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California's Reparations Taskforce has issued its final recommendations for a state reparations program for the descendants of slaves. State lawmakers must now decide whether to adopt any of them.
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By LORNE COOK
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BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers refused on Tuesday to endorse the way the EU’s border and coast guard agency used its 2020 budget, over concerns about serious misconduct by staff and human rights concerns involving Frontex’s work.
Frontex supervises the 27-nation EU’s outside borders. The agency is under pressure over allegations that it was involved in the illegal pushbacks of migrants, notably in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey. Its executive director resigned earlier this year after an anti-fraud office probe.
During a plenary session in Strasbourg, France, the lawmakers voted by 345 votes to 284, with 8 abstentions, not to sign off on Frontex’s 2020 accounts.
“With a budget of 900 million euros ($884 million) in 2022, Frontex is the most well-funded European agency. We can no longer tolerate public money being used to violate European legislation and international law,” Dutch Greens lawmaker Bas Eickhout said after the vote.
The move has no direct legal consequences, but it does oblige the EU’s institutions — notably the European Commission — to take measures to address the parliament’s concerns. In similar circumstances in 1999, the entire commission resigned amid corruption allegations.
Several EU members of parliament have expressed concern about the suspected suicide of a Frontex staff member apparently linked to allegations of sexual harassment.
A report by the EU’s anti-fraud office, OLAF, examined Frontex activities in Greece from spring to autumn 2020 and found that the agency wasn’t investigating or handling evidence of migrant pushbacks correctly and at times was attempting to cover them up or not reporting them at all.
Pushbacks — the forcible return of people across an international border, on land or at sea, without an assessment of their rights to apply for asylum or other forms of protection — violate both international and EU law.
Greek authorities have long been accused by human rights lawyers, non-governmental organizations, media investigations and other entities of conducting violent and deadly pushbacks of migrants and refugees crossing its borders from Turkey.
Frontex has sought to put the allegations behind it. “The Agency takes the findings of investigations, audits and other forms of scrutiny seriously and uses them as opportunities to make changes for the better,” Frontex said Friday in a statement to The Associated Press.
While acknowledging the findings of “serious misbehavior” committed by three Frontex employees, the agency’s management said that it has taken “remedial measures” to address the issues, mainly procedural changes within the agency.
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TOLEDO, Ohio, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- h2Power Solutions, an energy startup based in Toledo, was nominated as one of three finalists out of 49 applicants in the Northwest Ohio Mspire business incubator competition. The Mspire competition highlights Ohio entrepreneurs while providing access to necessary funding and a platform for increased exposure and awareness.
The Mspire competition for manufacturing-focused entrepreneurs in Northwest Ohio is held in partnership with the Manufacturing Growth and Advocacy Network (MAGNET), based in the Cleveland Area. Though this is the Toledo area's first Mspire event, several have been held in Cleveland in partnership with MAGNET.
Over the last several years the competition has rewarded millions of dollars in entrepreneurial grants and development funding. The focus is on supporting entrepreneurs, creators, and small manufacturers who have innovative ideas to advance technologies and manufacturing throughout Ohio. As a result of the success of this competition, MAGNET plans on holding annual events in Toledo in addition to their Cleveland events.
Toledo-based h2Power Solutions was one of three finalists out of 49 submitted applications across nearly 20 different Ohio counties. Their SOFC hydrogen fuel cell power provides clean, low-cost, high-efficiency power utilizing natural gas or biofuels. h2Power Solutions' compact systems easily tie into existing energy systems and provide both electrical and thermal energy at a fraction of the cost of traditional energy generator systems.
"The Mspire competition is a huge step in continued market penetration, helping us reach an audience that is actively engaged in new sources of energy production." shared Greg Whitlow, h2Power Solutions' CEO. "h2Power Solutions is deeply grateful for the opportunity to compete and for the recognition that the Mspire event brought, not only to our company but to other entrepreneurs throughout Northwest Ohio. We must continue to support and encourage business growth and investment in the region, and h2Power is excited to be a significant part of that growth. We believe that our fuel cell technology represents one of the cleanest, most efficient options coming to the market, and could provide a huge boost in reducing reliance on the existing energy grid."
h2Power Solutions has been focused on developing its technology for the rural market, particularly agribusiness and individual farmers. The ability to convert biomass into green hydrogen, a direct fuel source for the fuel cells, allows farmers to easily turn agricultural waste into both electric and thermal energy. Extensive grants and federal funding have been made available to support high-efficiency energy production like h2Power Solutions' fuel cells.
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TSX-V: MKO; OTCQX: MAKOF
VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Mako Mining Corp. (TSXV: MKO) (OTCQX: MAKOF) ("Mako" or the "Company") is pleased to provide financial results for the three months ended September 30, 2022 ("Q3 2022"), which is the fifth full quarter of financial results since declaring commercial production on July 1, 2021 at its San Albino gold mine ("San Albino") in northern Nicaragua. For detailed Q3 2022 operating results, please see the press release dated October 21st, 2022 ("Operating Update"). All dollar amounts referred to herein are expressed in United States dollars unless otherwise stated.
Q3 2022 Highlights
Financial
- $13.6 million in Revenue
- $4.0 million in Adjusted EBITDA(1)
- $3.8 million in Mine Operating Cash Flow ("Mine OCF") (1) (3)
- $7.0 million in Net Loss after $5.4 million of depreciation, depletion(4) and amortization and $3.9 million in exploration expenses
- $1,018 Cash Costs ($/oz sold) (1) (2)
- $1,102 Total Cash Costs ($/oz sold) (1) (2)
- $1,367 All-In Sustaining Costs ("AISC") ($/oz sold) (1) (2)
- Three monthly repayment installments totaling $1.1 million were made on the Sailfish Loan during Q3 2022
Growth
- $3.9 million in exploration and evaluation expenses ($1.6 million surrounding San Albino and $2.3 million at Las Conchitas)
Subsequent to September 30, 2022
- Two monthly repayment installments totaling $0.7 million were made on the Sailfish Loan
Akiba Leisman, Chief Executive Officer, states that "Q3 2022 was the fifth full quarter of financial results since declaring commercial production at San Albino. The decline in recoveries from March through August of 2022 (77.0% vs. 86% expected in Q3) and lower throughput (as we optimized recoveries for plant residence time) negatively affected the Company, driving Mine OCF and Adjusted EBITDA to approximately $4 million and AISC to $1,367 during Q3 2022, but still allowing the Company to invest nearly $4 million in growth exploration. Year to date, Mako has generated $20 million in Mine OCF, which allowed the Company to invest $8.5 million in growth exploration and repay $7.4 million of debt without the need for external financing. Now that the metallurgical issues have been resolved, we expect a very strong Q4, with an increase in throughput to 600tpd by the end of the quarter with no additional capex and minimal recovery losses. Additionally, the Company expects a significant reduction in AISC, higher net income and record gold sales in Q4 2022."
Table 1 – Revenue
Table 2 – Operating and Financial Data
Table 3 – EBITDA Reconciliation
Chart 1
Q3 2022 - Mine OCF Calculation and Cash Reconciliation (in $ millions)
Chart 2
Accumulated 9 months ending Sep 30 - Mine OCF Calculation and Cash Reconciliation (in $ millions)
Corporate Update
Depreciation and Depletion
In October 2020, Mako published its National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report and Estimate of Mineral Resources for the San Albino Project. A portion of that published mineral resource formed the basis of our non-cash depletion and depreciation calculation through Q3 2022.
Subsequently, the Company has added certain previously delineated mineral resources into a mine plan and identified additional mineral resources within the San Albino mine area, which are expected to increase the base of the estimated tonnes to be depleted going forward. In addition, we expect that a maiden mineral resource at Las Conchitas (which currently has no carrying value) will be incorporated into a separate mine plan beginning early next year. In this context, we expect to see a materially lower depletion and depreciation expense, and a significant increase in net income starting in Q4 2022.
US Sanctions in Nicaragua
Further to the Company's press release of October 31, 2022 addressing the October 24, 2022 announcement by the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Controls (OFAC) relating to new U.S. sanctions imposed on the General Directorate of Mines (DGM) pursuant to Executive Order ("EO") 13851, as well as the issuance of EO 14088 (the "October 24 measures"), following consultations with its US legal advisors, we are taking additional internal measures aimed at ensuring that we are in compliance with the October 24 measures, and although we do not currently expect there to be any material changes to our mining and exploration operations in Nicaragua as a result of the October 24 measures, we are continuing to monitor the situation.
Board of Directors update
The Company also announces that Mr. John Stevens has stepped down as a director of the Company. Mr. Stevens has served as a member of the Mako board for three years, and his contributions have been significant. His previous experience with Latin America, as a senior credit officer for a large financial institution as well as various board assignments, brought a valued perspective to the Company. On behalf of the board of directors, the management team and our shareholders, the Company thanks John for his service and wish him all the best in his future endeavors.
For complete details, please refer to the unaudited interim consolidated financial statements and the associated management discussion and analysis for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, available on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) or on the Company's website (www.makominingcorp.com).
Non-GAAP Measures
The Company has included certain non-GAAP financial measures and non-GAAP ratios in this press release such as EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, Mine Operating Cash Flow cash cost per ounce sold, total cash cost per ounce sold, AISC per ounce sold. These non-GAAP measures are intended to provide additional information and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for measures of performance prepared in accordance with IFRS. In the gold mining industry, these are commonly used performance measures and ratios, but do not have any standardized meaning prescribed under IFRS and therefore may not be comparable to other issuers. The Company believes that, in addition to conventional measures prepared in accordance with IFRS, certain investors use this information to evaluate the Company's underlying performance of its core operations and its ability to generate cash flow.
"EBITDA" represents earnings before interest (including non-cash accretion of financial obligation and lease obligations), income taxes and depreciation, depletion and amortization.
"Adjusted EBITDA" represents EBITDA, adjusted to exclude exploration activities, share-based compensation and change in provision for reclamation and rehabilitation.
"Cash costs per ounce sold" is calculated by deducting revenues from silver sales and dividing the sum of mining, milling and mine site administration cost.
"Total cash costs per ounce sold" is calculated by deducting revenues from silver sales from production cash costs and production taxes and royalties and dividing the sum by the number of gold ounces sold. Production cash costs include mining, milling, mine site security and mine site administration costs.
"AISC per ounce sold" includes total cash costs (as defined above) and adds the sum of G&A, sustaining capital and certain exploration and evaluation ("E&E") costs, sustaining lease payments, provision for environmental fees, if applicable, and rehabilitation costs paid, all divided by the number of ounces sold. As this measure seeks to reflect the full cost of gold production from current operations, capital and E&E costs related to expansion or growth projects are not included in the calculation of AISC per ounce. Additionally, certain other cash expenditures, including income and other tax payments, financing costs and debt repayments, are not included in AISC per ounce.
"Mine OCF" represents operating cash flow, excluding Nicaraguan taxes and royalties, changes in non-cash working capital and exploration expenses.
On behalf of the Board,
Akiba Leisman
Chief Executive Officer
About Mako
Mako Mining Corp. is a publicly listed gold mining, development and exploration company. The Company operates the high-grade San Albino gold mine in Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua, which ranks as one of the highest-grade open pit gold mines globally. Mako's primary objective is to operate San Albino profitably and fund exploration of prospective targets on its district-scale land package.
Forward-Looking Information: Some of the statements contained herein may be considered "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Forward-looking information can be identified by words such as, without limitation, "estimate", "project", "believe", "anticipate", "intend", "expect", "plan", "predict", "may" or "should" or variations thereon or comparable terminology. The forward-looking information contained herein reflects the Company's current beliefs and expectations, based on management's reasonable assumptions, and includes, without limitation, that we expect a very strong Q4 with an increase in throughput to 600 tpd with no additional Capex and minimal recovery loses; that we expect a significant reduction in cash cost (in line with the higher ounces produced), a higher net income and record gold sales for the Q4 2022; that we do not currently expect there to be any material changes to our mining and exploration operations in Nicaragua as a result of the October 24 measures;; and Mako's primary objective to operate San Albino profitably and fund exploration of prospective targets on its district-scale land package. Such forward-looking information is subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking information, including, without limitation, changes in the Company's exploration and development plans and growth parameters and its ability to fund its growth to reach its stated target capacity; unanticipated costs; the October 24 measures having impacts on business operations not current expected, or new sanctions being imposed by the U.S. Treasury Department or other government entity in Nicaragua in the future; and other risks and uncertainties as disclosed in the Company's public disclosure filings on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. Such information contained herein represents management's best judgment as of the date hereof, based on information currently available and is included for the purposes of providing investors with information regarding the Company's Q3 2022 financial results and may not be appropriate for other purposes. Mako does not undertake to update any forward-looking information, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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Birmingham-based Byars|Wright, Inc. and Tuscaloosa-based Pritchett-Moore Insurance announce merger
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Byars|Wright Insurance and Pritchett-Moore Insurance announced today they entered into a merger agreement. As a result of the deal, the Where Relationships Matter Group, LLC (WRM) formed. While the agencies will continue operating under their respective names, Byars|Wright and Pritchett-Moore Insurance are now members of the new WRM Group.
This strategic partnership unites two successful agencies, each more than 75 years old. The complementary nature of their portfolios and cultures presents a substantial opportunity. Synergies come from the increased scale of the group, sharing of best practices, and combined resources.
"These are exciting times," said Haig Wright II, President of Byars|Wright. "In our industry, scale matters. This allegiance enhances our overall market strength and provides significant opportunities for all involved. More importantly, it benefits our customers."
Wright and Pritchett-Moore Insurance President Lin Moore agree the merger was a natural progression for the two like-minded agencies.
"We're pleased to partner with an agency that cares about its employees, customers, community, and carrier relationships as much as we do," Moore stated. "We're better together. This is a positive move which will accelerate revenue growth and profitability, allowing us to expand and provide more value and superior services."
Byars|Wright has six offices across Alabama. Pritchett-Moore's office is in Tuscaloosa. There are no plans to change locations. Current employees remain in their existing offices. The agencies will continue offering commercial insurance, surety/bonding, employee benefits solutions, personal and life insurance.
In addition to Wright and Moore serving as Managing Members of WRM Group, Gabe Clement of Byars|Wright and Andrew Hudson of Pritchett-Moore comprise WRM Group's Executive Committee. Clement and Hudson remain in their current agency roles as well.
Pritchett-Moore Insurance is an independent insurance agency in Alabama that specializes in quality and competitive solutions for individuals and businesses. Designated a Best Practices Agency, Pritchett-Moore has served the insurance needs of its clients since 1934 and believes in thinking 'out of the box' in their approach to insurance and protection. pm-insurance.com
Byars|Wright, Inc. serves customers across the Southeast delivering a range of insurance products with quality coverage at competitive prices. Since 1946, the relationship-driven and customer-focused agency expanded its scope of business to include commercial, personal, and employee benefits insurance. Byars|Wright is designated a Best Practices Agency and one of the "Best Companies to Work For in Alabama". Byarswright.com
For more information contact Lacey Rae Visintainer, LaceyRae@byarswright.com
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AP source: Mets calling up top prospect Álvarez vs Braves
By MIKE FITZPATRICK
AP Baseball Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The first-place New York Mets are calling up top prospect Francisco Álvarez for their pivotal weekend series against the Atlanta Braves, according to a person familiar with the decision. The person confirmed the move to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the Mets had not yet announced the transaction. The 20-year-old Álvarez is rated the No. 1 overall prospect in baseball by MLB.com, which reported his promotion earlier. He batted .260 with 27 home runs, 78 RBIs and an .885 OPS combined at Double-A Binghamton and Triple-A Syracuse this season. New York leads the NL East by one game over the defending World Series champion Braves heading into their three-game series in Atlanta that begins Friday night. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/09/29/ap-source-mets-calling-up-top-prospect-alvarez-vs-braves/ | 2022-09-30 08:44:49 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/09/29/ap-source-mets-calling-up-top-prospect-alvarez-vs-braves/ |
TAMPA, Fla — Victor Hedman scored the go-ahead goal with 6:31 remaining and the Tampa Bay Lightning tied a team record with their 11th straight home victory by defeating the NHL-best Boston Bruins 3-2 on Thursday night.
Brayden Point’s pass for Steven Stamkos on a 2-on-1 misfired, but the puck came right to Hedman. His shot from the left circle beat Linus Ullmark after the Boston goalie was run over by teammate Brandon Carlo, breaking a 2-all tie.
The Lightning matched the franchise mark for consecutive home wins, set in 2019-20. They ended Boston’s six-game winning streak and the Bruins’ run of seven road victories in a row.
Brandon Hagel and Nikita Kucherov also scored for Tampa Bay, which defeated the Bruins for the first time in three tries this season. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 37 saves.
Brad Marchand and Pavel Zacha had the goals for the Bruins, who fell to 38-6-4. Ullmark stopped 32 shots.
The Lightning needed just 30 seconds to capitalize on their first power play and take a 1-0 lead. Hagel was left alone in front, took a pass from Kucherov and beat Ullmark over the blocker at 10:42.
Vasilevskiy preserved the lead late in the period by robbing Zacha and David Pastrnak less than a minute apart.
The goalies continued to excel in the second. Vasilevskiy denied Hampus Lindholm, who was alone between the hashmarks, five minutes into the period. Eight minutes later, Ullmark stopped Point on a breakaway and Stamkos on a wide-open 15-footer from the slot.
However, Marchand got the Bruins even at 1 when he beat Vasilevskiy with a low wrist shot from the left circle at 16:58.
The Lightning took a 2-1 lead 58 seconds into the third period when Stamkos won a faceoff to Kucherov, who whipped a shot past Ullmark. But the Bruins tied it at 2:24 on a goal by Zacha, who finished off a three-way passing play.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Supporters for Patrick Lyoya and the police officer charged with killing him are expected inside the Kent County Courthouse this week for a key court hearing in the murder case.
While security always is important inside of a courthouse for cases where emotions run high, the case against Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr, who has since been fired, already led to a confrontation following a previous hearing.
Kent County sheriff’s officials, who handle security at the courthouse in downtown Grand Rapids, are mindful of the upcoming hearing in the case that has drawn national attention.
Kent County Sgt. Eric Brunner told MLive/The Grand Rapids Press in an email that the sheriff’s office is “aware of the upcoming preliminary hearing,” but he shared few details about any potential precautions.
“Safety and security are priorities each day as many come and go from the courthouse during difficult circumstances,” Brunner stated in the email.
A preliminary examination is scheduled to begin Thursday morning, Oct. 27, before Kent County District Judge Nicholas Ayoub. Schurr, 31, was charged with second-degree murder for the fatal shooting of Lyoya at arraignment in June.
The purpose of the preliminary examination is for the district judge to determine if there is enough evidence to bind the defendant over for a trial in circuit court.
More than four months ago, the confrontation between Lyoya’s supporters and those backing Schurr unfolded in a hallway outside of the courtroom after the arraignment. The June hearing was routine and somewhat quick, while the preliminary examination will feature testimony and could extend beyond one day.
Supporters for Lyoya and Schurr confronted each other through verbal disputes on June 10.
An MLive videographer captured portions of different confrontations between supporters. In one clip, at least six Kent County sheriff’s deputies can be seen standing between the parties as they shouted outside of the courtroom.
In the video, the parties can later be seen yelling at one another – still inside the courthouse building – near an elevator. Afterward, Lyoya’s supporters continued to share their frustrations outside of the Grand Rapids Police Department.
Thursday’s hearing is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. and will be broadcast on Ayoub’s YouTube channel.
Schurr shot Lyoya, a 24-year-old Congolese refugee, in the back of the head that day during a struggle following a traffic stop on Nelson Avenue SE on April 4. The two fought over control of Schurr’s Taser before the officer fired his weapon while on top of Lyoya.
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This week’s offerings range from Space Jam and tasting tours, to divine dancing and Irish fiddling, with bowling for a good cause, and more. Shake up your winter routine.
ICE JAM
“Space Jam” had Looney Tunes and Michael Jordan. But Ice Jam has ice and Rhode Islanders so let’s call it a tie. This days-long ice extravaganza sounds amazing. According to its event pages, the family-friendly fun includes ice skating, ice bumper cars, ice sculptures, “a winter wonder walk featuring a variety of frozen friends,” artisan vendors, food trucks and more. On Friday, from 6:30-9:30 p.m. find skating, Dunkin’ sampling, giveaways, and activities. Saturday’s events include free rink admission from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., inflatable art, ice sculptures, “ice-themed crafts,” live music, and cocktails. Sunday: It’s a Knead Donut Giveaway at 10 a.m. BankNewport City Center, 2 Kennedy Plaza, Providence. For full details see here.
GET YOUR SIP ON
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If you’re bummed that the Rhode Island Brew Fest is sold out, fear not: the whiskey and wine still flow:
White Dog Distilling offers a Distillery Tasting Tour Jan. 28, 1:30-2:30 p.m. According to the billing, you’ll taste three half-ounce pours, from the current line of spirits, plus one additional tour-exclusive, spirit or cocktail sample. $18. 560 Mineral Spring Ave., Pawtucket. Details here.
The Industrious Spirit Company hosts an in-depth tour to learn how they make their spirits. Tasting included. Jan. 29. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. $15. 1 Sims Ave. #103, Providence. Details here.
Leyden Farm Vineyard & Winery hosts a wine tasting at their West Greenwich vineyard. Select five wines and learn about each. The glasses are yours to keep. Post-tasting, you might purchase a bottle to enjoy in the tasting room, on a winterized heated patio, or just stroll the vineyard. Through March 1. Tickets from $12. 160 Plain Meeting House Road. Details here.
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‘FAITH HEALER’
For Irish drama, there’s still time to see “Faith Healer” at The Gamm. From the late acclaimed Irish dramatist Brian Friel, “Faith Healer,” directed by Ireland native Donnla Hughes, “weaves together the stories of an erratic, itinerant faith healer with those of his embittered but loving wife and his weary stage manager,” according to Gamm’s billing. “In lyrical monologues, the characters … slowly reveal a terrible event at the story’s center.” Through Jan. 29. 1245 Jefferson Blvd., Warwick. 401-723-4266. Prices vary. Details here.
WOLF PLAY
“Wolf Play,” by Hansol Jung and directed by Carol Ann Tan, runs Jan. 27 through Feb. 5, presented by the Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company MFA Programs in Acting and Directing. The nutshell, according to Trinity Rep’s website: A Korean boy who may or may not be a wolf, Jeenu is adopted by an American family before being suddenly rehomed. The story involves a custody battle, two strained marriages, and a pro boxer’s debut. At the Pell Chafee Performance Center, 87 Empire St., Providence. $15. 401-351-424. Learn more here and here.
5,000 YEARS OF CULTURE
A feast for the senses, “Shen Yun” hits the Providence Performing Arts Center Jan. 28 and 29. Through music and dance, Shen Yun is reviving the divine culture that flourished in China for 5,000 years, according to the show’s website. Shen Yun “can be translated as: ‘The beauty of divine beings dancing.’” Check the website and Instagram to learn more. Tickets from $90. 220 Weybosset St., 401-421-2787. Details here.
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GO, CELTS
Celtic music, that is. If you can’t wait until St. Paddy’s to get your Irish fiddle on, head to Cumberland’s Blackstone River Theatre for Fellswater, a seven-piece Boston-based group playing traditional and modern music fromScotland, Ireland, Brittany, Canada and beyond, according to billing. Jan. 28, 7 p.m. $20 advance; $22 door. 549 Broad St. Get a sense of what to expect here; show details here.
BOWL FOR WILDLIFE
“Bowl For Wildlife,” a benefit for the Wildlife Clinic of Rhode Island/Wildlife Rehabilitators Association of Rhode Island, rolls on Jan. 29 at 2:30 p.m. at Old Mountain Lanes in Wakefield. $25 per person includes two hours of lane time and rentals. There will be a raffle, and food and drinks available for purchase. 756 Kingstown Road, South Kingstown. Details here.
FREE DEAD SHOW
Rhody’s Dead tribute band Violin River plays a free four-hour show at PVD’s Askew Jan. 29. Door open at noon, show 1-4 p.m. 150 Chestnut St. Details here.
THE SUN WILL COME OUT TOMORROW
“Annie” hits PPAC Jan. 31-Feb. 5. 220 Weybosset St., Providence. Tickets from $38. Details here.
‘THE LAST WALTZ’
Band fans, rejoice: “The Last Waltz” — which you’ve likely only seen on your home TV — hits the big screen at the Greenwich Odeum Feb. 3. This looks to be a moving group experience. The Band’s historic 1976 Thanksgiving Day farewell performance, directed by Martin Scorsese, has long been hailed as an iconic rock event. Featuring Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Ringo Starr, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters and more, let’s watch with speakers cranked to 11. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital. $10. Doors 7 p.m., show 8 p.m. 59 Main St., East Greenwich. 401-885-4000. Details here.
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MONSTER JAM
Monster Jam fans, rev your engines: the juggernaut hits the Amica Mutual Pavilion Feb. 3-5. Includes a new “apex predator — ThunderROARus.” 1 Lasalle Square, Providence. Tickets from $15. Details and schedule here.
ONGOING
Catch some cuteness at Roger Williams Park Zoo, with half-off admission now through Feb. 28. Hang out with Paia the baby tree kangaroo. Discount applied at checkout. 1000 Elmwood Ave., Providence. Details here.
“We’re All Gonna Die,” an Obie Award-winning piece from acclaimed playwright Young Jean Lee, runs through Feb. 12 at Wilbury Theatre Group. All tickets are pay-what-you-can, ranging from $5 to $55. 475 Valley St., Providence. Show details here.
Liberty Farm & Carriage Company, a working farm in Burrillville, offers private horse carriage or sleigh rides. Prices vary for rides from groups of two to 14. 60 Ironmine Road, Burrillville. 401-651-6004. Details and video here.
Until next week, Rhody: Keep rockin’.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
Pampa Energía S.A.
Offer to Exchange, Any and All of its Outstanding
7.375% Notes due 2023
(CUSIP Nos. 71647X AA5 and P7873P AE6 ISIN Nos. US71647XAA54 and USP7873PAE62)
Pampa Energía S.A. ("Pampa" or the "Company") hereby announces the commencement of its offer to exchange (the "Exchange Offer") any and all of the outstanding 7.375% Notes due 2023 (the "Old Notes") for newly issued 9.000% Notes due December 8, 2026 (the "New Notes") and cash consideration, as applicable, each upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the offering memorandum (the "Exchange Offer Memorandum"), dated June 16, 2022, the related eligibility letter (the "Eligibility Letter"), and, where applicable, the related Letter of Transmittal, as defined below (together the "Exchange Offer Documents").
Only holders who have returned a duly completed Eligibility Letter certifying that they are (1) "qualified institutional buyers" ("QIBs") as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), (2) holders of Old Notes other than "U.S. persons" (as defined in Rule 902 under the Securities Act) who are located outside of the United States, who are qualified offerees in other jurisdictions and who are not Argentine Entity Offerees (as defined in the Eligibility Letter) or Non-Cooperating Jurisdiction Offerees (as defined in the Eligibility Letter), (3) "non-U.S. persons" who are Argentine Entity Offerees, (4) "non-U.S. persons" who are Non-Cooperating Jurisdictions Offerees, or (5) "non-U.S. persons" who are Eligible Canadian Holders (as defined in the Eligibility Letter), are authorized to receive the Exchange Offer Memorandum and to participate in the Exchange Offer (such holders, "Eligible Holders"); provided that Argentine Entity Offerees and Non-Cooperating Jurisdiction Offerees may not participate in the Exchange Offer unless they also complete, sign and submit the Letter of Transmittal to the Information and Exchange Agent.
Argentine Entity Offerees and Non-Cooperating Jurisdiction Offerees are subject to certain tax withholdings in respect of interest collected on, and gains or losses resulting from the tendering of the Old Notes. See "Taxation—Certain Argentine Tax Considerations" in the Exchange Offer Memorandum.
Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Exchange Offer Documents, Eligible Holders who validly tender Old Notes, and whose Old Notes are accepted for exchange by us may choose between two, mutually exclusive, consideration options, detailed in the table below, in the columns under the headings "Option A" and "Option B."
Eligible Holders whose Old Notes are accepted for exchange in the Exchange Offer will also receive accrued and unpaid interest in respect of such exchanged Old Notes from the last interest payment date to, but not including, the Settlement Date (as defined below) (such payment, the "Accrued Interest Payment").
Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Exchange Offer Documents, tenders of Old Notes submitted under Option A at or prior to the Early Participation Date (as defined below) will receive a combination of the Early A Pro-Rata Cash Consideration (as defined below) and the applicable Early A New Notes Consideration (as defined below) (together, the "Early A Consideration"), or solely the Early A Pro-Rata Cash Consideration depending on the amount of Old Notes tendered pursuant to Option A at or prior to the Early Participation Date. Tenders of Old Notes submitted under Option A after the Early Participation Date but at or prior to the Expiration Date (as defined below) will receive U.S.$1,000 principal amount of New Notes per U.S.$1,000 principal amount of Old Notes validly tendered and accepted for exchange (the "Late Exchange Consideration"). For the avoidance of doubt, Eligible Holders submitting tenders after the Early Participation Date will not receive any cash consideration.
The Early A Consideration and the Early B Consideration (as defined below) together are referred to as the "Early Exchange Consideration." The Early Exchange Consideration and the Late Exchange Consideration together are referred to as the "Exchange Consideration."
The Aggregate Early A Cash Consideration is an aggregate amount equivalent to the lesser of (x) 30% of the aggregate principal amount of Old Notes that are validly tendered and accepted for exchange in the Exchange Offer (such 30% of the aggregate principal amount, the "Total Cash Consideration"), and (y) the principal amount of the Old Notes accepted for exchange under Option A at or prior to the Early Participation Date (the "Aggregate Early A Cash Consideration"). The Early A Pro-Rata Cash Consideration is the Aggregate Early A Cash Consideration, payable on a pro rata basis to Eligible Holders of Old Notes, validly submitting tender orders in exchange for Early A Consideration (the "Early A Pro-Rata Cash Consideration").
The Early A New Notes Consideration for each Eligible Holder whose Old Notes are accepted for exchange under Option A at or prior to the Early Participation Date will be New Notes in a principal amount equal to the difference between US$1,000 and the Early A Pro-Rata Cash Consideration received by each such Eligible Holder (the "Early A New Notes Consideration").
At the Expiration Date, the Early A Pro-Rata Cash Consideration and Early A New Notes Consideration will be determined based on the principal amount of Old Notes validly tendered and accepted in the Exchange Offer. Accordingly, the actual amounts of Early A New Notes Consideration and Early A Pro-Rata Cash Consideration comprising the Early A Consideration to be received by each Eligible Holder whose Old Notes are accepted in the Exchange Offer under Option A at or prior to the Early Participation Date (and, in the event that less than all of the Total Cash Consideration is paid out pursuant to Option A, the actual amount of Early B Pro-Rata Cash Consideration (as defined below), if any, to be received by Eligible Holders whose Old Notes are accepted in the Exchange Offer under Option B at or prior to the Early Participation Date), will depend on the actual participation by Eligible Holders in the Exchange Offer and their selection between Option A and Option B.
Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Exchange Offer Documents, tenders of Old Notes submitted under Option B at or prior to the Early Participation Date will receive U.S.$1,010 principal amount of New Notes per U.S.$1,000 principal amount of Old Notes validly tendered and accepted for exchange. The consideration received by holders of Old Notes under this paragraph is referred to as "Early B Consideration."
Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Exchange Offer Documents, tenders of Old Notes submitted under Option B after the Early Participation Date but at or prior to the Expiration Date will receive the Late Exchange Consideration, which is U.S.$1,000 principal amount of New Notes per U.S.$1,000 principal amount of Old Notes validly tendered and accepted for exchange. Consideration for Old Notes, either under Option A or Option B, submitted after the Early Participation Date but at or prior to the Expiration Date, is the same.
