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ATLANTA, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Trustees of each of the Invesco closed-end funds listed below today declared the following dividends.
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President Biden said fighting inflation is his "top domestic priority" in an economic speech at the White House Tuesday morning and laid out his administration's plans to lower prices on things like gas, which has hit a record-high cost.
Biden's remarks also targeted what he called "ultra-MAGA" Republicans. His sharpened attacks against the GOP are part of the administration's effort to draw a contrast with how Republicans are planning to handle inflation and rising costs, issues that are top-of-mind for voters ahead of the midterm elections this year.
"Republicans have offered plenty of blame," Biden said of gas prices, "but not a single solution to actually bring down the energy prices."
The president said that while the pandemic and Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine have contributed to inflation, lack of competition and inhibited access to materials is why prices have continued to go up.
"Capitalism without competition isn't capitalism, it's exploitation. So we're promoting competition for everything from internet services to meat processing," Biden said.
"All of my plan is focused on lowering costs for the average family in America, to give them just a little bit of breathing room," he said. The president, however, did not offer a timeline on when costs might start to go down.
Biden's remarks are part of a series of events this week where the president will continue to talk about lowering costs. On Wednesday, the president will travel to Illinois to visit a family farm and talk about food prices. He will also address the electrical workers at the IBEW convention in Chicago.
White House is targeting GOP's 'ultra-MAGA' messages
In his speech, Biden not only laid out his own agenda but repeatedly criticized Republicans', namely one from Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Sen. Rick Scott of Florida. He charged that the GOP's "ultra-MAGA" plan increases taxes on Americans and gives tax cuts to billionaires.
"They don't want to solve inflation by lowering your costs, they want to solve it by raising your taxes and lowering your income," Biden said.
He pointed specifically to Scott's plan that asks every American to pay income tax. Currently, about half of Americans do not earn enough money to pay income taxes.
"If you look at what we've been doing the last few years is we're paying people not to work," Scott told NPR in March. "We've got people that have voted for government programs that could go work and aren't working. I'm not raising the tax rate. I'm not even raising their taxes. I'm saying we got to get these people to work so they're part of the system."
Biden called Scott's plan is part of the "ultra-MAGA agenda."
"Republicans in Congress are so deeply committed to protecting big corporations and CEOs that they'd rather see taxes on working American families and try to depress their wages than to take on inflation," Biden said.
Biden also attacked Scott's proposal to allow legislation to expire every five years unless Congress renews it, which would put legislation like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid up for a vote. The president called it "outrageous."
Inflation will dominate the midterm elections
Celinda Lake, a pollster who works with Democratic candidates, tells NPR that inflation will be a major point for voters in the midterm elections, but that people will start cementing their views on it in May and June.
She said it's important for Democrats to acknowledge inflation is a problem and repeatedly give assurances that they are doing everything that can be done on multiple fronts, on the executive and legislative levels, to lower prices. She also said it's important to point out that Republicans stand in the way of those efforts.
"People have no idea what the barriers are to those policies being implemented. It's very, very important to say that one of the things that's a problem here is that Republicans are not joining us," Lake said.
Lake says that right now, voters think Republicans are better on inflation, so Democrats have to some catching up to do.
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MyZuzah describes the mezuzah as “a touchpoint that unites all Jews.” A national nonprofit, MyZuzah, was recently chosen by the SRE (Safety, Respect, Equity) Network to receive funding for projects focused on intersectional gender justice and victim-survivor support. Utilizing this funding, MyZuzah will provide hundreds of kosher, fair-trade mezuzahs to survivors of intimate partner violence for their new homes. Jewish Family & Children’s Service (JFCS) in Phoenix and Tucson is partnering with this national effort thanks to a connection with Project Inspire Arizona.
“The mezuzah protects the Jewish people, reminding the home occupants of our Jewish heritage,” said Robin Meyerson, co-director and founder of Project Inspire Arizona. “Just like the Israelites were commanded by God to put blood on the doorpost before the plague of the death of the firstborn in Egypt, we today, 3,500 years later, put up a mezuzah to remind us of our exodus from Egypt and the protection God provides through the mezuzah scroll.”
Project Inspire Arizona is “Committed to empowering the Jewish community by providing training programs, practical tools and opportunities to motivate, inspire and grow,” according to the nonprofit.
“Through Project Inspire I heard about MyZuzah and realized what a wonderful way to connect the Arizona community,” Meyerson explained.
Project Inspire Arizona now works with MyZuzah in two ways. The first ongoing effort is to provide mezuzahs to Arizona Jewish families. The most recent effort is connecting the nonprofit to JFCS to provide mezuzahs to survivors of domestic abuse in a confidential manner.
“MyZuzah is using this grant to expand our partnerships across the United States — we are active in 54 countries and 30 plus states already — and when we launched the program, we leaned on our existing network of partners to help connect us with Jewish social service agencies who could be the confidential link between us and those in need,” explained Alex Shapero, MyZuzah program director. “Robin Meyerson, a long-time and outstanding MyZuzah partner in Arizona, put us in touch with the [JFCS] team in Phoenix, and we’re looking forward to making a big impact together.”
Shapero added that MyZuzah is expanding its efforts into Tucson as well.
“Victims/survivors and the organizations that support them often focus on providing security, shelter and other essential resources to support their physical well-being, but the importance of spiritual well-being and identity are often overlooked or deprioritized,” Shapero said. “This is still a stigmatized issue in our society, and we have heard from recipients that being able to put a mezuzah up has helped to provide a sense of security and continuity in their Jewish identity. Particularly for those with children, being able to put up the mezuzah and proudly show this part of themselves, on their own terms, can be a cathartic way of moving forward with their lives and their family.”
To ensure recipients’ confidentiality, MyZuzah will deliver mezuzahs to various social service agencies across the country for distribution to clients, including JFCS’ Phoenix and Tucson locations.
“JFCS was founded almost 90 years ago by a group of determined Jewish women looking to help Arizonans during the Great Depression and, while we have grown to support underserved people of all backgrounds, we are very much rooted in our Jewish traditions,” said Len Gutman, vice president of Philanthropic Services for JFCS. “Having this support from MyZuzah to provide survivors of domestic violence a sense of connection to the Jewish community is terrific.”
In addition to providing access to kosher, fair-trade mezuzahs, MyZuzah seeks to create a sense of connectedness and Jewish unity among Jews of all backgrounds around the world, Shapero added.
“The mitzvah of mezuzah is one of the few traditions that most all Jews are familiar with and the way we observe it is pretty standard everywhere,” Shapero said. “We have found that this common practice is a great way of demonstrating the connection that all Jews have to each other and putting up a mezuzah is a powerful but simple way for people to express their Jewish identity and values to themselves and others. Mezuzahs are like a Swiss Army knife of Jewish identity development, as they are a tool that can have a different and special meaning to each person. We love to help people grow their Jewishness by exploring their own toolkit.”
According to Tova Zimm, victim advocacy director at Jewish Coalition Against Domestic Abuse (JCADA), the JCADA is thrilled about this partnership, especially considering that domestic violence survivors are often unable to take their mezuzahs with them as they quickly flee their homes.
“Many of our clients are seeking not just physical safety, but spiritual safety as well,” said Zimm. In Judaism, an essential way to create spiritual safety is to hang a kosher mezuzah on the door to your home. JCADA believes that everyone deserves to be safe in all ways — spiritually, psychologically, technologically, physically and emotionally — and we are so grateful for the spiritual safety our partnership with MyZuzah will provide.”
MyZuzah has provided more than 6,000 homes with free mezuzahs across the world and Meyerson said that Project Inspire Arizona will continue to provide free mezuzahs to local Jewish families.
“It’s amazing to watch the transformation some families go through once they get a mezuzah,” she said. “They start to get interested in their Jewish heritage, begin the journey to learning more about their Judaism and even start to build connections to more Jewish rituals at home.” JN
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The U.S. Supreme Court defied its usual 6-to-3 conservative/liberal split in two decisions on Wednesday. One involved who qualifies for overtime pay. The other, Arizona's refusal to apply a Supreme Court precedent in death penalty jury instructions.
The overtime case was brought by Michael Hewitt, a highly paid oil rig supervisor, who sued his employer, Helix Energy Solutions Group, contending that because he was paid on a daily basis, he was entitled to overtime pay for his typical 84-hour, 7-day weeks on the job.
The sole question in the case was whether, under the Fair Labor Standards Act, he should be paid time and a half for hours worked beyond 40 hours a week. Helix Energy claimed that Hewitt, who earned $200,000 a year, was exempt from the overtime requirment because he was a "bonafide executive."
The court, by a 6-to-3 vote, sided with Hewitt. Writing for the majority, Justice Elena Kagan said that Helix did not pay Hewitt a salary, as defined by federal regulations. Instead, it paid him as a daily worker. If he worked one day in a given week, he was paid for just that day. If he worked no days, he got no money.
"Daily-rate workers of whatever income level" are not paid a base salary under Labor Department regulations, Kagan wrote, adding that "Helix's various policy claims cannot justify departing from what the rules say." Those rules, date back to the 1940s, she observed, noting that a salary is defined as "fixed compensation regularly paid, as by the year, quarter, month, or week." In addition, under the regulations, salaried employees, get paid a week's salary even if they do not work the full week.
Although Kagan conceded that Hewitt was a high-income earner, Helix's position, she said, "would create disturbing consequences" for lower-income workers who are "at the heartland of the FLSA's protection." In short, it would deprive daily workers earning less than $100,000 of overtime pay.
Joining Kagan's opinion were Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Sonia Sotomayor, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Dissenting were Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch.
Death penalty opinion
The death penalty opinion was the latest rebuke to the state of Arizona for refusing to comply with a 1994 U.S. Supreme Court decision (Simmons v. South Carolina) that required judges to instruct juries in capital cases that a sentence of life in prison means life without the possibility of parole in states where that is the case.
In Arizona, however, judges continued to avoid doing that, and in 2016 the Supreme Court drove home its original point, ruling in an unsigned opinion (Lynch v. Arizona) that it was fundamental error to conclude that the Simmons decision "did not apply" in Arizona.
After that 2016 High Court ruling, John Montenegro Cruz, a defendant condemned to death, appealed his sentence. The Arizona Supreme Court refused to allow a resentencing and declared that the 2016 decision "was not a significant change in the law. " But on Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court again disagreed, by a narrow 5-to-4 vote. Writing for the majority, Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted that before the 2016 Lynch decision, Arizona courts held that capital defendants were not entitled to inform the jury of their parole ineligibility--a position summarily reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016. The state supreme court's ruling to the contrary, wrote Sotomayor, was "so novel and unfounded" that it must be reversed.
Joining Sotomayor in the majority were Chief Justice Roberts, and Justices, Kagan, Kavanaugh and Jackson. Justice Barrett wrote the principal dissent, joined by Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Inotiv, Inc. ("Inotiv" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: NOTV) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Inotiv investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between September 21, 2021 and June 13, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
NOTV investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) Inotiv's acquisition, Envigo RMS, LL ("Envigo"), and Inotiv's Cumberland, Virginia facility (the "Cumberland Facility") engaged in widespread and flagrant violations of the Animal Welfare Act ("AWA"); (2) Envigo and Inotiv's Cumberland Facility continuously violated the AWA; (3) Envigo and Inotiv did not properly remedy issues with regards to animal welfare at the Cumberland Facility; (4) as a result, Inotiv was likely to face increased scrutiny and governmental action; (5) Inotiv would imminently shut down two facilities, including the Cumberland Facility; (6) Inotiv did not engage in proper due diligence; and (7) as a result, defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Inotiv during the relevant time frame, you have until August 22, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Matrix Service Co. (MTRX) on Thursday reported a loss of $32.8 million in its fiscal second quarter.
The Tulsa, Oklahoma-based company said it had a loss of $1.22 per share. Losses, adjusted for asset impairment costs and pretax expenses, came to 53 cents per share.
The energy services company posted revenue of $193.8 million in the period.
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CAUGHT ON CAMERA: 2 arrested for robbing mother, child at gunpoint, authorities say
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (Gray News) - Florida authorities say they have made an arrest in a brazen robbery case that involved a mother and her child.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Florida reports Corahn Myrie and Joshua Davila are in custody after the pair allegedly robbed a woman and her child at gunpoint Tuesday morning.
The sheriff’s office shared surveillance footage of the incident, showing a woman and a child standing in front of a business when a man approaches the two and takes their belongings before jumping in a nearby vehicle.
Authorities said the mother and her child were not injured in the incident, but the men took their items, which included the child’s backpack and tablet.
The sheriff’s office said it didn’t long for detectives to catch the men involved.
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trailways of New York, the largest and oldest intercity travel provider in New York State and select Canadian cities, and Peter Pan Bus Lines announced today that they are leaving the Albany, New York bus terminal that they have called home for over twenty-five years. The move is slated to take place today, Thursday December 1st, with the first departures leaving their new temporary home later today.
In a conversation Thursday, Trailways of New York CEO Eugene J Berardi Jr said the move, "was caused by Greyhound, who evicted us from the facility after dissolving its long-standing partnership with us just this past summer. While Greyhound no longer owns the station, they remain the lease holder, and now that they view us as competition, they have evicted Trailways as a sub tenant. I have no doubt this will negatively impact the traveling public." Greyhound, who had previously enjoyed a decades long partnership with the New York based Trailways, severed that arrangement in a surprise move this past spring.1
The news of Trailways' move comes following the recent release of a study reimagining the decaying downtown Albany, New York station as an $81 million dollar state of the art transit facility.23 "Everyone at Trailways is excited that the plans currently underway to rebuild the downtown bus terminal might happen soon," Berardi said. "The new plans call for a mixed-use development including a first-class transit facility that would make the travel experience more enjoyable to all passengers visiting the capital city. We firmly support Capitalize Albany and the Mayor's efforts to reimagine the transportation facility."
Trailways of New York's new temporary facility is now accepting passengers at 66 Green Street in Albany, NY; footsteps from the company's former home. For more information, visit https://trailways.com/bus-station/albany-ny/detail/ or https://trailways.com/news/.
About Trailways of New York:
Trailways of New York (Adirondack, Pine Hill, and New York Trailways) operates over 150 trips per day to more than 140 destinations in New York, New Jersey, and Canada. The largest, longest continuously operating intercity bus carrier in New York State, Trailways of New York boasts safe, affordable, and eco-friendly transportation. Headed home for the holidays? Let Trailways take you to one of our gateway cities such as Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, Montreal, New York, Rochester, Syracuse, or Toronto. Traveling further? We've partnered with Amtrak, Greyhound, and Megabus to get you all across North America. For more information visit with us online at Trailways.com, Trailways.ca, and on Twitter.
1 https://www.busandmotorcoachnews.com/trailways-of-new-york-and-greyhound-end-25-year-partnership/
2 https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Study-calls-for-new-81-million-Albany-transit-17520188.php
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KOKOMO, Ind. — Kokomo topped Richmond Friday night in front of a full house on Operation Basketball.
The Wildkats built a 49-35 lead over the Red Devils and held on for the win.
Flory Bidunga scored 20 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for Kokomo, while Shayne Spear added 16 points and Patrick Hardimon scored 12 in the win.
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For all his professed reluctance to embark on a dramatic shift, there is one preferred tool of his predecessor that new Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda should ditch: Shock therapy. Haruhiko Kuroda’s penchant for sharp moves in policy sowed a legacy of distrust that the new leader should distance himself from.
If monetary policy in the second-largest Asian economy is ever to return to a semblance of what used to be called “normal,” then some caution, deliberation and prudent signaling are great ways for Ueda to begin. Surprises have their role, especially if they juice the economy. But officials need to pick their shots. What’s needed is a listening tour, not another jolt. Take the trauma out of BOJ watching.
Ueda hasn’t expressed any discomfort with the stance he inherits. Public comments since he was picked by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in February indicate support for capping the yield on 10-year government bonds near zero and providing the economy with continued stimulus. Crucially, he has also backed BOJ forecasts that inflation will retreat to below the bank’s 2% target. Initial views can change, of course, and policy would still be relatively easy if tightened a little. It would just be somewhat less easier. Yet there’s little point in scaring people right away. That’s why a review of the BOJ’s approach over the past few decades, as reported by the Sankei newspaper on Sunday, has a lot of merit.
The evaluation can be used as a pretext for change, though not an immediate one. Why go slow? To let people recover from Kuroda, who stunned repeatedly in his decade-long tenure by, among other things, taking interest rates negative in 2016 and, in the final months of his second term, allowing market rates to rise a little after spending months pushing back against the idea. You can see the lingering mistrust in how economists are approaching the two-day policy meeting that begins Thursday.
Ahead of a decision in which Ueda has given every possible hint that he will leave things alone, there really shouldn’t be as much uncertainty as there is. Most expect the bank to do little this week, but in a flurry of notes economists have been at pains to hedge their bets and flag the risk of a surprise. It’s not good to have everyone so on edge. Investors outside Japan are halfway to talking themselves into expecting an imminent policy normalization, so even minor changes in language around, say, inflation expectation or forward guidance, might lead to ructions.
This is one knock-on effect of the Kuroda years that Ueda must deal with. His predecessor disrupted the market so many times that he leaves behind a legacy of distrust. Like the football manager who can’t resist fiddling with his team’s lineup too much, Kuroda may have out-thought himself in December when he took advantage of a sleepy year-end meeting to make a yield-curve tweak he had previously denied was necessary, but had likely been mulling for months. Instead of relieving pressure, it only served to intensify it.
The strongest possible hint that this time is different has already come, however, in the form of the Sankei report. If confirmed, such a review would give Ueda breathing room — he could point to the need to finish the investigation before making any changes, lest he repeat the errors of the past — and also help draw a line between himself and Kuroda. Kuroda spoke of the need to believe in prices rising like Peter Pan had to believe that he could fly. Ueda has presented himself as evidence-based and analytic in nature. “My mission isn’t to come up with some kind of magical, special monetary policy,” Ueda told parliament during his confirmation hearings.
Not only can such an approach can help restore market trust that the bank is being honest when it speaks, a few months of review can also likely reveal that global growth is slowing, with the US possibly entering a recession, staying the need for the BOJ to act. In any case, Ueda has surprisingly little room to maneuver. Tightening would do little to curb Japan’s imported inflation, but would harm sentiment enough to erode fragile post-pandemic recovery. Ueda has also affirmed his belief that price increases will ease by themselves later this year, and is all too aware of the risks of acting too early.
Advocates of shock and awe, Kuroda-style, will say that if a truly dramatic move is planned, such as abandoning efforts to control yields entirely, it’s almost impossible to signal too much in advance. Market chaos would ensue. We wouldn’t just be talking about the equivalent of the Federal Reserve hiking by more than expected or publishing a surprisingly hawkish — or even dovish — piece of guidance. It would amount to the whole framework for setting policy being dismantled. Such a step would be more akin to a currency revaluation. You keep that stuff very close until the last possible moment. There is little sign such a step has to be rushed, however, if it is to be undertaken at all.
Oh for the days when central bankers would be at pains not to rock the boat. The best public service Ueda can perform as he begins his leadership is to be boring. We can all use the respite.
More From Bloomberg Opinion:
• New BOJ Head Is ‘Team Transitory.’ Get Used To It: Reidy & Moss
• What Kazuo Ueda’s Past Says About the BOJ’s Future: Moss & Reidy
• Fed Unity Is Showing Cracks at a Critical Time: Jonathan Levin
This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.
Daniel Moss is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asian economies. Previously, he was executive editor of Bloomberg News for economics.
Gearoid Reidy is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Japan and the Koreas. He previously led the breaking news team in North Asia, and was the Tokyo deputy bureau chief.
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SAN DIEGO — This is quite a time to be a season ticket holder for the San Diego Padres.
Great weather, a jewel of a ballpark — and perhaps the most exciting lineup in baseball for the near future.
The Padres landed the biggest prize of this year's trade deadline — and maybe at any year's deadline — when they acquired outfielder Juan Soto, a 23-year-old superstar who isn't due to become a free agent until after the 2024 season. To get him, they had to send six players to Washington, including several of their top recent prospects.
It's a massive move for an organization that has never won a World Series — but now adds Soto to a team that has Fernando Tatis Jr., Manny Machado and Yu Darvish. San Diego also traded for closer Josh Hader this week.
Here's a look at the biggest buyers and sellers at this year's deadline, and how they've reshaped their futures.
BUYERS
San Diego Padres (60-46, second NL wild card)
Acquired: OF Juan Soto, 1B Josh Bell, LHP Josh Hader, 2B Brandon Drury, C Cam Gallagher, LHP Jay Groome.
Traded: LHP MacKenzie Gore, SS C.J. Abrams, OF Robert Hassell III, OF James Wood, RHP Jarlin Susana, 1B Luke Voit, LHP Taylor Rogers, RHP Dinelson Lamet, 2B Esteury Ruiz, LHP Robert Gasser, SS Victor Acosta, OF Brent Rooker, 1B Eric Hosmer, 2B Max Ferguson, OF Corey Rosier.
Analysis: It was going to take a big offer to pry Soto loose from the Nationals, and the Padres always made some sense as a destination. They had enough attractive prospects to make the deal happen — and because they were already postseason contenders, adding Soto can benefit them even if he only stays through 2024. Bell brings power to the lineup as well.
Philadelphia Phillies (55-48, third NL wild card)
Acquired: RHP Noah Syndergaard, RHP David Robertson, OF Brandon Marsh, 2B Edmundo Sosa.
Traded: C Logan O'Hoppe, LHP JoJo Romero, OF Mickey Moniak, OF Jadiel Sanchez, RHP Ben Brown.
Analysis: Chasing their first postseason berth since 2011, the Phillies added help in the rotation, the bullpen, the infield and the outfield. Philadelphia moved on from Moniak, the top pick in the 2016 draft.
Seattle Mariners (56-49, second AL wild card)
Acquired: RHP Luis Castillo, LHP Matthew Boyd, C Curt Casali.
Traded: SS Noelvi Marte, SS Edwin Arroyo, RHP Levi Stoudt, RHP Andrew Moore, LHP Anthony Misiewicz, RHP Michael Stryffeler, C Andy Thomas.
Analysis: Speaking of postseason droughts, the Mariners haven't qualified since 2001, and they approached this deadline with a sense of urgency, sending three of their top prospects to Cincinnati for Castillo. Boyd had some good moments in Detroit but didn't pitch at all this year for San Francisco because of elbow problems.
New York Yankees (70-35, first place in AL East)
Acquired: RHP Frankie Montas, RHP Lou Trivino, OF Andrew Benintendi, OF Harrison Bader, RHP Scott Effross, RHP Clayton Beeter.
Traded: OF Joey Gallo, LHP Jordan Montgomery, LHP Ken Waldichuk, LHP JP Sears, RHP Luis Medina, 2B Cooper Bowman, RHP Chandler Champlain, LHP T.J. Sikkema, RHP Beck Way, RHP Hayden Wesneski.
Analysis: Considering what Seattle gave up for Castillo, the Yankees probably feel pretty good about landing Montas, who had a 3.18 ERA in 19 starts this year for Oakland. Benintendi and Bader give New York more outfield options, although the latter has been dealing with foot problems.
Minnesota Twins (54-49, first place in AL Central)
Acquired: RHP Jorge Lopez, RHP Tyler Mahle, RHP Michael Fulmer, C Sandy Leon.
Traded: RHP Yennier Cano, LHP Cade Povich, LHP Juan Rojas, RHP Juan Nunez, RHP Ian Hamilton, SS Spencer Steer, 3B Christian Encarnacion-Strand, LHP Steve Hajjar, RHP Sawyer Gipson-Long.
Analysis: Lopez and Fulmer can help Minnesota's bullpen, and Mahle has been solid over the past couple months for the Reds. And none of the Twins' top AL Central rivals did anything all that special at the deadline.
SELLERS
Washington Nationals (36-69, last place in NL East)
Traded: OF Juan Soto, 1B Josh Bell, SS Ehire Adrianza.
Acquired: SS C.J. Abrams, OF Robert Hassell III, LHP MacKenzie Gore, OF James Wood, 1B Luke Voit, RHP Jarlin Susana, 2B Trey Harris.
Analysis: It's one thing to trade a star for prospects. It's another to give up a generational talent who was under team control for another couple years. If Soto's career proceeds as expected, there may always be questions about whether the Nationals tried hard enough to keep him. That said, Washington received plenty in return. Hassell immediately becomes the team's top prospect, according to MLB Pipeline. Abrams and Gore are both top-six draft picks who made their big league debuts this year.
Cincinnati Reds (42-61, third place in NL Central)
Traded: RHP Luis Castillo, RHP Tyler Mahle, OF Tommy Pham, 2B Brandon Drury, OF Tyler Naquin, LHP Phillip Diehl.
Acquired: SS Noelvi Marte, SS Edwin Arroyo, RHP Levi Stoudt, RHP Andrew Moore, 2B Hector Rodriguez, RHP Jose Acuna, SS Spencer Steer, 3B Christian Encarnacion-Strand, LHP Steve Hajjar, SS Victor Acosta, C Austin Romine.
Analysis: The Reds cashed out with Castillo, acquiring Marte and Arroyo, who are ranked as the No. 17 and No. 92 prospects by MLB Pipeline. Cincinnati now has six of the top 100.
Oakland Athletics (39-66, last place in AL West)
Traded: RHP Frankie Montas, RHP Lou Trivino, C Austin Allen.
