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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Rickie Fowler and Jason Day faced enough stress just to make sure they got into the PGA Tour's postseason. Now that they're here, they want to keep going.
Fowler had a change of caddies and putters and finally started to see some putts fall, though still not enough to his liking. Day recovered from a spiked fever and burning sensation in his eyes and played bogey-free Thursday at the TPC Southwind. Both had a 5-under 65.
That wasn't good enough to lead the FedEx St. Jude Championship, only to hope.
Si Woo Kim holed out from 167 yards in the 18th fairway for eagle to cap off a superb finish of 6-under par on his last six holes, giving him a 62 and an early share of the lead with J.J. Spaun.
But as the FedEx Cup playoffs begin, the emphasis is as much on who advances. Only the top 70 from the 125 players who qualified advance to the BMW Championship next week, and then the top 30 move on to the finale at East Lake.
Fowler made it on the number — No. 125 — and needs his best golf of the last two years to get through to the next round.
“Nothing to lose,” Fowler said. “Being 125, obviously need to play well just to make it to next week, but it would be a big bonus if we can do that and move on. Kind of leave it all out there, see what happens, but definitely happy with the start.”
He was helped late in his round with a 4-iron from 220 yards to 6 feet for eagle.
Day and Fowler were outside the top 125 three weeks ago until the PGA Tour decided that players suspended for going over to Saudi-funded LIV Golf should not count in the standings. That improved them nine spots, and Day also was helped by a 66 on the final day in Detroit to tie for 17th and secure his spot in the postseason.
That was a good thing, too, because last week he opened with a 67 and then had to withdraw with an illness. He knew he was in trouble when he fell asleep at breakfast before the next round. His eyes were burning. His fever spiked. Day wasn't sure how bad the fever was, but he checked his temperature the next day when he felt much better and it was 101 degrees Fahrenheit (38.3 Celsius).
The big takeaway was that he felt he was trending in the right direction, and the game felt that way on a soft, muggy morning that feature occasional light rain.
As for the pressure? Day feels it's always there for him, but at this point, he's trying to let good golf happen instead of trying to force it, and not get too caught up in his position.
He was among 13 players at 65 or lower when the morning wave finished. That would be enough to get him through, but there's a long way to go.
“It does nothing for me to look ahead,” he said, “but I do want to play next week.”
Kim and Spaun, who had eight birdies in such a clean round he couldn't even think which shot was the best, are both assured of playing next week. Spaun began the postseason at No. 25 on the strength of his first PGA Tour title at the Valero Texas Open.
That win sent him immediately to Augusta National for the Masters, such a quick turnaround that he didn't get a chance to soak up the experience. He tied for 23rd and would like nothing better to return. Making it to the FedEx Cup finale is likely to do the trick.
“It will be nice to punch another ticket there and be able to plan it out and get down Sunday, maybe even Saturday the week before, take my time and enjoy all the little things that come along with that great tradition,” Spaun said. “Hopefully keep playing well this week and the next couple weeks, and I’ll be there.”
Tony Finau, coming off two straight victories, and J.T. Poston, were at 64. The group at 65 included Sam Burns, who is the No. 3 seed, and Ryan Palmer and Lucas Glover, who are among those near the bottom who need a big week to keep playing.
Scottie Scheffler has the luxury of a slow start as No. 1 in the world and in the FedEx Cup, and that's a good thing. The Masters champion had a frustrating day of a few odd bounces and a lot of missed chances on the green for a 71.
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TAIPEI – China’s military sent several dozen warplanes and 11 warships toward Taiwan in a display of force following its president’s trip to the U.S., the island's Defense Ministry said Monday.
The Chinese military earlier had announced three-day “combat readiness patrols” as a warning to Taiwan, a self-ruled island which China claims as its own. The actions follow President Tsai Ing-wen’s delicate diplomatic mission to shore up Taiwan's dwindling alliances in Central America and boost U.S. support, a trip capped with a sensitive meeting with U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California. A U.S. congressional delegation also met with Tsai over the weekend in Taiwan after she returned.
China responded to the McCarthy meeting by imposing a travel ban and financial sanctions against those associated with Tsai’s U.S. trip and with increased military activity.
Between 6 a.m. Sunday and 6 a.m. Monday, a total of 70 planes were detected and half crossed the median of the Taiwan Strait, an unofficial boundary once tacitly accepted by both sides, according to Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense. Among the planes that crossed the median were 8 J-16 fighter jets, 4 J-1 fighters, 8 Su-30 fighters and reconnaissance planes.
That followed a full day between Friday and Saturday, where eight warships and 71 planes were detected near Taiwan, according to the island's Defense Ministry. The ministry said in a statement it was approaching the situation from the perspective of “not escalating conflict, and not causing disputes.”
Taiwan said it monitored the Chinese moves through its land-based missile systems, as well as on its own navy vessels.
In addition to combat readiness patrols, China's People's Liberation Army would hold “live fire training” in Luoyuan Bay in China's Fujian province opposite Taiwan, the local Maritime Authority announced over the weekend.
China’s military harassment of Taiwan has intensified in recent years with planes or ships sent toward the island on a near-daily basis, with the numbers rising in reaction to sensitive activities.
Taiwan split with China in 1949 after a civil war. China's ruling Communist Party says the island is obliged to rejoin the mainland, by force if necessary. Beijing says contact with foreign officials encourages Taiwanese who want formal independence, a step the ruling party says would lead to war. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2023/04/10/china-military-displays-force-toward-taiwan-after-tsai-trip/ | 2023-04-10 04:13:34 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2023/04/10/china-military-displays-force-toward-taiwan-after-tsai-trip/ |
London Mayor Sadiq Khan called the attack “utterly appalling.”
“These brave officers were doing their duty and assisting the public at this momentous time for our country,” he said. “My thoughts and prayers are with them, their loved ones and police colleagues following this disgraceful attack.”
Forensics officers and police at the scene in Shaftesbury Avenue, where two male police officers were stabbed, in London, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. London’s police force says two officers have been hospitalized after being stabbed in central London early Friday. It says the attack is not being treated as terrorism. The Metropolitan Police force says officers “encountered a man with a knife” in the Leicester Square area, a busy tourist hub, at around 6 a.m. (Aaron Chow/PA via AP)
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Forensics officers and police at the scene in Shaftesbury Avenue, where two male police officers were stabbed, in London, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. London’s police force says two officers have been hospitalized after being stabbed in central London early Friday. It says the attack is not being treated as terrorism. The Metropolitan Police force says officers “encountered a man with a knife” in the Leicester Square area, a busy tourist hub, at around 6 a.m. (Aaron Chow/PA via AP)
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Forensics officers and police at the scene in Shaftesbury Avenue, where two male police officers were stabbed, in London, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. London’s police force says two officers have been hospitalized after being stabbed in central London early Friday. It says the attack is not being treated as terrorism. The Metropolitan Police force says officers “encountered a man with a knife” in the Leicester Square area, a busy tourist hub, at around 6 a.m. (Aaron Chow/PA via AP)
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Forensics officers and police at the scene in Shaftesbury Avenue, where two male police officers were stabbed, in London, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. London’s police force says two officers have been hospitalized after being stabbed in central London early Friday. It says the attack is not being treated as terrorism. The Metropolitan Police force says officers “encountered a man with a knife” in the Leicester Square area, a busy tourist hub, at around 6 a.m. (Aaron Chow/PA via AP)
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Items in the street at the scene in Shaftesbury Avenue, where two male police officers were stabbed, in London, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. London’s police force says two officers have been hospitalized after being stabbed in central London early Friday. It says the attack is not being treated as terrorism. The Metropolitan Police force says officers “encountered a man with a knife” in the Leicester Square area, a busy tourist hub, at around 6 a.m. (Aaron Chow/PA via AP)
Credit: Aaron Chow
Items in the street at the scene in Shaftesbury Avenue, where two male police officers were stabbed, in London, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. London’s police force says two officers have been hospitalized after being stabbed in central London early Friday. It says the attack is not being treated as terrorism. The Metropolitan Police force says officers “encountered a man with a knife” in the Leicester Square area, a busy tourist hub, at around 6 a.m. (Aaron Chow/PA via AP)
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Biden to plug tech bill in California, campaign in Illinois
SAN DIEGO (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday is set to tour a southern California communications company that is expected to benefit from his legislative push to bolster American semiconductor manufacturing — and he’s taking a vulnerable Democratic congressman with him.
Biden will be joined by Rep. Mike Levin for the visit to Carlsbad-headquartered Viasat as he looks to highlight the CHIPS and Science Act, a $280 billion legislative package, ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections. The bill is one of the Biden administration’s most significant legislative achievements.
Levin, a two-term congressman representing a San Diego-area district that was once a GOP stronghold, is locked in a tight race with former San Juan Capistrano Mayor Brian Maryott. Biden headlined a rally Thursday night in Oceanside, California, for Levin.
Coronavirus pandemic-era supply disruptions and a dearth of domestic chip manufacturing hampered Viasat, which relies on such components for services it provides to industrial customers and the U.S. military. Biden intends to use the event to highlight how the CHIPS act will help companies like Viasat reduce their reliance on overseas chip manufacturers, according to the White House.
Later Friday, Biden will head to Chicago to participate in a political reception. Biden is heading to the Democratic stronghold amid signs that some House members representing suburban Chicago districts may be facing more competitive than expected reelection battles.
The Congressional Leadership Fund, a super political action committee, or super PAC, aligned with the GOP House leadership, this week announced a $1.8 million ad buy targeting Democratic Rep. Sean Casten, who represents a district that Biden won by about 11 percentage points in 2020. Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, the House minority leader, is due to campaign with GOP challenger Keith Pekau in the district Friday.
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LONDON, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Virax Biolabs ("Virax" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: VRAX), an innovative biotechnology company focused on the prevention, detection, and diagnosis of viral diseases, today announced that Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, James Foster will ring the Nasdaq Stock Market closing bell on Thursday, August 18, 2022. This comes after Virax began listing its common shares on the Nasdaq Capital Market on July 21, 2022.
The ceremony will begin at approximately 3:45 p.m. ET on August 18 and can be viewed live at https://www.nasdaq.com/marketsite/bell-ringing-ceremony.
"I am honored to ring the Nasdaq closing bell on behalf of the Virax team," commented James Foster. "The bell ringing ceremony is a great opportunity to celebrate the major milestone of the Company going public, and is representative of opening a new era for Virax. I am grateful to be joined by my talented team of colleagues and those who have supported us through all the stages of Virax's development over the years. Supported by our major progress and key strategic partnerships since the start of 2022, I am confident and excited for Virax's journey ahead."
Founded in 2013, Virax Biolabs Group Limited is an innovative biotechnology group focused on the detection and diagnosis of viral diseases, with a particular interest in the field of immunology.
Virax Biolabs Group Limited is currently developing a proprietary T-Cell Test technology with the intention of providing an immunology profiling platform that assesses each individual's immune risk profile against major global viral threats. T-Cell testing is particularly effective in the diagnosis and therapeutics of COVID-19 as well as other threats including Monkeypox, Hepatitis B, Malaria, Herpes and Human Papillomavirus. For more information, please visit www.viraxbiolabs.com.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A doctor in the Missouri Ozarks went missing for over a week until his body was found in an Arkansas lake. But the case remains shrouded in mystery as investigators have released few details to his family or the public.
WHAT’S KNOWN SO FAR
Dr. John Forsyth, 49, was last seen alive on May 21, when security cameras in the parking lot of a public pool in Cassville show him getting into a vehicle, after leaving his own car unlocked with his wallet, two phones, a laptop and other items inside. That's according to his brother, Richard Forsyth, who said the doctor had texted his new fiancee that morning saying he would see her soon.
His car was found later that day. Investigators haven't said who was driving the other vehicle.
A search began after the emergency room physician didn't show up for his May 21 shift at Mercy Hospital in Cassville. There was no sign of Forsyth until a kayaker noticed his body in Arkansas on May 30, at a spot on Beaver Lake some 20 miles (32 kilometers) away from his last known location.
His body had an apparent gunshot wound, authorities in Arkansas say. Although Benton County Coroner Daniel Oxford said an autopsy was completed Thursday, the results won't be released until the investigation is over.
WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN HIS LIFE?
His brother, Richard Forsyth, and other family members say John Forsyth was a devoted father to his eight kids and seemed happier than he'd been in a long time. They say never missed a day of work, and would often sleep in an RV outside the hospital when he was on call.
His family rejects any suggestion he took his own life.
Newly engaged, Forsyth was also recently divorced.
On May 10 of this year, a judge ordered Forsyth to pay his ex-wife $3,999 in child support a month, plus another $15,000 a month.
Missouri court records show he was married and divorced twice to the same woman between 1995 and 2022. Both his brother and Ryan Ricketts, the ex-wife's divorce attorney, say the split was amicable.
The pair initially married in Clark County, Nevada. He filed for divorce in April 2019 but the couple remarried in July 2020 in Greene County, Missouri. Court records show that the woman filed a second divorce petition in April 2022, in Lawrence County, Missouri.
QUESTIONS THAT REMAIN
Authorities have not said whether they believe Forsyth was killed or took his own life. Initially, when Forsyth’s empty car was found, investigators said there were no signs of foul play. But that was before the body was found.
Shannon Jenkins, spokesperson for the Benton County Sheriff's Department, said Friday that “there is no immediate threat to the public,” but declined to provide more details. She said no further information would be released until the investigation is completed.
It's also unclear what Forsyth's connection might be to the second vehicle seen on pool surveillance video. Authorities have not confirmed any information about the video, including if it was taken before or after Forsyth may have texted his fiancee.
There's also no information on how Forsyth got from Cassville to Beaver Lake, when and where he died, or if investigators have found a weapon.
FORSYTH'S BACKGROUND
Forsyth was born in Idaho in 1974, according to online records. He was the third of seven children, his sister Gina Forsyth-Farlaino said. He was the father of eight children.
His former wife, who lives in Idaho, was given custody of the couple's minor children, but John Forsyth continued to have a strong relationship with them, his brother and the woman's divorce attorney said.
Forsyth's ex-wife did not wish to be interviewed, Ricketts said.
“She is just devastated and — I mean, just shocked,” Ricketts said. “She never saw any of this kind of thing coming.”
FORSYTH'S MEDICAL BACKGROUND
Online records for the state of Missouri show that Forsyth was licensed as a doctor and surgeon in the state since July 1, 2005 and that his license was active.
He'd been an emergency physician at Mercy Hospital in Cassville for nearly 15 years.
He received his medical degree from Ross University, which is headquartered in Barbados.
Online court records show Forsyth settled a wrongful death lawsuit against him Lawrence County, Missouri, in March 2022, but the settlement terms were confidential.
He was initially named as a defendant in a wrongful death case, also in Lawrence County, in 2006. But he and another doctor were dismissed from the case before a local hospital settled the case for $100,000.
Records show that in August 2015, he agreed to a public reprimand from the state Board of Registration for the Medical Arts for not adequately and completely maintaining records for two patients.
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Hanna reported from Topeka, Kansas. Associated Press writer Jim Salter contributed from St. Louis, Missouri. | https://www.wsls.com/news/2023/06/02/things-to-know-about-the-case-of-a-missouri-doctor-found-dead-in-arkansas/ | 2023-06-02 22:10:10 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/2023/06/02/things-to-know-about-the-case-of-a-missouri-doctor-found-dead-in-arkansas/ |
LOS ANGELES, May 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Clubhouse Media Group, Inc. (OTCMKTS: CMGR) ("CMGR"), a social media firm and digital agency, announced that they have finalized various brand promotional deals in April 2023. The talent includes (but is not limited to) names such as Austin Fritts (content creator), Joe Johnson (NBA), Richie Le (YouTuber), Lindsay Brewer (racecar driver), Micah Morris (golfer), Danielle Cabral (realty TV star), and Serena Kerrigan (actress).
"Our agency has been very busy so far this year," said Amir Ben-Yohanan, CEO of CMGR. "I look at the volume of deals coming through the pipeline as a positive sign for the future."
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New Industrial Gas Complex will be Air Products' Second Build, Own and Operate Onsite Facility in India
LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa. and PUNE, India and BARAUNI, India, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Air Products (NYSE: APD), a world leader in industrial gases and large-scale project development, execution and operation, today announced the signing of a long-term supply agreement with Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), India's flagship national oil company. Air Products will build, own and operate (BOO) a new industrial gases complex supplying hydrogen, nitrogen and steam to IOCL's Barauni Refinery in Bihar, India.
The new industrial gas complex will aid IOCL's capacity expansion from six to nine million tonnes per annum producing Euro-VI or BS-VI compliant gasoline and diesel at its Barauni complex. The industrial gas complex will include the latest generation multi-feed hydrogen production facility supplying 70,000 normal cubic meters per hour (Nm3/hr) of hydrogen as well as steam, and a high-efficiency air separation unit producing 4,000 Nm3/hr of nitrogen.
Air Products expects the new industrial gas complex for IOCL to come onstream in 2024.
Air Products' chief operating officer Dr. Samir J. Serhan said, "We are honored to work with IOCL, the largest petroleum refining company and largest Public Sector Undertaking in India. As one of the fastest growing economies in the world, our latest strategic investment in India will provide an efficient combination of industrial gas production technologies, enabling IOCL to meet ever-increasing transportation fuel demand. We look forward to reliably supplying IOCL's industrial gas needs for decades to come."
Juan Gonzalez, vice president, Large Project Business Development, Air Products Middle East, Egypt, Turkey and India, said, "We are proud to work with IOCL as they look to significantly expand their operations at Barauni. We look forward to bringing our global expertise, experience and world-class engineering capabilities to this project."
Once completed, the Barauni project will be Air Products' second BOO project in India, after the Kochi Industrial Gas complex at BPCL's Kochi Refinery.
Air Products (NYSE:APD) is a world-leading industrial gases company in operation for over 80 years. Focused on serving energy, environment and emerging markets, the Company provides essential industrial gases, related equipment and applications expertise to customers in dozens of industries, including refining, chemical, metals, electronics, manufacturing, and food and beverage.
Air Products is also the global leader in the supply of liquefied natural gas process technology and equipment. The Company develops, engineers, builds, owns and operates some of the world's largest industrial gas projects, including: gasification projects that sustainably convert abundant natural resources into syngas for the production of high-value power, fuels and chemicals; carbon capture projects; and world-scale low- and zero-carbon hydrogen projects supporting global transportation and the energy transition.
The Company had fiscal 2021 sales of $10.3 billion from operations in over 50 countries and has a current market capitalization of about $55 billion. More than 20,000 passionate, talented and committed employees from diverse backgrounds are driven by Air Products' higher purpose to create innovative solutions that benefit the environment, enhance sustainability and address the challenges facing customers, communities, and the world. For more information, visit www.airproducts.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.
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Maryland deputy killed in the line of duty, leaves behind wife and 3 children
PITTSVILLE, Md. (Gray News) – A deputy in Maryland was killed in the line of duty, according to the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office.
The sheriff’s office said Deputy First Class Glenn Hilliard was gunned down Sunday night while trying to apprehend a fugitive who was wanted on multiple felony warrants in several jurisdictions.
Hilliard was a 16-year veteran law enforcement officer. He would have celebrated his 42nd birthday on June 22.
“This loss exacts an enormous emotional toll on the Sheriff’s Office family, but we will do what is necessary and proper to honor Glenn and support those who knew and loved him,” the sheriff’s office wrote on Facebook. “Brave men and women like Glenn Hilliard put their lives in danger every day to protect our families, and I am extremely grateful to them for keeping our communities safe.”
According to the sheriff’s office, the fugitive was captured after an extensive manhunt by dozens of law enforcement officers from throughout the region.
Hilliard leaves behind a wife and three children.
“Our hearts and prayers go out to Glenn’s family during this difficult time,” the sheriff’s office wrote.
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Kentucky lawmakers pass ban on gender-affirming care for youth
Republican lawmakers in Kentucky have passed a bill that prohibits transgender minors from receiving gender-affirming care, allows educators to misgender students and would not allow schools to discuss sexual orientation or gender identity with students of any age.
The bill, if enforced, would prohibit gender-affirming care for minors, such as surgical procedures or the use of certain hormones, and calls for healthcare providers to terminate treatment for patients already undergoing such care.
The emotional debate over gender-affirming care for transgender students has become a political flashpoint — especially among conservatives — at a time legislators across the country are advancing measures to restrict LGBTQ rights.
Senate Bill 150 has been delivered to the office of Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat who has expressed his opposition to the measure. Republican lawmakers, however, hold a majority and could override a veto from the governor.
Beshear, in a press conference earlier this month, chided the state legislature for focusing on the culture wars issue and challenged them to work on increasing teacher pay and expanding healthcare to residents.
Beshear cited polls showing that a majority of Kentuckians believe medical decisions about their children should be left to parents and their families.
"What some legislation is doing here in Frankfort is tearing that away and saying, 'No, big government is going to tell you what is medically best for your children.' As a parent, I think that's wrong," Beshear said on March 2.
"When it comes to this issue polling doesn't matter to me because I believe it's the right thing to do," said Speaker Pro Tempore Rep. David Mead (R ). "If we're going to protect children, we need to ensure that surgery or drugs that completely alter their life and alter their body is not something we should be allowing until they are adults who could choose that for themselves. This is the right to do for these children."
The Kentucky branch of the American Civil Liberties Union issued a statement saying the legislation was "rushed to the House floor after a hasty committee hearing where trans Kentuckians begged and pleaded for their lives, and access to critical care for trans youth."
"SB150 encompasses a host of new laws that are among the most extreme anti-trans attacks in the United States," the ACLU statement said. The Kentucky ACLU said it "stands ready" to fight the ban in court should it become law.
The Trevor Project, a suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ young people, noted the prevalence of deaths by suicide among LGBTQ youth.
"It is appalling to see Kentucky lawmakers work so hastily on dangerous legislation that will only put young LGBTQ Kentuckians in harm's way," said Troy Stevenson, director of state advocacy campaigns for the Trevor Project. "In the last year, nearly half of LGBTQ youth in Kentucky seriously considered suicide — alarmingly, nearly 1 in 4 transgender and nonbinary youth in the state made a suicide attempt. Our leaders are pushing political wedge issues and sidestepping the real challenges like addressing the youth mental health crisis."
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Automaker named to Points of Light Civic 50 as one of the most community-minded companies in America for 2023
CAMDEN, N.J., June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Subaru of America, Inc. (SOA) today released its 2022 Corporate Impact Report, detailing for the fifth year how they share the love with their customers, employees, environment, and community. One highlight not included within the report is the recent announcement that Points of Light has named Subaru a 2023 Civic 50 Honoree, recognizing the automaker as one of the 50 most community-minded companies in America, for the third consecutive year.
"We'd like to thank our retailers, employees, partners, and the entire Subaru family for helping us achieve and exceed our impact goals in 2022, as well as for providing the inspiration to accomplish even more together in the future," said Tadashi 'Tady' Yoshida, Chairman and CEO of Subaru of America, Inc.
The Subaru Corporate Impact Report details the ways in which SOA exemplified their mission to be More Than a Car Company® throughout the 2022 calendar year. Compiled as a result of broadened data collection and disclosure efforts, the report shares the who, what, where, when, and why of the automaker's efforts to positively impact every individual its work reaches — from new car buyers to longtime owners to retailers and partners, as well as those in the communities where Subaru employees live and work.
"At Subaru we take it to heart when saying we are More Than a Car Company, and know it comes with the responsibility of living out our pledge with a commitment to improving the world around us," said Jeff Walters, President and COO of Subaru of America, Inc.
The Subaru Love Promise® is the focal point of the report, extending into five pillars: Subaru Loves to Care, Subaru Loves the Earth, Subaru Loves to Help, Subaru Loves Learning, and Subaru Loves Pets. Milestones reached in 2022 include more than $1.9 million in philanthropic gifts to nonprofits in the Camden, New Jersey community where SOA is based, and over 10,000 hours employees spent volunteering across the nation.
Living Our Values
- Subaru of America Foundation partnered with SOA's Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to grant funding to nonprofits that support Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) outcomes.
- In 2022, over half of Subaru employees were involved in the company's ERGs, which bring its DEIB values to life.
- The talent management and acquisition team continued to benchmark their DEIB practices in the employee recruitment and retention process through partnerships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, the National Association of Black Accountants, Women of Color Automotive Network, and military organizations.
Subaru Love Promise Customer Commitment
- Received recognition by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) for four vehicle models as a TOP SAFETY PICK+ and two as a TOP SAFETY PICK in 2022.
- Earned 'Superior' rating in front crash prevention from IIHS for all vehicle models when equipped with EyeSight® Driver Assist Technology.
- Received 2022 Best Cars for Teens award for Ascent and Forester from U.S. News & World Report.
- Named #20 on the list of the 100 most visible U.S.-based companies in the 2022 Axios Harris Poll 100 Reputation Ranking, based on a survey of more than 30,000 Americans.
- Sold all available Subaru Solterra models, the company's first fully electric vehicle, produced in 2022; demonstrating progress toward its goal to electrify 100% of Subaru vehicles by 2035.
Subaru Love Promise Community Commitment
- The annual Subaru Share the Love® Event reached the 15-year milestone of $256 million donated to national and hometown charities.
- More than 70% of SOA employees volunteered a total of 10,000+ hours in 2022.
- Most SOA employees (over 70%) participated in company sponsored volunteering efforts in 2022, achieving a total of 10,000+ volunteer hours.
- Subaru is one of the most fuel-efficient automotive brands in the United States, based on improvement in fuel economy per mile since 2009 as analyzed by the EPA.
- Subaru remanufactured 1,548+ tons of products in 2022.
In addition to highlighting how Subaru was More Than a Car Company in 2022, the report showcases how the automaker's 2022 corporate responsibility actions parallel the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
To learn more about Corporate Responsibility at Subaru of America, Inc., please visit www.subaru.com/about/corporate-responsibility.html.
About Subaru of America, Inc.
Subaru of America, Inc. (SOA) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Subaru Corporation of Japan. Headquartered at a zero-landfill office in Camden, N.J., the company markets and distributes Subaru vehicles, parts and accessories through a network of more than 630 retailers across the United States. All Subaru products are manufactured in zero-landfill plants and Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc. is the only U.S. automobile manufacturing plant to be designated a backyard wildlife habitat by the National Wildlife Federation. SOA is guided by the Subaru Love Promise, which is the company's vision to show love and respect to everyone, and to support its communities and customers nationwide. Over the past 20 years, SOA and the SOA Foundation have donated more than $300 million to causes the Subaru family cares about, and its employees have logged nearly 88,000 volunteer hours. As a company, Subaru believes it is important to do its part in making a positive impact in the world because it is the right thing to do. For additional information visit media.subaru.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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SAN MATEO, Calif., July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tuition.io, a leading education assistance benefits provider, has acquired Wiley's (NYSE: WLY) Tuition Manager business, which enables employers to offer a range of tuition assistance benefits to their workforces. Terms are undisclosed.
The acquisition is the culmination of a successful relationship between Tuition.io, Wiley and HostedHR dating back more than four years. It continues Tuition.io's growth as a leading Education Assistance service provider, allowing Tuition Manager customers to take full advantage of Tuition.io's modern, highly configurable and customizable platform to offer a wide range of differentiated benefits to their workforces.
Tuition.io offers a full suite of Education Assistance services including student loan wellness, student loan repayment assistance, loan forgiveness, education planning and tuition assistance. When the migration of Wiley clients is completed later this year, Tuition.io will have more than 100 employers using its tuition assistance services.
"This acquisition of Wiley's Tuition Manager business is a threshold moment for Tuition.io," said Scott Thompson, CEO of Tuition.io. "It re-enforces our leadership position in the market, while continuing to assist a growing number of employers to offer innovative and highly compelling education assistance benefits that are integral to attracting, retaining and upskilling the modern workforce."
"We have worked with the Tuition.io team over the past few years and respect their ability to innovate while maintaining the highest standard for client success," said Todd Zipper, executive vice president and general manager leading Wiley's talent segment. "We are confident that they are the right buyer for this business and that our customers will have continued success working with the Tuition.io organization."
The Tuition Manager business will join the current suite of employee benefits already offered by Tuition.io, including Student Loan Repayment, Tuition Assistance, Public Service Loan Forgiveness for non-profits, and Student Loan Wellness.
About Tuition.io
Tuition.io is the leading education assistance benefits platform, encompassing student loan repayment, tuition assistance and a wealth of financial wellness tools to assist employees on their higher education journey. Tuition.io provides an impactful and meaningful solution for employers and their employees. Tuition.io works with leading US employers across all industries including ADP, Carhartt, Emory Healthcare, Ford, Universal Music Group and hundreds of others. For more information, visit www.tuition.io or follow us on Twitter at @Tuitionio or on LinkedIn.
About Wiley
Wiley is a knowledge company, a global leader in research, publishing, and knowledge solutions. One of the world's largest publishers, Wiley is dedicated to the creation of knowledge and the application of knowledge in science, learning, and innovation. The company serves the world's researchers, learners, innovators, and leaders, helping them achieve their goals and solve the world's most important challenges. For more than two centuries, Wiley has been delivering on its timeless mission to unlock human potential. Visit us at Wiley.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — When Texas is engaged in a close game, it can call on experience, energy and poise. The No. 6 Longhorns needed all of that against Oklahoma on Saturday.
Senior reserve Sir’Jabari Rice scored 19 of his game-high 24 points in the second half and overtime, and Texas held off the Sooners 85-83.
The Longhorns (21-6, 10-4 Big 12) have not lost two straight games all season. They are 7-0 under interim coach Rodney Terry in games decided by five points or fewer or in overtime, including a 70-69 victory at Oklahoma on Dec 31.
“I see in Texas the veteran, tough mentality,” Oklahoma coach Porter Moser said.
Rice’s fourth 3-pointer of the game gave Texas an 84-77 lead with 2:26 left in overtime.
Oklahoma had a chance to tie or win when Texas’ Tyrese Hunter missed one of two free throws with 6.8 seconds left. But Sam Godwin missed a shot from near the rim, and Texas extended its winning streak against Oklahoma to five games.
Marcus Carr added 17 points for Texas and Timmy Allen had 15 points, nine rebounds and four assists. Both are seniors, as is Dylan Disu, who scored 12.
Though the Longhorns made several clutch shots, Terry cited other factors that were critical.
“We forced 18 turnovers, and we had 19 assists,” Terry said, calling it “the difference in the game.”
Grant Sherfield led Oklahoma (13-14, 3-11) with 18 points, including a 3-pointer that sent the game to overtime. Milos Uzan scored 15 for the Sooners. The Sooners’ top big man, Tanner Groves, fouled out with 2:30 left in regulation.
The Longhorns led by five with 1:30 remaining in regulation, but the Sooners secured two offensive rebounds and Sherfield’s tough 3 came with 7 seconds left.
“(Sherfield) made a great play, a step back, hit a great shot,” Carr said.
Carr missed a jump shot — a chance to win — at the buzzer in regulation.
Oklahoma led 67-61 with six minutes remaining, but Texas took a 70-67 lead a minute later with consecutive 3-point baskets by Rice, a first-year Longhorn who transferred from New Mexico State. Rice’s 24 points are double his average and matched his season best. He converted 8 of 13 field goal attempts, including 4 of 6 3-pointers, and 4 of 5 free throws.
“I’ve said this to everybody: I think Rice is one of the most unheralded players in this league,” Moser said. “He’s so good. Look how efficient he was.”
