has said they "no longer have practical utility."
Questions such as how the applicant's disability affects their daily life, a description of the severity of the disability and how frequently they are treated by medical professionals have since been eliminated.
Another policy change gives applicants who did not properly complete their waiver the option to simply resubmit their form with updated information, rather than fill out entirely new paperwork.
Burdick said these policy improvements will remove barriers and create a more efficient pathway to citizenship for people with disabilities.
But there's more work to do, she added. Among her organization's concerns are the limited types of medical professionals allowed to certify accommodations.
"Many of the immigrants that we serve receive their primary care from a nurse practitioner, since they are often more accessible than medical doctors, especially in low-income communities," she said.
In the three quarters from October 2021 through June 2022, about 45,000 immigrants had applied for a disability waiver.
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Holiday season preparedness reflects strategic investments and operational precision improvements made as part of Delivering for America, USPS' 10-year plan:
- 655,000 employee postal service workforce includes 100,000 workers converted to full time since beginning of 2021; More than 41,000 part time workers converted to full time since January 2022
- Actively hiring additional 28,000 seasonal employees
- 249 new package processing machines actively deployed since 2021 across the nation – 137 added since January 2022; daily package processing capacity expanded to 60 million
- 8.5 million square feet across 52 peak annexes and processing facilities to handle holiday volume
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States Postal Service announced critical investments in personnel, technology and the postal network footprint that have been made in advance of the 2022 holiday season.
Preparations for the 2022 holiday season began in January and build on the investments and organizational strategy improvements made ahead of the successful 2021 holiday mailing and shipping season. These proactive measures are part of Delivering for America, the Postal Service's 10-year strategic plan.
"Successfully delivering for the holidays is a cornerstone of our Delivering for America 10-year plan," said Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. "Thanks to the 655,000 women and men of the Postal Service, recent investments and operational precision improvements, we are ready to be the most used delivery provider this holiday season."
2022 Peak Holiday Season Preparations Include:
- 100,000 Part Time Employees Converted To Full Time Career Positions Since January 2021 (41,000 Part Time Employees Converted Since January 2022). Thanks to a strong benefits package and investments in career growth opportunities for employees across the organization, the Postal Service has converted more than 100,000 employees from part-time to full time, career positions since the beginning of 2021. 41,000 part time employees have converted into career roles since January of this year.
- Hiring Additional 28,000 Peak Season Employees; Aggressive Hiring Efforts Continue. USPS is actively hiring 28,000 seasonal employees. Across the nation, the Postal Service is hiring an additional 1,000 truck drivers, along with letter carriers and processing team members. Job seekers can find and apply for thousands of open seasonal positions by visiting usps.com/hiring.
- 60 Million Packages Processed Each Day. Thanks to investments in new package processing equipment and operational precision improvements, the Postal Service will be able to expand its processing capacity and process nearly 60 million packages every day this holiday season compared to 53 million in 2021.
- 249 New Package Processing Machines Deployed Across the Nation Since January 2021 (137 Installed this Year). These new machines are strategic investments in local community postal infrastructure enabling postal workers to sort and process packages of all sizes more quickly and reliably. By November, the Postal Service will have installed 249 new package processing machines across the nation since the beginning of 2021. This is part of the organization's $40 billion investment in new technology and facilities under the Delivering for America plan.
- 8.5 Million Square Feet Added Across 52 Annexes and Facilities. In 2021, the Postal Service signed multi-year leases on 52 peak season annexes and processing facilities which added 8.5 million square feet to the Postal Service footprint. These facilities are strategically located throughout the country to augment space shortages at existing postal facilities.
- 222,682 Fleet Vehicles Ready to Deliver the Holidays. The Postal Service's 222,682 fleet vehicles are ready to deliver the holidays. To handle holiday package volume, 1,900 additional trailers have been leased for the peak season. Additionally, precision in our processing operation enables trucks to leave on time and mail and packages to get to destination in a quicker and more cost-effective manner.