Acquired: LHP Ken Waldichuk, LHP JP Sears, RHP Luis Medina, 2B Cooper Bowman, RHP Carlos Guarate.
Analysis: The 24-year-old Waldichuk was the top prospect the A's received. He was excellent at Double-A this year and has posted a 3.59 ERA in 11 starts at Triple-A.
Baltimore Orioles (53-51, 1 1/2 games behind third AL wild card)
Traded: 1B Trey Mancini, RHP Jorge Lopez.
Acquired: RHP Seth Johnson, RHP Chayce McDermott, RHP Yennier Cano, LHP Cade Povich, LHP Juan Rojas, RHP Juan Nunez, OF Brett Phillips.
Analysis: The Orioles were in a tricky spot, because although they've been rebuilding, they're also surprisingly in contention for a wild card after two good months. Trading Mancini wasn't the sentimental move, but he can become a free agent after this season, so a breakup might have come soon anyway. Lopez was Baltimore's closer, but its bullpen has been very good this year and may be able to withstand his departure. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/sports/locked-on/lo-national/locked-on-mlb/padres-mariners-yankees-headline-mlb-trade-deadline-buyers-juan-soto-josh-bell-new-york-san-diego-luis-castillo-orioles-phillies/535-b8215709-ae5e-4fe2-9f8a-a0bd7d169a58 | 2022-08-03 18:54:03 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/sports/locked-on/lo-national/locked-on-mlb/padres-mariners-yankees-headline-mlb-trade-deadline-buyers-juan-soto-josh-bell-new-york-san-diego-luis-castillo-orioles-phillies/535-b8215709-ae5e-4fe2-9f8a-a0bd7d169a58 |
Just 13 percent of the nation’s eighth graders were proficient in U.S. history last year, and 22 percent were proficient in civics, marking another decline in performance during the pandemic and sounding an alarm about how well students understand their country and its government.
Peggy G. Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, referred to the results as “a national concern,” saying that “too many of our students are struggling … to understand and explain the importance of civic participation, how American government works and the historical significance of events.”
In U.S. history, students across most racial and ethnic groups lost ground, as did all but the highest performers. Scores in both subjects are now comparable to the 1990s.
“These are two critically important subject areas, not just for the success of students individually in the future, but for our success collectively as a society,” said Patrick Kelly, a 12th-grade government teacher in South Carolina and member of the National Assessment Governing Board, which sets policy for NAEP.
Kelly said the results partly reflect the way that social studies instruction has been “in many ways marginalized,” particularly at the state level, where officials focus on accountability systems that measure progress only in reading and math.
There was no mention in the data compilation of recent battles nationally over what should be taught in the classroom, including issues that touch on race and racism.
But U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona did not ignore the issue. While linking poor performance to the “profound impact” of the pandemic, he objected to efforts by politicians to cut education funding or limit learning. “Banning history books and censoring educators from teaching these important subjects does our students a disservice and will move America in the wrong direction,” he said in a statement.
Martin West, an education professor at Harvard University who sits on NAEP’s governing board, emphasized the data does not point to reasons for the decline. “That said, I think it’s fair to speculate that ongoing debates over how to teach history may well be getting in the way of actually doing it,” he said.
West and others said that while the pandemic may have contributed to the lower scores, it clearly does not fully explain it. In U.S. history, scores began falling after 2014 and were down four points by 2018.
A majority of students had also taken a course in eighth grade mainly about U.S. history but that percentage ticked down from 72 percent to 68 percent. For civics, it was roughly 50 percent in 2018 and 2022.
The history and civics tests, given every four years, were taken in January to March of 2022 by a nationally representative group of 15,800 students from 410 public and private schools across the country. They were administered by the National Center for Education Statistics, part of the U.S. Department of Education.
The decline was not as stunning as math and reading data released in September. Math scores among 9-year-olds fell seven points from 2020 to 2022, in a first-ever decline, while reading scores slipped five points, the largest dip in 30 years. Test scores released in October were similarly stark.
The eighth-graders tested in U.S. history and civics were from the same population of students whose math and reading scores set off wide concern.
In 2018, 15 percent of students who reached or exceeded proficiency in U.S. history, compared to last year’s 13 percent. In civics, it was 24 percent in 2018, falling to 22 percent last year.
Beverly Perdue, the board’s chair and former governor of North Carolina, said she found the low scores “disturbing” and believed the pandemic played a role. Still, she added, “that can’t become the scapegoat for the fact that our students are not achieving at grade level.”
Some focused on longtime inattention to history and civics.
Chester E. Finn Jr., president emeritus of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank, ticked off what he sees as contributing factors to low scores: poor state standards, poorly trained teachers, limited instructional time, spotty and uneven curriculums and the lack of an accountability system.
“The ideal takeaway is: ‘This is one of these Sputnik moments that says we’ve got to say the schools aren’t doing their part to prepare American citizens,’” he said. “This should be an alarm bell, a call to do something different.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/03/civics-history-education-naep-democracy/ | 2023-05-03 04:18:28 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/03/civics-history-education-naep-democracy/ |
Hunter Greene and his flamethrowing right arm are set to be in a Cincinnati Reds uniform for years to come.
The team and Greene agreed to a six-year, $53 million contract on Tuesday, which includes a $21 million team option for 2029 with a $2 million buyout. If the team option is exercised, it would raise the value of the contract to $72 million. Additional escalators could raise the value to $96.2 million.
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"The commitment we made to Hunter reflects his commitment to this organization and to our community," Reds CEO Bob Castellini said in a statement. "He is part of the foundation of young players who will continue to help us build a successful major league team."
Greene was the No. 2 overall selection of the Reds in the 2017 MLB Amateur Draft. He progressed through the minor league system and within five years he was wowing fans with his speed in the majors.
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In 2022, Greene started 24 games and picked up one shutout. He had a 4.44 ERA with 164 strikeouts. Last April, he set a major league record by throwing 39 pitches at 100 mph or higher. He was also a part of a no-hitter in which the team lost.
Through four starts this season, Greene has a 4.24 ERA with 24 strikeouts. He has a K/9 ratio of 12.7 and a H/9 ratio of 10.6.
As of Wednesday, the Reds are 7-10 on the season and in fourth place in the National League Central division.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/hunter-greene-reds-agree-to-six-year-contract-extension/article_61e75fff-5b18-54b9-9dc1-1ed020a20673.html | 2023-04-19 17:08:50 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/hunter-greene-reds-agree-to-six-year-contract-extension/article_61e75fff-5b18-54b9-9dc1-1ed020a20673.html |
‘Super Mario Bros.’ super on streaming, too
Posted/updated on: June 5, 2023 at 6:08 pmThe Super Mario Bros. Movie keeps racking up points. The animated film, starring the voices of Chris Pratt, Charlie Day and Anya Taylor-Joy, just surpassed the $1.3 billion mark worldwide, surpassing Frozen to become the second-highest-grossing animated film in history.
And according to Fandango's streaming service Vudu, the movie continues to power up outside of theaters, as well: In its third week on streaming, Mario jumped to the #1 slot on the streaming charts for the week of May 29 through June 4. For the previous week, it was Number 2.
For the past week, Mario bested John Wick: Chapter 4, which ranked second, followed by a new release — Ben Affleck's thriller Hypnotic — which debuted in third place last week. Adam Driver's dinosaur sci-fi movie 65 took the fourth spot, followed by another new streaming release, the horror film Nefarious, rounding out the top 5.
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1 dead, 3 injured in shooting in South Carolina
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC/Gray News) - The North Charleston Police Department said one person was killed and three others were injured in a Thursday night shooting.
Officers responded to the 4100 block of Dorchester Road around 8:30 p.m. Thursday for a report of multiple people shot.
“When officers got on scene, they learned that four people had been shot,” police spokesman Harve Jacobs said.
Jacobs said a 19-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene.
A 59-year-old man and a boy were also injured in the shooting and found lying in the parking lot, according to the police report.
The fourth victim, an 18-year-old woman, later showed up at the hospital with a gunshot wound, the report states.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 4" game were:
8-5-5-4
(eight, five, five, four)
¶ Maximum prize: $500
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 4" game were:
8-5-5-4
(eight, five, five, four)
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Since the beginning of preseason drills, they had been pitted against each other. Offense vs. defense.
Coaches of the college football team ridiculed the offensive players when the defensive players made a great play. Players on defense were scolded when the offense scored. It went on and on until the players started forming hostile alliances. No longer did the offensive players socialize with the defensive players. Formerly friends, they now detested each other, despite having so much in common. And if you were from one unit, and were caught talking pleasantly with a player from another unit, you were quickly brought in line, and told that fraternizing would not be tolerated. They were your enemy.
Then came the first game, against the college's biggest rival.
Hours before the game, the defensive captain called his unit together for a player's only meeting — meaning, only defensive players.
"Listen, guys, we want the offense to look bad. We want the other team to score 100, and them score none," he told his squad. "So, we need to do everything we can to make them look horrible. That means putting our offense in positions where it's about impossible to score."
One of the defensive backs looked puzzled. "How do we do that?"
"We let the other team score every time they have the ball," the defensive captain said.
"Won't that make us look bad?," the defensive back asked.
"I'm not worried about us looking bad," the captain retorted. "After the game, we'll put the blame on them."
Meanwhile, the offensive players were meeting with their starting quarterback.
"Our strategy is to make the defense look like they're the worst defense in the history of college football," he said.
One of the offensive linemen raised his hand.
"I'm confused. Are we wanting to make the other team's defense look bad, or ours?"
He was quickly told to shut up and stick to the plan.
When the game started, the offense fumbled the first snap, giving the other team the ball on the 5-yard line. The defense then let the other team's offense score.
On the offense's second possession, the quarterback purposely threw an interception. When the defense took the field, their players whiffed at every half-hearted tackle attempt. The college's football team was down 14-0 within the first two minutes. At halftime, it was 66-0.
The fans were irate. They yelled at their team. Booed. Hissed.
The offense didn't care. The defense had given up 66 points in a half. The defense also seemed pleased. The offense hadn't produced a single point.
The head coach was absolutely aghast when he congregated his team in the locker room. But he had figured out what was up.
"Alright, I see what's going on here," he said to the team. "The defense is purposely doing nothing. The offense is turning the ball over every time, also doing nothing. You think you're making the other unit look bad, right?"
The players didn't say anything for a minute, then the quarterback said, "It's their fault," which sparked a flurry of finger-pointing and accusations.
"Listen, you complete idiots — YOU'RE ON THE SAME TEAM!!," the coach screamed. "The offense isn't one team, and the defense another. You're on the same team! The other team is the one you're facing out there, and they're killing you because you won't work together. Offense, you're not winning anything, accomplishing anything, if your entire goal is to make the other part of your team look bad. And vice versa. The goal isn't to beat up on ourselves. The goal is to work together to beat your opponent. You're on the same team! Don't you get that?"
College athletics actually does get it. And that's why you'll never, ever see this scenario play out on any team, in any sport, anywhere. Even little kids can understand teamwork, and that, no matter what "unit" we are aligned with, we're all on the same team. And our goal isn't to make our teammates "look bad," which is pathetic.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched nighttime attacks on several Ukrainian cities, Ukrainian officials said Saturday as they and Moscow blamed each other for the deaths of dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war in a separatist-controlled area of the country’s east.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross have a duty to react after shelling of a prison complex in Donetsk province killed the POWS.
“It was a deliberate Russian war crime, a deliberate mass murder of Ukrainian prisoners of war,” Zelenskyy said in a video address late Friday. “There should be a clear legal recognition of Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.”
Both sides alleged the attack on the prison was premeditated and intended to silence the Ukrainian prisoners and to destroy evidence, including of possible atrocities.
Russia claimed Ukraine’s military used U.S.-supplied precision rocket launchers to target the prison in Olenivka, a settlement controlled by the Moscow-backed Donetsk People’s Republic.
The Ukrainian military, however, denied making any rocket or artillery strikes in Olenivka. It accused the Russians of shelling the prison to cover up the alleged torture and execution of Ukrainians there.
Separatist authorities and Russian officials said the attack killed 53 Ukrainian POWs and wounded another 75. Russia’s Defense Ministry on Saturday issued a list naming 48 Ukrainian fighters, their ages ranging from 20 to 62, who died in the attack; it was not clear if the ministry had revised its fatality count.
The International Committee of the Red Cross, which has organized civilian evacuations in the war and worked to monitor the treatment of POWS held by Russia and Ukraine, said it has requested access to the prison “to determine the health and condition of all the people present on-site at the time of the attack.”
“Our priority right now is making sure that the wounded receive life-saving treatment and that the bodies of those who lost their lives are dealt with in a dignified manner,” the Red Cross said in a statement.
Elsewhere in eastern Ukraine, Russian rockets hit a school building in Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city, overnight, and another attack occurred about an hour later, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said Saturday. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
The bus station in the city of Sloviansk also was hit, according to Mayor Vadim Lyakh. Sloviansk is near the front line of fighting as Russian and separatist forces try to take full control of the Donetsk region, one of two eastern provinces that Russia has recognized as sovereign states.
In southern Ukraine, one person was killed and six injured in shelling that hit a residential area in Mykolaiv, a significant port city, the region’s administration said Saturday on Facebook.
Friday’s attack on the prison reportedly killed Ukrainian soldiers who were captured in May after the fall of Mariupol, another port city where troops and the Azov Regiment of the national guard famously held out against a monthslong Russian siege.
On Saturday, an association of Azov fighters’ relatives held a demonstration outside Kyiv’s St. Sophia Cathedral and issued a statement calling for Russia to be designated a terrorist state for violating the Geneva Convention’s rules for the treatment of war prisoners.
Moscow opened a probe into the attack on POW prison, sending a team to the site from Russia’s Investigative Committee, the country’s main criminal investigation agency.
The Institute for the Study of War, a think tank based in Washington, said the competing claims and limited information prevented assigning responsibility for the attack but that the “available visual evidence appears to support the Ukrainian claim more than the Russian.”
On the energy front, Russia’s state-owned natural gas corporation said Saturday it has halted shipments to Latvia because of contract violations. Gas giant Gazprom said the shipments were stopped because Latvia broke “terms for extraction of gas.” It did not elaborate.
The statement likely referred to a refusal to meet Russia’s demand for gas payments in rubles rather than other currencies. Gazprom has previously suspended gas shipments to other EU countries, including the Netherlands, Poland and Bulgaria, because they would not pay in rubles.
EU nations have been scrambling to secure other energy sources, fearing that Russia will cut off more gas supplies as winter approaches.
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s foreign minister pressed his Dutch counterpart Tuesday for access to advanced chipmaking technology that has been blocked on security grounds and warned against allowing what he said were unfounded fears of Beijing to spoil relations.
Chinese frustration with curbs imposed by the Netherlands, Washington and Japan on chip technology has added to political strains at a time when Beijing is threatening to attack Taiwan and is increasingly assertive toward other Asian neighbors.
There was no indication the Netherlands changed its restriction on the supply of lithography machines available only from a single Dutch company that use ultraviolet light to etch tiny circuits on next-generation processor chips. Lack of that tool is holding back Chinese efforts to develop chips for smartphones, artificial intelligence and other advanced applications.
“As for the issue of lithography machines, China has serious concerns about this,” Qin Gang said at a joint news conference. “We should work together to jointly protect the normal trade order between us, the international trade rules and to jointly keep the global industrial and supply chains stable.”
The Chinese ambassador to the Netherlands earlier threatened possible unspecified retaliation, but the ministers gave no indication they discussed that in their 2 1/2-hour meeting.
“We have shared our national security concerns,” said the Dutch minister, Wopke Hoekstra. “I’ve, of course, clearly listened to his, and this is typically an issue where we will continue our dialogue.”
Beijing appears to be trying to improve relations with European governments and possibly split some away from alliances with Washington.
Political analysts have suggested that is part of the motivation behind Beijing’s decision to send an envoy to discuss a possible settlement of the Ukraine war. Analysts see little hope of peace but say the initiative gives Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s government a chance to deflect Western criticism of its friendly relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Qin appealed for patience while the envoy, Li Hui, visits European governments to discuss a possible “political settlement.”
Hoekstra, who also is the Dutch deputy prime minister, said he and Qin “talked extensively about the war” but gave no details.
“Russia’s aggression against Ukraine must stop and Europe and Netherlands will continue to stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes and whatever necessary,” Hoekstra said.
Qin tried to downplay security fears about Beijing.
“What China exports is opportunity, not crisis,” he said.
The Chinese minister complained about the “abnormal phenomenon” of what he said was fears about China being exaggerated by unspecified “intelligence departments.”
“Then their accusations are being exaggerated by the media,” Qin said. “The result is that it erodes the popular support for the friendship between our two countries.” | https://phl17.com/business/ap-business/ap-china-presses-dutch-minister-for-access-to-chipmaking-tech-blocked-on-security-grounds/ | 2023-05-23 20:39:01 | 0 | https://phl17.com/business/ap-business/ap-china-presses-dutch-minister-for-access-to-chipmaking-tech-blocked-on-security-grounds/ |
Almost from the moment that a pro-Donald Trump mob stormed into the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, conspiracy theories have ricocheted from the fringes of the internet to the corridors of Congress. Republican officials and others on the right have dismissed the attack as the work of mere tourists, or sought to depict it as a false-flag operation by shadowy leftist groups — or even the federal government.
These baseless claims have seeped into dozens of criminal cases stemming from the riot, and for more than two years, the government has had to beat them back.
On Thursday, prosecutors may face their stiffest challenge yet on that front as Alan Hostetter, a former police chief turned yoga instructor from Southern California, goes on trial in U.S. District Court in Washington. Few people connected to the Jan. 6 attack have embraced conspiracy theories about the attack as fully as Hostetter, who is planning to place them at the heart of his defense.
Acting as his own lawyer, Hostetter has said that he intends to fight charges of conspiracy and obstruction based on what he calls “three fundamental pillars”: that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump; that he and other rioters had no desire to disrupt the challenges to the vote results that were taking place inside the Capitol on Jan. 6; and that, therefore, the assault on the building had to have been staged by “federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies.”
To prove all this, Hostetter had initially told the judge who will hear his trial that he wanted to call as many as 30 witnesses as part of his defense.
Among those on his list were former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her daughter; Jacob Chansley, a fellow rioter better known as the QAnon Shaman; a New York Times reporter who wrote an article about his wife; and the general manager of the Kimpton George Hotel near the Capitol, where Hostetter stayed on Jan. 6 and which, as one of his motions said, was probably the place that the “feds” used to surveil him.
While Hostetter eventually backed away from his request, the trial is likely to draw together many of the disparate strands of conspiracy theories that have stubbornly taken root on the right in the 2 1/2 years since the Capitol was attacked.
Prosecutors have warned for weeks that the proceeding could devolve into chaos.
“The defendant’s goal with this trial — rather than a genuine engagement on the elements or the evidence — is to create a circuslike atmosphere and to promote his own brand,” they wrote last month to Royce Lamberth, the presiding judge.
The vast majority of the more than 60 Capitol riot cases that have gone to trial in Washington so far have fallen into one of two buckets: They have either been brief and straightforward assault or trespassing matters, or longer and weightier conspiracy cases involving complex charges like sedition against members of extremist groups such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers militia.
Every now and then, the trials have veered from this normal course as defendants have taken the stand to offer unusual — and generally unsuccessful — arguments like blaming Trump for their decision to storm the Capitol. But while some of the trials have at times been dramatic, most have been relatively uneventful and largely trouble-free.
A leader of a group called the American Phoenix Project, which was founded to fight the “fear-based tyranny” of coronavirus-related restrictions, Hostetter was accused of plotting with several members of the Three Percenter militia movement to storm the Capitol and stop the certification of Trump’s defeat.
Shortly after the election, prosecutors said, Hostetter and another leader of the American Phoenix Project, Russell Taylor, began to use the group “to advocate violence” against people that “supported the 2020 election results.” At the end of November, for example, Hostetter posted a video on the group’s YouTube channel accusing those who had not challenged the results of committing treason.
“Some people at the highest level,” he said, “need to be made an example of with an execution or three.”
Prosecutors say that Hostetter and Taylor communicated with their Three Percenter co-defendants mostly through a group chat on Telegram called “California Patriots-DC Brigade.” Taylor once described the channel as being for “able bodied individuals that are going to DC on Jan. 6” and are “ready and willing to fight.”
Hostetter went to Washington on Jan. 3, 2021, prosecutors said, checking into a room at the Kimpton George. Three days later, carrying a hatchet in a backpack, he accompanied Taylor — who also had a hatchet as well as a knife and a stun baton — into a restricted area on the Capitol grounds.
In April, in a nod to the unusual nature of Hostetter’s proposed defense, Lamberth severed his case from the four co-defendants who stood accused of being Three Percenters and conspiring to disrupt the certification of the election on Jan. 6. By that time, Taylor had already pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges and under a deal with the government had agreed to serve as a witness and testify against Hostetter at trial.
Prosecutors have said that they intend to bolster their case with testimony from FBI agents who conducted the investigation and police officers who witnessed the violence at the Capitol. But this standard presentation could be upended if Hostetter tries to pursue the more outrageous parts of his defense.
Last month, for instance, during a routine pretrial hearing, he went on a tirade, accusing the government of having prosecuted Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers, on sedition charges in order to disguise the fact that Rhodes had been working with authorities on Jan. 6.
Lamberth cut him short and dismissed his baseless claims.
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A look at Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees as he approaches major home run milestones:
Season HR Total: 60
Monday’s Game: Went 1 for 3 with two walks in a 3-2 loss in 10 innings at Toronto. Judge has gone six games without a home run and remains short of the AL record of 61 set by Roger Maris of the Yankees in 1961. Judge’s longest homer drought this season was nine games in mid-August.
Tuesday’s Matchup: Judge continues his bid to win the AL Triple Crown and the Yankees can clinch the AL East title with a victory. Right-hander José Berríos (11-6, 5.27 ERA) starts for the Blue Jays.
Current HR Pace: Judge is on pace to hit 63.5 home runs this season.
Next HR: Judge’s next home run would tie him with Maris. The Yankees have nine games remaining in the regular season.
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After 20 years and $200 billion in revenue, Humira — an injectable treatment for rheumatoid arthritis and several other autoimmune conditions — has lost its monopoly. Early Tuesday morning, California-based biotech firm Amgen released Amjevita, the first close copy of the best selling drug of all time. At least seven more Humira copycats, known as biosimilars, are expected to debut later this year.
"It's about time!" said Sameer Awsare with a laugh and a smile. Awsare, associate executive director for the Permanente Medical Group, advises national insurer Kaiser Permanente on its prescription drug policies. Other groups representing insurers, patients or employers are also eager for these biosimilars to usher in more competition — in hopes that will enable them to slash their spending on the popular treatment.
But among industry watchers, the prevailing sentiment is uncertainty over whether competition alone will bring the price down.
"I am pretty anxious," said Marta Wosińska, an economist and fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Humira losing its monopoly creates the biggest test the fledgling U.S. biosimilars market has ever faced. It's a market critical to containing drug costs in the U.S., which relies primarily on competition rather than regulation to rein in spending.
If these challengers to Humira fail to pass this test, some will see it as a sign something about this market is fundamentally broken.
A golden opportunity for a beleaguered biosimilars market
Biosimilars are highly similar versions of a rapidly growing class of drugs called biologics, a broad range of treatments or preventatives that include immunotherapies, insulins and certain vaccines made from living cells.
While biologics are driving many of medicine's most exciting new advances — shrinking tumors, controlling diabetes, even delaying dementia — they are also consuming more of our money. Biologics account for nearly half of U.S. drug spending despite comprising less than 3% of prescriptions.
Since debuting in the U.S. in 2015, biosimilars have struggled to match the market-devouring, price-plummeting impact of generic drugs, which save U.S. patients and insurers $300 billion a year.
How biosimilars are different from generics
Unlike generics, biosimilars face a unique set of regulatory, manufacturing and business challenges. Conventional drugs can be replicated like a recipe in a cookbook using chemical processes. In contrast, because biologic drugs are grown in living cells, they are harder to mimic, making biosimilars more difficult and expensive to manufacture. Experts debate whether those unique challenges have doomed this market or if biosimilars simply need more time to establish themselves.
Humira offers by far the best opportunity this beleaguered market has had to succeed.
"All of the pieces seem to be there," Wosińska said. "Tons of money on the table [and] eight companies ready to jump in."
If biosimilars come up short again, Wosińska and others worry about the chilling effect that could have on future biosimilar investments, leading to less competition and a future where people pay higher drug prices, steeper insurance premiums and bigger tax bills for programs like Medicare.
A fierce fight for market share
In order to pass this test — and demonstrate biosimilars can have a strong, healthy future in the U.S. — Humira's challengers need to deliver big savings and devour market share.
Experts — and even Humira's own manufacturer, AbbVie — are confident this new competition will soon cut spending on the drug nearly in half. Those savings would mostly benefit insurers and their middlemen as well as employers, who pick up the bulk of drug costs for many Americans. According to original calculations done for Tradeoffs by the Health Care Cost Institute, employers spent more than $15 billion in 2020 on Humira. How much of the cost-savings will trickle down to patients, who can spend more than $70,000 a year on this drug, is less clear.
The much harder part of this test to pass will be snatching significant market share away from Humira manufacturer AbbVie. With its 20-year head start, the drugmaker has spent billions of dollars erecting barriers to "slow competitors down and protect as much of the market as possible," according to Robin Feldman, professor at University of California Law, San Francisco.