The game was tied at halftime at 34 largely due to defensive lapses by Texas. The Sooners created a 24-12 edge in points in the paint and had an 8-2 advantage in fast-break points. Sometimes Texas failed to retreat quickly enough in transition, and other times the Longhorns allowed unimpeded drives to the basket.
Fortunately for Texas, it had reserve Brock Cunningham. He scored 10 in the first half — double his average per game — including eight of Texas’ points in a row. Known as an energy guy for his hustle and physical play, Cunningham has developed into a dangerous 3-point shooter and made two in a row in the first half.
“Brock was just tremendous in that first half,” Terry said. “He was playing winning basketball all over the floor.”
BIG PICTURE
Oklahoma: It’s been a rough season in the tough Big 12, which occupied five of the first 12 seeds in the NCAA Tournament selection committee’s bracket preview Saturday. The Sooners are in last place but have a few big moments: snapping a seven-game conference losing streak on Wednesday by beating No. 12 Kansas State in Norman and defeating (now) No. 1 Alabama 93-69 on Jan. 28.
Texas: One issue for the Longhorns is a lack of size; only two players are taller than 6-foot-7. Interior post players Disu (6-9) and Christian Bishop (6-7) missed chunks of the game. Both were in foul trouble early, then Disu left the game twice with injuries, but returned. Bishop and Groves were called for flagrant-1 fouls with 16:40 remaining — their third fouls of the game — and Bishop picked up his fourth foul with 6:20 left.
SHARE OF FIRST
With No. 5 Kansas beating No. 9 Baylor on Saturday, the Longhorns and the Jayhawks are tied for first in the Big 12.
BEARD CHARGES DROPPED
Terry took over after Chris Beard was suspended on Dec. 12 and later fired after his arrest on a domestic violence charge. The third-degree felony charge was dismissed this week.
COMFORTABLE NEW DIGS
A big reason the Longhorns reached first place in the Big 12 is that they’ve been successful in their new home arena, the 10,763-seat Moody Center. It’s been sold out for all 15 games, including the nonconference ones.
Texas is 14-1 at home, losing only to Kansas State; the Longhorns avenged that defeat by beating the Wildcats in Manhattan. Texas also beat Gonzaga and Creighton at Moody when those teams were ranked in the top 10.
UP NEXT
Oklahoma: Hosts Texas Tech on Tuesday.
Texas: Hosts No. 19 Iowa State on Tuesday.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — International pressure is growing on Rwanda as France and Germany are the latest parties to openly accuse the country of supporting armed rebels in neighboring eastern Congo — with possible repercussions for foreign aid that Kigali has long enjoyed.
For months, renewed attacks by the M23 rebels have angered Congo’s government and led to talk of war in eastern Congo, a volatile region rich in minerals critical to much of the world’s technology. A report by United Nations experts earlier this year said they had “solid evidence” that Rwanda’s armed forces were backing the rebels, and the United States has openly asked Rwanda to stop it.
Now other major donors have joined the criticism of Rwanda. On Tuesday, France’s foreign affairs ministry in a statement condemned “Rwanda’s support for M23,” and its junior minister in charge of development during a visit to Congo warned that the M23 “must stop the fighting” and withdraw. The junior minister, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, is in charge of implementing aid policies. France’s official development assistance to Rwanda leapt from under $4 million in 2019 to more than $68 million in 2021, according to Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development data, as relations improved.
Also on Tuesday, the German foreign ministry’s director for sub-Saharan Africa, Christoph Retzlaff, tweeted that Rwanda should “immediately cease” its support for the M23 and quickly contribute to a solution to the “disastrous” crisis. Germany’s official development assistance to Rwanda was more than $94 million in 2021.
Rwanda’s government in an emailed statement Wednesday evening said accusing it of supporting the M23 is “wrong” and that “attempting to manage complex situations by simply repeating and amplifying false allegations of the (Congolese) government cannot lead to solutions.” It accused the international community of being unwilling to face up to the root causes of conflict in eastern Congo, where dozens of armed groups are active.
Longtime President Paul Kagame last week on the sidelines of the U.S.-Africa summit denied that Rwanda had created the trouble in eastern Congo and called it “Congo’s problem.”
But concerns are growing that international partners could back their warnings with cuts in aid to Rwanda, which has long benefited from outside support in health, defense and other areas. Belgium, a former colonizer of Rwanda, also asked the country to stop supporting the M23 rebels earlier this month.
The public pressure on Rwanda over its alleged support of the M23 is notable. Human rights watchdogs and others have long accused Rwanda of using the international community’s guilt over its delayed response to the country’s horrific 1994 genocide to dampen criticism of its actions including the stifling of opposition at home and abroad.
The genocide killed more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsi and moderate Hutu who tried to protect them, and it remains a deeply sensitive subject. Rwanda’s president and his government in recent weeks have expressed concern for the ethnic Tutsi in eastern Congo who are affected by the current violence.
The M23 is largely made up of Congolese Tutsi. It has denied having the backing of Rwanda’s armed forces.
Rwanda in turn has accused Congo of backing another armed group in eastern Congo, the FDLR, a Hutu group opposed to Tutsi influence. Congo has denied it. Efforts at peace talks have yielded little as both sides accuse the other of breaking a fragile cease-fire agreed to last month in Angola.
Relations between Rwanda and Congo have been fraught for decades. Rwanda alleges that Congo gave refuge to the Hutus who carried out the genocide. In the late 1990s, Rwanda twice sent its forces deep into Congo, joining forces with Congolese rebel leader Laurent Kabila to depose the country’s longtime dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. The Rwandan forces in Congo were widely accused of hunting down and killing ethnic Hutu, even civilians.
One example of the significant aid that Rwanda continues to receive from partners is 20 million euros from the European Union, announced this month, to support its defense forces’ deployment against extremists in northern Mozambique.
Rwanda is considered to have one of the strongest militaries in Africa and is the third largest troop contributor to U.N. peacekeeping missions, according to the latest U.N. data in October.
The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday, while extending the peacekeeping mission in eastern Congo, demanded the immediate withdrawal of the M23 rebels.
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Associated Press writers Sylvie Corbet in Paris; Ignatius Ssuuna in Kigali, Rwanda; and Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-more-pressure-on-rwanda-as-france-condemns-backing-rebels/ | 2022-12-21 18:46:52 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-more-pressure-on-rwanda-as-france-condemns-backing-rebels/ |
The Delaware Humane Association and the Delaware SPCA finalized their merger on Wednesday, September 7, 2022, with a new name and a new logo unveiling at the SPCA's location on Route 7.
Humane Animal Partners Delaware is the new name for the merged entities and the new logo features a colorful silhouette of a dog and a cat sitting on the letter H, which resembles a bed.
"Being able to share resources, especially veterinarians who are in kind of short supply these days, and so we've already been having vets go back and forth between our shelters as needed," said Anne Cavanaugh who will serve as Chief Operating Officer of the merged group.
The two groups announced their intention to merge in June, 2021, and CEO Patrick Carroll said even though their mission is the same, there were operational differences.
"It did create a situation where we had to sort of say 'well you do this better than we do so let's use your process,' or 'you use this type of software and your team likes it better than our team likes ours,'" said Carroll. "We made some decisions there where we switched some software for fundraising and for volunteer management."
Cavanaugh said the merger will also improve philanthropy.
"We're basically trying to get money from the same donors. This will alleviate some of that," she said.
The ultimate winners are the animals and the people the group serves.
"The whole point is - it's for the animals," said Carroll.
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SAN ANGELO, Texas — This week’s Teacher of the Week is Emerald Pando, an Art teacher at Central Highschool.
Pando teaches her students that they are all artists:
“I always tell my students that if they’re not good at drawing, they’re gonna be good at ceramics and if they’re not good at that, there’s always sculpture or something else they are gonna be good at,” said Pando.”I show them that there are things that they can do and are not going to be able to do but it relates to everyday life too.” | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/teacher-of-the-week/teacher-of-the-week-emerald-pando/ | 2022-12-17 20:24:34 | 1 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/teacher-of-the-week/teacher-of-the-week-emerald-pando/ |
WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, May 25, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
340 AM CDT Wed May 25 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of Nueces, south central
San Patricio and central Kleberg Counties through 415 AM CDT...
At 339 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Calallen to Driscoll to near Kingsville.
Movement was southeast at 40 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Corpus Christi, Kingsville, Robstown, Driscoll, Corpus Christi
International Airport, Bishop, Corpus Christi North Beach, Kings
Crossing Subdivision, Bay Area Medical Center, Spohn Hospital South,
Banquete, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Clarkwood, Annaville,
Calallen, Kingsville Naval Air Station, La Palmera Mall, Del Mar
College Windward Campus, Corpus Christi Country Club and South Texas
Botanical Gardens.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 37 between mile markers 1 and 17.
US Highway 181 between mile markers 646 and 648.
US Highway 77 between mile markers 672 and 706.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 500 AM CDT for
south central Texas.
LAT...LON 2730 9782 2756 9800 2792 9771 2782 9727
2781 9726 2746 9742
TIME...MOT...LOC 0839Z 308DEG 33KT 2786 9767 2769 9774 2755 9789
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Former President Donald Trump easily won the Conservative Political Action Conference’s (CPAC) closely watched straw poll on Saturday, notching a symbolic win among the Republican grassroots as he seeks to reclaim the White House in 2024.
Trump won with 62 percent, while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), likely his closest rival, came in at 20 percent. Businessman Perry Johnson, who announced his candidacy for the White House this week, earned 5 percent.
The results aren’t especially surprising; the former president has claimed the top spot in each of the previous five CPAC straw polls, which gauge the presidential preferences of conference attendees.
Trump won last year’s straw poll at CPAC in Orlando, Fla., with 59 percent support. DeSantis scored 28 percent in that straw poll.
At the same time, CPAC has transformed into a Trump-friendly venue over the years, and several prospective 2024 presidential contenders, including DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), skipped out on the event this time around.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — More than 400 people died in October in a series of crowd-related disasters in Asia, when a bridge packed with revelers collapsed in India, Halloween partiers were crushed in South Korea’s capital, and spectators fled a stadium in Indonesia after police fired tear gas.
The dynamics in the three situations were distinct, though experts say poor planning and crowd management contributed to the disasters in Indonesia and South Korea. In India, authorities are investigating whether the recently repaired bridge was properly inspected.
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In Seoul, 156 people died when more than 100,000 flocked to the popular nightlife district of Itaewon on Saturday for Halloween celebrations, the first since the country’s strict COVID-19 restrictions were lifted.
The narrow, sloping alleys of the district became clogged with people, leading to what experts call “crowd turbulence.” That’s when people are so packed together that they don’t have full control over their movements, and the crowd moves as a continuous body.
“It doesn’t require anybody to misbehave, doesn’t require anybody to aggressively or intentionally push,” said Milad Haghani, a researcher at Australia’s University of New South Wales, Sydney.
It is well documented that when crowd densities reach the levels estimated at the Itaewon celebration, people will fall, triggering a domino effect, said Haghani, who has studied more than 275 such crowd-related tragedies dating back to 1902.
But it’s also preventable, he said.
Seoul authorities have been criticized for having 137 officers on hand Saturday to deal with such a large crowd. Officials regularly dispatch many more police to control protests in the capital.
Yoon Hee Keun, commissioner general of the Korean National Police Agency, told a televised news conference Tuesday that he felt a “heavy responsibility” for the loss of life.
By looking at past celebrations, and factoring in the end of COVID-19 restrictions, authorities could have easily anticipated large crowds, Haghani said.
More important than additional police, South Korean authorities could have employed crowd-control experts to monitor the flow of people and prevented the area from getting as packed as it did, he said.
Lessons from well-studied tragedies like Germany’s 2010 Love Parade disaster, where 21 people died trying to exit an area through a bottleneck, make crowd turbulence situations predictable when experts are watching, he said.
“It is really disappointing to see that despite all of the expert experience, all of the studies, all of the conclusions and everything that was done, it happened again in another country, in another location, and it actually resulted in many more people dying,” said Haghani.
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Indonesia is still investigating the Oct. 1 tragedy at a soccer stadium, in which 135 people died, including dozens of children. Police fired tear gas into the stadium, where some gates were locked, after some the crowd of 42,000 spilled onto the field, sending them rushing toward the exits and causing a crush.
Soehatman Ramli, chairman of Indonesia’s World Safety Organization, told The Associated Press that the case showed what can occur without a proper risk management plan and courses of action in case of emergency.
“These plans should include evacuation routes and crowd management for controlling panic situations,” Ramli said.
Already, police have said that Kanjuruhan stadium in Malang city did not have a proper operating certificate and that criminal charges would be brought against six people for negligence, including the three police officers who allowed or ordered officers to use tear gas.
Authorities have removed the police chiefs of East Java province and Malang district and suspended other officers over violations of professional ethics.
A fact-finding team set up by President Joko Widodo found that the tear gas was the main cause of the tragedy — a conclusion Haghani said was not surprising.
“Experience has shown that tear gas in a sports stadium is a recipe for disaster, in that it agitates the crowds, it creates a fight-back tendency in the crowd, and more aggressive behavior,” he said.
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After the weekend collapse of a newly repaired suspension bridge in India’s Gujarat state in which 134 people died, authorities have announced the arrest of nine people, including managers of the bridge’s operator.
The 143-year-old bridge reopened four days before Sunday’s collapse under the weight of hundreds of people who were celebrating during the Hindu festival season.
A security video of the disaster showed it shaking violently and people trying to hold on to its cables and metal fencing before the aluminum walkway gave out and crashed into the river.
The bridge split in the middle with its walkway hanging down and its cables snapped.
Investigations are still underway, but a local official told the Indian Express newspaper that the company reopened the bridge without first obtaining a “fitness certificate.”
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All three October disasters serve as reminders of the variety of ways in which authorities are responsible for ensuring public safety, said Dirk Helbing, a professor of computational social science at the ETH Zurich university who studies crowd dynamics.
“In the past decades, science has provided many new insights and tools to contribute to crowd safety and management,” he said. “I hope this knowledge will spread quickly and thereby help to avoid disasters in the future.”
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Solution enables tire wholesaler's network optimization and growth
DALLAS, Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, River Logic, a provider of advanced network optimization and decision support technology, announced a deal signed with American Tire Distributors (ATD), one of the largest independent tire suppliers to the replacement tire industry. ATD will utilize River Logic's Digital Planning Twin technology to accelerate current operational decision making as well as for longer-term planning as they execute on a strategy to grow into contiguous verticals.
Using the digital twin technology, companies build flexible optimization scenarios of their supply chain operations and other facets of network design. These models, representing ATD's unique constraints explicitly, enable the visualization of an unlimited number of scenarios to quantify trade-offs and identify optimal based on objectives that matter to ATD such as reducing costs, margin expansion, increasing profits and improving productivity.
"With River's technology enabling us to run data driven scenarios, we expect to be able to make both near-term decisions, as well as for longer-term strategic growth decisions – something that will help us accelerate our progress along our digital transformation path," said Moid Alwy, Chief Supply Chain Officer for ATD. "For example, we believe that we'll see immediate results in capacity planning, inventory management, footprint, buy vs. make analysis, and procurement. We also believe that we can utilize River Logic's technology to help with our ESG metrics for emission controls," adds Alwy. "Our goal longer term is network design optimization and growth as a foundation for our future as an automotive aftermarket solutions provider, and the ability to see our data brought to life in real-world scenarios that include financial impacts, which enables us to reduce risk and make more accurate decisions."
Carlos Centurion, president of River Logic, commented: "We are pleased to help ATD achieve a new level of decisioning by employing the key real-world scenarios visualized with our Digital Planning Twin Technology platform. Our team also brings the expertise to handle the variables and complexities necessary with a large enterprise such as ATD all along the value chain."
To learn more about ATD, visit www.atd.com. To learn more about River Logic, visit www.riverlogic.com.
American Tire Distributors is one of the largest independent suppliers of tires to the replacement tire market. It operates more than 115 distribution centers serving approximately 80,000 customers across the U.S.. The company offers an unsurpassed breadth and depth of inventory, frequent delivery and value-added services to tire and automotive service customers. American Tire Distributors employs approximately 4,500 associates across its distribution center network. In 2022, the company was recognized as one of Forbes' 2022 America's Best Midsize Employers and a Most Loved Workplace by Newsweek.
Technology from Texas-based River Logic creates the confidence leaders need to solve complex planning problems across the enterprise. Purpose-built for business users, their platform enables end-to-end business optimization via advanced analytics and a revolutionary cloud experience that offers rapid scenario collaboration, data management, workflows, BI reporting, scalability and more.
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HOUSTON (AP) — HOUSTON (AP) — LyondellBasell Industries (LYB) on Friday reported first-quarter profit of $474 million.
On a per-share basis, the Houston-based company said it had net income of $1.44. Earnings, adjusted for asset impairment costs and non-recurring costs, came to $2.50 per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of eight analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.80 per share.
The oil refiner and chemical company posted revenue of $10.25 billion in the period, which fell short of Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $10.35 billion.
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Best-Ever Combined May Sales for the Niro Hybrid, PHEV and EV; More Than 2,400 All-New Sportage Hybrids Sold In First Full Month of Availability
IRVINE, Calif., May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kia America today announced May sales of 57,941 units with the Niro family of hybrid, PHEV and EV models posting best-ever May sales, up more than 28-percent over the previous record set in 2021. In addition, the first full month of deliveries of the all-new Sportage HEV charged ahead in May, with 2,417 units sold. Sales of Kia's electrified models were up 132-percent over the previous May record set in 2021; and up 5-percent over the all-time monthly sales record for the vehicle category set in March of 2022.
"Kia's electrified vehicle sales remain strong and are contributing to the brand's path to another successful year," said Eric Watson, vice president, sales operations, Kia America. "With the continued popularity of the EV6 and Niro, coupled with early robust interest in the Sportage hybrid, we are confidently 'on target' and expect to see momentum continue throughout the summer sales season."
In addition to sales, May saw several significant announcements coming from the brand, including:
- The 2022 Kia EV6 named Best Electric Vehicle by U.S. News & World Report
- The 2022 Kia Carnival MPV named "Family Vehicle of the Year" in the 2022 Top Ten Vehicles for Hispanic Car Buyers ranking by Hispanic Motor Press
- The announcement of the new 2023 Kia Soul set to arrive later this summer and featuring refreshed design elements, new colors and two technology and convenience filled option packages
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Headquartered in Irvine, California, Kia America continues to top automotive quality surveys and is recognized as one of the 100 Best Global Brands. Kia serves as the "Official Automotive Partner" of the NBA and offers a range of gasoline, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and electrified vehicles sold through a network of nearly 750 dealers in the U.S., including several cars and SUVs proudly assembled in America.
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Company shares details about 2022-23 season pass access to the resort
BROOMFIELD, Colo., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vail Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: MTN) has closed on its purchase of a majority stake in Andermatt-Sedrun Sport AG, a renowned destination ski resort in Central Switzerland that controls and operates the resort's mountain and ski-related assets including all lifts, most of the restaurants and a ski school operation.
The acquisition represents Vail Resorts' first strategic investment in, and opportunity to operate, a ski resort in Europe. Andermatt-Sedrun, one of the most ambitious resort development opportunities in Europe, is located less than 90 minutes from three of Switzerland's major metropolitan areas (Zurich, Lucerne and Lugano) and approximately two hours from Milan, Italy.
Vail Resorts acquired a 55-percent ownership of the resort operations from Andermatt Swiss Alps AG ("ASA"), which retains a 40-percent ownership stake, with a group of existing shareholders comprising the remaining 5-percent ownership. Vail Resorts' final purchase price of CHF 149 million will be fully reinvested into the resort, with CHF 110 million allocated for use in capital investments to enhance the guest experience on the mountain and CHF 39 million paid to ASA and reinvested into the real estate developments in the base area.
Mike Goar, former vice president and chief operating officer of the United States' largest resort, Park City Mountain in Utah, has been named the vice president, chief operating officer, and managing director of Andermatt-Sedrun Sport AG. Goar's 46-year career in the ski industry includes leadership roles at several of the country's most well-regarded resorts. Goar joined Vail Resorts in 2013 when the company acquired The Canyons Resort in Utah where he was serving as vice president and general manager. Goar also ran Keystone Resort in Colorado and oversaw the operations of the company's three resorts in Lake Tahoe (Heavenly Ski Resort, Kirkwood Mountain Resort and Northstar California) before returning to Park City Mountain from 2019 to 2022.
"I look forward to working with – and learning from – the incredible team at Andermatt-Sedrun and the dedicated community and government partners," said Goar. "I am excited to support the important investments being made into the resort as we work together to continue Andermatt-Sedrun's development as a premier alpine destination in Europe. We are proud to add this special resort to the Vail Resorts network and I am personally committed to operational excellence and collaboration."
Today, Vail Resorts also announced 2022-23 season pass access details through both Epic Pass products on sale now, as well as the local Andermatt-Sedrun-Disentis Annual Pass (ASDA) that will remain available for the 2022-23 ski and ride season.
For the 2022-23 season, Epic Pass Holders will receive unlimited and unrestricted access to Andermatt-Sedrun (without Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn access). Epic Local Pass Holders receive 5 days at the resort, and Epic Day Pass Holders with All Resorts Access will be able to visit using any of their days. View passes and prices, on sale now.
The Epic Pass also provides European access to partner resorts including five days at Verbier4Vallées in Switzerland, seven days at Les 3 Vallées in France, seven days at Skirama Dolomiti in Italy and three days at Ski Arlberg in Austria, with specific details available at www.epicpass.com.
About Vail Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: MTN)
Vail Resorts, Inc., through its subsidiaries, is the leading global mountain resort operator. Vail Resorts' subsidiaries currently operate 41 destination mountain resorts and regional ski areas, including Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone and Crested Butte in Colorado; Park City in Utah; Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood in the Lake Tahoe area of California and Nevada; Whistler Blackcomb in British Columbia, Canada; Perisher, Falls Creek and Hotham in Australia; Andermatt-Sedrun in Switzerland; Stowe, Mount Snow, Okemo in Vermont; Hunter Mountain in New York; Mount Sunapee, Attitash, Wildcat and Crotched in New Hampshire; Stevens Pass in Washington; Seven Springs, Hidden Valley, Laurel Mountain, Liberty, Roundtop, Whitetail, Jack Frost and Big Boulder in Pennsylvania; Alpine Valley, Boston Mills, Brandywine and Mad River in Ohio; Hidden Valley and Snow Creek in Missouri; Wilmot in Wisconsin; Afton Alps in Minnesota; Mt. Brighton in Michigan; and Paoli Peaks in Indiana. Vail Resorts owns and/or manages a collection of casually elegant hotels under the Rock Resorts brand, as well as the Grand Teton Lodge Company in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Vail Resorts Development Company is the real estate planning and development subsidiary of Vail Resorts, Inc. Vail Resorts is a publicly held company traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: MTN). The Vail Resorts company website is www.vailresorts.com and consumer website is www.snow.com.
Andermatt Swiss Alps
Andermatt Swiss Alps AG, with registered office in Andermatt, plans, builds, and develops the year-round destination of Andermatt. In 2009 Andermatt Reuss came into being, with apartment buildings, hotels, and chalets. The Andermatt Swiss Alps Group also owns Andermatt-Sedrun Sport AG with its cableways, the catering brand Mountain Food, the Swiss Snowsports School Andermatt, an 18-hole, par-72 championship golf course, and the Andermatt Concert Hall. With the hotels, the sports infrastructure, the wide range of events on offer, and the properties, Andermatt Swiss Alps is pursuing the vision of becoming the prime Alpine destination. In doing so, it is committed to an intact environment and a sustainable future that will enable coming generations to have an extraordinary home. During high season, the Andermatt Swiss Alps Group has more than 1,000 employees working at the locations in Altdorf, Andermatt and Sedrun. andermatt-swissalps.ch / andermatt-facts.ch / andermatt-responsible.ch
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The son of World War II Auschwitz death camp hero Witold Pilecki is seeking millions in compensation from the Polish government for his father’s post-war arrest and 1948 execution by the country’s communist authorities of the time.
The case opened Thursday before a Warsaw court and the next session is scheduled for January. Andrzej Pilecki, aged 90, argues that 26 million zlotys ($5.7 million) compensation would be due to his father by Poland’s law that redresses communist-era wrongs.
His father, Cavalry Capt. Witold Pilecki, a Polish resistance member, volunteered in 1940 to be caught by the Nazi Germans and held at Auschwitz in order to organize resistance there and gather evidence of German atrocities. He escaped in 1943 and wrote a report that was the first direct account from Auschwitz made available to the Allies.
After the war he was arrested, tortured and executed by the Moscow-appointed authorities on charges of spying for Poland’s government-in-exile in London. His remains have not been found.
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Will Knoxville Mayor Kincannon’s property tax plan be a calamity or a non-event? | Column
On April 22, the tax increase proposal was announced, employee raises became the budget centerpiece.
- Knoxville Mayor Kincannon’s proposal is to raise the city’s property taxes by 50 cents per $100 of assessed value.
- The untypical factor: apparently 80% of the increase will go to city government employee salaries.
- George Korda is a political analyst for WATE-TV, hosts “State Your Case.”
Knoxville Mayor Indya Kincannon’s decision to propose the city’s largest property tax increase in decades may eventually serve for political leaders across the country either as a warning of political calamity or an electoral non-event they need not fear.
In surveys of which taxes Americans hate most, the property tax is repeatedly near or at the top of the list. More than income taxes, sales taxes, or any other kind of tax, the property tax is often the one that Americans would most like to see fall into a woodchipper.
For homeowners the answer is pretty straightforward: they buy a house, make payments, perhaps even pay it off, spend money maintaining or improving it, and the government tells them to pony up to continue living in their home. For commercial property owners, it’s much the same story.
Improve your home and you owe more in property taxes. Reappraisals boost the value of your home — and you owe more in property taxes, and that’s without a vote from a county commissioner or city council member.
The most hated tax has been researched again and again
The first three words that appear from a Google search of “What is the tax most hated by Americans?” are these: “The property tax,” quoting from a 2017 article titled “7 Things You Should Know About America’s Most-Hated Tax” on the financial advice website The Motley Fool.
The article said, “About a decade ago, pollsters at Gallup, CNN, and USA TODAY sought to find out what was the most-hated tax. Many undoubtedly expected that the federal income tax would be the winner of this dubious distinction, given all the time that people spend on their returns.
Yet by a more than 2-to-1 margin, property tax topped income tax as the most hated, with more than 40 percent of those surveyed picking it above the numerous other tax choices available.
Among other indicators, from various years:
- CNN Money, April 19, 2005: “Which tax gets your goat? A new poll finds a plurality of Americans think local property taxes are the worst.”
- May 25, 2015: Moneynation.com: “The Five Most Hated Taxes and How to Avoid Them” – No. 1: the property tax.
- The Atlantic, Aug. 24, 2016: “The Feudal Origins of America’ Most-Hated Tax.”
- The Jackson Sun, June 1, 2017: “How much do you hate property taxes?”
Property taxes pay, or contribute to paying, for important or vital government services: education, law enforcement, fire departments, code enforcement, and more. Typically, such tax increases are sought by elected officials for the purposes of maintaining or improving services.
Here's what's untypical about the mayor plan
That’s what makes particularly interesting Knoxville Mayor Kincannon’s proposal to raise the city’s property taxes by 50 cents per $100 of assessed value. The untypical factor: apparently 80% of the increase will go to city government employee salaries. Also unusual is that the mayor first announced she wanted to set a new baseline pay rate and raise employee salaries without knowing how the city would pay for them.
From the Feb. 18, 2022 Knoxville News Sentinel: “Knoxville Mayor Indya Kincannon announced Friday she’s including requests for better pay for city employees, including a $15 an hour minimum wage and a 6% across the board raise. How the city will pay for it, though, hasn't been decided.”
On April 22, the tax increase proposal was announced, employee raises became the budget centerpiece. According to a story in The News Sentinel: “In her first in-person State of the City address Friday afternoon, Knoxville Mayor Indya Kincannon announced what could be her hallmark proposal — a $15 an hour minimum wage for city workers and raises across the board — but coupled with a request for a 50-cent increase in the property tax rate, the highest proposed rate increase in decades. Roughly 80% of the new revenue from the proposed increase will be used for employee compensation, which the city estimates will cost roughly $16 million.”
Mayors generally like to take care of government employees because they’re the people who work most closely to and for them, employees are responsible for carrying out city or county leaders’ policies, and employees, their families and their friends are almost certain to vote (readers can decide for themselves in which order those might apply).
Public attitudes are often contradictory about public employee pay raises: on one hand, people want top-notch services and people qualified to supply them; on the other hand, it’s their tax money paying government salaries.
Past, but smaller, property tax increases under Mayor Bill Haslam and Mayor Madeline Rogero weren’t met with widespread protest; in fact, the reaction was pretty quiet. That’s either because people weren’t paying attention, didn’t feel they could do anything about it, or didn’t mind that much.
Kincannon's move could bolster her re-election bid or attract opposition
Kincannon is in the third year of her first term. Conventional wisdom dictates no tax increases in an election year. Knoxville mayors typically breeze to re-election. But how might a confluence of internal city and external national factors affect a Kincannon reelection bid?
The results will no doubt be analyzed in cities and counties across the country, with particular emphasis on the motivations of conservative and liberal voters.
With Democratic President Joe Biden’s popularity shrinking like an ice cube on a sidewalk in summer, party affiliation could matter more than usual in Knoxville’s non-partisan city elections. Kincannon’s party identification has been in print.
The UT Daily Beacon described her as a “known democrat” (sic), and the News Sentinel said of her 2019 election victory against Eddie Mannis: “While Eddie Mannis isn't known as a hardcore Republican, he's more conservative than Kincannon, a Democrat.”
Along with Biden’s poll numbers decreasing, inflation increasing, continuing COVID-related economic disruptions, and the property tax’s general unpopularity, next year’s mayoral race will be a significant event.
Assuming the tax increase passes, either it will attract Kincannon serious opposition next year based on the above-listed factors, or the election will go the way most city re-elections have fared, with her coasting to victory. If the tax hike doesn’t pass, well, that’s a message that will be heard around the country and will put Kincannon in a very tough position.
A property tax calamity or non-event? It depends on where you want to put your money.
George Korda is a political analyst for WATE-TV, hosts “State Your Case” from noon to 2 p.m. Sundays on WOKI-FM Newstalk 98.7 and is president of Korda Communications, a public relations and communications consulting firm. | https://www.knoxnews.com/story/opinion/2022/05/04/indya-kincannons-property-tax-plan-calamity-non-event/9616735002/ | 2022-05-04 12:45:48 | 1 | https://www.knoxnews.com/story/opinion/2022/05/04/indya-kincannons-property-tax-plan-calamity-non-event/9616735002/ |
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The Supreme Court’s 2018 ruling in Murphy vs. NCAA ushered in a new era of legalized sports betting in the U.S., allowing states to establish their own sports wagering laws.
Despite opposition from the major sports leagues, the high court overturned a federal law – the 1992 Professional Amateur Sports Protection Act – that had barred betting on football, basketball, baseball and other sports in most states.
With the ruling came a new approach to how the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL associate with the industry.
Each league prohibits its employees and players from betting on their own games. But there are variations.
Here's a look at how the leagues operate:
IS ANY FORM OF GAMBLING BY PLAYERS PERMITTED BY THE LEAGUES?
Yes, but with caveats.