In the event that less than the Total Cash Consideration is tendered under Option A, the difference between the Total Cash Consideration and the Aggregate Early A Cash Consideration (such difference, the "Aggregate Early B Cash Consideration") will be paid to Eligible Holders whose Old Notes are accepted for exchange under Option B at or prior to the Early Participation Date, pro rata to the principal amount of their Old Notes accepted for exchange under Option B at or prior to the Early Participation Date (the "Early B Pro-Rata Cash Consideration"), and ratably reducing the principal amount of New Notes that comprise the Early B Consideration. Eligible Holders tendering Old Notes under Option B at or prior to the Early Participation Date will only receive cash as part of the Early B Consideration if the Total Cash Consideration is greater than the Aggregate Early A Cash Consideration.
The following table sets forth certain material terms of the Exchange Offer:
The Exchange Offer will expire at 11:59 p.m. (New York City time) on July 20, 2022 (such date and time with respect to the Exchange Offer, as the same may be extended with respect to such Exchange Offer, the "Expiration Date"). In order to be eligible to receive the Early Exchange Consideration, eligible holders of Old Notes must validly tender and not validly withdraw their Old Notes, on or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on July 6, 2022, unless extended (such date and time, as the same may be extended, the "Early Participation Date"). Eligible Holders of Old Notes who validly tender their Old Notes after the Early Participation Date, but on or prior to the Expiration Date, will be eligible to receive only the Late Exchange Consideration. Old Notes validly tendered may be validly withdrawn at any time prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time on July 6, 2022, unless extended by the Company in its sole discretion (such date and time, as the same may be extended, the "Withdrawal Date"), but not thereafter. Unless the Exchange Offer is extended, the Settlement Date for the Exchange Offer is expected to be on August 8, 2022, in compliance with the approval received from the Argentine Central Bank to access the foreign exchange market starting on August 1, 2022, for purposes of obtaining the U.S. dollars required to pay the Total Cash Consideration.
The consummation of the Exchange Offer is conditioned upon, among other conditions, the valid tender of U.S.$350,000,000 or more of the aggregate principal amount outstanding of Old Notes in the Exchange Offer (the "Minimum Participation Condition"), and other customary conditions, including (1) having obtained all governmental approvals that we, in our reasonable judgment, consider necessary for the completion of the Exchange Offer, and all such approvals shall remain in effect, including the approval we received by the Central Bank to access the foreign exchange market for payment of the Total Cash Consideration, (2) that Pampa will not be obligated to consummate the Exchange Offer upon the occurrence of an event or events or the likely occurrence of an event or events that would or might reasonably be expected to prohibit, restrict or delay the consummation of the Exchange Offer or materially impair the contemplated benefits to Pampa of the Exchange Offer, and (3) in the case of Old Notes tendered by Argentine Entity Offerees and Non-Cooperating Jurisdiction Offerees, such holder's delivery of the Letter of Transmittal. Subject to applicable law and limitations described in the Exchange Offer Memorandum, Pampa may waive any of these conditions in its sole discretion. See "Description of the Exchange Offer—Conditions to the Exchange Offer" in the Exchange Offer Memorandum.
The purpose of the Exchange Offer is to exchange the Old Notes for cash and the New Notes, as applicable, which will extend the maturity of the debt obligations associated with the Old Notes.
D.F. King & Co., Inc. will act as the Information and Exchange Agent for the Exchange Offer. Questions or requests for assistance related to the Exchange Offer or for additional copies of the Exchange Offer Documents may be directed to D.F. King & Co., Inc. at (877) 732-3617 (toll free) or (212) 269-5550 (bankers and brokers). You may also contact your broker, dealer, commercial bank, trust company or other nominee for assistance concerning the Exchange Offer. The Exchange Offer are available for Eligible Holders at the following web address: www.dfking.com/pampa
Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Santander Investment Securities are acting as the Joint Global Coordinators and Lead Dealer Managers (the "Joint Global Coordinators and Lead Dealer Managers") for the Exchange Offer. BNP Paribas Securities Corp., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC are acting as the Joint Dealer Managers (the "Joint Dealer Managers" and, together with the Joint Global Coordinators and Lead Dealer Managers, the "Dealer Managers") for the Exchange Offer. Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires S.A.U., Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Argentina) S.A.U and Banco Santander Argentina S.A are acting as local placement agents.
Subject to applicable law, the Exchange Offer may be amended in any respect, extended or, upon failure of a condition to be satisfied or waived prior to the Expiration Date or Settlement Date, as the case may be, terminated, at any time and for any reason. Although we have no present plans or arrangements to do so, we reserve the right to amend, at any time, the terms of the Exchange Offer (including, without limitation, the conditions thereto) in accordance with applicable law. We will give Eligible Holders notice of any amendments and will extend the Expiration Date if required by applicable law.
Eligible Holders of Old Notes are advised to check with any bank, securities broker or other intermediary through which they hold Old Notes as to when such intermediary would need to receive instructions from an Eligible Holder in order for that Eligible Holder to be able to participate in, or withdraw their instruction to participate in, the Exchange Offer before the deadlines specified in the Exchange Offer Documents. The deadlines set by any such intermediary for the submission of instructions will be earlier than the relevant deadlines specified above.
This announcement is not an offer of securities for sale in the United States, and none of the New Notes (as defined in the Exchange Offer Memorandum) has been or will be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") or any state securities law. They may not be offered or sold within the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to the registration requirements of the Securities Act. This press release does not constitute an offer of the New Notes for sale, or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, in any state or other jurisdiction in which any offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. Any person considering making an investment decision relating to any securities must inform itself independently based solely on an offering memorandum to be provided to eligible investors in the future in connection with any such securities before taking any such investment decision.
This announcement is directed only to holders of Old Notes who are (A) "qualified institutional buyers" as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act or (B) (x) outside the United States as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act, (y) if located within a Member State of the European Economic Area ("EEA") or in the United Kingdom, "qualified investors" as defined in Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (the "Prospectus Regulation") and (z) if outside the EEA or the UK, are eligible to receive this offer under the laws of its jurisdiction (each an "Eligible Holder"). No offer of any kind is being made to any beneficial owner of Eligible Bonds who does not meet the above criteria or any other beneficial owner located in a jurisdiction where the Exchange Offer Solicitation is not permitted by law.
The distribution of materials relating to the Exchange Offer may be restricted by law in certain jurisdictions. The Exchange Offer is void in all jurisdictions where it is prohibited. If materials relating to the Exchange Offer come into your possession, you are required by the Company to inform yourself of and to observe all of these restrictions. The materials relating to the Exchange Offer, including this communication, do not constitute, and may not be used in connection with, an offer or solicitation in any place where offers or solicitations are not permitted by law. If a jurisdiction requires that the Exchange Offer be made by a licensed broker or dealer and a dealer manager or any affiliate of a dealer manager is a licensed broker or dealer in that jurisdiction, the Exchange Offer shall be deemed to be made by the dealer manager or such affiliate on behalf of the Company in that jurisdiction.
All statements in this press release, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements. These statements are based on expectations and assumptions on the date of this press release and are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, market conditions, and factors over which the Company has no control. The Company assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements, and does not intend to do so, unless otherwise required by law.
The New Notes are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the European Economic Area ("EEA"). For these purposes, (a) a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of: (i) a retail client as defined in point (11) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU (as amended, "MiFID II"); or (ii) a customer within the meaning of Directive (EU) 2016/97 (the "Insurance Distribution Directive"), where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (10) of Article 4(1) of MiFID II; or (iii) not a qualified investor as defined in Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (the "Prospectus Regulation"); and (b) the expression "offer" includes the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the New Notes to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to subscribe for the New Notes. Consequently, no key information document required by Regulation (EU) 1286/2014 (as amended, the "PRIIPs Regulation") for offering or selling the New Notes or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the EEA has been prepared and therefore otherwise offering or selling the New Notes or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the EEA may be unlawful under the PRIIPs Regulation.
The New Notes are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the United Kingdom. For these purposes: (a) the expression retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of the following: (i) a retail client, as defined in point (8) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 2017/565 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (EUWA); or (ii) a customer within the meaning of the provisions of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (as amended, the "FSMA") and any rules or regulations made under the FSMA to implement Directive (EU) 2016/97, where that customer would not qualify as a professional client, as defined in point (8) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the EUWA and (iii) not a qualified investor as defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the EUWA; and (b) the expression an offer includes the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Notes to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to subscribe for the New Notes. Consequently no key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the EUWA (the "UK PRIIPs Regulation") for offering or selling the New Notes or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the UK has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the Notes or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the UK may be unlawful under the UK PRIIPs Regulation.
The Information and Exchange Agent for the Exchange Offer Solicitation is:
D.F. King & Co., Inc.
48 Wall Street
New York, NY 10005
Banks and Brokers call: (212) 269-5550
Toll free: (877) 732-3617
Confirmation: (212) 232-3233
Email: pampa@dfking.com
Website: www.dfking.com/pampa
By Mail, by Overnight Courier, or by Hand: By Facsimile Transmission:
48 Wall Street (for Eligible Institutions only)
New York, NY 10005 (212) 709-3328
Any question regarding the terms of the Exchange Offer should be directed to the Dealer Managers.
The Joint Global Coordinators and Lead Dealer Managers for the Exchange Offer are:
Citigroup Santander
The Dealer Managers for the Exchange Offer are:
BNP PARIBAS HSBC J.P. Morgan
The Exchange Offer shall be available online at www.dfking.com/pampa until the consummation or termination of the Exchange Offer.
Media Contact:
(212) 269-5550
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The chair of an influential negotiating bloc in the upcoming United Nations climate summit in Egypt has called for compensation for poorer countries suffering from climate change to be high up on the agenda.
Madeleine Diouf Sarr, who chairs the Least Developed Countries group, told The Associated Press that the November conference — known as COP27 — should “capture the voice and needs of the most climate-vulnerable nations and deliver climate justice.”
Sarr said the group would like to see “an agreement to establish a dedicated financial facility” that pays nations that are already facing the effects of climate change at the summit.
The LDC group, comprised of 46 nations that make up just a small fraction of global emissions, negotiates as a bloc at the U.N. summit to champion the interests of developing countries. Issues such as who pays for poorer nations to transition to cleaner energy, making sure no communities get left behind in an energy transition and boosting how well vulnerable people can adapt to climate change have long been on the bloc’s agenda.
Developing nations still face serious challenges accessing clean energy finance, with Africa attracting just 2% of the total clean energy investment in the last 20 years, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency. The U.N. weather agency recently estimated that global clean energy supplies must double by 2030 for the world to limit global warming within the set targets.
Sarr added that the bloc will push for funds to help developing countries adapt to droughts, floods and other climate-related events as well as urging developed nations to speed up their plans to reduce emissions. The group is particularly vulnerable to climate change because of their lack of ability to adapt to extremes, the U.N. weather agency said.
“We have delayed climate action for too long,” Sarr said, pointing to the promised $100 billion a year in climate aid for poorer countries that was pledged over a decade ago.
“We can no longer afford to have a COP that is ‘all talk.’ The climate crisis has pushed our adaptation limits, resulted in inevitable loss and damage, and delayed our much-needed development,” added Sarr.
The COP27 President also said this year’s summit should be about implementing plans and pledges that countries have agreed to at previous conferences.
Sarr defended the U.N. conference as “one of the few spaces where our nations come together to hold countries accountable for historical responsibility” and pointed to the success of the 2015 conference in Paris in setting the goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees C (2.7 F).
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The Magnificent Ambersons has been called Orson Welles' "lost masterpiece." The studio cut more than 40 minutes from the movie, but a filmmaker has used animation to recreate lost footage.
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The Magnificent Ambersons has been called Orson Welles' "lost masterpiece." The studio cut more than 40 minutes from the movie, but a filmmaker has used animation to recreate lost footage.
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The Extended Offering Stems from a Successful Pilot Program
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pressed, a leading cold-pressed juice and plant-based snack brand and Instacart, the leading grocery technology company in North America, have expanded their partnership to all Pressed locations, offering customers from coast-to-coast access to Pressed products delivered from store locations in as fast as an hour via Instacart.
This growth comes after the success of a smaller test which ran across the Southern California and Texas markets. Through Instacart, customers in all Pressed markets can now access juices, smoothies, and shots that support a healthy lifestyle, with the same speed and convenience as their groceries and other daily necessities.
"Increasing access to all Pressed stores was extremely important to us when we began this partnership. Access to healthy, plant-forward nutrition is our brand ethos," said Pawan Kalra, Pressed CEO. "The pilot proved how well Pressed and Instacart align. Both companies are dedicated to making nutrition attainable and efficient, and Instacart goes the extra mile to ensure our product arrives fresh and fast."
Customers can now shop from Pressed for delivery in as fast as an hour at https://www.instacart.com/store/pressed or by downloading the Instacart app on their mobile device. Once in the Instacart App, customers then enter their zip code, select the Pressed storefront and begin adding products to their digital cart. After checkout, an Instacart shopper will deliver the order within the customer's designated timeframe.
Pressed, formerly Pressed Juicery, is a leading cold-pressed juice and plant-based snacks brand dedicated to making plant-forward living as convenient and delicious as possible. The company's mission is to pave the way for plant-forward living by making real, healthy food accessible to everyone. Pressed operates more than 100 retail stores in 12 states, is available in nearly over 3,000 distribution points through its wholesale partners, and can be purchased directly from their website and shipped to any location within the U.S. For more information, please visit pressed.com or the Pressed app. Follow Pressed on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook for additional updates.
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16-year-old boy fatally shot near Chicago tourist attraction
CHICAGO (AP) - A 16-year-old boy was fatally shot near “The Bean” in Millennium Park in Chicago on Saturday, authorities said.
The Chicago Police Department said the boy was shot in the chest at about 7:30 p.m. near the popular tourist attraction. Police have not yet identified the boy.
He was taken to Lurie Children’s Hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said.
At least two suspects were taken in for questioning and at least two weapons were recovered, authorities said.
An investigation is ongoing. Police did not provide any additional information.
Hundreds of people were at the park Saturday as part of demonstrations across the U.S. protesting a recently leaked draft opinion that suggests the Supreme Court is prepared to overturn the constitutional right to abortion. It is unclear if the teen who was shot was part of the demonstrations.
Police cleared and closed the park following the shooting. It is unclear when it will reopen.
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Ryan Reiter, appointed Friday to the Broward School by Gov. Ron DeSantis, was accused by a former fiancee of abuse in a court filing five years ago. For most of 2017 and 2018, records show, he was prohibited by court order from having contact with her.
In requesting the injunction for protection, the woman said there was “verbal and physical abuse,” and Circuit Judge Michael Kaplan issued several short-term orders for Reiter to stay away from her as the case proceeded, then an order of protection that lasted a year.
In a petition for protection, filed in Broward County Circuit Court on July 19, 2017, the woman described a volatile relationship with confrontations fueled by alcohol. She said she “always forgave him because I thought he was under stress and gone through the death of a family member.”
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NEW YORK, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the stock of Bioventus Inc. (NASDAQ: BVS): (i) pursuant and/or traceable to the offering documents issued in connection with the Company's February 11, 2021 initial public offering (the "IPO" or "Offering"); and/or (ii) between February 11, 2021 and November 21, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important March 13, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Bioventus securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Bioventus class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=10065 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than March 13, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, the Offering Documents and defendants statements throughout the Class Period were false and/or misleading and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Bioventus suffered from significant liquidity issues; (2) the Company's rebate practices were unsustainable; (3) accordingly, defendants overstated the Company's business and financial prospects; (4) Bioventus maintained deficient disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting with respect to the timely recognition of quarterly rebates; (5) all the foregoing increased the risk that the Company would be forced to recognize a significant non-cash impairment charge, could not timely file one or more of its financial reports, would have to amend one or more of its financial statements, and could not meet its financial obligations as they came due; and (6) as a result, the Offering Documents were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
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AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan’s highly anticipated royal wedding day got underway on Thursday with the surprise announcement that Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate had arrived to witness the nuptials of Crown Prince Hussein and his Saudi Arabian bride.
The attendance of the British royals had been kept under wraps, and was only confirmed by Jordanian state media a few hours before the start of the palace ceremony.
The wedding of Jordan’s 28-year-old heir to the throne and Rajwa Alseif, a 29-year-old architect linked to her own country’s monarch, emphasizes continuity in an Arab state prized for its longstanding stability. The festivities, which are to start Thursday afternoon, also introduce Hussein to a wider global audience.
The celebration buttresses the royal family’s order of succession, refreshes its image after a palace feud and may even help resource-poor Jordan forge a strategic bond with its oil-rich neighbor, Saudi Arabia.
On Thursday morning, Saudi wedding guests and tourists — the men wearing white dishdasha robes and the women in brightly colored abayas — filtered through the sleek marbled lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel in Amman. Noura Al Sudairi, an aunt of the bride, was wearing sweatpants and sneakers on her way to breakfast.
“We are all so excited, so happy about this union,” she said. “Of course it’s a beautiful thing for our families, and for the relationship between Jordan and Saudi Arabia.”
Excitement over the nuptials — Jordan’s biggest royal event in years — has been building in the capital of Amman, where congratulatory banners of Hussein and his beaming bride adorn buses and hang over winding hillside streets. Shops had competing displays of royal regalia. Royal watchers speculated about which dress designer Alseif would select— still an official secret,
Nancy Tirana, a 28-year-old law intern, said she spent the last week scrutinizing Alseif’s every move and stitch of clothing.
“She’s just so beautiful, so elegant, and it’s clear from her body language how much she loves the queen,” she said, referring to Hussein’s glamorous mother, Rania. “I feel like all of Jordan is getting married,” Tirana gushed as she ate mansaf, Jordan’s national dish of milky mutton and rice, before heading to a wedding-themed concert.
Jordan’s 11 million citizens have watched the young crown prince rise in prominence in recent years, as he increasingly joined his father, King Abdullah II, in public appearances. Hussein has graduated from Georgetown University, joined the military and gained some global recognition speaking at the U.N. General Assembly. His wedding, experts say, marks his next crucial rite of passage.
“It’s not just a marriage, it’s the presentation of the future king of Jordan,” said political analyst Amer Sabaileh. “The issue of the crown prince has been closed.”
The wedding may create a brief feel-good moment for Jordanians during tough economic times, including persistent youth unemployment and an ailing economy.
Palace officials have turned the event — a week after Jordan’s 77th birthday — into something of a PR campaign. Combining tradition and modernity, the royal family introduced a wedding hashtag (#Celebrating Al Hussein) and omnipresent logo that fuses the couple’s initials into the Arabic words “We rejoice”
Photos and reels from Alseif’s henna party — a traditional pre-wedding celebration featuring the bride and her female friends and relatives — and the couple’s engagement ceremony in Saudi Arabia last summer have splashed across state-linked media.
The kingdom declared Thursday a public holiday so crowds of people could gather after the wedding service to wave at the couple’s motorcade of red Land Rover jeeps — a nod to the traditional procession of horse riders clad in red coats during the reign of the country’s founder, King Abdullah I. Tens of thousands of well-wishers are expected to flock to free concerts and cultural events. Huge screens have been set up nationwide for crowds to watch the occasion unfold.
The signing of the marriage contract will take place at Zahran Palace in Amman, which hasn’t seen such pomp and circumstance since 1993, when, on a similarly sunny June day, Abdullah married Rania, who was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents. Decades earlier, Abdullah’s father, the late King Hussein, sealed his vows in the same garden with his second wife, the British citizen Antoinette Gardiner.
In addition to the Prince and Princess of Wales, the guest list includes an array of foreign aristocrats and dignitaries, including senior royals from Europe and Asia, as well as First Lady Jill Biden and U.S. climate envoy John Kerry. Other likely attendees include Saudi aristocrats, as Alseif’s mother traces her roots to the influential wife of Saudi Arabia’s founder, King Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Her billionaire father owns a major construction firm in the kingdom.
After the ceremony, the wedding party will move to Al Husseiniya Palace, a 30-minute drive away, for a reception, entertainment and a state banquet. The royals are expected to greet more than 1,700 guests at the reception.
Experts consider the marriage an advantageous alliance for the Hashemites, historic rivals of the Al Saud family to the east. Jordan has recently sought closer ties with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab petrostates, which once doled out billions of dollars to the aid-dependent country but since have reined in their spending.
Even as restaurants blared call-and-response Arabic wedding songs and cars honked in celebration downtown, some signaled the royal fairy tale was fraught as Jordanians struggle to make ends meet.
Osama, a 25-year-old bookseller, was thrilled about the occasion and festooned his car and shop windows with portraits of the royal family. But he also knew reality would return quickly.
“Of course, it’s joyful,” he said, declining to give his last name for fear of reprisals. “But in a couple days, we’ll just go back to our problems.” | https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/jordans-future-king-saudi-bride-to-tie-the-knot-in-palace-ceremony-signaling-continuity-of-rule/ | 2023-06-01 12:01:29 | 0 | https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/jordans-future-king-saudi-bride-to-tie-the-knot-in-palace-ceremony-signaling-continuity-of-rule/ |
EMERYVILLE, Calif. and MELBOURNE, Australia, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Berkeley Lights, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLI), a leader in digital cell biology, today announced Monash University, one of Australia's leading universities, has implemented the use of the Berkeley Lights Beacon® system and Opto® Plasma B Discovery workflow for antibody discovery research. The technology is housed in the Monash Antibody Technology Facility (MATF) where researchers not only from Monash University but elsewhere in Victoria, Australia and worldwide can utilize their services for antibody production, assay development, robotics, high throughput screening and antibody characterization.
Since acquiring the Beacon Platform in early 2022, MATF scientists have developed significant expertise in using the Berkeley Lights technology and workflows. Specifically, the Beacon Platform has enabled them to expand their antibody discovery capacity beyond traditional hybridoma techniques, allowing them to offer a wider portfolio to their customers especially those with difficult targets using the Beacon single B cell-screening platforms for rapid antibody discovery.
In addition to MATF, Dr. Remy Robert, head of the Robert Lab associated with the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, and a member of the Immunity Program and the Department of Physiology, and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, is utilizing the Beacon Platform. Dr. Robert and other lab associates are developing new classes of therapeutic mAbs against difficult targets using cutting-edge technologies like the Beacon Platform in mAbs development, engineering, and pre-clinical validation.
Dr. Yue Geng, general manager of the Platform business at Berkeley Lights, said, "We are pleased to be partnering with the Monash Antibody Technology Facility at Monash University and supporting their scientists in their adoption of the Berkeley Lights Platform for antibody discovery. Monash University has quickly adopted our advanced technology to further their scientific expertise and enable the advancement of critical therapeutics to market. We look forward to enabling Monash University as one of the world's leading high-impact research institutions."
Some of the research advantages that Monash has experienced to date by using the Beacon Platform include:
- Accelerating the screening of primary B cells on the Berkeley Lights Beacon system for antibody discovery by weeks compared to the standard hybridoma process;
- Facilitating rapid screening of thousands of single plasma cells on the same day as cell isolation; and
- Identifying target-binding candidates in just one day, and sequencing of variable chains as well as generating recombinant antibodies in 2–4 weeks.
About Berkeley Lights
Berkeley Lights is a leading digital cell biology company focused on enabling and accelerating the rapid development and commercialization of biotherapeutics and other cell-based products for our customers. The Berkeley Lights Platform captures deep phenotypic, functional, and genotypic information for thousands of single cells in parallel and can also deliver the live biology customers desire in the form of the best cells. Our platform is a fully integrated, end-to-end solution, comprising proprietary consumables, including our OptoSelect® chips and reagent kits, advanced automation systems, and application software. We developed the Berkeley Lights Platform to provide the most advanced environment for rapid functional characterization of single cells at scale, the goal of which is to establish an industry standard for our customers throughout their cell-based product value chain.
About Monash University
Monash University is Australia's largest university with more than 80,000 students. In the 60 years since its foundation, it has developed a reputation for world-leading high-impact research, quality teaching, and inspiring innovation. With four campuses in Australia and a presence in Malaysia, China, India, Indonesia, and Italy, it is one of the most internationalized Australian universities. As a leading international medical research university with the largest medical faculty in Australia and integration with leading Australian teaching hospitals, Monash University consistently ranks in the top 50 universities worldwide for clinical, pre-clinical and health sciences.
Forward-Looking Statements
To the extent that statements contained in this press release are not descriptions of historical facts regarding Berkeley Lights or its products, they are forward-looking statements reflecting the current beliefs and expectations of management. Such forward-looking statements involve substantial known and unknown risks and uncertainties that relate to future events, and actual results and product performance could differ significantly from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Berkeley Lights undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements. For a further description of the risks and uncertainties relating to the Company's growth and continual evolution see the statements in the "Risk Factors" sections, and elsewhere, in our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday awarded grants for projects to monitor air quality in 37 states, with a focus on minority communities and other areas overburdened by pollution.
A total of 132 projects will receive $53.4 million to enhance air quality monitoring near chemical plants, refineries and other industrial sites — part of a commitment by the Biden administration to focus on environmental justice in communities adversely affected by decades of industrial pollution.
The grants are funded by the sweeping climate and health law approved in August and the coronavirus relief plan approved by Congress last year.
“This money is headed where it’s needed most,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said. The newly funded projects “will ensure dozens of overburdened communities have the tools they need to better understand air quality challenges in their neighborhoods and will help protect people from the dangers posed by air pollution,” he said.
Eight projects being funded are in neighborhoods that Regan visited on what he calls a “Journey to Justice” tour of communities plagued by long-term pollution.
“All people, no matter where they live, deserve clean water and clean air and the opportunity to live a healthy life,” said Regan, the first Black man to head the EPA.
The grants follow enforcement actions announced by Regan in January to conduct unannounced inspections of chemical plants, refineries and other industrial sites in three Gulf Coast states suspected of polluting air and water and causing health problems to nearby residents.
Recipients include the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, a New Orleans-based advocacy group that has pushed for stricter federal oversight of an 85-mile (137-kilometer) stretch from New Orleans to Baton Rouge officially known as the Mississippi River Chemical Corridor but more commonly called Cancer Alley. The region contains several hotspots where cancer risks are far above levels deemed acceptable by the EPA. The group will receive nearly $500,000 to help community groups monitor their air quality and “become more active and effective in civic engagement,” the EPA said.
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality received nearly $480,000 to establish and operate a temporary air monitoring site in St. James Parish, home to numerous petrochemical plants and refineries. The equipment will allow for almost real-time data on air quality, the EPA said.
The state agency also will receive $422,000 to conduct air quality monitoring in the Alexandria-Pineville area between two wood treatment facilities.
The Louisiana Environmental Action Network will receive $500,000 to assess air quality throughout Louisiana’s industrial corridor, and the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality will receive $500,000 to measure air pollution in the Cherokee community.
Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city by population, will receive $500,000 to monitor four hazardous air pollutants that pose risks to communities there.
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Which refrigerator organizer bins are best?
It seems like the fridge always ends up a mess and is filled with leftovers and old produce that you forgot you bought. One way to help avoid wasting food is to keep everything in your refrigerator organized so everything is in plain view.
You can say goodbye to the days of stacking jars on top of each other and shoving back bags of produce to make your leftovers fit. Like the top choice HOOJO Fridge Organizer Bins, the best refrigerator organizer bins make finding things in your fridge simple and easy.
What to know before you buy a refrigerator organizer bin
Size
Size is vitally important when purchasing organizer bins, especially if you have a mini-fridge that could use a little sprucing up.
The best practice is to measure the depth of your fridge to ensure that the bins you purchase can fit properly. Though it may seem obvious, some people may not realize they have a counter-depth fridge that isn’t as deep as standard ones. It can be a frustrating experience to purchase organizer bins that are too large, as they may prevent your door from fully shutting.
Durability
You must ensure the refrigerator organizer bins you purchase are durable enough to last at least a few years. Organizer bins are there to help make your life easier by safely maximizing the limited space available. While a slight crack might not present an immediate problem, it can suddenly cause the entire bin to snap under heavy weight.
Function
Before purchasing your refrigerator organizer bins, try to visualize the final result. It’s always best to keep similar items together when possible. For example, all the fruits and vegetables should be in one area while your drinks and condiments should be in another.
Keep in mind which items will be used the most. This will help you organize your fridge to avoid having to remove certain items to be able to grab a snack or can of soda.
What to look for in a quality refrigerator organizer bin
Ingenuity
Most refrigerator organizer bins are fairly straightforward. They’re either wide or narrow to snugly fit all your groceries. However, once in a while, you’ll find an organizer bin with some ingenuity in the design.
For example, you can purchase a bin that can hold up to nine sodas, but wouldn’t one that pulls a can forward every time provide more convenience? How about bottles? One interesting product involves using magnetic strips that paste to the fridge’s roof, making a soda or beer bottle look like it’s levitating and making use of unused space.
Similarly, you can also find organizer bins with drainage holes on the bottom that allow your produce to sit above any moisture. Some even have humidity controls to help make food last longer.
Shape
When searching for refrigerator organizer bins, you’ll come across various shapes and sizes. Determine the size of your fridge and the kinds of items you’ll place in the bins to see which ones you’ll benefit from the most.
If you have organizer bins from different brands, it’s beneficial to measure them. That way, you help ensure you’re maximizing space when they’re placed next to each other.
Dividers
Sometimes having clearly labeled organizer bins isn’t enough. In that case, consider purchasing bins with separate dividers. This way, you can keep your apples away from your lemons and your onions separate from your garlic.
How much you can expect to spend on refrigerator organizer bins
Depending on whether it’s an individual organizer bin or a complete set, you can expect to spend between $20-$60 on quality bins.
Best refrigerator organizer bins FAQ
What’s the best way to organize my refrigerator?
A. The best way to organize your refrigerator is to keep similar items together. However, you should always keep in mind food safety guidelines.
Raw meats should be adequately wrapped and stored at the bottom of the fridge. If you are thawing more than one type of meat, from the top-down in the fridge, the order should be: whole fish, whole beef and pork, ground meat, fish pieces and finally, a whole chicken at the bottom. This helps avoid contamination should any of them drip liquids. If you’re ever confused, just remember that the meat that takes the longest to cook should be at the bottom.
Additionally, using clear plastic bins helps everyone quickly find where everything goes when putting things away. Labels are also beneficial in helping you and your family members keep your fridge organized throughout the week.
How do I wash refrigerator bins?
A. Even if your refrigerator bins can fit in the dishwasher, it’s best to always hand wash them with dish soap warm and water. That helps prevent cracking and ensures you get every corner of the bin, eradicating all traces of harmful bacteria. Barring any substantial spills, it’s recommended to deep clean your entire refrigerator and bins every three or four months.
What’s the best refrigerator organizer bin to buy?
Top refrigerator organizer bin
What you need to know: HOOJO presents a set of bins in various shapes and sizes that’s perfect for those who like to reorganize their fridge according to their grocery haul.
What you’ll love: This packaged set comes with eight containers that allow for various storage options based on your needs. You have narrow and wide bins for storing fruits and vegetables. The great thing is, the wide bins have enough space to store an entire bag of large oranges or apples without overflowing. It also comes with a bin wide and long enough to hold up to nine cans of soda or beer. HOOJO didn’t forget about your eggs. This set also features an egg carton that can hold up to 14 eggs and has a lid that serves as an extra layer of protection.
What you should consider: There may not be enough height in your fridge to stack the bins on top of one another to save space.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top refrigerator organizer bin for the money
Utopia Refrigerator Storage Bins Set
What you need to know: Utopia presents a 6-piece refrigerator bin set perfect for the budget shopper.
What you’ll love: This durable 6-piece set contains five open-top bins and one egg container that can hold up to 14 eggs at any given time. Additionally, they feature a stackable design with ergonomic BPA-free handles. The egg container has a space-saving design, with a lid that closes and allows you to store another bin on top for maximum storage.
What you should consider: The handles stick out slightly.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This bin ensures soda and beer cans don’t take up too much space or come rolling out every time you open the refrigerator door.
What you’ll love: These dispensers can hold up to nine cans of your favorite drink without sacrificing space for other ingredients and produce. The clear, shatter-resistant and BPA-free container allows you to see how many drinks are left and makes for easy clean up.