Company tactics have included tweaking Humira's formula to give the appearance that biosimilar competitors are less similar; AbbVie has also added two new drugs of its own that target similar patient populations and add to the company's market share. AbbVie recently projected the pair of drugs —– Rinvoq and Skyrizi —– will exceed Humira's record $20 billion in annual sales by 2027.
AbbVie declined multiple requests for comment but in addressing the forthcoming biosimilar competition on a February 2020 earnings call, chief executive Richard Gonzalez said, "Our goal is to maintain as much share as we can in as profitable of a way as we can."
AbbVie's actions are just one hurdle biosimilars face.
"Everybody is feeding at the trough," Feldman said.
The complex drug purchasing system in the U.S. — rife with confidential rebates and convoluted fees — creates perverse financial incentives.
For example, most insurers rely on middlemen to negotiate deals with drugmakers that in turn dictate which drugs get covered and what patients pay at the pharmacy counter. But those middlemen have their own profit motives and have been known to give favorable coverage to a more expensive drug if its manufacturer offers them a lucrative deal.
These contracts are confidential, but so far, in the case of Humira, two of the country's three largest insurance middlemen have said they plan to charge patients the same out of pocket costs for Humira as biosimilar alternatives.
"The patient won't pay any less if they switch to the biosimilar," Feldman said. "Why would you switch from [a brand] you already know to [one] that you don't know" if you are paying the same?
Patients lacking any financial incentive to switch makes competing that much harder for biosimilars, which are vying in many cases for patients who have relied on Humira for years — and their doctors. In a survey of physicians conducted by the research group NORC at the University of Chicago, only 31% said they were very likely to switch a patient doing well on any biologic over to a biosimilar version.
Additionally, pharmacists must get a whole new prescription for a biosimilar before swapping it in for a brand-name competitor. With traditional generics, that swap for the pharmacist is essentially automatic and requires no new prescription. While one of Humira's biosimilar competitors — Cyltezo, which will come to the U.S. market in July — has gotten a special Food and Drug Administration approval that allows for automatic swapping, most others have not.
Only one large insurer has said it will bring down the kind of financial hammer required to help biosimilars grab meaningful market share. David Chen, who directs specialty drug use for Kaiser Permanente, said the insurer plans to stop covering Humira by the end of 2023. He expects at least 90% of patients to switch to the biosimilar alternative, and said Kaiser should save hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
A reckoning on the horizon
If the biosimilar market once again falls short of its promise, economist Wosińska said she foresees a larger reckoning. She expects some drugmakers would deem the market fatally flawed and exit altogether, leaving fewer competitors to drive down the price of the next big biologic blockbuster.
Congress also could act to fix certain flaws, other experts said. They could change regulations, and try to make the market a cheaper, easier place for companies to thrive. Or, they could go in the opposite direction: embrace price regulation.
It's an option that was considered untouchable for many decades. But the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which gave the federal government new power to lower drug prices, has put that path squarely on the map.
This story comes from the health policy podcast Tradeoffs, a partner of Side Effects Public Media. Dan Gorenstein is Tradeoffs' executive editor, and Leslie Walker is a senior producer for the show, which ran a version of this story on January 26. Tradeoffs' coverage of health care costs is supported, in part, by Arnold Ventures and West Health.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The head of China’s legislature called for cooperation with South Korea in advanced technology and supply chains, as he met South Korean leaders Friday amid concerns that their moves to solidify a military alliance with Washington could hamper Seoul’s ties with Beijing.
Li Zhanshu, third in the Chinese Communist Party hierarchy and one of President Xi Jinping’s closest confidants, is the highest-level Chinese official to visit South Korea since his predecessor did so in 2015. His trip is seen as part of efforts by Beijing to boost ties with neighboring countries ahead of a Communist Party congress next month that will likely grant Xi a third five-year term as leader.
Li’s visit is also crucial for South Korea’s government, which wants to assure Beijing that its push to strengthen its alliance with the U.S. and participate in U.S.-led regional initiatives won’t target China, its biggest trading partner.
Li, chairman of the standing committee of China’s National People’s Congress, told a joint news conference with his South Korean counterpart that China supports “realizing cooperation in cutting-edge technology sectors and managing supply and industrial chains smoothly and stably.”
He didn’t elaborate. His comments are likely to reflect concerns in Beijing that its intensifying competition with the United States may lead to supply chain disruptions as some U.S. companies shift sourcing and production away from China. China also opposes South Korea’s possible participation in a U.S.-led semiconductor alliance involving Taiwan and Japan.
Li’s closeness to Xi suggests his comments reflect the thinking of Xi and his inner circle. Li, who is leading a 66-member Chinese delegation to South Korea, met South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and other top officials later Friday.
Earlier this month, Li visited Russia, where he decried international sanctions against Moscow, underscoring Beijing support for Russia in its war on Ukraine despite claims of neutrality. On Thursday, Xi met Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a regional gathering in Uzbekistan. Putin thanked Xi for his “balanced” approach to the Ukrainian crisis and blasted Washington’s “ugly” policies.
Li’s talks with Yoon have drawn keen attention because Yoon last month skipped an in-person meeting with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who visited Seoul after a trip to Taiwan that angered China, which claims the self-ruled island as its territory. Yoon, who was on vacation, spoke by phone with Pelosi but faced domestic criticism that he had intentionally shunned her so as not to provoke China. Yoon was the only head of government who didn’t meet Pelosi face-to-face during her Asian trip, which also included Singapore, Malaysia and Japan.
Kim Heung-kyu, director of the U.S.-China Policy Institute at Ajou University in South Korea, said Li’s visit is different from Pelosi’s because she arrived after her contentious Taiwan trip. But he said China would still likely see symbolic significance in Li meeting with a South Korean president whom Pelosi failed to meet.
Some worry that Yoon’s tilt toward Washington could trigger economic retaliation by China, as it did in 2017 when South Korea allowed the United States to base a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense radar system, or THAAD, on its soil. China, which says the radar can spy on its territory, suspended group tours to South Korea and conducted an unofficial boycott of South Korean products.
During their meeting, Yoon said the THAAD issue must not be a sticking point in bilateral ties, and Li agreed on the need for close coordination to resolve sensitive issues, according to Yoon’s office.
China is likely to be more cautious about launching another economic retaliation because it would push South Korea closer to the United States and worsen anti-Chinese sentiment in South Korea, according to Professor Kim Han-kwon of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy.
“In the case of the THAAD dispute, China shook public opinion in South Korea and caused South Korea to suffer economic losses,” he said. “But eventually, they failed to get THAAD scrapped and anti-China sentiment grew in South Korea. There was also a public reevaluation of a boosting of the South Korea-U.S. alliance and of South Korea-U.S.-Japan security cooperation.”
South Korea, the world’s 10th-largest economy, is a major supplier of semiconductors, automobiles, smartphones and other electronic products. This makes it an attractive partner to both the United States and China.
Unless South Korea “openly pursues an anti-China policy, China will likely continue to stress a message of amity and cooperation with South Korea, rather than pressure, conflict and confrontation,” said Kim, the institute director.
Cooperative relations with China are essential in efforts by Seoul and Washington to convince North Korea to give up its nuclear program. While there are questions about how much influence China has on North Korea, it’s still believed to have the greatest leverage among regional powers because it is North Korea’s last major diplomatic ally and main economic pipeline.
In his meeting with Li on Friday, South Korean National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin Pyo said South Korea hopes that China will play a constructive role with North Korea. Li said he and Kim agreed that establishing peace on the Korean Peninsula through dialogue would serve the interests of both nations.
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By JOSEF FEDERMAN and ISABEL DEBRE
Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian gunman opened fire outside an east Jerusalem synagogue Friday night, killing seven people, including a 70-year-old woman, and wounding three others before he was shot and killed by police, officials said. It was the deadliest attack on Israelis in years and raised the likelihood of more bloodshed.
The attack, which occurred as residents were observing the Jewish sabbath, came a day after an Israeli military raid killed nine people in the West Bank. The shooting set off celebrations in both the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, where people fired guns into the air, honked horns and distributed sweets.
The burst of violence, which also included a rocket barrage from Gaza and retaliatory Israeli airstrikes, has posed an early challenge for Israel’s new government, which is dominated by ultranationalists who have pushed for a hard line against Palestinian violence. It also cast a cloud over a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the region Sunday.
Addressing reporters at Israel’s national police headquarters, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had held a security assessment and decided on “immediate actions.” He said he would convene his Security Cabinet on Saturday night, after the end of the sabbath, to discuss a further response.
Netanyahu declined to elaborate but said Israel would act with “determination and composure.” He called on the public not to take the law into their own hands.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the U.S. strongly condemned the attack and was “shocked and saddened by the loss of life,” noting it came on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
U.S. officials said later Friday that President Joe Biden spoke with Netanyahu to offer U.S. support to the government and people of Israel, calling the shootings “an attack against the civilized world.” “The President stressed the iron-clad U.S. commitment to Israel’s security,” the White House said of the call.
Israeli police said the shootings occurred in Neve Yaakov, a neighborhood with a large ultra-Orthodox population, and that the gunman fled in a car. Police said they chased after him and after an exchange of fire, killed him.
Jerusalem police chief Doron Turjeman confirmed seven deaths, in addition to the shooter, and said three people were wounded.
Police identified the attacker as a 21-year-old east Jerusalem resident who apparently acted alone. Turjeman promised an “aggressive and significant” effort to track down anyone who helped him.
Police also released a photo of the pistol it said was used by the attacker.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant huddled with Israel’s military chief and other top security officials and instructed them to assist police and strengthen defenses near Jerusalem and for Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
“Israel’s defense establishment will operate decisively and forcefully against terror and will reach anyone involved in the attack,” Gallant said.
Israel’s MADA rescue service said the dead victims were five men and two women, including several who were 60 or older. Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital said a 15-year-old boy was recovering from surgery.
The attack was the deadliest on Israelis since a 2008 shooting killed eight people in a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem, according to the Foreign Ministry. Given the location and timing, it threatened to trigger a tough response from Israel.
Overnight Thursday, Gaza militants fired a barrage of rockets into southern Israel, with all of them either intercepted or landing in open areas. Israel responded with airstrikes on targets in Gaza. No casualties were reported, and calm had appeared to be taking hold before Friday night’s shooting.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. In Gaza, Hazem Qassem, spokesman for the ruling Hamas militant group, said the attack was “a revenge and natural response” to the deadly military raid Thursday.
At several locations across the Gaza Strip, dozens of Palestinians gathered in spontaneous demonstrations to celebrate the Jerusalem attack, with some coming out of dessert shops with large trays of sweets to distribute.
In downtown Gaza City, celebratory gunfire could be heard, as cars honked and calls of “God is great!” wafted from mosque loudspeakers. In various West Bank towns, Palestinians launched fireworks.
The attack escalated tensions that were already heightened following Thursday’s raid in the town of Jenin, where nine people, including at least seven militants and a 61-year-old woman, were killed. It was the deadliest single raid in the West Bank in two decades. A 10th Palestinian was killed in separate fighting near Jerusalem.
Angry Palestinians marched Friday as they buried the last of those killed a day earlier.
Scuffles between Israeli forces and Palestinian protesters erupted after the funeral for a 22-year-old Palestinian north of Jerusalem and elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, but calm prevailed in the contested capital and in the blockaded Gaza Strip for most of the day.
That suddenly dissolved with the east Jerusalem shooting, described as “horrific and heartbreaking” by Yair Lapid, the opposition leader and former prime minister.
Neve Yaakov is a religious Jewish settlement that Israel considers to be a neighborhood of its capital. Israel claims all of Jerusalem as its undivided capital, while the Palestinians seek east Jerusalem as a capital of their future state.
Blinken’s trip will probably now focus heavily on lowering tensions. He is likely to discuss the underlying causes of the conflict, the agenda of Israel’s new far-right government and the Palestinian Authority’s decision to halt security coordination with Israel in retaliation for the raid.
The Biden administration has been deeply engaged with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in recent days, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said, underscoring the “urgent need here for all parties to deescalate to prevent the further loss of civilian life and to work together to improve the security situation in the West Bank.”
Israel and Hamas have fought four wars and several smaller skirmishes since the militant group seized power in Gaza from rival forces in 2007.
Tensions have soared since Israel stepped up raids in the West Bank last spring, following a series of Palestinian attacks.
Nearly 150 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank and east Jerusalem in 2022, making it the deadliest year in those territories since 2004, according to leading Israeli rights group B’Tselem. Last year, 30 people were killed in Palestinian attacks against Israelis.
So far this year, 30 Palestinians have been killed, according to a count by The Associated Press.
Israel says most of the dead were militants. But youths protesting the incursions and others not involved in the confrontations also have been killed.
Israel says its raids are meant to dismantle militant networks and thwart attacks. The Palestinians say they further entrench Israel’s 55-year, open-ended occupation of the West Bank, captured along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Mideast war.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top migration official on Friday urged the bloc’s 27 nations to clamp down on issuing visas to Russian citizens amid heightened security concerns over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threats and his annexation of parts of Ukraine.
“This is clearly an escalation and that means also an escalation of the security threat towards the European Union,” Migration Commissioner Ylva Johansson said.
She urged EU countries to enforce more stringent checks on Russian citizens and deny documents to anyone who might pose a threat.
Over 194,000 Russian citizens have fled to neighboring Georgia, Kazakhstan and Finland — often by car, bicycle or on foot — since Putin last week announced a partial mobilization of reservists to bolster his troops in Ukraine. In Russia, the vast majority of men under 65 are registered as reservists.
Johansson said EU authorities must stop short-term visa holders from Russia from renewing them in Europe. “If a Russian person intends to stay longer than 90 days in the EU, he or she should not be issued a visa,” she told reporters.
Johansson also said Russians who have fled the country should not be allowed to apply for visas abroad.
“They have to do that from their home country, Russia,” she said, but underlined that they should be allowed in for humanitarian reasons, or other exceptional circumstances.
Johansson also urged countries to reassess whether already valid visas should have been issued. She said that none of the measures the European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, is recommending would stop Russian citizens from applying for asylum in Europe.
“The right to have a short term visa into the EU is not a fundamental right. It’s privilege. The right to apply for asylum is a fundamental right,” Johansson said.
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Conference call and webcast to be held at 4:30 p.m. EDT
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trevi Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRVI), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing an investigational therapy Haduvio™ (oral nalbuphine ER) for the treatment of serious chronic cough conditions, today announced that management will host a conference call and live audio webcast on Thursday, November 10, 2022, at 4:30 p.m. ET, to provide a corporate update and review the Company's financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022.
To participate in the live conference call by phone, please dial (888) 317 6003 (domestic) or (412) 317 6061 (international) and provide access code 4950734. A live audio webcast will be accessible from the 'Investors & News' section on the Company's website at www.TreviTherapeutics.com. An archived replay of the webcast will also be available for 30 days on the Company's website following the event.
About Trevi Therapeutics, Inc.
Trevi Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of the investigational oral therapy Haduvio™ (nalbuphine ER) for the treatment of serious chronic cough conditions. The Company has successfully completed a Phase 2 trial of Haduvio for the treatment of chronic cough in adults with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Based on this positive data, Trevi plans to focus future clinical development on chronic cough conditions, including IPF, refractory chronic cough, and interstitial lung diseases (ILDs).
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About Haduvio
Haduvio, an investigational therapy, is an oral extended-release (ER) formulation of nalbuphine. Nalbuphine is a mixed ĸ-opioid receptor agonist and µ-opioid receptor antagonist that has been approved and marketed as an injectable for pain indications for more than 20 years in the United States and Europe. The ĸ- and µ-opioid receptors are centrally and peripherally active and known to be critical mediators of cough and itch. Nalbuphine's mechanism of action may also mitigate the risk of abuse associated with µ-opioid agonists because it antagonizes, or blocks, µ-opioid receptors. Parenteral nalbuphine is not currently scheduled as a controlled substance by the DEA in the United States or by regulatory authorities in most of Europe. Trevi intends to propose Haduvio as the trade name for nalbuphine ER. Its safety and efficacy have not been evaluated by any regulatory authority.
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Two large mines important for America's green energy transition are being fought in federal court by Native Americans who say the developments would destroy sacred, religious sites.
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Infamous American homes in notorious crime cases
Not every house of horror meets same fate
As the University of Idaho community reels from the shocking slayings of four undergrad students in an off-campus rental home in Moscow, Idaho, this past November, school officials have already announced plans to tear the building down.
"The owner of the King Street house offered to give the house to the university, which we accepted," University of Idaho President Scott Green said last week. "The house will be demolished. This is a healing step and removes the physical structure where the crime that shook our community was committed."
Landlords almost always seek an address change in similar situations.
But communities and homeowners deal with such tragedies in different ways. Here are the stories of several houses of horror that met different fates over the years.
BRYAN KOHBERGER'S PENNSYLVANIA WARRANTS: EXPERTS BREAK DOWN KEY EVIDENCE
Idaho Four
In Moscow, Idaho, where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in a 4 a.m. ambush on Nov. 13, 2022, the landlord is donating the property to their school, which plans to raze the building.
WATCH: Security measures are added to the house where four college students were murdered in Moscow, Idaho
A memorial and healing garden will be built to honor the victims and other University of Idaho students who have died over the years, but Green said last week the location had not yet been chosen.
The suspect, Bryan Kohberger, is being held without bond in the Latah County Jail on four counts of first-degree murder and a felony burglary charge. He's due back in court on June 26.
JonBenet Ramsey
The former Ramsey house in Boulder, Colorado, where 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was found dead in her family's basement the day after Christmas in 1996, went up for sale last week.
JonBenet's mother, Patsy, reported her missing to police after finding a lengthy ransom note that demanded $118,000 in exchange for the girl. JonBenet's father, John Ramsey, found her body later that same day in the basement of their home.
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Its current owners just listed it for sale for $7 million, NBC News reported Friday. Records show the five-bedroom, eight-bathroom home last sold for $650,000 in 1998 – when the Ramseys moved out.
The new listing, from March 1, shows extensive updates both inside and out. Take a look here.
JonBenet's case has not been solved – but a state-run cold-case unit announced the investigation would get another look last year.
Authorities are asking anyone with information related to the JonBenet investigation to contact 303-441-1974, BouldersMostWanted@bouldercolorado.gov or Northern Colorado Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman
Nicole Brown Simpson, the ex-wife of former NFL star Orenthal "O.J." Simpson, was stabbed to death along with her friend, Ron Goldman, at her house in Brentwood, California, on June 12, 1994.
Police charged O.J. with the crime, for which he was acquitted after a dramatic televised trial the following year. A subsequent civil lawsuit, however, found him liable for $33 million. Years later, he would be convicted in a robbery case and sentenced to prison. He was released in 2017.
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The house remains standing today – although like other homes on this list, the address has been changed. According to Zillow, it last sold in 1994 for $625,000 and is worth an estimated $2.8 million today.
The Rockingham Estate, the house where O.J. lived at the time, was purchased and demolished in 1998, according to E! News. The address was changed to thwart tourist attention.
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Another of Simpson's homes, which he purchased in Miami in 2000 after leaving California, has also been torn down.
The New York Post reported last week that the property, which went into foreclosure after O.J.'s 2008 robbery conviction, was demolished last year and was unsuccessfully listed for $2.6 million.
The former football and movie star currently lives in Las Vegas.
Maggie and Paul Murdaugh
The Murdaugh family's sprawling Moselle estate in Islandton, South Carolina, is where on June 7, 2021, Alex Murdaugh gunned down his wife Maggie, 52, and their younger son, Paul, 22, near the dog kennels and then called 911 to pretend he stumbled upon the crime scene.
He was convicted Thursday and sentenced to life in prison Friday morning.
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The family of Mallory Beach, a 19-year-old woman and friend of Paul's who was killed in a DUI boat crash with the slain scion behind the wheel, had asked a South Carolina judge to preserve funds from the potential sale of the property last year.
Murdaugh and Beach's family reached a settlement in their wrongful death lawsuit in January. As a result, Beach's mother will be paid $275,000 when the Moselle estate, valued at just under $4 million, is sold.
According to the Washington Post, the sale is already in contract.
The Amityville Horror
A young man in Amityville, New York, slaughtered his own family inside their colonial home on Ocean Avenue in 1974. A year later, the home's new owners fled in horror a month after moving in.
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George and Kathy Lutz bought the house – and were so shocked by alleged paranormal activity that they moved out a month later.
Their story became a novel, which was then adapted into a movie.
The killer, Ronald DeFeo Jr., was sentenced to 25 years to life and died in prison in 2021, the New York Post reported at the time. He was 69.
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DeFeo killed his parents, Ronald and Louise, both 43, two sisters and two brothers as they slept inside the home at 112 Ocean Ave. on Nov. 13, 1974. He was 23. His siblings ranged from 9 to 18.
The house, which has a backyard boathouse and detached two-car garage, is still standing today, and again, the address was changed in an effort to reduce visits from gawkers. | https://www.foxnews.com/us/infamous-american-homes-notorious-crime-cases | 2023-03-06 12:17:52 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/us/infamous-american-homes-notorious-crime-cases |
Titusville-Based Hydrogen Infrastructure Leader Supports Family Events All Year Long
TITUSVILLE, Fla., Oct. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --GenH2, an industry leader in hydrogen infrastructure solutions, today announced a lineup of holiday events that the Titusville-headquartered company is supporting over the next few months. GenH2 is committed to supporting community events throughout the space coast, all year long.
"We are proud that we have built our headquarters in Titusville, where so many of our employees and their families have lived and flourished over the years," said Greg Gosnell, President of GenH2. "We are thrilled to participate in a number of events this Holiday season benefitting local non-profit organizations as we believe in giving back to our community every chance we have. At the end of the day, a close community is a strong community."
GenH2 will be supporting the following community events:
On October 30th from 2pm to 6pm, GenH2 will be joining multiple local organizations in creating a "Trunk or Treat" Halloween for the Titusville Community Fall Festival at the Gibson Center. GenH2 will be providing all the candy for this free family event featuring entertainment for the entire family including, a trunk or treat, costume contest, bounce houses, games, food trucks, and more.
GenH2 is pleased to be a Banquet Sponsor of the 32nd Annual Titusville Golf Classic, taking place on November 18 at The Great Outdoors Golf Club beginning at 10:30 am, with Dinner and Awards at 6:00 pm. The event benefits the Titusville YMCA, a critical part of improving the lives of local residents by providing lifesaving services and programs like food distribution events, swim lessons, out-of-school enrichment, and other family programming.
Volunteers from GenH2 will join the fun at the 13th Annual Space Coast Basket Brigade, taking place on November 19 and 20 from 10am to 4 pm at the Viera High School. At this family event, over 2,000 community members come together to package, decorate and personally deliver more than 3,500 Thanksgiving baskets to families in need in the local community and ensure that everyone has the opportunity to enjoy a Thanksgiving meal. As a Spotlight Plus Sponsor, GenH2 will also provide holiday meals for five families and five children.
GenH2 will participate in the Brevard County North, Florida "Toys for Tots" Toy Drive by accepting toy donations at the company's headquarters (5200 S. Washington Ave, Titusville, FL 32780) from November 28 to December 9, 2022. Donation boxes will be open to the public Monday to Friday from 8am to 4pm. This year more than 3,000 children in the Brevard County North area will benefit from the program.
About GenH2
GenH2 is an industry leader in hydrogen infrastructure solutions. The Titusville, Florida-headquartered technology company includes former NASA researchers and developers who possess decades of experience researching, engineering, and producing hydrogen solutions. GenH2 is focused on the mass production of infrastructure equipment necessary for the transition to a clean energy economy. GenH2 technology will allow safe onsite production, storage, and distribution of liquid or gaseous hydrogen, making the product accessible for everyday use; the company has plans to deliver its product to hundreds of locations across the country in the coming years. Learn more about GenH2 at www.DiscoverHydrogen.com.
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A Bucks County unified bocce team has a lot to be proud of.
The Pennridge High School team, made up of students with and without a disability, made it to the semifinals in the state championship in Hershey.
Pennridge beat Pittsburgh-area Chartiers Valley 6-4 in the first round Thursday morning, but fell to Greencastle-Antrim 6-5 in the semifinals.
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The Special Olympics of Pennsylvania tweeted about the event.
Pennridge held a special sendoff for the team on Wednesday, with students and staff lining the hallway and sidewalk to cheer on the team as they boarded the bus.
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Industrial furnace services and maintenance for reduced furnace downtime
SEYMOUR, Ind., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fives has opened a brand-new North American Construction Services, Ltd. maintenance center. This new facility will allow customers in the area to receive industrial furnace maintenance, repairs, upgrades, servicing and more. Furnace downtime during a scheduled or unpredicted outage means time, money and resources. The North American Construction Services Seymour facility helps minimize this downtime with timely and exceptional customer service. Conveniently located for customers along the Interstate 65 corridor, the maintenance and service center is just 50 miles north of Louisville, Kentucky and 50 miles outside Indianapolis. The 13,000 square foot facility will be equipped to help customers with:
- Precast Refractory Shapes and Dry Out
- Piping Assemblies
- Fuel Train Fabrication and Testing
- Demolition and Relining of Furnace Doors, Transfer Ladles, Launders, & More
- Fabrication of Cleaning Tools
- Combustion System Evaluations and Upgrades
- Equipment Audits
- Hardware and After Market Sales
Matt Owens, General Manager at North American Construction Services is excited to build relationships with nearby customers: "At the Indiana facility, we will be close to the customers to serve their thermal process needs, stock critical parts and materials, train critical resource trades and promote growth within the company. Our resources and integrated solutions are crucial to the sustainability of the industries we serve." Fives' is also reaching out to the community to hire and staff several positions at the Indiana location. To learn more about available job opportunities, Click Here. Positioned as an industry leader for industrial furnace solutions, Fives and the North American Construction Services Seymour facility look forward to providing the most professional services to current customers and new customers into the future.