In the preamble of its 2018 gambling policy the NFL states, “Gambling, particularly on NFL games or other sports, presents potential risks to the integrity of our competition and can negatively impact team cohesion.”
But that same policy goes on to outline that, “All NFL Personnel other than Players are further prohibited from placing, soliciting, or facilitating bets on any other professional (e.g., NBA, MLB, NHL, PGA, USTA, MLS), college (e.g., NCAA basketball), international (e.g., World Baseball Classic, World Cup), or Olympic sports competition, tournament or event."
NFL players and personnel are not allowed to engage in gambling in NFL facilities, disclose any nonpublic NFL information, enter a sportsbook during the NFL season, or maintain any social, business or personal relationships with sports gamblers.
But they can place non-sports wagers at legally operated casinos and horse or dog racing tracks on their personal time, including during the season.
The NBA constitution doesn’t expressly forbid players from betting on other sports.
According to Major League Baseball’s 2019 policy on sports betting, “Baseball personnel may place legal bets on sports other than baseball or softball in jurisdictions in which sports betting is legal, provided that the person placing the bet is eligible under applicable law to place the wager.”
The NHL only prohibits players from gambling on league games.
WHAT ARE THE PUNISHMENTS FOR VIOLATORS OF LEAGUE GAMBLING RULES?
Anyone associated with MLB found to have violated its Rule 21, which prohibits bets placed on baseball games that don’t involve their teams, faces fines and a yearlong suspension. A permanent ban — like the one infamously given to Pete Rose — is imposed on anyone associated with the league who bets on a game they are involved in.
A person also could face penalties for failing to report any attempted gambling rule violations, including attempts by anyone who tries to solicit them to manipulate or fix a game.
The NBA’s constitution and bylaws give broad authority to the league commissioner to punish any player who “directly or indirectly, wagers money or anything of value on the outcome of any game played by a team in the league operated by the Association.” After the accused has had a chance to answer the charges, “the decision of the Commissioner shall be final, binding and conclusive and unappealable.”
The penalties could include a fine, suspension, expulsion and/or perpetual disqualification from further association with the NBA.
In its most recent collective bargaining agreement, the NHL only mentions gambling once, saying, “Gambling on any NHL Game is prohibited.” That same document also empowers the commissioner to discipline players for off-ice conduct. Potential penalties for those violations include fines, suspension, expulsion or cancellation of the player’s contract.
The NFL outlines in its gambling policy that the commissioner or his designee will decide violations of policy “on a case-by-case basis.” Violations deemed detrimental to the league could also subject the involved team or person to penalties including fines, termination of employment or banishment from the NFL for life.
HAVE ANY ATHLETES BEEN DISCIPLINED SINCE THE 2018 SUPREME COURT DECISION?
Yes, and the list is growing.
Detroit Lions wide receiver Quintez Cephus, Lions safety C.J. Moore and Washington Commanders defensive end Shaka Toney are sidelined for the entire 2023 season for placing bets on NFL games. Lions wide receivers Stanley Berryhill and Jameson Williams each received six-game suspensions for wagering on non-NFL games in NFL-operated facilities.
In December, New York Jets receivers coach Miles Austin was suspended for a year for betting on non-NFL sports.
Wide receiver Calvin Ridley was suspended for the entire 2022 season for gambling on NFL games; he was later traded from Atlanta to Jacksonville and was reinstated. In November 2019, Arizona Cardinals cornerback Josh Shaw was suspended for gambling on an NFL game; he has not played in the league since.
WHAT PARTNERSHIPS DO THE LEAGUES HAVE WITH GAMBLING COMPANIES?
Each of the four major North America sports leagues has partnerships with technology companies and sportsbooks which allow them to use official league data in their betting products as well as use the leagues’ various logos and branding in advertisements.
NHL and MLB players are also now allowed to enter ambassador roles with gambling companies, with restrictions limiting agreements to the players engaging in promotional or marketing appearances for the brands.
Edmonton Oilers star Connor McDavid became the first player to sign such a pact in 2022 and appeared in an advertisement for BetGM alongside hockey legend Wayne Gretzky.
Charlie Blackmon of the Colorado Rockies signed a similar deal with MaximBet last year, but the company has since gone defunct.
The NBA Players Association allows players' images and likenesses to appear in sportsbook advertising.
NFL personnel are prohibited from using or allowing others to use their name or image directly “to promote, advertise, or publicize gambling-related enterprises” or “making personal, promotional appearances on behalf of any entity in a casino gaming area or sportsbook.”
DO PLAYERS RECEIVE MONEY FROM THE LEAGUES’ ASSOCIATIONS WITH GAMBLING?
In an open letter on Oct. 27, 2021, NFL Players Association President JC Tretter defined the revenues players are entitled to under the 2020 Collective Bargaining Agreement, saying they included all television deals, ticket sales, concessions, league sponsorships, local media deals and “yes, even gambling revenues are included as part of our share of revenue.” Under CBA terms, players receive a minimum of 48% of all league revenue.
Prior to the NBA Players Association’s recent agreement with the NBA on a new collective bargaining agreement, players were entitled to a 50-50 split in revenue. But that excluded revenues from gambling on NBA games or those generated by casinos or gambling businesses.
It’s unclear how or if those terms will change in the new pact agreed to in April.
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Lightning sparked several fires near Emmett Wednesday night, most of which are expected to be contained by Saturday.
BLM Idaho Fire crews are working on five separate fires in Gem County following lightning Wednesday night. BLM officials say crews have stopped the active fire spread and are enforcing containment lines and moping up hotspots through Saturday.
Here's what BLM Idaho Fire reported on each fire Friday morning:
Flat Fire
● Location: 15 miles north of Emmett
● Mapped size: 980 acres
● Contained: Sept. 30 at 9 a.m.
● Estimated control: Sept. 30 at 6 p.m.
● Resources: Two dozers, two engines, two hand crews, one fuel tender and one water tender *
● Fuel type: Grass, brush
● Road Closures: None
● Structures threatened: No
● Cause: Lightning
Border Fire (Merged with Jake Fire on Sept. 29 at 5:30 p.m.)
● Location: 21 miles north of Emmett
● Mapped size: 9,149 acres
● Estimated containment: Sept. 30 at noon
● Estimated control: Oct. 1 at 6 p.m.
● Resources: Smoke jumpers, four dozers, two hand crews and four engines*
● Fuel type: Grass, brush
● Road Closures: None
● Structures threatened: No
● Cause: Lightning
Hog Fire
● Location: 27 miles north of Emmett
● Mapped size: 1,280 acres
● Contained: Sept. 29 at 6 p.m.
● Estimated control: Sept. 30 at 6 p.m.
● Resources: One dozer and six engines *
● Fuel type: Grass, brush
● Road Closures: None
● Structures threatened: No
● Cause: Lightning
Sheep Fire
● Location: 29 miles north of Emmett
● Mapped size: 510 acres
● Estimated containment: Sept. 30 at 2 p.m.
● Estimated control: Oct. 1
● Resources: Smoke jumpers and two hand crews *
● Fuel type: Grass, brush
● Road Closures: None
● Structures threatened: No
● Cause: Lightning
Biggy Fire
● Location: 27 miles north of Emmett
● Mapped size: Nine acres
● Contained: Sept. 29 at 6 p.m.
● Estimated control: Sept. 30 at 6 p.m.
● Resources: Sharing resources with Hog Fire
● Fuel type: Grass, brush
● Road Closures: None
● Structures threatened: No
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If Elle Fanning ever met Michelle Carter in real life, she'd ask just one question: Why did you fill in your eyebrows so dark?
It's something that the actress has been thinking about since playing Michelle, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2017, in the Hulu limited series The Girl From Plainville. "I think the harsh eyebrows really did a lot," she shared during a roundtable discussion with Entertainment Weekly's The Awardist podcast. "She didn't show a lot of emotion and had like kind of those smirks and things—and I'm curious why she drew them on."
Of course, Elle has her theories. She suggested that the thick brows were like "war paint" for the teen, adding, "She's going in and she wants to kind of get herself ready for battle every day."
Although, if Elle ever did come face to face with Michelle, she said she wouldn't know if she'd "have the guts" to ask her.
The same goes for many of the actresses who played real-life people in their respective shows. Keep reading to see what Amanda Seyfried, Jessica Biel and more had to say.
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NEW YORK — NEW YORK — Squarespace, Inc. (SQSP) on Tuesday reported first-quarter profit of $502,000.
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In Edison, New Jersey, a bulldozer, which has become a symbol of oppression of India’s Muslim minority, rolled down the street during a parade marking that country’s Independence Day. At an event in Anaheim, California, a shouting match erupted between people celebrating the holiday and those who showed up to protest violence against Muslims in India.
Indian Americans from diverse faith backgrounds have peacefully co-existed stateside for several decades. But these recent events in the U.S. — and violent confrontations between some Hindus and Muslims last month in Leicester, England — have heightened concerns that stark political and religious polarization in India is seeping into diaspora communities.
In India, Hindu nationalism has surged under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party, which rose to power in 2014 and won a landslide election in 2019. The ruling party has faced fierce criticism over rising attacks against Muslims in recent years, from the Muslim community and other religious minorities as well as some Hindus who say Modi’s silence emboldens right-wing groups and threatens national unity.
Hindu nationalism has split the Indian expatriate community just as Donald Trump’s presidency polarized the U.S., said Varun Soni, dean of religious life at the University of Southern California. It has about 2,000 students from India, among the highest in the country.
Soni has not seen these tensions surface yet on campus. But he said USC received blowback for being one of more than 50 U.S. universities that co-sponsored an online conference called “Dismantling Global Hindutva.”
The 2021 event aimed to spread awareness of Hindutva, Sanskrit for the essence of being Hindu, a political ideology that claims India as a predominantly Hindu nation plus some minority faiths with roots in the country such as Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism. Critics say that excludes other minority religious groups such as Muslims and Christians. Hindutva is different from Hinduism, an ancient religion practiced by about 1 billion people worldwide that emphasizes the oneness and divine nature of all creation.
Soni said it’s important that universities remain places where “we are able to talk about issues that are grounded in facts in a civil manner,” But, as USC’s head chaplain, Soni worries how polarization over Hindu nationalism will affect students’ spiritual health.
“If someone is being attacked for their identity, ridiculed or scapegoated because they are Hindu or Muslim, I’m most concerned about their well-being — not about who is right or wrong,” he said.
Anantanand Rambachan, a retired college religion professor and a practicing Hindu who was born in Trinidad and Tobago to a family of Indian origin, said his opposition to Hindu nationalism and association with groups against the ideology sparked complaints from some at a Minnesota temple where he has taught religion classes. He said opposing Hindu nationalism sometimes results in charges of being “anti-Hindu,” or “anti-India,” labels that he rejects.
On the other hand, many Hindu Americans feel vilified and targeted for their views, said Samir Kalra, managing director of the Hindu American Foundation in Washington, D.C.
“The space to freely express themselves is shrinking for Hindus,” he said, adding that even agreeing with the Indian government’s policies unrelated to religion can result in being branded a Hindu nationalist.
Pushpita Prasad, a spokesperson for the Coalition of Hindus of North America, said her group has been counseling young Hindu Americans who have lost friends because they refuse “to take sides on these battles emanating from India.”
“If they don’t take sides or don’t have an opinion, it’s automatically assumed that they are Hindu nationalist,” she said. “Their country of origin and their religion is held against them.”
Both organizations opposed the Dismantling Global Hindutva conference criticizing it as “Hinduphobic” and failing to present diverse perspectives. Conference supporters say they reject equating calling out Hindutva with being anti-Hindu.
Some Hindu Americans like 25-year-old Sravya Tadepalli, believe it’s their duty to speak up. Tadepalli, a Massachusetts resident who is a board member of Hindus for Human Rights, said her activism against Hindu nationalism is informed by her faith.
“If that is the fundamental principle of Hinduism, that God is in everyone, that everyone is divine, then I think we have a moral obligation as Hindus to speak out for the equality of all human beings,” she said. “If any human is being treated less than or as having their rights infringed upon, then it is our duty to work to correct that.”
Tadepalli said her organization also works to correct misinformation on social media that travels across continents fueling hate and polarization.
Tensions in India hit a high in June after police in the city of Udaipur arrested two Muslim men accused of slitting a Hindu tailor’s throat and posting a video of it on social media. The slain man, 48-year-old Kanhaiya Lal, had reportedly shared an online post supporting a governing party official who was suspended for making offensive remarks against the Prophet Muhammad.
Hindu nationalist groups have attacked minority groups, particularly Muslims, over issues related to everything from food or wearing head scarves to interfaith marriage. Muslims’ homes have also been demolished using heavy machinery in some states, in what critics call a growing pattern of “bulldozer justice.”
Such reports have Muslim Americans afraid for the safety of family members in India. Shakeel Syed, executive director of the South Asian Network, a social justice organization based in Artesia, California, said he regularly hears from his sisters and senses a “pervasive fear, not knowing what tomorrow is going to be like.”
Syed grew up in the Indian city of Hyderabad in the 1960s and 1970s in “a more pluralistic, inclusive culture.”
“My Hindu friends would come to our Eid celebrations and we would go to their Diwali celebrations,” he said. “When my family went on summer vacation, we would leave our house keys with our Hindu neighbor, and they would do the same when they had to leave town.”
Syed believes violence against Muslims has now been mainstreamed in India. He has heard from girls in his family who are considering taking off their hijabs or headscarves out of fear.
In the U.S., he sees his Hindu friends reluctant to engage publicly in a dialogue because they fear retaliation.
“A conversation is still happening, but it’s happening in pockets behind closed doors with people who are like-minded,” he said. “It’s certainly not happening between people who have opposing views.”
Rajiv Varma, a Houston-based Hindu activist, holds a diametrically opposite view. Tensions between Hindus and Muslims in the West, he said, are not a reflection of events in India but rather stem from a deliberate attempt by “religious and ideological groups that are waging a war against Hindus.”
Varma believes India is “a Hindu country” and the term “Hindu nationalism” merely refers to love for one’s country and religion. He views India as a country ravaged by conquerors and colonists, and Hindus as a religious group that does not seek to convert or colonize.
“We have a right to recover our civilization,” he said.
Rasheed Ahmed, co-founder and executive director of the Washington D.C.-based Indian American Muslim Council, said he is saddened “to see even educated Hindu Americans not taking Hindu nationalism seriously.” He believes Hindu Americans must make “a fundamental decision about how India and Hinduism should be seen in the U.S. and the world over.”
“The decision about whether to take Hinduism back from whoever hijacked it, is theirs.”
Zafar Siddiqui, a Minnesota resident, is hoping to “reverse some of this mistrust, polarization” and build understanding through education, personal connections and interfaith assemblies. Siddiqui, a Muslim, has helped bring together a group of Minnesotans of Indian origin — including Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians and atheists — who meet for monthly potlucks.
“When people sit down, say, over lunch or dinner or over coffee, and have a direct dialogue, instead of listening to all these leaders and spreading all this hate, it changes a lot of things,” Siddiqui said.
But during one recent gathering, some argued over a draft proposal to at some point seek dialogue with people who hold different views. Those who disagreed explained that they didn’t support reaching out to Hindu nationalists and feared harassment.
Siddiqui said that for now, future plans include focusing on education and interfaith events spotlighting India’s different traditions and religions.
“Just to keep silent is not an option,” Siddiqui said. “We needed a platform to bring people together who believe in peaceful co-existence of all communities.”
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Giovanna Dell’Orto in Minneapolis contributed to this report.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jurors find rapper Tory Lanez guilty of three felonies in 2020 shooting and wounding of hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion.
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Living Local 15 host Jessica Williams leans all about the first every S.O.U.L Fest taking place at The Clyde Theatre on July 30th. She is joined by Tamyra Kelly, a S.O.U.L. Fest Team Member, Anthony Pettus, Pastor at Greater Progressive Baptist Church, and Anthony Payton, Pastor at Come as you are Community Church, to get all of the details and discuss the creation of the Ubuntu Collaborative for the African American community. Learn more at ubuntufw.com.
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LONDON (AP) — Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson shocked Britain on Friday by quitting as a lawmaker after being told he will be sanctioned for misleading Parliament. He departed with a ferocious tirade at his political opponents — and at his successor, Rishi Sunak — that could blast open tensions within the governing Conservative Party.
Johnson resigned after receiving the results of an investigation by lawmakers into misleading statements he made to Parliament about “partygate,” a series of rule-breaking government parties during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a lengthy resignation statement, Johnson accused opponents of trying to drive him out — and hinted that his rollercoaster political career might not be over yet.
“It is very sad to be leaving Parliament — at least for now,” he said.
Johnson, 58, said he had “received a letter from the Privileges Committee making it clear — much to my amazement — that they are determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of Parliament.”
He called the committee investigating him — which has members from both government and opposition parties — a “kangaroo court.”
“Their purpose from the beginning has been to find me guilty, regardless of the facts,” Johnson said.
The resignation will trigger a special election to replace Johnson as a lawmaker for a suburban London seat in the House of Commons.
Johnson, whose career has seen a series of scandals and comebacks, led the Conservatives to a landslide victory in 2019 but was forced out by his own party less than three years later.
He had been awaiting the outcome of an investigation by a House of Commons standards committee over misleading statements he made to Parliament about a slew of gatherings in government buildings in 2020 and 2021 that breached pandemic lockdown rules.
Police eventually issued 126 fines over the late-night soirees, boozy parties and “wine time Fridays,” including one to Johnson, and the scandal helped hasten the end of his premiership.
Johnson has acknowledged misleading Parliament when he assured lawmakers that no rules had been broken, but he said he didn’t do so deliberately.
He told the committee he “honestly believed” the five events he attended, including a send-off for a staffer and his own surprise birthday party, were “lawful work gatherings” intended to boost morale among overworked staff members coping with a deadly pandemic.
The committee had been expected to publish its report in the next few weeks, and Johnson could have faced suspension from the House of Commons if he was found to have lied deliberately.
By quitting, he avoids a suspension that could have seen him ousted from his Commons seat by his constituents, leaving him free to run for Parliament again in future. His resignation statement suggested he was mulling that option. It was highly critical of Sunak, who served as Treasury chief in Johnson’s government before jumping ship with many other colleagues in July 2022 — resignations that forced Johnson out.
Johnson took aim at Sunak, who was chosen by the Conservatives in October to steady the government after the terms of Johnson and his briefly serving successor Liz Truss, who stepped down after six weeks when her tax-slashing policies caused financial turmoil.
Johnson claimed that “when I left office last year the government was only a handful of points behind in the polls. That gap has now massively widened.”
Conservative poll ratings went into decline during the turbulent final months of Johnson’s term and have not recovered. Opinion polls regularly put the opposition Labour Party 20 points or more ahead. A national election must be held by the end of 2024.
“Just a few years after winning the biggest majority in almost half a century, that majority is now clearly at risk,” Johnson said. “Our party needs urgently to recapture its sense of momentum and its belief in what this country can do.”
Johnson resigned hours after King Charles III rewarded dozens of his loyal aides and allies with knighthoods and other honors, a political tradition for former prime ministers that drew cries of cronyism from opponents of the ousted leader.
Johnson’s dramatic exit is the latest — but maybe not the last — chapter in a career of extremes. The rumpled, Latin-spouting populist with a mop of blond hair had held major offices, including London mayor, but also spent periods on the political sidelines before Britain’s exit from the European Union propelled him to the top.
Johnson’s bullish boosterism helped persuade 52% of Britons to vote to leave the EU, and he was elected prime minister in 2019 on a vow to “get Brexit done.”
He was less suited to the hard work of governing, and the pandemic — which landed Johnson in intensive care with COVID-19 — was a major challenge. Johnson’s government won plaudits for its rapid vaccine rollout, but the U.K. also had one of the highest coronavirus death tolls in Europe, and some of the longest lockdowns.
The final straw came when details emerged of parties held in Johnson’s Downing Street office and home while the country was in lockdown. “Partygate” caused outrage and finally pushed the Conservative Party to oust its election-winning but erratic leader.
Angela Rayner, deputy leader of the opposition Labour Party, responded to Johnson’s resignation with: “enough is enough.”
“The British public are sick to the back teeth of this never ending Tory soap opera played out at their expense,” she said. | https://www.ksn.com/news/business/ap-business/boris-johnson-rewards-allies-and-a-hairdresser-with-honors-as-critics-cry-foul/ | 2023-06-10 14:21:57 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/business/ap-business/boris-johnson-rewards-allies-and-a-hairdresser-with-honors-as-critics-cry-foul/ |
WASHINGTON — An IRS policy governing the audits of tax returns filed by U.S. presidents is under new scrutiny after a report published by a congressional panel found the agency failed to perform the mandatory inspection of Donald Trump’s returns until Congress pressed for information about the process.
The three-point policy states that individual returns for the president and the vice president are subject to mandatory review, “should always be kept in an orange folder,” should be kept from the eyes of IRS employees and “should be locked in a secure drawer or cabinet when the examiner or reviewer is away from the work area.”
The report released Tuesday by the Democratic majority on the House Ways and Means Committee said the process, which dates to 1977, was “dormant, at best” during the early years of the Trump administration. Democrats in Congress are responding by introducing legislation that would codify the IRS policy into law with more stringent requirements.
Tax experts say the failure to launch the audit earlier is emblematic of a larger problem regarding the IRS’ capacity to examine high-income taxpayers’ returns — and a reminder of Trump as a norm-defying president.
John Koskinen, who served as IRS commissioner during both the Obama and Trump administrations, said the policy has been out of the public eye because presidents have traditionally released their tax-return summaries to the public.
“It only became an issue with a president who refused to release his tax returns,” Koskinen said. “If Trump had been releasing his returns, nobody would have raised this issue.”
Trump’s tax returns being handed over to Congress recently is the culmination of a yearslong legal fight between Trump and Democratic lawmakers.
Steve Rosenthal, senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, said the IRS’ failure to audit Trump is a showing that “the mandatory auditing program is broken, we cannot rely on the current system to fairly audit the president, and there’s a general problem of the IRS auditing sophisticated taxpayers.”
Rosenthal added: “This is a much larger problem than Donald Trump — yes, he makes bad things worse, but the situation was bad to begin with.”
A new $80 billion infusion of funds through the so-called Inflation Reduction Act is supposed to remedy the beleaguered agency’s low staffing levels, outdated technology and host of other issues. Republicans who are poised to take control of the House in less than two weeks, however, have said they want to cut that funding.
Tuesday’s committee report revealed that the IRS only began to audit Trump’s 2016 tax filings on April 3, 2019, more than two years into Trump’s presidency and just months after Democrats took control of the House. That date coincides with Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., the panel chairman, asking the IRS for information related to Trump’s tax returns.
The report’s findings prompted lawmakers to recommend a statutory requirement for the mandatory examination of the president’s taxes, with “disclosure of certain audit information and related returns in a timely manner.”
Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said he will work to pass the bill through the Senate. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the chamber would “move swiftly” to advance the legislation.
The issue highlights frustration with the so-called tax gap, which is the difference between how much money is owed to the federal government and how much is paid. IRS data released in October projects that for 2017 to 2019, the estimated average gross tax gap will be $540 billion per year.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in August, and has repeated at various speaking engagements, that the new funds allocated by Congress would be used to increase audits on high-wealth individuals, firms and complex pass-throughs.
“This is challenging work that requires a team of sophisticated revenue agents in place to spend thousands of hours poring over complicated returns, and it is also work that has huge revenue potential,” she told former IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig in August.
In an application of the IRS policy on mandatory presidential audits, well-trained agents, forensic experts, tax attorneys and others would be required to oversee a presidential audit as complicated as Trump’s, which included hundreds of businesses, properties and complex business interests.
The congressional report highlighted the lack of staffing and availability of experts to examine Trump’s taxes. The report states that the IRS believed that accuracy of his filings was ensured because he had legal counsel and an accounting firm representing him.
The question of whether presidential tax documents should be disclosed is another matter of debate among tax experts and advocates.
Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas, the top Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, said Congress would be setting a “dangerous new precedent” by releasing the presidential records. Koskinen said that “it’s a significant serious precedent for a committee to seek returns and then release them.”
“I see two big issues here — what is the IRS going to do to ensure presidents are audited regularly, and what’s the rationale for releasing these returns,” Koskinen said.
Rosenthal said he thinks presidential returns should be publicly disclosed to ensure proper oversight.
“When this information is made public, the president is going to be more wary about cheating on their taxes and making them public — the results would put both the IRS and president on their best behavior,” he said. | https://www.mcall.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-irs-presidents-taxes-20221222-xsz56bqolfbvvi72ordycv7q5y-story.html | 2022-12-22 15:22:20 | 0 | https://www.mcall.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-irs-presidents-taxes-20221222-xsz56bqolfbvvi72ordycv7q5y-story.html |
Alito accused of ethics violation by not reporting flight aboard billionaire’s private jet
(CNN) - A ProPublica investigative piece accuses Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito of an ethics impropriety in 2008.
It said he rode on the private jet of billionaire Paul Singer to a luxury fishing trip.
ProPublica said Alito didn’t report the vacation, and Singer’s hedge fund later came before the court at least 10 times.
Alito’s response is in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that actually came out before the investigative piece.
He said he was just filling an empty seat on the jet, so he thought his travel wouldn’t cost Singer extra.
Alito said he stayed at a lodge for free but didn’t believe he had to report that at the time.
The justice wrote that he’s barely spoken with Singer over the years.
According to ProPublica, the billionaire’s spokesperson said the two never discussed Singer’s business interests.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the crisis in Ukraine continues, the consequences have been devastating for children and families affected by the war. The need for support is urgent and it is growing daily. Knowing it takes all of us working together to help those who are hurting, Teleperformance, HOPE worldwide and Feed the Children have joined forces to distribute food to several key Ukrainian cities and refugee areas.
The global nonprofit is collaborating with HOPE worldwide and its Global Disaster Response team, as well as its affiliates on the ground in Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Poland and Hungary. A combination of hot meals, food baskets or food vouchers will be delivered to families through the end of July. HOPE worldwide plans to serve residents in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Odesa, Dnipro, and Mykolaiv with a food parcel that will provide relief for up to 10 days. In some locations, bulk food supplies will be purchased locally and then assembled by HOPE worldwide's Ukraine staff and volunteers to meet the ongoing needs of families in peril.
To further extend the impact of the donation from Teleperformance, additional financial support was given through Feed the Children's individual donors as well as its corporate partners, AJC Cares, Sushi | Bar ATX, and Americold. By working in concert, these organizations hope to provide relief to nearly 1,700 families.
"In these unprecedented times, it's more important than ever to inspire greater hope,'' said Dave Malutinok, president and CEO of HOPE worldwide. "We've been working to provide families in Ukraine with food, medicine, and shelter since the crisis began. We're grateful for the great partnerships with Teleperformance and Feed the Children who are helping to change lives."
Teleperformance has been a long-time partner of Feed the Children, supporting its various disaster response initiatives through the donations it receives from its employees. Teleperformance then takes these gifts and empowers its employees to select humanitarian projects that they want to fund.
"Citizen of the World (COTW) is a global Teleperformance initiative to support the world's most vulnerable infants and children, and provide disaster relief in times of emergencies," said Clementine Gauthier, Global Head of CSR, Teleperformance. "Feed the Children has been a long-time valued partner of Teleperformance, and we are proud to work with them and HOPE worldwide on this critical need."
For more than 40 years, Feed the Children has mobilized its resources and responded when children needed food. Now, during the crisis in Ukraine, the nonprofit is grateful to its supporters who understand the urgent call to help create a world where no child goes to bed hungry.
"It is only through partnership and the generosity of our donors that we can respond during these critical times and reach families affected by tragedy," said Travis Arnold, president and CEO of Feed the Children. "Through our work with Teleperformance, Americold, AJC Cares, Sushi | Bar ATX and HOPE worldwide, we can support Ukrainians during this difficult time by providing them with food and vital resources."
Visit feedthechildren.org/disaster-response to learn more about how Feed the Children works with a vast network of community and corporate partners to provide disaster response around the world.
Teleperformance (TEP – ISIN: FR0000051807 – Reuters: TEPRF.PA - Bloomberg: TEP FP), a leading global group in digitally integrated business services, serves as a strategic partner to the world's largest companies in many industries. It offers a One Office support services model combining three wide, high-value solution families: customer experience management, back-office services and business process knowledge services. These end-to-end digital solutions guarantee successful customer interaction and optimized business processes, anchored in a unique, comprehensive high-tech, high-touch approach. The Group's 380,000+ employees, based in 83 countries, support billions of connections every year in over 265 languages and over 170 markets, in a shared commitment to excellence as part of the "Simpler, Faster, Safer" process. This mission is supported by the use of reliable, flexible, intelligent technological solutions and compliance with the industry's highest security and quality standards, based on Corporate Social Responsibility excellence. In 2020, Teleperformance reported consolidated revenue of €5,732 million (US$6.5 billion, based on €1 = $1.14) and net profit of €324 million.
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HOPE worldwide is an international charity that changes lives through the compassion and commitment of dedicated staff and volunteers to deliver sustainable, high-impact, community-based services to the materially poor and needy. Today HOPE worldwide serves more than 1.5 million people annually on every inhabited continent. For over 30 years, motivated by God's love, HOPE worldwide continues to be an organization dedicated to serving, teaching, healing and loving communities made vulnerable due to poverty, disease or disasters. Together we can inspire greater hope in our world.
To learn more about HOPE worldwide visit hopeww.org. To learn more about HOPE worldwide's Ukraine relief efforts, visit hopeww.org/ukrainerelief. Connect on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter and TikTok for the most current news on programs around the world.
At Feed the Children, we feed hungry kids. We envision a world where no child goes to bed hungry. In the U.S. and internationally, we are dedicated to helping families and communities achieve stable lives and to reducing the need for help tomorrow, while providing food and resources to help them today. We distribute product donations from corporate donors to local community partners, we provide support for teachers and students, and we mobilize resources quickly to aid recovery efforts when natural disasters strike. Internationally, we manage child-focused community development programs in eight countries. We welcome partnerships because we know our work would not be possible without collaborative relationships.
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PHOENIX (AP) — A Pinon man has been arrested in connection with the death of a Navajo woman who was reported missing in 2019, according to authorities.
Federal prosecutors said 30-year-old Tre C. James was taken into custody last week on suspicion of first-degree murder and multiple counts of domestic violence.
Roberta McVickers, who is listed in court documents as an attorney for James, did not immediately respond to a message left Monday by The Associated Press.
Prosecutors said James is accused of fatally shooting Jamie Yazzie of Pinon. She was last seen on the Navajo Nation and reported missing in the summer of 2019.
Yazzie’s remains were found in November 2021 on the neighboring Hopi reservation in northeastern Arizona.
James’ next scheduled court appearance is Tuesday in U.S. Magistrate Court in Flagstaff.
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Two school administrators at Denver's East High School were shot by a male student Wednesday morning, police said. As of that afternoon, one of the victims was undergoing surgery and the second was in stable condition at the hospital.
No other injuries were reported, according to Colorado Public Radio/ Denverite.
Police say they were still looking for the student, who is considered armed and dangerous.
Emergency responders received calls of the shooting at around 9:50 a.m., according to Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas and other officials during a news conference at around 11 a.m. local time.
Local paramedics were already at the school treating another student who was suffering an allergic reaction. Those paramedics were able to begin treating the two injured faculty members quickly.
At the time of the shooting, the suspect was undergoing a regular morning search by faculty before he entered the school. This was part of a safety plan agreement established with the student due to prior behavioral issues. He previously never brought in a weapon, until today, officials said. The shooting took place at a front office of the school and away from other students and staff.