What you should consider: Even though only nine cans fit per dispenser, this set of four holds a total of 36 drinks.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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- New center sets the stage for expanded cancer research and world-class clinical care
- Hoag's multidisciplinary team includes top-ranked, site-specific cancer subspecialists who collaborate to provide patients with the highest level of care, leading-edge technology and access to groundbreaking clinical research
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hoag Family Cancer Institute this week unveiled the newly expanded Patty & George Hoag Cancer Center in Newport Beach. As Orange County's top choice for cancer care*, the completion of this major reinvestment in its facilities and treatment technologies sets the stage for expanded cancer research and world-class clinical care.
"For more than 70 years, Orange County has trusted us with their cancer care, and we continue to earn that trust through pioneering technological advancements, unsurpassed expert care and our unique patient-centric approach," said Robert T. Braithwaite, president and CEO of Hoag. "Today, with this expansion, we are continuing our story, which is the story of health, wellness and innovation for Orange County and beyond."
Under the convenience of one roof, the completely renovated cancer center provides Hoag Family Cancer Institute patients with access to the full continuum of cancer care including:
- Top-ranked cancer subspecialists – Hoag's multidisciplinary cancer team includes top-ranked, site-specific cancer subspecialists who have come from some of the country's top institutions. This caliber of talent provides patients with access to the highest level of care without having to leave Orange County.
- Innovative technology – With the support of Hoag's generous philanthropic community, Hoag offers patients access to the most leading-edge resources available in the nation. As the first and only cancer center in Orange County with the ViewRay MRIdian and a leader in the nation for daVinci® robotic surgeries, Hoag continues to bring the latest cancer treatment innovations to Orange County.
- Groundbreaking clinical trials – Hoag has attracted top researchers from academic centers across the country to establish research protocols in areas including precision medicine, molecular imaging and therapy, immunotherapy/cell therapy and a number of other clinical trials. These groundbreaking trials bring pioneering treatment options to Hoag patients and contribute to eradicating cancer.
"From remarkably innovative technology, to reconfigured spaces that enhance our cancer patients' experience and comfort, to recruiting world-renowned cancer treatment specialists, the Hoag Family Cancer Institute is modeling the future of cancer care, right here in Orange County," said Burton L. Eisenberg, M.D., F.A.C.S., Grace E. Hoag Executive Medical Director Endowed Chair and executive medical director of Hoag Family Cancer Institute. "The world's understanding of cancer, including its underlying genetic and environmental risk factors and most effective treatment regimens, is changing rapidly. This reinvestment reflects Hoag's commitment to remain a leader in shaping these changes along with the visionary philanthropists who share our passion to redefine how cancer care is provided."
The cancer center expansion also introduces additional innovations to enhance the patient experience, featuring:
- Personalized Infusion Experience – New infusion center featuring 35 medical oncology infusion treatment spaces with both private and social options.
- State-of-the-Art Pharmacy – An onsite pharmacy completely dedicated to cancer care for the convenience of Hoag patients.
- Rapid Care Space – A dedicated unit for rapid care allows patients to access procedures such as blood draws and hydration therapy.
- Rapid Blood Test – Innovative technology allows for Hoag oncologists to analyze a patient's blood work within minutes and determine the chemotherapy or other course of treatment that is appropriate for them. This eliminates the need for patients to make a separate lab appointment and streamlines the care process.
- Open Collaborative Space – Expanded space where the entire multidisciplinary cancer team collaborates to deliver the best care for patients under one roof.
- Expanded Physician Offices – The new cancer center includes 35 exam rooms for oncology and cancer subspecialty care.
- Healing and Care Support – Patients have access to an integrated team and programs including yoga, massage, support groups, and image focus.
- Caring for the Caregiver – Treatment areas are also designed to support the caregiver or family member, providing adequate space for caregivers to sit with the patient or nearby. The center also features an outdoor lounge and a café.
The expansion of the Newport Beach Cancer Center builds upon Hoag's dedication to clinical excellence, research and innovation and unparalleled patient and family experience. Hoag's three cancer centers – in Newport Beach, Irvine and Huntington Beach – offer patients comprehensive, multidisciplinary care provided by a team of nationally recognized cancer experts and are equipped with some of the most advanced diagnostic and therapeutic technology in the nation."
"Being located within a world-class comprehensive hospital with access to hundreds of subspecialists that can work seamlessly together with Hoag's cancer team to treat all of a patient's health needs truly sets Hoag's care apart," said Braithwaite.
ABOUT HOAG
Hoag is a nonprofit, regional health care delivery system in Orange County, California. Delivering world-class, comprehensive, personalized care, Hoag consists of 1,800 top physicians, 15 urgent care facilities, 10 health & wellness centers, and two award-winning hospitals. Hoag offers a comprehensive blend of health care services that includes six institutes providing specialized services in the following areas: cancer, digestive health, heart and vascular, neurosciences, women's health, and orthopedics through Hoag's affiliate, Hoag Orthopedic Institute, which consists of an orthopedic hospital and four ambulatory surgical centers. Hoag is the highest ranked hospital in Orange County by U.S. News & World Report and the only OC hospital ranked in the Top 10 in California, as well as a designated Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). For more information, visit hoag.org.
*According to NRC data
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The United Nations says it is investigating allegations of misconduct by Egyptian police officers providing security at this year's international climate talks.
This follows claims that attendees of events at the German pavilion for the COP27 summit were photographed and filmed after Germany hosted an event there with the sister of a jailed Egyptian pro-democracy activist, Alaa Abdel Fattah, who also holds U.K. citizenship.
In a statement provided Sunday to The Associated Press, the U.N. climate office confirmed that some of the security officers working in the part of the venue designated as United Nations territory come from the host country, Egypt.
This was due to the “scale and complexity of providing security at a large scale event" such as the COP27 climate talks, the global body said. It added that their work takes place “under the direction of the operations of the U.N. Department for Safety and Security (UN DSS).”
“The security officers provided for this COP by the host country are from the national police,” it said. “They are here to assist in fortifying the venue and ensuring the safety and security of all participants.”
“UN DSS has been made aware of allegations of the Code of Conduct violations and is investigating these reports,” the climate office told The AP.
Germany's Foreign Ministry said Saturday that it was in contact with Egyptian authorities about the incidents at its pavilion.
“We expect all participants in the U.N. climate conference to be able to work and negotiate under safe conditions,” it said in a statement. “This is not just true for the German but for all delegations, as well as representatives of civil society and the media.”
Egyptian officials didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Egypt’s hosting of the international summit has trained a spotlight on its human rights record.
The government has engaged in a widespread crackdown on dissent in recent years, detaining some 60,000 people, many without trial, according to a 2019 tally by Human Rights Watch.
Under President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, authorities have also intimidated and barred independent media and local organizations from operating. A prominent imprisoned activist, Alaa Abdel-Fattah, started a hunger and water strike on the first day of the conference to call attention to pressure for his own and other prisoners’ release.
Abdel-Fattah rose to fame during the 2011 pro-democracy uprisings that spread through the Middle East, and in Egypt he amplified calls for an end to police brutality. He has spent a total of nine years behind bars and is currently serving a 5-year sentence for re-sharing a Facebook post about the death of another detainee.
On Sunday, Abdel-Fattah’s lawyer Khaled Ali said in a social media post that he had not been allowed to visit the activist that afternoon, despite having obtained permission from the country’s public prosecutor. He said he would return on Monday morning. The family say they have not received proof that he is still alive since he stopped drinking water on Nov. 6, and have not received any communications from him since Oct. 31, when he announced his hunger and water strike. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/UN-probes-Egypt-police-misconduct-claims-at-17581463.php | 2022-11-13 17:26:30 | 1 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/UN-probes-Egypt-police-misconduct-claims-at-17581463.php |
Ferris Wheel or thrill-seeking? The types of rides at the State Fair of Texas
DALLAS, Texas (KXII) -At the State Fair of Texas there’s Big Tex, deep fried food, and of course, thrill seeking rides.
From the slingshot, to the spinny rides, to the Ferris Wheel and everything in between, The State Fair of Texas has about 40 acres of rides covered in their 277 acre vicinity.
“What’s been your favorite thing to do? Going on the rides,” 7-year-old Sydney Foreman said.
The State Fair of Texas is an independent midway, meaning Senior Vice President of operations, Rusty Fitzgerald gets to hand pick the rides he wants to have showcased and enjoyed at the fairgrounds.
“Because we are an independent midway and there’s not that many around and we are so big we can handpick the rides coming out, the other ones they pick a carnival so you’re stuck with the rides that they have but we can pick the biggest and best there,” Fitzgerald said.
People of all heights are able to enjoy the 77 different types of rides to choose from.
“You having fun? Yeah. What would you say is your favorite thing so far? Um probably the log ride going down that steep hill,” 8-year-old Tucker May said.
“This was our first ride and my husband made me get on it so it was fun and scary and terrifying,” Fair go-er Valeska Valderas said.
Safety is one of Fitzgerald’s number one priorities, he said he has five safety inspectors under him, on top of the daily safety checks the owner of the rides do.
“The Texas Star is one of the main stages, it’s an icon along with Big Tex and the skyway and the top of the Texas tower and it’s 212 feet tall, has 66 cars on it and it’s a big favorite by the guests out here, you get on it and get to ride it and it takes about 15-20 minutes to take a complete ride on it, it’s a big favorite out here,” Fitzgerald said.
And while some might like to sit back and enjoy the views from the top of the State Fair, others come along for the screams and stomach drops.
“Y’all are about to ride the slingshot so how are y’all feeling, what are y’all thinking about? Scared to death, excited,” London Souther and Staci Hannah said.
They tried out the ride for themselves.
“Never again, that was so much fun I’m doing it three more times.” Souther and Hannah said.
To catch these rides you’ll need to hop on quick, the fair ends Sunday October 23rd.
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BOWLING
WEEKLY LEADERS
MIDWAY LANES
All-Star Challenge: Men’s game – Jeremiah Smith 278. Men’s series – Josh Kragh 899, Jon Breckel 861.
Bantams: Boys game – Thomas Padilla 136. Boys series – Aidan Heinle 248. Girls game – Aubrey Marino 94. Girls series – Marino 187.
Bumpers: Boys game – Dax Sharp 127. Boys series – Sharp 233. Girls game – Kennedy Guy 121. Girls series – Guy 207.
DC Bowlers: Men’s game – Josh Wahl 249. Men’s series – Wahl 684. Women’s game – Victoria Bellon 279. Women’s series – Bellon 671.
Early Risers: Women’s game – Cheri Horner 189. Women’s series – Horner 513.
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Even Dozen: Men’s game – Chris Roehrich 240. Men’s series – Jake Sauter 649. Women’s game – Karen Stinehart 192. Women’s series – Pat Murray 506.
Flintstone: Men’s game – John Sayler 267. Men’s series – Nick Cain 728, Matt Helvig 694, Tom Deis 660. Women’s game – Hayden Fitzgerald 214. Women’s series – Fitzgerald 547.
Golden Oldies: Men’s game – Ken Olson 246. Men’s series – Olson 640. Women’s game – Linda Grina 201. Women’s series – Bert Ford 578.
Inter City: Men’s game – Cole Johnson 277. Men’s series – Johnson 699, Aaron Perez 650.
Jr. High: Boys game – Zach Weiler 212. Boys series – Weiler 561. Girls game – Jasmyn Gildea 189. Girls series – Gildea 516.
Monday Madness: Men’s game – Tom Rehborg 236. Men’s series – Bert Asselin 598. Women’s game – Missy Price 234, Kelly Steffes 231. Women’s series – Price 658, Steffes 605.
Rookies: Boys game – Kyler Freebury 149. Boys series – Freebury 402. Girls game – Hadley Frame 156. Girls series – Frame 380.
Roughrider: Men’s game – Ben Mues 268, Trysten Climer 268. Men’s series – Climer 707, Art Mues 686, Shawn Saxvik 668, Jesse Jose 664, Brett Job 656.
ShortTimer’s: Men’s game – Lee Belohlavek 248. Men’s series – Belohlavek 675. Women’s game – Pat Murray 184. Women’s series – Murray 508.
Sr. High: Men’s game – Hunter Feist 184. Men’s series – Feist 482. Women’s game – Meagan Emter 175. Women’s series – Emter 493. Boys game – Dawson Unrath 269. Boys series – Unrath 734. Girls game – Allie Salter 222. Girls series – Salter 547.
Strike Searchers: Women’s game – Kellie Helm 231, Jan McGuire 225. Women’s series – Helm 561.
Sunday Nite Leftovers: Men’s game – Kevin Gilgallon 300. Men’s series – Gilgallon 803, Josh Peterson 703. Women’s game – Kelly Steffes 300, Kara Seibel 266. Women’s series – Steffes 774, Seibel 749.
Sundowners: Women’s game – Bert Ford 247. Women’s series – Ford 598.
TGIT: Men’s game – Chris Roehrich 278. Men’s series – Jesse Jose 693, Jordan Holm 688, John Miller 679, Blake Plum 677, Jake Shimek 676, Louis Hart 676, Casey Kuntz 675, Quincy Pierce 670, Jason Locken 669, Roehrich 665, Mike Gustavsson 660, Mike Nider 660.
Tuesday Golden Agers: Men’s game – John Phelps 259. Men’s series – Lynn Geffre 719, Stuart Sipma 663, John Phelps 660. Women’s game – Bert Ford 214. Women’s series – Ford 589.
Twin City High Rollers: Men’s game – Jay Fettig 276. Men’s series – Bryan Goehring 730, Clarence Clayton 693, Lynn Geffre 672, Dave Wisham 664. Women’s game – Kathy Bahmiller 188. Women’s series – Bahmiller 536.
Twins: Men’s game – Corey Lauer 246. Men’s series – Lauer 694, Jason Gildea 688, Ricky Schatz 653. Women’s game – Zoie Maher 207. Women’s series – Brandi Morrison 587.
TEN SPOT LANES
Women’s Western: High game – Lyla Roehrich 183. High series – LeeAnn Roehrich 503.
Twilite: Men’s game – Mathew Thompson 174. Men's series – Justin Martin 473. Women's game – Tiffany Grannis 166. Women's series – Grannis 390.
Custer: Men’s game – Jake Sauter 265. Men's series – Dave Williams 682, Sauter 672.
Wednesday Soda: Women’s game – Betty Degreef 198. Women’s series – Degreef 541.
Men’s Mandan: High game – Steve Quintus 233. High series – Justin Hagen 807.
Unknowns: Men’s game – Todd Baumgartner 289, Justin Sipma 279, Jake Sauter 278, Matt Helvig 278. Men's series – Sipma 783, Lynn Geffre 725, Mike Unterseher 711, Baumgartner 678.
NOTE: Bowling leaders are compiled from league websites on Wednesdays. For weekly leaders, each league’s top game and series will be listed, plus any bowler that meets the following minimums -- Men: 275 game, 650 three-game series, 850 four-game series. Women: 225 game, 600 three-game series, 750 four-game series. | https://bismarcktribune.com/sports/local/bowling-march-16/article_20e71150-c2ee-11ed-a234-876d7c5e8a59.html | 2023-03-16 05:29:40 | 0 | https://bismarcktribune.com/sports/local/bowling-march-16/article_20e71150-c2ee-11ed-a234-876d7c5e8a59.html |
New platform features include live market data, streamlined signup and customizable reconditioning & inspection templates
LEHI, Utah, June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Carketa, the dealership decision intelligence system, has launched its newly revamped platform to help dealerships of all sizes streamline their vehicle inventory management through every step of the process – from appraisal to inspection, reconditioning, pricing and sale.
The retooled platform includes now-customizable reconditioning and inspection templates that Carketa users love, plus the integration of live market data from over 20 million vehicle listings across North America to help dealers adjust quickly and easily to market conditions and move more inventory.
"Dealerships need simple, intelligent tools to help them manage their whole operation," said Tim Hansen, CEO. "Faster inventory turn, clear handoffs and better margins on every car is a recipe for a more successful and profitable dealership. With our updated platform, mobile apps and Chrome extension, we're helping dealers make better decisions every single day."
Platform updates include:
- NEW! Appraisals: Appraise vehicles on-site or online in a few simple steps. Carketa's live market data automatically populates comparable vehicles and helps you decide what to offer based on real listings in your local area.
- NEW! Streamlined Signup & Onboarding: Start using Carketa's platform within minutes with the new simple signup process and automated DMS sync. Invite team members on day one and begin customizing your workflows without a months-long onboarding process.
- NEW! Vehicle Pricing: Leveraging real market data, Carketa helps dealers identify opportunities to move cars faster and price for maximum profit. Price your way easily based on percentage to market and market rank.
- Reconditioning: Recondition your way and streamline each step of the process. With Carketa's new platform, users can now automate handoffs and make sure vehicles move swiftly from the shop to body work to detailing to front-line ready with ease. When work is assigned to a team member or vendor, they're notified immediately and can communicate with other users if they have questions.
- Inspections: Dealers can use one of Carketa's best-practice templates, customize one to fit their needs or build their own inspection from scratch. With the Carketa mobile app, anyone at the dealership can document work needed and add it to recon steps with ease.
- Sales Packets: Generate condition reports easily based on your inspection & reconditioning flows, and download OEM window stickers to create an enhanced sales tool that differentiates your dealership.
Since its launch in late 2018, Carketa has brought reconditioning and inspections software to thousands of motor vehicle dealerships across the U.S. & Canada. Backed by Crosslink Capital, Origin Ventures, Hack VC, Stanford University, Lancaster Investments, and I2BF Global Ventures, the Utah-based SaaS company has a track record of innovation in the automotive sector. Most recently, Carketa partnered with the National Independent Automobile Dealership Association (NIADA) to power its Certified Pre-Owned program for member dealerships.
Dealerships interested in taking the new platform for a test drive can sign up for a free trial or schedule a demo here.
About Carketa
Carketa is the dealership decision intelligence system that helps automotive dealers turn inventory faster to maximize their profits. From acquisition to sale, we make every step easier for the entire team at the dealership. With live market data from more than 20 million vehicle listings plus customizable reconditioning and inspection templates, managing inventory has never been easier. Carketa was founded in 2018 & built by dealers looking for better reconditioning and inspection software to improve their own dealership.
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Olympic bronze medalist Rosey Fletcher has filed a lawsuit accusing former snowboard coach Peter Foley of sexually assaulting, harassing and intimidating members of his team for years, while the organizations overseeing the team did nothing to stop it.
Fletcher is a plaintiff in one of two lawsuits filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Thursday. One names Foley, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, the U.S. Ski & Snowboard team and its former CEO, Tiger Shaw, as defendants. Another, filed by a former employee of USSS, names Foley, Shaw and the ski federation as defendants.
One of the lawsuits, which also accuse the defendants of sex trafficking, harassment, and covering up repeated acts of sexual assault and misconduct, allege Foley snuck into bed and sexually assaulted Fletcher, then shortly after she won her bronze medal at the 2006 Olympics, approached her “and said he still remembered ‘how she was breathing,’ referring to the first time he assaulted her.”
The lawsuits describe Foley as fostering a depraved travel squad of snowboarders, in which male coaches shared beds with female athletes, crude jokes about sexual conquests were frequently shared and coaches frequently commented to the female athletes about their weight and body types.
“Male coaches, including Foley, would slap female athletes’ butts when they finished their races, even though the coaches would not similarly slap the butts of male athletes,” the lawsuit said. “Physical assault did not stop with slapping butts. Notably, a female athlete once spilled barbeque sauce on her chest while eating and a male coach approached her and licked it off her chest without warning or her consent.”
The USOPC and USSS knew of Foley’s behavior but did nothing to stop it, the lawsuit said. It depicted Foley as an all-powerful coach who could make and break athletes’ careers on the basis of how they got along off the mountain.
Foley’s attorney, Howard Jacobs, did not immediately return requests for comment from The Associated Press. Jacobs has previously said allegations of sexual misconduct against Foley are false.
In a statement, the USOPC said it had not seen the complaint and couldn’t comment on specific details but that “we take every allegation of abuse very seriously.”
“The USOPC is committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of Team USA athletes, and we are taking every step to identify, report, and eliminate abuse in our community,” the statement said.
It wasn’t until the Olympics in Beijing last year that allegations about Foley’s behavior and the culture on the snowboarding team started to emerge.
Allegations posted on Instagram by former team member Callan Chythlook-Sifsof — who, along with former team member Erin O’Malley, is a plaintiff along with Fletcher — led to Foley’s removal from the team, which he was still coaching when the games began.
That posting triggered more allegations in reporting by ESPN and spawned an AP report about how the case was handled between USSS and the U.S. Center for SafeSport, which is ultimately responsible for investigating cases involving sex abuse in Olympic sports. The center has had Foley on temporary suspension since March 18, 2022.
The AP typically does not identify alleged victims of sexual assault unless they have granted permission or spoken publicly, as Fletcher, Chythlook-Sifsof and O’Malley have done through a lawyer.
USSS said it was made aware of the allegations against Foley on Feb 6, 2022, and reported them to the SafeSport center.
“We are aware of the lawsuits that were filed,” USSS said in a statement. “U.S. Ski & Snowboard has not yet been served with the complaint nor has had an opportunity to fully review it. U.S. Ski & Snowboard is and will remain an organization that prioritizes the safety, health and well-being of its athletes and staff.”
The lawsuits seek unspecified damages to be determined in a jury trial.
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(KTLA) — Jay Leno is reportedly at a burn center after being seriously burned in a car fire over the weekend.
According to TMZ, the former “Tonight Show” host was in his Los Angeles garage on Sunday when one of his cars burst into flames, seemingly inexplicably. Sources told the entertainment site that the left side of Leno’s face was burned but that the flames didn’t “penetrate his eye or his ear.”
News of Leno’s accident comes after multiple reports say he pulled out of a Las Vegas appearance at the last minute Sunday due to a “very serious medical emergency.” He was set to perform at the Financial Brand Forum 2022.
“His family was not able to provide us very many details, but there was a very serious medical emergency that is preventing Jay from traveling,” read the email sent to attendees of the conference. People obtained the email on Monday.
“All we know is that he is alive, so our prayers go out to him and his family tonight,” the email read.
The comedian is recovering at Grossman Burn Center in Los Angeles. The specifics of his condition are unknown at this time.
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After watching unseeded Texas upend UCLA in the first game of the Women's College World Series, Arizona was confident it could do the same thing in the nightcap.
The Wildcats were clicking on all cylinders in Thursday night's game against No. 7 Oklahoma State, showing off efficient pitching, stellar defense, and timely hitting — until they weren’t.
A sixth-inning defensive error and a pitch in the wrong spot led to a three-run blast off the bat of Karli Petty, and the Cowgirls beat beat Arizona 4-2 at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City. Arizona (38-21) moves into the loser’s bracket of the WCWS; the Wildcats will play Pac-12 foe Oregon State (39-21) Friday at 6:30 p.m. in an elimination game. The Beavers lost to Florida 7-1 in a game played earlier Thursday.
Oregon State took two of three when the teams met during the regular season.
“We played an amazing game, and it was one pitch that (made) the difference. And take away that pitch and it's a different game,” UA catcher Sharlize Palacios said, referring to Petty's home run. “…There's nothing lacking, and it's just that's the way the games are when you get to the College World Series. There are only eight teams left. It's the best of the best, and that's what's going to happen. I think we just have to play our best game and just focus on the next pitch.”
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That’s exactly what Palacios did in the top of the fifth. After striking out two times in her previous at-bats, Palacios put the Wildcats ahead 2-1 with a two-run blast to left field. It was her 20th home run of the season. Sophia Carroll was on base after hitting a single up the middle.
The Cowgirls battled back, loading the bases in the fifth inning on a hit batter and two walks before Hanah Bowen got a flyout to right field.
OSU's timely hits came an inning later. Miranda Elish, who had doubled and singled in her first two at-bats, walked to start the inning. Sydney Pennington reached on a hit that got past Carlie Scupin at first, and moved to second when Hannah Martinez — a late-inning defensive replacement for Paige Dimler in right field — struggled to field the hit.
With runners on second and third, Petty delivered the game-winner.
“I thought when (Bowen) got out of that (fifth inning), it rolled her into the next one,” UA coach Caitlin Lowe said. “I thought she had the stuff to get through them.”
It was a pitcher’s duel for the first five innings of the game. Bowen gave up only one run on three hits during the first five frames, while OSU’s Kelly Maxwell struck out eight batters and gave up two hits.
Maxwell had not given up any runs in postseason before Thursday's game. The four runs are the most given up by Bowen in the postseason. She walked four, struck out two, gave up all four earned runs on five hits in a 99-pitch performance. Devyn Netz replaced her in the sixth, getting three outs.
The Wildcats had a chance in the seventh. Jasmine Perezchica singled to lead off the frame, but Janelle Meoño, Palacios and Allie Skaggs all struck out. Lowe said she couldn’t have asked for a better shot.
“Here's the thing: I choose Jasmine getting on and I choose Janelle and Shar and Skaggs in that same scenario over and over and over again and they're going to get those chances again, probably tomorrow, and I still want them in those moments,” Lowe said.
Besides the one error late in the game, Arizona's defense showed up from the start. Izzy Pacho caught another ball in foul territory — this time against Oklahoma State’s dugout. Perezchica ran and slid for an inning-ending out in the second. Dimler grabbed a ball that bounced off the fence and threw a strike to Sophia Carroll to nail Pennington at second in the third, stopping a Cowgirls rally.
After Thursday's loss, Lowe began talking to the Wildcats to get them in the right mindset for Friday’s game.
“One pitch can change the course of the game, and they have to believe that the next pitch is going to be their best pitch," she said. "I think that hope and that working towards the next one because it's going to turn around. I think that's what we've been doing all postseason,” Lowe said. “We start striking out we end with base hits that matter. I think just keeping their heads screwed on and knowing that the next one is going to be better.”
Inside pitch
• Elish's sister, Madi, is a freshman pitcher for the Wildcats. While two sisters playing in the same WCWS is rare, it's not unheard of. In 2006, Lowe — then a star UA outfielder — faced her sister, Paige, a freshman at Oregon State. Arizona won the opening matchup, 3-2, with Lowe scoring the winning run in the ninth inning. Lowe went 3 for 5 in that game, scoring two runs.
Lowe said that the Elish sisters saw each other at a WCWS banquet Wednesday night and took photos.
“Then it’s less about softball, more about family,” Lowe said. “I actually played my sister at the world series, and it was rough. (It’s rougher) for the parents and I think that’s where it will be more interesting to see how her (Madi’s) parents do in the crowd. It’s exciting. They are both at the top level of their game. It’s just so cool to see a family go thru (this). They must be really proud and probably have a lot of anxiety to go with it.” | https://tucson.com/sports/arizonawildcats/softball/late-homer-sinks-ua-in-womens-college-world-series-opener-cats-to-play-elimination-game/article_f7221b14-e28b-11ec-ac50-c38c7d8283bf.html | 2022-06-03 07:32:59 | 1 | https://tucson.com/sports/arizonawildcats/softball/late-homer-sinks-ua-in-womens-college-world-series-opener-cats-to-play-elimination-game/article_f7221b14-e28b-11ec-ac50-c38c7d8283bf.html |
Collaboration will bring data-driven CTV to the automotive industry to deliver campaigns to targeted audiences across screens with unmatched efficiency.
NEW YORK, June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cadent, the largest independent platform for advanced TV advertising, and Experian, the world's leading global information services company, have expanded their data collaboration to include Experian's automotive insights, creating a solution to identify, activate, and measure automotive audiences within CTV and addressable cross-screen media.
This collaboration combines the power of Cadent Aperture Viewer Graph's proprietary IP-to-Household mapping technology with Experian's world-class automotive data to improve business outcomes across screens for automotive marketers driven through the Aperture platform.
"Cadent and Experian are thrilled to advance the spirit of innovation in automotive advertising for marketers," said Tony Yi, EVP, Business Development and GM, Platform Sales at Cadent. "Reducing fragmentation is a crucial industry-wide goal, and this joint effort combines the Aperture Platform and Experian's automotive data, addressing the need for holistic audience targeting and measurement. We strive to integrate our products with data and measurement partners that drive and quantify outstanding business results. We look forward to leveraging this collaboration to bring cross-screen campaigns to automotive advertisers."
Aperture Platform offers an unparalleled depth of campaign coverage and performance in one platform, allowing advertisers to activate within premium CTV inventory. Aperture Viewer Graph connects audience intelligence to screens with access to over 100M+ Home Addresses, 400M+ Connected Device IDs, and 300M+ Home Device IPs, in addition to the Data and Measurement Marketplaces, leveraging a wide variety of auto-related audiences.
With coverage on 126 million US households through Experian Consumer View, including insights on consumer demographics and purchasing behaviors, as well as automotive-related assets, Experian empowers marketers to reach vehicle owners more effectively, in-market consumers, as well as those who have recently paid off their vehicle loan or are nearing the end of their lease.
"TV is experiencing a transformational shift. Today, marketers have access to data and technology that allow them to reach their target audiences in more precise ways. With Cadent, Experian auto data enables advertisers to reach highly actionable automotive audiences across screens," said Chris Feo, SVP of Sales and Partnerships for Marketing Services at Experian.
"We are thrilled to work with Cadent to drive auto audience activation helping marketers drive strategies and generate valuable insights on campaign outcomes," said Michael Kraut, VP of Automotive OEM Sales at Experian.
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Carolyn Bryant Donham: Woman at center of Emmett Till's 1955 lynching dies at 88
JACKSON, Miss. - The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana, a coroner's report shows. Carolyn Bryant Donham was 88.
Donham died Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana, according to a death report filed Thursday in Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office in Louisiana.
Till’s kidnapping and killing became a catalyst for the civil rights movement when his mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in their hometown of Chicago after his brutalized body was pulled from a river in Mississippi. Jet magazine published photos.
Till traveled from Chicago to visit relatives in Mississippi in August 1955. Donham — then named Carolyn Bryant — accused him of making improper advances on her at a grocery store in the small community of Money. The Rev. Wheeler Parker, a cousin of Till who was there, has said 14-year-old Till whistled at the woman, an act that flew in the face of Mississippi’s racist social codes of the era.
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Evidence indicates a woman identified Till to her then-husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam, who killed the teenager. An all-white jury acquitted the two white men in the killing, but the men later confessed in an interview with Look magazine.
In an unpublished memoir obtained by The Associated Press in 2022, Donham said she was unaware of what would happen to the 14-year-old Till. Donham was 21 at the time.
The contents of the 99-page manuscript, titled "I am More Than A Wolf Whistle," were first reported by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. Historian and author Timothy Tyson of Durham, who said he obtained a copy from Donham while interviewing her in 2008, provided a copy to the AP.
Tyson had placed the manuscript in an archive at the University of North Carolina with the agreement that it not be made public for decades, though he said he gave it to the FBI during an investigation the agency concluded last year. He said he decided to make it public now following the recent discovery of an arrest warrant on kidnapping charges that was issued for Donham in 1955 but never served. | https://www.fox5ny.com/news/carolyn-bryant-donham-woman-at-center-of-emmett-tills-1955-lynching-dies-at-88 | 2023-04-27 19:22:31 | 0 | https://www.fox5ny.com/news/carolyn-bryant-donham-woman-at-center-of-emmett-tills-1955-lynching-dies-at-88 |
What would it be like to live in a world where everything that was printed in an ad or said in a commercial were true, without you having to read the fine print?
It seems that's the world that Matthew Sinatro and Jessica Prost are seeking to build — at least when it comes to spaghetti.
The two are behind a class action lawsuit against the pasta-making company Barilla, which they say is deliberately deceiving shoppers by using the slogan "Italy's #1 Brand of Pasta" on its packaging.
Despite the green, white and red stylized Italian flags displayed on the blue boxes of angel hair, fusilli and bowtie pastas, a complaint filed in Northern California notes that the majority of the company's products sold in the U.S. are produced in Iowa and New York and are not made with ingredients sourced from Italy.
Do people pay more for the idea of Italian-made products? Plaintiffs say certo
Sinatro and Prost argue in their complaint that they were duped by the company's alleged "false advertising" and deceptive marketing practices and that they would not have spent a combined total of $6 on Barilla products had they known the pastas they were taking home were made in the United States. Instead, they would have opted for cheaper alternatives.