As an industrial engineering Group with a heritage of over 200 years, Fives designs and supplies machines, process equipment and production lines for the world's largest industrial players in various sectors such as steel, aluminum, forge, heat treat, aerospace and manufacturing industries, like cement, energy, logistics and glass.
The effectiveness of its R&D programs enables Fives to design forward-thinking solutions that anticipate industrials' needs in terms of profitability, performance, quality, safety and respect for the environment.
In 2021, Fives achieved a turnover of €1.7 billion and employed more than 8,200 people in about thirty countries
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Allspring Global Investments™ (Allspring), a leading independent asset manager with more than $541 billion in assets under management*, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT), under which Allspring will adopt State Street Alpha™ for Allspring's middle-office operations as well as expand its relationship with Charles River Development. Allspring's transition will be a phased rollout targeted for completion by the end of 2023.
Joe Sullivan, Executive Chair and CEO at Allspring, shared: "Today's agreement with State Street is another critical step forward in Allspring's transformational journey as an independent global asset manager committed to delivering superior service to its clients. This important partnership will enable Allspring to focus even more on managing our clients' assets and further strengthen the firm's ability to meet their evolving needs, including by leveraging State Street's highly regarded Alpha platform suite of investment technology."
By leveraging the Alpha platform, Allspring can achieve process modernization and broader capabilities to enhance the investment experience for clients.
State Street Alpha is a fully integrated front-to-back technology platform that combines proven industry-leading components, including Charles River Development, Alpha Data Platform, middle-office processing, and a comprehensive set of data and back-office services.
"The State Street Alpha platform is ideally suited to provide Allspring with critical technology and operations infrastructure from the front office to the back office with advanced data management services," said John Plansky, head of State Street Alpha. "We look forward to being an essential partner for Allspring and helping them execute their strategy as a leading independent firm."
Allspring Global Investments™ is an independent asset management company with more than $541 billion in assets under management*, offices around the world, and investment teams supported by 450 investment professionals. Allspring is committed to thoughtful investing, purposeful planning, and inspiring a new era of investing that pursues both financial returns and positive outcomes. To learn more about Allspring and our mission to elevate investing, please visit www.allspringglobal.com.
Allspring Global Investments™ is the trade name for the asset management companies of Allspring Global Investments Holdings, LLC, a holding company indirectly owned by certain private funds of GTCR LLC and Reverence Capital Partners, L.P. These companies include but are not limited to Allspring Global Investments, LLC, and Allspring Funds Management, LLC. Certain products managed by Allspring entities are distributed by Allspring Funds Distributor, LLC (a broker-dealer and Member FINRA/SIPC). Associated with Allspring is Galliard Capital Management, LLC (an investment advisor that is not part of the Allspring trade name/GIPS company).
*As of March 31, 2022, AUM includes $91 billion from Galliard Capital Management, an investment advisor that is not part of the Allspring trade name/GIPS company.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy expanded at a 2.9% annual pace from October through December, ending 2022 with momentum despite the pressure of high interest rates and widespread fears of a looming recession.
Thursday’s estimate from the Commerce Department showed that the nation’s gross domestic product — the broadest gauge of economic output — decelerated last quarter from the 3.2% annual growth rate it had posted from July through September. Most economists think the economy will slow further in the current quarter and slide into at least a mild recession by midyear.
The economy got a boost last quarter from resilient consumer spending and the restocking of supplies by businesses. Federal government spending also helped lift GDP. But with higher mortgage rates undercutting residential real estate, investment in housing plummeted at a 27% annual rate for a second straight quarter.
For all of 2022, GDP expanded 2.1% after growing 5.9% in 2021.
The economy’s expected slowdown in the months ahead is an intended consequence of the Federal Reserve’s aggressive series of rate increases. The Fed’s hikes are meant to reduce growth, cool spending and crush the worst inflation bout in four decades. Last year, the Fed raised its benchmark rate seven times. It is set to do so again next week, though this time by a smaller amount.
The resilience of the U.S. job market has been a major surprise. Last year, employers added 4.5 million jobs, second only to the 6.7 million that were added in 2021 in government records going back to 1940. And last month’s unemployment rate, 3.5%, matched a 53-year low.
“The news couldn’t have been any better,” President Joe Biden said of Thursday’s GDP report. “We’re moving in the right direction. Now, we’ve got to protect those gains.”
Yet the good times for America’s workers aren’t likely to last. As higher rates make borrowing and spending increasingly expensive across the economy, many consumers will spend less and employers will likely hire less.
“Recent data suggest that the pace of expansion could slow sharply in (the current quarter) as the effects of restrictive monetary policy take hold,” Rubeela Farooqi, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics, wrote in a research report. “From the Fed’s perspective, a desired slowdown in the economy will be welcome news.”
Consumer spending, which fuels about 70% of the entire economy, rose at a sturdy 2.1% annual rate from October through December, down slightly from 2.3% in the previous quarter.
More recent numbers, including a 1.1% drop in retail sales last month, indicate that consumers have begun to pull back.
“That suggests higher rates were starting to take a bigger toll and sets the stage for weaker growth in the first quarter of this year,’’ said Andrew Hunter, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics.
Economists at Bank of America expect growth to slow to a 1.5% annual rate in the January-March quarter and then to contract for the rest of the year — by a 0.5% rate in the second quarter, 2% in the third and 1.5% in the fourth.
The Fed has been responding to an inflation rate that remains stubbornly high even though it has been gradually easing. Year-over-year inflation was raging at a 9.1% rate in June, the highest level in more than 40 years. It has since cooled — to 6.5% in December — but is still far above the Fed’s 2% annual target.
“The U.S. economy isn’t falling off a cliff, but it is losing stamina and risks contracting early this year,” said Sal Guatieri, senior economist at BMO Capital Economics. “That should limit the Fed to just two more small rate increases in coming months.”
One additional threat to the economy this year is rooted in politics: House Republicans could refuse to raise the federal debt limit if the Biden administration rejects their demand for broad spending cuts. A failure to raise the borrowing cap would prevent the federal government from being able to pay all its obligations and could shatter its credit.
Moody’s Analytics estimates that the resulting upheaval could wipe out nearly 6 million American jobs in a recession similar to the devastating one that was triggered by the 2007-2009 financial crisis.
At least the economy is likely beginning the year on firmer footing than it did at the start of 2022. Last year, the economy shrank at an annual pace of 1.6% from January through March and by a further 0.6% from April through June. Those two consecutive quarters of economic contraction raised fears that a recession might have begun.
On corporate earnings calls for the April-June quarter of 2022, nearly half of companies in the S&P 500 had cited a “recession” — the highest such proportion since 2010 — according to the data provider FactSet. Forecasters at Bank of America and Nomura had predicted that a recession would hit by the October-December quarter.
But the economy regained strength over the summer, propelled by resilient consumer spending and higher exports.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Banc of California has agreed to buy PacWest Bancorp in an all-stock transaction, bringing an end to months of speculation about whether PacWest could survive on its own after the failures of three other regional banks this spring.
The deal announced Tuesday got help from Warburg Pincus and Centerbridge Partners, two large private equity firms, which are investing $400 million to help shore up and restructure the balance sheet of the combined bank. Centerbridge Partners has a long history as an investor in distressed companies.
The deal is a bit of good news for PacWest, the parent of Pacific Western Bank, and its shareholders. The company’s stock has fallen by nearly two-thirds this year on fear that PacWest could be the next bank to fail after the earlier failures of Silicon Valley Bank, First Republic and Signature Bank.
Based on Tuesday’s closing prices, PacWest shareholders will receive Banc of California shares valued at $9.60. A year ago the shares of PacWest traded for around $27.
California-based PacWest has a very similar business model to First Republic Bank: serving rich customers and giving clients favorable loans in exchange for those deposits. PacWest also had an investment banking division that served the tech community as well.
That business model became a liability when investors starting looking for other banks that could fail. Like many other regional banks, PacWest had billions of dollars worth of unrealized losses in its bond portfolio and uninsured deposits that were at risk of being pulled at the first sign of trouble. Uninsured deposits uninsured are those above $250,000.
To shore up investor confidence and to keep bank regulators from closing it, PacWest has been selling off assets and businesses for last several months. But the stock still fell nearly 30% on Tuesday ahead of speculation that the company would be bought in a fire sale.
The $1 billion deal would make the combined Banc of California-PacWest an entity with $36 billion in assets with 70 branches throughout California. Warburg Pincus and Centerbridge will have a 19% stake in the merged company.
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An independent investigation into logging in the Liberian rainforest found illegal operations “on a significant scale," with multiple missteps or breaches of law by the government agency charged with protecting those forests, according to a copy of the report obtained by The Associated Press.
The report was completed in 2020 but has never been made public despite activists’ calls to publish its findings, which included a recommendation that President George Weah order a special inquiry into what went wrong.
Four sources familiar with the report said Weah, who appointed the forestry agency’s head, has ignored repeated calls from European Union, United States and United Kingdom ambassadors to act in response to the report. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations without fear of retaliation.
In a phone interview with AP on Tuesday, Weah denied that he had been repeatedly made aware of problems in oversight of the Liberian rainforest. But later in the interview, he appeared to acknowledge getting a letter of concern from EU and U.K. ambassadors and said he had organized a meeting on the issue.
“Whatever letter that came, I organized a meeting,” he said.
Liberia is West Africa’s most forested country, with rainforests covering some two-thirds of the small nation. It’s home to endangered forest elephants, pygmy hippos and western chimpanzees. Since 2000, some 22% of the nation’s tree cover has been lost to deforestation, largely due to pressure from logging and small farms.
After the illegal logging of $3 million in tropical hardwoods in Grand Bassa County by a company called the Renaissance Group Inc. was discovered in 2018, Liberia’s Ministry of Justice commissioned a forensic investigation by international experts. The probe included the role played by Liberia’s forests agency, the Forestry Development Authority.
Investigators highlighted five illegalities by FDA, which is partially funded by the United States, European Union and United Kingdom. A “major failure” was its management’s “persistent tendency” to make “unlawful decisions in assessing the severity of offenses,” according to the report.
The FDA’s managing director, Mike Doryen, was appointed by Weah, who was a former top professional soccer player before he turned to politics. Under Doryen, the agency authorized the export of illegal timber, “apparently bypassing regulations,” investigators found. Extensions to the concession — the right to use the land — were “arbitrary” and “illegal.” In one “highly irregular” transaction, payment was made to an unusual FDA bank account, according to the report.
When alarm over the environmental destruction came to light, FDA fined Renaissance just $5,000, “a small fraction” of what the company gained through the unlawful activity. Although that was increased to $105,000 after criticism from a Swiss monitor, the correct penalty under a 2006 law aimed at sustaining Liberia’s forests would have been a $1.85 million fine and possible prison sentences, investigators said. Even after Renaissance admitted illegal logging, Doryen approved more export permits, a “gross breach of duty.”
Doryen did not respond to AP requests for comment. But a written response from the FDA to the EU last November blamed problems on “challenges of the past,” insisting no illegal logging rights had been granted. The FDA has taken corrective actions on several incidents of illicit logging, it said, and two FDA technical managers were fired for complacency.
The report urged the launch of a special presidential committee so FDA management could “explain their actions." There is no evidence such a committee has been launched, and it was not in a list of presidential committees active in the last five years as of July 2022. Both Weah and his press secretary, Smith Toby, declined to say whether one had been created since then.
Four official sources close to the case told The AP that Liberia has brushed off diplomatic pressure over more than 18 months to address problems in rainforest oversight. In July 2021, EU and U.K. ambassadors wrote a letter to Liberia’s Minister for Presidential Affairs with demands including prosecution of offenders working for the company or the government and a ban on Renaissance. There was no reply until March 2022 and those actions were not taken. The EU’s letter also called for the restoration of the rule of law in Liberia’s forestry sector.
The official sources said concerns were raised in person with Weah by an EU commissioner last February during an African Union summit, and again in September at a Monrovia meeting attended by several diplomats. In each case, Weah said he knew nothing about the investigation, the official sources said.
Weah told The AP that claims he'd repeatedly been made aware of donor countries' concerns were “nonsense.”
Asked why Doryen was still heading the FDA despite the report’s findings, he said, “If someone has offended, the law has to take its course.”
In an interview, Laurent Delahousse, the EU’s ambassador to Liberia, declined to criticize Weah directly. But he said the EU wants assurances that illegal logging will end, and that government bodies will operate to the highest ethical and legal standards.
“It’s a condition for us to be able to invest European taxpayer money into this sector,” Delahousse said.
Gemma Tillack, of the nonprofit Rainforest Action Network, said by email such illegal logging, and lax oversight, was “all too common” and “sadly tolerated” by governments.
More investment is needed to tackle such malfeasance, which is driving destruction of precious rainforests, she said.
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Outdoor gear company Patagonia says “the earth is now our only shareholder” after transferring the company’s ownership from founder Yvon Chouinard and his family to two nonprofits established to fight climate change.
In a letter posted on the 50-year-old company’s website Wednesday night, Chouinard said Patagonia would transfer 100% of its voting stock to the Patagonia Purpose Trust, created to uphold the values of the company long known for its environmental activism. All of its nonvoting stock will go to the Holdfast Collective, a nonprofit “dedicated to fighting the environmental crisis and defending nature.”
“While we’re doing our best to address the environmental crisis, it’s not enough,” Chouinard wrote. “We needed to find a way to put more money into fighting the crisis while keeping the company’s values intact.”
Patagonia estimates that after reinvesting some profits back into the company, about $100 million annually will be distributed to the Holdfast Collective as a dividend, depending on the health of the business.
Grace Chiang Nicolette, The Center for Effective Philanthropy’s vice president of programming and external relations, said this unusual move by the Chouinard family may become a blueprint for company founders looking to donate their businesses to causes important to them.
“Business owners are often faced with fraught decisions on the future of their company when it’s time to sell,” said Nicolette, who also co-hosts the “Giving Done Right” podcast. “The very wealthy are also faced with the fact that their net worths are growing faster than they can conceive of giving it away. This plan makes the company’s social impact its guiding principle and I think we’re going to see more donors pursuing this approach.”
Chouinard said other options for the Ventura, California, company to dedicate itself to protecting the planet — selling the company and donating the proceeds; or taking the company public — were not viable for Patagonia’s ultimate goals.
“Instead of extracting value from nature and transforming it into wealth for investors, we’ll use the wealth Patagonia creates to protect the source of all wealth,” Chouinard wrote.
Chuck Collins, the Institute for Policy Studies director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good, said Chouinard’s actions reflect a personal connection to the environmental crisis and a desire to back up his beliefs with his wealth.
“It shows that somebody who has substantial wealth is responding with the kind of scale needed to address the problem,” he said. “He’s working with the tools that he’s got. And it’s a pretty good response.”
Patagonia CEO Ryan Gellert said in a statement that the Chouinards challenged him and others at the company to develop a new ownership structure.
“They wanted us to both protect the purpose of the business and immediately and perpetually release more funding to fight the environmental crisis,” Gellert wrote. “We believe this new structure delivers on both and we hope it will inspire a new way of doing business that puts people and planet first.”
Brian Mittendorf, a professor of accounting at Ohio State University who focuses on nonprofit organizations and their financial statements, said the new Patagonia structure is similar to the one Paul Newman created for his salad dressing company, Newman’s Own. The profits from the business go into the Newman’s Own Foundation, which donates to nonprofits supporting children facing adversity.
The difference is that the Holdfast Collective is organized as a 501(c)4 corporation, according to the New York Times, which first reported the ownership change. That allows it to lobby politicians, which a public benefit charity like Newman’s Own Foundation is not allowed to do.
“What I don’t think is getting enough attention here is that the tax advantages of choosing a donation to a charity over a social welfare organization just aren’t that pronounced in this particular case,” said Mittendorf. He noted that the gift tax the Chouinards will pay is on their initial investment in Patagonia, not on its current worth, estimated at $3 billion.
“I kind of just view it as a desire to retain control over the company while ensuring that the resources that the company generates are used for a particular goal,” he said.
Patagonia makes outdoor clothing, gear and accessories for everything from skiing to climbing and camping. The company said it will continue its previous charitable donations, including donating 1% of its sales each year to grassroots activists and remaining a B Corp, a designation for companies that prioritize social and environmental standards as well as profits.
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LONDON (AP) — Northern Ireland’s main British unionist party said Monday it will vote against a deal struck by Britain and the European Union to resolve a thorny trade dispute that vexed U.K.-EU relations and triggered a political crisis in Belfast.
Democratic Unionist Party leader Jeffrey Donaldson said the deal “does not deal with some of the fundamental problems at the heart of our current difficulties” and the party’s eight lawmakers would not support it when the House of Commons votes on Wednesday.
The U.K.-EU agreement, known as the Windsor Framework, aims to ease customs checks and other hurdles for goods moving to Northern Ireland from the rest of the U.K. that were imposed after Brexit to maintain an open border between the north and its EU neighbor the Republic of Ireland. The open border is a key pillar of Northern Ireland’s peace process.
Northern Ireland’s British unionist politicians strongly opposed the customs border, saying it undermines Northern Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom. The DUP walked out of the power-sharing semi-autonomous Belfast government a year ago in protest, leaving Northern Ireland’s 1.9 million people without a functioning administration.
The Windsor Framework is designed to ease the burden on businesses and address unionist concerns. It gives Northern Ireland politicians a mechanism, known as the Stormont Brake, to challenge new EU trade rules that could apply in the region — a key unionist demand.
But the DUP is concerned that the mechanism does not go far enough and some elements of EU law will continue to apply in Northern Ireland. Under the deal, Northern Ireland is part of the U.K.’s internal market but also has access to the EU’s vast single market of 27 nations for trade in goods.
The DUP decision is a blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s deal, but likely not a fatal one. Wednesday’s vote, on the Stormont Brake part of the deal, is a chance for lawmakers to express a view, but not essential to the framework being implemented.
The U.K. and the EU are set to formally adopt the Windsor agreement at a meeting between British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and EU Brexit negotiator Maroš Šefčovič on Friday.
The DUP also indicated it might change its mind in future. Donaldson said the party would seek “further clarification, re-working and change” and would “continue to work with the government on all the outstanding issues.”
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TAIPEI, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Acer Inc. (TWSE: 2353) announced its consolidated revenues for August at NT$20.24 billion with 15.9% growth month-on-month (MoM). Its year-to-August revenues were NT$188.42 billion with a decline of 7.9% year-on-year (YoY). Business highlights include revenues from:
- Vero eco-conscious line grew 146.2% in August MoM
- Desktop PC grew 9% year-to-August YoY
- Commercial business [1] grew 4.4% year-to-August YoY
While the industry is experiencing headwinds, Acer continues to enhance its business resilience through establishing multiple business engines. Its businesses other than PCs and displays contributed 24.7% of total revenues in August, and the eight public subsidiaries have all announced their August revenues. Highlights of businesses under incubation:
- Acer Gadget Inc. revenues grew 17.2% year-to-August YoY
- Acer ITS Inc. revenues grew 117.4% year-to-August YoY
- Altos Computing Inc. revenues grew 131.1% year-to-August YoY
- MPS Energy Inc. revenues grew 47.3% year-to-August YoY
- AcerPure Inc. revenues grew 76.3% year-to-August YoY
About Acer
Founded in 1976, Acer is one of the world's top ICT companies with a presence in more than 160 countries. As Acer evolves with the industry and changing lifestyles, it is focused on enabling a world where hardware, software and services will fuse with one another, creating ecosystems and opening up new possibilities for consumers and businesses alike. Acer's 7,500 employees are dedicated to the research, design, marketing, sale, and support of products and solutions that break barriers between people and technology. Please visit www.acer.com for more information.
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‘Extreme’ plant thrives and grows faster under stress, study says
Published: May. 2, 2022 at 5:02 PM MST|Updated: 12 hours ago
(CNN) – They say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
Scientists say that wisdom definitely applies to plants, called “extremophyte.”
The plants not only survive in places that would kill most other plants, but they thrive in them. That includes areas that are extremely dry and cold, or have a high salt content.
Researchers in San Diego say the plants have a unique hormone that kicks into overdrive when conditions get harsh which helps the plant adapt.
According to the journal Nature Plants, experts are hoping to replicate that process in some crops that are at risk because of climate change.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Love her or loathe her, Barbie has been transformed again, this time into a version for children as young as 3.
Gone is the contentious hourglass figure for My First Barbie, which launched Thursday ahead of July’s live-action film about the icon starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.
The slightly softer-bodied Barbie follows on the high heels of tall, petite and curvy iterations that were released five years ago in a massive makeover.
My First Barbie is 13.5 inches tall, 2 inches taller than traditional Babs, with a larger waist that de-emphasizes the bust line (it remains in place, however), and flesh-tone modesty undergarments permanently attached.
Her fashion is more kid-like, with playful heart, star and flower designs on jammies and flouncy preschool-friendly dresses and swim gear. Her accessories are larger for littler hands, and her hair is extra long for easier brushing.
My First Barbie’s limbs are moveable, like some past versions of the doll, and her facial features remain recognizable. A huge milestone: Her fingers and thumbs are connected, eliminating a frequent complaint that Barbie’s hands get caught in her clothes when children try to put them on.
Lisa McKnight, a Mattel executive vice president and global head of Barbie and dolls, told The Associated Press the company created the new version in response to feedback from parents.
“We talk to parents and kids almost 365 days a year,” she said. “We started hearing a theme around younger kids wanting to play with Barbie. Parents were concerned that their children at the preschool age didn’t have the fine motor skills to have a positive play experience with our traditional fashion doll.”
The first rollout of the new doll includes four diverse skin tones and hair textures.
Critics of 63-year-old Barbie, intended to symbolize a girl in her late teens, have long cited her dimensions as promoting unattainable, sexualized body standards for girls. My First Barbie, at a price point of $19.99, goes a long way in eliminating that issue.
McKnight wouldn’t directly address the criticism or whether My First Barbie has a place in turning around that negative view.
Research is mixed on whether Barbie’s bad rap on body issues and her adult-leaning fashion sense have any impact on children, said Jody LeVos, once a leader of Mattel’s child development and learning team and now chief learning officer for Begin, a company that creates learning apps and other educational fare for kids.
Among parents, she said, “there’s a big nostalgia factor” when it comes to Barbie.
“I don’t think there’s one specific doll that’s most appropriate. I think doll play allows children to really practice storytelling skills, perspective taking and social interactions,” LeVos said.
The Barbie line’s overall sales have soared in recent years after a period of decline in 2013.
Joaniko Kohchi, director for Adelphi University’s Institute for Parenting, questioned Mattel’s motives.
“If we’re going to think about Mattel guiding our choices then we have already kind of limited them,” she said.
McKnight made it clear that My First Barbie will not be a separate, parallel Barbie universe. She said new content featuring the doll will hit Barbie’s YouTube channel later this month, with an animated special about the planning of a surprise party.
Andrea Werner, a pediatric occupational therapist in West Hartford, Connecticut, and mother of a preschooler and an infant, supports doll play as developmentally valuable.
“There are plenty of dolls on the market,” she said. “Companies will always be trying to sell consumers the next best thing.”
Kohchi isn’t entirely sold on My First Barbie as appropriate.
“We know that if you’re going to hand a child an image and say, this is beauty or this is wonderful or look how pretty that is, it should resemble the child a little bit more closely,” she said. “It’s certainly still a little older than a preschooler.”
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Spring is around the corner, which means it is time to plant. Starting from seed can be a gratifying and economical way to grow many edibles and ornamentals, but choosing seeds can be confusing. Do you want a black tomato or a striped tomato? Organic? Heirloom? Hybrid? What is the difference?
The definition of ‘heirloom’ is not always agreed upon — some say an heirloom variety must be at least 50 years old, some say it should be older. But generally speaking, an heirloom seed comes from a plant variety that passed on through several generations within a family or community. Varieties were often chosen for their superior taste, appearance and overall performance. For example, thanks to John Bidwell, here in Chico we have the Bidwell Casaba, a melon dating back to the late 1800s.
Heirloom varieties must be open pollinated, meaning that pollination occurs naturally by insect, bird, wind, or animal. Seed produced by the heirloom variety will grow true to type (it will resemble the parent plant) as long as the flowers were pollinated by the same variety.
Open pollination creates a more genetically diverse gene pool which allows plants to slowly adapt to local growing conditions.
Importantly, while all heirlooms are open pollinated, not all open-pollinated plants are heirlooms. Hybrid seed is produced when open pollination occurs between two specific varieties carefully chosen for their superior traits. Such controlled cross-pollination producing hybrid seed results in offspring with desired traits, such as disease resistance, uniformity and greater vigor. Unlike heirlooms, however, the seed saved from hybrids will not grow true to type in the next generation and will be less vigorous and more genetically variable.