The student, whose identity is being withheld because he is a minor, then fled the school.
Denver Public Schools said they will be doing a "controlled release" of the students once police allow for it.
Superintendent Dr. Alex Marrero said during Wednesday's press conference that the school will not be in session for the rest of the week. Two armed officers will remain at East until the end of the year, after which the school will consider next steps to improve security, he said.
In 2020, Denver's public school system decided to remove its in-school Denver Police Department officers, which had monitored the school campuses, out of concerns for the treatment of young students of color, according to Denverite.
This recent tragedy comes as the East High School community is still mourning the loss of student Luis Garcia. In February, the 16-year-old was shot outside of the school while sitting in his car. He died more than two weeks later.
Following his death, East High School students staged a walkout to demand action on gun violence, according to the activist group Students Demand Action.
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RENO, Nev., July 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GreenPower Motor Company Inc. (NASDAQ: GP) (TSXV: GPV) ("GreenPower"), a leading manufacturer and distributor of purpose-built, all-electric, zero-emission medium and heavy-duty vehicles serving the cargo and delivery market, shuttle and transit space and school bus sector, today announced its participation at the School Transportation News (STN) Expo Reno Conference and Trade Show on July 14 to 19 in Reno, Nevada at the Peppermill Resort.
GreenPower will display its BEAST and Nano BEAST during the Trade Show on Monday, July 17 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. PDT and Tuesday, July 18 from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. PDT in booth #535.
The BEAST is GreenPower's purpose-built, 40-foot Type D school bus that can seat up to 90 passengers. The vehicle features a modern monocoque chassis, and we believe is the safest, most durable and reliable all-electric school bus available on the market today. The Nano BEAST is a purpose-built, zero-emission, Type A school bus with seating for up to 24 students, or the option for wheelchair securements and a rear curbside lift. GreenPower's all-electric school buses have a class-leading range of up to 150 miles.
"All-electric school buses represent the future of safe, sustainable and efficient school transportation," said Michael Perez, Vice President of School Bus, Contracts and Grants. "We are excited to be back at STN to demonstrate our buses' impressive features and capabilities to industry professionals and attendees. Our all-electric, purpose-built school buses are changing the way we transport kids, providing a healthier future for students and communities."
Green Bus Summit
Transportation professionals from across the country will come together for the annual STN Expo to connect and learn about the latest training techniques, products and services. Most importantly, the Green Bus Summit held during STN Reno will provide a full day of discussion sessions regarding electric school bus adaptation and a ride and drive event in the evening.
During the Green Bus Summit, GreenPower, alongside West Virginia representatives, will share the findings from the pilot program which allowed 18 school districts in West Virginia the opportunity to experience GreenPower all-electric school buses in real-world scenarios. The session titled The Secrets to Deploying All-Electric School Buses in Differing Conditions will be on Sunday, July 16 from 11:00 to 11:50 a.m. PDT.
GreenPower's Type D all-electric school bus will be featured at the Green Bus Summit ride and drive on Sunday, July 16 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. PDT. Attendees will have the opportunity to ride in the purpose-built EV school bus and experience the ride and maneuverability it delivers.
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ATM Offering
GreenPower today provided a quarterly update with respect to the Company's at-the-market equity offering program implemented on September 16, 2022 pursuant to a Sales Agreement (the "Sales Agreement") with Roth Capital Partners, LLC (the "Agent"). For the three months ended June 30, 2023 GreenPower issued a total of 188,819 common shares through the facilities of Nasdaq at an average share price of $2.7587 per share for gross proceeds of $520,892. Pursuant to the Sales Agreement, a cash commission of $14,325 was paid to the Agent resulting in net proceeds of $506,567.
About GreenPower Motor Company
GreenPower designs, builds and distributes a full suite of high-floor and low-floor all-electric medium and heavy-duty vehicles, including transit buses, school buses, shuttles, cargo van and a cab and chassis. GreenPower employs a clean-sheet design to manufacture all-electric vehicles that are purpose built to be battery powered with zero emissions while integrating global suppliers for key components. This OEM platform allows GreenPower to meet the specifications of various operators while providing standard parts for ease of maintenance and accessibility for warranty requirements. GreenPower was founded in Vancouver, Canada with primary operational facilities in southern California. Listed on the Toronto exchange since November 2015, GreenPower completed its U.S. IPO and NASDAQ listing in August 2020. For further information go to www.greenpowermotor.com.
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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. ©2023 GreenPower Motor Company Inc. All rights reserved.
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BOSTON, March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Whistleblower Law Collaborative is pleased to announce it has been named a Law360 Health Care Group of the Year for 2022. WLC was the only whistleblower firm selected for this award. The awards "honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year." Whistleblower Law Collaborative was chosen because the firm "successfully steered a host of high-stakes whistleblower suits in the health care field last year," said Law360.
"And succeed they do. Whistleblower Law Collaborative's work on behalf of whistleblowers in the health care space has led to more than $278 million worth of settlements by key drugmakers like Mallinckrodt ARD LLC and Cardinal Health Inc., as well as medical device maker Arthrex Inc. and many more."
Indeed, the award caps off an exceptional period of success for Whistleblower Law Collaborative. Our health care victories during this period resulted in total recoveries for the federal and state governments of over $290 million and awards to our clients of close to $50 million. This includes the following six notable qui tam wins by WLC clients.
- Mallinckrodt ARD LLC--$234 million. Mallinckrodt and a subsidiary agreed to pay the United States and numerous states $234 million for knowingly underpaying Medicaid rebates for its drug Acthar. Mallinckrodt also entered into a five-year Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA) with the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG). As a result of the litigation and settlement, Mallinckrodt also began to report accurately Acthar pricing information, expected to save the Medicaid program of approximately $100 million per year.
- Arthrex Inc.--$16 million. Arthrex, Inc., a Florida-based medical device, paid $16 million to the United States to resolve allegations that Arthrex paid kickbacks to physicians to market two of its surgical products in violation of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b) (AKS). The company also entered into a CIA with HHS-OIG.
- Cardinal Health--$13.125 million. Cardinal, one of the three largest drug wholesalers/distributors in the United States, paid the United States and certain States $13.125 million to settle allegations that it was offering and paying physician practices kickbacks to induce the practices to purchase specialty pharmaceutical products from Cardinal instead of a competitor. The company also entered into a CIA with HHS-OIG.
- BioReference Laboratories, Inc. and OPKO Health, Inc.--$10 million. One of the largest clinical laboratories in the country, BioReference, paid the United States, Connecticut, and Massachusetts $10 million to settle allegations that the company induced physician practices to refer their laboratory business to BioReference. The company also entered into a CIA with HHS-OIG.
- DermaTran Health--$6.87 million. DermaTran Health Solutions, LLC, a compounding pharmacy based in Rome, Georgia, and other defendants paid $6.87 to the United States to settle allegations that they violated they waived patient copays, charged the government higher prices than permitted, and traded federal healthcare business with other pharmacies.
- CleanSlate Centers--$6 million. A nationwide chain of opioid treatment centers and its founder, Dr. Amanda Wilson, settled claims with the United States, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the State of Indiana for false claims to Medicare and Medicaid related to unnecessary and illegal drug testing practices. As part of the settlement, CleanSlate entered into a compliance program with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
"We are grateful for the recognition of the practice we have built," said Managing Member Suzanne Durrell. "Our success is a testament to the top-notch team of former government attorneys we have assembled, our talented paralegals, our brave clients who have risked jobs and reputations to put a stop to corporate attempts to steal from the public and taxpayers, and the dedicated federal and state government attorneys, investigators, and others with whom we collaborate on these cases."
Whistleblower Law Collaborative LLC, based in Boston, devotes its practice entirely to representing clients nationwide in bringing actions under the federal and state False Claims Acts and other whistleblower programs. Under the False Claims Act, a private citizen (known as a "relator") who suspects or knows of fraud against the government can act as a whistleblower and file a sealed complaint on behalf of the government. Successful cases lead to a recovery for the government and entitle the relator to a share of the government's recovery.
For questions or comment on the firm's practice areas or the cases discussed here, please contact Managing Member, Suzanne Durrell at 617.371.0936. For new case inquiries please contact the Whistleblower Law Collaborative at 617.366.2800.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — De’Anthony Melton thinks this stretch will benefit the 76ers later in the season.
The Sixers are in the midst of playing five games in seven days, including two back-to-backs. And they’re doing it without their three best players in Joel Embiid, James Harden, and Tyrese Maxey.
They played the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday at the Wells Fargo Center before flying to Charlotte, N.C., to face the Hornets Wednesday night. After having Thanksgiving Day off, they played the Magic on Friday at the Amway Center. They’ll face the Magic again Sunday night here before hosting the Atlanta Hawks on Monday night in Philly.
» READ MORE: Sixers Mailbag: ‘Why is P.J. Tucker still in the starting lineup?’
Players who usually log around 10 minutes per game have taken on heavy loads with Embiid (left mid-foot sprain), Harden (right foot strain), and Maxey (left foot fracture) sidelined.
Melton said this stretch is beneficial because it is proving players in reserve roles with confidence.
“Everybody is getting the reps in,” he said. “So even when those guys start to come back, hopefully, everybody that was playing, their confidence is at an all-time high.”
With just 11 healthy bodies, this also has been a grueling stretch for the Sixers, and that became obvious in their 107-101 loss to the Hornets.
Guys were visibly gassed. Showing fatigue, they missed shots they usually make. But you’ll be hard-pressed to find someone complaining about playing extended minutes.
“This is what you want,” Melton said. " … You got to get your body ready. You have to stay prepared for moments like this. This could happen any time during the season. It’s a long season. So you just have to get your body right.”
No update on Embiid, Harden
Friday night marked the third game Embiid missed after he being slated to miss at least three games with a foot sprain. Meanwhile, Harden noted that he was on pace to return in around two weeks back on Nov. 17.
Doc Rivers said before Friday’s game that he didn’t have any updates.
“Not that I know of,” he said. “I know that they both are on the floor at the practice facility doing work. But it’s no update as far as return or anything like that.”
Homecoming for Reed
This two-game series against the Magic is a homecoming for Paul Reed.
The Sixers reserve center was born in Orlando, Fla., and attended Wekiva High School in nearby Apopka, Fla.
Reed was able to celebrate Thanksgiving at his mother’s house with family and friends. He also was scheduled to have numerous family members at Friday night’s game.
Reed always envisioned playing in NBA games at the Magic’s home arena. On Friday morning, he talked about one of the times his uncle, former NFL wideout Mike Sims-Walker, took him to a Magic game.
» READ MORE: Sixers play with an edge that’s being sharpened in the absence of their stars
“I was like, ‘Man, I’ll give those dudes buckets,’” Reed said. “He was like, ‘Yeah, right.’ But in my mind I was like, ‘I can go out there and give those dudes buckets right now.’ So it’s going to be legit to play against Magic at the Amway Center now.”
Before Friday, Reed averaged 10.5 points, 7.0 rebounds, and 2.5 assists in two games against his hometown team.
This game also was a homecoming for Rivers and Tobias Harris.
Rivers compiled a 171-168 record in a little over four seasons as the Orlando Magic coach from June 7, 1999-Nov. 17, 2003. He was the 2000 NBA Coach of the Year.
Harris averaged 15.6 points and 7.0 rebounds over four seasons in Orlando before being traded to the Detroit Pistons on Feb. 16, 2016.
Saben Lee joins Sixers
Recently signed two-way player Saben Lee joined the Sixers at the arena around an hour before Friday’s game. With a lack of healthy ballhandlers, Rivers told the point guard he could see action.
Lee said he prepared for this opportunity by working out and staying ready.
“Obviously, not knowing a lot of the plays and sets,” he said, “but just being ready to contribute the way that I can defensively and the offense will take care of the rest.”
The Sixers notified Lee around 10 a.m. Friday morning in Philly that he would join the team in Central Florida. He’s looking at this two-game series as an opportunity to show what he can bring as a ballhandler and defender.
“Just coming in, being able to show what I can,” Lee said. “I’m just grateful for the opportunity and what I can display here.”
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BISMARCK, N.D. (KXNET) — With the majority of cold weather behind us, it’s time to look forward to summer. The warming temperatures not only mean there will be more time that people can spend outside without fear of heavy wind or unexpected snow — as well as more events around North Dakota hoping to take advantage of the great outdoors. Here’s a list of some of the activities going on this weekend in the BisMan, Minot, and Williston areas (no events were available in Dickinson).
Bismarck/Mandan
The Amazing Race for Haiti — This fundraising event, modeled after the CBS show, begins at the Dakota Stage and features teams of people as they race around downtown Bismarck. Contestants will follow clues to certain locations around the city and compete in challenges to both test your mettle and learn more about the city. Participate in a heated competition or just a lighter recreational game for fun, and end the day with an after party and a Haitian dinner! Proceeds from the event will go towards benefiting Lespwa Lavi and Magic Soccer Hall. Saturday, May 6, 2:00 p.m.
Blippi Live — The wildly popular children’s entertainer comes to the Bismarck Event Center as part of his The Wonderful World Tour. Join the lovable children’s character and his friends as they explore what makes the different cities of the world unique — complete with plenty of vehicles, music, dancing, and more! Sunday, May 7, 2:00 p.m. (doors open at 1:00 p.m.)
2023 Live Your Legacy Walk/Run — The 5th annual Live Your Legacy walk/run aims to help support the Brave the Shave Family Fund in its fight against cancer this year — and you can help. Participate in a walk, run, or kids race at the Sertoma Community Center, and enjoy family fun with coloring, games, live music, and more afterwards! Sunday, May 7, 1:30 p.m.
Minot
Scouting Power and 5K Color Dash — Get ready to support local scouts with the inaugural Color Dash! Sign up for the race at Oak Park, and be ready to run, walk, or scout out the 5k path, All proceeds from the event will go towards BSA Eagle Scout Troop 5401, allowing them to supply awards, merit badges, and more! Saturday, May 6, 9:00 a.m.
The Spring Throwdown — Put on by Still Oak Productions, this event brings together musicans, vendors, artists and more at Minot’s Grand Hotel Ballroom. Get to know the local talent in all forms, with songs, live art, and even acrobatics! Saturday, May 6, 7:00 p.m. – 1:00 a.m.
Spring Vintage Junk Market — One person’s junk is another person’s treasure — and at this junk market at the ND State Fair Center, you’re sure to find a jewel or two of your own. From fresh junk to vintage and antique goods, as well as jewelry, clothes, food and more, there’s something for everyone at this unique shopping event. Saturday, May 6, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Williston
13th Annual Boots and Brews — This adults-only benefit is raising funds for the Coyote Wrestling Club, and brings with it a large number of heavyweight festivities. The dinner at the Raymond Family Community Center features catering from Pit 105, live music by Josh Kehr, live and silent auctions, and more. Saturday, May 6, 5:30 p.m.
Spay-Ghetti and No Balls Dinner — Pardon the crassness, but when an important cause is being promoted, nothing is off the table — including awful puns. Join the Mondak Animal Rescue for a spaghetti dinner, silent auction, and more at the UMV Fairgrounds Beer Gardens to support animals in the community. No dogs or cats were harmed in the making of this event. Saturday, May 6, 5:30 p.m.
The summer is off to a good start, but there’s still plenty of time to partake in activities all across North Dakota. We hope that as the weather heats up, so too does the state’s event scene! | https://www.kxnet.com/news/top-stories/whats-happening-this-weekend-5-6-5-7/ | 2023-05-06 15:31:34 | 1 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/top-stories/whats-happening-this-weekend-5-6-5-7/ |
Collaboration Between Learning Platform and Advisory Firm Fuels Transformative Change Management Initiatives on Global Scale
SAN FRANCISCO, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NovoEd, the leading cohort-based learning platform for deep capability building, today announces its partnership with Information Services Group (ISG), a leading global technology research and advisory firm and trusted business partner to more than 800 clients, including more than 75 of the world's top 100 enterprises.
ISG partners with clients to determine a future vision, lead rapid change, and realize the value of their digital investments at scale through operational excellence and faster growth. The firm's partnership with NovoEd will serve to bolster the ISG Training-as-a-Service (TaaS) program by integrating the industry-leading social and collaborative, cohort-based learning technology from NovoEd into its portfolio of enterprise change practice offerings. This collaboration will scale ISG's clients' capacity to meet training demands, enable business strategies and drive measurable savings across their organizations.
"Business leaders are constantly seeking new and efficient ways to align remote workforces around their strategic business priorities," said Todd Moran, Chief Strategy Officer for NovoEd. "High impact learning and organizational change management are two sides of the same coin. This partnership will deepen both our companies' ability to deliver measurable change and impact to global enterprises."
ISG and NovoEd are partnering to present Learning as a Change Agent - Making the Case for L&D Amid Disruption, a webinar on Thursday, July 13 at 1 PM Eastern. Join Doug Teachey, Global Head of ISG's Training-as-a-Service (TaaS) solutions consulting, and Todd Moran, Chief Strategy Officer at NovoEd, for a dialogue on how to more effectively demonstrate the measurable impact of learning systems to business leaders outside the learning suite and how training can be used to support organizational change management initiatives and reduce costs.
"NovoEd is a strategic partner of ISG, and when we join forces and leverage each other's strengths, success is always the outcome," said Doug Teachey, Global Head of ISG's Training-as-a-Service program. "We look forward to this ongoing relationship as we continue to share our joint expertise across the dynamic learning and training industry."
About ISG
ISG (Information Services Group) (Nasdaq: III) is a leading global technology research and advisory firm. A trusted business partner to more than 800 clients, including more than 75 of the world's top 100 enterprises, ISG is committed to helping corporations, public sector organizations, and service and technology providers achieve operational excellence and faster growth. The firm specializes in digital transformation services, including automation, cloud, and data analytics; sourcing advisory; managed governance and risk services; network carrier services; strategy and operations design; change management; market intelligence; and technology research and analysis. Founded in 2006 and based in Stamford, Conn., ISG employs more than 1,300 digital-ready professionals operating in more than 20 countries — a global team known for its innovative thinking, market influence, deep industry and technology expertise, and world-class research and analytical capabilities based on the industry's most comprehensive marketplace data. For more information, visit www.isg-one.com.
About NovoEd
Founded at Stanford's Social Algorithms Lab in 2012, NovoEd is a capability-building platform that uses social and collaborative learning to drive alignment, performance, and mobility at scale. Through cohort-based experiences, NovoEd taps into collective wisdom, placing each learner at the center of perspective, application, and expertise. Large enterprises such as 3M, GE, and Nestlé partner with NovoEd to accelerate their critical initiatives and reconnect teams through learning that is felt, experienced, and swiftly transformed into impact. Visit https://www.novoed.com/ to learn more.
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When the pandemic hit, Paula Zuccotti rediscovered her long-neglected vinyl collection. "I'm listening to records I hadn't touched in years," says the Argentine-born, London-based designer and ethnographic researcher. Her job is to notice stuff — meaning people's belongings and how they use them — so this new habit prompted Zuccotti to wonder what other kinds of objects had taken on more central roles in people's lockdown existence.
To find out, she put out a call on Instagram in April 2020, asking, "What are the 15 things that are helping you get through this?" Zuccotti showed off her list of 15, which included a record, a kettlebell and a sage smudge stick, and offered simple directions for folks interested in sharing theirs: Put the items on an even surface, shoot a photo from above, and post the pic with the hashtag #EveryThingWeTouchCovidEssentialsx15.
"I wanted them to use the filter of, 'Here is what I value today.' They don't need to be new things, but maybe they took on a new meaning," explains Zuccotti, who considers this project an extension of the work she did for her 2015 book, Every Thing We Touch: A 24 Hour Inventory of Our Lives, featuring her photos of all of the items several subjects interacted with in a single day. Zuccotti has dubbed this practice of looking at our things as potential artifacts "future archaeology."
And there's certainly a lot to learn about how COVID-19 and its accompanying restrictions have altered routines around the world. Zuccotti compiled the more than 1,000 responses from 50 countries into a publicly searchable archive at lockdownessentials.org. The images aren't always quite as polished as professional shots, but they're extremely telling, especially when paired with the brief descriptions explaining why each item made the cut for an individual's 15.
Common threads quickly became apparent — laptops and headphones are ubiquitous, alongside face masks and hand sanitizer, demonstrating the different ways we have managed to maintain contact with the outside world. Zuccotti appreciates that local goods and cultural practices take on an outsized role, as do flowers and candles and slippers. "There's been a switch in how people see things," she says. "They defined themselves instead by what makes them feel better." Here's a closer look at a few of the images:
Liliana Cadena, Barichara, Colombia
Yes, those are large ants filling that white bowl. Cadena writes that she has a renewed appreciation for these hormigas culonas, a nutritious local delicacy. That particular part of her diet is unusual, but like many other folks, she's been drinking plenty of caffeine and alcohol — as represented by her coffee maker and bottle of Lambrusco. For both, Cadena connects the experience to spending time and meals with her family. Zuccotti likes how Cadena describes her sneakers in the context of no longer worrying so much about how she looks. "I've never felt so confident and comfortable wearing relaxed clothes," Cadena writes. That struck a chord with Zuccotti, whose high heels have also been stashed away.
Maria Belen Morales, Quito, Ecuador
Morales' toes peek into the frame, although she's not actually one of her 15 items. Humans (and the occasional cat) do pop up on other lists and in photos. In Morales' case, her newborn baby Inti is represented by all of the objects related to her care, including the unfurled baby wrap framing the image and the yellow bottle of Agua de Florida "for cleaning and healing rituals." The scented spray is something that's also among Zuccotti's 15 items. "If you are down, you smell it, and you have a boost and feel better," she says.
Padmavathy Krishna Kumar, Bangalore, India
Many of Kumar's items were plucked directly from her garden, which was a visually striking choice. But what really stands out for Zuccotti is how each holds a distinctly different meaning for Kumar. Rosemary and thyme are valued for their scent, the chilies are a "mood uplifting" shade of red, and the spinach and ajwain leaf represent her rediscovery of her mother's cooking.
Naitiemu Nyanjom, Nairobi, Kenya
You can't miss the bright pink vibrator — a sign, Zuccotti says, of the honesty participants brought to this project. The largest item in Nyanjom's collection, however, is the kora, a long-necked harp lute. "I really wanna learn a musical instrument this year," Nyanjom writes. That has been a widespread sentiment, notes Zuccotti, who saw a particular surge of interest in people reconnecting with their culture through music.
Mohamad Chehimi, Kuwait City, Kuwait
Chehimi spent lockdown at home, but not in his home country. So like other contributors "in a place that's not their place," as Zuccotti describes it, the Lebanon native found ways to bridge the distance. There's Lebanese-American author Kahil Gibran's The Prophet, a book he's read three times. There's also a Nintendo Switch, which Chehimi used "to meet my friends 'virtually' playing online games such as Animal Crossing."
Sheena, Manila, Philippines
"As everyone is using face masks and half my face is covered, I make sure that my eyes look alluring and pretty," Sheena writes to explain why eye make-up is in her list of 15. She's also included hair straighteners because she has been experimenting with different styles and colors. This focus on appearance is possibly linked to Zuccotti's favorite object in the photo: the karaoke microphone. With bars shut, Manila residents like Sheena turned to home karaoke in droves. Parents complained that their homeschooled kids were so distracted by the ruckus that the government banned "karaokes, videokes and other sound producing devices" during daylight hours.
Magdalena Zajac, Ljubljana, Slovenia
A little stuffed koala is "a friend spending the whole quarantine with me," the international exchange student from Poland writes. That's a positive way to view the situation — something Zuccotti saw expressed in a variety of ways. (Check out Rino from Tokyo, Japan, who has a drawing of fingers crossed.) Zajac's collection also includes a pair of rose-colored spectacles that emphasize her sunny outlook. "In my country, we use the expression 'look through pink glasses' to assume a generally optimistic and cheerful attitude," she writes.
Vittoria Tedaldi, Madrid, Spain
Tedaldi titled her photo, "Walking barefoot through lockdown," so the pair of socks pictured were an anti-essential — being at home meant she didn't need to wear them. She writes that "we suddenly had time to play," which is why there's that eye-catching set of playing cards honoring Spanish culinary history, illustrated by artist Silja Goetz. Tedaldi's steel spoon, which she includes as a nod to "cooking as a way of caring," also stands out to Zuccotti. She notes that in several American photos, spoons that were used to cheer essential workers by banging on pots held a different meaning.
Dati Agno, Lome, Togo
Not every contributor is on Instagram. Zuccotti's trainer at her London gym hails from Togo, and when she told him about her project, he convinced his grandmother to submit her 15 items. Agno's list is loaded with relatively basic needs, such as fruit, flour and a fan. And like many images from Africa, she includes a Bible. Zuccotti notes that these types of items are a sign that even as many of us changed the essential things in our lives, others found comfort in their usual objects.
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Judge: Diamond Sports must pay full value of contracts to Diamondbacks, Guardians, Twins, Rangers
A federal bankruptcy judge has ordered Diamond Sports to pay the full value of its media contracts to the Arizona Diamondbacks, Cleveland Guardians, Minnesota Twins and Texas Rangers.
Judge Christopher Lopez made the ruling on Thursday in Houston. Diamond Sports, which owns 19 networks under the Bally Sports banner, has been in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the Southern District of Texas since it filed in March. Diamond said in a financial filing last fall it had debt of $8.67 billion.
In April, the judge ruled Diamond to pay half of what the teams were owed in rights fees.
“I think the contract rate is the right answer here,” said Lopez in using his decision after two marathon days of testimony.
The decision is another chapter in what has been a contentious week in the strained relationship between MLB and Diamond Sports.
On Tuesday, the last San Diego Padres game was aired on Bally Sports San Diego after Diamond Sports missed a rights payment fee and let the grace period expire.
MLB took over production of Padres’ telecasts, beginning with Wednesday’s game at the Miami Marlins.
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- CafeMedia and AdThrive are now Raptive
- Why rebrand? We are ad management and so much more today, and this new unified brand best positions us for continued growth and more new opportunities for our creators, our advertisers, and our partners
- More from our Chief Executive Officer, Michael Sanchez:
- Visit www.raptive.com or view our new brand sizzle to learn more
NEW YORK, April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CafeMedia today announced it has rebranded and unified all three of its brands - AdThrive, CafeMedia, and CafeMedia Ad Management - into one company, now called Raptive. A fresh, new visual identity accompanies the new brand and publicly marks the company's ongoing evolution from an ad management network to a new kind of creator company–transforming creators and enterprise publishers into lasting businesses that can compete at the highest levels on their own terms.
"Our company has evolved. While we remain the largest ad management company and continue to invest significantly in ads, we've expanded our services and solutions to match the needs of the creators and enterprise publishers we serve," said Michael Sanchez, Chief Executive Officer, Raptive. "Our new brand, Raptive, reflects that transformation. It positions us to best support our creators now and in the future. And it unlocks a first-of-its-kind opportunity for advertising partners to connect with our amazing creators to create impactful content, exciting experiences, engaging media solutions, and more. Creators are the future of media, and Raptive provides access to the best."
"Our new brand captures the dynamism, energy, and excitement behind our efforts to put the power in the hands of our creators," adds Raptive's Chief Marketing Officer, Steph Dolgins. "We see ourselves as a catalyst, enabling them to compete at the highest levels – on their own terms. Our new name, Raptive, signals the immense possibilities and opportunities we can unlock together."
The company's rebrand comes on the heels of a series of milestones and new offerings that deliver even more opportunities to creators and advertisers. In October 2022, the company introduced new and expanded solutions and service levels for creators to help them grow and engage their audiences, make the most money, diversify their revenue with affiliate and e-commerce, and build their businesses. At the beginning of this year, the company surpassed $2B paid out to creators. And in February, a new sales leadership team joined the company led by digital media veteran Marla Newman, who joined as Executive Vice President and has rolled out a new multiplatform sales strategy that connects advertisers with our creators' premium environments at scale to amplify their message. The company will be presenting for the first time at the 2023 IAB NewFronts on Wednesday, May 3, 2023, at 10:20 am ET where the market will get the first live unveiling of the new brand and our expanded advertising offerings.
Raptive (formerly CafeMedia and AdThrive) continues to grow quickly with more ways to help creators expand their businesses and new opportunities for advertisers to access their highly engaged communities. The company's reach is now at an all-time high, positioned as the seventh largest digital property (and the only company in the Comscore top 15 fully powered by creators) with 195M unique visitors reached each month* (that's 78% of everyone you know) across its more than 4,000 creators.
The company continues to attract the world's best creators who are pioneers in their respective verticals and are shaping the future of digital media and community. From Feel Good Foodie and The Woks of Life to DJ Jazzy Jeff and MacRumors, Raptive creators have founded some of the world's most beloved online brands, with millions of loyal followers on their sites and across their platforms. They have earned numerous accolades and distinctions, such as The New York Times Best Sellers list placements, sold-out speaking tours, top television series, coveted product lines, critical acclaim from top press outlets, and global brand partnerships, to name just a few.
The new brand and visual identity are rolling out across all Raptive-owned and operated sites and platforms over the next few weeks. To experience Raptive and its new visual identity on April 19th, visit www.raptive.com.
About Raptive
CafeMedia and AdThrive are now, Raptive, a new kind of creator company on a mission to power creator independence. We provide revenue, audience, and business solutions, and much more for creators and enterprise publishers. Since the beginning of digital content creation, we've been leaders in ad management and digital advertising technology, and we continue to expand our services and solutions to match the needs of the 4,000+ creators and enterprise publishers we serve. Raptive's premium content creators, trendsetters, iconic brands, and charismatic personalities collectively rank #1 in Food, Family, Home, and Lifestyle--with a reach of more than 195M monthly unique visitors and more than half a billion followers across social platforms.
Creators are the future of media. And together, the future is ours to create.
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In late July of 2018, massive wildfires blazed across Northern California. At the same time in Colorado, weather alerts went out warning of heavy thunderstorms and baseball-sized hail.
The two disasters were separated by a thousand miles, but scientists are now finding they're connected.
The massive clouds of smoke and heat that rise out of Western wildfires are having far-reaching effects across the country, even beyond hazy skies. That summer, the smoke blew to the Central U.S., where it ran headlong into summertime thunderstorms that were already forming.
The collision made those storms even more extreme, boosting the rainfall and hail by more than 30 percent, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"It's surprising to many people, probably," says Jiwen Fan, Laboratory Fellow at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and an author of the study. "I really wanted to look at if there's any connections between them."
Understanding the effects of wildfires on weather patterns far downstream could help improve forecasts in those areas. In the Central U.S., extreme summer storms can pose a dangerous threat, often doing millions of dollars in damage.
"Scientists are showing that things are really connected to each other," says Danielle Touma, a postdoctoral researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, who was not involved in the study. "And we can't just think about where we live, but we have to think about what's happening in other parts of the world."
Smoke helps fuel extreme rainfall
While it may seem like raindrops simply pour out of clouds, those drops won't form without a seed to get them started. Raindrops need microscopic particles, known as aerosols, which can be dust, soot, or even microbes, floating in the air.
"Lots of people do not realize, before rain, you have to have the tiny particles," Fan says. "They're tiny particles you cannot see with the bare eye."
The particles give water something to condense onto, eventually getting heavy enough to fall to the ground. In 2018, as the Carr Fire and Mendocino Complex burned in California, massive amounts of particles floated east across the Rockies, where they collided with large thunderstorms.