- New Technology to Expedite Processing and Delivery. In the last 12 months, more than 6,000 computer tablets have been deployed on our workroom floors to better equip processing and delivery supervisors with tracking and moving mail and packages expeditiously.
As the Postal Service prepares for the holiday peak season, service performance across all mail categories is strong and steady. On average, it takes just 2.4 days for a mailpiece or package to be delivered across the postal network.
The Postal Service generally receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.
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SEATTLE, April 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Quark Expeditions, the global leader in polar adventures, has announced an exciting Antarctic 2024.25 season that offers more helicopter adventures than any other operator in the Polar Regions. In addition, the company has introduced various incentives to help travelers fulfill their dreams of a polar expedition to the 7th Continent.
"Without a doubt, our 2024.25 season will be our most helicopter-focused Antarctic season ever," said Andrew White, President of Quark Expeditions. "We've increased the opportunities for guests to experience the Antarctic from the air in Ultramarine's two twin-engine H145 helicopters. This has been part of our longterm strategy for the game-changing Ultramarine, which will offer heli-landing and flightseeing on multiple Antarctic voyages."
"Guests on World Explorer and Ocean Adventurer will be able to choose from a robust portfolio of land- and sea-based adventures—including kayaking, Zodiac cruising, hiking and wildlife-watching—under the expert guidance of our expedition team, who are recognized as the best in the polar industry," said White.
The 30 departures (ranging from 7 to 23 days) in Quark Expeditions' Antarctic 2024.25 season include voyages to the Antarctic Peninsula, South Georgia Island, the Falkland Islands and Patagonia.
Quark Expeditions has also introduced a variety of incentives for the 2024.25 season. "When planning for this new Antarctic season, we took into consideration the barriers currently facing global travelers," said Thomas Lennartz, Vice-president of Sales and Client Experience. "In addition to offering 25% off select Antarctic voyages—with an extra 10% off when paying in full at time of booking—we're introducing a $1,000 USD flight credit off the top of their trip costs on all departures. We're topping that off with a US $250 shipboard credit (on all departures) which guests can use at their discretion."
The financial incentives, combined with the one-of-a-kind off-ship experiences exclusive to Quark Expeditions, bode well for a very successful Antarctic 2024.25 season.
- Guests get up to 25% off select voyages
- An additional 10% off when paying in full at time of booking
- $1,000 USD flight credit on top of traveler's trip costs on all Antarctic 2024.25 departures
- $250 shipboard credit on all departures
- The most helicopter adventures than ever before offered in the Antarctic.
View the entire Antarctic 2024.25 quarkexpeditions.com/antarctic/season-launch/2024.
About Quark Expeditions: Specializing exclusively in expeditions to Antarctica and the Arctic, Quark Expeditions® has been the leading innovator of polar adventure since the company took the first group of consumer travelers to the North Pole in 1991. Quark Expeditions has been innovating ever since. With a diverse fleet of specially-equipped small expedition vessels and icebreakers—some of them equipped with helicopters—Quark Expeditions delivers deeply immersive polar experiences—and is able to take guests deeper into the Polar Regions than anyone else. Led by passionate and seasoned expedition teams, including scientists, wildlife experts and researchers, Quark Expeditions offers an onboard program that enriches the passenger experience.
About Ultramarine:
The technologically-advanced Ultramarine, the newest addition to the Quark Expeditions fleet, is a game-changer in polar exploration. Equipped with two twin-engine Airbus 145 helicopters, 20 quick-launching Zodiacs and the largest portfolio of off-ship adventure options in the industry, Ultramarine changes the way guests explore the Polar Regions. Other features include a spa, sauna with floor-to-ceiling windows, fitness centre, yoga space, spacious rooms and two restaurants plus a lounge and presentation theatre. Ultramarine has been designed with advanced sustainability systems that help preserve the pristine Polar Regions for the next generation of explorers. Ultramarine has an Ice Class rating of 1A+ and Polar Class rating of PC6, which contribute to the vessel's superior standards of safety standard. The ship's innovative sustainability features, which help reduce its environmental footprint, include a micro auto gasification system (MAGS), which is capable of converting onboard waste into energy, eliminating the need for the transportation of waste.