Reliance on a single vegetatively propagated potato variety with no genetic diversity led to the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, when a fungus destroyed the potato crop four years in a row, leading to mass starvation. Because only one variety of potatoes had been planted over and over, the lack of genetic diversity led to potato fields that were highly susceptible to disease.
Hybrids should not be confused with Genetically Modified Organisms, or GMOs.
GMOs are created by inserting genes from one species into an unrelated species. Some of these combinations might seem like creations of science fiction! Although never commercialized, tomato was experimentally modified with genetic material from fish to improve frost tolerance.
On the other hand, papaya genetically modified with a viral protein saved the Hawaiian papaya industry from papaya ringspot, a devastating virus disease.
Although 70% of the processed foods we eat contain GMO ingredients, it is unlikely that the seeds you find in your local nursery are genetically modified. These types of seeds are primarily used commercially for crops such as corn, soybeans, canola, sugar beets and cotton.
Regardless of what kind of seed you choose, it is important to understand the distinctions among them in order to make informed decisions based on your priorities.
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BENSALEM, Pa., Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against FIGS, Inc. ("FIGS" or the "Company") (NYSE: FIGS).
Class Period: May 27, 2021 – May 12, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: January 3, 2023
Investors suffering losses on their FIGS investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants: (1) inflated the Company's true ability to successfully secure repeat customers; (2) failed to disclose the Company's increasing dependence on air freight; (3) inflated the expected net revenues, gross margin, and adjusted EBITDA margin for 2022; and (4) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Howard G. Smith, Esquire, of Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, 3070 Bristol Pike, Suite 112, Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020, by telephone at (215) 638-4847, toll-free at (888) 638-4847, or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.
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THE ANNOUNCEMENT SIGNALS THE START OF A MULTI-YEAR AGREEMENT
NEW YORK, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PANGAIA introduces the fourth capsule within PANGAIA Lab, a limited-edition sweatshirt made in partnership with biomaterials manufacturing group Spiber Inc., featuring breakthrough biotech Brewed Protein™ fibers and organic cotton. This capsule marks the first time a sweatshirt made from Brewed Protein fibers will be available worldwide for purchase and is the beginning of a multi-year agreement between PANGAIA and Spiber Inc.
PANGAIA Lab is the discovery platform within PANGAIA, bringing advanced technology to lifestyle goods, making it possible for people to wear the future, now. The partnership with Spiber Inc. was born through a mutual mission to find bio-based alternatives to fossil fuel and animal-derived fibers. PANGAIA Lab will work with Spiber Inc. to integrate the groundbreaking Brewed Protein fibers into new products starting with the limited-edition sweatshirt.
"Spiber's Brewed Protein fibers will disrupt the way we create fabrics through biofabrication and allow brands to transition away from carbon-polluting materials. The Spiber team shows a deep and impressive commitment to complex innovation; we both were eager to bring this capsule to life through PANGAIA Lab and show the cutting-edge technology is ready to scale." -Dr. Amanda Parkes, PANGAIA Chief Innovation Officer
Spiber's Brewed Protein materials are made from plant-derived biomass and a proprietary fermentation process that produces a biological building block that can be sculpted for different applications. Brewed Protein polymers can be transformed into a variety of forms, from delicate filament fibers with a silky sheen to spun yarns that have cashmere-like softness or the thermal and moisture-wicking properties of wool. Brewed Protein fibers are also well-positioned to address numerous pressing environmental issues and risks; unlike many existing synthetic materials, their large-scale production is expected to produce significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions and require less land and water use than traditional animal-derived fibers such as cashmere.
This limited-edition capsule is the first step in a longer-term agreement to scale access to Brewed Protein materials.
"Not many brands have the capabilities and patience to harness a completely new material like Brewed Protein fiber to create a first-of-a-kind product. It has been a great experience working with the PANGAIA team, whose members brought world class technical expertise and scientific insight to our joint project, and whose mission to enable innovative solutions for a more sustainable world overlaps with our own. After over two years of joint development, we are very excited to finally see the world's first sweatshirts containing Brewed Protein fiber being produced by PANGAIA." - Kenji Higashi, Spiber Head of Business Development, Sales & Sustainability
The NXT GEN Hoodie powered by Brewed Protein™ will be available only on pangaia.com, with less than 200 available worldwide, for $395 in sizes XXS-XXL. The sweatshirt will also be displayed at the Biofabricate Summit in New York City starting June 6.
PANGAIA is a materials science company on a mission to save our environment. We are a global collective of one heart and many hands — scientists, technologists, designers — creating essential products from innovative tech and bio-engineered materials.
Established in September 2007, Spiber Inc. is a Japanese biotechnology startup utilizing cutting-edge synthetic biology, polymer, and material science for the development of its novel Brewed Protein materials made from plant-based sugars utilizing microbial fermentation technology. Spiber website: https://spiber.inc/en/
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Marcus Semien drove in the go-ahead run with an RBI single in the fifth inning. Josh Jung homered and the Texas Rangers completed a season-opening series sweep of the defending NL champion Philadelphia Phillies with a 2-1 victory Sunday night.
Martin Perez (1-0) allowed one run in 5 2/3 innings to win his season debut after setting career marks for ERA and strikeouts last season. Perez left with runners on first and second before Brock Burke, the first of three Texas relievers, retired Cristian Pache on a first-pitch foul out down the first-base line.
Jonathan Hernandez got five outs and Will Smith pitched a perfect ninth inning to earn his first save of the season. Perez gave up eight hits, walked three and struck out seven to help the Rangers to their first 3--0 start since 2011 — when they won their second straight AL pennant.
Jung gave Texas a 1-0 lead when he led off the second inning with an opposite-field home run off Bailey Falter (0-1), who gave up both runs by the Rangers on seven hits in 5 1/3 innings.
Philadelphia tied it in the fourth inning when Josh Harrison's double-play grounder brought home Nick Castellanos.
The Phillies, who won last year's NL pennant from the last wild-card position, are 0-3 for the first time since losing their first four games in 2016. They left eight runners on base, were 1 for 8 with runners in scoring position, struck out eight times and hit into three double plays.
SLOW START FOR SCHWARBER
Phillies DH Kyle Schwarber, who led the National League last season with 46 home runs, got off to an 0-for-12 start this year before singling in the seventh. After striking out in his first two at-bats, Schwarber launched a 416-foot shot to dead center that Adolis Garcia caught at the top of the wall.
TRAINER'S ROOM Phillies: LHP Ranger Suarez (left forearm tenderness), out until at least late April, threw a bullpen Sunday that went well, manager Rob Thomson said.
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Lee brings operational expertise and a track record scaling high-growth businesses as Mint House revenue has grown 4x since 2021
NEW YORK, March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mint House, the leading tech-enabled residential hospitality company, announced today the appointment of Christian Lee as Chief Executive Officer. Lee was recruited by Mint House Founder and previous CEO, Will Lucas, to further scale and drive its next phase of growth. Lee's career spans 25 years of operations, finance, strategy, and corporate development roles at both disruptive startups and Fortune 100 companies. Mint House operates over 25 properties across 16 markets, serving business and leisure travelers with design-forward spaces that offer the amenities and conveniences of a home with the service, consistency and reliability of a high-end hotel.
Lee previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Transfix, a leading transportation solutions provider with digital brokerage capabilities and logistics software offerings, where he oversaw all finance functions, ESG reporting, and strategic initiatives. In his time at Transfix, the company grew net revenues over 80% per year, executed with strong cost discipline, and launched multiple new product lines.
Prior to joining Transfix, Lee served as Managing Director of WeWork Asia, based in Shanghai. He grew the business from four locations to more than two hundred across twenty-five cities in ten countries through a combination of organic growth, acquisitions, and partnerships. He also served as WeWork's Global Chief Financial Officer in New York where he oversaw all finance functions. Previously, Lee led Corporate Development at Time Warner Cable where he played an integral role in Time Warner Cable's spin-off into a public company and the eventual merger with Charter. Lee serves on various alumni boards at Carleton College and on the board of Bronxworks, a non-profit serving the needs of residents of the Bronx.
"I'm thrilled to join Mint House – the company's unique position at the intersection of real estate and hospitality, powered by technology, has created immense value for both markets. The past few years have ushered forward a new era for travelers – one that Mint House was built for. By providing guests with a seamless experience for trips that blend work and leisure, and landlords with a higher NOI than they see traditionally, Mint House is positioned to lead in this market," said Lee, CEO of Mint House.
"Mint House has successfully translated the upscale hotel experience into apartment-style living. With the travel rebound and evolving guest expectations, our accommodations are in high-demand. Over the last 2 years I have built a great relationship with Christian, and believe he is the perfect leader to continue to expand our geographic footprint and bring the Mint House experience to more travelers around the country," said Will Lucas, Founder and Chairman of the Board at Mint House.
About Mint House
Mint House is transforming the traditional hotel model and creating a new category of accommodations fundamentally transforming the way we live, work, and play away from home—all powered by technology. Mint House's award-winning properties are thoughtfully designed with full kitchens, expansive living areas and connected workspaces in prime downtown locations—offering a new kind of stay that's smarter and more comfortable than a traditional hotel and delivers on the personalized service and consistency travelers have come to expect. Mint House's proprietary tech stack and mobile-first model powers a seamless and feature-rich guest experience including mobile check-in and keyless entry, pre-stocked groceries, 24/7 digital concierge services, on-demand fitness, smart thermostats and shoppable spaces. For more information, visit minthouse.com and follow @staymint on Instagram.
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76ers vs. Heat Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - April 6
Published: Apr. 6, 2023 at 12:54 PM CDT|Updated: 39 minutes ago
The Philadelphia 76ers (52-27) are slightly favored (by 3 points) to extend a three-game home winning streak when they host the Miami Heat (42-37) on Thursday, April 6, 2023 at 7:30 PM ET.
76ers vs. Heat Game Info & Odds
- Date: Thursday, April 6, 2023
- Time: 7:30 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: TNT
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Venue: Wells Fargo Center
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76ers vs. Heat Score Prediction
- Prediction: 76ers 115 - Heat 107
Spread & Total Prediction for 76ers vs. Heat
- Pick ATS: 76ers (- 3)
- Pick OU:
Over (219.5)
- The 76ers sport a 46-33-0 ATS record this season compared to the 28-47-4 mark from the Heat.
- Philadelphia covers the spread when it is a 3-point favorite or more 54.5% of the time. That's more often than Miami covers as an underdog of 3 or more (43.8%).
- Philadelphia and its opponents have gone over the total 51.9% of the time this season (41 out of 79). That's more often than Miami and its opponents have (37 out of 79).
- The 76ers have a .745 winning percentage as a moneyline favorite (41-14) this season while the Heat have a .304 winning percentage as a moneyline underdog (7-16).
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76ers Performance Insights
- Philadelphia has been led by its defense, as it ranks third-best in the NBA by surrendering just 110.5 points per game. It ranks 14th in the league in points scored (114.9 per contest).
- So far this year, the 76ers rank 17th in the league in assists, dishing out 25 per game.
- The 76ers are sinking 12.7 three-pointers per game this year (11th-ranked in NBA), and they own a 38.7% three-point percentage (best).
- Of the shots attempted by Philadelphia in 2022-23, 60.8% of them have been two-pointers (68.8% of the team's made baskets) and 39.2% have been from beyond the arc (31.2%).
Heat Performance Insights
- Miami is the worst team in the league in points scored (109.1 per game) but second-best in points allowed (109.8).
- This season the Heat are ranked 25th in the league in assists at 23.5 per game.
- The Heat are 18th in the NBA in 3-pointers made (11.8 per game) and fourth-worst in 3-point percentage (34.1%).
- Miami attempts 59.5% percent of its shots from inside the 3-point line, and 40.5% percent from beyond it. In terms of makes, 69.8% of Miami's buckets are 2-pointers, and 30.2% are 3-pointers.
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Coca-Cola is putting Jack & Coke in a can
Drinking a Jack and Coke is about to become, somehow, even easier.
Coca-Cola is partnering with Brown-Forman to make a new canned cocktail combining Coke and Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey. The drink, which also will be available in a zero-sugar option, is hitting shelves in Mexico later this year before expanding globally.
The combination brings together "two of the world's most recognizable and valuable trademarks," the companies said in a press release, and will include "clear responsibility symbols" to indicate the beverage is for legal-aged drinkers. It will typically have 5% alcohol by volume, but that will vary depending on country.
Brown‑Forman CEO Lawson Whiting said that the partnership "brings together two classic American icons to deliver consumers a taste experience they love in a way that is consistent, convenient, and portable." He added that the new drink will "accelerate expansion and continue to grow our business around the world."
Mexico was picked as a launch market because both brands are popular there and the country has a well-developed ready-to-drink market, a Brown-Forman spokesperson told CNN Business. A U.S. launch is intended for sometime in 2023.
Coca-Cola has been aggressively expanding its alcoholic drink options as the trend grows. Jack and Coke joins Topo Chico Hard Seltzer and Simply Spiked Lemonade, both made in partnership with MolsonCoors. The company is also scheduled to launch Fresca Mixed later this year, a spirit-based cocktail created in conjunction with Corona brewer Constellation Brands.
Sales of canned cocktails have exploded as drinkers look for convenience and new flavors beyond wine and beer. The beverage category grew 53% last year and is projected to grow another 29% over the next three years, according to data from IWSR Drinks Analysis.
Punchier flavors and drinks from recognizable brand names might also help companies breakthrough in the quickly growing sector. Brown‑Forman said in a recent earnings release that Jack Daniels is experiencing a "resurgence" in sales and the company has plans to grow the whiskey even more this year.
Meanwhile, rival Pepsi is also eying the trend: HARD MTN DEW, a sugar-free canned cocktail with 5% alcohol by volume, hit shelves a few months ago. | https://www.wgal.com/article/coca-cola-is-putting-jack-coke-in-a-can/40273657 | 2022-06-13 18:03:13 | 1 | https://www.wgal.com/article/coca-cola-is-putting-jack-coke-in-a-can/40273657 |
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say a man has been found safe after he spent two days aloft in a hydrogen balloon, traveling about 320 kilometers (200 miles), after it became untethered and flew away while he was using it to harvest pine nuts from a tree.
The man, identified only by his surname, Hu, and a partner were collecting pine nuts on Sunday in a forest park in Heilongjiang province in northeastern China when they lost control and the balloon sailed off.
The other person jumped to the ground, and a search was launched for the escaped balloon and Hu.
State broadcaster CCTV said rescuers were able to contact the man by cellphone the following morning and instructed him to slowly deflate the balloon to land safely. It took another day before he reached the ground about 320 kilometers (200 miles) to the northeast in Fangzheng region, close to the border with Russia.
Hu was in good health, apart from a pain in his lower back, possibly from standing the entire time he was in the air, CCTV said.
An official who gave only his surname, Fu, at the publicity department of the Hailin Forestry Administration Co. on Thursday confirmed the balloon incident and described Hu as being in his 40s. He said Hu was recovering in a hospital but declined to give further details.
Pine nuts are found inside pine cones and are a frequent ingredient in dishes served in the northeast, formerly known as Manchuria. | https://cbs4indy.com/strange-news/ap-strange-news/ap-chinese-man-trapped-aloft-in-hydrogen-balloon-for-2-days/ | 2022-09-08 15:13:58 | 1 | https://cbs4indy.com/strange-news/ap-strange-news/ap-chinese-man-trapped-aloft-in-hydrogen-balloon-for-2-days/ |
Replete with spellbinding multiverses, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” topped the 95th Academy Awards with big wins including best picture and a historic win for Michelle Yeoh. Stories of family permeated 2022 cinema and winners this year, as did big-budget blockbusters (even if they were denied top honors Sunday night).
Even the Oscars itself is now streaming — you can find the star-studded ceremony on Hulu. Some of the winning films are still in theaters but most are available online to stream now with either a subscription or as a digital rental. Here’s where you can find many of 2022’s Oscars-winning films:
“EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE”
Seven wins including best picture. Digital purchase.
The A24-produced indie “Everything Everywhere All at Once” has been a critical success and crowd-pleaser since it came out last spring. The film won best picture and Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian woman to win an Oscar for best actress. Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis received awards for their performances. Yeoh, Quan and Stephanie Hsu carry a mind-bending multiverse story about a Chinese American family’s disconnection and how they find each other again through the existence of other versions of themselves. The film is available for streaming on Paramount+ with a Showtime add-on.
“ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT”
Four wins. Netflix.
“All Quiet on the Western Front,” is an unflinching German-language adaptation of a classic antiwar novel about life and death in the World War I trenches. It won four Oscars including best international feature and cinematography. The film is available to stream on Netflix.
“THE WHALE”
Two wins. Digital purchase.
Brendan Fraser won best actor for his portrayal of Charlie, the 600-pound central character of “The Whale.” Charlie is a father, an English teacher and has terminal health issues that give him a life expectancy of a week. In that week, he attempts to bond with his estranged daughter. The film is based on and adapted from the off-Broadway play by Samuel D. Hunter. The film also received an award for makeup and hairstyling. It is available for purchase on Youtube and Amazon.
“TOP GUN: MAVERICK”
Sound. Paramount+.
Thirty-six years after the original “Top Gun,” “Top Gun: Maverick” Tom Cruise is back. Cruise reprises his role as “Maverick,” taking on a leadership and mentor role for supporting cast members Miles Teller and Glen Powell. “Top Gun: Maverick” won the Oscar for sound and is available on Paramount+ and Amazon.
“AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER”
Visual effects. Still in theaters.
After a 13-year wait, “Avatar: The Way of Water” delves into the journey of the original “Avatar” main character Jake Sully’s family through adversity and loss. Director James Cameron builds a spiritual and visually compelling world in this sequel that stars Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldaña. Winning the Oscar for visual effects, the film is still in theaters and is not yet available for streaming.
“WOMEN TALKING”
Adapted screenplay. Digital rental.
Director Sarah Polley weaves the story of pervasive sexual assault plaguing the women in a Mennonite community. “Women Talking” is an adaptation of a 2018 book by Miriam Toews. It stars Claire Foy, Rooney Mara and Frances McDormand. The film won the Oscar for adapted screenplay. It is available for digital rental on Youtube and Amazon.
“BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER”
Costume design. Disney+.
Designer Ruth E. Carter won the Oscar for costume design for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” making her the first Black woman to win two Oscars. The superhero movie made in the wake of the death of Chadwick Boseman allows the audience to grieve the character T’Challa and Boseman. The Ryan Coogler-directed film is available to stream on Disney+.
“NAVALNY”
Documentary feature. HBO Max.
“Navalny” is a portrait of Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, following an attempt on his life. The documentary feature-winning film has all the makings of a Hollywood thriller. It is available to stream on HBO Max.
“GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO”
Best animated feature. Netflix.
The decades-old child’s tale “Pinocchio” gets retold through the lens of Guillermo Del Toro’s dark mind. This is not the Disney version of “Pinocchio” — in Del Toro’s still musical version, themes of fascism are explored. The cast includes Christoph Waltz, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton and Ewan McGregor and it won best animated feature. The film is available to stream on Netflix.
“RRR”
Original song. Netflix.
S.S. Rajamouli’s three-hour maximalist action epic “RRR” is one of India’s most expensive — and top-grossing — films of all time. It pairs two of Tollywood’s biggest stars, N.T. Rama Rao Jr. and Ram Charan, as revolutionaries fighting against the British colonialists in 1920. The film, which won for original song “Naatu Naatu,” topped Netflix’s streaming charts over the summer and is still available to watch there.
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For more on this year’s Oscars, visit: http://www.apnews.com/academy-awards | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/how-and-where-to-watch-oscar-winning-films-mostly-online/ | 2023-03-14 10:41:48 | 1 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/how-and-where-to-watch-oscar-winning-films-mostly-online/ |
The New York Times launches a new college rankings tool
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March 21st, 2023The New York Times has created a new tool to help students find the best American colleges driven by diversity, cost of college, home proximity, and other preferences at the student’s discretion. After answering some questions, students will find a list of universities and colleges that meet their needs. Also, it addresses whether or not the “right” college does exist. However, considering their criteria, the “right” college may look entirely different from other renowned college ranking systems.
The survey
The Times and Morning Consult surveyed individuals between the ages of 16 and 19 and an additional 2,000 individuals between the ages of 22 and 30 to determine what matters when choosing a college and earning potential after college.
According to the opinion article published by Frank Bruni,“those respondents rated the affordability of tuition and their likely earnings after graduation as the most important factors in the college experience—many times more important than, say, whether varsity sports are a major part of campus life or how small the size of a typical class is.”
Individuals between the ages of 16 and 19 were more inclined to be close to home and focus on affordable tuition and campus safety.
The Times provided a list of ten high-earning institutions: California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvey Mudd College, Bentley University, University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon University, Stevens Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Georgetown University, and Princeton University; noting that Stevens Institute of Technology and Bentley university are lesser known higher education institutions.
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When considering high earnings potential and schools with low cost of attendance after financial aid, The New York Times includes research universities like Missouri University of Science and Technology, adding that “the average in-state student pays less than $15,000 a year.”
However, when considering high earnings, low price, and less selective institutions—students who don’t meet the GPA criteria for Ivy League institutions can still be admitted to colleges that accept at least 25% of applicants, like the University of Florida and University of California, Irvine, choices that student often overlook or don’t consider.
The New York Times reported that “a student body’s racial diversity, its economic diversity, its overall size and whether a school is in an urban, suburban or rural location: These attributes and more can be added to a search and weighted, to produce a menu of options that align with students’ specific preference and, more to the point, their most closely held values.”
However, since the U.S. News college ranking has been under scrutiny, many Ivy League institutions and other higher education institutions announced they would no longer submit data for the classification. Therefore, students should rely on what matters to them during the selection process. | https://www.aldianews.com/en/education/education/nyt-new-college-ranking-tool | 2023-03-27 22:40:08 | 0 | https://www.aldianews.com/en/education/education/nyt-new-college-ranking-tool |
FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Two waterfowl have died due to avian influenza (HPAI) at Roeding Park, according to the City of Fresno.
The Fresno Chaffee Zoo has been monitoring the virus for several months and back in July, they decided to take precautionary measures to protect their birds. The Bird Show is still on pause, aviaries have been closed, and some birds have been moved off their habitat.
“While this is a highly infectious disease, our teams enacted our safety plan months ago for this very scenario. We are protecting all of our birds and will continue to monitor the level of risk to take further precautions.”
-Dr. Shannon Nodolf, Chief Veterinarian Officer
These flu viruses occur naturally among birds. Wild birds worldwide carry the viruses, but usually don’t get sick from them. But it a very contagious and can cause life-threatening illnesses in susceptible birds, including many zoo species.
According to Dr. Kenny Banh of UCSF Fresno, avian influenza does not normally infect people, but it does happen on rare occasions. Currently, no known human-to-human spread has occurred with this current strain that is currently circulating in birds in the United States. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/local-news/avian-flu-detected-at-roeding-park-zoo-being-cautious/ | 2022-10-31 19:51:43 | 1 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/local-news/avian-flu-detected-at-roeding-park-zoo-being-cautious/ |
DETROIT (AP) — Ford is recalling nearly 200,000 large SUVs in the U.S. because the heating and cooling fan motors can fail and catch fire.
The recall covers Ford Expeditions and Lincoln Navigators from the 2015 through 2017 model years.
The Dearborn, Michigan, company says in government documents that it has reports of 25 fires caused by the motors, which are behind the glove box. Thirteen fires were limited to the blower motor area, while 12 involved extensive damage to the SUVs. Three fires damaged structures and one damaged another vehicle.
One person reported injuries to their hand and fingers, and all fire reports indicated that the vehicles were running at the time of the incident, Ford said in documents posted Thursday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The company says it’s not telling people to park the SUVs outdoors. It says some customers have reported inoperative fans, burning smells or smoke coming from the vents while the vehicle is on.
Dealers will replace the front blower motor assembly at no cost to owners, who will be notified starting Sept. 12.
It’s the second recent recall for the Expedition and Navigator due to problems that can cause fires.
In July, Ford expanded a May recall to 66,000 of the SUVs from the 2021 model year. The company told owners to park them outdoors due to a series of engine fires that could happen while the ignitions are off. Ford traced the cause to printed circuit boards that are susceptible to an electrical short. | https://www.fox16.com/news/ford-recalls-nearly-200000-suvs-over-fire-hazard/ | 2022-09-01 21:28:09 | 1 | https://www.fox16.com/news/ford-recalls-nearly-200000-suvs-over-fire-hazard/ |
Southwest cancels more flights as Senate, Buttigieg promise investigations
DALLAS - Southwest Airlines scrubbed thousands of flights again Tuesday in the aftermath of the massive winter storm that wrecked Christmas travel plans across the U.S., and the federal government said it would investigate why the company lagged so far behind other carriers.
A day after most U.S. airlines had recovered from the storm, Southwest called off about 2,600 more flights on the East Coast by late afternoon. Those flights accounted for more than 80% of the 3,000 trips that got canceled nationwide Tuesday, according to tracking service FlightAware.
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And the chaos seemed certain to continue. The airline also scrubbed 2,500 flights for Wednesday and nearly 1,400 for Thursday as it tried to restore order to its mangled schedule.
At airports with major Southwest operations, customers stood in long lines hoping to find a seat on another flight. They described waiting hours on hold for help, only to be cut off. Some tried to rent cars to get to their destinations sooner. Others found spots to sleep on the floor. Luggage piled up in huge heaps.