"[C]onsumers willingly pay more for Italian sounding and/or looking products," and Barilla leveraged the implied connection to Italy "[i]n an effort to increase profits and to obtain an unfair competitive advantage," the complaint states.
Barilla did not respond to NPR's requests for comment, but the company does address the issue on its website.
Only two of Barilla's U.S.-sold pastas are from Italy
"Barilla Pasta that is sold in the United States is made in our plants in Ames, IA and Avon, NY, with a few exceptions. Barilla Tortellini and Barilla Oven Ready Lasagne are made in Italy," the website states.
The site also notes that the recipes used in the U.S. are the same as those used in Parma, Italy, and that the pastas are made by the same types of machines. The company's 2021 financial report states that the U.S. "continues to represent the most important market in the [Americas] region."
Court documents show that Barilla filed to get the case dismissed, arguing that Sinatro and Prost couldn't prove that they suffered financial harm. Sinatro, who lives in San Francisco, purchased one box of angel hair pasta for about $2, while Prost bought two boxes of spaghetti for approximately $2 each at a grocery store in Los Angeles, according to the complaint.
The company moved to dismiss the case in August, but a judge rejected the request last week.
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FAA to give airports $1 billion for terminals and upgrades
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is giving nearly $1 billion to 85 airports to expand and upgrade terminals and other facilities, using money approved in last year’s huge infrastructure bill.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the projects will help meet future demand for travel and make flying safer and more efficient.
“I don’t think anybody could look at airports across America today and say that the existing system and existing levels of funding have been adequate,” Buttigieg told reporters.
The grants announced Thursday are the first installment of $5 billion for airport projects that were included in an infrastructure bill that Congress approved and President Joe Biden signed last November.
The largest of the Federal Aviation Administration grants include $60 million to improve the terminal and replace the bag-handling system at Denver International Airport, $50 million apiece for Boston’s Logan Airport and Orlando International Airport in Florida, $49.6 million for Dulles Airport outside Washington, D.C., to build a new concourse and $20 million for Pittsburgh International Airport to build a new terminal next to the old one.
The main airports in Detroit and Philadelphia will get more than $20 million each to renovate their restrooms.
The FAA said 532 airports submitted applications for 658 projects that, if all had been granted, would have totaled more than $14 billion.
In the past, federal funds have gone largely into runways, taxiways and towers while airports paid for terminal upgrades with money they get from passenger facility charges, or PFCs — up to $4.50 per flight that is tacked onto every airline ticket.
Buttigieg said it is fine to spend taxpayer money on projects that were generally funded by passenger fees in the past because “there is a need out there; taxpayers expect it and want it.”
Congress could consider raising ticket taxes for airport projects next year. Airports want to raise the fees, but airlines don’t.
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Kevin Hart is paying tribute to his late father, Henry Witherspoon.
The comedian, 43, announced the death of his dad on Instagram Oct. 12, sharing a series of family photos featuring Witherspoon from over the years.
"RIP to one of the realest & rawest to ever do it…Love you dad," he captioned the post. "Gone but never forgotten."
In his message, Hart told Witherspoon to give mom Nancy, who died in 2007 after a battle with ovarian cancer, "a hug for me," noting "y'all did good man." He then went on to express his gratitude for his dad.
"Thank you for everything….I'm a better father because of you," the Jumanji actor continued. "We will all make you proud…."
In a separate post, Hart shared a photo of him and Witherspoon smiling, captioning it, "RIP spoon."
Hart did not share Witherspoon's cause of death. However, in his 2019 docuseries Kevin Hart: Don't F**k This Up, the Night School alum said his father had battled with and beaten lung cancer but still had COPD.
After hearing news of Witherspoon's death, several of Hart's pals expressed their condolences in the posts' comments sections. "Oh, sorry, Kev," Chelsea Handler commented. "He wouldn't have left you before he knew you were good." Added Wanda Sykes, "Sorry Kev. Sending you and your family lots of love."
Hart has spoken often about his dad in his comedy specials, memoir I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons and in interviews. In a 2017 appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the Ride Along star recalled how Witherspoon wasn't always around and the impact this had on his life and parenting decisions.
"My kids actually think I'm the coolest dad on the planet….But I know why I am the way that I am," he said at the time. "See, my dad has a lot to do with that. The mistakes that my dad made—the decisions to do drugs, be in and out of jail, in and out of our lives—I saw firsthand what not being present did. And because of that I now know what being present means. I know what that can do. I know the effect that it will have on your child coming up."
However, Hart noted that his dad later became sober and that they were able to eventually reconcile and develop a tight bond. "Now, I was strong enough to deal with it coming up 'cause I have a different attitude. I'm a positive guy. I choose to go positive instead of negative a lot. And because of that, my relationship with my dad is amazing now," he continued. "And my dad understands how I feel and how I look at things. And my dad is focusing on being the best grandparent that he possibly can." | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1350320/kevin-hart-mourns-death-of-dad-henry-witherspoon-the-realest-rawest | 2022-10-13 16:00:49 | 0 | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1350320/kevin-hart-mourns-death-of-dad-henry-witherspoon-the-realest-rawest |
SUN VALLEY, Calif., July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mission Valley Bancorp (OTCQX: MVLY, "Mission Valley", or the "Company") announced today net income of $0.7 million, or $0.20 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2022, compared to net income of $ 1.6 million, or $0.48 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2021. Net income for the six months ended June 30, 2022 was $1.9 million, or $0.59 per diluted share, compared to $2.4 million, or $0.73 per diluted share for the six months ended June 30, 2021.
Second Quarter 2022 Highlights
- Net Income of $0.7 million or $0.20 per diluted share.
- Net Interest Income was $4.6 million for the second quarter of 2022, an increase of $0.6 million or 13.63%, compared to the second of 2021.
- Non-Interest Income was $2.0 million for the second quarter of 2022, a decrease of $0.3 million or 14.34%, compared to the second quarter of 2021
- $14.2 million in Small Business Administration ("SBA") loans were sold in the second quarter of 2022 resulting in gain on sale of $0.8 million.
- Provision for Loan Losses of $0.4 million in the second quarter of 2022 due to loan growth compared to no provision in the second quarter of 2021.
- Loan Production of $75.5 million in the second quarter of 2022 with a majority of the loan production funding late in the quarter.
- Gross Loans, excluding SBA Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP") loans, were $372.7 million as of June 30, 2022, an increase of $104.4 million or 38.93% compared to June 30, 2021, and an increase of $58.8 million or 18.72%, compared to December 31, 2021. PPP loans outstanding were $0.1 million, $0.2 million, and $18.7 million as of June 30, 2022, December 31, 2021, and June 30, 2021, respectively.
- Total Deposits were $415.6 million as of June 30, 2022, an increase of $49.6 million or 13.55%, compared to June 30, 2021.
- $18 thousand in net recoveries from previously charged-off loans in the second quarter of 2022.
- No Non-Accrual Loans as of June 30, 2022 compared to $0.2 million as of June 30, 2021.
- Classified Loans were $0.1 million as of June 30, 2022, a decrease of $4.5 million or -98.29%, compared to June 30, 2021, and a decrease of $0.6 million or -88.37%, compared to December 31, 2021.
- Strong capital position, which is reflected by Total Leverage Ratio of 10.13%, Common Equity Tier 1 Capital Ratio of 11.90%, Tier 1 Capital Ratio of 13.41%, and Total Risk Based Capital of 14.66% as of June 30, 2022.
President and Chief Executive Officer Tamara Gurney commented, "Our continued focus on developing a solid franchise through the building of diversified organic production sources is reflected in the record loan fundings during the second quarter, which necessitated a provision for loan losses, and our investment in loan origination and back-office infrastructure to support current loan growth and build additional capacity."
Gurney continued, "The balance sheet remains strong with capital in excess of regulatory defined well capitalized levels, no non-accrual loans, and a solid deposit base. We also continue to build the SBA loan portfolio from our strong production and decision to scale back loan sales due to the changing market conditions during the second quarter, which affords Mission Valley the opportunity to strategically identify SBA guaranteed loans for potential sale in the future, as market conditions warrant."
About Mission Valley Bancorp
Mission Valley Bancorp is a bank holding company headquartered in Sun Valley, California with two wholly owned subsidiaries Mission Valley Bank (the "Bank") and Mission SBA Loan Servicing LLC ("Mission SBA"). The Bank was founded in 2001 and is a full-service, independent, commercial bank specializing in the banking needs of small to medium businesses with full-service branches in the San Fernando & Santa Clarita Valleys. Mission SBA is a de novo SBA lender service provider ("LSP") established in March 2021 that provides SBA lending services to other financial institutions.
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Retail sales rose 0.3% in May despite pressure from higher inflation and interest rates
NEW YORK (AP) — Americans increased their spending at retailers last month despite pressure from still-high inflation and rising borrowing costs.
Thursday’s report from the Commerce Department showed that retail sales rose 0.3% from April to May, boosted by stronger sales of auto and parts dealers.
Economists had been expecting a decline in sales for the month. Last month’s increase pointed to a still-resilient economy, though retail sales have been bumpy this year after surging nearly 3% in January. Sales tumbled in February and March before recovering in April.
The latest retail sales data follow a government report this week that consumer inflation eased last month. Prices rose just 0.1% from April to May and are up just 4% over the previous 12 months — the lowest such figure in over two years. Americans are still facing surging prices for many items, including rent and used cars, though some of them are expected to slow or even decline in the coming months.
At the same time, closely watched “core” prices, which exclude volatile food and energy costs and are considered better able to capture underlying inflation trends, increased 5.3% in May compared with 12 months earlier. That’s still far above the Fed’s target of 2%.
The retail figures released Thursday showed that lower gas prices may be freeing up shoppers’ budgets to spend on other items. Sales at car and auto parts dealers rose 1.4%. Purchases at gas stations fell 2.6% Excluding car dealers and gas stations, retail sales rose 0.4%.
Spending increased 0.3% at online retailers and 0.4% at restaurants and bars. Department stores, electronic stores and furniture stores all posted increases, too. Sales were unchanged, though, at clothing retailers.
The government’s monthly retail sales report offers only a partial look at consumer spending; it doesn’t include many services, including healthcare, travel and hotel lodging.
Americans have remained resilient in their spending even with signs of weakness elsewhere in the economy. A solid job market has helped. But under the weight of higher prices, some shoppers have slowed their spending or traded down to cheaper goods and less expensive stores like Walmart. Higher interest rates have also made borrowing for a car or getting a mortgage for a house more expensive.
Earlier this month, retailers wrapped up their fiscal first quarter earnings season, which showed how still-high inflation in many areas is forcing shoppers to further cut back on discretionary items like clothing to afford their larger grocery bills.
Among the latest to report: Macy’s slashed its annual outlook after a spending pullback this spring, while Dollar General, which caters to low income shoppers, cut its annual sales and profit outlook as consumers turn more cautious.
Costco Wholesale Corp.’s chief financial officer, Richard Galanti, noted that customers are trading down from beef to poultry and pork in recent months. The company noted that even higher-income shoppers were switching to some canned food, like chicken and tuna.
Last month, Home Depot projected its first decline in annual revenue since 2009 in the aftermath of the bursting of the housing bubble and financial crisis.
Home Depot’s executive vice president of merchandising, William Bastek, told shareholders at its annual meeting this week that more consumers are buying appliances only when they break, not for upgrading.
“That’s become much more of a distress purchase,” he said.
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AP Economics Writer Christopher Rugaber in Washington contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden paid tribute Friday to Jacqueline Kennedy, a predecessor 60 years ago, for her pivotal role in preventing the teardown of historic buildings on iconic Lafayette Square near the White House.
Biden helped the White House Historical Association, an organization that Kennedy helped spearhead, unveil a medallion of the former first lady, designed by American artist Chas Fagan in front of the association’s office on the square.
The wife of President John F. Kennedy is widely credited with ushering in an emphasis on historic preservation at the White House during her 1,036 days as first lady. She played a critical role in saving some of Lafayette Square’s buildings from the wrecking ball.
The square, just north of the White House, over the years has become a gathering place for protesters, from suffragists in the early 20th century to Vietnam demonstrators in the 1960s to Americans speaking out for policing reform in 2020.
In quieter daily times, it is a city oasis for tourists and for office workers on lunch breaks.
The bas relief of Kennedy sits in a new garden at the front of the association’s office, known as Decatur House. It includes one of her best-known quotations: “The White House belongs to the American people.”
Jill Biden, the wife of President Joe Biden, said Kennedy worked to save the park and surrounding historic townhouses “because we all deserve to experience our rich history, the full, complex and beautiful story of who we are.”
“Together, we are opening the doors of the people’s house wider and wider to welcome all those who are part of this nation,” she said.
Jacqueline Kennedy was an outspoken and effective critic of a plan in the early 1960s for a massive new modern office building to be constructed on the square. The project would have led to several 19th century row houses bordering the park being razed.
Her husband and the Commission on Fine Arts in 1961 agreed on a design for the new office building, but a local civic group, known as the Committee of 100 on the Federal City, staunchly opposed the idea.
The activists argued that the new office building should be located behind the 19th century row houses, and that two taller and more recent office buildings should be demolished. Members of the committee presented their plan to the president, published their views in the newspaper, and even corresponded with Jacqueline Kennedy’s mother, according to the National Park Service.
The first lady let her husband know that she wasn’t a fan of what was being proposed for the square, writing that it would be “the most unsuitable, violently modern building which would be a jarring note on the square.”
Her husband listened.
In 1962, President Kennedy hired the architect John Carl Warnecke to find a better solution. Warnecke began with a historical study of the square, paying more attention to context than previous architects, according to the National Park Service.
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BOSTON (AP) — Even as he lay on the court, with 240-pound Celtics center Al Horford on top of his recently recovered left ankle, Stephen Curry knew what was wrong.
And as soon as he stood up and took a few steps, he knew he would be OK.
“I’m going to play. That’s all I know right now,” the Warriors star said on Thursday, a day before Golden State will face Boston in Game 4 of the NBA Finals.
“I know exactly what it is,” said Curry, who hurt the same ankle on a similar play in a late-season game against Boston. “I guess (there’s) comfort knowing I’ve been through it before, but also you would rather not have to deal with something like that at this point in the season.”
Curry wound up at the bottom of a pile Wednesday night as players from both teams dove for a loose ball late in the fourth quarter. Teammate Draymond Green said he heard Curry scream in pain, but the Warriors star remained in the game until coach Steve Kerr sent in the bench trailing by 14 with two minutes left.
The Celtics held on to win 116-100 and take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series. Golden State needs a win on Friday night to avoid falling behind 3-1 before the series shifts back to San Francisco.
A key to them avoiding the brink of elimination: Curry not just remaining healthy, but playing like a two-time NBA MVP. The Warriors guard scored 31 points in Game 3, but just two of them came in the fourth quarter as the league-leading Celtics defense chased him around the court.
Golden State held a film session Thursday, but the team’s regulars did not practice. Curry appeared to walk without a limp when he entered the media room to talk to reporters, and he took the steps to the podium three at a time. He had no bandage or brace on his leg.
Curry said he got plenty of sleep — 10 1/2 hours — and spent some time with his foot in an ice bucket. But he said he did not need an MRI because the injury was the same as the one he sustained when Celtics guard Marcus Smart landed on his foot in a March 16 game in San Francisco.
“This one just wasn’t as bad as that one,” said Curry, who missed the last 12 games of the regular season. “As soon as you started to take a couple of steps, you kind of know whether you can run normal, cut normal or not. Back then, I couldn’t. Yesterday, I could. That gave me a little bit of confidence knowing it wasn’t as bad.”
Asked Thursday if he would be sitting out if it were a regular-season game, Curry said he couldn’t say for sure.
But for Game 4 of the NBA Finals, there’s no question.
“I know I’m going to play,” he said.
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The Celtics listed center Robert Williams III as questionable on Thursday with the left knee injury that required late-season surgery and kept him out for seven of the team’s first 14 playoff games.
Boston coach Ime Udoka said forward Jayson Tatum is dealing with a right shoulder stinger.
“That’s going to flare up whenever he gets hit the wrong way,” Udoka said. “(He) had to shoot some free throws after, might be a little numb there. He is shooting threes right after, so I’m not sure it hampers his ability to finish at all.”
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Golden State has outscored Boston in the third quarter of all three games so far, so a reporter asked Kerr why they can’t start the game the same way.
“I ask myself that question very often,” he said, “and I don’t have an answer.”
The Warriors have outscored the Celtics by a combined score of 106-63 in the finals. Golden State had a 33-25 edge on Wednesday night, eliminating a 12-point halftime deficit and briefly taking the lead.
Kerr joked that he has a book of “incredibly inspiring quotes” he calls on.
“I just try to pull out the right one,” he said. “And if I get them fired up and they’re excited, then they seem to play better.”
The third quarter struggles are a recurring problem for the Celtics, who similar lapses against Miami and Milwaukee.
“It’s just one of those things where it’s a mystery,” Smart said. “We’re definitely trying to not keep that pattern going.”
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The widow of singer Chris Cornell and his former bandmates in Soundgarden said Monday that they have resolved her lawsuit against them, clearing the way for the release of the band’s final recordings more than five years after his death.
Vicky Cornell sued Soundgarden in federal court in 2019 over royalties from recordings her husband had made that she said were intended to be a solo project but the band contended were part of their partnership with him.
“ Soundgarden and Vicky Cornell, on behalf of the Estate of Chris Cornell, are happy to announce they have reached an amicable out of court resolution,” the two sides said in a statement. “The reconciliation marks a new partnership between the two parties, which will allow Soundgarden fans around the world to hear the final songs that the band and Chris were working on.”
No details of the agreement were released, and no court documents declaring that a deal had been reached have been filed in court. An email seeking details from Soundgarden’s lawyers was not immediately returned.
Chris Cornell made the seven disputed recordings in his Miami Beach home studio in the months before his death in May 2017 after a Soundgarden concert in Detroit, according to the lawsuit, whose defendants included the band’s guitarist Kim Thayil, drummer Matt Cameron and bassist Ben Shepherd.
It alleged the band was denying hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties from Vicky Cornell and the couple’s two children.
In 2021, Cornell’s family settled a different lawsuit against a doctor they alleged over-prescribed him drugs before his death, which was ruled a suicide.
Soundgarden was founded in 1984, and broke nationally during the rise of Seattle’s grunge music scene in the late ‘80s and early ’90s. Their best-known songs include “Black Hole Sun,” “Jesus Christ Pose,” “Outshined” and “Spoonman.” Cornell was also part of the bands Audioslave and Temple of the Dog.
“The two parties are united and coming together to propel, honor and build upon Soundgarden’s incredible legacy,” Monday’s statement said, “as well as Chris’s indelible mark on music history as one of the greatest songwriters and vocalists of all time.”
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday he has chosen the head of the country’s tax agency to fill the cabinet-level post of secretary of the economy.
The designation of Raquel Buenrostro for the post comes one day after the emotional resignation of Tatiana Clouthier.
Buenrostro, who has served for more than two decades in government tax, treasury and economic agencies, was welcomed by Mexico’s Business Coordinating Council, which said in a statement “we trust in her ability to contribute to the economic development of the public and companies.”
However, Clouthier had been seen as a link to Mexico’s business community, a role Buenrostro is unlikely to fill.
While Clouthier came from a conservative background and was in touch with northern Mexico’s industrial elite, as head of the tax collection agency Buenrostro has led a relentless and often tense campaign to force companies to pay more taxes.
Clouthier resigned Thursday in an emotional speech in which her voice broke as she thanked the president, but in which she gave no specific reason for her departure.
Buenrostro will face a number of U.S. trade tensions. Mexico is currently locked in a controversy with the United States over plans to favor Mexico’s state-owned electrical utility over private and foreign companies.
López Obrador has had persistent difficulties in maintaining links with the business community.
Other cabinet members with business ties had previously resigned, including former chief-of-staff Alfonso Romo, who López Obrador described as his “main liaison” to the business sector.
Carlos Urzua resigned as treasury secretary in 2019.
López Obrador has enacted policies to raise minimum wages and promote the kind of big, government-owned enterprises that his predecessors had trimmed. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/ap-mexico-president-taps-tax-agency-head-for-economy-department/ | 2022-10-07 19:13:23 | 0 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/ap-mexico-president-taps-tax-agency-head-for-economy-department/ |
By ANDREW DeMILLO (Associated Press)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A monster storm system tore through the South and Midwest on Friday, spawning deadly weather including tornadoes that shredded homes and shopping centers in Arkansas, collapsed a theater roof during a heavy metal concert in Illinois and made a fatal sweep into rural Indiana.
The storm caused three deaths in Sullivan County, Indiana, Emergency Management Director Jim Pirtle said in an email to The Associated Press early Saturday. The storm damaged homes and some residents were missing in the county seat of Sullivan, located near the Illinois state line about 95 miles (152 kilometers) southwest of Indianapolis.
At least one person was killed and more than two dozen were hurt, some critically, in the Little Rock area, authorities said. The town of Wynne in northeastern Arkansas was also devastated, and officials reported two dead there, along with destroyed homes and people trapped in the debris.
Authorities said a theater roof collapsed during a tornado in Belvidere, Illinois, killing one person and injuring 28, five of them severely. The Belvidere Police Department said the collapse occurred as a heavy storm rolled through the area and that calls began coming from the theater at 7:48 p.m. It said that an initial assessment was that a tornado had caused the damage.
The collapse occurred at the Apollo Theatre during a heavy metal concert in the town located about 70 miles (113 kilometers) northwest of Chicago. The venue’s Facebook page said the bands scheduled to perform were Morbid Angel, Crypta, Skeletal Remains and Revocation.
Belvidere Fire Department Chief Shawn Schadle said 260 people were in the venue. He said first responders also rescued someone from an elevator and had to grapple with downed power lines outside the theater.
Belvidere Police Chief Shane Woody described the scene after the collapse as “chaos, absolute chaos.”
Gabrielle Lewellyn had just entered the theater when a portion of the ceiling collapsed.
“I was there within a minute before it came down,” she told WTVO-TV. “The winds, when I was walking up to the building, it went like from zero to a thousand within five seconds.”
Some people rushed to lift the collapsed portion of the ceiling and pull people out of the rubble, said Lewellyn, who wasn’t hurt.
“They dragged someone out from the rubble and I sat with him and I held his hand and I was (telling him) ‘It’s going to be OK.’ I didn’t really know much else what to do.”
There were more confirmed twisters in Iowa and wind-whipped grass fires blazed in Oklahoma, as the storm system threatened a broad swath of the country home to some 85 million people.
The destructive weather came as President Joe Biden toured the aftermath of a deadly tornado that struck in Mississippi one week ago and promised the government would help the area recover.
The Little Rock tornado tore first through neighborhoods in the western part of the city and shredded a small shopping center that included a Kroger grocery store. It then crossed the Arkansas River into North Little Rock and surrounding cities, where widespread damage was reported to homes, businesses and vehicles.
In the evening, officials in Pulaski County announced a confirmed fatality in North Little Rock but did not immediately give details.
Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock officials told KATV in the afternoon that 21 people had checked in there with tornado-caused injuries, including five in critical condition.
Mayor Frank Scott Jr., who announced that he was requesting assistance from the National Guard, tweeted in the evening that property damage was extensive and “we are still responding.”
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders activated 100 members of the Arkansas National Guard to help local authorities respond to the damage throughout the state.
In Little Rock, resident Niki Scott took cover in the bathroom after her husband called to say a tornado was headed her way. She could hear glass shattering as the tornado roared past, and emerged afterward to find that her house was one of the few on her street that didn’t have a tree fall on it.
“It’s just like everyone says. It got really quiet, then it got really loud,” Scott said afterward, as chainsaws roared and sirens blared in the area.
At Clinton National Airport, passengers and workers sheltered temporarily in bathrooms.
“Praying for all those who were and remain in the path of this storm,” Sanders, who declared a state of emergency, said on Twitter.
About 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of Memphis, Tennessee, the small city of Wynne, Arkansas, saw widespread tornado damage, Sanders confirmed.
St. Francis County Coroner Miles J. Kimble told the AP by phone Friday night that he was assisting the Cross County coroner in Wynne and that two people died there in the tornado.
The governor at a briefing with Little Rock officials Friday night said it was possible the number of deaths could rise.
City Councilmember Lisa Powell Carter told AP that the town Wynne was without power and roads were full of debris.
“I’m in a panic trying to get home, but we can’t get home,” she said. “Wynne is so demolished. … There’s houses destroyed, trees down on streets.”
The unrelenting tornadoes continued spawning and touching down in the area into the night.
The police department in Covington, Tennessee, said on Facebook that the west Tennessee city was impassable after power lines and trees fell on roads when the storm passed through Friday evening. Authorities in Tipton County, north of Memphis, said a tornado appeared to have touched down near the middle school in Covington and in other locations in the rural county.
Tipton County Sheriff Shannon Beasley said on Facebook that homes and structures were severely damaged.
Tornadoes moved through parts of eastern Iowa, with sporadic damage.
One tornado veered just west of Iowa City, home to the University of Iowa. Video from KCRG-TV showed toppled power poles and roofs ripped off an apartment building in the suburb of Coralville and significantly damaged homes in the city of Hills.
Nearly 90,000 customers in Arkansas lost power, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks outages.
In neighboring Oklahoma, wind gusts of up to 60 mph (96 kph) fueled fast-moving grass fires. People were urged to evacuate homes in far northeast Oklahoma City, and troopers shut down portions of Interstate 35.
In Illinois, Ben Wagner, chief radar operator for the Woodford County Emergency Management Agency, said hail broke windows on cars and buildings in the area of Roanoke, northeast of Peoria. More than 109,000 customers had lost power in the state as of Friday night.
More outages were reported in Iowa, Missouri, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Indiana and Texas.
Fire crews battled several blazes near El Dorado, Kansas, and some residents were asked to evacuate, including about 250 elementary school children who were relocated to a high school.
At Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, a traffic management program was put into effect that caused arriving planes to be delayed by nearly two hours on average, WFLD-TV reported.
The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center had forecast an unusually large outbreak of thunderstorms with the potential to cause hail, damaging wind gusts and strong tornadoes that could move for long distances over the ground.
Such “intense supercell thunderstorms ” are only expected to become more common, especially in Southern states, as temperatures rise around the world.
The weather service is forecasting another batch of intense storms next Tuesday in the same general area as last week.
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Associated Press writers Michael Tarm in Chicago, Jill Bleed in Little Rock, Harm Venhuizenin in Madison, Wisconsin, Isabella O’Malley in Philadelphia, Lisa Baumann in Bellingham, Washington, Adrian Sainz in Memphis, Michael Goldberg in Jackson, Mississippi, and Trisha Ahmed in Minneapolis contributed to this report. | https://www.mcall.com/2023/04/01/storms-strike-arkansas-illinois-indiana-7-reported-dead/ | 2023-04-02 23:14:43 | 1 | https://www.mcall.com/2023/04/01/storms-strike-arkansas-illinois-indiana-7-reported-dead/ |
MLK weekend to feature tributes, commitments to racial equity
(AP) - Annual tributes and commemorations of the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., which begin nationwide on Friday, typically include a mix of politics, faith and community service.
For this year’s celebration, the 37th since its federal recognition in 1986, a descendant of King hopes to spur progress by helping more Americans personalize the ongoing struggle for racial equity and harmony. Bernice King, daughter of the late civil rights icon, said people must move beyond platitudes and deepen their own commitments to the needed progress.
“We need to change our thinking,” said King, who is CEO of The King Center in Atlanta.
Under the theme “It Starts With Me,” the center launched its slate of Martin Luther King Jr. Day events on Thursday with youth and adult summits to educate the public on ways to transform unjust systems in the U.S.
The summits were streamed online and are available for replay on the center’s social media accounts.
“It seems like we’re going through these cycles, because we’re trying to approach everything with the same mindset that all of this (racial inequity) was created,” King told The Associated Press.
“Change can be very small,” she said, “but transformation means that now we changed the character, form, and nature of something. That’s something we have not seen yet.”
Other King holiday weekend events include a statue unveiling in Boston, a symposium on police brutality in Akron, Ohio, and community service projects in many U.S. cities. The holiday kicks off another year of advocacy on a racial justice agenda — from police reforms and strengthening voting rights to solutions on economic and educational disparities — that has been stymied by culture wars and partisan gridlock in Washington and nationwide.
On Sunday morning, President Joe Biden is due to speak at a commemorative service at Ebenezer Baptist Church, the historic Atlanta house of worship where King preached from 1960 until his assassination in 1968. The church is pastored by the Rev. Sen. Raphael Warnock, who recently won election to a full term as Georgia’s first Black U.S. senator.
And on Monday, the federal observance of the King holiday, commemorations continue in Atlanta, as well as in the nation’s capital and beyond.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, who got his start as a civil rights organizer in his teens as youth director of an anti-poverty project of King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference, will hold his annual King holiday events in Washington, D.C., and New York on Monday. Martin Luther King III is expected to attend Sharpton’s breakfast gala in Washington with his wife, Drum Major Institute President Arndrea Waters King, who will be honored alongside former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Monday afternoon in New York City, Sharpton, the founder and president of the National Action Network, is scheduled to convene more than 30 prominent state and local elected officials for a public policy forum at the House of Justice, his organization’s headquarters in Harlem.
In the decades since its establishment, the King holiday has become an opportunity for elected officials and candidates seeking office to establish their civil rights and social justice credentials. Bernice King said partisanship among politicians has been a major obstacle to legislative solutions on civil rights.
Overcoming that is “going to require elevating to a place where your loyalty is to humanity, not to party,” she said.
“If we don’t find humane ways to create policies and implement practices out of those policies, we’re going to continue in this vicious cycle of a downward spiral towards destruction and chaos.”
Outside of establishment politics, many King holiday weekend events are opportunities for Americans to give back, reflect on the civil rights icon’s legacy or deal locally with racial discrimination in their own communities.
A massive monument to Martin Luther King Jr. is scheduled to be dedicated Friday in Boston, where the leader first met his wife, Coretta Scott King. In the early 1950s, he was a doctoral student in theology at Boston University and she was studying at the New England Conservatory of Music.
The $10 million sculpture called “The Embrace” consisting of four intertwined arms was inspired by a photo of the Kings embracing when King Jr. learned he had won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. It was designed byHank Willis Thomas and MASS Design Group and was selected out of 126 proposals.
Imari Paris Jeffries, executive director of EmbraceBoston, the organization behind the memorial, noted the significance of the sculpture’s placement at the Boston Common, America’s oldest public park and a high traffic area with millions of city residents and visitors walking its paths every year.
“I think Boston has this reputation of being this city of heroes and abolitionists, like W.E.B. Du Bois and Frederick Douglass, simultaneously with this reputation of not being friendly and in some cases being described as racist. So there’s this tension between these two images of Boston. Having the memorial there is part of our intention to transform our city’s perspective.”
In Akron, Ohio, the family of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man killed after police officers shot at him 46 times as he fled last July, will hold a symposium on public safety and mental health with local civil rights leaders on Saturday. Walker’s case received widespread attention from activists, including from the King family.
And for the seventh year, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation will mark a post-King holiday National Day of Racial Healing. On Tuesday, communities nationwide are scheduled to hold town halls to continue dialog on healing that the foundation says is needed to achieve racial equity.
“Regardless of who you are, there’s a journey of healing that everyone must consider,” said La June Montgomery Tabron, CEO of the Kellogg Foundation. “We’ve all been impacted by racism.”
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NEW YORK (PIX11) — Straphangers may be returning to the subways, but not fast enough to alleviate the MTA’s financial worries.
That’s according to New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, who warns the MTA “continues to plan to use borrowing techniques that push difficult financial decisions into the future.” Without new sources of revenue, DiNapoli said the MTA could be forced to cut service, delay projects or even hike up fares for riders.
“The MTA’s finances are stable this year, but just around the corner it faces growing budget gaps with no solution to close them yet,” DiNapoli said in a report. “The MTA should not kick the can down the road. Its plans to issue debt to pay for operating costs and put off paying down its debt for capital projects may save money in the short-term, but those bills will eventually come due for future riders and taxpayers.”