More particles created the conditions for more raindrops, as well as hail, which occurs when powerful storms lift particles high into the cloud and water freezes on them. Running complex computer models, Fan and colleagues found that the Western wildfires boosted heavy rainfall in the storms by 34 percent and large hail by 38 percent.
The heat released from wildfires also played a major role, since it can strengthen the winds that blow to the Central U.S.. Those winds picked up extra moisture on the way, providing more fuel for the thunderstorms and strengthening the intense dynamics inside the storms themselves. In the July 2018 storms, the winds in Colorado topped 100 miles per hour.
"These kinds of things can cause hail damage or flooding, depending on where the precipitation is falling," Sonia M. Kreidenweis, professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University. "If the Central U.S. wasn't already set up to have a storm, it might not have the same kind of impact."
Improving weather forecasts for extreme storms
Historically, the West's fall fire season didn't overlap much with the summer thunderstorm season in Central U.S. states. But with climate change creating drier, hotter conditions for wildfires, that overlap could become more common, since destructive wildfires are happening earlier in the year.
Understanding this long-range influence of wildfires could help improve weather forecasts, giving communities in the Central U.S. more accurate warnings when destructive hail and rain are on the way.
"If they know that California or Oregon are having an above average wildfire season, they might want to be on the lookout for more severe storms coming their way," Touma says.
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DURHAM, N.C., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Velocity Clinical Research ("Velocity"), the leading integrated research site organization, today announces it has entered an exclusive research collaboration with Coastal Heart Medical Group led by Anil Shah, MD, FACC, FSCAI to apply its unique integrated multi-site approach in Specialized Care, focusing on complex cardiovascular studies.
After successfully building a network of more than 30 integrated sites across the US, focusing on multitherapeutic primary care, Velocity is applying its model to specialty care. Current enterprise-for-specialty-care models embed staff into existing hospitals and academic facilities, failing to impact the operational problems that slow down clinical trials and leads to slower drug development. Velocity's dedicated site network for specialized clinical trials will have higher technology standards, data collection procedures and hands on, dedicated staff, with the ability to scale quickly.
Specialty care studies face more challenges due to patient access and eligibility, as well as procedural complexities. These challenges result in stagnant enrollment and lack of patient diversity. Velocity's innovative multi-site approach to Specialty Care gives clinical trial sponsors a solution to these enrollment challenges.
People from minority populations are severely underrepresented in specialty care research and often miss out on life-saving drugs and research. By bringing clinical trials to patient communities, this partnership seeks to dramatically increase clinical research opportunities available to all patients including those from minority communities.
Samira Moran, Senior Vice President, Specialty Care, said: "We're not just instilling culturally competent care but establishing dedicated sites in the heart of the communities who need access to specialized care. Velocity's unique approach means we can scale our operations more efficiently to meet the demands of patients and the companies sponsoring this research. We achieve greater diversity and inclusion by placing research at the heart of patient care in Hispanic and African American communities who need it the most."
Velocity's first site will be in Santa Ana, California, followed by a second site in Chino Hills, California, and aims to build a dedicated network of specialty care sites across the US within two years. The collaboration provides a platform for complex, interventional cardiology and vascular capabilities, extending the model across a spectrum of specialty indications in future.
Dr Shah commented: "We're combining the speed of business with academic science to improve specialty care research. There is a huge subset of the US population who are not being treated adequately for severe diseases in areas such as cardiology, oncology and psychiatry. This partnership can revolutionize the specialty care industry on a scale not seen before and in doing so, deliver life-saving research in a more-timely manner."
Complex clinical studies, including surgical and device studies will be carried out at the dedicated facilities under Dr Anil Shah - an esteemed interventional cardiologist and experienced Principal Investigator. With over 40 years in the field, Dr Shah's published work has helped innovate cardiology practices in the US today.
One in three deaths (approx. 800,000) in the United States are from cardiovascular diseases each year and clinical research in this area is complex and difficult to recruit patients for. The burden extends financially as it is estimated $1 of every $6 spent on healthcare in the U.S. goes to cardiovascular treatments.
Notes to editors:
- Specialty care encompasses many serious disease areas, including cardiology, oncology, rheumatology, immunology and psychiatry etc.
- The first specialty care site will focus on cardiology in advanced cases, interventional, surgical and devices procedures, all of which have to be done in dedicated and special facilities.
- According to a report by Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, patients from minority backgrounds or with a low-English proficiency are more likely to have an intimidating, confusing or difficult to manage experience with specialty care.
- It is estimated that only 20% of patients in specialized research are recruited by private companies to date.
About Velocity Clinical Research
Velocity Clinical Research, headquartered in Durham, NC, is the leading integrated site organization for clinical trials, offering dedicated site capabilities to help biopharmaceutical and contract research organization customers find the right patients for their studies. Velocity supports global drug development in primarily conducting phase II and phase III clinical trials. The company has over 30 U.S. locations across 14 states.
We place the care of the patient at the heart of everything we do. With over 35 years of experience running sites and more than 7000 studies completed, Velocity has refined its patient recruitment strategies while maintaining a focus on delivering timely and reliable data quality. For more information visit our website at https://velocityclinical.com.
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CINCINNATI (WOWK) – Bob Huggins, the West Virginia University head men’s basketball coach, used a homophobic slur on a Cincinnati sports radio show on Monday.
West Virginia’s athletic department called Huggins’ comments “offensive” and said it was reviewing the matter.
During a call to Cincinnati radio station WLW, Huggins, a former longtime coach at Cincinnati, was asked about the transfer portal and whether he had a chance of landing a player from Xavier, a Jesuit school and the Bearcats’ crosstown rival.
“Catholics don’t do that,” Huggins said. “I tell you what, any school that can throw rubber penises on the floor and then say they didn’t do it, by God they can get away with anything.
“It was the Crosstown Shootout. What it was, was all those (expletive), those Catholic (expletive), I think.”
You can listen to the audio, posted by Awful Announcing on Twitter, by clicking here.
Bob Huggins released a statement through the WVU Men’s Basketball Twitter page.
Earlier today on a Cincinnati radio program, I was asked about the rivalry between my former employer, the University of Cincinnati, and its crosstown rival, Xavier University. During the conversation, I used a completely insensitive and abhorrent phrase that there is simply no excuse for — and I won’t try to make one here. I deeply apologize to the individuals I have offended, as well as to the Xavier University community, the University of Cincinnati and West Virginia University. As I have shared with my players over my 40 years of coaching, there are consequences for our words and actions, and I will fully accept any coming my way. I am ashamed and embarrassed and heartbroken for those I have hurt. I must do better, and I will.
Bob Huggins, West Virginia University head men’s basketball coach
West Virginia University released the following statement:
Coach Huggins’ remarks today on a Cincinnati radio show were insensitive, offensive and do not represent our University values. Coach Huggins has since apologized. West Virginia University does not condone the use of such language and takes such actions very seriously. The situation is under review and will be addressed by the University and its athletics department.
West Virginia University
The audio is from 700WLW, a Cincinnati-based talk radio station.
Huggins spent 16 seasons at Cincinnati before being fired in 2005 in a power struggle with the school’s president as well as the aftermath of a 2004 drunken driving arrest. After spending one season at Kansas State, Huggins took his dream job at West Virginia, his alma mater, in 2007.
Huggins was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame last year.
MLB announcer apologizes for on-air slur
The clip surfaced just days after Oakland Athletics announcer Glen Kuiper said a slur while announcing the A’s matchup against the Kansas City Royals on Friday.
“I could not be more sorry and horrified by what I said. I hope you will accept my sincerest apologies,” Kuiper said in a statement to Nexstar’s KRON.
The A’s later issued a statement, calling the language used by Kuiper “unacceptable.”
“The Oakland Athletics do not condone such language,” the team said. “We are working to address the situation.”
Kuiper has been calling A’s games in the Bay Area for about 20 years. He is the younger brother of former major leaguer and Giants announcer Duane Kuiper.
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My Point of View: Full swing into a lot of work ahead this year
Published 8:45 pm Tuesday, January 17, 2023
My Point of View by Robert Hoffman
We are full swing into the new year and all our elected officials are off and running. For a short time they get to focus on their communities’ best interests and not running for office. For a very short time but this is the window to get important work done together now.
Freeborn County’s favorite up-and-comer Aaron Farris was out in Washington, D.C., to see all the excitement of Kevin McCarthy becoming the new Speaker of the now Republican-controlled House. At only 20 years old Aaron is the Freeborn County Republican’s vice chairman but is the chairman of the entire 1st Congressional District also. Aaron met with Kevin McCarthy and was in Washington, D.C., to support Congressman Brad Finstad and his swearing into his first full term as our U.S. congressman after also winning the special election earlier in 2022. Aaron bottled up his experience in Washington, D.C., and brought it right back to sunny southern Minnesota with him to help us with the best year we have ahead.
Nationally it is exciting to see the U.S. House of Representatives now controlled by the Republicans and to have our Republican Congressman Brad Finstad serving us in D.C. Meanwhile back at the ranch we re-elected our Republican State Sen. Gene Dornink to another term. Unfortunately, Senator Dornink is now serving in a narrowly Democratic-controlled state Senate. Gene will return to his southern Minnesota constituents from his sessions in St. Paul bruised and beat up in the new state Senate he serves in. With the state’s out-of-control violence and crime in metro Minnesota, it is more common than it should be to leave Minneapolis/St. Paul bruised and beat up than it should be thanks to the Walz administration’s soft-on-crime approach that is finding its way into Greater Minnesota more and more now also.
Sen. Dornink is not our only re-elected Republican sent to St. Paul to fight for us. State representatives, and teachers, Peggy Bennett (retired teacher) and Patricia Mueller each fought maybe their most hard-working opponents from Democrats yet this last election and each were re-elected handedly. In both cases it was these state representative’s largest election victories yet and against their hardest fought opponents.
State Reps. Peggy and Patty served in a Democratic-controlled state House their last term and are again these next few years. They will return from their fights in St. Paul to us in southern Minnesota as our re-elected Republican state representatives with the left’s mess of the metro on their boots, but they are very respected representatives and perfect for the job.
This week the local DFL is hosting a “Trifecta Party” because they now control the state Senate and state House as well as have Democratic Gov. Walz. (Let’s see how the state turns out after this “trifecta.”) This “control” may be the case statewide, but it does not reflect our southern Minnesota values. For the last two elections so far, not a single Democrat has won any election at all in Freeborn County. That’s not something to celebrate (unless you voted Republican.) The state’s far left Democratic views that have created the metro mess that plagues Minnesota and threatens to spread are not reflected by the greater Minnesota’s Republicans and levelheaded traditional Democrats alike, especially in southern Minnesota, Congressional District 1 and Freeborn County. We have a lot of work to do before it’s time to celebrate.
We are well represented by the local elected officials we re-elected to serve our southern Minnesota values and they have a lot of work ahead. We are blessed to have them fighting for us in Washington, D.C., and St. Paul, and they are blessed to have us here for them. May they all serve us the best they can in their legislative session ahead. We have a lot of work to do together these next few years. Reach out to us anytime to participate.
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Abdul Wadud, a groundbreaking cellist who expanded a realm of possibilities for his instrument in avant-garde jazz and classical music, died on Aug. 10. He was 75.
His son, the R&B singer and songwriter Raheem DeVaughn, announced his death on social media without providing a cause.
Wadud was a pioneer on his instrument. Some legendary bassists like Oscar Pettiford and Ron Carter had doubled on cello before him, and a miniscule number of cellists, notably Fred Katz, had distinguished themselves as jazz improvisers. For Wadud, the cello was his primary ax — and an expansive vehicle for self-expression. Wadud's sound was unmistakable, rich and soulful, and he broadened the sonic range of his instrument.
Although much of his work was as a sideman, Wadud was one of the most important jazz musicians of the 1970s, '80s and '90s. Any session with him had a unique sound that went beyond the sonorities of his instrument. There was clarity, order and a lyrical quality to the music, which is one reason many fans followed his work as a sideman no less than they did his bandleaders.
One of those leaders, and one of Wadud's most frequent collaborators, was saxophonist and composer Julius Hemphill. Their shared contribution to a 15-minute piece called "Dogon A.D.," the title track of Hemphill's 1972 album, amounts to one of the defining statements of early '70s jazz.
"I think of Abdul's playing on 'Dogon A.D.' like a full gospel choir," says Marty Ehrlich, the multi-reedist and composer who curates the Julius Hemphill Archive in the NYU Fales Library. "He is covering the soprano, alto, tenor, and bass voices. He is in many ways orchestrating the shape of the work. "
In the liner notes to Oakland Duets, released more than two decades later, Hemphill says of Wadud that "we're so close musically, I feel like I have total freedom. I feel like I could play anything, and he would respond. He knows he could do the same. I know for a fact that Abdul and I could count off a tempo and play for hours."
Abdul Wadud was born Ronald DeVaughn in Cleveland, OH on April 10, 1947. He grew up in a musical household; his father played trumpet and French horn and sang, and his older sister auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera. His brother, a guitarist, was recruited by legendary soul group The O'Jays. (The idea was quashed by their mother, who insisted he stay in school.)
Wadud started out playing alto saxophone, but made cello his focus after hearing the instrument in groups led by the stellar saxophonist Albert Ayler, who also hailed from Cleveland. Wadud always praised the level of arts education in Cleveland's public schools, where he received an education on his instruments. The thriving local jazz scene also nurtured his interests; in an interview with Point of Departure in 2014, he recalled listening to Miles Davis and John Coltrane while standing outside a local nightclub.
Wadud made his first recording at 18. He attended Youngstown State, then Oberlin College, where he converted to Islam — and met Hemphill, who had come to perform at the school. After earning a Masters from SUNY Stonybrook in 1971, Wadud began splitting his time between symphony orchestra work, Broadway pits, and the thriving loft jazz scene in New York City, where his associates included saxophonist Arthur Blythe, flutist James Newton and pianist Anthony Davis.
Wadud performed in several settings with Blythe, including an era-defining quintet otherwise featuring drummer Bobby Battle, tubaist Bob Stewart, and either James Blood Ulmer or Kelvyn Bell on guitar. Whether soloing or supporting, Wadud is a vital factor in the quintet portion of Blythe's classic recording Illusions.
Wadud had not been active in recent years, and the jazz scene was poorer for it. Through the body of work he did leave behind, he blazed a trail for inheritors like Akua Dixon, Dierdre Murray, Fred Longborg-Holm, Hank Roberts and Tomeka Reid, among others. For a June 2020 article in the New York Times titled 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love the Cello, Reid selected a piece from Wadud's 1977 solo album By Myself. "I love the freedom and creativity in his playing," she wrote. "He uses the whole range of the cello and moves between lyrical, free playing and groove with ease, something I strive to do in my own work."
Ehrlich, who featured Wadud in his Dark Woods Ensemble and other settings, tells NPR that his most striking characteristic was balance. "He brought a great intensity to all music making, and at the same time, he brought a great center to the music," Ehrlich says. "I always felt him hearing the whole proceeding, and centering it here, prodding it there. He amazed me always."
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HIGH SCHOOL
Benton Central earns narrow win over Western 54-47
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With little to no wiggle room, Benton Central nosed past Western 54-47 for an Indiana girls basketball victory on February 1.
In recent action on January 24, Benton Central faced off against Harrison . For results, click here. Western took on Tri Central on January 24 at Tri Central High School. For more, click here.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Danrie, an expertly-edited children's boutique where endless possibility meets unmatched service, is pleased to announce the launch of their ecommerce site. A destination for truly unique and stylish gear, Danrie's curated selection of apparel, toys, gifts and more will quickly become a favorite of those who are aesthetically driven with an eye for sophisticated details. A multi-label boutique, Danrie offers a thoughtful yet complete selection for babies and beyond from renowned brand partners including Marie Chantal, Mon Coeur, Louis Louise, Paz Rodriguez and more.
Founded by mother of two, Julia Zaborowski-Casper, Danrie was created as a singular destination for parents to shop special finds, one-of-a-kinds, and new classics that bring joy and style to the everyday adventures of parenting. By searching far and wide for the very best products, delivering an impeccable, highly-personalized customer experience, and by building a welcoming community of families growing up stylishly, Danrie's mission is grow beyond a boutique that curates gorgeous goods into a trusted partner, joining families on the epic journey of childhood.
Available exclusively at ShopDanrie.com and offering both domestic shipping and same-day delivery to the NYC area, Danrie specializes in highest-quality pieces designed to spark imagination, enhance play, and nurture little ones through all of life's unique moments.
"I was inspired to start Danrie after so many of my favorite independent kid's stores closed during the pandemic because they didn't have a sophisticated online presence," said CEO and Founder Julia Zaborowski-Casper. "Our goal is to make Danrie the go-to, thoughtfully-curated destination for all you need to take on the epic journey of childhood."
To give back to the community that inspired the brand, Danrie's mission includes a partnership with Room to Grow, an organization that provides critical support to local New York City families by addressing the multitude of needs facing parents in the earliest years of their children's lives, and providing the surest opportunity for establishing a strong foundation in life.
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(KTLA) — There’s nothing quite like the traditional American breakfast: eggs, sausage, pancakes and maple syrup. But who has time to sit down to enjoy an entire breakfast spread in these busy times?
That’s exactly what the ramen noodle experts at Cup Noodles want to address with a new product launched Wednesday: breakfast ramen.
Yes, the same company founded by the inventor of instant ramen is looking to shake up the culinary world again with a new East-meets-West entry into the breakfast game.
The new Cup Noodles Breakfast will feature the same tangle and chew of instant ramen that you know and love, with the introduction of the American breakfast flavors you grew up with.
The noodles blend the aforementioned flavors of pancakes, maple syrup, sausage and eggs in a saucy noodle cup that is served in the company’s iconic packaging and is ready to eat in four minutes. You can enjoy (or simply try out of general curiosity) the noodles at home or on the go, the company says.
“We know our products are a go-to meal any time of the day,” said Priscila Stanton, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Nissin Foods USA. “By adding Cup Noodles Breakfast to our lineup we are truly feeding cravings around the clock — morning, noon, night or late night.”
The noodles officially launched Wednesday, but they’re currently only for sale at select Walmart locations across the nation or on Walmart.com. In continuing its legacy as a self-contained meal for adults and college kids on a budget, each Cup Noodles Breakfast sells for a suggested retail price of $1.18.
It remains to be seen if Cup Noodles just invented a new breakfast staple, but the brand and its parent company Nissin say innovation is at the heart of its company philosophy.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Carte’Are Gordon scored 18 points as Grambling beat UTSA 75-55 on Friday night.
Gordon added nine rebounds for the Tigers (3-2). Cameron Christon added 13 points while shooting 5 for 11, including 3 for 5 from beyond the arc, and he also had three steals. Shawndarius Cowart recorded eight points and was 3-of-5 shooting (2 for 3 from distance).
Japhet Medor led the Roadrunners (4-2) in scoring, finishing with 12 points and seven rebounds. UTSA also got eight points, 13 rebounds and four blocks from Jacob Germany. Isaiah Addo-Ankrah also had six points.
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A Hoover police officer was shot midday Sunday.
The shooting happened shortly after noon at The Hills of Hoover apartments off Lorna Road.
Details surrounding the shooting have not been released. The ordeal possibly started on Interstate 459 with a report of shots fired into a vehicle. No one was injured in that incident.
The suspect vehicle then reportedly exited the interstate and pulled into the apartment complex where the suspect fired on the officer. Residents reported hearing at least eight or nine shots.
The officer was transported by police escort to UAB Hospital. The injuries did not initially appear to be life-threatening, but a condition has not been provided. He was said to be alert and stable when he left the scene and arrived at the hospital.
Authorities believe the suspect is possibly barricaded inside an apartment.
Multiple officers brandishing long guns are on the scene at the apartment complex. Tactical officers from multiple agencies in Jefferson and Shelby counties are on the scene, including the U.S. Marshals. A law enforcement staging area has been set up at nearby Aldridge Gardens.
Police have established a large perimeter, clearing out bystanders and media. Just before 2 p.m., residents reported that they are being evacuated.
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Southlake Award Program Honors the Achievement
SOUTHLAKE, Texas, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kirk Badii and his firm Badii Group Private Wealth Management have been selected for the 2022 Best of Southlake Award in the Investment Service category by the Southlake Award Program.
Each year, the Southlake Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Southlake area a great place to live, work and play.
Kirk Badii provides investment services for high-net-worth individuals and families. Finance is not one-size-fits-all, so no financial plan should be, either. Instead, goal-based planning measures the progress of an investor's portfolio against specific life goals, situations, and desired success. Badii Group Private Wealth Management utilizes a goal-based financial planning system to ensure all aspects of their client's assets are accounted for.
Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2022 Southlake Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Southlake Award Program and data provided by third parties.
About Southlake Award Program
The Southlake Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Southlake area. Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value.
The Southlake Award Program was established to recognize the best of local businesses in our community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to recognize the small business community's contributions to the U.S. economy.
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Firefighters Extinguish Blaze at Building Being Renovated in Caribou
Firefighters from Caribou and Presque Isle quickly knocked down a blaze Tuesday morning inside a building at 1101 Presque Isle Road in Caribou.
Caribou Fire & Ambulance Department received a call at 10:24 a.m. reporting the fire at a building owned by New England Kenworth, according to Capt. Brian Lajoie.
The building was being refurbished and crews were working on the structure at the time. The fire originated on the "bravo" (left) side of the building, Lajoie said. It appears sparks from a grinder being used on the exterior wall started the blaze on the second floor.
Crews were able to extinguish the fire before it caused any significant damage. There was mostly water damage inside the building, according to Capt. Lajoie.
There were 12 firefighters on scene Tuesday morning, including a number from the Presque Isle Fire Department. Motorists were advised to avoid that area of Route 1 south of Caribou.
The scene was cleared within an hour.
There were no injuries.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (CHARLOTTE SPORTS LIVE) — What have you been the most impressed with from the Panthers front office this off-season?
Among the many acquisitions is Hayden Hurst. Will Carolina draft another tight end to compliment him?
Plus, NASCAR drivers most likely to notch a second win this season, a dive into the unconventional group of Final Four teams and the best part of a chicken to eat.
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Climate confab heads into final week, warming goal uncertain
By FRANK JORDANS and KELVIN CHAN
Associated Press
SHARM EL-SHEIKH (AP) — Global climate talks in Egypt headed into their second half on Monday with plenty of uncertainty left over whether there’ll be a substantial deal to combat climate change.
Tens of thousands of attendees, including delegates from nearly 200 countries, observers, experts, activists and journalists, returned to the conference zone in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh after a one-day break.
The U.N.’s top climate official appealed for constructive diplomacy to match the high-flying rhetoric heard during the opening days of the talks.
“Let me remind negotiators that people and planet are relying on this process to deliver,” U.N. Climate Secretary Simon Stiell said.
“Let’s use our remaining time in Egypt to build the bridges needed to make progress,” he added, citing the goals of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) as agreed in the Paris climate accord, adapting to climate change, and providing financial aid to vulnerable nations trying to cope with its impacts.
What happens at the G-20 in Bali, as well as at a meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping on the sidelines, will be crucial to what happens at the climate summit. If the G-20 makes progress on climate, it will be easier in Egypt, but if they backslide, especially on the 1.5 goal, it will undermine the climate summit, said Alden Meyer, a long-time observer of U.N. climate meetings with the environmental think tank E3G.
“What the two presidents decide in Bali will play directly into the endgame here in Sharm El-Sheikh,” he said.
A handshake between Biden and Xi was already noted positively by negotiators at COP, who are also looking to see whether the U.S. and China can resume formal talks on climate.
A key issue is whether the G-20 reiterate their commitment to the 1.5-degree climate goal that they made last year, when they declared it to be a G-20 goal as well. If there’s a push to drop it, it would be a setback for climate change fighting, Meyer said.
Last past climate conferences, COP27 is to put together a “cover decision,” an all-encompassing document that lays out the political goals and often gets name for the conference venue, like the Glasgow Climate Pact. But discussions on the cover decision have started late, Meyer said. Some nations don’t even want one, while others are pushing for a strong one, he said.
“The negotiators’ job is to not make any concessions until ministers come,” he said.
Some delegates were already talking about the possibility of a walkout by developing nations unless key demands for more aid to poor countries are met during the talks.
A major theme at the COP27 meeting has been a call for wealthy nations who benefited most from industrialization that contributed to global warming to do more to help poor countries who have contributed little to global emissions. Their demands include compensation for loss and damage from extreme floods, storms and other devastating effects of climate change suffered by developing countries.
“Now rich countries need to play their part,” said Rachel Cleetus, policy director and lead economist at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
“So this is going to be the litmus test of success at this COP, at COP27, that we get this loss and damage finance facility agreed here and that it’s up and running in two years,” Cleetus said at a press briefing.
The Group of Seven leading economies launched a new insurance system Monday to provide swift financial aid when nations are hit by devastating effects of climate change.
The so-called Global Shield is backed by the V20 group of 58 climate-vulnerable nations and will initially receive more than 200 million euros (dollars) in funding, mostly from Germany. Initial recipients include Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Fiji, Ghana, Pakistan, the Philippines and Senegal.
Ghana’s Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta called it “a path-breaking effort” that would help protect communities when lives and livelihoods are lost.
But civil society groups were skeptical, warning that the program should not be used as a way to distract from the much broader effort to get big polluters to pay for the loss and damage they’ve already caused with their greenhouse gases.
Poorer, vulnerable nations also want financing to help them shift to clean energy and for projects to adapt to global warming.
The Global Shield has “some useful elements but it’s not a substitute for a loss and damage finance facility,” Cleetus said, noting that rich countries have contributed millions of dollars, but developing nations need billions to deal with a hotter planet.
India made an unexpected proposal over the weekend for this year’s climate talks to end with a call for a phase down of all fossil fuels.
The idea is likely to get strong pushback from oil and gas-exporting nations, including the United States, which promotes natural gas as a clean ‘bridge fuel’ to renewables.
Two diplomats who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the proposal was yet to be officially debated said India could be trying to get payback for last year’s meeting, when it was publicly shamed for resisting a call to “phase out” coal. Countries compromised by calling for a vaguer “phase down” instead, which was nevertheless seen as significant because it was the first time a fossil fuel industry was put on notice.
The talks are due to wrap up Friday but could extend into the weekend if negotiators need more time to reach an agreement.
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AP Science writer Seth Borenstein contributed to this report.
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Tennessee governor won’t release records on execution error
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has refused to release records that could illuminate his decision to abruptly halt the execution of Oscar Smith last month, citing attorney-client privilege and the disputed “deliberative process privilege.”
In response to a records request by The Associated Press, the Republican governor’s office released emails containing Lee’s April 21 public statement granting Smith a reprieve. The office also released a series of emails from reporters asking for more details about the problems that led Lee to halt the execution. The reporters were referred to the public statement, which said only that there was an “oversight” in the preparation of the drugs.
On Monday, Lee finally elaborated in a new statement, saying the drugs to be used in Smith’s execution were tested for potency and sterility, but not endotoxins, as required by the state’s execution protocols. Lee placed a temporary moratorium on executions through the end of the year and appointed former U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton to review circumstances that led to the failure.
Lee has repeatedly cited deliberative process when declining to release documents. The exemption is not in state law but was described in a 2004 intermediate appeals court decision. In that ruling, the court determined certain documents could remain secret if officials deemed them part of their decision-making process.
Early in his administration, Lee’s office also cited “executive privilege” more than a dozen times as a reason for withholding records, though his team argued they were using the term interchangeably with deliberative process. Tennessee statutes, including the state’s open records laws, do not define executive privilege. The Tennessee Constitution does not mention it.
Lee initially promised to overhaul the state’s public records laws to provide more government transparency when he came into office, but he has yet to significantly change the statutes.
Smith, 72, was sentenced to death for fatally stabbing and shooting his estranged wife, Judith Smith, and her teenage sons, Jason and Chad Burnett, at their Nashville home on Oct. 1, 1989.
Smith’s execution was to be the first of five scheduled in 2022, the most of any state other than Texas, which also scheduled five executions, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. It was also to be Tennessee’s first execution since the pandemic halted executions in 2020.
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Mary Jeanette Johnston
May 5, 1938 - Aug. 28, 2022
VALPARAISO, IN - Mary Jeanette Johnston, 84, of Valparaiso passed away peacefully at home Sunday, August 28, 2022, one day after her 61st wedding anniversary. She was born May 5, 1938 in Blanford, IN to James & Mary (Gottardi) O'Neal and graduated from Indiana State University. Mary enjoyed gardening in the large yard that she and Paul tended under a canopy of mature white oak trees. Needlework allowed her to showcase a creative side and gave her indoor activity for winter.
On August 27, 1961 in Clinton, IN she married Paul Johnston who survives along with her sister, Rachel Ann Jones. She was preceded in death by her parents and one brother, Michael O'Neal.
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WASHINGTON — (AP) — U.S. officials on Monday approved the first long-acting drug to protect babies and toddlers against a respiratory virus that sends tens of thousands of American children to the hospital each year.
RSV is a cold-like nuisance for most healthy people, but it can be life-threatening in the very young and the elderly.
The Food and Drug Administration approved the injection for infants and children up to 2 years old who face increased risk of severe RSV.
“Today’s approval addresses the great need for products to help reduce the impact of RSV disease on children, families and the health care system” said FDA's Dr. John Farley in a statement.
Last year, a surge in RSV cases flooded U.S. hospitals with wheezing children. There are no vaccines for babies yet, though Pfizer and other companies are working on them.
AstraZeneca’s drug, to be sold under the brand name Beyfortus, is a laboratory-made version of an antibody that helps the immune system fight off RSV. Under the FDA approval, babies — including preterm infants — can receive a single injection to protect against their first season of RSV, which typically lasts about five months. Children up to age 2 can receive another dose to protect them during their second season facing the virus.
Beyfortus, which will be marketed in the U.S. by Sanofi, is already approved in Canada, Europe and the U.K. Sanofi did not immediately announce the U.S. price of the treatment.
FDA officials approved the drug based on three studies showing Beyfortus reduced the risk of RSV infection between 70% and 75% among infants and children 2 and younger.
Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will meet early next month to recommend exactly who should get the drug.
A similar antibody drug won FDA approval more than 20 years ago, but it’s only recommended for high-risk babies and requires monthly injections. Pediatricians say the drug is underutilized and they expect the longer-lasting effect of AstraZeneca's shot to improve uptake.
In the U.S., about 58,000 children younger than 5 are hospitalized for RSV each year and several hundred die.
After decades of setbacks for RSV research, drugmakers have made big strides this year, launching the first vaccines against the virus. In May, the FDA approved two RSV vaccines for older adults from GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer. In August, the FDA is expected to make a decision on approving Pfizer's vaccine for pregnant women, with the aim of passing along protection to their newborns.
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A line of severe storms produced what a meteorologist calls a rare combination of multiple tornadoes, hurricane-force winds and softball-sized hail in west Texas, killing at least four people, injuring nine and causing significant damage around the town of Matador, a meteorologist said Thursday.
The storms produced strong winds that swept across Texas, from the Panhandle to Houston, causing damage north of the city, according to weather officials.
A supercell developed about 8 p.m. Wednesday near Amarillo before striking the small town of Matador, said senior forecaster Matt Ziebell with the National Weather Service in Lubbock. He called it “certainly rare to see all at the same time — killer tornadoes, hurricane-force winds and softball-sized hail.”