About Travelopia: Travelopia is one of the world's leading specialist travel groups. A pioneer in the experiential travel sector with a portfolio consisting of more than 50 independently operated brands, most of which are leaders in their sector. From sailing adventures, safaris and sports tours, to Arctic expeditions, each brand is diverse and focused on creating unforgettable experiences for customers across the world.
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HOUSTON (AP) — HOUSTON (AP) — Flotek Industries Inc. (FTK) on Monday reported earnings of $21.3 million in its first quarter.
The Houston-based company said it had profit of 2 cents per share. Losses, adjusted for non-recurring gains, came to 16 cents per share.
The oilfield services company posted revenue of $48 million in the period.
Flotek Industries expects full-year revenue in the range of $210 million to $230 million.
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The Lions placed Marvin Jones on the non-football injury list at the start of training camp.
But the veteran receiver shouldn’t be out for too long.
"[H]e had a little back issue right before he came here,” head coach Dan Campbell said in his Monday press conference. “It’s nothing major, but we knew we weren’t going to start him out at practice, so we just NFI’d him. But he’s improving and we’re not in any hurry right now to try to get him back.
“We’ve got three more and then a day off and then we’ll kind of assess it here as it goes, but we’re not worried about it.”
After spending the last two seasons with the Jaguars, Jones rejoined the Lions on a one-year, $3 million deal. Jones, 33, caught 46 passes for 529 yards with three touchdowns for Jacksonville last year. | https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/dan-campbell-were-not-worried-about-marvin-jones-back-issue | 2023-07-24 22:13:32 | 0 | https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/dan-campbell-were-not-worried-about-marvin-jones-back-issue |
Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s sudden departure from the cable network is being greeted as good news by Republicans who support U.S. intervention in the war in Ukraine.
Carlson was one of the most prominent critics of U.S. involvement to defend Kyiv against Moscow’s invasion.
“It’s a bad day for Vladimir Putin,” a Senate Republican aide said. “This takes one of the biggest critics of Ukraine war in Republican and conservative circles off the table.”
The aide noted that some GOP senators were also uncomfortable with what they viewed as Carlson’s over-the-top rhetoric opposing vaccine mandates, which divided conservatives during the pandemic.
When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) declared that the war in Ukraine was a “territorial dispute” and not a vital national interest — a statement that many Republicans later criticized — he did so in response to a query from Carlson.
DeSantis quickly walked back his comment after getting strong pushback on Capitol Hill from prominent lawmakers including Senate Republican Whip John Thune (S.D.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
One Republican senator, who requested anonymity to comment on a media figure who had a loyal following among many right-leaning voters, said Carlson’s departure from prime time would be a positive development for maintaining public support for the war.
“He wasn’t troubled by whether something was true or not. He was mean, irresponsible and dangerous,” the lawmaker said.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who has called the Ukraine crisis “one of the greatest demonstrations of good versus evil we’ve seen in our lifetimes,” said Carlson had a big influence on many Republicans.
“There have been some that have argued that he was setting foreign policy for the Republican Party, which I find to be bizarre. Certainly not for me,” he said. “To the primary [Republican] voter, the active participant, the grassroot voter, he’s a person they listen to and has a big influence.”
Asked how he evaluated Carlson’s influence on the GOP electorate, Romney said “it depends on the issue but I think with regards to Russia and Ukraine he was misguided.”
Romney also expressed disbelief over Carlson’s defense of Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to halt the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
Carlson aired television specials that attempted to reframe the attack on the Capitol as a largely peaceful protest activity after his show gained exclusive access to 41,000 hours of security footage.
“It’s really disheartening and disappointing that an intelligent person would take a stance defending people who break into the symbol of democracy here and around the world,” Romney said.
Carlson may continue to have a media profile, such as other former Fox stars like Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck, but he’s not expected to have nearly the same influence on Republican politics without his prime-time slot on Fox.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), an adviser to the Senate Republican leadership team, said Carlson is not “going away” but predicted he’ll have less influence on Republican politics now that he’s lost his coveted 8 p.m. slot on Fox News, which drew more than 3 million viewers a night.