Currently, the MTA is relying on more than $14 billion in one-time federal aid to balance its budgets through 2025. But by 2026, it faces a budget gap of over $2 billion and could have to borrow more to pay for operating costs, DiNapoli wrote.
The amount of outstanding long-term debt issued by the MTA increased from $25.8 billion in 2010 to $40.1 billion in 2021, according to the report. The transit authority plans to use 20% of its revenue through 2025 to pay off that debt.
The MTA is also hoping that future ridership will ease its debt issues in the future. However, with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and increased safety concerns, DeNapoli said that ridership is “far from certain.” | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/low-ridership-could-lead-to-higher-than-expected-mta-fare-hikes-comptroller/ | 2022-04-26 21:16:50 | 1 | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/low-ridership-could-lead-to-higher-than-expected-mta-fare-hikes-comptroller/ |
More than 54M expected to travel for Thanksgiving
(CNN) - If you’re traveling this Thanksgiving, brace yourself for crowds.
About 54.6 million people are expected to travel this holiday season, according to AAA.
That’s up slightly from 2021 and nearly as high as pre-pandemic volumes.
Despite inflation and current economic woes, demand for travel doesn’t seem to be waning.
And with COVID travel restrictions now lifted, people are able to gather again.
AAA also pointed out that Americans are more comfortable taking public transportation again including airplanes and trains.
Their advice for those hitting the friendly skies this season is to reserve airport parking ahead of time, build in time for long TSA lines and avoid checking a bag if possible.
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DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — DeKalb County Police said they are investigating a situation that ended up at two locations, leading to three people being shot. This shooting stemmed from a fight between couples, police said.
Authorities said they were called to the Bouldercrest Road and Panthersville Road area in addition to Ambrose Court for a shooting Monday. DeKalb Police said it appears both incidents are related.
"We believe that a dispute between two couples led to an exchange of gunfire in which three of the four [people involved] were injured," police said. "The three individuals were transported to a local hospital."
Officers said it's unclear at this time how many or which victims were injured at each location, but they are still investigating. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/dekalb-shooting-three-injured-two-scenes/85-c2ccc8d7-e7da-4153-b1a5-daa6b36b2a7d | 2022-08-30 03:33:32 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/dekalb-shooting-three-injured-two-scenes/85-c2ccc8d7-e7da-4153-b1a5-daa6b36b2a7d |
NEW YORK, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vita Nuova LLC and AC Power, LLC are excited to announce a strategic alliance that will leverage each firm's expertise to deliver innovative renewable energy solutions on formerly contaminated sites and build more resilient, healthier communities.
The collaboration draws on each organization's unique strengths to support their shared goals: the sustainable redevelopment of underutilized properties and the rebuilding of communities.
"Vita Nuova seeks to expand its work in sustainably reusing impacted and underutilized sites by creating this strategic alliance with AC Power. We appreciate their focus on land that is previously disturbed rather than greenfields," Michael B. Taylor, President, Vita Nuova LLC, said.
Vita Nuova is a national leader in best practices for site redevelopment, land reuse planning, and community revitalization. Serving both public and private entities, Vita Nuova tackles the most complex industrial sites in North America. It utilizes groundbreaking approaches to remove barriers to redevelopment and reposition properties for new, economically viable uses.
AC Power has extensive experience transforming brownfield sites, landfills, and Superfund sites into solar energy facilities connecting locally sourced power to communities and businesses. Their projects facilitate workforce development programs for local citizens, generate tax revenue, and solve complex site issues, providing a roadmap for the country's critical energy transition.
"With the strategic vision and experience of Vita Nuova and the practical expertise of AC Power, this team will channel the momentum of the Inflation Reduction Act to repurpose sites, empower communities, and support workforce development," said Annika Colston, President and Founder of AC Power "We will do more together – more projects, more complex problem solving, and more community benefits - thereby achieving the nation's goal of environmental justice in America's great energy transition."
AC Power is a mission-driven solar development company developing in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, maintaining its vision of redeveloping undervalued land, such as landfills and brownfields, to provide renewable energy to local communities. AC Power is a certified WBE.
Vita Nuova brings "new life" to complex properties and distressed and underdeveloped communities. Its multi-disciplinary expertise in real estate, planning, communications, and risk management produces real solutions that translate into value-driven results. Vita Nuova has successfully tackled the toughest assignments in North America, including nuclear sites, refineries, and properties in challenged neighborhoods.
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VANCOUVER, BC, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - MANTARO PRECIOUS METALS CORP. (TSXV: MNTR) (OTCQB: MSLVF) (FSE: 9TZ) (the "Company" or "Mantaro") is pleased to announce that it has completed an initial four diamond drill holes at the La Escarcha gold deposit located in the Golden Hill Property, Bolivia. To date, Mantaro has drilled a total of 720 meters under its maiden 5,000 meter drill program.
- Four diamond drill holes completed for a total of 720 meters, confirming down dip extensions of the La Escarcha gold deposit (See Figure 1).
- Initial drilling has successfully intercepted down dip extensions of the five primary gold bearing quartz shear zones historically exploited via surface open pit and underground workings at La Escarcha Mine, to depths of 150 meters beneath surface.
Craig Hairfield, Chief Executive Officer of the Company states, "We are extremely pleased with the progress made by our team and Leduc Drilling at La Escarcha. Core recovery has been excellent. The four holes drilled to date have all intercepted sulphidic quartz-carbonate veins and veinlets beneath mineralization mapped in underground workings. Mineralization is open in all directions and the next phase of drilling will initially target the southern and northern strike extensions of the system. The system remains open at depth. It is anticipated that the first batch of samples will be dispatched to ALS this week and assays are expected approximately 6 weeks after."
The initial holes are targeting down dip extensions of historically mined veins at La Escarcha open pit, aiming to confirm high-grade gold mineralization beneath the extent of historic mining (ie. below 60 meter depth). Drilling has successfully intercepted broad multiphase quartz shear zones typical of greenstone hosted orogenic gold deposits. The program has also confirmed down dip extensions of the historically mined C1, C2, C3, C and C4 gold bearing quartz shear zones at La Escarcha gold deposit, to depths of 150 meters beneath surface.
The vast majority of the diamond drilling was drilled in PQ diameter and reduced to NQ size at 150 meters depth in hole GH0003. Holes have been drilled from -34 ° to -61 ° dip, with hole lengths ranging from 170 to 250 meters, and an excellent core recovery of nearly 100%.
Additional drilling aims to further extend the down dip and strike extensions of the five key gold bearing structures at La Escarcha gold deposit. Thereafter, the drill programs focus will shift to the southern strike extensions of the Golden Hill vein system, beneath areas with historic surface workings, at the Gabby and Garrapatillia prospects. Drilling will then be utilized to test gold mineralization across the parallel vein swarm located directly west of La Escarcha at the Westfield prospect.
Dr. Christopher Wilson, Ph. D., FAusIMM (CP), FSEG, a Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed and approved the technical information contained in this news release.
Mantaro Precious Metals Corp. is a British Columbia company that holds a diversified portfolio of gold and silver focused mineral properties in Bolivia and Peru. The Company's holds an option to acquire up to an 80% interest in the advanced Golden Hill Property ("Golden Hill"), located in the underexplored, orogenic Bolivia Shield, Bolivia.
The Company also has an 100% interest in high-grade Santas Gloria Silver Property as well as a 100% interest in the San Jose, La Purisima, Cerro Luque and Huaranay Properties (the "Silver Properties"). The Silver Properties are all located in Peru.
Information set forth in this news release contains forward-looking statements that are based on assumptions as of the date of this news release. These statements reflect management's current estimates, beliefs, intentions and expectations. They are not guarantees of future performance. The Company cautions that all forward looking statements are inherently uncertain and that actual performance may be affected by a number of material factors, many of which are beyond the Company's control. Such factors include, among other things: risks and uncertainties relating to Company's limited operating history and the need to comply with environmental and governmental regulations. Accordingly, actual and future events, conditions and results may differ materially from the estimates, beliefs, intentions and expectations expressed or implied in the forward looking information. Except as required under applicable securities legislation, the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking information.
The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as of the date of this news release. Except as required by law, the Company disclaims any intention and assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Service Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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On Friday afternoon more than 2,000 experts will wrap up a week of negotiations on plastic pollution at one of the largest global gatherings ever to address what even industry leaders in plastics say is a crisis.
It was the first meeting of a United Nations committee set up to draft what is intended to be a landmark treaty to bring an end to plastic pollution globally.
“The world needs this treaty because we are producing plastics by the billions,” said Jyoti Mathur-Filipp, executive secretary of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for plastics in an interview with The Associated Press. “Billions of tons of plastics are being produced every year and there is absolutely no way to ensure that this plastic doesn’t end up in the environment.”
Entire beaches on what used to be pristine islands are now mounded with trash. Examination of a random handful of sand in many places reveals pieces of plastic.
The United Nations Environment Programme held the meeting in a city known for its beaches, Punta del Este, Uruguay, from Monday through Friday.
Delegates from more than 160 countries, plastic industry representatives, environmentalists, scientists, waste pickers, tribal leaders and others affected by the pollution attended in person or virtually. Waste pickers are seeking recognition of their work and a just transition to fairly remunerated, healthy and sustainable jobs.
Even in this first meeting of five planned over the next two years, factions came into focus. Some countries pressed for top-down global mandates, some for national solutions and others for both. If an agreement is eventually adopted, it would be the first legally-binding global treaty to combat plastic pollution.
Leading the industry point of view was the American Chemistry Council, a trade association for chemical companies. Joshua Baca, vice president of the plastics division, said companies want to work with governments on the issue because they also are frustrated by the problem. But he said they won’t support production restrictions, as some countries want.
“The challenge is very simple. It is working to ensure that used plastics never enter the environment,” Baca said. “A top-down approach that puts a cap or a ban on production does nothing to address the challenges that we face from a waste management perspective.”
The United States, a top plastic-producing country, agrees national plans allow governments to prioritize the most important sources and types of plastic pollution.
Most plastic is made from fossil fuels. Other plastic-producing and oil and gas countries also called for putting the responsibility on individual nations. China’s delegate said it would be hard to effectively control global plastic pollution with one or even several universal approaches.
Saudi Arabia’s delegate also said each country should determine its own action plan, with no standardization or harmonization among them. Plastic plays a vital role in sustainable development, the delegate said, so the treaty should recognize the importance of continuing plastic production while tackling the root cause of the pollution, which he identified as poor waste management.
Some referred to these countries as the “low ambition” group. Andrés Del Castillo, senior attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law, said that while national plans are important, they should not be the treaty’s backbone because that’s the system — or lack of one — that the world already has.
“We don’t see a point of meeting five times with experts all around the world to discuss voluntary actions, when there are specific control measures that are needed that can aim to reduce, then eliminate plastic pollution in the world,” he said after participating in the discussions Thursday. “It’s a transboundary problem.”
The secretary general of the United Nations Antonio Guterres chimed in with a tweet: “Plastics are fossil fuels in another form & pose a serious threat to human rights, the climate & biodiversity,” it read.
The self-named “high ambition coalition” of countries want an end to plastic pollution by 2040, using an ambitious, effective international legally-binding instrument. They’re led by Norway and Rwanda.
Norway’s delegate to the meeting said plastic production and use must be curbed, and the first priority should be to identify which plastic products, polymers and chemical additives would bring the fastest benefit if phased out.
African nations, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru and others called for a global approach too, arguing that voluntary and fragmented national plans won’t address the magnitude of plastic pollution. Small island countries that rely on the ocean for food and livelihoods spoke of being overwhelmed by plastic waste washing up on their shores. Developing countries said they need financial support to combat plastic pollution.
Australia, the United Kingdom and Brazil said international obligations should complement national action.
Tadesse Amera, an environmental scientist, said the treaty should address not only waste but the environmental health issues posed by chemicals in plastics as the products are used, recycled, discarded or burned as waste. Amera is the director of Pesticide Action Nexus Association Ethiopia and co-chair of the International Pollutants Elimination Network.
“It’s not a waste management issue,” he said. “It’s a chemical issue and a health issue, human health and also biodiversity.”
People from communities affected by the industry went to the meeting to ensure their voices are heard throughout the treaty talks. That included Frankie Orona, executive director of the Society of Native Nations in Texas.
“There’s a lack of inclusion from those that are directly negatively impacted by this industry. And they need to be at the table,” he said. “A lot of times they have solutions.”
Orona said the talks seem focused, so far, on reducing plastic, when governments should aim higher.
“We need to completely break free from plastics,” he said.
Mathur-Filipp said that for the next meeting, she will write a draft of what a legally-binding agreement would look like. Organizers don’t want this to take a decade, she said. The next meeting is planned for the spring.
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COACHELLA VALLEY, Calif. — Four generations of the Melkesian family have grown palm trees for more than 80 years in California's arid Coachella Valley.
Today, the family has 115 acres of palm trees under cultivation. They are used for the iconic desert landscapes around the region and to produce dates.
“My dad, two brothers, and I work together,” said Kallie Melkesian. "Desert Empire Palms is definitely a family business.”
The business was founded in 1940 when her great grandfather, Melkes Melkesian, began cultivating palm trees. He was followed into the business by his son, Buddy. The next generation was Bobby Sr., who was followed into the business by Kallie and her two brothers, Bobby Jr. and Matthew.
The family grows both fan palms and date palms. The fan palms are the California, Canary Island and Mexican varieties. The date palms are the Medjool and Deglet varieties.
Palm trees are really not trees at all, she said. They’re a type of grass. For this reason, they grow tall and not wide like a tree.
“We also have a wholesale palm business where we sell the actual palm tree for landscaping," she said.
Male and female trees are needed to produce dates. A male date palm can fertilize any variety of female date palm.
You cannot plant a date seed and grow a tree that produces the same fruit. A date palm will grow, but it will produce an inferior date, Melkesian said.
To propagate date palms, growers remove “shoots” from the side of the palms and replant them. These have the same genetics as the mother palm and will produce the same quality fruit.
The date harvest is a year-long endeavor. Date palms produce a crop once per year, but there are steps that must be followed to prepare the palms.
The palms are cleaned up by removing excess fronds, which are the leaf-like structures. The remaining fronds are dethorned to protect the workers.
The males produce pollen and the females produce bunches of dates that need to be pollinated. When the males put out the pollen bunches, workers extract them and pollinate the females.
“Next, we 'ponytail' and tie down the date bunches,” she said. “Both of these steps position the date bunches for optimal growth and helps prevent them from snapping with the excess weight of fruit. Next, we bag the dates so that they do not fall to the ground as they ripen.”
Although the Coachella Valley still leads in Medjool production; growers are facing competition from Deglet Noor production in Mexico and elsewhere.
This is the variety of date used in granola bars. They do not have to be a beautiful fruit and can be imported for a much lower price due to California’s high labor costs, Melkesian said.
Melkesian says another challenge that growers face is the prices offered by the packing houses. Growers often do not have much negotiating power when it comes to the prices for dates, she said.
In the end, the grower gets the smallest piece of the pie compared to what a consumer pays for dates in the store.
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BOONES CREEK, Tenn. (WJHL) – A man is dead after a motorcycle crash Sunday, the Johnson City Police Department (JCPD) reports.
According to the JCPD, Donald Newell, from Johnson City, was riding east on Boones Creek Road on a 2008 Harley-Davidson motorcycle when the motorcycle hit a deer in the roadway.
Newell was taken to Johnson City Medical Center, where he died from his injuries.
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BERLIN (AP) — Police in Berlin said Friday that they have opened an investigation of Roger Waters on suspicion of incitement over a costume the Pink Floyd co-founder wore when he performed in the German capital last week.
Images on social media showed Waters firing an imitation machine gun while dressed in a long black coat with a red armband. Police confirmed that an investigation was opened over suspicions that the context of the costume could constitute a glorification, justification or approval of Nazi rule and therefore a disturbance of the public peace.
Once the police investigation is concluded, the case will be handed to Berlin prosecutors, who would decide whether to pursue any charges.
Waters has drawn ire for his support of the BDS movement, which calls for boycotts and sanctions against Israel. He has rejected accusations of antisemitism.
Authorities in Frankfurt tried to prevent a concert there scheduled for May 28, but Waters challenged that move successfully in a local court. In Munich, the city council said it had explored possibilities of banning a concert but concluded that it wasn’t legally possible to cancel a contract with the organizer. His appearance there on Sunday was accompanied by a protest attended by the local Jewish community’s leader.
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A jury has recommended that the shooter who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Nikolas Cruz, 24, pleaded guilty last year to 17 charges of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder. The question facing jurors now was whether Cruz would spend the rest of his life in prison or be sentenced to death.
Unanimity among the 12 jurors is required to impose the death penalty.
The jury unanimously found that there had been aggravating factors in the murders Cruz committed. But at least one juror concluded that for each murder, the aggravating factors did not outweigh mitigating circumstances in his case, and thus the death penalty is not merited — resulting in the recommendation of a life sentence.
In the reading of the verdict sheets for the 17 counts of murder that stretched about an hour, it could be difficult for observers to discern immediately what the jury had decided.
Several people in the courtroom – including families of the victims — shook their heads in disbelief and had tears in their eyes as it became clear that the jury had recommended a life sentence for Cruz rather than the death penalty.
Following the jury's recommendation, prosecutors requested that those who were victims of Cruz be allowed to present testimony about the crime and what they see as the appropriate sentence. The judge agreed to the request, which will happen in weeks ahead.
The judge in the case, Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer, cannot overrule the jury's decision. Florida abolished death sentences by judicial override in 2016.
Cruz carried out the massacre on Valentine's Day in 2018. He was 19 at the time, and had been expelled from the school. He entered a school building through an unlocked side door and used an AR-15-style rifle to kill 14 students and three staff members, as well as wound 17 others.
Jurors began deliberations on Wednesday. Late that day, the jury asked to see the murder weapon. On Thursday morning, the jury said it had come to a recommendation on a sentence, about 15 minutes after the jurors were able to examine the weapon, according to The Associated Press.
Prosecutors had pushed for the death sentence. In closing arguments Tuesday, lead prosecutor Mike Satz told jurors that Cruz had hunted his victims during his siege of the school, returning to some of those he'd wounded to shoot them again, and kill them.
"This plan was goal directed, it was calculated, it was purposeful and it was a systematic massacre," Satz said.
NPR's Greg Allen has been covering the trial in Fort Lauderdale.
"Over the trial's six months, jurors heard students and teachers who survived the shooting describe the attack. They heard graphic testimony from medical examiners and viewed surveillance videos showing Cruz firing into classrooms and hallways, shooting some victims repeatedly," Allen reported.
In laying out their defense, lawyers for Cruz presented testimony from counselors and a doctor who say the defendant suffers from a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, a condition that they argued affects his reasoning and behavior. Witnesses testified that his birth mother, Brenda Woodard, had abused alcohol and cocaine while she was pregnant with him.
"You now know that Nikolas is a brain-damaged, broken, mentally-ill person, through no fault of his own," Cruz's lawyer, Melissa McNeil, stated in closing arguments. "He was literally poisoned in Brenda's womb."
For Cruz to receive the death penalty, the sentence needed to be agreed upon by all 12 jurors.
Cruz's rampage is the deadliest mass shooting to go to trial in the U.S., according to The Associated Press. In other attacks in which 17 or more people were killed, the shooter was either killed by police or died by suicide. Still awaiting trial is the suspect in the 2019 shooting of 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
NPR's Miami Correspondent Greg Allen contributed to this report.
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Poweshiek skipperling butterflies aren’t an obvious pick for an endangered species poster child.
For starters, they seem more moth than butterfly — tiny, fuzzy, earth-toned, lacking the panache of, say, the beloved monarch. And then there’s that name, a mouthful (pah-wah-sheek) for anyone unfamiliar with them. Which, right now, is almost everyone. | https://www.mlive.com/news/2023/03/as-tiny-rare-butterfly-nears-extinction-michigan-is-helping-bring-it-back-from-the-brink.html | 2023-03-21 12:04:58 | 0 | https://www.mlive.com/news/2023/03/as-tiny-rare-butterfly-nears-extinction-michigan-is-helping-bring-it-back-from-the-brink.html |
Drought-stricken states to get less Colorado River water, officials announce
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. officials announced Tuesday that two U.S. states reliant on water from the Colorado River will face more water cuts as they endure extreme drought.
The move affecting Arizona and Nevada came as officials predict levels at Lake Mead, the largest U.S. reservoir, will plummet even further than they have. The cuts will place officials in those states under extraordinary pressure to plan for a hotter, drier future and a growing population. Mexico will also face cuts.
Lake Mead is currently less than a quarter full and the seven states overall that depend on its water missed a federal deadline to announce proposals on plans cut additional water next year. The river serves 40 million people in the U.S. West and Northern Mexico and is also a key source for farmers.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story is below.
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The U.S. government on Tuesday is expected to announce water cuts to states that rely on the Colorado River as drought and climate change leave less water flowing through the river and deplete the reservoirs that store it.
Farmers in central Arizona will largely shoulder the cuts, as they did this year.
The Colorado River provides water to 40 million people across seven states in the American West as well as Mexico and helps feed an agricultural industry valued at $15 billion a year. Cities and farms across the region are anxiously awaiting official hydrology projections — estimates of future water levels in the river — that will determine the extent and scope of cuts to their water supply.
Water officials in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming are expecting federal officials to project Lake Mead — located on the Nevada-Arizona border and the largest manmade reservoir in the U.S. — to shrink to dangerously low levels that could disrupt water delivery and hydropower production and cut the amount of water allocated to Arizona and Nevada, as well as Mexico.
And that’s not all: Officials from the states are also scrambling to meet a deadline imposed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to slash their water use by at least 15% in order to keep water levels at the river’s storage reservoirs from dropping even more.
Together, the projections and the deadline for cuts are presenting Western states with unprecedented challenges and confronting them with difficult decisions about how to plan for a drier future.
While the Bureau of Reclamation is “very focused on just getting through this to next year,” any cutbacks will likely need to be in place far longer, said University of Oxford hydrologist Kevin Wheeler.
“What contribution the science makes is, it’s pretty clear that that these reductions just have to have to stay in place until the drought has ended or we realize they actually have to get worse and the cuts have to get deeper,” he said.
The cuts expected to be announced Tuesday are based on a plan the seven states as well as Mexico signed in 2019 to help maintain reservoir levels. Under that plan, the amount of water allocated to states depends on the water levels at Lake Mead. Last year, the lake fell low enough for the federal government to declare a first-ever water shortage in the region, triggering mandatory cuts for Arizona and Nevada as well as Mexico in 2022.
Officials expect hydrologists will project the lake to fall further, triggering additional cuts to Nevada, Arizona and Mexico next year. States with higher priority water rights are not expected to see cuts.
Reservoir levels have been falling for years — and faster than experts predicted — due to 22 years of drought worsened by climate change and overuse of the river. Scorching temperatures and less melting snow in the spring have reduced the amount of water flowing from the Rocky Mountains, where the river originates before it snakes 1,450 miles (2,334 kilometers) southwest and into the Gulf of California.
Already, extraordinary steps have been taken this year to keep water in Lake Powell, the other large Colorado River reservoir, which sits upstream of Lake Mead and straddles the Arizona-Utah border. Water from the lake runs through Glen Canyon Dam, which produces enough electricity to power between 1 million and 1.5 million homes each year.
After water levels at Lake Powell reached levels low enough to threaten hydropower production, federal officials said they would hold back an additional 480,000 acre-feet (more than 156 billion gallons or 592 million cubic meters) of water to ensure the dam could still produce energy. That water would normally course to Lake Mead.
Under Tuesday’s reductions, Arizona is expected to lose slightly more water than it did this year, when 18% of its supply was cut. In 2023, it will lose an additional 3%, an aggregate 21% reduction from its initial allocation.
Mexico is expected to lose 7% of the 1.5 million acre-feet it receives each year from the river. Last year, it lost about 5%. The water is a lifeline for northern desert cities including Tijuana and a large farm industry in the Mexicali Valley, just south of the border from California’s Imperial Valley.
Nevada is also set to lose water — about 8% of its supply — but most residents will not feel the effects because the state recycles the majority of its water used indoors and doesn’t use its full allocation. Last year, the state lost 7%.
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BERLIN (AP) — Climate activists briefly disrupted traffic at Munich airport in southern Germany Thursday, in a protest against the environmental impact of air travel.
The group Last Generation said some of its members glued themselves to the tarmac in Munich, while others entered the grounds of Berlin airport.
Henner Euting, a spokesperson for Munich airport, confirmed that the northern runway was briefly closed. Planes had to be routed over the southern runway, causing short delays, he said.
A spokesperson for Berlin airport, Sabine Deckwerth, confirmed that a police operation was ongoing but said air traffic there was not disrupted.
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ASK ALMOST any business owner and they will tell you: One of the most pressing problems impeding their ability to recruit and retain a workforce is the lack of available and affordable child care. Without access to quality, affordable child care for their workers, businesses are unable to fill critical vacancies, which limits opportunities for growth and stifles their potential for economic success.
New Futures is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that advocates, educates and collaborates to improve the health and wellness of all New Hampshire residents through policy change. We envision a state and local communities where public policies help keep New Hampshire a healthy state to live, work and raise a family.
New Futures is a Business & Industry Association member. New Hampshire’s statewide chamber of commerce and leading nonpartisan business advocate represents nearly 400 member employers in the state. BIA advocates for policies that strengthen the early childhood system including increasing access to quality, affordable child care to allow caregivers to return to the labor force.
Although child care is an essential resource for most Granite State families, it’s often expensive and nearly impossible to secure. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, child care is considered affordable when it costs families no more than 7% of their household income. In New Hampshire, the cost of care for an infant averages $14,425 per year in a center-based setting, which would consume over 37% of a single parent’s income and 11% of a two-parent household that nets $120,000 annually. These rates are unaffordable for most families.
Even if a family can afford child care, the demand on providers exceeds their capacity to serve families. Since 2019, 42 child care centers have closed across New Hampshire, eliminating 1,459 slots for children and adding to the growing demand for availability. Low wages and the COVID-19 pandemic placed additional pressures on this fragile system, leaving families with few options, and often forcing them to piece together child care. The consistency and quality of that patchworked care directly impacts whether a caregiver remains in the workforce.
If a family cannot find child care, women are often the ones to leave the workforce. Before the pandemic, 85.5% of women aged 25 to 34 participated in the workforce. Today, that number hovers around 75.8%. To add insult to injury, nearly half of women in this age bracket hold a bachelor’s degree or higher. In May 2021, the director of the New Hampshire Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau reported that “Increasing the labor force participation rate of women ages 25-54 by just 1.3% (10,000) would add over $1 billion to New Hampshire’s gross domestic product by 2031.” New Hampshire’s businesses suffer from a reduced pool of qualified workers and the ripple effects of decreased consumer spending and higher employee turnover rates.
It’s critical that Granite State policymakers recognize a strong system of child care is not only good for families, but is essential to the bottom line of nearly every business in this state.
Fortunately, there are clear ways New Hampshire can strengthen the child care system for families and support expansion of the child care workforce. First, we must maximize existing programs aimed at supporting working families. This will enable businesses to recruit and retain more working parents. Second, New Hampshire must directly invest in the child care workforce. Addressing the wage gap for child care workers and providing support for workforce recruitment and retention are critical. Wherever possible, New Hampshire should leverage existing federal dollars to ensure the long-term stability of the workforce.
Business leaders are uniquely positioned to use their voice to combat outdated views on child care and set the foundation for state policy under consideration this legislative session. Historically, the financial and logistical burden of securing child care has been viewed as a family issue, not a business issue. That outdated sentiment remains a barrier to critical change. New Hampshire’s business community has the power to change this perception.
A strong child care system is a cornerstone to the success of New Hampshire businesses and preservation of a vibrant state economy. As the Legislature embarks on the 2023 session, it’s imperative that our policymakers recognize providing support for child care initiatives will help alleviate the current workforce shortage, while also increasing recruitment and retention of workers in years to come. Investing in child care is essential for the future of the Granite State economy and will help ensure our long-term prosperity.
Michele Merritt is president and CEO of New Futures. Rebecca Woitkowski serves as the Kids Count policy director for New Futures. For more about New Futures, visit New-futures.org. For more about the BIA, visit Biaofnh.com.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations reassured Ukrainian farmers Tuesday that extending a wartime deal to facilitate Black Sea shipments of Ukrainian grain and other commodities is a priority for the U.N.
The agreement, which Russia and Ukraine signed separately with the U.N. and Turkey, is set to expire on Nov. 19. A Russian diplomat on Tuesday cited Moscow’s dissatisfaction with its implementation.
Speaking to farmers and reporters at a grain storage facility in Kyiv. U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said she saw Ukraine “as the breadbasket of the world."
“This (war) really has had an impact on the entire global food market that you are not able to get your grains out,” Thomas-Greenfield said.
Russia briefly suspended its participation in the deal last week, alleging a Ukrainian drone attack on its Black Sea fleet in Crimea on Oct. 29. Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for the attack.
Ukraine and Russia both are major global exporters of wheat, barley, sunflower oil and other products, and the war has caused shortages and fueled worries of a hunger crisis in poorer nations.
Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Andrey Rudenko, said Tuesday that the Kremlin has not yet decided whether to extend its agreement with Turkey and the U.N.
“We still have time. We are looking at how this deal is being implemented following the restoration of our participation," Rudenko said. “We are very dissatisfied with how the Russian part is being implemented, where the U.N. has taken responsibility for solving problems.”
Russia and Ukraine signed separate agreements on July 22 for a Black Sea corridor that cleared the way for the export of grain out of three Ukrainian ports, as well as for shipments of Russian grain and fertilizer. The deal, which established an inspection and monitoring system so cargo ships could travel safely, will expire next week unless it is renewed.
Russia's U.N. representatives said last month that a renewed agreement must allow for increased Russian exports of food and fertilizer. Although international sanctions did not target those goods, shipping and insurance companies have been reluctant to deal with Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.
Rudenko said Moscow “has not yet seen progress” in the implementation of the deal’s provisions regarding Russian food and fertilizer. He said “all factors will be considered” by Moscow as it mulls whether to approve an extension.
Ukrainian farmers told Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador, they wanted milled wheat to be part of any renewed deal. Currently, only unmilled grains are covered.
Sergii Kurdytskyi, executive director for Gospodar, a grain and dairy cooperative, told The Associated Press that production and market confidence would suffer if the deal does not continue.
The grain initiative was a rare example of cooperation between Ukraine and Russia. More than 10 million tons of grain in 397 ships to leave the Ukrainian ports, which were blockaded and mined early in the war.
Ukraine's infrastructure minister, Oleksandr Kubrakov, wrote on Twitter that seven more ships were scheduled to berth in one of the three ports Tuesday, to be loaded with an additional 140,000 tons of grain.