A traveler, after Southwest Airlines flight from Dallas cancellation, drove 22 hours non-stop to Los Angeles and looks for her luggage at baggage claim in LAX Southwest Terminal 1 on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angele
Conrad Stoll, a 66-year-old retired construction worker in Missouri, planned to fly from Kansas City to Los Angeles for his father’s 90th birthday party until his Southwest flight was canceled early Tuesday. He said he won't get to see his 88-year-old mother either.
"I went there in 2019, and she looked at me and said, ‘I’m not going to see you again.’" Stoll said. "My sister has been taking care of them, and she’s just like, ‘They’re really losing it really quick.’"
Stoll hopes to get another chance to see his parents in the spring, when the weather is warmer.
In a video that Southwest posted late Tuesday, CEO Robert Jordan said Southwest would operate a reduced schedule for several days but hoped to be "back on track before next week."
Jordan blamed the winter storm for snarling the airline’s "highly complex" network. He said Southwest's tools for recovering from disruptions work "99% of the time, but clearly we need to double down" on upgrading systems to avoid a repeat of this week.
"We have some real work to do in making this right," said Jordan, a 34-year Southwest veteran who became CEO in February. "For now, I want you to know that we are committed to that."
The problems began over the weekend and snowballed Monday, when Southwest called off more than 70% of its flights.
That was after the worst of the storm had passed. The airline said many pilots and flight attendants were out of position to work their flights. Leaders of unions representing Southwest pilots and flight attendants blamed antiquated crew-scheduling software and criticized company management.
Casey Murray, president of the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association, said the airline failed to fix problems that caused a similar meltdown in October 2021.
"There is a lot of frustration because this is so preventable," Murray said. "The airline cannot connect crews to airplanes. The airline didn't even know where pilots were at."
Murray said managers resorted this week to asking pilots at some airports to report to a central location, where they wrote down the names of pilots who were present and forwarded the lists to headquarters.
Lyn Montgomery, president of the Transport Workers Union representing Southwest flight attendants, said she and other labor leaders have repeatedly told management that the airline's scheduling technology is not good enough.
"This has been something we have seen coming," she said. "This is a very catastrophic event."
The airline is now drawing unwanted attention from Washington.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who has criticized airlines for previous disruptions, said his agency would examine the causes of Southwest's widespread cancellations and whether the airline was meeting its legal obligations to stranded customers.
"While we all understand that you can't control the weather, this has clearly crossed the line from what is an uncontrollable weather situation to something that is the airline's direct responsibility," Buttigieg told "NBC Nightly News." He said Southwest should at least pay cash refunds for canceled flights and cover stranded passengers' hotel and meal costs.
In Congress, the Senate Commerce Committee also promised an investigation. Two Senate Democrats called on Southwest to provide "significant" compensation for stranded travelers, saying that the airline has the money because it plans to pay $428 million in dividends next month.
Bryce Burger and his family were supposed to be on a cruise to Mexico departing from San Diego on Dec. 24, but their flight from Denver was canceled without warning. The flight was rebooked through Burbank, California, but that flight was canceled while they sat at the gate.
"It’s horrible," Burger said Tuesday by phone from Salt Lake City, where the family decided to drive after giving up the cruise.
The family's luggage is still at the Denver airport, and Burger doesn't know if he can get a refund for the cruise because the flight to California was booked separately.
The size and severity of the storm created havoc for many airlines, although the largest number of canceled flights Tuesday were at airports where Southwest is a major carrier, including Denver, Chicago Midway, Las Vegas, Baltimore and Dallas.
Spirit Airlines and Alaska Airlines both canceled about 10% of their flights, with much smaller cancellation percentages at American, Delta, United and JetBlue.
Kristie Smiley planned to return home to Los Angeles until Southwest canceled her Tuesday flight, so she waited at the Kansas City airport for her mother to pick her up. Southwest can’t put her on another plane until Sunday, New Year’s Day.
Smiley said the airline kept blaming the weather after the storm passed and didn't tell passengers why planes couldn't take off.
"They like acted like (Tuesday’s flight) was going to go until they started saying, 'Oh, five more minutes. Oh, 10 more minutes.’ I’m not sure what’s up with them. It seems a little off," she said.
Danielle Zanin vowed never to fly Southwest again after it took four days, several canceled flights and sleeping in the airport before she, her husband and their two young children got home to Illinois from Albuquerque, New Mexico. They made stops at airports in Denver and Phoenix and reached Chicago only after ditching Southwest and paying $1,400 for four one-way tickets on American Airlines.
"I remember saying, 'Oh my God, we're getting on a plane!' I was honestly shocked because I thought we were stuck in airports forever," she said.
Zanin plans to ask Southwest to be reimbursed for part of their original tickets plus the new ones on American, and extra spending on rental cars, parking, an Uber ride and food — about $2,000 in all.
"I don't have good faith that they will do much of anything," she said.
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Associated Press writers Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Missouri, Thalia Beaty in New York and Sophie Austin in Sacramento, California, contributed to this story. | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/southwest-flights-cancelled-senate-pete-buttigieg-investigations | 2022-12-28 14:15:53 | 0 | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/southwest-flights-cancelled-senate-pete-buttigieg-investigations |
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — With Ben Sasse apparently ready to resign his Nebraska U.S. Senate seat to become president of the University of Florida, speculation is rampant that his temporary replacement could be Gov. Pete Ricketts.
Ricketts, who like Sasse is a Republican, would otherwise be out of a political job due to term limits at the end of the year.
Scenarios of how Ricketts would ascend to the U.S. Senate run the gamut from his presumptive successor naming him as Nebraska’s newest U.S. senator to Ricketts appointing himself to fill the seat. However, Ricketts issued a statement Friday afternoon appearing to rule out appointing himself.
“If I choose to pursue the appointment, I will leave the appointment decision to the next governor and will follow the process established for all interested candidates,” Ricketts said in the statement.
The question is whether Ricketts wants the job.
“I think the obvious candidate is Pete Ricketts, and if he wants to be a U.S. senator, then it’s his to take,” said Mark Fahleson, a former chairman of the Nebraska Republican Party.
Dan Welch, who was the state GOP chairman until he was unexpectedly voted out during a shake up at the state party’s convention in July, agreed that all eyes are on Ricketts to fill the seat.
“I haven’t talked to him, so I don’t know what his plans are,” Welch said. ”This probably took him by surprise, too.”
Ricketts on Friday confirmed that the news of Sasse’s departure caught him off guard.
“The first I learned about Sen. Sasse’s plan to resign from the United States Senate was yesterday, when he called to notify me,” Ricketts said, adding that the job of governor “is the greatest job in the world, and it will remain my number one focus for the remainder of my term.”
The University of Florida confirmed Thursday that Sasse is the sole finalist to become the president of the school, and Sasse has indicated he will take the job. Fahleson, an attorney who is a longtime close friend of Sasse, said Friday that given the university’s process for hiring its next president, “the earliest he’ll step down is in early December.”
Sasse’s replacement would serve until 2024, the next opportunity for a special election for the seat. The winner of that election would then have to run again in 2026, when Sasse’s term expires.
Ricketts could still appoint a successor if Sasse resigns before Jan. 3, and the governor’s statement Friday didn’t address what he would do if Sasse resigns before Ricketts’ term is up. The governor’s office did not immediately return a message seeking clarification.
If Sasse were to leave the Senate after that, when Ricketts leaves office, the newly-elected governor would appoint Sasse’s replacement. Republican Jim Pillen — who has been heavily supported by Ricketts to be his successor — is favored to win the governor’s race in November.
The Nebraska Secretary of State’s office confirmed that there is nothing in Nebraska law that would keep a sitting governor from appointing himself. And most Democrats, according to Nebraska Democratic Party Chairwoman Jane Kleeb, had expected him to do so.
“Ricketts is power hungry and will do anything to either send himself or someone who will answer to him,” Kleeb said Friday. “Nebraskans are tied of the revolving door, musical chairs and one-party rule.”
While some political insiders feared Ricketts appointing himself to the seat would reek too much of self-dealing, others within the state’s Republican Party were unfazed by that possibility.
“It’s not self-dealing if he’s the obvious candidate for the job,” Fahleson said. “And there’s no one out there who’s on his level. He has not contemporaries.”
Fahleson said that, despite the questions about how the seat will be filled, there’s no question which party will control it.
“Nebraska is a solidly Republican state, and whoever makes that appointment will be a Republican,” he said. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/politics/ap-all-eyes-on-nebraska-gov-ricketts-to-replace-sen-sasse/ | 2022-10-07 22:21:48 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/politics/ap-all-eyes-on-nebraska-gov-ricketts-to-replace-sen-sasse/ |
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The Oglala Sioux Tribe is requiring churches and missionaries to register with the tribe before entering the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota after an evangelist was banned from entering the reservation for distributing a pamphlet that disparaged traditional Lakota spirituality.
The tribal ordinance, which does not apply to local churches and ministries run by tribal members, was passed in late July amid concern from some tribal council members over Christian ministries evangelizing on the reservation, working with children as well as a history of abuse against Native Americans by some churches. The tribe's leadership has insisted it remains open to all religions, in keeping with its Bill of Rights, but the action showed significant pushback against some Christian missionary groups.
“The history of abuses by the churches on Indigenous peoples has caused generational trauma to Indigenous peoples across the world,” the tribal council stated in its ordinance.
The council's actions were prompted by a South Dakota group called Jesus is King Missions creating a pamphlet that called Tunkasila a false god or demon, South Dakota Public Broadcasting reported. It also claimed that the late Lakota medicine man Nicholas Black Elk, who converted to Catholicism and continued to practice Lakota ceremonies, had a “racist vision.”
“According to the Bible, Jesus is the way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father but by him,” said Michael Monfore, a missionary with the group. “I know that may not be considered politically correct, or it might be considered intolerant or bigoted, but that’s what Christ said.”
The tribe has banned Monfore from entering the reservation. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Oglala-Sioux-ban-missionary-require-ministries-17349595.php | 2022-08-03 23:06:11 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Oglala-Sioux-ban-missionary-require-ministries-17349595.php |
DALLAS (KDAF) — John Wayne: An American Experience in Fort Worth is designed to give visitors an up-close look at the renowned actor’s life and legacy.
The 10,000-square-foot museum, focuses on a different facet of The Duke’s legacy, beginning with his childhood and progressing through his career.
“Featuring over 400 pieces of personal and professional memorabilia, the exhibit will take you through John Wayne’s life and how he achieved the ultimate American dream through hard work and determination,” the museum mentions on its website.
A detailed exhibition titled “Life on Screen” features the most memorable cinematic props and costumes for historic film buffs. Guests can immerse themselves in the Western era by listening to Grammy-nominated original poems performed by John Wayne in the “America, Why I Love Her” gallery.
Tickets start at $22.95 for adults, $20.95 for military, elderly, and students with ID, and $17.95 for youth ages 6 to 15. Children under the age of five are admitted free. For more information visit here. | https://cw33.com/news/texas/john-wayne-an-american-experience-offers-new-pricing-with-discounts-for-students-seniors/ | 2023-06-20 22:20:33 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/texas/john-wayne-an-american-experience-offers-new-pricing-with-discounts-for-students-seniors/ |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft will pay a fine of $20 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it illegally collected and retained the data of children who signed up to use its Xbox video game console.
The agency charged that Microsoft gathered the data without notifying parents or obtaining their consent, and that it also illegally held onto the data. Those actions violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the FTC stated.
In a blog post, Microsoft corporate vice president for Xbox Dave McCarthy outlined additional steps the company is now taking to improve its age verification systems and to ensure that parents are involved in the creation of child accounts for the service. These mostly concern efforts to improve age verification technology and to educate children and parents about privacy issues.
McCarthy also said the company had identified and fixed a technical glitch that failed to delete child accounts in cases where the account creation process never finished. Microsoft policy was to hold that data no longer than 14 days in order to allow players to pick up account creation where they left off if they were interrupted.
The settlement must be approved by a federal court before it can go into effect, the FTC said. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/microsoft-will-pay-20m-to-settle-u-s-charges-of-illegally-collecting-childrens-data/ | 2023-06-06 19:34:12 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/microsoft-will-pay-20m-to-settle-u-s-charges-of-illegally-collecting-childrens-data/ |
Flagstaff needs to improve its pedestrian and cyclist infrastructure and public transit to make the city more accessible to elderly, disabled and low-income residents.
Driving becomes increasingly difficult and dangerous as residents age. The rate of fatal crashes rises dramatically after 70, and past 80 is higher than for any other age group. Thus elderly residents need access to transportation options aside from driving. Without options, they are left vulnerable to social isolation and loneliness, a key reason the AARP endorses the concept of “Complete Streets” designed to provide safe access for all road users.
Pedestrian infrastructure and public transit are similarly important for residents with travel-limiting disabilities. These residents are 2 to 3 times less likely to own a vehicle, 50% to 80% more likely to make a trip by public transit and up to 50% more likely to make a trip by walking (percentages vary by age and working status). Thus, a big way to improve mobility for residents with travel-limiting disabilities is to make walking and taking public transit easier.
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Walking, biking and public transit can be alternatives to the high cost of owning a vehicle for low-income residents. The American Automobile Association estimates that the annual cost of owning a vehicle is over $10K. In contrast, the annual cost of owning and maintaining a bike is under $500, a year's worth of bus passes is $415, and walking is free. But most residents can’t take advantage of these savings because Flagstaff’s pedestrian and cyclist infrastructure does not access enough areas safely, and the frequency and service area of bus lines are often inconvenient. Underlying these issues is an inadequate supply of housing close to jobs and amenities -- it would be far easier to walk, bike and take public transit if residents could live closer to their destinations.
I hope the Flagstaff City Council keeps all this in mind when making decisions on whether to invest in pedestrian, cyclist and public transit projects throughout the coming year.
TYLER DENHAM
Flagstaff
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ST. LOUIS, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wholly–owned subsidiaries of Peabody (NYSE: BTU), PIC AU Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the "Main Issuer"), and PIC AU Holdings Corporation, a Delaware corporation (together with the Main Issuer, the "Co–Issuers"), today announced that the Co-Issuers successfully completed the repurchase of $50.0 million aggregate principal amount of the Co-Issuers' 10.000% senior secured term loan due 2024 at a weighted average purchase price of 103.91% of par, in accordance with the Credit Agreement, dated January 29, 2021, among the Co-Issuers, as co-borrowers, the lenders party thereto from time to time and Wilmington Trust, National Association (as successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.), as administrative agent, which governs the term loans.
The Co-Issuers also announced today an offer to purchase (the "Offer") for cash up to $50.0 million aggregate principal amount (the " Offer Amount") of their 10.000% Senior Secured Notes due 2024 (the "Notes"), at a purchase price equal to 103.91% of the principal amount of the Notes repurchased in the Offer, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the settlement date for the Offer, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Co-Issuer's Offer to Purchase, dated May 26, 2022 (the "Offer to Purchase"). The Notes are governed by an indenture, dated January 29, 2021, by and among the Co-Issuers, Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee, and Peabody (on a limited basis, to the extent of its obligations specifically set forth in the Indenture) (as amended and restated by the First Supplemental Indenture dated February 3, 2021, and as further amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified to the date hereof, the "Indenture").
Under the terms of the Indenture, no later than 30 business days following any voluntary prepayment, repayment or repurchase of term loans, the Co-Issuers are required to make an offer to purchase an aggregate principal amount of Notes equal to the aggregate principal amount of term loans so prepaid, repaid or repurchased. The Offer is intended to satisfy this requirement.
The Offer will expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on June 27, 2022, unless extended or earlier terminated by the Co-Issuers in accordance with the terms of the Offer and the Indenture (the "Expiration Time"). Subject to the Offer Amount, for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes validly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) prior to the Expiration Time and accepted by the Co-Issuers for purchase in the Offer, holders of Notes will receive the Offer Price of $1,039.10 in cash, plus accrued and unpaid interest as set forth in the Indenture, to, but excluding, the settlement date for the Offer. Tendered Notes may be validly withdrawn at any time prior to the Expiration Time, unless extended or earlier terminated by the Co-Issuers. The settlement date for the Offer is currently expected to be the second business day following the Expiration Time.
If the aggregate principal amount of Notes tendered in the Offer exceeds the Offer Amount of $50.0 million, the Co-Issuers will purchase Notes having an aggregate principal amount equal to the Offer Amount on a pro rata basis (subject to the applicable procedures of The Depository Trust Company), with adjustments so that only Notes in multiples of $1,000 principal amount (and in a minimum principal amount of $2,000) will be purchased.
This announcement is not an offer to purchase or sell, or a solicitation of an offer to purchase or sell, any securities in any jurisdiction in which the making or acceptance thereof would not be in compliance with the securities, blue sky or other laws of such jurisdiction.
Peabody (NYSE: BTU) is a leading coal producer, providing essential products for the production of affordable, reliable energy and steel. Our commitment to sustainability underpins everything we do and shapes our strategy for the future.
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Zeekr may follow in the footsteps of fellow EV startups Rivian and VinFast by raising funds via an initial public offering.
Citing three sources familiar with the matter, Reuters reported on Monday that Zeekr has already filed for an IPO in the U.S. and seeks to raise more than $1 billion.
The company is seeking a valuation of around $10 billion and could complete the IPO by mid-2023, two of the sources also said.
Zeekr is a premium EV brand from Chinese auto giant Geely, and whose first model, the 001 hatchback, was only launched in 2021. Fellow Geely brand Volvo launched an IPO in Sweden last year, while another Geely brand, Polestar, went public earlier this year in the U.S. via the easier route of a SPAC deal, also known as a reverse merger.
The report of a potential Zeekr IPO comes just weeks after the company’s CEO, An Conghui, said during a press event in China that Zeekr plans to expand to Europe in 2023, initially with the 001. It would be the company’s first market outside of China.
The 001 is based on Geely’s SEA EV platform, and delivers up to 536 hp from a dual-motor powertrain. Zeekr has managed to sell close to 60,000 units in the first nine months of the year.
Other models in the works at Zeekr include the 009 minivan, which was shown in August and due to start production in early 2023.
Zeekr is also developing a minivan designed to be used by companies operating robotaxis. The first customer for the minivan is Waymo, the self-driving technology company of Alphabet.
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Denise Suzanne Phillips (62) passed away Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at her home in Booneville. She was a member of Marietta Church of Christ. She enjoyed riding horses, fishing, hunting, gardening, doing construction work and tending to her animals. Services are 1 pm Wednesday, April 20, 2022 in the Booneville Chapel of Kesler Funeral Home with Bro. Jimmy Clyde Hicks officiating. Burial will follow in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. Visitation will be 11-1 Wednesday at the funeral home. Denise is survived by her son, Paul Phillips (Lacie) of Booneville; her sisters, Cindy Pharr of Pontotoc and Denise Hunt of TN; her special friend, Tommy Green of Booneville and her grandchildren, Erica McCoy (Jake), Kayla Grimes, Presley Pitts, Amber Pitts, CJ Pitts, Clark Phillips and Everly Phillips. She was preceded in death by her husband, Terry Phillips; her parents, Hollis and Ann Pharr; her daughter, Samantha Pitts and her brothers, Andy and Blaine Pharr. Condolences to the family may be made online at www.keslerfuneralhome.com
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International charity leverages cloud-native communications solution to engage donors, adapt to distributed work and improve efficiencies globally
WATERLOO, ON, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenText™ (NASDAQ: OTEX), (TSX: OTEX), today announced Christian Blind Mission has implemented its leading Customer Communications Management (CCM) software, OpenText Exstream™, to personalize and automate hundreds of thousands of essential donor communications, increasing efficiency and improving donor relations around the world.
Christian Blind Mission (CBM) is an international non-profit organization committed to improving the quality of life of people with disabilities in the poorest countries in the world. Processing more than $80 million in donations annually, CBM generates and sends a variety of communications ranging from thank-you letters, custom postcards, tax receipts and more to over 500,000 active donors each year, most of which require some level of personalization.
By implementing OpenText Exstream in the cloud, CBM can ensure its donors will receive highly accurate communications via an array of channels and media while also benefiting from improved operations, access to ongoing support, business continuity and the ability to seamlessly adapt to remote work and continue operations during a global pandemic.
"Each of our donors receives some type of communication every year, resulting in hundreds of thousands of different documents and templates that need to be properly managed, updated, stored and distributed," said Alexander Kindinger, Head of IT at Christian Blind Mission. "OpenText Exstream is a key part of our strategy, allowing us to design complex documents, set up templates with variable content, update Salesforce and better manage our digital and print assets, all from within a robust cloud environment, to help us save time and money through lower operating costs and trusted expertise."
Enabling personalized, cloud-native, omnichannel communications to help foster customer engagement, brand loyalty and simplified maintenance, OpenText Exstream helps to create highly engaging customer experiences, leveraging data and existing content to deliver communications through the digital and print channels that best reach and engage customers. Backed by OpenText's flexible-first approach which enables customers to deploy its suite of information management solutions on-premises or in the cloud of their choice, OpenText Exstream integrates with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, like Salesforce, to provide an enterprise scale solution.
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SHANGHAI, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nisun International Enterprise Development Group Co., Ltd ("Nisun" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: NISN), a provider of innovative comprehensive solutions through an integration of technology, industry, and finance, today announced that Fintech (Henan) Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd, a controlled affiliate of the Company, has entered into a supply chain services agreement (the "Agreement") with Hubei Qianguopai Agricultural Ecology Co., Ltd. ("HQAE"), a company engaged in the planting and distribution of fresh fruits. The Agreement represents another significant initiative of the Company's supply chain business strategy to increase its presence in the fresh fruits market.
The demand for fresh fruits is growing in China. According to Statista, the revenue of the fresh fruits market in China is projected to reach US$83.96 million in 2022 and grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.02% between 2022 and 2027. The volume of the fresh fruits market in China is expected to reach 45,573.8mkg by 2027 and is expected to reach a growth rate of 6.5% in 2023. The average volume per person of the fresh fruits market in China is expected to reach 23.3kg in 2022.
The Agreement was executed as part of Nisun's supply chain trading operation. Leveraging the advantage of the extensive network, Nisun would purchase fresh fruits from its selected vendors based on the order of HQAE and arrange for delivery of the products to the designated locations or customers. The Company anticipates the transaction volume under the Agreement to reach RMB$10 million (approximately US$1.4 million) through 2023.
Mr. Xiaoyun Huang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nisun, commented. "We are excited to cooperate with HQAE to increase our presence in the fresh fruits market. The rising in fresh fruit prices in China is driven by a confluence of factors including rising input costs and strict COVID-19 control measures, which provide more substantial profit space for us. Our extensive network of agricultural product suppliers will optimize the cost of products and HQAE's diversified sales channels with major e-commerce platforms like Meituan Select and Duo Duo Grocery will maximize the transaction volume. We are looking forward to working together with HQAE, combing our resources and offering greater value to customers. We believe this move will further broaden the scale of our business and create long-term value for our shareholders."
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Nisun International Enterprise Development Group Co., Ltd (NASDAQ: NISN) is a technology-driven, integrated supply chain solutions provider focused on transforming the corporate finance industry. Leveraging its rich industry experience, Nisun is dedicated to providing professional supply chain solutions to Chinese and foreign enterprises and financial institutions. Through its subsidiaries, Nisun provides users with professional solutions for technology supply chain management, technology asset routing, and digital transformation of tech and finance institutions, enabling the industry to strengthen and grow. At the same time, Nisun continues to deepen the field of industry segmentation through industrial and financial integration, by cultivating/creating an ecosystem of openness and empowerment. Nisun has built a linked platform that incorporates supply chain, banking, securities, trust, insurance, funds, state-owned enterprises, among other businesses. Focusing on industry-finance linkages, Nisun aims to serve the upstream and downstream of the industrial supply chain while also assisting with supply-side sub-sector reform. For more information, please visit http://ir.nisun-nasdaq.com/index.html.
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Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens, a nationally known advocate for implementing measures to decrease head injuries in football, had his right leg amputated following a bicycle accident last month in Florida.
“As Buddy navigates through the healing of his injuries, he is experiencing many positive improvements,” Kirsten Teevens said. “Unfortunately, as a result of the accident, Buddy’s right leg was amputated due to the severity of the injury. He is alert and communicating with us and ready for transfer to a premier rehab facility to continue healing.
“Spinal cord injuries are challenging, and if anybody is up for the challenge, it is Buddy. We appreciate your continued respect of our privacy as we navigate this ongoing recovery process as a family.”
The Florida Highway Patrol did not immediately respond to a request for a crash report. Kirsten Teevens’ did not say whether her husband remains in Florida, and a Dartmouth spokesman said he had no information beyond Kirsten Teevens’ statement.
The Valley News newspaper of Lebanon, New Hampshire, reported on March 22 that the 66-year-old Teevens was trying to cross a highway when he was hit by the pickup at 8:40 p.m., according to a preliminary crash report.
The report noted there were “no illuminated lights” observed on the bicycle, that Teevens “was not in a crosswalk or designated crossing area” and that he was not wearing a helmet.
Teevens is Dartmouth’s all-time wins leader with a 117-101-2 record in 23 seasons. He coached the Big Green from 1987-1991 and returned in 2005. His teams have won or shared five Ivy League championships.
Teevens was head coach at Stanford from 2002-04 and at Tulane from 1992-96.
Associate head coach Sammy McCorkle has been serving as Dartmouth’s acting head coach.
Dartmouth’s football program has drawn national attention since Teevens in 2010 removed live tackling in practices to reduce the risk of concussions.