Cornyn noted that Beck “continued to be a voice and have some impact although it was diminished” after leaving Fox.
Carlson questioned what the United States hoped to accomplish by intervening in the conflict and grilled Republican presidential hopefuls about what they thought the exit strategy should be.
He defended Putin by asking his viewers to ask themselves: “Why do I hate Putin? … Has Putin ever called me a racist? Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him?”
Carlson clashed with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and other defense hawks last year when he urged Republicans to oppose an omnibus spending package that included a 9.7 percent increase for defense programs.
“Here’s the amazing thing, some Republicans in the Senate are working with Democrats to get this bill passed before Christmas. They don’t have to do that,” he said in December, arguing that GOP senators could have insisted on a spending freeze until after Republicans took control of the House in January.
“What is going here. It seems like a great betrayal,” he said.
Cornyn said most Republican senators disagreed with Carlson’s skeptical view of U.S. support for Ukraine, which has cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars.
“I disagree with what he was advocating for and I think the majority opinion, the substantial majority opinion, in the Congress is it’s in America’s best interest to continue to support Ukraine,” he said.
Asked about DeSantis’s statement minimizing the war in Ukraine as a “territorial dispute,” Cornyn noted the Florida governor “walked that back some.”
“I think people are just trying to find the center of mass of public opinion on that but my view is that it’s in our national interest to help Ukraine,” he said.
He added that it was his “impression” that DeSantis had Carlson’s criticism of U.S. support for the war in mind when he issued his controversial statement.
Danielle Pletka, a distinguished senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute specializing in foreign and defense policy, echoed others in calling Carlson one of the nation’s most prominent critics of U.S. support for Ukraine and hailed his departure from Fox as a significant development.
“Yay, ding dong, Tucker Carlson is gone,” she said.
Pletka said Carlson appeared at times to have more prominence in the debate over Ukraine than Biden.
“The idea that an anchor on Fox News was influencing the debate when the president of the United States hasn’t spoken on the issue, it’s really staggering,” she said, arguing that Biden has not done enough to explain to the nation why the war is an important national security concern.
“Tucker Carlson is on TV every single night, no one else is. Nature abhors a vacuum and he filled it nicely,” she added, with a dose of sarcasm. “I think he was an influential voice. It was uninformed and a dangerous voice against” U.S. support for the war.
Senate Republican Whip John Thune (S.D.) said Carlson’s sudden departure from Fox won’t have an immediate impact on any votes on Capitol Hill for military and economic aid to Ukraine but acknowledged the former primetime host had a large following.
“I think the votes up here probably are what they are,” he said. “Clearly he’s got a following and he’s got an audience out there but I think people up here are going to weigh the relative value of America’s involvement in that war based on what’s in our national security interests.”
Some lawmakers were reluctant to comment on Carlson’s abrupt split with Fox without knowing all the details.
“I assume, don’t know, but I assume it was a business decision. Obviously there was something they didn’t have a meeting of the minds about. I assume he’ll have a voice wherever he goes next. He had a following there,” Thune said. | https://www.wjhl.com/hill-politics/why-some-republicans-see-carlsons-departure-as-a-good-thing/ | 2023-04-26 12:45:39 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/hill-politics/why-some-republicans-see-carlsons-departure-as-a-good-thing/ |
NEW YORK, Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Compass Minerals International, Inc. (NYSE: CMP) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of all purchasers of Compass Minerals common stock between October 31, 2017 and November 18, 2018, inclusive.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: December 20, 2022
No obligation or cost to you.
Learn more about your recoverable losses in CMP:
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Compass Minerals International, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: 1) costs at the Company's salt mine in Goderich, Ontario were increasing rather than decreasing; 2) defendants had misrepresented the amount of salt the Company was able to produce at Goderich using the new continuous mining and continuous haulage equipment; and 3) the known and ongoing production shortfalls the Company was experiencing were reasonably expected to reduce its future operating income.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Compass Minerals you have until December 20, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Compass Minerals securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the CMP lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/compass-minerals-class-action-submission-form?id=34473&from=4.