The damage was concentrated on a 1-mile stretch with businesses and homes demolished along the west side of Matador, a town where “everybody knows everybody,” said Brandon Moore, Matador’s water superintendent who is also a volunteer firefighter.
“It was supposed to move east of us and within a five-minute timespan, it all changed and switched directions and came straight through Matador,” Moore said. “We probably had about two minutes of warning to get everybody together and get to safety. There’s a few people that didn’t make it out of the house, but we did rescue several people and they made it out alright.”
The city is getting lots of help from people arriving from outside the community, he said.
“Everybody in the world is offering to come help, which is good,” Moore said. “We’re trying to clean up the mess now and go from there.”
The storm produced 109 mph (175 kph) winds at Jayton in addition to hail more than 4-inches (10.2-centimeters) wide, Ziebell said, and the weather service reported a 97 mph (156 kph) wind gust — the strongest ever recorded at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston since data collection began there in 1969. The previous record there was 82 mph (132 kph) during Hurricane Ike in 2008.
Much of the wind damage near Houston — downed trees and knocked down power lines and fences — happened north of the city.
Ziebell said the weather service would send crews to survey the damage on Thursday and determine the strength of the tornadoes. Wednesday “was definitely a rare combination of high-end wind shear and storms of extreme instability,” according to Ziebell.
Search and rescue efforts also continued, although no one is known to be missing, according to Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Johnny Bures.
“We want to make sure no one was passing through town, that was our concern,” Bures said. “That’s what we’re really double-checking for.”
The worst damage appeared to be in Matador — a town of about 570 people about 70 miles (112 kilometers) northeast of Lubbock in Motley County. Homes were damaged, buildings were flattened and power lines were snapped in half. A restaurant’s walls were all knocked down, but the booths remained standing in what was called a “jaw-dropping” scene by Derek Delgado, a spokesman for Lubbock Fire Rescue, which is assisting the town.
“You would look on one side where we had a general merchandise store completely flattened to the ground but across the street, there’s a house that’s still standing and the vehicles haven’t even moved from the driveway,” Delgado said by telephone.
Power outages were widespread across the sparsely populated west Texas region, with more than 900 customers without power in the Matador and Jayton areas alone, according to poweroutage.us. They’re in Motley and Kent County, which have fewer than 2,000 people combined.
In the Houston area, more than 133,000 customers remained without power on Thursday.
Wednesday’s tornado outbreak came six days after a tornado left three people dead and more than 100 injured in Perryton in the northern Texas Panhandle.
Another hailstorm pummeled concertgoers at Red Rocks Amphitheater Wednesday night in Morrison, Colorado, near Denver. Seven people were hospitalized, according to KMGH-TV. None of those taken to hospitals had life-threatening injuries, and up to 90 people were treated for injuries at the amphitheater, according to West Metro Fire Rescue.
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Company to become one of only a few companies in the country offering total end-to-end beverage solutions
HOUSTON , June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Houston-based FreshBrew, one of the largest private-label coffee and tea producers in the country, announced today the investment of $10 million into its specialty roasting and production divisions. The investment will expand current roasting production and will fund extraction, bottling and canning capabilities, making FreshBrew one of only a few companies in the country to offer total end-to-end beverage solutions. Expansion is slated to be complete in early 2023.
"FreshBrew remains committed to providing our customers with the highest quality product and technology-driven services while continuously expanding our product lines and meeting increasing demand from our national clients," said Al Ansari, President and CEO of FreshBrew.
Earlier this year, FreshBrew sold the vending division of the company to Compass Group North America, the owner of Canteen Vending Services, in response to rapidly increasing customer demand for production services. This strategic move allowed FreshBrew to focus the company's efforts and resources on the expansion of its coffee, tea and extract product lines, which have been the heart of the business since its inception, more than 90 years ago.
FreshBrew upgraded its existing roasters and purchased two additional roasters which will arrive later this summer. They added 11 packing lines for a total of 25 to accommodate increased demand. Their tea lines expanded as well, with the addition of sugar to their production, to allow for sweet tea products. Construction is now underway to transform the 40,000 sq. ft. of vending space to allow for extraction, bottling and canning production in-house. They also acquired an additional 25,000 sq. ft. of space, creating a combined total of 140,000 sq. ft. for the roasting plant and warehouse.
"As we look towards the future, we are energized and excited to continue to provide innovative total beverage solutions to many of the country's largest convenience stores, quick service restaurants and foodservice industries," said Ansari.
As one of the largest private-label coffee and tea producers in the country, FreshBrew supplies award-winning coffee, tea and total beverage solutions to notable brands in the national foodservice, convenience store, hospitality and retail sectors. Production is expected to increase to 100 million pounds annually once the extracting, bottling and canning services and additional roasting capabilities are fully implemented.
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Mindfulness worked as well for anxiety as a drug, one study finds
Mindfulness meditation worked as well as a standard drug for treating anxiety in the first head-to-head comparison.
The study tested a widely used mindfulness program that includes 2 1/2 hours of classes weekly and 45 minutes of daily practice at home. Participants were randomly assigned to the program or daily use of a generic drug sold under the brand name Lexapro for depression and anxiety.
After two months, anxiety as measured on a severity scale declined by about 30% in both groups and continued to decrease during the following four months.
Study results, published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, are timely. In September, an influential U.S. health task force recommended routine anxiety screening for adults, and numerous reports suggest global anxiety rates have increased recently, related to worries over the pandemic, political and racial unrest, climate change and financial uncertainties.
Anxiety disorders include social anxiety, generalized anxiety and panic attacks. Affected people are troubled by persistent and intrusive worries that interfere with their lives and relationships. In the U.S., anxiety disorders affect 40% of U.S. women at some point in their lives and more than 1 in 4 men, according to data cited in U.S. Preventive Services Task Force screening recommendations.
Mindfulness is a form of meditation that emphasizes focusing only on what's happening at the moment and dismissing intrusive thoughts. Sessions often start with breathing exercises. Next might be "body scans" — thinking about each body part systematically, head to toe. When worried thoughts intrude, participants learn to briefly acknowledge them but then dismiss them.
Instead of ruminating over the troubling thought, "you say, 'I'm having this thought, let that go for now,''' said lead author Elizabeth Hoge, director of Georgetown University's Anxiety Disorders Research Program. With practice, "It changes the relationship people have with their own thoughts when not meditating."
Previous studies have shown mindfulness works better than no treatment or at least as well as education or more formal behavior therapy in reducing anxiety, depression and other mental woes. But this is the first study to test it against a psychiatric drug, Hoge said, and the results could make insurers more likely to cover costs, which can run $300 to $500 for an 8-week session.
The results were based on about 200 adults who completed the six-month study at medical centers in Washington, Boston and New York. Researchers used a psychiatric scale of 1 to 7, with the top number reflecting severe anxiety. The average score was about 4.5 for participants before starting treatment. It dropped to about 3 after two months, then dipped slightly in both groups at three months and six months. Hoge said the change was clinically meaningful, resulting in noticeable improvement in symptoms.
Ten patients on the drug dropped out because of troublesome side effects possibly related to treatment, which included insomnia, nausea and fatigue. There were no dropouts for that reason in the mindfulness group, although 13 patients reported increased anxiety.
The study "is reaffirming about how useful mindfulness can be when practiced effectively,'' said psychologist Sheehan Fisher, an associate professor at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine who was not involved in the study.
Dr. Scott Krakower, a psychiatrist at Zucker Hillside Hospital in New York, said mindfulness treatments often work best for mildly anxious patients. He prescribes them with medication for patients with more severe anxiety.
He noted that many people feel they don't have time for mindfulness meditation, especially in-person sessions like those studied. Whether similar results would be found with online training or phone apps is unknown, said Krakower, who also had no role in the study.
Olga Cannistraro, a freelance writer in Keene, New Hampshire, participated in an earlier mindfulness study led by Hoge and says it taught her "to intervene in my own state of mind.''
During a session, just acknowledging that she was feeling tension anywhere in her body helped calm her, she said.
Cannistraro, 52, has generalized anxiety disorder and has never taken medication for it. She was a single mom working in sales during that earlier study — circumstances that made life particularly stressful, she said. She has since married, switched jobs, and feels less anxious though still uses mindfulness techniques. | https://www.wtae.com/article/mindfulness-worked-as-well-for-anxiety-as-a-drug-one-study-finds/41913850 | 2022-11-10 05:23:09 | 1 | https://www.wtae.com/article/mindfulness-worked-as-well-for-anxiety-as-a-drug-one-study-finds/41913850 |
DLC, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AARP Pennsylvania State Director Bill Johnston-Walsh released the following statement in response to the passage of the 2022-23 Pennsylvania state budget.
"On behalf of our 1.8 million members, AARP Pennsylvania appreciates the steps taken by the Governor and General Assembly to distribute American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds in the 2022-2023 state budget.
After a lifetime of hard work, Pennsylvania's seniors deserve to live with independence, security, and dignity. The availability of common-sense options will enable them to age in place in their homes and communities.
Understanding that increasing property taxes are most burdensome to residents who are older and on fixed incomes, AARP Pennsylvania advocated for the $140 million investment in the state's Property Tax Rent Rebate Program, which brings much needed relief at a time when high inflation - including the rising prices of gas, prescription drugs and food - is hitting older and disabled adults right in the pocketbook.
Additionally, the allocation of $125 million for a new Whole Home Repairs Program was also supported by AARP Pennsylvania to assist those who want to remain at home but lack the financial resources needed to pay for simple home repairs. The adoption of this program will also help Pennsylvanians make their homes more livable, and more energy efficient by fixing poorly functioning heating systems and tackling other projects that can help lower energy costs.
Lastly, the infusion of $250 million ARPA dollars to support the state's long-term care facilities -- nursing, assisted living, and personal care homes – and enhance care delivered at the bedside is critical to the health, safety and well-being of residents who depend upon the care provided by such facilities. On this point, our advocacy has been clear: residents and their families deserve to know that any licensed facility they go to will have adequate and safe staffing, and taxpayers have the right to expect value for the billions of dollars invested into long-term care.
ARPA funds did provide a historic opportunity to offer older Pennsylvanians with options to live in their homes and communities when health and financial limitations make that harder. While encouraged by these ARPA investments, we will continue advocating for Pennsylvania's decision makers to do more to expand home services, reduce service waiting lists and strengthen the paid long-term care workforce, so direct care staff can earn a living wage with benefits."
CONTACT: TJ Thiessen, (202) 374-8033, tthiessen@aarp.org
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Mariners first. Julio Rodriguez grounds out to shortstop, Ha-Seong Kim to Eric Hosmer. J.P. Crawford singles to right field. Eugenio Suarez singles to center field. J.P. Crawford to second. Carlos Santana walks. Eugenio Suarez to second. J.P. Crawford to third. Cal Raleigh reaches on a fielder's choice to shortstop. Carlos Santana out at second. Eugenio Suarez to third. J.P. Crawford scores. Abraham Toro doubles to right field. Cal Raleigh to third. Eugenio Suarez scores. Justin Upton flies out to deep left field to Jurickson Profar.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Mariners 2, Padres 0.
Mariners fourth. Dylan Moore singles to center field. Marcus Wilson strikes out swinging. Julio Rodriguez homers to left field. Dylan Moore scores. J.P. Crawford singles to center field. Eugenio Suarez walks. J.P. Crawford to second. Carlos Santana walks. Eugenio Suarez to second. J.P. Crawford to third. Cal Raleigh pops out to shallow infield to Jake Cronenworth. Abraham Toro flies out to Jurickson Profar.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 3 left on. Mariners 4, Padres 0.
Mariners sixth. Julio Rodriguez reaches on error. Throwing error by Manny Machado. J.P. Crawford singles to shallow center field. Julio Rodriguez to third. Eugenio Suarez strikes out swinging. Carlos Santana walks. J.P. Crawford to second. Cal Raleigh doubles to deep right center field. Carlos Santana scores. J.P. Crawford scores. Julio Rodriguez scores. Abraham Toro walks. Justin Upton strikes out swinging. Dylan Moore flies out to deep right field to Nomar Mazara.
3 runs, 2 hits, 1 error, 2 left on. Mariners 7, Padres 0.
Mariners eighth. Eugenio Suarez grounds out to shortstop, C.J. Abrams to Eric Hosmer. Carlos Santana singles to left field. Cal Raleigh grounds out to shallow infield, C.J. Abrams to Eric Hosmer. Abraham Toro singles to first base, advances to 2nd. Carlos Santana scores. Throwing error by Tim Hill. Justin Upton lines out to shortstop to C.J. Abrams.
1 run, 2 hits, 1 error, 1 left on. Mariners 8, Padres 0.
Padres ninth. Nomar Mazara grounds out to second base, J.P. Crawford to Carlos Santana. Ha-Seong Kim singles to second base. Trent Grisham homers to right field. Ha-Seong Kim scores. Jose Azocar grounds out to shallow left field, J.P. Crawford to Carlos Santana. C.J. Abrams flies out to right field to Sam Haggerty.
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The average mortgage interest rate for a standard 15-year fixed mortgage is 4.86%, an increase of 0.12 percentage points from last week’s 4.74%.
Fifteen-year fixed rate mortgages come with a higher monthly payment compared to its 30-year counterpart. However, usually interest rates are lower and you will pay less total interest because you are paying off your loan at a faster rate.
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The average rate on a 5/1 adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) is 4.19%, an increase of 0.01 percentage points from last week’s 4.18%. With an ARM, you will most often get a lower interest rate than a fixed mortgage for say, the first five years.
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When picking a mortgage, it is important to pick out a loan term or payment schedule. Usually you will be offered a 15 or 30-year loan term, but it is not uncommon to see 10, 20, or 40-year mortgages, according to CNET.
Mortgages can be fixed-rate or adjustable-rate. Interest rates in fixed-rate mortgages are set in stone for the duration of the loan.
Adjustable-rate mortgages only have interest rates set for a certain period of time before the rate adjusts annually based on the market.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Hopes were dashed Monday for an imminent end to a Senate standoff that has delayed the promotions of more than 200 military officers and could delay the confirmation of President Joe Biden’s pick for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama has been blocking the nominations to pressure the Defense Department to rescind a policy that reimburses service members who have to travel out of state for abortions and other reproductive care. Alabama is among the states where abortion is now illegal.
A proposal to hold a Senate debate over Pentagon abortion policies as part of the annual defense bill negotiations was seen by some senators as the best prospect for getting Tuberville to lift those holds, but his office said Monday that Tuberville was opposed.
The hold affects everyone from four-star Air Force Gen. CQ Brown, who was nominated to serve as the next chairman of the joint chiefs, to scores of one, two and three-star officers who are assigned to new base commands.
It also affects their families, who usually relocate over the summer to their new military communities so school-age children can get settled in before fall.
And it stretches to hundreds more younger military personnel who don't need Senate confirmation but are still effected by the hold because they are assigned to serve as staff or aides to the relocating generals. Those aides move their families as well. So they are essentially stuck, too.
That essentially leaves two options. First, Tuberville’s office said Congress could vote to change a U.S. law that prohibits federal funding for abortions except in the case of rape, incest or threat to life of the pregnant woman, which Tuberville has said the Pentagon is circumventing through its new policy. Changing that law is unlikely in the Republican-controlled House.
That leaves Senate Democratic leadership with the unattractive option of getting past Tuberville’s hold by calling for a separate Senate vote on each individual nomination. Due to debate rules, a Senate Democratic staffer said this would take an estimated two to three days per nomination and might get done by the end of the year but only if the Senate did nothing else for the rest of the session.
The debate over the holds comes as Tuberville is engaged in another dispute with the Pentagon over the future headquarters of U.S. Space Command. Tuberville is fighting to bring the headquarters to Huntsville, Alabama. Both his office and the Pentagon say that decision is unrelated. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/proposal-to-end-senate-standoff-over-military-18148526.php | 2023-06-12 21:27:06 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/proposal-to-end-senate-standoff-over-military-18148526.php |
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A second U.N. peacekeeper has died from injuries sustained during an attack in Mali’s northern Timbuktu region, an area where extremists continue to operate, the United Nations announced Monday.
The attack Friday on a security patrol that was hit first by an improvised explosive device and then by direct small arms fire seven kilometers (four miles) from their base in the town of Ber killed one peacekeeper and seriously injured eight others, all from Burkina Faso.
U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Monday that Private First Class Bouma Bamouni, 28, passed away on Friday while First Lieutenant Ali Barro, who died on Sunday, would have turned 33 next month. Both joined the peacekeeping mission, known as MINUSMA, on Oct. 11, 2022 “where they served with professionalism, contributing to our efforts to restore peace and security in Mali,” he said.
Barro was the tenth U.N. peacekeeper to die in Mali this year.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the U.N. Security Council condemned the attack and called on Mali’s transitional authorities to identify the perpetrators and bring them to justice, noting that attacks on U.N. peacekeepers may constitute war crimes under international law.
Mali has been ruled by a military junta since a 2020 coup against an elected president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. It has faced destabilizing attacks by armed extremist groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group since 2013.
In 2021, France and its European partners engaged in the fight against extremists in Mali’s north withdrew from the country after the junta brought in mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/second-un-peacekeeper-dies-following-attack-in-malis-northern-timbuktu-region/ | 2023-06-13 00:59:39 | 0 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/second-un-peacekeeper-dies-following-attack-in-malis-northern-timbuktu-region/ |
- Product with NFT Available Only to Those Who Donate -
TOKYO, Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pareal Inc., headquartered in Tokyo, is pleased to announce that 250 T-shirts of its new brand "Pareal" will be sold exclusively on its official e-commerce site. Pareal is an apparel brand launched in 2022 with the mission of "creating a world where each person supports and shines beyond all barriers such as religion, nationality, and race."
Pareal's logo:
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What are the differences between Pareal and other brands?
(1) A new apparel brand that you can only buy if you learn and donate
Pareal is a brand that is dedicated to building a strong community where people can learn about, donate and discuss solutions to various issues around the world, such as the Ukraine-Russia conflict and the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Pareal will be the uniform of a community. Community members will wear Pareal to infuse new people and build a strong community. The community will decide how the donation will be used.
(2) NFT included
One NFT is included per piece of Pareal clothing. Each NFT has its own serial number and is unique in the world. Pareal believes that this is a way to break away from apparel as a consumable item, as the NFT is attached to the apparel as a set, guaranteeing its value and proving its authenticity.
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(3) High-quality and high-cost rate
Pareal's T-shirts are made from 100% high-quality organic cotton and printed by a factory with a dye filtration system. Customers will notice the difference when holding it in their hands. Pareal will reduce the brand's advertising costs and invest in promoting the brand's social significance and reducing environmental impact.
Pre-sale will start on December 7, 2022 at 14:00 (UTC)
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For the drive home in Bismarck: Considerable cloudiness. Occasional rain showers later at night. Low near 60F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40%. The forecast is showing a hot day in Bismarck Sunday. It looks like it will be a balmy 86 degrees. We'll see a low temperature of 63 degrees tomorrow. We'll see sunshine tomorrow, but also cloud cover at times. The sunshine will be intense Sunday; high UV indexes are forecasted. Be careful outside, especially during late morning through mid-afternoon. If your shadow is shorter than you, seek shade and wear protective clothing and generously apply sunscreen on exposed skin. The Bismarck area should see a light breeze, with forecast showing winds from the west, clocking in at 10 mph. This report is created automatically with weather data provided by TownNews.com. Keep an eye on bismarcktribune.com for forecast information and severe weather updates.
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Premier Food Producer Joins Atlas' Family of Global Businesses
Donnie Smith, Industry Leader and Former CEO of Tyson Foods Named Chief Executive Officer
GREENWICH, Conn., June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlas Holdings ("Atlas") announced today that it has acquired Foster Farms, a family-owned provider of fresh, frozen, and prepared poultry products headquartered in Livingston, California from entities associated with the Foster Family. Founded in 1939 on a small farm, Foster Farms boasts a proud and distinguished history as the leading brand of fresh chicken in the West. With products available nationwide, the company employs approximately 10,000 skilled team members and operates major processing facilities in California, Washington, Louisiana, Oregon, and Alabama. The company, which generates revenues of approximately $3 billion annually, will continue to operate under the Foster Farms name. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Atlas also announced that longtime poultry industry leader Donnie Smith, former Chief Executive Officer of Tyson Foods, has been named Foster Farms' new Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board. Smith spent 36 years with Tyson in roles spanning all business functions. He was named CEO in 2009, a role he held until his retirement in 2016. Under his leadership, Tyson saw record growth, entered new markets and expanded its product offerings, staying true to Tyson's heritage while charting its path forward as one of the world's largest food companies.
"I love the poultry industry and am proud that Atlas has asked me to become the CEO of Foster Farms," said Donnie Smith. "I've long been an admirer of the Foster Family and the business they've built over the past eight decades. In this new era, we will maintain and further that legacy, rooted in animal welfare, superior product quality, customer service and community engagement."
"We are thrilled to welcome Foster Farms to the Atlas Family of great global businesses," said Atlas Partners Sam Astor, Ed Fletcher, and Mike Sher. "We have a long history of partnering with proud family-owned companies to honor their past while driving additional operational, environmental, and financial success for the next generation. Working closely with Donnie Smith, the Leadership Team, and our dedicated team members, that is precisely what we intend to do at Foster Farms."
Atlas brings decades of experience in the food industry through other businesses they have owned and operated, making them the ideal partner for Foster Farms.
Houlihan Lokey served as financial advisor and Mayer Brown LLP was legal advisor for Foster Farms. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC served as financial advisor and DLA Piper LLP was legal advisor for Atlas.
Since 1939, West Coast families have depended on Foster Farms for premium quality chicken and turkey products. Family-owned and operated until its acquisition by Atlas, the company continues its legacy of excellence and commitment to quality established by its founders, Max and Verda Foster. Foster Farms specializes in fresh, all-natural chicken and turkey products free of preservatives, additives or injected sodium enhancers. Based in California's Central Valley, with ranches also in the Pacific Northwest, the company's fresh chicken and turkey are produced in or near each region served. Foster Farms also produces delicious pre-marinated, ready-to-cook and fully cooked products that meet the quality and convenience needs of today's home cooks, retailers, warehouse clubs and foodservice customers. The company's commitment to excellence, honesty, quality, service and people is a source of great pride, and, a longtime family tradition. For more information, visit www.fosterfarms.com.
Headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut and founded in 2002, Atlas and its affiliates own and operate 25 companies, which employ approximately 50,000 associates across more than 300 facilities worldwide. Atlas operates in sectors such as aluminum processing, automotive, building materials, capital equipment, construction services, food manufacturing and distribution, packaging, paper, power generation, printing, pulp, supply chain management and wood products. Atlas' companies together generate approximately $14.5 billion in revenues annually.
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ARR Growth of 50%, Recurring SaaS licenses up 105%, while generating positive operating cash in FY2023
CUPERTINO, Calif., June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - (TSXV: BWLK) (OTCQB: BWLKF) Boardwalktech Software Corp ("Boardwalktech" or the "Company"), the leading Digital Ledger application platform and enterprise software applications company, is pleased to report its financial results for full year fiscal 2023 ended March 31, 2023. All figures are reported in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise indicated. Boardwalktech's financial statements are prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS").
Financial Highlights:
- Revenue for Fiscal 2023 was $6.5 million, an increase of 48% year over year. Revenue from recurring SaaS licenses in Fiscal 2023 grew 105% year-over-year from higher incremental licenses executed with both new and existing customers.
- Annual Recurring Revenue ("ARR") at March 31, 2023 was $5.5 million up from $3.7 million at March 31, 2022, an increase of 50%. The Company defines ARR, a non-IFRS metric, as the annualized recurring revenue expected based on trailing quarterly revenue from license subscriptions and recurring services.
- Gross Margin for Fiscal 2023 increased to 90.6% up from 86.6% in Fiscal 2022. Gross margin was higher than 90% for every quarter in Fiscal 2023.
- Adjusted EBITDA for Fiscal 2023 was $(1.6) million, a 16% improvement compared to $(1.9) million for Fiscal 2022.
- Non-IFRS net loss for Fiscal 2023 improved 17% (as defined in the Adjusted EBITDA and Non-IFRS Financial Measures section) totaling $(1.7) million, or a loss of $(0.04) per basic and diluted share, versus a $(2.0) million non-IFRS loss in Fiscal 2022, or a loss of $(0.05) per basic and diluted share.
- Reported IFRS loss $(3.6) million in Fiscal 2023, or $(0.08) per basic and diluted share, versus $(3.6) million, or a loss of $(0.08) per basic and diluted share, in Fiscal 2022.
- The ending cash balance for Fiscal 2023 was $2.2 million, plus $1.3 million of trade receivables, with cash from operations a positive $1.1 million during in Fiscal 2023, with overal cash inflows of $1.3 million. Thus, the Comany was able to hit its guidance without any financing.
Outlook and Guidance:
- Based upon the Company's recent contract closings, those in the process of closing, and its qualified sales pipeline the Company projects revenue for the upcoming Fiscal 2024 to be $8.5 million to $10.0 million (45% growth at the midpoint).
Operational Highlights
- On February 2, 2023 the Company announced it had added Jeff Evans, former EVP at Walmart to its corporate Advisory Board, joining a seasoned group of Advisory Board members, three of whom joined within the last year, including: Ryan Tweedie (former Strategic Advisor to Global CIO at Accenture); Drue Freeman (former President of ACG Silicon Valley and longtime semiconductor executive); Marc LaCarrubba (former senior leader at EY and current CTO at Humantelligence, Inc.); and, (Don Haderle, former IBM Fellow known as "the father of DB").
- On June 1, 2023, the Company announced that it had both added another new customer (Nintex) to its list of growing clients while securing a fourth license with an existing global customer (Estee Lauder), with incremental revenue from these contracts expected to exceed $200,000 in the next twelve months, including over $100,000 of recurring revenue in the first year.
"As we previously discussed when the year began, Fiscal 2023 was an inflection point in Boardwalktech's overall business. We expanded revenue with existing clients, landed new Fortune 100 logos, and experienced growth across all financial metrics in the Company. While we are pleased with our progress last year, we are far from being satisfied," stated CEO Andrew T. Duncan. "The issues around digital transformation of enterprise data, management of unstructured data and supply chain visibility continues to persist as a challenge across the enterprise. Boardwalktech is meeting and exceeding these challenges with outstanding solutions and will continue to capitalize on this generational opportunity. We remain incredibly excited about the future of the business and look forward to realizing and then reporting the tremendous growth that we see in front of us."
Earnings Conference Call Details:
Boardwalktech management will be hosting its earnings conference call today (June 28, 2023)
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About Boardwalktech Software Corp.
Boardwalktech has developed a patented Digital Ledger Technology Platform currently used by Fortune 500 companies running mission-critical applications worldwide. Boardwalktech's digital ledger technology and its unique method of managing vast amounts of structured and unstructured data is the only platform on the market today where multiple parties can effectively work on the same data simultaneously while preserving the fidelity and provenance of the data. Boardwalktech can deliver collaborative, purpose-built enterprise information management applications on any device or user interface with full integration with enterprise systems of record in a fraction of the time it takes other non-digital ledger technology-based platforms. Boardwalktech is headquartered in Cupertino, California with offices in India and operations in North America. For more information on Boardwalktech, visit our website at www.boardwalktech.com.
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June 4, 1948, in The Star: Mrs. Beatrice Spong has been appointed executive director of the Cottaquilla Council of Girl Scouts of America, succeeding Mrs. Laura O’Quinn, who has been council assistant for the past year. Mrs. Spong, an Indiana native with previous experience in Girl Scout operations, has moved to Anniston with her family; her husband is an engineer for the county. The Spongs, including their 12-year-old daughter, will make their home at 1204 Quintard Avenue. Also this date: According to an Associated Press story, frequency modulation radio (FM) is enjoying sharply increased demand by consumers and by businessmen who want to be involved in that market, such by starting up new radio stations. New sets with FM bands pour out of factories at the rate of more than 40,000 a week, and since the war, the number of FM stations has increased from half a hundred to nearly 550. More than 2,000,000 FM radios are in use. This compares to the existence of less than 30 television stations on the air and about 400,000 television sets in use.
June 4, 1998, in The Star: Bluegrass music fans have until noon today to buy advance tickets for the annual Foggy Hollow Bluegrass Gatherin’ this weekend. The festival that started six years ago with a few performers has 11 acts scheduled to pick their way through tunes for two days at the Wellington-area farm. Ever since Glen Williams and David Boley founded the event, top-notch performers and thousands of patrons have prompted the transformation of a former pasture into a camping and stage area. Two-day tickets this year cost $18 in advance, $24 at the gate. | https://www.annistonstar.com/features/look-back-to-plans-being-made-for-another-foggy-hollow-show-1998/article_39dc19e8-0296-11ee-aa6a-5383ebb10892.html | 2023-06-04 17:31:18 | 0 | https://www.annistonstar.com/features/look-back-to-plans-being-made-for-another-foggy-hollow-show-1998/article_39dc19e8-0296-11ee-aa6a-5383ebb10892.html |
In June 2021, Hoboken and the New York Waterway commuter ferry company, long at odds over a piece of land on Hoboken’s waterfront, had finally agreed to a truce.
Sixteen months later, it appears that aspects of the agreement that involve Waterway selling the Union Dry Dock land to Hoboken are unraveling. | https://www.nj.com/hudson/2022/10/with-deal-at-standstill-hoboken-again-looks-to-eminent-domain-to-acquire-union-dry-dock.html | 2022-10-04 22:27:02 | 0 | https://www.nj.com/hudson/2022/10/with-deal-at-standstill-hoboken-again-looks-to-eminent-domain-to-acquire-union-dry-dock.html |
US, Russia stop sharing nuke data under faltering New START
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Russia have stopped sharing biannual nuclear weapons data under the faltering New START treaty, the last arms control pact between the two countries, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
Officials at the White House, Pentagon and State Department said the U.S. had offered to continue providing this information to Russia even after President Vladimir Putin suspended Russia’s participation in the treaty last month, but Moscow informed Washington that it would not be sharing its own data.
“Because of Russia’s noncompliance with these obligations under the treaty, the United States will not provide its biannual data exchange to Russia either, in order to encourage Russia to return to compliance with the treaty,” State Department spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters.
The White House, which has previously accused Russia of multiple violations of the treaty, has said Russia’s refusal to comply is “legally invalid” and the decision to withhold the nuclear data is yet another violation.
Despite being extended shortly after President Joe Biden took office in January, 2021, New START has been severely tested by Russia’s war in Ukraine and has been on life support for more than a month since Putin announced Russia would no longer comply with its requirements.
The treaty, which then-Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev signed in 2010, limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers. The agreement envisages sweeping on-site inspections to verify compliance.
The inspections have been dormant since 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Discussions on resuming them were supposed to have taken place in November 2022, but Russia abruptly called them off, citing U.S. support for Ukraine. In February, Russia formally suspended its participation in the treaty.
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Daddy's no. 1 fans.
As the Tampa Bay Buccaners took on the Green Bay Packers on Sept. 25, Tom Brady's three kids were on hand to cheer on the quarterback in his first home game of the season.
In a sweet video posted to Twitter on the Bucs' official account, Tom is seen embracing his 12-year-old son Benjamin and 9-year-old daughter Vivian, who he shares with wife Gisele Bündchen, and son Jack, 15, who he shares with ex Bridget Moynahan, on his way to the field. The team captioned the clip, "All about family."
The afternoon marks the first game of the NFL that Tom's kids have attended. However, one member of the Brady family was noticeably absent: Gisele.