According to the Joint Coordination Center (JCC), the Turkey-based body established under the deal to inspect participating ships for weapons, another 77 vessels were awaiting permission to enter the Ukrainian ports, while 15 ships loaded with foodstuffs were preparing for checks in Turkish territorial waters.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Rays are off to one of the best starts in Major League Baseball history.But it took a visit by the New York Yankees to bring the big crowds to Tropicana Field.“Every time you play the Yankees, it feels like you’re playing in the World Series,” said Rays first baseman Yandy Díaz, through a translator.Tampa Bay’s 27-7 start through Saturday’s 3-2 loss to the Yankees ranks among legendary World Series-winning teams like Kirk Gibson’s 1984 Detroit Tigers, Joe DiMaggio’s 1939 Yankees and the 1928 Yankees, which included Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.The first meeting this season between the AL East foes had the Rays opening up the normally closed upper deck. The attendance Saturday was 27,708, which bested the season-high 25,025 from opening day against the Tigers.The total turnout through the first two games was 52,715, lifting the 2023 home attendance average to 17,137. It ranks eighth-best in the AL, an increase from last year’s 13,927.Despite six postseason appearances over the stretch, the Rays haven’t had a 20,000 average since 2010.Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash likes the atmosphere of a boisterous crowd.“This place, when there’s a lot of people in here, it gets really loud,” Cash said. “I appreciate the fans coming out. Anytime we get a packed house, it’s pretty exciting.”Tampa Bay’s 5-4 victory in Friday’s series opener had that playoff feel from the start. Popular Rays left fielder Randy Arozarena homered in the first inning, and was hit by what both team called unintentional pitches in each of his next two plate appearances,The ensuing barking between the two dugouts prompted the umpires to issue an warning to both benches. Unhappy that a warning wasn’t given earlier, Cash stormed out of the dugout to make his point and was ejected.Adding to it all was “Randy Land,” a section of seats in left field set aside for Friday’s game where fans got a Arozarena T-shirt.Part of the package includes a free soda, water or beer — for those of legal age — if Arozarena goes deep. He quickly obliged.“Very happy and excited,” said Arozarena, through a translator. “I know the fans are pretty excited, too, because they’re able to drink for free because of me.” ___ AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb [https://apnews.com/hub/mlb] and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports [https://twitter.com/AP_Sports] | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/yankees-arozarena-help-bring-big-crowds-to-18084221.php | 2023-05-07 14:58:34 | 1 | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/yankees-arozarena-help-bring-big-crowds-to-18084221.php |
With two of the best players in the country leading the way — and a championship game loss as motivation — Alabama is No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason college football poll for the second straight season and ninth time overall.
Heisman Trophy winner Bryce Young, national defensive player of year Will Anderson Jr. and the Crimson Tide received 54 of 63 first-place votes and 1,566 points in the Top 25 presented by Regions Bank released on Monday.
Ohio State is No. 2 with six first-place votes (1,506 points) from the media panel and defending national champion Georgia is third with three first-place votes (1,455 points). Clemson is No. 4. Notre Dame rounds out the top five, setting up a tantalizing opener at Ohio State on Sept. 3.
The Tide’s preseason No. 1 ranking is the seventh in 15 years under coach Nick Saban. Since the preseason rankings started in 1950, only Oklahoma with 10 has been No. 1 in the initial poll more often than Alabama.
The Crimson Tide started last season No. 1 and finished ranked No. 2 after losing the national championship game to the Southeastern Conference rival Bulldogs.
Alabama coach Nick Saban recently called 2021 a rebuilding season for his Tide dynasty, which has won six national titles over the last 13 years. He has a point.
Young was in his first season as a starter last year, playing behind an inexperienced offensive line. He was unfazed, throwing for 4,872 yards and 47 touchdowns.
Anderson was a force on the other side ball as Alabama broke in a back seven with mostly new starters. The sophomore led the nation in tackles for loss with 33 1/2, 11 1/2 more than No. 2 on the list.
Ohio State brings back a Heisman Trophy finalist at quarterback in C.J. Stroud while at Georgia, most of the key players from one of the best college defenses of the last 25 years are now in NFL. Still, quarterback Stetson Bennett and All-America tight end Brock Bowers return to a Bulldogs offense that could be even more explosive in 2022.
Texas A&M, which finished last season unranked despite handing Alabama its only regular-season loss, starts this season No. 6.
Defending Pac-12 champion Utah is seventh, the best preseason ranking in school history. Defending Big Ten champion Michigan is No. 8 after making the playoff for the first time last season.
No. 9 Oklahoma is the highest-ranked Big 12 school, one spot ahead of defending league champion Baylor.
Poll points
Alabama has been in the preseason top five in each of last 14 seasons and in the preseason top three in 13 straight. The Tide’s 31st preseason top-five ranking this year matches Ohio State for the most in poll history.
Turning preseason No. 1 into a national championship has proved tricky throughout history, even for Alabama.
The Crimson Tide has gone on to win the national championship after starting No. 1 just once under Saban and twice overall.
Since the AP preseason began in 1950, there have been 11 preseason No. 1 teams that also finished the season top ranked. Alabama was the last to do it (2017).
Rarities and streaks
- No. 13 North Carolina State is ranked in the preseason for the first time since 2003. The Wolfpack matched their best preseason ranking. They were also 13th in 1975.
- No. 17 Pitt is in the preseason rankings for the first time since 2010.
- No. 20 Kentucky is making its first preseason poll appearance since 1978.
- No. 22 Wake Forest made the preseason rankings for the first time since 2008.
- Ohio State is ranked in the preseason for the 34th straight season, breaking a tie with Nebraska (1970-2002) and Penn State (1968-2000) for the longest such streak in poll history.
- Texas A&M has the second-best preseason ranking for a team that finished the previous season unranked. Ohio State was No. 3 in the 1972 preseason poll after being unranked at the end of the 1971 season and Notre Dame also started No. 6 in 1983 after finishing unranked in 1982.
How did the seasons work out of those teams? Ohio State went 9-2 and finished the season No. 9. The Irish went 7-5 and unranked again.
Notable leftouts
- LSU with new coach Brian Kelly will start the season unranked for the first time 2000, Saban’s first of five seasons as coach of the Tigers.
- Florida and Florida State are both unranked to start the season, which has not happened since 1974.
Newbies
Five schools ranked in the preseason poll have head coaches starting their first full seasons leading their teams: Notre Dame (Marcus Freeman), Oklahoma (Brent Venables), No. 11 Oregon (Dan Lanning), No. 14 USC (Lincoln Riley) and No. 16 Miami (Mario Cristobal).
This is the second time in the last five seasons that five teams with new coaches were ranked in the preseason, according to research done by Sportradar. It also happened in 2018, but before that season that type of representation in the preseason poll for teams with new coaches was a rarity.
You have to go all the way back to 1990 when six schools with coaches entering their first full season appeared in the preseason Top 25, according to Sportradar. That list includes some notable names: Gary Moeller, Michigan; Ken Hatfield, Clemson; Gene Stallings, Alabama; Jack Crowe, Arkansas; Paul Hackett, Pittsburgh; and John Jenkins, Houston.
Conference call
For the fourth straight season, the Southeastern Conference has three teams in the top six.
The Atlantic Coast Conference matched its best showing in the preseason poll with five teams. The ACC has reached that number four previous times.
- SEC - 6 (Nos. 1, 3, 6, 19, 20, 21)
- ACC - 5 (Nos. 4, 13, 16, 17, 22)
- Big Ten - 4 (Nos. 2, 8, 15, 18)
- Big 12 - 3 (Nos. 9, 10, 12)
- Pac-12 - 3 (Nos. 7, 11, 14)
- American - 2 (Nos. 23, 24)
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy said Tuesday its forces had a tense encounter with Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
The Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet said three Guard vessels had an “unsafe and unprofessional” encounter as the USS Sirocco and USNS Choctaw County transited Monday through the strait, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf.
The Navy said one of three of the Guard fast crafts raced head-on at the Sirocco before changing course. The Navy said the Sirocco fired a warning flare during the encounter as well.
A short video released by the Navy showed the encounter.
Iran did not immediately acknowledge the incident in the strait, through which a fifth of all oil traded passes.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — It’s been 16 years since the borders of the Gaza Strip slammed shut after Hamas militants seized control of the territory.
The takeover forced the European Union to withdraw monitors who had been deployed at a Gaza border crossing to help the Palestinians prepare for independence. Yet the EU has regularly renewed funding for the unit since then, most recently late last month.
The continued existence of the unit known as EUBAM is an extreme example of the West’s willingness to keep pumping hundreds of millions of dollars a year into the moribund vision of a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians.
Proponents say this approach remains the best chance for securing an eventual peace deal. Critics argue that opting for such costly conflict management helps keep a 56-year-old Israeli military occupation in place and allows Europe and the U.S. to avoid making the hard political decisions needed to end the conflict.
This week’s deadly Israeli raid of a West Bank militant stronghold and previous eruptions of violence also underscore the limits of international efforts to contain the conflict.
“The international community, in my view, understands the reality that the two-state solution is gone,” said Marwan Muasher, a onetime Jordanian foreign minister and former ambassador to Israel. “It does not want to acknowledge this publicly, because acknowledging it publicly is going to have to force the international community to start talking about alternatives, all of them problematic.”
Muasher, now a vice president at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is unusual among his peers. The legions of diplomats and politicians who have devoted their careers to Mideast peacemaking remain committed to the two-state vision, even as the ground around them has shifted.
“I am still a believer,” said Ehud Olmert, the former Israeli prime minister who led the last round of substantive peace talks with Palestinian leaders before leaving office in 2009.
“There is no other solution. Everything else is almost inevitably a prescription for disaster,” Olmert said.
The two-state approach has guided international diplomacy since the 1993 Oslo peace accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. The interim accords were meant to lay the groundwork for the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
Palestinians seek the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, areas Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war, for their state. The land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, made up of pre-1967 Israel and the occupied lands, is populated in roughly equal parts by Palestinians and Israeli Jews. Pollsters predict an eventual Palestinian majority because of higher birth rates.
Proponents of partition say it would create a democratic Israel with a clear Jewish majority in defined borders and enable Palestinians to realize their national aspirations.
Without partition, the default is an apartheid-like reality in which a shrinking Jewish minority controls a growing Arab majority with few political rights. Leading rights groups say an apartheid system is already in place.
Since the Oslo accords 30 years ago, the U.S. and EU have spent billions of dollars on development projects and direct aid to the Palestinian Authority to promote the two-state vision. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell both pledged support for a partition deal.
Yet the West has little to show for its efforts. Peace initiatives led by successive U.S. presidents were derailed by violence, Israeli settlement expansion and mutual distrust.
Hamas, shunned by the West as a terrorist group, has fought four wars against Israel and remains entrenched in Gaza. The Palestinian Authority, which governs semi-autonomous enclaves in the West Bank, is weaker than ever. Israel’s far-right government opposes Palestinian independence and is racing to expand a settler population that has ballooned to over 700,000 people.
Preoccupied with the war in Ukraine and its rivalry with China, the Biden administration has done little more than condemn Israeli settlement plans and call for de-escalation.
Recent opinion polls show that only about one-third of Israelis and Palestinians still favor a two-state solution.
Even some members of the Palestinian Authority, which has the most to gain from independence, have begun to speak publicly about equal rights between the river and the sea, rather than two states.
“The basis for us is ending the occupation, obtaining freedom,” said Mahmoud Aloul, an aide to President Mahmoud Abbas. He said it does not matter if the conflict ends with two states or a single binational state for Israelis and Palestinians.
In academic and human rights circles, many now speak about a “one-state reality” – in which Israel wields overall control over Palestinians. Muasher said given this environment, it is time for the world to focus on Palestinian human rights instead of unrealistic peace plans.
Ines Abdel-Razek, executive director of the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy, an advocacy group, said calls for a two-state solution are “comfortable” for the international community, but insincere.
She said that if the U.S. were serious about peace, it would force Israel to reverse its settlement enterprise. Instead, she said, Washington gives Israel billions in military aid, allows settlement groups to raise funds in the U.S., engages with institutions promoting the annexation of the West Bank and pushes for normalization with other Arab countries.
“The problem is the dire gap and hypocrisy between the discourse and then the policies and practices that are put in place,” she said.
Nearly a generation ago, when EUBAM was established, Palestinian statehood hopes hadn’t yet been crushed.
The unit was set up after Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza in 2005. The border monitors helped the Palestinian Authority run the territory’s Rafah crossing with Egypt, while coordinating with Israel. It had 130 workers and helped some 2,700 people cross the border each day.
Florin Bulgariu, the current director of EUBAM, said the initial agreement included plans to help the Palestinians develop a seaport, airport and take over additional border crossings.
Those plans came crashing down when Hamas won Palestinian parliament elections in 2006 and took control of Gaza in 2007, driving out Abbas’ forces. The EU shuttered the Rafah operation but still maintains a scaled-down office in Israel.
With a staff of 18 and a budget of 2.5 million Euros a year, EUBAM helps train Palestinian officials in the West Bank to spot counterfeit documents, use X-ray technology and stop drug and weapons smuggling.
“The idea is for the PA to be fully prepared to take over the Rafah crossing point when the time comes,” he said, acknowledging that the odds of this happening anytime soon are nonexistent. Some of this training has bolstered PA border agents in the West Bank as well, he said.
Bulgariu said he is proud of what the mission has accomplished but also frustrated “because I cannot share or implement all what I know.”
Yet he remains committed to the EU’s two-state vision. “This is the only solution that might work in the end, separate borders, everyone with his own business,” he said. | https://www.koin.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-an-eu-mission-in-gaza-once-represented-hope-today-it-is-a-symbol-of-a-sputtering-western-vision/ | 2023-07-06 21:29:46 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-an-eu-mission-in-gaza-once-represented-hope-today-it-is-a-symbol-of-a-sputtering-western-vision/ |
Three of the world's leading browsers were measured for Phishing and Malware protection with time to block and protection over time as key metrics in test scores.
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CyberRatings.org, the non-profit entity dedicated to providing transparency on cybersecurity product efficacy, has published the results of its 2022 Web Browser Security Test. Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox were tested for Phishing Protection and Malware Protection running on Windows 10 and 11.
The Malware tests ran for 24 days with 96 discrete test runs. Phishing tests ran for 20 days with 80 discrete test runs. The reports include measurements of protection against fresh new attacks, consistency of protection over time, and how effective the browser protection was overall.
The ability to warn potential victims that they are about to land on a malicious website or click on a suspicious URL puts web browsers in a unique position to protect the user from an attack. Websites that trick users into downloading malware and phishing campaigns often used for criminal activity have short lifespans, so it is essential that the URL is discovered and added to the reputation system as quickly as possible. A good reputation system must be both accurate and fast to achieve high catch rates.
"Phishing attacks pose a significant risk to individuals and organizations by threatening to compromise or acquire sensitive personal and corporate information," said Vikram Phatak, CEO of CyberRatings.org. "Phishing and Ransomware attacks continue to rise year over year. Consumers should not override the warnings offered by their web browser protection but instead take advantage of the free offering."
Key Take-Aways:
- Malware protection:
- Phishing protection:
- Average time to block a URL from malware:
- Average time to block a phishing URL:
The Comparative Test Reports provide detailed results for each product. As a service to the community, CyberRatings.org is providing these reports for free.
The following browsers were tested:
- Google Chrome: Version 101.0.1210.53- 102.0.5005.115
- Microsoft Edge: Version 101.0.1210.47 - 102.0.1254.39
- Mozilla Firefox: Version 100.0.1 - 101.0.1
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I'm Cassy Garcia: This is why I want Texas' vote in the midterm election
Henry Cuellar has failed us. Renewing the American Dream in South Texas starts with new leadership.
When my family came to America from Mexico nearly a century ago, they could have never imagined that one day, one of their descendants — let alone, a woman — would run for Congress. But as my abuelo always said: "Mija, en este país todo es posible" (My girl, in this country, everything is possible). Grandpa Pablo, who served our country honorably in Vietnam, is now in the twilight of his years. As I hold his hand during our visits, I think about his life, my own journey, and his words echo through time.
I am the daughter of public school employees who worked her way through school taking orders at Peter Piper Pizza to become the first in my family to graduate from college. Next month, God willing, I will make history by becoming the first Latina to represent Texas’ 28th district in Congress. This is my American Dream and I am running for Congress to preserve it for all Americans.
The 956 is a special place, but we desperately need new leadership. I’ve lived here my whole life and cannot remember so many of my friends and neighbors wondering if their kids will have better lives than their own. Unfortunately, their concerns are not unfounded.
The working families that are the backbone of South Texas are needlessly struggling to pay rent, buy a home, and fill their tanks under the failed liberal policies of Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and my opponent, Henry Cuellar, that have sent inflation skyrocketing.
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As the wife of a Border Patrol agent, I know all too well how the border crisis is hurting us as record numbers of drugs make their way into our country to poison our children. Yet, the Biden administration falsely assures us "the border is secure" while Cuellar opposes life-saving border infrastructure for our men and women in harm’s way.
South Texas families are also struggling to find basic healthcare. Four out of the nine counties in my community do not even have doctors. American women should never have to go to Mexico for OGBYN appointments or mammograms. As a woman with a pre-existing condition, this is not just a statistic; it is personal.
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Cuellar has been in office since I was in kindergarten (1987) and his party has controlled our region for over 100 years. They’ve had plenty of time to address these challenges. South Texans are good-hearted, but we are not gullible. We know they’re not suddenly going to start doing their jobs. Heck, Cuellar openly says the first thing he will do if he returns to Congress is stand with Nancy Pelosi.
The first thing I will do in Congress is stand with the people of South Texas, but to get there, we must recognize our community’s policy problems are not a coincidence. We have a profound crisis of leadership in Washington. Yes, Pelosi and the Biden administration are out-of-touch, but having a scandal-plagued congressman makes everything harder for us.
Cuellar claims our community’s growing concerns over his ethics issues are "personal," but the dark cloud hanging over his head casts a dark shadow over our entire community that impacts us all.
No South Texan can expect Cuellar to work with law enforcement agencies to hunt down drug cartels when those same agencies raided his home and office.
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It is bad enough that Cuellar voted with Biden and Pelosi for wasteful spending that Barack Obama’s own Treasury Secretary warned would make inflation much worse. How can Cuellar — who has somehow amassed a small fortune and a private plane while being on a taxpayer-funded salary since the 1980s — possibly understand families that are struggling in this economy when the only inflation he knows are his rising legal bills?
We deserve so much better, but it is not merely enough for Republicans to criticize the failed Biden-Cuellar-Pelosi agenda. We must provide a sensible alternative. My American Dream Plan does just that:
- A Strong Economy for All: I will fight to bring good jobs to our community, keep taxes low, protect Social Security, and end the reckless spending driving inflation.
- Securing the Border: I will fight to secure the border and provide our Border Patrol with the infrastructure, technology, and personnel they need to protect us.
- Healthcare and Dignity: I will defend Medicare, Medicaid, and bring quality healthcare to South Texas. I will also oppose any effort to strip Americans of their healthcare.
- Ethical Leadership: Come January, when I place my hand on the Bible, I will swear an oath, not just to our Constitution, but to restore honor to this office.
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The choice before South Texans is clear, but it is not merely a choice between Republicans versus Democrats. This is about right versus wrong and, ultimately, whether we have the courage to turn the page on decades of scandals and failed leadership to chart a better way forward.
I know we can do it because, as my abuelo’s granddaughter, I will always believe in South Texas and the promise of America — where everything is possible.
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Stella Stevens, a ‘60s actress and Playboy Playmate who appeared in films like "Girls! Girls! Girls!," "The Nutty Professor" and later "The Poseidon Adventure," has died. She was 84.
The star’s estate announced to The Associated Press that she passed away on Friday in Los Angeles.
"I was notified early this morning," her son Andrew Stevens told Fox News Digital. "Stella had been in hospice for quite some time with stage seven Alzheimer's."
"Alzheimer's is an insidious disease which affected not only my mother, but my grandmother and great aunt," the actor/producer shared. "Hopefully my mother's work will be remembered for her collaborations with some of the entertainment industry's biggest icons."
Stevens was born Estelle Caro Eggleston in Yazoo City, Mississippi, in 1938. She married at age 16 and gave birth to her first and only child in 1955 when she was 17. Stevens divorced two years later.
During her time at Memphis State University, Stevens pursued acting and modeling. She was discovered by 20th Century Fox while performing a college production of "Bus Stop." The actress would later be dropped by Fox and picked up by Paramount.
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While Stevens made her film debut in a Bing Crosby musical titled "Say One for Me" in 1959, she considered "Li’l Abner," released that same year, as her first big break.
Her career in Hollywood soon skyrocketed.
"The head of publicity at Paramount basically made me a worldwide sex symbol," Stevens recalled to FilmTalk in 2017. "He had me doing a lot of layouts with photographers — indoors, outdoors, here and there — being seen in different places, going to the best restaurants, meeting with wonderful actors and directors… those were the golden years of Hollywood. It was a very exciting time."
After Stevens won the New Star Golden Globe, she became Playboy’s Playmate of the Month in January 1960. She was featured in pictorials for the men’s lifestyle magazine in 1965 and again in 1968. Stevens was also included on the magazine’s list of "100 Sexiest Stars of the 20th Century" — she was No. 27.
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In 1962, Stevens found herself starring opposite Elvis Presley in "Girls! Girls! Girls!". She only agreed to do the film because she was promised a Montgomery Clift movie if she did it. According to Stevens, it was a miserable six days of filming due to director Norman Taurog’s temper. However, Presley was "nice."
The Clift picture didn’t pan out for Stevens. But the film, John Cassavetes’ "Too Late Blues," featured Bobby Darin.
"Bobby was a very fine actor, but as you can imagine, he was no Montgomery Clift," Stevens admitted.
Next came 1963’s "The Nutty Professor" with Jerry Lewis. Stevens played Stella Purdy, the comic's love interest.
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"Jerry Lewis had told the bosses at Paramount he wanted to cast the most beautiful ingénue working at the studio — or something like that — and so I got the gig," she later explained. "We all tried to make the characters he had created in the script special, wonderful, unique — and if you ask me, I do believe that’s why the film still holds up after all those years."
At Columbia Pictures, she appeared in "The Secret of My Success" (1965), "The Silencers" (1966) with Dean Martin and "Where Angels Go Trouble Follows" (1968) as a nun opposite Rosalind Russell.
Other notable projects included "Slaughter" (1972) with Jim Brown, the Sam Peckinpah television film "The Battle of Cable Hogue" (1970) and "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972), in which she played Linda Rogo, Ernest Borgnine’s character’s wife.
During the ‘70s and ‘80s, Stevens made her mark in television. She appeared in the pilots for "Wonder Woman," "Hart to Hart" and "The Love Boat. She also kept busy with shows like "Night Court," "Murder, She Wrote" and "Magnum, P.I."
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In 2017, Stevens said that her favorite director was Vincente Minnelli from 1963’s "The Courtship of Eddie’s Father."
She later worked behind the scenes. Stevens directed several films, including the 1979 documentary "An American Heroine," which never got distribution, and 1989’s "The Ranch." She retired in 2010.
In a 1994 interview, Stevens said that she worried that she didn’t succeed in bringing out the best in her directors and that her ambitions changed.
"I wanted to be like my favorite actresses: Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich," she reflected. "I wanted to be like a burst of youth and then when I got a little crow’s feet or age, I’d be off the screen. But I also had the plan of being a director... I saw (Bob Hope) at 83 cracking jokes and having fun. I said then that I never wanted to quit. I want to be like this man. I want to go on forever. I want to die on a movie set."
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Stevens contributed to causes that supported animal rights, Variety reported. She raised horses and llamas in Twisp, Washington.
Her partner of nearly 40 years, guitarist Bob Kulick, passed away in 2020.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, continues its investigation of potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Gaia, Inc. (NASDAQ: GAIA) resulting from allegations that Gaia may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Gaia securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.
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WHAT IS THIS ABOUT: On November 7, 2022, Gaia revealed "an investigation by the staff of the Denver Regional Office (the 'Staff') of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the 'SEC')" which began in June 2020. According to the Company, "[i]n September 2022, Gaia and Gaia's Chief Financial Officer ('CFO') reached an agreement in principle with the Staff on a framework for a complete resolution of the investigation." Further, according to the Company, "[t]he agreement in principle contemplates that Gaia would consent, without admitting or denying any findings, to the entry of an administrative order: (1) finding that Gaia (a) misstated in its April 29, 2019 earnings release and earnings call the number of paying subscribers for the period ending March 31, 2019, … and (b) failed to comply with SEC whistleblower protection requirements with respect to the termination of one employee and the language used in severance agreements for other employees; and (2) requiring Gaia to pay a total civil monetary penalty of $2,000[,000] over a one-year period for these violations. At the same time, the CFO would consent, without admitting or denying any findings, to the entry of an administrative order: (1) finding that the CFO caused Gaia's misstatements in the April 29, 2019 earnings release and earnings call that is described above; and (2) requiring the CFO to pay a civil monetary penalty of $50[,000]." Gaia also stated "[t]here can be no assurance that the contemplated settlement will be finalized and approved."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — When Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell last appeared before Congress, in June 2022, inflation had reached a four-decade high of nearly 9% and showed no sign of easing.
This week, Powell returns to Capitol Hill for two days of hearings under far different circumstances. The Fed has sharply raised interest rates in the past year to combat accelerating prices, and year-over-year inflation has dropped for seven straight months.
Yet if anything, Powell’s task has grown even more complicated.
Just a month ago, the economy appeared to be cooling and inflation steadily declining. But a spate of government data has since painted a very different picture. Consumer spending has remained strong, hiring is still robust and the economy keeps steadily expanding. And recent government reports show that inflation pressures are easing more gradually and fitfully than previous data had shown.
At a news conference last month, Powell said that the long-awaited “disinflation” process — a broad and steady slowdown in inflation — had finally begun. Yet he stressed that it was only in its early stages and would take longer than many economists assumed. Other Fed officials have since echoed that message.
“The disinflation momentum we need is far from certain,” Mary Daly, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, said in a speech Saturday. “It’s clear there is more work to do.”
Daly added that higher rates, “maintained for a longer time, will likely be necessary.”
Indeed, except for the housing industry, which has been pummeled by higher borrowing costs, most of the economy has seemed generally resistant to the rate hikes the Fed has engineered. The central bank has raised rates at the fastest pace since the 1980s. Yet most economists think that to bring inflation back to their 2% target, the Fed’s policymakers will need to raise rates further — and keep them at a peak longer — than they had projected in December.
“The economy is running hotter than most policymakers anticipated a few months ago,” Michael Pearce, lead U.S. economist at Oxford Economics, wrote in a research note.
Pearce expects the Fed to raise its key rate by a quarter-point at each of its next three meetings, and he foresees the possibility of additional hikes beyond those. The Fed’s hikes typically make mortgages, auto loans, credit card rates and business lending more expensive. It’s a trend that can slow spending and inflation and also threaten to send the economy sliding into a recession.
That high-risk quandary will put Powell in a delicate spot during the congressional hearings Tuesday and Wednesday. He will have to placate Democrats worried that the Fed’s aggressive hikes will cause a painful recession while reassuring Republicans that the Fed will send rates high enough to quash inflation.
Signs of the economy’s continued resilience have reduced fears of recession. But they have also heightened concerns that inflation will be harder to conquer.
Fed officials warned last week that their benchmark rate might have to go higher this year than their previous forecast of roughly 5.1%. Christopher Waller, a member of the Fed’s seven-member Board of Governors, said he believed that if the economy remained as hot as it appeared in January — when a half-million jobs were added — the Fed’s key rate would have to top 5.4%. That would be nearly a point higher than its current level of about 4.6%. The risk of a weakened economy, with waves of layoffs and business failures, would become likelier.
Though Fed officials say they don’t want unemployment to rise significantly, they have warned that hiring will have to slow and some job losses will be necessary to tame inflation, though they couch such views in central bank jargon.
“Bringing inflation back to 2% will likely require a period of below-trend growth and some softening of labor market conditions,” the Fed’s semi-annual monetary policy report to Congress, released Friday, said.
Ever-higher interest rates could spark outspoken opposition from some Democrats who argue that the current persistent inflation is mostly a result of global factors, like continued supply shortages and Russia’s war against Ukraine, that the Fed can do little about and of price-gouging by corporate giants as reflected in bloated profit margins.
For their part, congressional Republicans will likely highlight concerns that the Fed must do even more to cool inflation. Jason Furman, a former top economist for President Barack Obama, expressed such concerns in the Wall Street Journal last week. Furman wrote that the Fed should raise its key rate by a substantial half-point when it meets this month and signal that its benchmark rate will likely reach 6% this year.
Many economists say they think inflation will keep falling to roughly 3.5% or 4% but could plateau at that level. Getting it down to the Fed’s 2% target level could require more pain in the form of widespread job losses.
Some congressional Democrats may urge the Fed to raise its inflation target to 3% and argue that it isn’t worth risking a deep recession just to lower inflation by 1 more percentage point. Yet so far, Powell has made clear that he opposes any such change out of concern it would undermine the Fed’s inflation-fighting credibility. Other officials have echoed his views.
Philip Jefferson, a Fed board member, suggested last week that raising the inflation target would “introduce an additional risk” because it might lead people to fear that the target “could be changed opportunistically in the future.”
Other issues will likely arise when Powell testifies Tuesday to the Senate Banking Committee and Wednesday to the House Financial Services Committee. One could be who will replace Lael Brainard, who has left her position as the Fed’s vice chair for a top policymaking post at the White House.
Sen. Robert Menendez, a member of the Banking Committee, has urged the Biden administration to fill the spot with a Hispanic. Menendez notes that there has never been a Hispanic member of the Fed’s rate-setting committee.
Democrats will also likely press Powell on the likely consequences if Congress fails to raise the government’s borrowing limit. The limit was reached in January, and the Biden administration is using financial maneuvers to avoid defaulting on Treasury securities. Congressional Republicans are demanding steep spending cuts in return for raising the debt ceiling.
“There’s only one way forward here, and that is for Congress to raise the debt ceiling so that the United States government can pay all of its obligations when due,” Powell said at his news conference last month. “No one should assume that the Fed can protect the economy from the consequences of failing to act in a timely manner.” | https://www.wjhl.com/business/ap-business/inflation-pressures-put-powell-in-spotlight-before-congress/ | 2023-03-07 05:46:10 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/business/ap-business/inflation-pressures-put-powell-in-spotlight-before-congress/ |
BRUSSELS (AP) — The U.S. and the European Union have set up a task force tasked with resolving a dispute over electric vehicle batteries that the EU says would discriminate against manufacturers in the 27-nation bloc and break World Trade Organization rules.
Under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) passed by U.S. Congress in August, electric car buyers are eligible for a tax credit of up to $7,500 as long as the vehicle runs on a battery built in North America with minerals mined or recycled on the continent. The EU believes that the measure is a potential trans-Atlantic trade barrier discriminating against foreign producers.
The EU announced on Wednesday that Bjoern Seibert, the head of cabinet to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met in Berlin with U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Mike Pyle to launch the task force.
A first meeting will take place next week.
“The Task Force will address specific concerns raised by the EU related to the IRA,” the Commission said. “Both sides agreed on the importance of close coordination to support sustainable and resilient supply chains across the Atlantic, including to build the clean energy economy.”
U.S. Democratic Party members of Congress included the credit in the climate and health care policy law as a way of incentivizing domestic battery and electric vehicle production. But manufacturers in Europe and South Korea, which sell millions of vehicles in the U.S., have threatened to lodge legal complaints with the World Trade Organization.
The European Commission said last month that parts of the law can help fight climate change by accelerating the transition away from fossil fuels. But the EU’s executive branch also expressed concerns about the potential discriminatory nature of the electric vehicle tax credit provision.
Adrienne Watson, a spokesperson for the White House’s National Security Council, welcomed the launch of the task force “to continue promoting deeper understanding of the law’s meaningful progress on lowering costs for families, our shared climate goals, and opportunities and concerns for EU producers.”
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SAN ANTONIO — The rodeo is behind us and Spring Break is on the horizon — a perfect time to catch your breath. But if you want to go out, there are options, including a new music festival and a scary pop culture event. Here’s a look.
Friday
“Disney Animation: Immersive Experience”: San Antonio will be the first Texas city to host this installation, which surrounds patrons with scenes from such classic films as “Encanto” and “The Lion King.” It is the product of a partnership between Lighthouse Immersive, which made its San Antonio debut in May with “Immersive Van Gogh,” and Walt Disney Animation Studios. Through March 29, Lighthouse ArtSpace San Antonio, 221 Burleson St. $36- $100, lighthouseimmersive.com.
“A Bronx Tale”: Actor Chazz Palminteri returns to the work that made him famous in this rendition of the one-man play he debuted in Los Angeles 34 years ago. The autobiographical show follows a young boy growing up in New York as he struggles with the temptations of organized crime and the values of his working-class father. 8 p.m. today, Charline McCombs Empire Theatre, 226 N. St. Mary’s St. $40-$310, majesticempire.com.