ABOUT KLEIN LAW FIRM
J. Klein, Esq. represents investors and participates in securities litigations involving financial fraud throughout the nation. The Klein Law Firm is a boutique litigation firm with experience in a wide range of areas including securities law, corporate finance and commercial litigation. Since 2011, our experienced attorneys have achieved superior results for our clients with a personalized focus. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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- Firm joins premier group of Dealers selected to offer short-term, high quality investment opportunities supporting sustainable and socially focused investments
CHICAGO, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mesirow, an independent, employee-owned financial services firm, today announced that the firm has been selected as a Primary Discount Note dealer for the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group.
"The IFC's Global Discount Note Program has served as an additional funding and liquidity management tool, supporting IFC's trade finance and supply chain initiatives as they play a catalytic role at the forefront of impact investing," said George Barbar, Senior Managing Director, Mesirow Institutional Sales and Trading. "We are honored to join this select group of dealers."
With major trading desks located across the U.S., Mesirow Institutional Sales and Trading is poised to make a significant contribution to IFC's funding program. IFC is the largest global development institution focused exclusively on the private sector by helping developing countries achieve sustainable growth.
Amit Jain, Manager of Cash Management at IFC said, "With nearly $150 billion in annual institutional sales and trading volume, Mesirow's strength in investor outreach to U.S. public institutions will help expand our investor base. Going forward, the U.S. public institutions market remains an important focus for IFC's funding program."
This new relationship is reflective of Mesirow's focus on expanding the firm's platform. With headquarters in Chicago and offices in 17 locations worldwide, including London and Hong Kong, Mesirow is currently growing its presence in Florida and the Southeast by raising awareness of the Mesirow brand, expanding the number of Mesirow professionals in this market, and deepening its commitment to philanthropy and connectivity with the area's local business community.
Over the next 2-3 years, the firm plans to grow its headcount in the region, with an initial focus on Capital Markets, Wealth Management and Investment Advisory services, including corporate and governmental clients. Over the intermediate to longer-term, the goal is to grow across the greater Southeast region, opening offices in locations to best serve clients and expand organically and through opportunistic, complementary lift-ins and bolt-on acquisitions.
Mesirow continues to be well capitalized for future growth and looks forward to making the necessary strategic investments to serve an increasing number of clients globally.
About Mesirow
Mesirow is an independent, employee-owned financial services firm founded in 1937. Headquartered in Chicago, with locations around the world, we serve clients through a personal, custom approach to reaching financial goals and acting as a force for social good. With capabilities spanning Global Investment Management, Capital Markets & Investment Banking, and Advisory Services, we invest in what matters: our clients, our communities, and our culture. To learn more, visit mesirow.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
Mesirow was recently named one of the Best Places to Work in Chicago by Crain's Chicago Business and one of the Top 100 RIAs for 2022 by Barron's.
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2022 Crain's Best Places to Work (Received August 2022 reflective of previous 12 months – Licensing fees paid post award for use of the ranking). Best Companies Group (BCG), an independent workplace excellence research firm, conducted a two-part survey. Part one, consisted of an employer questionnaire, used to collect information about benefits, policies, practices, and other general information. Part two was a confidential 77-question employee survey used to evaluate local employee's workplace experience and culture.
2022 Barron's Top RIAs (Received September 2022 for the year 2021 – Licensing fees paid post award for use of the ranking). In order to be considered for the Barron's 2022 Top RIA Firms list, applicants were required to complete a 145-question survey, with the firm's ADV informing the majority of responses. Firms were also required to meet a number of other specified requirements to be eligible for inclusion. Firms were ranked based on various qualitative and quantitative factors, including assets managed, the size and experience of teams, regulatory records of the advisors and firms, technology spending, staff diversity, organic and M&A growth, client segmentation as well as succession planning.
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