Since the seven-time Super Bowl champion announced he was retuning to football less than a month after announcing his retirement in February, reports have circulated that his marriage with Gisele may on the rocks.
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The supermodel--who married Tom in 2009--recently opened up about her role as an NFL wife and the sacrifices she has made to make their relationship work.
"I've done my part, which is [to] be there for [Tom]," she shared with Elle in an interview published Sept. 13. "I moved to Boston, and I focused on creating a cocoon and a loving environment for my children to grow up in and to be there supporting him and his dreams."
Gisele, 42, also revealed her "concerns" regarding her the 45-year-old's return to the game, saying she wished Tom could be more available their family.
"This is a very violent sport, and I have my children and I would like him to be more present, " she shared. "I have definitely had those conversations with him over and over again."
While Gisele has not attended any games this season, she did send a supportive message when Tom took the field against the Dallas Cowboys.
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Then vs. now: What the world was like when Queen Elizabeth II was coronated in 1953
LONDON - What a difference seven decades have made. The world has changed in unimaginable ways since Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953.
The queen died Friday surrounded by family at Balmoral castle in Scotland.
When 25-year-old Princess Elizabeth was proclaimed queen on Feb. 6, 1952, the British Empire stretched across the world, royalty was widely revered, and televisions were still a novelty item. On June 2, 1953, Elizabeth’s coronation at Westminster Abbey was the first time most people had watched an event live on television. Millions around the world saw the ceremony on TV, outnumbering the radio audience for the first time.
The world has undergone profound changes since then and so has the monarchy. Queen Elizabeth II’s empire shrank, then crumbled. While most people in Britain remain loyal to the queen and respect her years of service to the nation, attitudes about the monarchy have swung from unquestioning deference to scrutiny. In the 1980s, Princess Diana brought global star power to the House of Windsor, but also ushered in an era in which the royal family was forced to negotiate an uneasy relationship with the media.
READ MORE: What happens when the queen dies? All about Prince Charles’ succession, accession and coronation
Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh on the day of their coronation, Buckingham Palace, 1953. (Colorised black and white print). Artist Unknown. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)
Gas prices averaged 21 cents per gallon in 1953
According to the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, gas prices averaged 21 cents per gallon in the United States.
Today, the price of gas is famously a pain point for many in the U.S. The national average was $3.75 per gallon as of Sept. 8, according to AAA. That’s down from a record high national average of over $5 a gallon in June.
READ MORE: Monarchies around the world: The U.K., a diarchy, and the uniqueness of Vatican City
Officials blame the rise on inflation but note gas prices have fluctuated greatly over the decades. They cite the U.S. embargo of oil from Iran in the early 1980s that caused gas prices to soar. Gas prices continued to rise between 2002 and 2008 but then fell rapidly during the subsequent economic recession. The rose and dipped again during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and rose again during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Home prices are 50 times higher than they were when Queen Elizabeth took the throne
circa 1955: A real estate agent carries a suitcase while walking across the front lawn of a house displaying a 'SALE: Sacrifice to Settle Estate/ APPLY ANY BROKER' sign. (Photo by Lambert/Getty Images)
According to the Chicago Tribune, the household median income in the U.S. in 1950 was $2,990 — roughly 40% of the median home value of $7,354 at the time based on census data.
Today, Zillow reports the typical home value of homes in the U.S. is $355,852 as of July 2022. The median price is $413,500 as of August 2022, according to the National Association of Realtors. It’s the first time the median price has surpassed $400,000.
Cars were under $4,000
Multi-lane highway traffic jam. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)
In 1953, the average price of a new vehicle in the U.S. was just under $4,000, according to Go Banking Rates. The average price paid for a new vehicle was the highest on record in July at $48,182, up 12% from the prior-year period
That’s a far cry from today’s average, which creeped up to a whopping $48,182 in July — up 12% from 2021. Drivers searching for non-luxury vehicles paid, on average, $875 above sticker price for the same month.
TVs were more expensive
A happy family cheerfully sits in their living room and watches a televisied clown and puppet show, 1957. The father holds an newspaper open to the financial section in his hands. (Photo by Lambert/Getty Images)
The year Queen Elizabeth became queen was also the first year a TV show aired in color in the U.S. Three months later, the first color TV went on sale in New York City. The price was $1,295.
Today, consumers pay about $500, on average, for a new television.
Schools were segregated
Linda Brown (center) and her sister Terry Lynn (far right) sit on a bus as they ride to the racially segregated Monroe Elementary School, Topeka, Kansas, March 1953. (Photo by Carl Iwasaki/Getty Images)
When Queen Elizabeth was crowned more than 70 years ago, public schools in the United States were still operating under the "separate but equal" doctrine that allowed segregation in schools. It wasn’t until a year later in 1954 that the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregation, but it would take another 14 years for most schools to completely desegregate.
In 2016, the Cleveland, Mississippi school district became the last district in the nation to desegregate after a federal judge ruled that it had to.
College tuition
A campus view of Barnard College, a private women's liberal arts college and a member of the Seven Sisters and affiliated with Columbia University in New York City, New York, 1955. (Photo by R. Gates/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
According to the University of Pennsylvania, students there paid between $700 and $850 a year in tuition in 1953, plus a "general fee" of about $75 and $50 for books. If you wanted room and board, that was an additional $835.
As of August 2022, the average cost of in-state tuition was $9,377 a year, according to the Education Data Initiative. That number rose to $27,091 for out-of-state tuition. With fees, books and daily living expenses, the average cost of a year of college in America is $35,551.
Food prices
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In 1953, two tall cans of milk would set you back a quarter. A loaf of rye bread was 29 cents, and a head of iceberg lettuce was 6 cents.
Today, a gallon of whole milk costs, on average, $4.38, according to the USDA, and a loaf of bread averages $1.72. In July, Whole Foods was reportedly selling some loaves of artisanal bread for more than $10 a loaf.
Stamps
Postage stamps from the series honouring Queen Elizabeth II (born 1926), 1967-1970. United Kingdom, 20th century. London, National Postal Museum United Kingdom (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)
When Elizabeth became queen, you could mail a letter for 3 cents. Today, a stamp costs 60 cents.
Plane tickets
Complete Caption in Negative Sleeve From Pan American World Airways. New York International Airport, NY.
Much like televisions, air travel has gotten cheaper — and better — over the years. In the 1950s, a one-way flight from Los Angeles to Kansas City was listed at $68, according to Gizmodo. That’s about $710 in 2022 adjusted for inflation.
Today, a quick Google search will find the same flight for as little as $69.
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Texas sheriff takes migrant crisis into own hands, drives detainees back to border
Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe says he will continue to do his job to protect his residents
Kinney County, Texas Sheriff Brad Coe said he had no choice but to take matters into his own hands at the southern border as the influx of illegal immigrants continues.
Coe joined "Fox & Friends First" Thursday after he detained and drove migrants back to the U.S.-Mexico border himself due to a lack of resources.
"Anyone or anything we catch walking the highway or in smuggling endeavor, we can roll over to Border Patrol," Coe began. "But because of the Biden administration and policies that are being put into place by the administration, I didn't have any resources but to take [them] back myself."
Coe said five migrants were apprehended by his deputies Wednesday. While one migrant was transported to a hospital, four migrants were uninjured and denied to been seen by EMS. Coe explained that the U.S. Border Patrol requires migrants to be medically cleared before being detained, which would require two of his six deputies to take them to the closest hospital 35 miles away. Instead, Coe drove the migrants to an official port of entry to Mexico.
"I'll always place the safety of the residents of Kinney County, the residents of Texas, above the comfort of anybody that's illegally entered this country," he said. "My job is, as an elected official in Kinney County, is to protect these people. And that's my job and that's what I will continue to do until further notice."
According to the sheriff, Biden's open border policies are anything but compassionate and tragedies like the 53 migrants killed in a human trafficking operation will continue to happen until the administration begins to enforce border laws.
Coe also warned agriculture has been affected by uncontrolled migration.
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"Groups are walking through watermelon pastures, tearing at the watermelon… The torn-out fences, the broken water lines, the windows that have been damaged. One of the local ranchers has spent 40, 50, $60,000 in the past year repairing his fences to keep his cattle and his livestock," he said.
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When Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp overwhelmingly won the Republican primary in Georgia on May 24, his chief opponent former Sen. David Perdue was quick to admit it was over.
"Everything I said about Brian Kemp was true, but here's the other thing I said was true: he is a much better choice than Stacey Abrams," he said shortly after polls closed, referring to the matchup this fall between Kemp and Democrat Abrams. "And so we are going to get behind our governor."
But another one of his opponents felt something was off.
"I want y'all to know that I do not concede," Kandiss Taylor said in a video posted to social media. "I do not. And if the people who did this and cheated are watching, I do not concede."
Kemp won Georgia's primary with about 74% of the vote. Perdue, who had the backing of former President Donald Trump, earned about 22% of the vote.
And Taylor? Just 3.4%.
Taylor is a fringe, far-right figure in Georgia with a history of making false claims about the 2020 election, voting machines and how elections are run. In the days following her defeat, Taylor has asked followers to sign affidavits stating they voted for her to prove she won the election — despite no evidence the vote totals are incorrect and with the deadline to challenge an election already passed.
Taylor is not an outlier, but rather an indicator of a new crop of candidates who insist they won their elections, facts be damned.
Election denialism is far-reaching in the midterm elections
While Trump has most notably spent the last 18 months denying his 2020 election defeat, despite clear evidence he lost, he's not the only one. During this election cycle, candidates across the country have refused to concede – even in races that are not remotely close.
This week, a Colorado county clerk indicted on charges including election tampering finished last in the GOP Secretary of State race, refused to acknowledge her loss and accused officials of cheating.
"We didn't lose. We just found more fraud," Mesa County clerk Tina Peters told supporters at an Election Night party."
In South Carolina, a pair of Republican primary challengers said their blowout losses were tainted by serious problems. Both gubernatorial candidate Harrison Musselwhite and attorney general candidate Lauren Martel lost by double digits against popular incumbents, but sent nearly-identical letters to state officials claiming a plethora of concerns with the election.
The South Carolina Republican Party's executive committee rejected the claims.
And in Nevada, GOP gubernatorial primary runner-up Joey Gilbert told supporters in a video message he could not have been defeated.
It's not based on any facts, it's only based on my gut feeling and my own intuition, and that's all I need."
"It is impossible for me to concede under these circumstances," Gilbert said. "I owe it to my supporters. I owe it to all Nevadans of all parties to ensure that every legal vote is counted legitimately."
Gilbert, who was outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 though he denies it was for the insurrection, has paid close to $200,000 for all 17 counties to recount the governor's race that saw him lose by about 11 percentage points. State and local officials reject Gilbert's claims.
In all of these cases, there is no evidence to back up claims of fraud that could reverse defeats, and most of these elections were not remotely close. But Matthew Weil with the Bipartisan Policy Center said, unfortunately, that doesn't matter to those who push the narrative of fraud.
"There is a very strong segment of the electorate that believes strongly if their candidate had lost, and they were doing well in the polls – even if they weren't doing well in the polls – it was the election machinery that caused their loss," he said.
The real world impact of false fraud claims
The vast majority of elections end uneventfully, even in close races, but a recent incident in New Mexico shows how election denialism is impacting local election procedures.
Commissioners in rural Otero County gained national attention for initially refusing to certify the results in the Republican-heavy area. After pressure and threat of legal action, only Couy Griffin voted no.
"My vote to just remain a no isn't based on any evidence," he said at a June 17 emergency meeting. "It's not based on any facts, it's only based on my gut feeling and my own intuition, and that's all I need."
Griffin called into the meeting from Washington, D.C., where he was sentenced for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
It's not just fringe candidates making these claims, either. An NPR investigation tracked four election conspiracy influencers across hundreds of local events in 45 states and the District of Columbia, including meetings with at least 78 elected officials across all levels of government.
These sitting lawmakers can have power to shape legislation that alter voting laws and can make it harder for people to vote and easier to subvert results.
Weill, with the Bipartisan Policy Center, said you also don't have to look far to see why losing candidates could benefit from ignoring electoral reality.
"There are clearly now perverse incentives for losing candidates to keep up the fight long after the certification is complete and they've lost," he said. "And those incentives are that they can raise money for these challenges [that] often don't cost much because there's nothing to them, and they can use that money in future cycles."
The biggest example of fundraising off of a message of fraud might come from Trump himself. He raised more than $250 million to cover legal fees during his attempts to overturn the 2020 election for an election legal defense fund, according to the House committee investigating Jan. 6.
But that money, the committee said, didn't go to covering legal fees. Instead, it went to people and organizations aligned with Trump.
Voting experts and elections officials are worried this behavior will only increase in future elections, especially in battleground states where some elections aren't decided by such wide margins.
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John Albert “Bert” Richards, 88, left this world to be with his beloved wife Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022.
He was the widower of Catherine Regan Richards. They were married for 53 years.
Born in Pittston, Bert was the son of the late Jack and Margaret Collier Richards. He was a member of Our Lady of the Eucharist Parish and the Knights of Columbus. He was an active member of Alcoholics Anonymous, and celebrated 50 years of sobriety. Bert was a 1951 graduate of St. John’s High School and graduated from the University of Scranton in 1956.
In the late 1950s, he worked as an engineer at ABMA in Cape Canaveral, Fla., during the Saturn and Jupiter rocket launches; and later at Tobyhanna Army Depot.
He was a devoted husband, father, grandfather and friend. Catherine and his daughters were the loves of his life and he would do anything for them. He enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren, working in his “laboratory” and was most famous for jumping off the garage roof into the pool.
Bert is survived by his daughters, Mary Kate Richards, Pittston, and boyfriend, Christopher Collins; and Sheila McCormick and husband, Daniel, Downingtown; two grandchildren, Harper and Eloise McCormick; and several cousins.
The family extends its gratitude to the staff at Wesley Village and Hospice of the Sacred Heart for the excellent care Bert received.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in Our Lady of the Eucharist Parish, 535 N. Main St., Pittston, celebrated by the Rev. Michael Bryant. A viewing will be held from 3 to 7 p.m. Friday at Neil W. Regan Funeral Home Inc., 1900 Pittston Ave., Scranton. For your safety and the safety of others, masks will be required at the viewing.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Attn: Development, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, 15213; The National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, www.carnegielibrary.org/give; or Our Lady of the Eucharist Parish, 535, N. Main St., Pittston, PA 18640.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Four-Midday" game were:
7-2-6-5, Fireball: 8
(seven, two, six, five; Fireball: eight)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Four-Midday" game were:
7-2-6-5, Fireball: 8
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 3" game were:
4-2-0
(four, two, zero)
¶ Maximum prize: $500
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 3" game were:
4-2-0
(four, two, zero)
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BEIJING, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Under the spotlight of major news media around the world, the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) opened in the Great Hall of the People on Sunday morning. General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Xi Jinping delivered a report to the congress on behalf of the 19th CPC Central Committee. Hundreds of millions of Chinese people and international observers paid close attention to the congress, and the relevant content quickly became trendy topics on the internet. When the world is once again at the crossroads of history, how will China respond to opportunities and challenges, and how will it interact with the world? People are looking for answers in the report.
General Secretary Xi emphasized in the report, "From this day forward, the central task of the CPC will be to lead the Chinese people of all ethnic groups in a concerted effort to realize the Second Centenary Goal of building China into a great modern socialist country in all respects and to advance the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts through a Chinese path to modernization." Next, the work of the Party and the country will all be carried out around this central task. This is another great new journey for China to make overall progress while driving the world forward.
The report's elaboration on "Chinese modernization" is also a clear demonstration to the world of today's China's development path, which has attracted special attention from the international public opinion. General Secretary Xi mentioned this important concept on many occasions and made a comprehensive and in-depth systematic expounding in the report, forming a complete theoretical system. Chinese modernization is the socialist modernization pursued under the leadership of the CPC. It not only has the common characteristics of modernization of all countries, but also Chinese characteristics based on its own national conditions. This is another innovative breakthrough in theory and practice by the CPC since its 18th National Congress, and it is also a new contribution to mankind's exploration of the path of modernization.
This is a path to modernization that not only develops itself, but also benefits the world. The successful practice of Chinese modernization tells the world in an irrefutable way that there is more than one path leading to modernization. Every country and nation not only has rights, but also possibility to embark on a path to modernization that suits its own national conditions.
Chinese modernization has broadened the horizon for the development of human society. China's continuous enrichment and development of new forms of human civilization has inspired more countries and nations to add their own colors to the garden of human civilization.
Among the five major characteristics of Chinese modernization summed up by General Secretary Xi, there is one that China has repeatedly stated, and has been proven time and time again, that is, Chinese modernization is the modernization of peaceful development. The CPC leads the Chinese people to firmly explore a new path to achieve national development and national rejuvenation in a peaceful way, and at the same time better maintain world peace and development through its own development. This is one of the important connotations of the "new model for human civilization."
Currently, the changes of the world, of the times and of history are unfolding in an unprecedented way. The report delivered by General Secretary Xi has linked the historic mission of the CPC, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with peace and development of the world, which is a vivid manifestation of a community with a shared future for mankind. The report stressed that China adheres to the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence in pursuing friendship and cooperation with other countries. It is committed to promoting a new type of international relations, deepening and expanding global partnerships based on equality, openness, and cooperation, and broadening the convergence of interests with other countries. The CPC always honors its promises. Standing on the right side of history, on the side of the progress of humanity's civilization, the new path of Chinese modernization will become wider and wider.
The important message released by this congress is firm and clear, positive and well-intentioned. Anyone who hold pragmatic and rational attitude toward China and the world's development will gain a sense of direction and positive energy from the report. With the irreversible process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, Chinese modernization will increasingly demonstrate its civilizational significance. When we reach the goal of building China into a great modern socialist country in all respects, it is a success worthy to be celebrated by the Chinese people and the people of the world.
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Oklahoma Turnpike Authority officials met a crowd of Noble and Norman residents who crowded around information tables while others protested toll road expansion at a public meeting Thursday.
The OTA announced in February it would expand the state’s toll road system, including an extension of the Kickapoo Turnpike from Interstate 40 south to Purcell and one along Indian Hills Road to connect Moore, Norman and Oklahoma City.
OTA Deputy Director Joe Echelle told residents at the Thursday meeting in Noble High School that the Turnpike Authority would build the connection from I-35 to I-44 along Indian Hills first and then an extension of the Kilpatrick Turnpike from State Highway 152 to I-44. The south extension will connect the outer loop to State Highway 9 and last from SH-9 to I-35 to Purcell.
Echelle said the route was initially codified in law in 1987 and that OTA, the Oklahoma Department of Transportation and the Association of Central Oklahoma Governments had studied it in the 1980s and again in the early 90s.
The Indian Hills route was chosen to avoid the high density of homes and businesses that had developed north of the road. And the west side of the lake was chosen because it is a “more direct route” and the east side of the lake would be 12 miles longer.
Following his brief introduction, he directed residents to booths where specific questions could be addressed about the proposed turnpike’s impacts to property owners. Each booth was staffed with right-of-way acquisition specialists, engineers and other turnpike staff. One booth was available to discuss environmental impacts.
Noble resident Leslie Isom said she worries about her property value as traffic will increase along Etowah, where an interchange is planned near her home.
“It will probably go up,” Isom said. “Before this happened, I was inundated 10 times a day by text, email, ‘I want to buy your house’ or ‘somebody is interested in your house.’ It stopped. I haven’t had one since this started.”
Pam Post, a Norman resident who protested the turnpike, said the meeting was nothing more than a show.
“This is their meeting, because they want to be able to tell everyone, ‘well we held meetings so everyone can get their questions answered,’” she said.
Like many Norman residents, Post worries the project will impact the city water because it will pollute the Lake Thunderbird watershed and their aquifer-fed wells.
“If you’re talking about elevated roads coming through the wetlands, you have the chance of spillage – fuel, salt, etc. going into that water, and Norman will be hurting.”
The OTA has said during previous meetings that it will control stormwater runoff from the roads and perform environmental impact studies ahead of construction.
Post wondered how long those studies would hold true.
“Water filtrates down through the ground, and then it goes into the aquifer,” she said. “Eventually over the years, 10, 20 or 30 years later, it might poison that aquifer, and Norman is already in a water shortage.”
The lake is considered an impaired water source by the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality and is the primary source of drinking water for Norman. Midwest City and Del City also purchase water from the lake.
Another Norman resident said the OTA will push her entirely out of Norman because she would be forced into a higher mortgage bracket if she stays. She wondered how many others would be put in a similar position.
“Norman’s going to lose a lot of property tax, retail [tax] and utility service [fees],” Kim Burks said.
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WFO SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, January 10, 2023
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713 PM PST Tue Jan 10 2023
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Alameda, northwestern San Mateo, including SFO Airport, southwestern
Contra Costa and southeastern San Francisco Counties through 745 PM
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At 711 PM PST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Millbrae, moving northeast at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
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San Francisco, Oakland, Hayward, Berkeley, Daly City, San Mateo, San
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — When BNSF railroad conductor Justin Schaaf needed to take time off from work this summer, he had to make a choice: go to the dentist to get a cavity in his molar filled or attend a party for his son’s 7th birthday.
He chose his son.
“Ultimately I decided to take the day off for my kid’s birthday party,” Schaaf said. “Then when I am finally able to get into the dentist four, five, six months later, the tooth is too bad to repair at that point, so I have to get the tooth pulled out.”
Those are the kind of tradeoffs that railroad workers worry they might still have to make after Congress voted this week to impose a contract on them to avoid the economic disaster that would accompany a railroad strike. Workers and their unions say the deal didn’t do enough to address their quality-of-life concerns and didn’t add any sick days.
President Joe Biden signed a bill Friday to block a strike and force workers to accept the agreements union leaders made in September, even though four of the 12 unions — which include a majority of rail workers — voted to reject them. Business groups had been urging Biden to intervene for weeks.
For Schaaf, he’s not sure if the new contract will make it any easier to find another day off sometime next year to pay to have a fake tooth implanted in his mouth.
“If I had the option of taking a sick day … I would have never been in that situation,” he said from his home in Glasgow, Montana.
Schaaf said it was discouraging, but not surprising, to see Congress step in to settle the contract dispute ahead of next Friday’s strike deadline. Lawmakers have made a habit of stepping in to impose contracts when railroads and their unions reach the brink of a strike — 18 times since the passage of the 1926 Railway Labor Act, by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s count — because of the potential economic consequences.
Many businesses rely on railroads to deliver raw materials and ship their final products, so a rail strike would send a catastrophic ripple through the economy. Passenger railroads also would be disrupted because so many use tracks owned by the freight railroads.
The five-year deals that rail workers wound up with include 24% raises and $5,000 in bonuses. But concerns about the lack of paid sick time and the demanding schedules that unions say make it hard for workers to ever take a day off dominated the contract talks. The rail unions say they weren’t able to get more concessions out of the railroads because the big companies knew Congress would intervene.
The railroads refused to add paid sick days to the deal at the end of three years of negotiations because they didn’t want to pay much more than a special board of arbitrators appointed by Biden recommended this summer. Plus, the railroads say the unions have agreed over the years to forego paid sick leave in favor of higher wages and strong short-term disability benefits that kick in after as little as four days.
The railroads agreed to offer three unpaid days for engineers and conductors to tend to medical needs as long as they are scheduled at least 30 days in advance. They also promised to negotiate further to improve the way regular days off are scheduled to help workers better know when they will be off.
But to retired engineer Jeff Kurtz, there is still a lot of work to be done to restore the quality of life he enjoyed before he left the railroad eight years ago. He doubts rail workers today would be able to get time off for key family events on short notice the way he did when he found out his son was getting his doctorate right before Christmas in 2009.
“You hear when you hire out on the railroad you’re going to miss some things. But you’re not supposed to miss everything,” said Kurtz, who remains active even in retirement with the Railroad Workers United coalition that includes workers from every union. “You shouldn’t miss your kids growing up. You shouldn’t miss the seminal moments in your family’s life.”
Over the past six years, the major railroads have eliminated nearly one-third of their jobs as they overhauled operations, making the work more demanding for those who remain.
The unions say they won’t stop fighting for more paid sick leave, but now they may have to wait for negotiations on the next contract beginning in 2025.
The head of the Association of American Railroads trade group, Ian Jefferies, acknowledged “there is more to be done to further address our employees’ work-life balance concerns” but he said the compromise deals that Congress voted to impose should help make schedules more predictable while delivering the biggest raises rail workers have seen in more than four decades. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national/ap-rail-workers-say-deal-wont-resolve-quality-of-life-concerns/ | 2022-12-03 19:35:37 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national/ap-rail-workers-say-deal-wont-resolve-quality-of-life-concerns/ |
It will be this Wednesday when more tears will flow in Sylacauga. The city will say goodbye to Brighton Clary, who was looking forward to her senior year. The 17-year-old, beautiful inside and out, will be remembered. Remembered as everybody’s best friend.It was months ago when Sylacauga High School photography teacher Jimmy Reynolds handed his students an assignment. He asked his students to seek out their best friends and take a picture of them that told their stories. A single picture that captured the kindness, the uniqueness of their best buddy. Raegen Willis sought out Brighton Clary, her best friend.Raegen’s picture brilliantly captured Brighton Clary (pictured above). Her athleticism — Brighton was a star volleyball and softball player. Her compassion, her wholesomeness, her kindness. Her beauty. It was picture-perfect.Mr. Reynolds wanted me to know something about Brighton when we spoke this morning. “Just about everyone considered Brighton Clary their best friend,” he said. “The star volleyball and softball player, the band member, the cheerleader, the baseball and football player.”"'Who’s your best friend?' I would ask. Every person I asked that to said, 'Oh, Brighton Clary is my best friend.' All you need to know about Brighton can be found in the fact that almost everyone at the school considered her their best friend."Brighton Clary died last Thursday in a terrible ATV accident as the vehicle hit a tree. It happened so suddenly. Word spread quickly, and shock spread through Sylacauga.It will be this Wednesday when more tears will flow during the viewing and a funeral will begin at 10 a.m. at Sylacauga High School. Family, classmates, teachers and others will shed more tears than they can count. They will wonder how such a young, vibrant life can be gone in an instant.They will hug one another tight as they do something they never thought they would have to do.They will say goodbye to Brighton Clary.Their best friend ever.—
SYLACAUGA, Ala. — It will be this Wednesday when more tears will flow in Sylacauga. The city will say goodbye to Brighton Clary, who was looking forward to her senior year. The 17-year-old, beautiful inside and out, will be remembered. Remembered as everybody’s best friend.
It was months ago when Sylacauga High School photography teacher Jimmy Reynolds handed his students an assignment. He asked his students to seek out their best friends and take a picture of them that told their stories. A single picture that captured the kindness, the uniqueness of their best buddy. Raegen Willis sought out Brighton Clary, her best friend.
Raegen’s picture brilliantly captured Brighton Clary (pictured above). Her athleticism — Brighton was a star volleyball and softball player. Her compassion, her wholesomeness, her kindness. Her beauty. It was picture-perfect.
Mr. Reynolds wanted me to know something about Brighton when we spoke this morning.
“Just about everyone considered Brighton Clary their best friend,” he said. “The star volleyball and softball player, the band member, the cheerleader, the baseball and football player.”
"'Who’s your best friend?' I would ask. Every person I asked that to said, 'Oh, Brighton Clary is my best friend.' All you need to know about Brighton can be found in the fact that almost everyone at the school considered her their best friend."
Brighton Clary died last Thursday in a terrible ATV accident as the vehicle hit a tree. It happened so suddenly. Word spread quickly, and shock spread through Sylacauga.
It will be this Wednesday when more tears will flow during the viewing and a funeral will begin at 10 a.m. at Sylacauga High School. Family, classmates, teachers and others will shed more tears than they can count.
They will wonder how such a young, vibrant life can be gone in an instant.
They will hug one another tight as they do something they never thought they would have to do.
They will say goodbye to Brighton Clary.
Their best friend ever.
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RoC partners with leading dermatologists to highlight benefits of the powerhouse ingredient
NEW YORK, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RoC® Skincare, a leading clinically-proven skincare brand, is celebrating the second annual National Retinol Day on November 7th. Last year, RoC, who is the #1 most awarded retinol brand1, declared the first-ever National Retinol Day, via the Registrar at the National Day Calendar, to celebrate the powerhouse ingredient as one of the most efficacious available.
Widely regarded as the gold-standard ingredient in the skincare industry, retinol helps to diminish fine lines, wrinkles, sagging skin, and uneven skin tone. RoC was the first brand to stabilize retinol and optimize the ingredient, making it easily accessible to consumers more than 25 years ago.
"At RoC, we're passionate about retinol, an ingredient we've dedicated nearly three decades to researching and utilizing to develop breakthrough skincare solutions," shares Fernando Acosta, CEO of RoC Skincare. "After conducting more than 100 clinical studies and having published multiple patents on retinol technology, we truly understand its benefits and believe it's worth celebrating - on National Retinol Day and every day."
For the second consecutive year, RoC Skincare will be hosting an Instagram Live "Ask Me Anything" with skin experts on November 7th at 3:30pm EST to talk about all things retinol and answer questions about the ingredient in real-time. RoC and several leading dermatologists will also provide education on retinol and will be giving away a free year of RoC Retinol products on Instagram.
"I'm excited to once again celebrate National Retinol Day with RoC. Retinol is perhaps the most effective and most-loved ingredient by dermatologists and anti-aging enthusiasts alike," shared New York City Board Certified Dermatologist Dr. Joshua Zeichner. "There's a reason we call it the gold standard skincare ingredient; it offers a host of benefits for all skin types."
To celebrate National Retinol Day, RoC.com is offering 25% off plus a free mini Retinol Line Smoothing Capsules with any purchase of $65+ November 1st - November 7th so consumers can experience the magic of the ingredient themselves.
Follow along on Instagram at @rocskincare and #NationalRetinolDay to learn how board-certified dermatologists are celebrating National Retinol Day.
RoC has been revolutionizing skincare since 1957 when Dr. Jean-Charles Lissarrague, a French pharmacist at the Rogé Cavaillès pharmacy, created the first hypoallergenic skincare formulations. This was the first of many collaborations with dermatologists to provide them with safe and effective products for their patients. For more than 60 years, that has been the foundational philosophy at RoC, inspiring a history of firsts: The first broad spectrum UV protection to proactively preserve the health of skin and the first to discover a method for stabilizing Retinol. By combining Retinol with antioxidants and using innovative packaging, RoC made it possible to deliver Retinol's skin-smoothing benefits safely and effectively for daily use. Today, Retinol is still one of the greatest discoveries in the history of skincare.
1Based on a 3rd party study using publicly available data sources from publications and media sources hosting beauty awards since 2010.
Contact: M Booth / RoCSkincare@mbooth.com
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KCA Nominees Announced: Beyoncé, Bad Bunny, Stephen Curry, Chris Evans, Lady Gaga, Selena Gomez, Jack Harlow, Lizzo, Jenna Ortega, Harry Styles, MrBeast, Serena Williams, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and More
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HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Co-host of CBS Mornings and CBS Sports Analyst Nate Burleson and digital superstar Charli D'Amelio will embark on an immersive and Slime-tastic adventure as co-hosts of Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2023. Airing live on Saturday, March 4, at 7 p.m. (ET/PT) from the Microsoft Theater for the first time ever, Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards will celebrate fans' favorites from across the worlds of film, television, music, sports and more. The news was revealed today on CBS Mornings.