Marisela: A pop sensation who recorded her first album, “Sin Él,” when she was 18, L.A. native Marisela has wowed crowds for decades with infectious Latin pop songs such as “Sola Con Mi Soledad” and “Mi Problema.” 8:30 p.m. today, Majestic Theatre, Majestic Theatre, 224 E, Houston St. $55-$140, majesticempire.com.
“Alice In Wonderland”: Ballet San Antonio will bring Lewis Carroll’s tale to life through Brian Enos’ choreography, which blends classical and contemporary movement, as well as surrealist projections by visual artist Luis Grané. 7:30 p.m. today, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Cir. $36-$117, tobincenter.org.
Trae Crowder: Known for his “Liberal Redneck” video series, comedian Crowder has tackled everything from growing up in rural Tennessee to what dinosaurs really looked like. He hosts the “WellRED” podcast with comedians Corey Ryan Forrester and Drew Morgan. 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. today, 7 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club, 618 NW Loop 410.$60-$240 for tables for two, four or eight, improvtx.com.
Saturday
Christian McBride’s New Jawn: Jazz bassist McBride is bringing his quartet to town for a concert dedicated to their latest album, “Prime.” In addition to his work as a band leader, McBride has played with Herbie Hancock, James Brown, Chick Corea and Pat Metheny. 7 and 9 p.m. Saturday, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle. $50-$65, tobincenter.org.
Rodney Carrington: Country comic and singer Carrington is on the road with an all-new show. newest single “Let Me In.” His latest single “Let Me In” is a characteristic combination of country crooning and hard-core raunch. 7 p.m. Saturday, Majestic Theatre, 224 E, Houston St. $50-$165, majesticempire.com.
Silversun Pickups: This alt-rock band from Los Angeles is touring to promote its high-energy album “Physical Thrills.” Paris Jackson, who recently released the singles “Bandaid” and “Just You,” opens. 8 p.m. Saturday, Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St. Mary’s St. $50-$60, silversunpickups.com.
“Friend till the End Festival”: Celebrate 35 years of the “Child’s Play” franchise during this weekend market. Featured celebrity guests include franchise veterans like Alex Vincent and Christine Elise. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Wonderland of the Americas, 4522 Fredericksburg Rd. Free-$60, Facebook: @Wonderland of the Americas.
Sunday
“Lux Aeterna”: This performance from the San Antonio Mastersingers and San Antonio Philharmonic brings the Gregorian chants of composer Morten Lauridsen’s “Lux Aeterna” album to life. 3 p.m. Sunday, Edgewood Theater of Performing Arts, 402 Lance St. Free, samastersingers.org. | https://www.expressnews.com/entertainment/article/chazz-palminteri-marisela-8-things-san-antonio-17814416.php | 2023-03-02 17:04:07 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/entertainment/article/chazz-palminteri-marisela-8-things-san-antonio-17814416.php |
Top Player Prop Bets for Devils vs. Rangers NHL Playoffs First Round Game 5 on April 27, 2023
Jack Hughes and Artemi Panarin are two of the top players with prop bets available when the New Jersey Devils and the New York Rangers meet at Prudential Center on Thursday (opening faceoff at 7:30 PM ET).
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Devils vs. Rangers Game Info
- When: Thursday, April 27, 2023 at 7:30 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN2, MSGSN, MSG, TVAS2, and SN360
- Where: Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
NHL Props Today: New Jersey Devils
Jack Hughes Props
- Points Prop: 1.5 (Over Odds: +150, Under Odds: -185)
- Assists Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: -130, Under Odds: +100)
One of New Jersey's top offensive players this season is Hughes, who has scored 99 points in 78 games (43 goals and 56 assists).
Hughes Recent Games
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Nico Hischier Props
- Points Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: -196, Under Odds: +160)
- Assists Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: -110, Under Odds: -120)
Nico Hischier is another of New Jersey's most productive contributors through 81 games, with 31 goals and 49 assists.
Hischier Recent Games
Dougie Hamilton Props
- Points Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: -141, Under Odds: +110)
- Assists Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: +120, Under Odds: -149)
Dougie Hamilton has 22 goals and 53 assists for New Jersey.
Hamilton Recent Games
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NHL Props Today: New York Rangers
Artemi Panarin Props
- Points Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: -164, Under Odds: +135)
- Assists Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: +110, Under Odds: -141)
Panarin's 92 points are pivotal for New York. He has 29 goals and 63 assists in 82 games.
Panarin Recent Games
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Mika Zibanejad Props
- Points Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: -179, Under Odds: +145)
- Assists Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: +110, Under Odds: -141)
Mika Zibanejad is one of the top contributors for New York with 91 total points (1.1 per game), with 39 goals and 52 assists in 82 games.
Zibanejad Recent Games
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Saint Mary's (CA) vs. VCU: Odds, spread, over/under and other Vegas lines - NCAA Tournament First Round
The No. 5 seed Saint Mary's Gaels (26-7) will try to beat the No. 12 seed VCU Rams (27-7) in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday at MVP Arena. This contest tips off at 2:00 PM.
In this article, you will see odds and spreads for the Saint Mary's (CA) vs. VCU matchup across multiple sportsbooks.
Saint Mary's (CA) vs. VCU Game Info
- When: Friday, March 17, 2023 at 2:00 PM ET
- Where: MVP Arena in Albany, New York
- How to Watch on TV: TBS
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Saint Mary's (CA) vs. VCU Odds, Spread, Over/Under
Check out the odds, spread and over/under for this matchup posted at individual sportsbooks.
Saint Mary's (CA) vs. VCU Betting Trends
- Saint Mary's (CA) has covered 17 times in 32 matchups with a spread this season.
- The Gaels and their opponents have combined to go over the point total 15 out of 32 times this season.
- VCU is 17-15-2 ATS this season.
- The Rams and their opponents have combined to go over the point total 14 out of 34 times this season.
Saint Mary's (CA) Futures Odds
- Odds to win the national championship: +5000
- Saint Mary's (CA) is 16th-best in college basketball in terms of its odds to win the national championship (+5000), much lower than according to the computer rankings (10th-best).
- The Gaels' national championship odds have jumped from +15000 at the start of the season to +5000, the 42nd-biggest change among all teams.
- With odds of +5000, Saint Mary's (CA) has been given a 2% chance of winning the national championship.
VCU Futures Odds
- Odds to win the national championship: +50000
- The Rams were +20000 to win the national championship at the start of the season, and have now dropped to +50000, which is the 19th-biggest change in the country.
- The implied probability of VCU winning the national championship, based on its +50000 moneyline odds, is 0.2%.
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This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas.
"OMG, JUST USE THE #*&!@^$ SEAT PAD!" So concluded one of many well-worn conversations with my "spirited" septuagenarian mom. A diminutive woman seemingly devoid of vanity, she routinely and vociferously resists my sage daughterly advice in most things, particularly when it comes to purchases designed to maximize the comfort of her golden years. ("I'm fine, I'll just sit in the dark.")
During this specific tussle, the item in question was an incredibly plush yet supportive ergonomic chair cushion that I just knew Mom really needed to help recover more comfortably from an injury (more on this wonder item below). But I'm also a big believer that, as parents age, this kind of daily luxury can feel humanizing, calming, and -- as a gift -- downright loving. We lost my dad in 2020, and during his illness, I especially embraced the concept of buying items to make a small but significant difference in his life, to fix any little thing I could. And I think it helped.
In that spirit, here's a smattering of the best gifts I've bought my parents over the years, with an eye to solving everyday problems where I saw them, or adding some extra comfort they didn't know they needed and then didn't want to go without. Oh, and in case you're wondering, my mom has since claimed the seat cushion as her personal domain. See, Mom? "I told you so…"
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I thought I was buying a seat cushion and lumbar support pillow for myself, during COVID lockdown, so I could more comfortably work from the kitchen table for long stretches of the day. After an injury, I forced the pillow set on my mom, on whose kitchen chair it now lives and who now counts it among her possessions. While I was at it, I also bought her a different lumbar pillow for the couch, which I also use when I want a little more support for my desk chair. I can attest that both are used daily.
Many moons ago, I bought my dad a Samsung tablet that he used everywhere: On the couch, at night before bed and finally to push Netflix to the TV screen (in lieu of a smart TV). Don't tell, but I'm now scheming to buy my mom an iPad that would essentially live in the middle of the kitchen table, and which she could use for convenient and comfortable video calls with the grandkids, reading the news and as a digital clock, timer and weather report at-a-glance. Since she has an iPhone as well, the iPad selection is pretty much a no-brainer.
I'll spare you the nightmare scenarios that may feel familiar to others with aging parents, but suffice it to say that the Apple Watch was a necessary purchase. Fall detection paired with a passive alert system that doesn't require someone to physically push a button or make a phone call when they need help adds up to a lot of peace of mind. It was fun taking my mom to try on different bands at the Apple Store and decide which colors she wanted to flash from her wrist. And it's been awesome seeing her navigate some of the call and texting features on her own. Although I didn't technically purchase the Apple Watch on my own payment card, I do credit myself with giving the gift of, uh, a strong and rather brilliant "suggestion."
Buying my mom a Lamicall phone stand is the gift that keeps on giving. It's light and easy to tote from room to room, giving the phone enough height to more comfortably read the screen without craning one's neck. A phone stand also makes reading the screen simple (say, while eating lunch), or talking on speakerphone. The adjustable hinge is extra handy for viewing the screen and for video calls, and the entire operation leaves plenty of room to snake a charger cable through. After buying this phone stand for my mom, I then bought three more to have all over my apartment. You could say I'm a fan.
Electric kettles come in all shapes and prices, but what they have in common is very rapidly boiling water (or heating it to your desired preset temperature) without involving your stovetop. After studying abroad in the UK and seeing the light on electric kettles' ultimate convenience -- like making hot drinks and cutting pasta cooking time in half -- I started buying them as gifts. My parents were the very first recipients, and I'd argue that the convenience and utility of the electric kettle has become even more indispensable for my mom now. While pricier, I like this particular Breville model for its good looks, large capacity, cordless design, water-level viewing window and variable temperature settings.
When my dad got sick, one of the best decisions I made was to hire a photographer and make some memories before his cancer viciously progressed. The prints I made for myself are hung in a frame on the wall, where I can see them every day. In addition to framable prints, I also made a large canvas print of my parents embracing, which now hangs in my mom's home. I love that the more tangible canvas material elevates the photo to wall art while simultaneously making it feel more real. Mixbook is one service that offers canvas (as well as metal or acrylic) photo prints. Walmart is another.
I'm a huge fan of heating pads, but you know what's even better? A full size electric blanket. You can toss it on top of a couch or a bed to add plenty of luscious, localized comfort without having to bundle up in excess layers or rev your heating bill by warming up the whole house. For me, this was the ultimate solution to warming my parents' bones when slippers and bathrobes fail. Multiple heat settings, safety shut-off features and machine washable material really pushed it over the edge. (I'm also eyeing one for myself.)
The wide, saucer-shaped bowl, long handle and pleasant weight make these beautiful spoons perfect for almost everything -- eating soup, curries, rice dishes, spooning yogurt out of the tub, spooning anything out of any tub, really. In my family, these Korean stew and rice spoons are now the dominant, and most asked-for spoon of choice -- to the point they've been nicknamed "life-changing spoons."
You can buy long-handled spoons online or in many Asian markets. My personal preference is to get a set with round handles, not the thin kind with the flat ends. Prices vary, but they're not expensive either way -- say $16 for a pack of five good quality spoons, or even $10 for a pack of eight.
I'll spare you the details and family politics surrounding the toaster oven saga, so here's what you really need to know: You don't get extra points for hanging onto decades-old electronics. They are not part of the family. It's time to let them go. May I recommend this Breville Smart Oven Pro toaster oven I bought myself? As I said elsewhere, "It toasts, it broils, it roasts. And since it has a convection oven function, you can totally skip the separate air fryer -- and cook more stuff at once." (You can read more on that and these other kitchen items I'm obsessed with.) | https://www.cnet.com/home/kitchen-and-household/these-are-the-9-best-gifts-i-ever-bought-my-older-parents-heres-why/ | 2022-12-17 11:23:30 | 1 | https://www.cnet.com/home/kitchen-and-household/these-are-the-9-best-gifts-i-ever-bought-my-older-parents-heres-why/ |
Netflix launches basic with ads
(CNN NEWSOURCE) — Netflix is entering a new era — one with commercial breaks.
Thursday, the streaming service announced the Basic with Ads subscription plan.
This tier costs $6.99 per month in the U.S.
It features much of what is available on Netflix’s basic plan but has about five minutes’ worth of ads an hour.
The spots will be about 30-seconds long each and will air before and during programs.
This is the first time commercials will air in the company’s 25-year history.
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Goaltender Henrik Lundqvist is expected to be elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility, part of the class of 2023 set to be announced Wednesday afternoon.
Lundqvist backstopped Sweden to an Olympic gold medal in 2006 and led the New York Rangers to the playoffs in 11 of 12 years. That included a trip to the Stanley Cup Final in 2014 and two Eastern Conference final appearances.
A seventh-round pick in the 2020 draft, Lundqvist ranks fifth on the NHL career victories list with 459. He won 61 more in the playoffs before halting his hockey career in 2020 because of a heart condition.
Countryman Henrik Zetterberg, Canadian women’s hockey stars Jennifer Botterill and Caroline Ouellette and longtime executive David Poile are among the other top candidates being considered by the board chaired by Hall of Famer Mike Gartner, who was inducted in 2001.
The long wait also could be over for point-a-game Russian winger Alexander Mogilny and goalie Curtis Joseph, who's won only five fewer games than Lundqvist. Moginly, who won the Stanley Cup with New Jersey in 2000 and Olympic gold with the Soviet Union in 1988, has been eligible since 2009 and Joseph since 2012.
If Lundqvist and Zetterberg go in together, it'll be a second consecutive Hall celebration centered around Swedes. Twins Henrik and Daniel Sedin and longtime Ottawa captain Daniel Alfredsson were inducted last year.
The ceremony is Nov. 13 in Toronto.
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ASHBURN — A Week 1 win can often lead to enthusiasm, but it’s what happened Sunday night that really sent Commanders fans into overdrive.
An injury to Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott means he is unlikely to play in the team’s Week 4 home game against Washington, setting up what now looks like an extremely favorable stretch for the Commanders.
The players, of course, say they’re tuning out that noise as they prepare for the Detroit Lions on Sunday. The Lions are currently 2.5-point favorites. If it holds, this will be the first time they’ve been favored in a game since Week 11 of the 2020 season, 660 days ago.
Washington is seeking to erase an ignominious stat as well — the team hasn’t started a season 2-0 since 2011, Ryan Kerrigan’s rookie season. Kerrigan is now an assistant coach for the team.
Coach Ron Rivera said a win would also give the fans reason to come out for a big Week 3 matchup against Philadelphia.
“Hopefully the fans that were there felt it on Sunday, and understand just how the players feed off of it,” he said. “For us, it’s really about keeping the momentum. What that does is it puts us in a position, I don’t want to get ahead of it, but it puts us in a position in the next game, we go into it with momentum.”
Sunday is a matchup of quarterbacks seeking fresh starts, with Jared Goff and Carson Wentz both posting impressive Week 1 numbers. Wentz received the game ball from Rivera after the victory.
“It meant a lot,” said Wentz, who has been openly embraced by the organization since arriving. “Those are things that I don’t take for granted, I don’t take lightly. Those are moments that definitely stick with you, and so to get the first one there with it being Week 1 and being the new guy here and all of that meant a lot. I appreciated it and, you know, I enjoyed that one. That was fun.”
Wentz and Rivera, along with receiver Terry McLaurin, mentioned the importance of the team’s attitude during a lull in the middle of the game where Jacksonville reclaimed the lead.
Even after back-to-back interceptions, Wentz remained fully confident on the sideline.
“To come back and finish the way we did, I think that was huge,” McLaurin said. “You know every week in the NFL is going to be a tough game, but starting out of the gate the way we did and to have that adversity, to overcome that, I think that’s really key for us.”
Now the team seeks to capitalize on the early win with games against the Lions, Eagles and Cowboys.
What once looked to be a pair of matchups against division titans is now considerably softer as the Cowboys presumably turn to Cooper Rush in the interim.
“I mean, you think about it, of course,” safety Bobby McCain said. “I watch ESPN ... and they always talk about what’s coming — oh, he’s on IR, he’s not on IR, you hear all that. But in this league? You’ve got to take it one week at a time. We have a big division game next week, but the only game that matters right now is Detroit, because if you don’t beat Detroit, then you could have a trickle-down effect to Philly.
“I’m not too worried about Dak. I hear it, I see it, but I’m just trying to focus on Jared Goff and Detroit.”
He added: “Everybody’s excited, as you should be. But you’ve got to prepare the same way every week. Consistency breeds results.”
Robinson returns to practice field: Running back Brian Robinson Jr. was on the practice field with the team Wednesday, and while he didn’t participate in the practice, he did a handful of agility drills off to the side, looking spry and flexible on his right leg, where he was shot just three weeks ago.
“(The doctors) felt now is a good time to see how he does outside,” Rivera said. “We will see how he reacts to everything tomorrow morning.”
The earliest Robinson can return is Week 5.
PHOTOS: Washington Commanders beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 28-22 in a thrilling season opener
Fans arrive at the Washington Commanders team store before a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Tanya Snyder, Co-Owner and Co-CEO of the Washington Commanders, welcomes fans into the new team store before a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Fans arrive at the Washington Commanders team store before a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Tanya Snyder, Co-Owner and Co-CEO of the Washington Commanders, and Jason Wright, President of the Washington Commanders, welcome fans into the new team store before a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Tanya Snyder, Co-Owner and Co-CEO of the Washington Commanders, and Jason Wright, President of the Washington Commanders, welcome fans into the new team store before a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders fans celebrate after Jacksonville Jaguars turned the ball over during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders fans celebrate Darrick Forrest interception during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders wide receiver Jahan Dotson (1) celebrates his touchdown with tight end John Bates (87) and wide receiver Terry McLaurin (17) during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders head coach Ron Rivera shakes hands with a member of the against the Jacksonville Jaguars coaching staff after the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders wide receiver Jahan Dotson (1) hauls in a touchdown against Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Tyson Campbell (32) during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence (16) congratulate Washington Commanders quarterback Carson Wentz (11) on his win in a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders quarterback Carson Wentz (11) makes his way to the locker room after defeating the Jacksonville Jaguars in an NFL football game on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders quarterback Carson Wentz (11) prays with Jacksonville Jaguars players and his fellow teammates after a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders wide receiver Jahan Dotson (1) hauls in a touchdown against Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Tyson Campbell (32) during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders wide receiver Jahan Dotson (1) hauls in a touchdown against Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Tyson Campbell (32) during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders tight end Logan Thomas (82) makes his way off the field after defeating the Jacksonville Jaguars in a NFL football game on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders wide receiver Jahan Dotson (1) celebrates his touchdown score with quarterback Carson Wentz (11) during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders linebacker Jamin Davis (52) and safety Bobby McCain (20) celebrate after safety Darrick Forrest (22) intercepted a Trevor Lawrence pass during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Marvin Jones Jr. (11) hauls in a pass as Washington Commanders cornerback Kendall Fuller (29) defends during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders wide receiver Terry McLaurin (17) carries the ball for a touchdown past Jacksonville Jaguars safety Andre Cisco (5) during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders quarterback Carson Wentz (11) looks to make a pass during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence (16) throws the ball away as Washington Commanders defensive end Casey Toohill (95) puts pressure on him during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence (16) makes a pass under pressure from Washington Commanders defensive ends Montez Sweat (90) and James Smith-Williams (96) during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders wide receiver Terry McLaurin (17) carries the ball for a touchdown past Jacksonville Jaguars safety Andre Cisco (5) during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders running back Antonio Gibson (24) carries the ball past Jacksonville Jaguars linebacker Devin Lloyd (33) during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders quarterback Carson Wentz (11) escapes a sack from Jacksonville Jaguars defensive tackle Folorunso Fatukasi (94) during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders wide receiver Terry McLaurin (17) celebrates his touchdown with quarterback Carson Wentz (11) during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Christian Kirk (13) carries the ball as Washington Commanders linebacker Jamin Davis (52) tries to stop him during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders linebacker Jamin Davis (52) and safety Bobby McCain (20) celebrate after safety Darrick Forrest (22) intercepted a Trevor Lawrence pass during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders linebacker Jamin Davis (52) and safety Bobby McCain (20) celebrate after safety Darrick Forrest (22) intercepted a Trevor Lawrence pass during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders wide receiver Terry McLaurin (17) celebrates his touchdown during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders safety Darrick Forrest (22) celebrates his Trevor Lawrence interception along with Washington Commanders cornerback Benjamin St-Juste (25) during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders quarterback Carson Wentz (11) reacts after throwing another interception during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Jacksonville Jaguars running back James Robinson (25) scores a touchdown during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders safety Darrick Forrest (22) celebrates his Trevor Lawrence interception during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders safety Darrick Forrest (22) intercepts a pass intended for Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Christian Kirk (13) during the second half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders wide receiver Curtis Samuel (10) celebrates his touchdown during the first half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders safety Bobby McCain (20) celebrates after cornerback Kendall Fuller (29) made a stop during the first half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders wide receiver Curtis Samuel (10) hauls in a touchdown pass as Jacksonville Jaguars safety Andre Cisco (5) defends during the first half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders wide receiver Curtis Samuel celebrates his touchdown with quarterback Carson Wentz during the first half.
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Washington Commanders turnover the ball during the first half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders safety Darrick Forrest (22) breaks up a pass inteded for Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Zay Jones (7) during the first half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders quarterback Carson Wentz (11) looks to make apass during the first half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders defensive line pressure Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence (16) during the first half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders running back Antonio Gibson (24) carries the ball as Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Josh Thompson (23) defends during the first half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Jacksonville Jaguars safety Rayshawn Jenkins (2) breaks up a pass intended for Washington Commanders tight end Logan Thomas (82) during the first half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders defensive end Chase Young celebrates his team's stop in the redzone during the first half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders wide receiver Terry McLaurin (17) carries the ball as Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Tyson Campbell (32) defends during the first half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders safety Darrick Forrest (22) wags his finger after making a stop during the first half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders wide receiver Curtis Samuel (10) hauls in a touchdown pass as Jacksonville Jaguars safety Andre Cisco (5) defends during the first half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders wide receiver Curtis Samuel (10) celebrates his touchdown during the first half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders tight end Logan Thomas (82) carries the ball as Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Josh Thompson (23) and defensive tackle DaVon Hamilton (52) defend during the first half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders running back J.D. McKissic (23) carries the ball as Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Darious Williams (31) defends during the first half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders quarterback Carson Wentz (11) celebrates his second touchdown pass during the first half of a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders quarterback Carson Wentz (11) kisses his wife, Madison, before a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Rex Swimms, 5, of Atlanta, gets a pat on the head from a member of the coaching staff before a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders quarterback Carson Wentz (11) take the field before a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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Washington Commanders place kicker Joey Slye (6) warms up before a NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.
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LANHAM, Md. (WBOY) — A West Virginia University ROTC cadet gave his mom a very special Mother’s Day gift this year when his commissioning ceremony was held in the hospital right before her death.
Senior Army ROTC Cadet Christian Arevalo, 23, was preparing for his graduation from West Virginia University and commissioning ceremony last week when he received a call to return to his home in Maryland as quickly as possible because his mother, who was battling advanced-stage cancer, didn’t have much time left.
Although he was scheduled to be commissioned as a second lieutenant the next day, Arevalo hopped in a car and went to the hospital, even though it would cause him to miss his commissioning, an important rite of passage in every Army officer’s career, according to a Facebook post by the WVU Army ROTC. “He never doubted the decision,” said the post, “and notified LTC David Sherck, professor of Military Science, of his intentions to pass on commissioning to be with his mother.”
On Thursday, 18 of Arevalo’s classmates were commissioned in the WVU Mountainlair without him, which didn’t sit right with LTC Sherck, said the post. Early the following day, Sherck drove nearly four hours from Morgantown to Lanham, Maryland to Doctors Community Hospital where Arevalo’s mother, Rosa Gonzalez, was in the ICU.
In an intimate ceremony in his mother’s room, Arevalo was commissioned in front of a small group of his closest family and friends, receiving his gold lieutenant bars and becoming 2nd LT Arevalo.
The first thing he did as an officer was bend down and give his mother a kiss on the forehead.
“When I think of Christian, there’s one word that comes to mind, and that’s reliability,” said LTC Sherck in the Facebook post. “It’s a great testament to Christian that when we did peer reviews, his peers universally acknowledged that we always know he’s going to be there and he always gets results. He’s really given it his all over the last four years. We owed it to him to get out here to make this happen for him and his family.”
On Mother’s Day, only days after the ceremony, Arevalo’s mother died. The recent college graduate and his two sisters set up a GoFundMe to cover the cost of his mother’s funeral; in the first 24 hours, the GoFundMe raised more than $8,000.
“The three of us were by her side the entire time until the end. This experience has left us broken and empty. We love our mother so much and would love to give her a funeral as special as she was,” the siblings wrote online.
If you would like to donate, the link is available here.
Arevalo will report for Basic Officer Leadership Course later this year, according to the WVU ROTC, and will then begin a three-year term as an Army Transportation Corps officer. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/rotc-grad-commissioned-in-mothers-icu-room-before-her-passing-on-mothers-day/ | 2023-05-17 23:59:11 | 1 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/rotc-grad-commissioned-in-mothers-icu-room-before-her-passing-on-mothers-day/ |
A New Jersey man was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly called a local police department and threatened to shoot a police captain and chop off his head, authorities said.
Jante Bagh, 41, called the Prospect Park Police Department Tuesday afternoon and revealed his plan to attack the captain, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said in a statement.
Bagh, a Prospect Park resident, said “he was going to lure the captain into conducting a motor vehicle stop where he would ‘pop one in his head’ and chop the captain’s head off,” Valdes said. The captain’s name was not released. | https://www.nj.com/passaic-county/2022/06/nj-man-threatened-to-shoot-decapitate-police-captain-prosecutor-says.html | 2022-06-30 18:05:46 | 0 | https://www.nj.com/passaic-county/2022/06/nj-man-threatened-to-shoot-decapitate-police-captain-prosecutor-says.html |
Police in Washington are searching for the man who they say tried to abduct a barista.
The Auburn Police Department posted a video of a truck driving up to a drive-thru window at 5 a.m. on Monday. The suspect is seen grabbing the barista's arm when the worker attempts to give him cash back. He appeared to try and secure the woman's arm with a looped zip tie but failed.
The suspect drove off as the cash fell to the ground.
Police said he has a tattoo on his forearm that appears to say "Chevrolet." They are hoping someone might recognize the man.
Anyone with tips is encouraged to contact the Auburn Police Department at 253-288-7403.
Auburn is located in King County, between Seattle and Tacoma.
The Auburn Police Department is asking for any information to help identify a suspect that attempted to abduct a barista during the early morning hours of 1/16/2023. pic.twitter.com/w8qzJQs5ZA
— Auburn WA Police Dept (@AuburnWAPolice) January 17, 2023 | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/police-man-tried-to-abduct-barista-by-pulling-victim-through-drive-thru-window | 2023-01-17 18:48:14 | 0 | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/police-man-tried-to-abduct-barista-by-pulling-victim-through-drive-thru-window |
NEW YORK (AP) — Brandon Nimmo gushed Thursday about remaining with the New York Mets, who guaranteed him $162 million, and agent Scott Boras talked about the difference of dealing with new owner Steve Cohen rather than the old Wilpon regime.
“Our game needs Goliaths. We have to have Goliaths,” Boras said at the news conference for Nimmo’s new deal. “You can envision Steve Cohen hanging on to the Empire State Building. It’s maybe not Steve Cohen, it’s maybe Steve Kong.”
Seeking its first World Series title since 1986, New York is headed to a record a $350 million luxury tax payroll next year in its third season since Cohen bought the team. The Mets went on a $461.7 million spending spree early in the offseason.
Cohen’s wife, Alex, sat in the front row as Nimmo, general manager Billy Eppler and manager Buck Showalter spoke.
“The Cohens have made very, very clear and Billy’s made very, very clear, the goal is to win here and that’s a big reason why we decided to stick around,” Nimmo said. “To be able to start your career with someone, you’ll finish your career with the same team, that’s something really, really special, and not many players get to do that.”
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) _ NetApp Inc. (NTAP) on Wednesday reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings of $259 million.
On a per-share basis, the San Jose, California-based company said it had profit of $1.14. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $1.42 per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of nine analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.27 per share.
The data storage company posted revenue of $1.68 billion in the period, meeting Street forecasts.
For the current quarter ending in August, NetApp expects its per-share earnings to range from $1.05 to $1.15. Analysts surveyed by Zacks had forecast adjusted earnings per share of $1.10.
The company said it expects revenue in the range of $1.48 billion to $1.63 billion for the fiscal first quarter. Analysts surveyed by Zacks had expected revenue of $1.56 billion.
NetApp expects full-year earnings in the range of $5.40 to $5.60 per share.
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(NewsNation) — A 16-year-old football player was set to start school Wednesday at Olympia High School in Washington State. Instead, he sits in a juvenile detention center, accused of murder.
It’s a case full of twists and turns that police say include the suspect faking his own disappearance and being threatened by a biker gang, as well as the alleged murder itself.
One week ago, Gabriel Davies was due at football practice. When he didn’t show, police started an all-out search.
Within the next 24 hours, they found his abandoned truck with blood inside and Davies’ shattered cellphone nearby, but no Davies.
He was later found about three miles away, walking, with no shirt or shoes. Davies said he couldn’t remember what happened to him. But he quickly went from a missing person to the center of a murder investigation.
Police say he faked his disappearance to evade being captured, and they were already piecing together what they say really happened.
Daniel McCaw, 51, didn’t show up to work for four days. Police did a well-being check and found him dead. The medical examiner says he was shot and stabbed to death.
Davies and one of his 16-year-old friends, Justin Yoon, were spotted on McCaw’s home camera, going inside the house through a doggie door.
They are being charged with first- and second-degree murder, first-degree burglary and two counts of second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm. Both are being charged as adults and being held on $1 million bonds.
But this is where the case takes even more bizarre turns. It turns out Davies’ mother had a relationship with McCaw, and he and his mother lived with McCaw for a while. Davies’ father contacted police, saying his son was forced into the crime.
The father said that his son was approached by the victim’s “biker buddies” to steal something from the victim’s residence. He further stated that they threatened his son with harm if he didn’t do it.
Davies’ father says his son plotted to steal the object, but McCaw came home early. That’s when he said Yoon shot McCaw while Davies was trying to open the safe to get what they came for.
After the crime, the biker buddies allegedly came looking for what they wanted, roughing him up when they couldn’t find it. | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/football-player-goes-from-missing-to-murder-suspect/ | 2022-09-08 13:45:39 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/football-player-goes-from-missing-to-murder-suspect/ |
FINDLAY, Ohio, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MPLX LP (NYSE: MPLX) will host a conference call on Tuesday, November 1, 2022, at 9:30 a.m. ET to discuss 2022 third-quarter financial results.
Interested parties may listen to the conference call by visiting MPLX's website at www.mplx.com. A replay of the webcast will be available on MPLX's website for two weeks. Financial information, including the earnings release and other investor-related material, will also be available online prior to the conference call and webcast at www.mplx.com.
MPLX is a diversified, large-cap master limited partnership that owns and operates midstream energy infrastructure and logistics assets, and provides fuels distribution services. MPLX's assets include a network of crude oil and refined product pipelines; an inland marine business; light-product terminals; storage caverns; refinery tanks, docks, loading racks, and associated piping; and crude and light-product marine terminals. The company also owns crude oil and natural gas gathering systems and pipelines as well as natural gas and NGL processing and fractionation facilities in key U.S. supply basins. More information is available at www.MPLX.com.