Known as the “Dartmouth Way,” traditional tackling dummies and robotic “moving” dummies developed in Dartmouth’s engineering school are used to practice tackling.
Teevens famously tells recruits that they’ll never tackle a Dartmouth player or be tackled by a teammate during their time at the school.
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One member of Rabbi David Wolpe’s diverse congregation left because Wolpe would not preach sermons criticizing Donald Trump. Scores of others left over resentment with the synagogue’s rules for combating COVID-19. But Wolpe remains steadfast in his resolve to avoid politics when he preaches at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles.
“It is not easy to keep people comfortable with each other and as part of one community,” he said. “A great failing of modern American society is that people get to know each other’s politics before they get to know their humanity.”
Wolpe — whose congregation includes liberal Democrats and hundreds of conservative Iranian Americans — is far from alone in facing such challenges. Though many congregations in the U.S. are relatively homogeneous, others are sharply divided. In some cases, divisions are becoming more pronounced as midterm election season heats up, leaving clergy to keep the peace while still meeting the spiritual needs of all of their members.
A Black pastor in Columbus, Ohio — Bishop Timothy Clarke of the First Church of God — says there are “deep divides” in his predominantly African American congregation of more than 2,000. He cited abortion as a particularly divisive topic in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling in June allowing states to ban the procedure.
“There are good people on both sides,” said Clarke, who addressed the congregation’s differences in a recent sermon.
“I talked about the fact God loves everybody, even those you disagree with,” he said.
The Rev. Paul Roberts, senior pastor of Eastminster Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, said his congregation – like many others — is dealing with one contentious issue after another.
“The whole thing with Trump, Black Lives Matter, the pandemic really has highlighted a sense of uneasiness when you’re covering all these different topics as a church,” he said. “It just seems there isn’t anything that doesn’t have tension over it.”
His church has about 140 regular attendees, a politically and theologically diverse group that’s about half Black and half white. He said a few people left the church over its support for the Black Lives Matter movement, but for the most part it has stayed together.
He attributes that in part to hours of patient dialogue over such issues as mask-wearing and vaccines, which some Black members were wary of because of the history of medical maltreatment of African Americans.
Rabbi Judith Siegal is asking members of her politically divided congregation in Coral Gables, Florida, to sign a code of ethics pledging to respect those with different views.
Newly displayed signs at the synagogue, Temple Judea, hammer home this message.
“No matter who you vote for, your skin color, where you are from, your faith, or who you love, we will be there for one another,” one sign says. “That’s what a community means.”
Siegal said she and her assistant rabbi, Jonathan Fisch, are often asked by members of the Reform congregation to address certain issues
“We’re careful about doing that in a way that’s value-driven, preaching from our tradition and our Torah,” she said. “For example, we know that welcoming immigrants is something that’s important to us as Jews — but we’re never going to tell anyone how to vote.”
The Rev. Sarah Wilson said her congregation at St. Barnabas Lutheran Church in Cary, Illinois, includes Republican business leaders and liberal nurses and teachers. There are partisan differences, as well as conflicting views on abortion, but she aspires to keep political debate out of the church and avoid partisan rhetoric of her own.
“Politics are very important to me — I vote in every election,” she said. “But I’m not here to tell a person how to vote or who to vote for. If people ask me, even for city council, I don’t do that.”
The congregation at the Cathedral of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and its connected Catholic school community is diverse ethnically, economically, and politically, said the Rev. David Boettner, rector of the cathedral and vicar general of the Diocese of Knoxville, Tennessee.
Mass is celebrated in five languages, and parishioners and student families speak more than a dozen at home; some are financially well off while others struggle to get by, he said.
“We’ve definitely got folks that belong to the Democratic Party and folks that belong to the Republican Party, and folks that probably don’t belong to either,” Boettner said.
Political issues crop up in conversations at church, but Boettner suspects members are less likely to share polarizing views with him because he is their priest. They share more freely on social media, and he has noticed an increase in political posts as the midterm elections approach. Abortion and religious liberty, including the recent Supreme Court rulings, are prominent, he said.
Boettner said he strives for consistency in preaching about the Catholic teachings on moral, social and economic justice issues, while steering clear of endorsing specific policies. Prayers are offered for all leaders, not just those from a particular party.
“The church is not partisan,” Boettner said. “The Catholic Church is probably a great example of a church that offends both Democrats and Republicans alike.”
In Bluefield, West Virginia, the Rev. Frederick Brown said he has sought “the middle of the road” during nearly three decades as pastor of a diverse but collegial congregation at Faith Center Church.
“Staying in the middle of the road means God thinks it’s all important,” he said. “When you vote, you can vote your convictions — but don’t attack anyone else’s convictions because they’re different from yours.”
At Sinai Temple, Rabbi Wolpe strives to encourage mutual respect within his congregation. He cites the men’s book club as a positive example: In a recent initiative, it alternated reading a book by a left-of-center author, then a book by a conservative.
Yet Wolpe, 64, says political divisions have become deeply entrenched.
“When I was born, people objected to their children marrying someone from another race but didn’t object to marrying someone from a different political party,” he said. “Now it’s the reverse.”
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - There is a heavy police presence in downtown Lexington right now.
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WKYT has crews on scene working to get more information about the investigation.
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WILMINGTON, Del. — To millions of viewers, Fox News hosts gave allies of former President Donald Trump a platform to champion false claims that he lost the 2020 election because of voter fraud. To one another, they expressed doubts about the claims and mocked the people making them.
Private exchanges between Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and other network bigwigs — including the chairman of Fox Corporation, Rupert Murdoch — show a wide chasm between what the network promoted in primetime and the doubts that its stars held behind the camera, according to new court filings in a defamation lawsuit being waged by a company whose voting systems were regularly maligned on air.
"Sidney Powell is lying" about having evidence for election fraud, Carlson said via text on Nov. 16, 2020 to a Fox News producer, referring to one of Trump's lawyers.
Ingraham texted Carlson that Powell is "a complete nut. No one will work with her. Ditto with Rudy," referring to the former New York mayor and Trump supporter Rudy Giuliani.
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These and other internal communications were included in a redacted brief filed Thursday by attorneys for Dominion Voting Systems, which is suing Fox News and its parent company, Fox Corporation, for $1.6 billion.
In a deposition, host Sean Hannity said "that whole narrative that Sidney was pushing, I did not believe it for one second," according to Dominion's filing.
Murdoch, meanwhile, in a Nov. 19 email, described what he saw in a press conference that day featuring Giuliani and Powell as "Really crazy stuff. And damaging."
Dominion's legal case rests on its belief that Fox News employees deliberately amplified false claims that the company had changed votes in the 2020 election, and that Fox provided a platform for guests to make false and defamatory statements.
Attorneys for Fox argued in a counterclaim unsealed Thursday that the lawsuit is an assault on the First Amendment. They said Dominion has advanced "novel defamation theories" and is seeking a "staggering" damage figure aimed at generating headlines, chilling protected speech and enriching Dominion's private equity owner, Staple Street Capital Partners.
"Dominion brought this lawsuit to punish FNN for reporting on one of the biggest stories of the day — allegations by the sitting President of the United States and his surrogates that the 2020 election was affected by fraud," the counterclaim states. "The very fact of those allegations was newsworthy."
Fox attorneys said Carlson questioned Powell's claims in his broadcasts. "When we kept pressing, she got angry and told us to stop contacting her," Carlson told viewers on Nov. 19, 2020.
Fox attorneys say Dominion's own public relations firm expressed skepticism in December 2020 as to whether the network's coverage was defamatory. They also point to an email from Oct. 30, 2020, just days before the election, in which Dominion's director of product strategy and security complained that the company's products were "just riddled with bugs."
In their counterclaim, Fox attorneys wrote that when voting-technology companies denied the allegations being made by Trump and his surrogates, Fox News aired those denials, while some Fox News hosts offered protected opinion commentary about Trump's allegations.
"Freedom of speech and freedom of the press would be illusory if the prevailing side in a public controversy could sue the press for giving a forum to the losing side," Fox attorneys wrote.
Fox attorneys warn that threatening the company with a $1.6 billion judgment will cause other media outlets to think twice about what they report.
Attorneys for Fox and Dominion said Friday that responses to the briefs will remain under seal until Feb. 27.
Dominion on Friday filed its own challenge to the redactions in the briefs, including its own. "Dominion's position is that nothing in these three briefs warrants confidential treatment," attorneys for the company wrote, adding that all redactions were done at Fox's request.
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NEW YORK and CHICAGO, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP, a preeminent national consumer right law firm, investigating claims on behalf of patients of Midwest Orthopaedic Consultants ("MOC"), based in Oak Lawn, Illinois, whose information may be have stolen in a recent data breach in November 2022.
MOC is notifying patients that their personal information, including names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, medical treatment or diagnosis information, and health insurance information may have been stolen and posted on the dark web as part of a recent hack.
If you have received a recent notice of the data breach and have experienced recent concerning activity, it is possible that your personal medical information was compromised and is being offered for sale on the dark web.
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KENOSHA -- Kenosha County Aging & Disability Resource Center's durable medical equipment loan and supply closet is in need of donations.
Stock is low on the following items: manual and transport wheelchairs; bath benches; shower chairs; bed rails; knee scooters; rollators and walkers; commodes; incontinence products, pull-up only, all sizes.
Individuals needing durable medical equipment for either short-term or long-term use, who are not enrolled in one of Wisconsin’s long-term care programs, such as Family Care, IRIS and Partnership, may contact the ADRC to request an item. If you have items you’ve borrowed and no longer need, please drop them off or call for a pickup.
If you have gently used or new items you wish to donate, or are in need of medical equipment or supplies, call Steve at the ADRC, 262-605-6667, Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., to make arrangements. Appointments preferred. The center requests all items be cleaned and sanitized prior to donation.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens of LGBTQ+ pride flags were damaged and ripped down at the Stonewall National Monument over the weekend, the third such bout of vandalism at the LGBTQ+ landmark during this Pride month, police said.
The latest occurrence happened Sunday, after others on June 9 and last Thursday. No arrests have been made in any of the incidents, and it’s unclear whether they were connected. The New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating.
On Sunday, officers were called around 8 a.m. and found about 33 pride flags broken and tossed to the ground, police said.
Park volunteer Steven Menendez told New York’s Fox 5 News that, in all, 68 flags — nearly a quarter of those displayed — were damaged in some way.
“We have so much hatred and anger in the air right now,” Menendez told the station. “We really need to reverse that and replace it with love compassion and acceptance.”
The Stonewall National Monument, the first U.S. national monument dedicated to LGBTQ+ history, was dedicated in 2016. It encompasses a park across the street from the Stonewall Inn, a bar where patrons fought back against a police raid on June 28, 1969, and helped spark the contemporary LGBTQ+ rights movement.
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ALPHARETTA, Ga., May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Avanos Medical, Inc. (NYSE: AVNS) today reported first quarter 2022 financial results.
"Coming off last year's solid finish, we maintained our momentum through the first quarter while adding OrthogenRx to our portfolio," stated Joe Woody, Avanos' chief executive officer. Woody continued, "I am very pleased with our first quarter results despite persistent global economic headwinds. We met our customers' orders and meaningfully improved our gross margins in the face of inflationary pressures and a difficult supply chain environment, and we remain confident in our ability to continue to do so through the back half of the year. Additionally, the OrthogenRx business performed as expected, confirming our belief that our acquisition strategy, combined with solid organic execution, positions us to meet our longer-term financial goals."
First Quarter 2022 Financial Highlights
- Net sales totaled $197 million, a 9 percent increase from the comparable prior year period.
- Net income for the quarter was $6 million, compared to net loss of $8 million a year ago.
- Adjusted net income totaled $12 million, compared to $11 million a year ago.
- Diluted earnings per share was $0.12, compared to $0.16 diluted loss per share a year ago.
- Adjusted diluted earnings per share was $0.26, compared to $0.23 in the prior year.
Operational and Business Highlights
- On January 20, 2022, we completed the acquisition of OrthogenRx, Inc. ("OrthogenRx"), a leader in viscosupplementation therapies for the treatment of knee osteoarthritis ("OA") knee pain. The acquisition was based on a purchase price of $130 million plus up to an additional $30 million in contingent cash consideration.
- During January, we repurchased 588,293 shares of our Common Stock for $19.3 million, completing our repurchases under a board-authorized $30 million repurchase program.
- A lead investigator on one of our clinical studies presented data at the North American Neuromodulation Society's annual meeting that provided a combined analysis of subjects across two randomized clinical studies that demonstrated remarkable consistency of COOLIEF for treating knee OA pain.
- Pre-clinical data exploring in-vivo tissue response following a COOLIEF procedure was recently published in the Journal of Pain Research.
- We are seeing significant engagement with state-level pain societies in issuing statements in support of reimbursement coverage for genicular radio-frequency pain therapies.
First Quarter 2022 Operating Results
Net sales totaled $197 million, an increase of 9 percent compared to the prior year primarily due to incremental revenue resulting from the acquisition of OrthogenRx. Digestive health products enjoyed strong demand and volume, although this was offset by decreased demand and volume in respiratory health products. Excluding OrthogenRx, pain management volume increased by 6 percent over the prior year period. In addition, favorable pricing/product mix of 1 percent was offset by 1 percent of unfavorable foreign currency effects.
Gross margin was 54 percent, compared to 51 percent in the prior year period. Adjusted gross margin was 56 percent, compared to 52 percent last year.
Operating profit was $9 million compared to a $12 million operating loss in the prior year period primarily due to lower legal expenses. On an adjusted basis, operating profit totaled $18 million, compared to $16 million a year ago.
Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $24 million, compared to $22 million in the prior year period.
Cash Flow and Balance Sheet
Cash from operations less capital expenditures, or free cash flow, for the first quarter of 2022 was an outflow of $3 million, compared to an outflow of $9 million a year ago. The company's cash balance was $104 million at the end of the first quarter, compared to $119 million at year-end 2021.
Total debt outstanding was $254 million at the end of the first quarter compared to $130 million at December 31, 2021. In the three months ended March 31, 2022, the company borrowed $125 million in conjunction with closing the acquisition of OrthogenRx.
2022 Outlook
The company affirms previous guidance for 2022 net sales of between $830 million to $850 million, which assumes organic growth between 3 percent to 6 percent. Additionally, we anticipate gross profit margins to be between 55 percent to 57 percent with adjusted diluted earnings per share between $1.55 to $1.75.
Each of these measures is inclusive of the impact of the OrthogenRx acquisition and reflects our expectation that supply chain headwinds related to both product availability and inflation pressures will continue throughout the year.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This press release and the accompanying tables include the following financial measures that have not been calculated in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S., or GAAP, and are therefore referred to as non-GAAP financial measures:
- Adjusted net income
- Adjusted diluted earnings per share
- Adjusted gross and operating profit
- Adjusted effective tax rate
- Adjusted EBITDA
- Free cash flow
These non-GAAP financial measures exclude the following items, as applicable, for the relevant time periods as indicated in the accompanying non-GAAP reconciliations to the comparable GAAP financial measures:
- Expenses associated with restructuring activities.
- Expenses associated with post divestiture transition activities.
- Certain acquisition and integration charges related to acquisitions.
- Expenses associated with European Union Medical Device Regulation ("EU MDR") compliance.
- Expenses associated with certain litigation matters.
- The amortization of intangible assets associated with prior business acquisitions.
- The tax effects of certain adjusting items.
- Benefit associated with the tax effects of the CARES Act.
- The positive or negative effect of changes in currency exchange rates during the year.
The company provides these non-GAAP financial measures as supplemental information to its GAAP financial measures. Management and the company's Board of Directors use net sales on a constant currency basis, adjusted net income, adjusted diluted earnings per share, adjusted operating profit, adjusted EBITDA, and free cash flow: to (a) evaluate the company's historical and prospective financial performance and its performance relative to its competitors, (b) allocate resources and (c) measure the operational performance of the company's business units and their managers. Management also believes that the use of an adjusted effective tax rate provides improved insight into the tax effects of the company's ongoing business operations.
Additionally, the Compensation Committee of the company's Board of Directors will use certain of the non-GAAP financial measures when setting and assessing achievement of incentive compensation goals. These goals are based, in part, on the company's net sales on a constant currency basis and adjusted EBITDA, which will be determined by excluding certain items that are used in calculating these non-GAAP financial measures.
Our competitors may define these non-GAAP financial measures differently, and as a result, our measure of these non-GAAP financial measures may not be directly comparable to those of other companies. Items excluded from these non-GAAP financial measures are significant components in understanding and assessing financial performance. These non-GAAP financial measures are supplemental measures of operating performance that do not represent, and should not be considered in isolation or as an alternative to, or substitute for, the financial statement data presented in the company's consolidated financial statements as indicators of financial performance. These non-GAAP financial measures have limitations as analytical tools, and should not be considered in isolation, or as a substitute for analysis of the company's results as reported under GAAP. We compensate for these limitations by relying primarily on our GAAP results and using these non-GAAP financial measures as supplemental information.
Reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures are included in the attached financial tables.
Conference Call Webcast
Avanos Medical, Inc. will host a conference call today at 9 a.m. ET. The conference call can be accessed live over the Internet at https://avanos.investorroom.com or via telephone by dialing 877-240-5772 in the United States. A replay of the call will be available at noon ET today by calling 877-344-7529 in the United States and entering passcode 3937658. A webcast of the call will also be archived in the Investors section on the Avanos website.
About Avanos Medical, Inc.
Avanos Medical (NYSE: AVNS) is a medical device company focused on delivering clinically superior breakthrough solutions that will help patients get back to the things that matter. Headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, Avanos is committed to creating the next generation of innovative healthcare solutions which will address our most important healthcare needs, such as reducing the use of opioids while helping patients move from surgery to recovery. Avanos develops, manufactures and markets its recognized brands in more than 90 countries. For more information, visit www.avanos.com and follow Avanos Medical on Twitter (@AvanosMedical), LinkedIn and Facebook.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains information that includes or is based on "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are based on the current plans and expectations of management and are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements. Forward-looking statements include all statements that do not relate solely to historical or current facts, and can generally be identified by the use of words such as "may," "believe," "will," "expect," "project," "estimate," "anticipate," "plan" or "continue" and similar expressions, among others. Such factors include, but are not limited to: weakening of economic conditions that could adversely affect the level of demand for our products; pricing pressures generally, including cost-containment measures that could adversely affect the price of or demand for our products; risks related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic; shortage in drugs used in our Acute Pain products or other disruptions in our supply chain; changes in foreign exchange markets; legislative and regulatory actions; unanticipated issues arising in connection with clinical studies and otherwise that affect U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of new products; changes in reimbursement levels from third-party payors; a significant increase in product liability claims; the impact of investigative and legal proceedings and compliance risks; the impact of the federal legislation to reform the United States healthcare system; changes in financial markets; and changes in the competitive environment. Additional information concerning these and other factors that may impact future results is contained in our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recent Form 10-Q.
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MANOR, Texas, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BRC Recovery's new Brain Program is a highly specialized, comprehensive evaluation and initial treatment process, tailored towards individuals struggling with complex and serious emotional health issues related to the intersection of their biology, environment, and life events. Our approach is an evidence-based, collaborative endeavor, conducted by experts in medicine, psychology, counseling, and psychiatry that work in conjunction with our patients and their families to understand the challenges are they face and how we can help them better their lives.
"We are excited to offer this robust assessment platform as a stand-alone offering or as an additional component of an integrated plan of care for clients at any of the facilities in the BRC Family of Programs. Our interdisciplinary team can customize each individual's assessment plan to their unique needs by leveraging functional and neuropsychiatric assessments, brain-based technology applications, and medical/psychiatric evaluation".
– Mandy Baker, President and CCO, BRC Recovery
By getting to know a client on multiple levels, through multiple lenses, and trying to imagine life in their shoes, we avoid labeling problems without having the crucial details of the context in which they occur. Since our approach is one of self-discovery and collaboration, our clients often learn as much about themselves as we learn about them. In this sense, our assessment process itself is therapeutic, not just a step prior to treatment, but a part of treatment and the beginning of hope.
"The new Brain Program at BRC Recovery is a highly personalized and client-centered therapeutic evaluation process designed to provide the client with the best collaborative efforts of psychiatrists, psychologists, addiction counselors, and neuroscientists with precision assessments. The Brain assessment opens doors to a pathway to recovery and a treatment plan personalized for each individual client. "
- Jan Ford Mustin, Ph.D
BRC Recovery, founded in 2006, is a chronic relapse addiction treatment center which provides clinically advanced treatment for all addictions. BRC offers high levels of structure and discipline, a 12-step immersion, proven psychological treatment, and multi-disciplinary approaches to treating trauma. The BRC Family of Programs serves clients across the United States with its continuum of care in its facilities in Texas and Tennessee.
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I just finished listening to Rachel Maddow’s podcast series “Ultra.” The series chronicles how during the 1930s and 40s, Nazi sympathizers in this country infiltrated government at the highest levels and attempted to turn the United States into a fascist state.
Members of Congress were using their offices to spread Nazi propaganda to their voters at taxpayer expense. Home grown Nazi militia groups plotted and carried out attacks on government installations around the country. When these plots were uncovered and the plotters arrested and brought to trial for sedition, members of Congress who were deeply involved in the Nazi movement in this country, worked behind the scenes to get prosecutors fired and cases thrown out.
Because of obstruction and interference by these aspiring fascist congressmen, the trials devolved into chaos, and no one was ever convicted. Later investigations by the Department of Justice revealed that Hitler’s Nazi party was funding the America First movement in the U.S. and many members of Congress were part of that movement.
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Someone once said: “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
Today we have a host of right-wing, paramilitary groups like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers (supported and encouraged by the disgraced former president and many republican members of Congress) ready and willing to aid in a fascist takeover of our democratic republic. We have election-denying, Republican congresspersons actively denying the facts of the Jan. 6, 2021, Trump instigated insurrection, and a Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives aiding right wing media personalities attempting to distort the truth about that day. We have republican leaders who swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution praising authoritarian dictators around the world and working to dismantle our democratic republic in favor of a Christo-fascist regime. In a perfect example of Orwellian doublespeak, these leaders claim they are the defenders of freedom and democracy when in reality the exact opposite is true. In the 1940s it took a world war and the defeat of the Nazi regime in Germany to end the fascist influence in the United States. What will it take today? | https://trib.com/opinion/letters/vlach-history-often-rhymes/article_2052f820-c4e8-11ed-9f0f-af17fbeba3a1.html | 2023-03-19 07:38:42 | 1 | https://trib.com/opinion/letters/vlach-history-often-rhymes/article_2052f820-c4e8-11ed-9f0f-af17fbeba3a1.html |
TAMPA, Fla. — As spring break is upon us, if you want to have plans and want to travel, experts say you should be making them now.
AAA predicts 40% of Floridians will take a spring break vacation. Hot spots in the U.S. include Ski resorts like Breckenridge, Vail, Aspen and Park City, Utah. Other popular locations are Nashville, Las Vegas, Ashville, North Carolina and Savannah, Georgia. It’s no surprise our beaches in the Tampa Bay area are among the top spots for spring breakers as well.
According to the Travel and Leisure company, top spots across the pond for a cultural experience include the United Kingdom, Venice and Morocco. For food and wine, Athens, Greece is a popular spot and for a big city feel, Madrid, Spain. Another popular international travel spot is Bermuda.
“Internationally, families and college students are interested in The Bahamas, Caribbean Islands, Mexico,” AAA Spokesman Mark Jenkins said. “Places where you can find numerous all-inclusive options that cover various accommodations, drinks and entertainment without having to leave the resort are very popular.”
AAA reports top considerations for picking destinations include community, nature, culture, family and adventure.
“Clearwater and Miami beaches are among some of the hot spots. Orlando, of course, is an extremely popular destination for families with the various attractions and accessibility the fact that it's centrally located within the state makes it easier for people to drive to,” Jenkins said.
If getting into nature is your thing, there are 11 national parks in Florida you can explore. For most, you can make a one-day trip out of it.
Making the most of your travel can be hard when things don’t go as expected. Flight delays and cancellations can put a damper on plans. Travel expert and blogger Lauren Gay, known as @outdoorsydiva, says travel insurance is always something to consider.
"It's something so many people neglect and it's very worth it,” Gay said.
She says the best kind of insurance is one that offers epidemic coverage, medical care benefits and allows you to cancel for any reason.
"Next, you want to be sure you have a little bit of cushion," Gay said. "You want to have some space on your credit card for an emergency fund just in case the worst happens, and you have to go and re-book something."
She says it’s also important to sign up for text alerts from the airline so you don't miss anything and to stay away from non-refundable tickets.
"I know it costs a little bit more money but definitely worth it because you could end up stuck," Gay said.
If you do get stuck, Gay says instead of waiting in a long line to re-book, try doing it virtually.
"I've used it myself and they are able to do the exact same thing that the gate agent can do," she said. "Many of them even use a camera."
One of the biggest travel tips, especially after spending so much time planning the trip, is patience. Gay says don’t sweat the stuff you can’t control. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/travel/spring-summer-travel-2023/67-e53a4dd5-65f7-4804-98b5-6f534623f487 | 2023-03-05 01:57:47 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/travel/spring-summer-travel-2023/67-e53a4dd5-65f7-4804-98b5-6f534623f487 |
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is asking Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to resign from her Senate seat, adding her voice to scattered calls from other Democrats.