Said Burleson, "Hosting NFL Slimetime is always a blast, and I can't wait to bring that same energy and Slime as co-host of the iconic Kids' Choice Awards! I grew up on Nickelodeon and my kids still love watching, so we're all ready for the stunts, surprises and superstars that await us at this year's show."
Said D'Amelio, "I got slimed at the KCAs in 2021, saw my sister get slimed at last year's show and now, no one is safe with me as co-host! Nate and I will make sure this year's show is full of unexpected Slime shots, impressive dances and surprise tricks along the way!"
Today's Kids' Choice Awards news also included this year's nominees. First-time nominees include Jenna Ortega, Jack Harlow, GAYLE, Joji, Nicky Youre and Letitia Wright, among others. Stranger Things leads the pack with six nominations, followed by That Girl Lay Lay, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series and The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder with four nominations each. Beginning today, fans in the U.S. can cast their votes across 31 categories on the official Kids' Choice Awards website, KidsChoiceAwards.com, with an additional 32 international categories available in regions around the world.
Musical performances will be announced at a later date.
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2023 will continue to put the fans in control as they enter a magical surreal world. This year's show will also feature extreme logic-defying stunts; wild celebrity collaborations and games; magical illusions and tricks; interactive moments within the Nickverse; and epic slimings. Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2023 will simulcast across Nickelodeon, TeenNick, Nicktoons, the Nick Jr. channel, TVLand, CMT and MTV2.
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2023 is sponsored by LUNCHABLES with 100% Juice®, Nintendo Switch, and Olive Garden®.
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2023 nominees are:
TELEVISION:
FAVORITE KIDS TV SHOW
Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Ghost Island
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
Ms. Marvel
Raven's Home
That Girl Lay Lay
The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder
The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers
The Really Loud House
FAVORITE FAMILY TV SHOW
Cobra Kai
iCarly
Obi-Wan Kenobi
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
Stranger Things
Wednesday
Young Rock
Young Sheldon
FAVORITE REALITY SHOW
America's Funniest Home Videos
America's Got Talent
American Ninja Warrior
Floor Is Lava
MasterChef Junior
The Masked Singer
FAVORITE ANIMATED SHOW
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous
Rugrats
SpongeBob SquarePants
Teen Titans Go!
The Loud House
The Smurfs
FAVORITE FEMALE TV STAR (KIDS)
Audrey Grace Marshall (Vivian Turner, The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder)
Imogen Cohen (Zina, The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder)
Olivia Rodrigo (Nini, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series)
Raven-Symoné (Raven Baxter, Raven's Home)
Sofia Wylie (Gina, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series)
That Girl Lay Lay (Lay Lay, That Girl Lay Lay)
FAVORITE MALE TV STAR (KIDS)
Brady Noon (Evan Morrow, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers)
Israel Johnson (Noah Lambert, Bunk'd)
Joshua Bassett (Ricky, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series)
Tyler Wladis (Roy, The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder)
Wolfgang Schaeffer (Lincoln Loud, The Really Loud House)
Young Dylan (Young Dylan, Tyler Perry's Young Dylan)
FAVORITE FEMALE TV STAR (FAMILY)
Hilary Duff (Sophie, How I Met Your Father)
Jenna Ortega (Wednesday Addams, Wednesday)
Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven, Stranger Things)
Miranda Cosgrove (Carly Shay, iCarly)
Sadie Sink (Max Mayfield, Stranger Things)
Tracee Ellis Ross (Bow Johnson, Black-ish)
FAVORITE MALE TV STAR (FAMILY)
Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas Sinclair, Stranger Things)
Ewan McGregor (Obi-Wan Kenobi, Obi-Wan-Kenobi)
Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler, Stranger Things)
Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin Henderson, Stranger Things)
Jerry Trainor (Spencer Shay, iCarly)
Ralph Macchio (Daniel LaRusso, Cobra Kai)
FILM:
FAVORITE MOVIE
Avatar: The Way of Water
Black Adam
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Hocus Pocus 2
Jurassic World Dominion
Monster High The Movie
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Top Gun: Maverick
FAVORITE MOVIE ACTOR
Chris Hemsworth (Thor, Thor: Love and Thunder)
Chris Pratt (Owen Grady, Jurassic World: Dominion)
Dwayne Johnson (Black Adam/Teth-Adam, Black Adam)
Jim Carrey (Dr. Robotnik, Sonic the Hedgehog 2)
Ryan Reynolds (Big Adam, The Adam Project)
Tom Cruise (Capt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell, Top Gun: Maverick)
FAVORITE MOVIE ACTRESS
Elizabeth Olsen (Wanda Maximoff/The Scarlet Witch, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness)
Letitia Wright (Shuri, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
Lupita Nyong'o (Nakia, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
Millie Bobby Brown (Enola Holmes, Enola Holmes 2)
Natalie Portman (Jane Foster/The Mighty Thor, Thor: Love and Thunder)
Sarah Jessica Parker (Sarah Sanderson, Hocus Pocus 2)
FAVORITE ANIMATED MOVIE
DC League of Super-Pets
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania
Lightyear
Minions: The Rise of Gru
The Bad Guys
Turning Red
FAVORITE VOICE FROM AN ANIMATED MOVIE (MALE)
Andy Samberg (Dale, Chip N' Dale: Rescue Rangers)
Andy Samberg (Jonathan, Hotel Transylvania: Transformania)
Chris Evans (Buzz Lightyear, Lightyear)
Dwayne Johnson (Krypto, DC League of Super-Pets)
Kevin Hart (Ace, DC League of Super-Pets)
Steve Carell (Gru, Minions: The Rise of Gru)
FAVORITE VOICE FROM AN ANIMATED MOVIE (FEMALE)
Awkwafina (Tarantula, The Bad Guys)
Keke Palmer (Izzy Hawthorne, Lightyear)
Salma Hayek (Kitty Softpaws, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish)
Sandra Oh (Ming, Turning Red)
Selena Gomez (Mavis, Hotel Transylvania: Transformania)
Taraji P. Henson (Belle Bottom, Minions: The Rise of Gru)
MUSIC:
FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST
Adele
Beyoncé
Billie Eilish
Cardi B
Lady Gaga
Lizzo
Rihanna
Taylor Swift
FAVORITE MALE ARTIST
Bad Bunny
Drake
Ed Sheeran
Harry Styles
Justin Bieber
Kendrick Lamar
Post Malone
The Weeknd
FAVORITE MUSIC GROUP
5 Seconds of Summer
Black Eyed Peas
BLACKPINK
BTS
Imagine Dragons
OneRepublic
Panic! At The Disco
Paramore
FAVORITE SONG
"About Damn Time"- Lizzo
"Anti-Hero"- Taylor Swift
"As It Was"- Harry Styles
"Bejeweled"- Taylor Swift
"Break My Soul" - Beyoncé
"First Class"- Jack Harlow
"I Ain't Worried"- OneRepublic
"Lift Me Up"- Rihanna
FAVORITE MUSIC COLLABORATION
"Bam Bam"- Camila Cabello, featuring Ed Sheeran
"Don't You Worry" - Black Eyed Peas, David Guetta, Shakira
"I Like You (A Happier Song)"- Post Malone, featuring Doja Cat
"Numb"- Marshmello, featuring Khalid
"Stay With Me"- Calvin Harris, featuring Justin Timberlake, Halsey, Pharrell
"Sweetest Pie"- Megan Thee Stallion, Dua Lipa
FAVORITE BREAKOUT ARTIST
Devon Cole
Dove Cameron
GAYLE
Joji
Lauren Spencer Smith
Nicky Youre
FAVORITE ALBUM
"Dawn FM"- The Weeknd
"GOD DID"- DJ Khaled
"Harry's House"- Harry Styles
"Midnights (3am Edition)"- Taylor Swift
"Renaissance"- Beyoncé
"Special"- Lizzo
FAVORITE GLOBAL MUSIC STAR
Bad Bunny (Latin America)
BLACKPINK (Asia)
Harry Styles (UK)
Rosalía (Europe)
Taylor Swift (North America)
Tones and I (Australia)
Wizkid (Africa)
FAVORITE SOCIAL MUSIC STAR
Bella Poarch
Dixie D'Amelio
JoJo Siwa
Oliver Tree
Stephen Sanchez
That Girl Lay Lay
OTHER CATEGORIES:
FAVORITE MALE CREATOR
Austin Creed
MrBeast
Ninja
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FORT WORTH, Texas, July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Element8, a leading next-generation internet service provider (ISP), backed by a $200 million strategic investment from Digital Alpha, has announced its strategic investment into Wisper ISP, led by industry visionary Nathan Stooke. This transformative partnership marks a significant milestone for the telecommunications industry and strengthens Element8's commitment to expanding high-speed broadband access across the United States.
The partnership with Wisper ISP represents a leap forward in Element8's national expansion strategy. By joining forces with Wisper ISP, Element8 will leverage its expertise, infrastructure, and operational excellence to deliver unparalleled connectivity solutions to the heartland. This strategic move enables Element8's mission of bridging the digital divide and empowering regions with next-generation broadband technology.
"We are extremely excited about the future of Wisper and the opportunities it presents for both companies," said Kevin Grace, CEO and President of Element8. "Nathan Stooke and his team at Wisper ISP have established an impressive reputation for providing reliable internet services to rural communities along with thought leadership and service, industry-wide. Together, we will amplify our impact, bringing fast and reliable broadband to even more households, businesses, and educational institutions."
Wisper ISP has been an effective steward of the $220 million Connect America Funds II (CAF) award by continuing to build on its network of more than 500 towers and providing next-generation connectivity to rural communities. This investment and the future work together represents an ideal way for private investment to complement public funding to reach as many unserved and underserved customers as possible.
Nathan Stooke, Founder and CEO of Wisper ISP, expressed his enthusiasm for the investment, stating, "Over the last 20 years, the Wisper team and I have worked to build Wisper into the company that it is today, and this new partnership is an exciting next chapter that will be positive for customers, employees, and the wireless industry as a whole."
"Partnering with a company that has a shared vision and aligned values on how to treat our employees and customers, while we solve the digital divide will be an energizing opportunity. We are combining both our federal and state funds with private investment to maximize both in pursuit of connecting the communities that so badly need it," he continued.
While technology agnostic, with this strategic partnership and investment, Element8 is poised to scale within the broadband industry with Tarana's ngFWA platform. The company's advanced next-generation fixed wireless access network, powered by a Cisco core and access network, will help residents and businesses to thrive in the digital age, fostering economic growth, enabling remote work and education, and enhancing the overall quality of life.
"This investment demonstrates Element8 and Digital Alpha's partnership approach in the industry as we focus on funding digital infrastructure deployments that are enabling digital transformation across local communities," said Rick Shrotri, Founder and Managing Partner at Digital Alpha Advisors. "We are excited to bring together a tested technology solution to build a national, next generation network," he continued.
In addition to the $1.5 billion assets under management, Digital Alpha brings strategic partnerships with Silicon Valley industry leaders focused on next-generation networks, cloud, IoT, and smart city platforms to bring complete solutions to meet every stakeholder's needs in this new era of connectivity.
"Cisco recognizes the transformative power of high-speed broadband connectivity for rural communities. We are thrilled to see private investors complement public funding, making for more efficient and impactful investment to help bridge the digital divide in the United States," said Brian Rueger, Senior Director, Service Provider Sales at Cisco. "We look forward to continuing our work with Element8 to change the economics of the internet with a converged network architecture approach to help meet our shared goals for a more inclusive future for all."
Wisper was represented by Jeff Santoro and Chris Mullaly, investment bankers at Four Points Capital Partners, a FINRA member broker-dealer.
For more information about Element8 and its mission to revolutionize broadband connectivity, please visit www.e8internet.com.
About Element8
Element8 (E8) is a telecommunications company founded on a promise: to be a team that offers high-quality telecom services and makes a major difference in our communities. The company specializes in providing high-speed broadband network connections to tertiary and rural markets through a variety of cutting-edge technologies. The company is based in Fort Worth, Texas, and serves clients globally. Element8 is known as Oxygen (Atomic Element 8) on the periodic table. For more information, please visit www.e8internet.com.
About Wisper ISP
Wisper ISP is a rural internet service provider headquartered in Mascoutah, Illinois. The company provides services across underserved communities in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. www.wisperisp.com/about/.
About Digital Alpha Advisors
Digital Alpha Advisors, LLC is an investment firm focused on digital infrastructure required by the rapidly expanding digital economy, with total assets under management of over $1.5 billion. The firm has a strategic collaboration agreement with Cisco Systems, Inc. and has partnered with other leading Silicon Valley firms. Digital Alpha believes it is the first firm focused on making private equity investments in the significant growth opportunities required to underpin the Digital Economy, including next generation communications networks, IoT platforms for urban infrastructure, and cloud-based data management platforms. Digital Alpha was founded in 2017 by Rick Shrotri, former Head of the Global Infrastructure Funds (GIF) team at Cisco, and closed its latest Fund – Digital Alpha Fund II, LP – in early 2021. For more information, please visit www.digitalalpha.net.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bryce Harper stood on second base after a go-ahead double and ran his hands across the script “Phillies” on his jersey as Citizens Bank Park shook in ecstasy over a World Series that suddenly seemed oh-so-close.
Harper punched his fists toward the ground and blurted a cuss-filled exclamation sure to be printed on T-shirts everywhere in Philly:
“This is my (expletive) house!”
With one more win, it will be a home for the World Series.
Rhys Hoskins homered twice, Kyle Schwarber hit a solo shot into shrubbery and Harper doubled to put Philadelphia ahead for good in a wild 10-6 win over the San Diego Padres on Saturday night for a 3-1 lead in the NL Championship Series.
“I believe our team is built for October, I really do,” Harper said.
Harper — who signed a 13-year, $330 million free-agent deal in 2019 — had made Philly both his home and a championship contender with a postseason already among the greatest in franchise history. He’s hit in nine straight games, reached base in 10 straight games, is hitting .410 in the postseason and already told his team they weren’t losing in the postseason.
“It’s just a lot of fun to be able to be part of this group,” Harper said. “It’s a lot of fun to be able to come to the park every day knowing our fans are going to show out each night.”
J.T. Realmuto also homered for the big-hitting Phillies, who are trying to become the first third-place team to reach the Fall Classic.
The Phillies send ace Zack Wheeler to the mound in Game 5 Sunday at Citizens Bank Park to try and clinch their first National League pennant since 2009. They haven’t won the World Series since 2008.
“Yeah, you can’t write it better,” Hoskins said. “I can’t imagine what tomorrow is going to be like.”
Get the champagne ready, just in case.
No matter the outcome, Game 4 was one to remember for the Phillies and their fans.
The Phillies trailed 4-0 in the first and then chipped away, slugged away and finally put away the Padres. The clincher came in a four-run fifth inning against reliever Sean Manaea. Trailing 6-4, Schwarber walked to start the rally. Hoskins then ripped his second homer of the game — no bat spike, but just as dramatic — for the tying shot. Realmuto walked to set the stage for Harper.
The 2021 NL MVP lined the go-ahead double that rolled to the left-center wall for a 7-6 lead as the Philly crowd absolutely exploded. Harper then told the fans exactly where he lived — and his house is their home, too.
The Phillies fans refused to sit — and they had no reason to the rest of the game. Nick Castellanos singled in Harper to complete the scoring in the fifth.
Schwarber smashed the ball into the shrubs in dead center in the sixth for his third homer of this series and Realmuto punctuated the scoring with a solo shot in the seventh.
The Phillies 1-5 hitters went 9-for-18 with four homers, three doubles, nine RBIs and 10 runs scored.
Whew!
“You get the one big hit, it gets louder, and that’s where you can really snowball things,” Hoskins said. “We’re not new to scoring runs in bunches, but in the playoffs when things are so much tighter and more intense, the crowd is one way to kind of let that snowball happen, and we saw it twice tonight.”
The Padres and Phillies had already nearly stuffed nine innings worth of commotion into 48 minutes of a frenzied first.
Phillies manager Rob Thomson picked Bailey Falter to start Game 4 after a 17-day layoff and hoped the lefty could at least go once through the order. He couldn’t do much beyond retire the first two batters. Manny Machado rocked a homer to left and answered the chants of “Manny Sucks!” by cupping his right hand to his ear as he rounded the bases.
Falter let the next two runners reach and Brandon Drury lined a two-RBI double off the right field wall for a 3-0 lead. That was it for Falter. Reliever Connor Brogdon allowed an RBI single to Ha-Seong Kim to make it 4-0.
Bad outing for Falter? Absolutely.
The worst for a starting pitcher? Nope.
Mike Clevinger allowed a leadoff single in the bottom of the first and then Hoskins’ first homer of the game that cut the lead to 4-2. He walked Realmuto and Harper hit an RBI double to make it 4-3. Harper stood on second and ran his hands along the “Phillies” on his jersey as the crowd and Citizens Bank Park began to shake.
So much for Clevinger, out of the game without recording an out.
By the time No. 5 hitter Castellanos batted, there had been four total pitchers and three total outs. The combined first inning totals saw seven runs, seven hits, two homers, two doubles — oh, and the fun was just getting started.
Brogdon and Padres reliever Nick Martinez actually steadied the game, as they combined to retire 16 straight over 5 1/3 shutout innings.
“I wouldn’t bet against us. I have a lot of confidence in my guys,” Martinez said. “We’re not going to give in. We’re going to keep coming.”
That was the lone stretch of normalcy in this one. Not even the red rally towels frantically waved by another sellout crowd of 45,467 got as much of a workout as both bullpens.
Bryson Stott lined an opposite-field single to left in the fourth that tied the game 4-all and gave the Phillies new life.
Well, for a few pitches, at least.
Because the much-maligned Brad Hand, the fourth pitcher of the game, coughed up the lead in the fifth. He issued a one-out walk and then Juan Soto lined a two-run homer to right, his first of the postseason and first since Oct. 1 against the White Sox.
It was 6-4 Padres.
And it was the beginning of the end.
“We only need to win one to get home,” manager Bob Melvin said.
UP NEXT
Wheeler faces Padres RHP Yu Darvish (2-1, 2.84 ERA in the postseason).
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Annual report details the impact of 2U and the edX platform on global education
LANHAM, Md., July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- 2U, Inc. (Nasdaq: TWOU), the company behind global online learning platform edX, today announced the publication of its 2022 Transparency & Outcomes Report: an annual summary of the impact 2U is making on learners, universities, companies, and institutions around the world.
Today's announcement marks the fourth consecutive year that 2U has published a public outcomes report following the establishment of its industry-leading Transparency Framework in 2019. 2U's continued annual reporting cements the company's standing as a leader in publishing transparent outcomes and reinforces its commitment to openly share key facts and figures about its business and partnerships. This year's report is also the first to highlight the combined impact of 2U and the edX platform following 2U's acquisition of edX in late 2021, creating a comprehensive view of the company's impact on online higher education.
"At 2U, we're committed to delivering world-class learning outcomes at scale with edX while helping our partners build sustainable and accessible education programs that keep pace with global advancements, drive progress, and yield tangible value for learners," said Christopher "Chip" Paucek, Co-founder and CEO of 2U. "We created our Transparency & Outcomes Report to provide greater insight into the power of online education and to empower partners and policymakers with information to continually advance higher education in service of students."
Centered on the theme, "Transforming Ambition into Impact," and structured around five core sections—Learner Impact, University Impact, Employer Impact, Government Impact, and Societal Impact—the report outlines work accomplished in collaboration with institutional partners and spotlights learners who completed edX-powered programs.
Key Data from the 2022 Transparency & Outcomes Report Include:
- Scale: In 2022, 2U expanded its learner network to 73 million people globally, served over 230 partners, and grew its content portfolio to over 4,000 digital offerings on the edX platform, from free courses to boot camps to full degrees. Today, that figure has increased to over 76 million people, serving over 250 partners, with a content portfolio of over 4,200 offerings.
- Retention and completion rates: The retention rate from term one to term two for students in edX-powered degree programs was 90 percent, and the graduation rate was 73 percent; the graduation rate for boot camps with edX was 77 percent; the completion rate for edX executive education programs was 91 percent; and the completion rate for edX open courses was 54 percent.
- 2U provided over 40,000 employment referrals and approximately 2.4 million career touchpoints.
- 2U launched 18 Access Partnerships to provide more individuals from marginalized or underserved communities with free or substantially cost-reduced pathways to job-relevant tech skills. Since inception, over 3,000 learners have enrolled in these programs.
- More than 24,800 students graduated from edX-powered degree programs in helping hands disciplines, including nursing, social work, counseling, and more.
- 2U expanded its field placement network to approximately 120,000 sites to support students in programs that require fieldwork hours.
- Learners logged over 30 million fieldwork hours at these sites.
The 2U Transparency & Outcomes Report is designed to help learners, universities, and policymakers better understand and assess the role and value that companies like 2U play in building high-quality educational offerings that deliver great student outcomes, particularly in critical sectors like healthcare and technology where there remains a pressing and persistent need for skilled professionals.
"With the OECD predicting a staggering transformation of 1.1 billion jobs due to technology over the next decade, our mission has never been more vital," said Anant Agarwal, Chief Platform Officer at 2U and edX Founder. "Together with our partners, we're committed to offering learners everywhere high-quality, affordable online education for rewarding, in-demand careers. Through the edX platform, 2U's goal is to democratize access to education, forging a stronger global workforce and a better future for all."
To view the full report findings, including definitions for the metrics above, please visit impact.edx.org.
About 2U (Nasdaq: TWOU)
2U is a global leader in online education. Guided by its founding mission to eliminate the back row in higher education, 2U has spent 15 years advancing the technology and innovation to deliver world-class learning outcomes at scale. Through its global online learning platform edX, 2U connects more than 76 million people with thousands of affordable, career-relevant learning opportunities in partnership with over 250 of the world's leading universities, institutions, and industry experts. From free courses to full degrees, 2U is creating a better future for all through the power of high-quality online education. Learn more at 2U.com.
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The 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic Odds & Preview: Taylor Pendrith
Following the second round of the Rocket Mortgage Classic, Taylor Pendrith is atop the leaderboard with a score of -13.
Looking to place a wager on Taylor Pendrith at the Rocket Mortgage Classic this week? Read on for all the stats and odds you need before you make your picks.
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Taylor Pendrith Insights
- Pendrith has finished below par on five occasions, completed his day bogey-free twice and finished five rounds with a better-than-average score over his last 13 rounds played.
- He has not finished any of his last 13 rounds with one of the 10 best scores of the day.
- Pendrith has carded a score within three shots of the day's best in two of his last 13 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day four times.
- Pendrith has finished in the top 20 in one of his past five events.
- He has made the cut in three of his past five events.
- Pendrith has finished within three shots of the leader in one of his past five appearances. During that same span, he's posted a better-than-average score once.
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Rocket Mortgage Classic Insights and Stats
- Pendrith has one top-five finish in his past two appearances in this tournament. His average finishing position has been eighth.
- Pendrith made the cut in each of his last two attempts at this event.
- Pendrith finished 14th on the leaderboard in his previous appearance at this event, in 2023.
- The par-72 course measures 7,370 yards this week, 340 yards longer than the average Tour stop during the past 12 months.
- Detroit Golf Club checks in at 7,370 yards, 46 yards longer than the average course Pendrith has played in the past year (7,324 yards).
Pendrith's Last Time Out
- Pendrith was in the 64th percentile on par 3s at the Travelers Championship, with an average of 2.88 strokes on the eight par-3 holes.
- He averaged 4.00 strokes on par-4 holes (of which there were 24) at the Travelers Championship, which landed him in the 32nd percentile among all competitors.
- On the four par-5 holes at the Travelers Championship, Pendrith was better than 48% of the field (averaging 4.50 strokes).
- Pendrith fared equal to the field average on par-3 holes in the last time out, carding a birdie or better on two of eight par-3s at the Travelers Championship.
- On the eight par-3s at the Travelers Championship, Pendrith had one bogey or worse (less than the field average of 1.7).
- Pendrith's three birdies or better on par-4s at the Travelers Championship were less than the tournament average of 7.6.
- In that most recent outing, Pendrith had a bogey or worse on three of 24 par-4s (the field averaged 4.8).
- Pendrith ended the Travelers Championship with a birdie or better on two of four par-5s, underperforming the tournament average, 2.9.
- The field at the Travelers Championship averaged 0.6 bogeys or worse on the four par-5s, but Pendrith finished without one.
Rocket Mortgage Classic Time and Date Info
- Date: June 29 - July 2, 2023
- Course: Detroit Golf Club
- Location: Detroit, Michigan
- Par: 72 / 7,370 yards
- Pendrith Odds to Win: +700 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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MORA – Sam Aragon’s house just north of Mora has been in his family since the 1850s. But amid the flooding that followed the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire last year, his wife, Elisa, told him she couldn’t sleep there.
The retired couple’s house sits a few yards away from an arroyo, which had never been a problem until last year, when the water coming off the mountains roared through the arroyo because the downed and charred forest did little to slow it down.
Their neighbors up the mountain would call during the rains last summer with warnings. “There’s a 12-foot wave coming down to your place,” Sam said one neighbor told him on a call just 20 minutes before the water made it down to them.
“Then you can hear it, and when it comes, it comes rumbling and bringing rocks and debris,” he said, adding that the floodwaters swept down his neighbor’s truck nearly to the end of the road and several 55-gallon drums to their property.
And with land so bare on the mountains around them, it could be years before there is enough vegetation to slow the water and keep it from doing further damage.
“They say this year’s flooding is going to be worse,” Elisa said, as a government-issued weather radio chirped from a corner of her dining room.
The fire burned from April until August, and flooding started with the summer monsoon season. Many suffered losses from the fire, but for some, like the Aragon family, the damage caused by flooding was worse.
The Aragons still have sandbags around their house to try to prevent the water from flowing in; water in the arroyo can now come right up to the walls during a normal rainstorm. The couple stays in Sam’s son’s RV when it rains since it is situated a little farther from the arroyo, but still on their land.
At one point, water in the arroyo pushed right through their garage. Elisa said she told Sam she thought they should clear it beforehand. “But he said, ‘It’s not coming through here. There’s no way.’ He’s lived here for 80 years, and he never saw anything like this,” she said.
Now, their garage is filled with silt that has trapped a broad collection of objects, from wine-making equipment to an antique stove. Sam was able to pull out two saddles that now hang from a beam in the middle of the garage.
Preparing for the floods
The water also flows down the road, past their home, located about seven miles north of Mora. The road used to be level with the land on either side of it; now, it sits about four feet lower.
Elisa and Sam have a neighbor who comes through with a bulldozer to clear it periodically, but it’s still a rough ride.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a bill into law in February to make $100 million available to communities dealing with the fallout of the fire for public works repairs, and this road, County Road A023, is slated to benefit from it.
Mora County Road and Solid Waste Department Superintendent John Romero said the money will go toward bringing the road more or less back up to the condition it was before the fire and flood. But they’ll have to wait for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to approve improvements beyond that, including any that would prevent damage from floods down the road. While the road serves about seven houses, damage like this can be found across the area, causing destruction and preventing easy access for many who live here.
“When it comes with force, there is no stopping it,” Romero said of the floodwater. “So it’s probably going to happen again.”
In the meantime, Romero drives around Mora County every day, making what repairs he can on his own, with a chainsaw or with a small team so people can still get to their homes, and school buses and emergency vehicles can reach them.
Kenneth Branch, assistant state conservationist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, said he and his colleagues are looking at the snowpack in the area to get an idea of what flooding could be like this summer.
“If it’s anything like last year, we are expecting there to be some flooding, especially due to the runoff,” he said.
He said the conservation service is conducting a seeding and mulching project to restore vegetation that would slow the water down as it comes off the mountains.
“The seed mix we’re using has an annual that comes up fast, and then we have perennial grasses,” he said. “They’re all native to the area.”
He said this work primarily needs to happen on private lands to protect homes and the roads that lead to them. At the same time, he said it’s hard to convince landowners in the wake of a disaster caused by the government to bring government workers onto their land to do the work.
“We’re hoping that this spring is different,” Branch said, adding that he hopes recent legislation passed by the federal and state governments will change people’s minds. “We’re hoping they’ll step forward and say, ‘At first, I didn’t feel comfortable, but now I do.'”
The agency also is putting up flood barriers, including baskets filled with rocks and gravel, to protect homes.
Promises of help
Elisa Aragon said a number of organizations and government agencies, like FEMA, have been in touch since the flood last June.
“We haven’t had any assistance to date, but we’ve had a lot of people come by and tell us they were going to help us,” she said.
She and her husband have since hired lawyers to help them navigate the process of assessing damage and applying for support, saying they’re concerned they’ll be leaving money on the table otherwise.
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The Latest on Hurricane Ian:
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Thousands of residents of long-term care facilities in Florida remained displaced by Hurricane Ian.
Kristen Knapp of the Florida Health Care Association says about 47 nursing homes and 115 assisted living facilities have been evacuated as of Friday, with around 8,000 residents among them.
While structural damage and flooding were reported at facilities across the storm’s path, Knapp said there have been no reports yet of serious injuries or deaths among those homes’ residents.
Steve Bahmer of Leading Age Florida, which represents non-profit long-term care facilities, offered a similar assessment, with reports of minor damage, broken windows, downed trees and flooding. He said one facility was hit by a tornado but residents have been able to remain there.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
— Hurricane Ian heads for Carolinas after pounding Florida
— Woman braves Hurricane Ian flood to check on stranger’s mom
— After Ian, the effects in southwest Florida are everywhere
— At a Florida trailer park, survivors speak of Ian’s wrath
— Find more AP coverage here: https://apnews.com/hub/hurricanes
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
CHARLESTON, S.C. — The main airport in Charleston, South Carolina, has closed ahead of the expected arrival of Hurricane Ian.
Officials with the Charleston International Airport said Friday they had shuttered the airport, where airlines had already canceled dozens of fights, and winds reached 40 mph.
The airport will remained closed until 6 a.m. Saturday.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster planned a briefing at 12:30 p.m. Friday. Under a federal disaster declaration approved by President Joe Biden, federal emergency aid has been made available to supplement South Carolina’s state, tribal and local response efforts pertaining to the storm, which was expected to make landfall in the state later Friday.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Strong winds were blowing early Friday morning in Charleston, South Carolina, with powerful gusts bending tree branches and sending sprays of the steadily falling rain sideways as Hurricane Ian approached.
Streets were largely empty, an ordinarily packed morning commute silenced by the advancing storm. Flash flood warnings were posted, with up to 8 inches (20 centimeters) of rain forecast for the Charleston area, and high tide expected just before noon, a circumstance that often floods the downtown peninsula on its own with even moderate rainfall.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — The Florida Highway Patrol says a 37-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman died Thursday afternoon when their car hydroplaned and overturned in a water-filled ditch in north Florida amid Hurricane Ian's impact on the state.
An incident report says the driver apparently lost control of the vehicle, which went onto the grassy shoulder before submerging in a water-filled ditch along Cracker Swamp Road in Putnam County, which is southwest of St. Augustine. The area was inundated with rain as Hurricane Ian passed through the state Thursday.
At least six people were confirmed dead in Florida. | https://wcfcourier.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/live-updates-long-term-care-residents-displaced-by-ian/article_77ae6c6e-be70-5da6-99e2-59afb8669013.html | 2022-09-30 16:34:04 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/live-updates-long-term-care-residents-displaced-by-ian/article_77ae6c6e-be70-5da6-99e2-59afb8669013.html |
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