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"The future of the internet is in the hands of developers and it's our job to create products to support them to build it" Wix CEO at Wix DevCon 2022
NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wix.com Ltd. (NASDAQ: WIX), a leading global SaaS platform to create, manage and grow an online presence, today completed the first ever Wix DevCon 2022, which consisted of Wix expert-led presentations and various product announcements, all of which were built by developers for developers. The new tools are focused on the expansion of the Wix product suite providing more control and customization for professional web developers.
"Over the last 12 years we have worked hard on building Wix to be a more robust platform with many solutions to better support developers. Now, we're committed to opening Wix's business building blocks to further enable web professionals to create custom, robust online experiences using code," said Avishai Abrahami, Co-Founder and CEO of Wix. "I'm proud of how far the platform has come and the opportunity to showcase our latest developments at Wix DevCon 2022 and we will continue to innovate and support developers as they trailblaze the future of web creation."
"Web development is at the core of Wix, evolving from solely a no-code platform supporting self-creators, to today, introducing our next phase to meet the needs of developers as they embark on their web development journeys," said Yoav Abrahami, Chief Architect and Head of Velo at Wix Code. "Developers are building longer and more complex projects than ever before, making it imperative for them to have more customizable and collaborative experiences. This is why we're not just rolling out new features, we are changing our infrastructure to be congruent with the future of web development. The best part is that we're just getting started; we'll continue to open and expand the platform to further accelerate more powerful digital solutions."
Wix Blocks, enables professional designers and developers to create an application with the ease of drag and drop and then package it as a full application with the power of the Velo code, collections and back-end code in one powerful solution. The visual design workspace provides a high-velocity ecosystem enabling users to build their own highly-customizable and reusable applications and widgets across sites built on Wix and Editor X. Developers and designers can work concurrently and collaboratively on the same project without strong dependencies on each other, through the separation of business logic and UX/UI. This enables complete optimization of web development and management for both developers and designers. For example, when an application is built the designer can create different versions of UX and UI with the same business logic to be used across various sites, eliminating duplicative efforts and significantly increasing their workflow capabilities.
Wix is redefining eCommerce with a new open platform that provides developers the freedom to engineer custom eCommerce experiences for any business need at a higher velocity. The platform provides the flexibility to build scalable, online businesses whether working with a business that provides a service, appointment booking, event tickets, or products. By opening the first set of eCommerce APIs, users can integrate any catalog of sellable items to Wix and build any business on top of it, add additional fees to the checkout and order functionality, introduce their own logic and 3rd party integrations for discount rules and shipping options at checkout.
Wix is opening a Velo integration with Git and Github, extending Velo from single developer use to teams. Currently available on Editor X, the Git integration enables developers to create and manage sites as a team, use any integrated development environment (IDE), integrate with CI / CD workflows and incorporate automated testing and verification tools. The Wix Git integration allows developers to work within a more stable and standard environment and provides more transparency to better mitigate problems.
For more information on Wix DevCon 2022 visit https://www.wixdevcon.com/.
Wix is a leading platform to create, manage and grow a digital presence. What began as a website builder in 2006 is now a complete platform providing users with enterprise-grade performance, security, and a reliable infrastructure. Offering a wide range of commerce and business solutions, advanced SEO and marketing tools, Wix enables users to have full ownership of their brand, their data and their relationships with their customers. With a focus on continuous innovation and delivery of new features and products, anyone can build a powerful digital presence to fulfill their dreams on Wix.
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Man arrested after bringing loaded gun to Derby elementary school
DERBY, Kan. (KWCH) - Stone Creek Elementary in Derby was placed on “Secure” status Tuesday morning after a man arrived at the school and tried to get in, the district said. It happened while the school was providing morning latchkey.
“‘Secure’ is the action used to safeguard students and staff within the building. During “Secure” all students and staff remain inside the building and lock outside doors. When in “Secure,” business continues as usual in the classroom,” the district said in a release.
The district said the school’s staff followed district protocol and did not allow the man in the building. They called 911 while taking “Secure” action. Derby police responded “while students and staff remained safe inside the building,” the district said.
The district said police found a loaded gun in the man’s possession. He had an outstanding warrant and was arrested.
“Derby Police are investigating to see what the individual’s purpose for being on school grounds was,” the district. “The suspect is being interviewed by Derby PD detectives and it is anticipated he will be charged with various weapons violations. At this point, there are no known active threats to the school.”
12 News featured Stone Creek Elementary in 2020 when the school opened to students with several high-tech safety features. Those features include a monitor in the main office connected to a security camera that shows who’s approaching the school. It also has security doors that can be closed with the touch of a button from the main office.
You can read the full release from the district below.
We wanted to make you aware of a situation at Stone Creek Elementary this morning. Stone Creek was placed temporarily in a “Secure” status due to a concern regarding an individual in the school’s front parking lot. Derby Police Department responded quickly.
“Secure” is one of five actions in our Standard Response Protocol (SRP). Derby Public Schools uses the SRP as a crisis response that helps staff, students, parents and first responders quickly and adequately respond to situations.“Secure” is the action used to safeguard students and staff within the building. During “Secure” all students and staff remain inside the building and lock outside doors. When in “Secure,” business continues as usual in the classroom.
During morning Latchkey, an individual tried to gain access to the building. Staff followed district protocol and did not allow the individual into the building. Parents later reported an individual in the parking lot and notified the school. Building staff reacted promptly, calling 911, and taking the “Secure” action. Derby Police were notified immediately and were able to address the situation while students and staff remained safe inside the building.
Police informed us after the incident that the individual did have a loaded handgun in his possession. There was an outstanding warrant and the individual was arrested. Derby Police are investigating to see what the individual’s purpose for being on school grounds was. The suspect is being interviewed by Derby PD detectives and it is anticipated he will be charged with various weapons violations. At this point, there are no known active threats to the school.
You can find our safety procedures on the SRP Parent Reference Guide HERE. Please know safety and security of our students and staff is always our top priority. If you see something, say something. If you ever have concerns or something you feel needs looked into, please report it. All information is looked into as quickly as possible to see if there is a substantiated situation or threat to address. Anyone, at any time can submit information. There are also ways to submit information anonymously. Learn more HERE. Ways to submit can always be found on the district website at the link above. They are also included here:
- Please call 911, if in immediate danger
- Local Police Department or School SRO
- Notify School Staff
- The Kansas School Safety Hotline, 1 (877) 626-8203, can be used to anonymously report any potential school violence. The Kansas School Safety Hotline is there for you 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. A Kansas Highway Patrol dispatcher takes your call and notifies the appropriate stakeholders.
- Submit an anonymous tip through See Something, Say Something
- Click HERE to submit a tip and be taken directly to a secure tip reporting website.
- Download the P3 Tips app from the App Store or Google Play and follow the on-screen prompts.
- Call (316) 267-2111
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Forecast
Seasonal and weather change
With fall officially kicking off today, the cooler weather change could not be more timely. A cold front will deliver some refreshing change beginning this afternoon, with a more significant cool down this evening into tonight.
The best time for rain is expected to be from midday through mid-afternoon.
Perfect Fall Friday
After a chilly morning, we get to enjoy a mostly sunny sky along with much cooler conditions with sunshine and low 70s in the Tri-Cities, low 60s in the mountains.
Weekend Outlook
Saturday will be mostly cloudy with a few light showers late in the day along with mild low to mid 70s.
Sunday will offer scattered showers during the day with low to mid 70s.
Track rain and storms, receive weather alerts, and follow the forecast with the STORM TEAM 11 WEATHER APP | https://www.wjhl.com/wjhl-weather/forecast/storm-team-11-the-fall-season-is-finally-here/ | 2022-09-22 11:38:58 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/wjhl-weather/forecast/storm-team-11-the-fall-season-is-finally-here/ |
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP ("GPM") announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against TuSimple Holdings Inc. ("TuSimple" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: TSP).
Class Period: April 15, 2021 – October 31, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: January 9, 2023
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff of the TuSimple lawsuit, you can submit your contact information at www.glancylaw.com/cases/tusimple-holdings-inc-1/. You can also contact Charles H. Linehan, of GPM at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, or via email at shareholders@glancylaw.com to learn more about your rights.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) TuSimple was engaged in undisclosed related party transactions with Hydron, a company founded by the Company's co-founder, Executive Chairman, and director; (2) TuSimple shared confidential information and/or proprietary technology with Hydron without Board approval or informing regulators or TuSimple shareholders; (3) TuSimple failed to disclose the Board's internal investigation, which commenced in July 2022, into TuSimple's ties to Hydron; (4) the aforementioned conduct enhanced the likelihood of regulatory scrutiny and investigatory action toward the Company; and (5) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Charles Linehan, Esquire, of GPM, 1925 Century Park East, Suite 2100, Los Angeles, California 90067 at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, by email to shareholders@glancylaw.com, or visit our website at www.glancylaw.com. If you inquire by email please include your mailing address, telephone number and number of shares purchased.
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Arizona State goes cold late, falls to Colorado in Pac-12 play
The Colorado Buffaloes came into Tempe with a little redemption on their minds. They had lost to the Arizona State Sun Devils on a 3-pointer at the buzzer when the teams played earlier this season in Boulder. They also came in with a woeful 1-8 record in road games, although they were 2-2 on neutral court.
But it was visiting Colorado turning back ASU 67-59 Thursday night at Desert Financial Arena, perhaps sticking the final dagger in the Sun Devils NCAA postseason hopes unless it were to win the conference tournament.
ASU (18-9, 9-7) led 56-50 with 5:56 left after a 3-pointer by D.J. Horne but was outscored 17-3 the rest of the way. The only bucket after that was another by Horne that cut the deficit that gave ASU a 59-58 lead with 3:45 to go but the Sun Devils did not score again.
ASU shot 37% (24-for-65) from the field with an 8-for-29 mark from long distance. They attempted only five free throws, making three.
Colorado (15-12, 7-9) shot 42% (24-for-57) with a 9-for-24 from deep and a 10-for 11 mark from the line. It also finished with a 42-34 advantage on the boards.
Among the former ASU players in attendance were James Harden and Eddie House as well as more recent grads Rob Edwards and Zylan Cheatham.
Turning point
ASU's last lead came at 59-58 but as soon as the Sun Devils took the lead, they gave it right back with Javon Ruffian hitting a 3-pointer for a 61-59 Buffaloes lead.
ASU's next four possessions consisted of three missed shots and a turnover with Colorado grabbing the rebound after each miss. The ASU defense got some stops over then next two minutes to keep the game in reach but Tristan da Silva hit a 3-pointer with 1:11 to go for a 64-59 lead that pretty much sealed ASU's fate.
From there the Sun Devils were forced into desperation long distance shots and fouls.
"I thought, late in the game, after he (da Silva) hit that three, those last couple of possessions were really bad like to end it," Hurley said of the shot selection down the stretch. "Overall, I was okay. I’m happy with the players that were taking the shots for the most part. We had some bad turnovers like you can’t turn the ball over after you just turn them over. We did that one time and there was another one in front of our bench where we lost the ball out of bounds. You can't afford to do that when you're playing against a team that’s playing pretty well."
Standout performers
Colorado junior forward Da Silva, who came in averaging 16.1 points, led all scorers with 23 points. He went 7-for-14 from the field and 6-for-7 from the line. The Buffaloes also had K.J. Simpson with 12 points six rebounds and three assists and Ruffian contributed 10 points and seven rebounds.
Junior guard Luke O'Brien was the leading rebounder with 10.
Horne led ASU with 15 points, going 5-for-13 from the field. Desmond Cambridge Jr. added 12 points but was only 5-for-16 from the field with a 2-for-11 from long distance.
Devan Cambridge had eight points and five rebounds while Luther Muhammad came off the bench and scored eight.
Senior forward Warren Washington made his return after missing two games with COVID. He played 23 minutes and scored six points with five rebounds.
They said it
"I just think sometimes in basketball you get beat, you get outplayed. I think that was the case. They were just a fraction better than us tonight. We had our chances, you know, when we were able to get a little lead there 56-50 and some other times. We were stuck on that number and we just couldn't make shots. I thought defensively we were okay. I mean, da Silva is a really good player, man. He’s one of the best players in the conference, just based off of what I’ve been watching on tape and seen now today. So, it was a tough one obviously. Tough loss." - ASU coach Bobby Hurley
“It's tough, it's tough. I feel like when we are making shots we can beat anybody in the country just because we have one of the best defenses in the country. When we aren’t making shots, it feels like we can lose to anybody in the country. So, it's rough, but I have faith in all the guys out on the perimeter. We just got to get back to the drawing board and work harder.” - Senior forward Warren Washington
Up next
The Sun Devils will play their last home game at 4 p.m. Saturday against Utah (17-9, 10-5). It will be the only time the teams play during the regular season.
It will be Senior Day with Warren Washington, Desmond Cambridge Jr., Luther Muhammad, Alonzo Gaffney honored in pre-game festivities in addition to walk-ons Micah Burno and John Olmsted. Washington and Gaffney have an extra year of eligibility though. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/college/asu/2023/02/16/arizona-state-goes-cold-late-falls-to-colorado-in-pac-12-play/69907041007/ | 2023-02-17 05:14:22 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/college/asu/2023/02/16/arizona-state-goes-cold-late-falls-to-colorado-in-pac-12-play/69907041007/ |
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota judge ruled Thursday that there’s no basis to keep sealed documents related to a child pornography investigation of billionaire banker and philanthropist T. Denny Sanford.
Judge James Power wrote that affidavits supporting search warrants should be made public under South Dakota law. But he said they would remain sealed until Sanford and his attorneys decide whether to appeal the ruling to the state Supreme Court.
Sanford attorney Stacy Hegge asked Power in an email last month to keep the affidavits sealed or at least be given additional time in order to seek relief from the Supreme Court. Hegge didn’t immediately reply to an email Thursday.
The South Dakota attorney general’s office declined to file charges against Sanford following the investigation, saying it found no “prosecutable offenses” within the state’s jurisdiction, according to a court document filed last month.
South Dakota investigators in 2019 began searching Sanford’s email account, as well as his cellular and internet service providers, for possible possession of child pornography after his accounts were flagged by a technology firm.
The investigation was first reported in 2020 by ProPublica and the Argus Leader. Both news outlets went to court for access to affidavits.
The 86-year-old Sanford is the state’s richest man, worth an estimated $3.4 billion. | https://pix11.com/news/national-news/ap-national/judge-documents-in-sanford-investigation-should-be-public/ | 2022-06-17 03:05:22 | 1 | https://pix11.com/news/national-news/ap-national/judge-documents-in-sanford-investigation-should-be-public/ |
An old NASA satellite is expected to fall to Earth this week, but experts tracking the spacecraft say chances are low it will pose any danger.
The defunct science satellite known as Rhessi will plummet through the atmosphere Wednesday night, according to NASA and the Defense Department.
NASA said Tuesday that the reentry location is not being disclosed, given lingering uncertainty over when and where it might go down. Most of the 660-pound (300-kilogram) satellite should burn up upon return, but some parts are expected to survive.
The space agency said in a statement the risk of anyone on Earth being harmed by plunging satellite pieces is “low” — about 1-in-2,467.
Rhessi — short for the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager — rocketed into orbit in 2002 to study the sun.
Before being shut down in 2018 because of communication problems, the satellite observed solar flares as well as coronal mass ejections from the sun. It captured images in high-energy X-rays and gamma rays, recording more than 100,000 solar events. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/old-nasa-satellite-will-fall-to-earth-wednesday-night/ | 2023-04-19 11:08:07 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/old-nasa-satellite-will-fall-to-earth-wednesday-night/ |
US intelligence report on COVID-19 origins rejects some points raised by lab leak theory proponents
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials released an intelligence report Friday that rejected several points raised by those who argue COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab, instead reiterating that American spy agencies remain divided over how the pandemic began.
The report was issued at the behest of Congress, which in March passed a bill giving U.S. intelligence 90 days to declassify intelligence related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Intelligence officials during the Biden administration have been pushed by lawmakers to release more material about the origins of COVID-19. But they have repeatedly argued China’s official obstruction of independent reviews has made it perhaps impossible to determine how the pandemic began.
The newest report is likely to anger Republicans who say the administration is wrongly withholding classified information and researchers who accuse the U.S. of not being forthcoming.
There was newfound interest from researchers following the revelation earlier this year that the Department of Energy’s intelligence arm had issued a report arguing for a lab-related incident.
But Friday’s report said the intelligence community has not gone further. Four agencies still believe the virus was transferred from animals to humans, and two agencies — the Energy Department and the FBI — believe the virus leaked from a lab. The CIA and another agency have not made an assessment.
Located in the city where the pandemic is believed to have began, the lab has faced intense scrutiny for its previous research into bat coronaviruses and its reported security lapses.
The Wuhan lab genetically engineered viruses as part of its research. But the report says U.S. intelligence “has no information, however, indicating that any WIV genetic engineering work has involved SARS-CoV-2, a close progenitor, or a backbone virus that is closely-related enough to have been the source of the pandemic.”
And reports of several lab researchers falling ill with respiratory symptoms in fall 2019 are also inconclusive, the report argues, saying some of their symptoms weren’t consistent with COVID-19.
U.S. intelligence, the report said, “continues to assess that this information neither supports nor refutes either hypothesis of the pandemic’s origins because the researchers’ symptoms could have been caused by a number of diseases and some of the symptoms were not consistent with COVID-19.”
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BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — The Burlington Public Library is taking a step toward inclusivity by becoming one of Iowa’s first sensory-friendly public libraries.
“When we started to make our library inclusive for the whole community, it started ground up,” youth services library assistant Allison Richert said.
The initiative is based on four specific dimensions — physical space, programming and sensory activity, circulation of materials, and staff training.
Richert is a former paraeducator who worked both in a mainstream setting to help children with disabilities who could stay in the regular classroom and children in special education classes. She said parents might be leery of taking their autistic child to a place that might not be sensory-friendly.
The Burlington Hawk Eye reports that her hope is that by providing more sensory-friendly events, word will spread that the library is making all of its events open to all children.
Autism is a spectrum disorder, which means that a number of varying functioning levels are affected and that two people with autism could have very different symptoms.
As an example, some with autism might be sensitive to sound, requiring the use of headphones, while another person might be less sensitive to physical sensation, for whom a weighted blanket might be helpful.
As a part of its project, the library consulted parents and educators working with Great Prairie Area Education Agency to learn what does and doesn’t work. In some instances, Richert said, she would be excited about an idea, but a parent or someone who works with GPAEA explained why it may not be the best option.
Library staff members are actively training to be better equipped to help all patrons, but especially for children and adults who might have autism or other disabilities. Richert said the training is a part of the journey to making the library accessible for everyone.
“There is not a final destination,” Richert said. “We are continually looking for ways that we can serve the entire community.”
Richert hopes that making library events more accessible to those with autism will convince parents to feel comfortable bringing their neurodivergent children to events there.
Part of this plan is to block some of the fluorescent lighting in the children’s space with light blockers. The blockers the library has ordered, which will have images of clouds, will reduce the light enough to decrease sensory stimulation while still allowing ample light for the space to be used.
Another step is creating a quiet space in the library. Such quiet spaces are used for children and adults with autism — or any other condition that can cause anxiety or sensory overload — to take a break when they feel the need. Sensory overload can cause or exacerbate meltdowns in autistic children.
For now, the story-time room is designated as the quiet space when it is not being used for story time, but plans are underway to create a permanent space.
Because the plans are preliminary, there is not a clear indication of where this space might be located. There also has been a discussion about adding a quiet space outside of the children’s section so autistic adults have a place to take a break without needing to go into the children’s space or having to ask the library desk to unlock one of the study rooms.
Another consideration is having a period of time where the library is exclusively set up with those with sensory needs in mind.
An important part of communication for those with non-verbal autism is to find another way to communicate. Richert said she has seen it when she was a paraeducator. Children with autism may find it helpful to have a grid or chart with words on it, which allows them to communicate by pointing to words.
Richert sees two options to help with this: either hanging up a communication board or designating a space for communication technology.
The library has smaller boards that can be checked out, but the goal is to have more options including, potentially, a large chart hung on the wall with velcro for the words.
At one point the library had tablets with the words on them that allowed autistic children to communicate. This space since has been repurposed, but technology could come back into play.
The library also will work toward having both autism-specific programming and making all activities autism-friendly. In discussions with parents, the library learned that some parents do enjoy having activities solely for children with autism.
Richert said part of this effort will involve making sure parents know that it is OK if their child has a sensory meltdown.
Instead of making parents feel like meltdowns are something to be ashamed about, the goal is to let parents know that their children will not be told to leave if they have a meltdown.
For some people with autism, a series of repetitive movements or noises known as stimming can be useful.
According to Car Autism Roadmap, which is part of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, stimming is a way for some people with autism to deal with overstimulating environments, regulate emotions or maintain focus.
Many of the toys and other items in the library were already sensory-friendly, but the library has spent money investing in different kinds of stimming toys that children can check out and use in the library. However, what the library does not have is toys that can be taken home. The hope is the library will be able to raise money for more sensory and stimming toys to allow for the purchase more items that can be taken home and used.
According to Iowa City Autism Community, the purpose of sensory kits is to allow autistic individuals to experiment with different types of stimming toys so they or their parents can purchase those toys.
The library only has a few sets of stimming kits and stimming toys, all of which are for use in the library only. There is a hope that grants and donations will allow more kits to be purchased, thus having them for checkout.
An additional goal of the library is to add Braille to books for young children. The raised bumps would be placed on the page and could be used to allow children who are blind learn to read the stories in the way that a sighted child would.
It was not long ago that the library worked on a collection audit to identify what type of diversity is needed.
In doing this study, the library learned what kinds of books should be ordered for the children’s section. A big part of this is purchasing books that have main characters who come from marginalized communities.
Richert said that in the past, such characters often have been shoved into the role of supporting characters whose personality is predominated by their identity.
However, in some of the newer books, such characters are brought to the forefront. Their stories incorporate their identities as an integral part of the story, but their personality is not just summed up by one of their identities.
One example Richert showed is the book “Dancing with Daddy” by Anitra Rowe Schulte. In the book, the main character goes about her everyday life as a wheelchair user, including going to a father-daughter dance.
“A book about a Black child and their experiences isn’t just for Black children,” Richert said. “It is just as important for white children to read it. Books about kids with autism are just as important for kids who don’t have autism.” | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Burlington-library-offers-sensory-friendly-events-17131062.php | 2022-05-01 05:20:59 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Burlington-library-offers-sensory-friendly-events-17131062.php |
Largest US gay rights group issues Florida travel advisory for alleged anti-LGBTQ+ laws
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The largest LGBTQ+ rights organization in the U.S. joined other civil rights organizations Tuesday in issuing a travel advisory for Florida, warning that newly passed laws and policies may pose risks to minorities, immigrants, and gay travelers.
The Human Rights Campaign joined the NAACP, the League of United Latin American Citizens, the Florida Immigrant Coalition, and Equality Florida in issuing travel or relocation warnings for the Sunshine State, one of the most popular states for tourists to visit in the U.S.
While the LGBTQ+ advocacy group said it wasn’t calling for a boycott or making a blanket recommendation against visiting Florida, it said it wanted to highlight new laws passed by the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature that they said are hostile to the LGBTQ+ community, restrict abortion access and allow Floridians to carry concealed weapons without a permit.
"Those who visit must join us in their vocal opposition to these dangerous policies," Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement. "Those who pick another place to work, to go to school or to spend their vacation should make clear why they’re not heading to Florida."
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Last weekend, the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, issued its advisory warning that recent laws and policies championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers are "openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color, and LGBTQ+ individuals."
After the NAACP made its announcement, DeSantis’ spokesman, Jeremy Redfern, called the travel advisory "nothing more than a stunt."
"As Governor DeSantis announced last week, Florida is seeing record-breaking tourism," Redfern said in a statement.
More than 137.5 million tourists visited Florida last year, surpassing pre-pandemic levels, according to Visit Florida, the state’s tourism promotion agency. Tourism supports 1.6 million full-time and part-time jobs, and visitors spent $98.8 billion in Florida in 2019, according to last year’s figures. | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/largest-us-gay-rights-group-issues-florida-travel-advisory-for-anti-lgbtq-laws | 2023-05-24 00:27:10 | 1 | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/largest-us-gay-rights-group-issues-florida-travel-advisory-for-anti-lgbtq-laws |
WASHINGTON (AP) — July has been so hot thus far that scientists calculate that this month will be the hottest globally on record and likely the warmest human civilization has seen, even though there are several days left to sweat through.
The World Meteorological Organization and the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service on Thursday proclaimed July’s heat is beyond record-smashing. They said Earth’s temperature has been temporarily passing over a key warming threshold: the internationally accepted goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degree Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit).
Temperatures were 1.5 degrees warmer than pre-industrial times for a record 16 days this month, but the Paris climate accord aims to keep the 20- or 30-year global temperature average to 1.5 degrees. A few days of temporarily beating that threshold have happened before, but never in July.
July has been so off-the-charts hot with heat waves blistering three continents – North America, Europe and Asia – that researchers said a record was inevitable. The U.S. Southwest’s all-month heat wave is showing no signs of stopping while also pushing into most of the Midwest and East with more than 128 million Americans under some kind of heat advisory Thursday.
“Unless an ice age were to appear all of sudden out of nothing, it is basically virtually certain we will break the record for the warmest July on record and the warmest month on record,” Copernicus Director Carlo Buontempo told The Associated Press.
Scientists say that such shattering of heat records is a harbinger for future climate-altering changes as the planet warms. Those changes go beyond just prolonged heat waves and include more flooding, longer-burning wildfires and extreme weather events that put many people at risk.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pointed to the calculations and urged world leaders, in particular of rich nations, to do more to reduce emissions of heat-trapping gases. Despite years of international climate negotiations and lofty pledges from many countries and companies, greenhouse gas emissions continue to go up.
“Climate change is here. It is terrifying. And it is just the beginning,” Guterres told reporters in a New York briefing. “The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.”
Buontempo and other scientists said the records are from human-caused climate change augmented by a natural El Nino warming of parts of the central Pacific that changes weather worldwide. But Buontempo said ocean warming in the Atlantic also has been so high — though far away from the El Nino — that’s there’s even more at play. While scientists long predicted the world would continue to warm and have bouts of extreme weather, he said he was surprised by the spike in ocean temperatures and record-shattering loss of sea ice in Antarctica.
“The climate seems to be going crazy at times,” Buontempo said.
Copernicus calculated that through the first 23 days of July, Earth’s temperature averaged 16.95 degrees Celsius ( 62.5 degrees Fahrenheit). That’s nearly one-third of a degree Celsius (almost 0.6 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than the previous record for the hottest month, July 2019.
Normally records are broken by hundredths of a degree Celsius, maybe a tenth at most, said Russell Vose, climate analysis group director for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Usually records aren’t calculated until a week or longer after a month’s end. But Vose, who wasn’t part of the research, his NASA record-keeping counterpart Gavin Schmidt and six other outside scientists said the Copernicus calculations make sense.
Buontempo’s team found that 21 of the first 23 days of July were hotter than any previous days in the database.
“The last few weeks have been rather remarkable and unprecedented in our record” based on data that goes back to the 1940s, Buontempo said.
Both the WMO-Copernicus team and an independent German scientist who released his data at the same time came to these conclusions by analyzing forecasts, live observations, past records and computer simulations.
Separate from Copernicus, Karsten Haustein at Leipzig University did his own calculations, using forecasts that show at best the warming may weaken a tad at the end of month, and came to the conclusion that July 2023 will pass the old record by 0.2 degrees Celsius (.36 degrees Fahrenheit).
“It’s way beyond everything we see,” Haustein said in his own press briefing. “We are in absolutely new record territory.”
Haustein said even though records only go back to the middle of the 19th century, using tree rings, ice cores and other proxies he calculates that this month is the hottest in about 120,000 years, which Buontempo said makes sense. Other scientists have made similar calculations.
“The reason that setting new temperature records is a big deal is that we are now being challenged to find ways to survive through temperatures hotter than any of us have ever experienced before,” University of Wisconsin-Madison climate scientist Andrea Dutton said in an email. “Soaring temperatures place ever increasing strains not just on power grids and infrastructure, but on human bodies that are not equipped to survive some of the extreme heat we are already experiencing.”
It’s no accident that the hottest July on record has brought deadly heat waves in the U.S. and Mexico, China and southern Europe, smoke-causing wildfires and heavy floods worldwide, said Imperial College of London climate scientist Friederike Otto.
The average temperature being measured is like “the fever temperature that we measure for our planet,” Otto said.
“We are in uncharted territory as far as humans on this planet are concerned, so our records are falling with increasing frequency and that’s exactly what we expect to — and what we’ve been predicting would — happen,” said Texas Tech climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe.
In the middle of some of the worst heat, where Phoenix is now at a record 27 straight days and counting of 110 degrees or higher temperatures, University of Arizona climate scientist Katharine Jacobs said the records are giving humanity a message about reducing emissions of heat-trapping gases from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.
“Events like this are signposts along a highway we don’t want to travel,” Jacobs said in an email. “It is time to stop playing political games and get serious in order to protect ourselves and future generations.
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Jamey Keaten contributed from Geneva and Edith Lederer from the United Nations.
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WFO SEATTLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, February 8, 2023
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AREAL FLOOD WATCH
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Flood Watch
National Weather Service Seattle WA
1037 AM PST Sun Feb 5 2023
.The Skokomish River in Mason county will see sharp rises on Tuesday
with flooding possible due to heavy rainfall in the Olympic
mountains.
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY
MORNING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.
* WHERE...A portion of northwest Washington, including the following
county, Mason.
* WHEN...From Tuesday morning through Wednesday morning.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Heavy rainfall in the Olympic mountains.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
You should monitor later forecasts and be alert for possible Flood
Warnings. Those living in areas prone to flooding should be prepared
to take action should flooding develop.
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(KTLA) – A fire broke out at Disneyland Saturday night as packed crowds were enjoying the theme park.
The fire ignited on Tom Sawyer Island during the Fantasmic! nighttime water and fireworks show held on the Rivers of America.
Videos taken by parkgoers show flames fully engulfing Maleficent’s dragon prop on stage. The flames first took over the dragon’s face before spreading to the rest of its body.
Heavy plumes of dark smoke could be seen billowing from the stage and were visible throughout the park.
Video showed cast members evacuating crowds out of the waterfront viewing area and nearby attractions as firefighters worked to extinguish the flames.
Bystanders outside of the Disneyland resort captured pictures and video of a line of firetrucks rushing to the Anaheim, California, theme park.
“During the final showing of Fantasmic at Disneyland park on Saturday evening, the dragon caught fire,” a Disneyland explained in a statement. “Anaheim Fire & Rescue quickly responded and the fire was extinguished. All cast members were evacuated from Tom Sawyer Island. Due to smoke and wind, attractions near the island were safely cleared of any guests, and the cause of the fire remains under investigation at this time.”
No injuries were reported Sunday morning, and the extent of the fire’s damage was not immediately known. | https://www.ksn.com/entertainment/animatronic-dragon-goes-up-in-flames-at-disneyland/ | 2023-04-24 13:20:25 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/entertainment/animatronic-dragon-goes-up-in-flames-at-disneyland/ |
ABILENE, Texas (AP) — Qua Grant had 21 points in Sam Houston's 77-62 win over Abilene Christian on Saturday night.
Grant also had five rebounds and three steals for the Bearkats (18-6, 8-4 Western Athletic Conference). Cameron Huefner scored 15 points while going 3 of 6 and 8 of 8 from the free-throw line, and added seven rebounds. Donte Powers shot 4 for 8 (3 for 5 from 3-point range) and 3 of 4 from the free-throw line to finish with 14 points.
The Wildcats (13-12, 5-7) were led in scoring by Joe Pleasant, who finished with 13 points, nine rebounds and two steals. Damien Daniels and Immanuel Allen recorded 11 points apiece.
NEXT UP
Both teams next play Wednesday. Sam Houston hosts UT Arlington while Abilene Christian visits New Mexico State.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/sports/article/grant-has-21-sam-houston-beats-abilene-christian-17779260.php | 2023-02-12 03:33:32 | 1 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/sports/article/grant-has-21-sam-houston-beats-abilene-christian-17779260.php |
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