Ocasio-Cortez, a leading House progressive with a massive social media following, wrote on the social platform Bluesky that the senator should “retire.”
She added, “I think criticisms of that stance as ‘anti-feminist’ are a farce.”
“Her refusal to either retire or show up is causing great harm to the judiciary – precisely where repro rights are getting stripped. That failure means now in this precious window Dems can only pass GOP-approved nominees,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote.
Her post was first reported by CNN.
The Squad member joins other leading progressives with her stance. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) was the first Democratic lawmaker to call for Feinstein to step down, followed closely by the more moderate Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.).
Fellow Squad member Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) joined the calls last week.
They have expressed deep concerns over what Feinstein’s prolonged absence means for judicial nominees. Feinstein sits on the Judiciary Committee, which without her is deadlocked 10-10 and unable to advance nominees without GOP support.
Feinstein, 89, has been away from the Capitol for two months due to a long recovery process from shingles. | https://www.wowktv.com/hill-politics/ocasio-cortez-calls-for-feinstein-to-resign/ | 2023-05-02 17:39:48 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/hill-politics/ocasio-cortez-calls-for-feinstein-to-resign/ |
Police: Man killed himself after ramming US Capitol barrier
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man drove his car into a barricade near the U.S. Capitol early Sunday and then began firing gunshots in the air from the burning car before fatally shooting himself, police said.
The incident happened just before 4 a.m. at a vehicle barricade set at East Capitol Street and 2nd Street in Washington.
It comes at a time when law enforcement authorities across the country are facing an increasing number of threats and federal officials have warned about the potential of violent attacks on government buildings in the days since the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
The attack is reminiscent of an incident when a man drove a vehicle into two Capitol Police officers at a checkpoint in April 2021, killing an 18-year veteran of the force. And many on Capitol Hill remain on edge after supporters of the then-president stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Authorities said the man, whose identity has not been released, crashed into the barricade and that as he was getting out of the car, the vehicle became engulfed in flames. The man then opened fire, firing several shots into the air as police approached.
Capitol Police said the man shot himself as the officers neared. He was later pronounced dead.
Police said “it does not appear the man was targeting any member of Congress” and that investigators are examining the man’s background as they work to try to discern a motive. Both the House and Senate are in recess and very few staff members work in the Capitol complex at that hour.
Authorities said no other injuries were reported and police do not believe any officers returned fire.
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KENDALLVILLE — Charles "Charlie" L. Alday, 76, passed away on Sunday, July 24, 2022, at Lutheran Life Villages in Kendallville, Indiana.
Charlie was born April 12, 1946, to Walter and Eva Alday.
He loved NASCAR and was known as being an excellent car painter.
Charlie was a U.S. Army veteran and was a machine operator at Dexter Axle for more than 20 years.
On April 5, 1975, in Fort Wayne, he married Mellissa Ruby.
Charlie is survived by his loving wife of 47 years, Missy Alday, of Kendallville; children, Michelle Alday, of Ohio, Tommy (Heather) Mills, of Ohio, and Joe Mills, of Georgia; brother, Louie (Dottie) Alday, of Auburn; and sisters, Louise (George) Bopp, of Fort Wayne, Kathy Love, of Fort Wayne and Florence Brach. Also surviving are grandchildren, Kimberly (George) Norden, Jacob Barner, Colton Barner, Cody Mabis, Hannah Crumrine and Trey Mills; and great-grandchildren, Nicholas, Kaitlynn, Allison and Harlow.
Charlie was preceded in death by his daughters, Hope Alday, in 1979, and Darlene Barner, in 2019; sister, Joanne Stoker; and brothers, Bill Alday and Walter Alday.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m., on Saturday, July 30, 2022, at Harper Funeral Homes, Avilla Chapel, 530 N. Main St., Avilla.
Visitation will be from 11 a.m., until service time on Saturday, at the funeral home.
Burial will be at a later date at Riverside Cemetery in St. Joe, Indiana.
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NEW YORK, June 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Oscar Health, Inc. (NYSE: OSCR) pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and prospectus (collectively, the "Registration Statement") issued in connection with the Company's March 2021 initial public offering ("IPO" or the "Offering"), of the important July 11, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Oscar securities pursuant and/or traceable to the Registration Statement you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Oscar class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6200 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 11, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, the Registration Statement was materially false and misleading and omitted to state that: (1) Oscar was experiencing growing COVID-19 testing and treatment costs; (2) Oscar was experiencing growing net COVID-19 costs; (3) Oscar would be negatively impacted by an unfavorable prior year Risk Adjustment Data Validation (RADV) result relating to 2019 and 2020; (4) Oscar was on track to be negatively impacted by significant Special Enrollment Period (SEP) membership growth; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about Oscar's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Oscar class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6200 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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ATLANTA, March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlanta-based Precision Aviation Group, Inc. (PAG), a leading provider of products and value-added services to the Aerospace and Defense industries worldwide, is pleased to announce that Keystone Turbine Services (KTS - a PAG Company located in Coatesville, Pennsylvania), for the third year in a row, received the prestigious Rolls-Royce Best in Class Award for 2023. This award recognizes significant achievements by KTS in providing continuous world-class MRO services and support to operators of the M250 and RR300 series of gas turbine engines and related components to customers worldwide.
"We are proud to again recognize Keystone Turbine Services as this year's 'Best in Class' award winner," stated Scott Cunningham, Helicopter Program Director for Rolls-Royce Corporation. "Their longstanding commitment to service excellence gives M250 and RR300 customers the peace of mind to know they will receive only the very best in quality, performance and reliability every time."
"This award represents PAG's ongoing commitment to further enhance our Rolls-Royce M250 and RR300 MRO capabilities at KTS and is part of PAG's long-term strategy to further expand and strengthen the deep-rooted relationships we have built with our key OEM's and customers," said David Mast, President & CEO of Precision Aviation Group. "KTS has a great team of engine professionals, and I'm proud their peers have again recognized their unwavering commitment to providing complete customer satisfaction plus superior service and support."
"Amongst all the members of the Rolls-Royce FIRST network, I'm proud Keystone was again chosen as this year's winner of the 'Best in Class' award, stated John Fraser, General Manager of KTS. "This award recognizes our employee's commitment to continuous improvement and dedication to always providing world class service excellence each and every day. I'm proud to share this award with them."
About the Rolls-Royce FIRST network
The Rolls-Royce FIRST (Fully Integrated Rolls-Royce Support Team) network is an authorized global support network for operators of the M250 and RR300 series of small gas turbine engine, providing affordable and reliable support solutions. The FIRST network includes more than 30 approved, licensed service centers around the world. With its competitive structure, operators will find affordable and reliable services anywhere for Rolls-Royce M250 and RR300 engines and related components.
About Precision Aviation Group
Precision Aviation Group (PAG) is a leading provider of products and value-added services to the aerospace and defense industries worldwide. With 20 Repair Stations, and over 850,000-square-feet of sales and service facilities in the United States, Canada, Australia, Singapore, and Brazil – PAG's 23 locations and customer-focused business model serve aviation customers through Supply Chain and Inventory Supported Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (ISMRO®) services.
Keystone Turbine Services (KTS - a PAG Company located in Coatesville, Pennsylvania) has over 47 years of gas turbine engine experience. KTS is Rolls-Royce's second largest certificated Authorized Maintenance Repair & Overhaul Center (AMROC) supporting all variants of the M250 and RR300 Series of gas turbine engine including related modules, accessories and components. In addition, KTS is an FAA and EASA certificated Part 145 Repair Station and a certificated Honeywell Authorized Warranty and Repair Station (AWARS) for Maintenance, Overhaul, Repair and Testing of Rolls-Royce M250 & RR300 plus Pratt & Whitney PT6A and PT6T series Fuel Controls, Power Turbine Governors, and related accessories.
PAG provides MRO and Supply Chain Solutions for Fixed- and Rotary-wing aircraft. PAG has MRO and manufacturing capabilities on over 100,000 product lines in four MRO segments – Avionics, Components, Engines and Manufacturing/Sub-Assembly/DER Services. PAG is dedicated to keeping mission critical, business, military, and defense operators in the air.
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Russia convicted a former police officer of publicly spreading false information about the country’s military for criticizing the war in Ukraine to his friends over the phone.
The ex-officer, Semiel Vedel, was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison under a law the Kremlin adopted days after sending troops into Ukraine and has actively used to stifle dissent. In addition to the prison term, he was barred from working in law enforcement for four years after his release.
Authorities accused Vedel of spreading information about Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine that deviated from the Defense Ministry’s official statements.
During three phone conversations with friends last year, Vedel referred to Russia as a “murderer country,” used “Glory to Ukraine” as a greeting and claimed that Russia was suffering “huge losses” in Ukraine, according to the case prosecutor.
Officials deemed the conversations public because Vedel’s phone was wiretapped and an investigator listened in on the calls. That reasoning, which Vedel’s lawyer rejected as absurd, hadn’t been previously used in cases involving spreading misinformation charges.
Vedel, who was born in Ukraine, has said he was merely sharing information he got from his friends in the Kyiv police department whom he trusted.
A sweeping Kremlin campaign of repression has accompanied the invasion of Ukraine. Unprecedented since the Soviet era, it has effectively criminalized independent reporting on the conflict and any public criticism of the war.
Earlier this month, a Russian court convicted a top political opposition figure, Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr., of treason for publicly denouncing Moscow’s war in Ukraine. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Another prominent opposition figure, Ilya Yashin, was sentenced to 8½ years in prison last year on charges of spreading false information about the military.
Last month, a Russian court convicted a father over social media posts critical of the war and sentenced him to two years in prison. His 13-year-old daughter, who drew an antiwar sketch at school, was sent to an orphanage.
Days later, Russia’s security service arrested Evan Gershkovich, an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal, on espionage charges.
A recent report by the Russian Supreme Court said that in 2022, courts ordered citizens to pay fines for discrediting the military 4,439 times, the equivalent of about $1.8 million, according to Russia’s independent news site Mediazona. | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-international/russia-convicts-ex-police-officer-over-ukraine-war-criticism/ | 2023-04-25 23:49:05 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-international/russia-convicts-ex-police-officer-over-ukraine-war-criticism/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators on Tuesday cleared another COVID-19 booster dose for older adults and people with weak immune systems so they can shore up protection this spring — while taking steps to make coronavirus vaccinations simpler for everyone else.
The Food and Drug Administration said anyone 65 or older can opt to roll up their sleeves again as long as it’s been at least four months since their first dose of the so-called bivalent vaccine that targets omicron strains.
And most people who are immune-compromised can choose another bivalent booster shot at least two months later, with additional doses in the future at the discretion of their physician.
For everyone else, regardless of whether it’s a first shot or a booster, the FDA also said the original versions of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are outdated and will no longer be used. Instead, anyone getting a Pfizer or Moderna shot will receive the newer omicron-targeted version. For most people, if it’s their first-ever vaccine, just one combo dose will be enough.
Anyone who’s gotten their original vaccinations but hasn’t yet had an omicron-targeted booster can still get one — but the agency will decide over the summer if younger, healthy people will eventually be offered a second bivalent booster.
“At this stage of the pandemic, data support simplifying the use” of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, FDA vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks said in a statement. “The agency believes this approach will help encourage future vaccination.”
Authorities in Britain and Canada already have made similar recommendations for an extra spring booster for vulnerable populations. And high-risk Americans who last got a dose in the fall have anxiously wondered when they could get another.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must sign off on the newest round of boosters. Its advisers are set to meet on Wednesday.
The Pfizer and Moderna boosters contain protection against both the original coronavirus strain and omicron versions known as BA.4 and BA.5. While newer omicron cousins now are circulating, recent studies show the bivalent shots still are effective.
For many Americans, COVID-19 has become less of a health fear and more of an inconvenience, and masking, routine testing and other precautions have largely fallen by the wayside.
COVID-19 vaccines have saved millions of lives. And while protection against mild infections is short-lived, booster doses continue to do a good job fighting severe disease and death even as more contagious variants have popped up.
But at least 250 people in the U.S. a day still die from COVID-19, many of them elderly or frail, and protection can wane.
For eligible, high-risk groups, a spring second booster is a reasonable choice, said Dr. Matthew Laurens of the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
“We do have vaccines that are available to protect against these severe consequences, so why not use them?” he said. “They don’t do any good just sitting on a shelf. So let’s give them to individuals who are at the highest risk who can benefit the most.”
Still, only 42% of Americans 65 and older — and just 20% of all adults — got their first bivalent vaccine when they rolled out last fall, according to CDC data.
The FDA’s simplification also means changes for unvaccinated children. If their parents now want them vaccinated, tots under 5 may receive two doses of bivalent Moderna vaccine or three doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent vaccine. Those who already are 5 may get a single bivalent Pfizer shot or two Moderna doses.
Children already fully or partially vaccinated with the original Pfizer or Moderna shots may get a bivalent vaccine, but how many doses will depend on their vaccination history, the FDA said.
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MONTARA, Calif. (AP) — The driver of a car that plunged off a treacherous cliff in Northern California, injuring his two young children and his wife after the 250-foot drop, remained hospitalized with serious injuries Wednesday, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Dharmesh A. Patel of Pasadena will be booked into the San Mateo County jail on suspicion of attempted murder and child abuse after he’s released from a hospital, the highway patrol said. He was in serious but stable condition and has not yet been cleared by doctors to leave.
Rescuers initially hailed the family’s survival as a “miracle” after the Tesla sedan plummeted down a notorious cliffside Monday along the Pacific Coast Highway near an area called Devil’s Slide that’s known for fatal wrecks.
Firefighters were forced to cut the family out of the wreckage. They used a rope system to haul the children up the cliff in a rescue basket while the parents were hoisted by helicopter.
Patel’s family — including his 41-year-old wife, 7-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son, whose names have not been released — also remained hospitalized Wednesday. CHP Officer Mark Andrews would not comment on their conditions or detail Patel’s wounds.
It wasn’t immediately known if Patel, 41, has an attorney. Pasadena police records do not show any calls about violence at the family’s home. The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services did not immediately respond to a request for comment about whether the agency had received or investigated any reports on the family.
The case brought back memories of a 2018 tragedy when a woman intentionally drove off another Northern California cliff i n an SUV with her wife and their six adopted children. All were killed. The crash in Mendocino County happened just days after authorities in Washington state opened an investigation following allegations that Jennifer Hart’s children were being neglected.
Investigators are looking into Patel’s motive and Andrews would not say whether detectives have been able to interview him.
“I have no idea what his thought pattern was,” he said.
Andrews said investigators likely would not present the case to prosecutors until after Patel is booked into the jail.
Patel is a doctor in radiology at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills area of Los Angeles.
“Providence Holy Cross Medical Center is deeply saddened to learn of a traffic incident involving one of our physicians and his family,” the statement said. “We are extremely grateful there were no serious injuries. We will not respond further, as this incident is under investigation.”
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OSLO, Norway, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kosli, a developer tools startup based in Oslo, Norway, has closed a $3.1m seed round led by Heavybit to solve dynamic change monitoring and continuous compliance.
Heavybit is the world's leading investor in developer-first startups with a portfolio that includes Snyk, Stripe, LaunchDarkly, and Netlify. They are joined in the round by Fortino Capital and Monochrome Capital, with pre-seed backer Skyfall Ventures as follow-on investors.
Kosli was founded in 2019 as a compliance automation platform for regulated software teams in sectors like finance. Alongside their seed funding announcement Kosli launches a free tier that offers a much broader set of use cases. Developers in all industries will now be able to use Kosli to understand how constantly evolving software systems are changing. And they will be able to do it using basic commands.
Heavybit Partner, Joe Ruscio, explained Heavybit's decision to invest, "since our first meeting with the Kosli team we strongly believed in a much bigger market opportunity that expands beyond regulated industries and serves a need for DevOps teams in every single vertical of the global economy."
Developer first with enterprise compliance
Today's software organizations have many repos, microservices, pipelines and environments. It's an increasingly complex world where modern tools and practices are enabling exponential rates of change. But these high change rates create problems for everyone in the modern software development team.
On a day to day level it makes life difficult for developers trying to figure out where their code is and why environments and services might be broken. At a higher level it makes gathering evidence for compliance and audit purposes a difficult and time consuming process. Kosli solves both of these problems by recording changes and making them easily searchable.
Kosli founder and CEO, Mike Long, explains the double sided problem that his team have solved, "We set out to automate compliance for regulated teams, but we quickly realized our tool was also really helpful for developers trying to understand how and why their environments are really changing."
Record, Connect and Search software changes
Kosli gives every stakeholder the power to record, connect, and search for changes across their entire value stream. It empowers developers, DevOps engineers, platform engineers, and CTOs in both daily and longer term strategic tasks.
With Kosli, developers have the power to pinpoint specific changes without having to spend hours searching in logs. And for teams in regulated sectors, Kosli provides an automated trail of compliance evidence. Crucially, Kosli is available from the command line as well as a web based GUI, an important feature for developers.
Alex Kantor, Director of Technology at Modulr Finance, describes how it's used in their organization "Kosli gives us more than just a single pane of glass view. Checks, gates, and the segregation of duties can be proven within the development team, enabling them to self-serve. The time it takes from requesting a deployment to it actually happening has decreased significantly. By implementing Kosli the squads are able to release themselves."
You can find out more about Kosli's free tier by visiting their website
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SEATTLE (AP) — A 31-year-old Seattle man is being held without bail in what police describe as a three-day spate of shootings that left the owner of one business dead, the owner of another in critical condition and the driver of a car wounded in the leg.
According to authorities, the suspect shot and critically injured the owner of an African import specialty store in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood on Monday. He demanded the businessman’s debit card and PIN, then shot him in the chest after he complied, police said in a probable cause statement filed in King County Superior Court.
The man also shot into a Tesla moving along Aurora Avenue in north Seattle less than 12 hours later, wounding the driver in the leg, police said, and on Tuesday he pulled his car alongside a woman’s vehicle and fired a round into her window. She suffered cuts from broken glass but her three children were uninjured.
On Wednesday, the man ambushed and killed D’Vonne Pickett Jr., the owner of The Postman, a package shipping store in the Central District, as Pickett arrived at the business, police said. The gunman was a former childhood friend who had been harassing Pickett online and via text messages; he also showed up at The Postman last month before employees told him to leave, the probable cause statement said.
Hundreds attended a vigil for Pickett on Thursday, spelling out his name in candles and placing long-stemmed roses at the spot where he collapsed, The Seattle Times reported.
Pickett’s mother, Nicky Chappell, said the man threatened to kill her son and had been harassing him and other family members for more than a year. Chappell vowed to attend every one of the man’s future court appearances.
The Associated Press is not naming the man because he has not yet been charged.
“This defendant is incredibly dangerous, perhaps the most dangerous defendant this court has seen recently,” Senior Deputy Prosecutor William Doyle told District Court Pro Tem Judge Tien Nguyen during a hearing Friday.
Investigators said surveillance video from the African specialty import store, the exterior cameras on the Tesla and Pickett’s killing linked the shootings. Detectives are also examining shell casings and other evidence.
Further, a relative of the suspect called 911 on Wednesday to report that he appeared to be having a psychotic episode and “may be traveling around Seattle shooting people,” the statement said.
“I find that the suspect’s clothing, stature, build, personal appearance and vehicle are consistent among the investigations,” Seattle Police Detective Matthew Atkinson wrote in the probable cause statement.
When the man was arrested Thursday at his South Seattle apartment, he was wearing the same shirt, shorts and shoes as seen in the videos, the statement says. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/ap-man-held-without-bail-in-3-day-spate-of-seattle-shootings/ | 2022-10-23 11:20:30 | 1 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/ap-man-held-without-bail-in-3-day-spate-of-seattle-shootings/ |
If you’re traveling over July 4 weekend, be ready for flight delays, as airlines face major test
(AP) - Travelers waited out widespread delays at U.S. airports on Tuesday, an ominous sign heading into the long July 4 holiday weekend, which is shaping up as the biggest test yet for airlines that are struggling to keep up with surging numbers of passengers.
In some cases, delays ran several hours at airports in the Northeast, as thunderstorms pounded the region.
At various times, the Federal Aviation Administration held up flights bound for LaGuardia Airport in New York and Reagan Washington National and Baltimore-Washington airports near the nation’s capital.
By mid-afternoon on the East Coast, more than 4,000 flights were delayed and about 1,300 canceled, according to FlightAware.
Call it the storm before the storm.
The FAA was expecting about 48,000 flights on Tuesday, rising on Wednesday and peaking at more than 52,500 on Thursday, which figures to be the biggest travel day of the holiday period.
If large numbers of passengers are stranded or delayed this weekend, expect federal officials and the airlines to blame each other for the mess.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, whose department includes the FAA, has been beating up on the airlines for more than a year. He has accused them of failing to live up to reasonable standards of customer service and suggested that they are scheduling more flights than they can handle.
The airlines are punching back.
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby blamed a shortage of federal air traffic controllers for massive disruptions last weekend at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, a critical hub for his airline.
“We estimate that over 150,000 customers on United alone were impacted this weekend because of FAA staffing issues and their ability to manage traffic,” Kirby wrote in a memo to employees Tuesday night.
The FAA has admitted that it is understaffed at key facilities including one in the New York City region. It is training about 3,000 new air traffic controllers, but most of them won’t be ready anytime soon. Last week, the Transportation Department’s inspector general said in a report that the FAA has made only “limited efforts” to adequately staff critical air traffic control centers and lacks a plan to tackle the problem.
The good news: Airlines are canceling only 1.5% of U.S. flights this month, a lower percentage than a year ago or in June 2019, the last summer before the pandemic.
On the other hand, delays are running above even their elevated rate in June of last year, when airlines were still rebuilding their work forces.
More than one in every four flights this month has been late — 180,000 in all — and that’s with the government-allowed grace period for tardy arrivals and the extra time that airlines build into their schedules to make the numbers look better. At 26%, the rate of late flights is up nearly one-third from 2019.
Meanwhile, traffic has rebounded to roughly pre-pandemic levels. The Transportation Security Administration has screened 2.55 million travelers a day on average this month, down about 1% fewer from the same period in 2019.
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Police: Connecticut man arrested for leading ‘street takeovers’ including racing and blocking roads
May 22, 2023, 3:25 PM
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man was charged Monday with rioting and other crimes after police said he led a series of “street takeovers” across the state over the weekend involving illegal racing and mobs of people blocking roads.
State police said they arrested Jefferson Duron, 20, of Norwalk, shortly after 1:30 a.m. following the takeovers in Hartford, Tolland and New Haven counties involving more than 200 people on Sunday. Troopers said they pulled him over near Milford after his car was identified as one of the vehicles leading the events.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Duron has a lawyer who could respond to the allegations. He was detained on $250,000 bail.
At one of the takeovers in Tolland on Sunday night, dozens of people blocked a main road leading to the University of Connecticut in nearby Storrs, just off Interstate 84. There were reports of bystander vehicles getting struck by baseball bats, an ambulance being damaged during a medical call and participants striking and jumping on a woman’s car, said Tolland Town Manager Brian Foley.
“These events have a propensity for injury, property damage, mob-mentality decision making and a high potential for violence,” Foley, a former state trooper, wrote in a social media post Monday.
Street takeovers and illegal racing have become problems across the country, surging after the coronavirus pandemic started.
Last week in California, a person was shot and wounded during a street takeover in Los Angeles and the California Highway Patrol launched new efforts against illegal street racing in advance of opening night of the action movie “Fast X.” | https://mynorthwest.com/3891929/police-connecticut-man-arrested-for-leading-street-takeovers-including-racing-and-blocking-roads/ | 2023-05-23 00:18:50 | 1 | https://mynorthwest.com/3891929/police-connecticut-man-arrested-for-leading-street-takeovers-including-racing-and-blocking-roads/ |
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Republican attorney general of Kansas sued Friday to block transgender residents from changing their sex on their driver’s licenses and to rebuke the Democratic governor for defying his interpretation of a new law.
Attorney General Kris Kobach went to a state court in hopes of getting an order to stop Gov. Laura Kelly and agencies under her control to stop allowing the changes to transgender people’s licenses. Kobach contends a law that took effect Saturday prevents such changes and requires the state to reverse any previous changes in its records, including about 1,300 made over the past four years.
The new law defines a person’s sex as male or female, based on the “biological reproductive system” identified at birth, applying that definition to any state law or regulation. It also says that “important governmental objectives” of protecting people’s privacy, health and safety justify single-sex spaces such as bathrooms and locker rooms. Kansas is among at least 10 states with a law against transgender people using facilities in line with their gender identities, though the new law includes no enforcement mechanism.
But Kelly’s office announced last week that the state health department, which handles birth certificates, and the motor vehicle division, which issues driver’s licenses, will continue allowing transgender people to change the markers for sex on those documents. Her office said lawyers in her administration had concluded that doing so doesn’t violate the new law. Kelly is a strong supporter of LGBTQ+ rights and vetoed the measure, but the Republican-controlled Legislature overrode her.
In response to that announcement, Kobach said, “She is violating her oath of office to uphold Kansas law.”
The lawsuit filed Friday names as defendants two officials who oversee driver’s licenses. Part of the lawsuit reads: “The Governor cannot pick and choose which laws she will enforce and which laws she will ignore.”
His lawsuit seeks to force the governor to enforce the law as he sees it but did not request to stop changes to birth certificates. The rationale for restricting the lawsuit to driver’s licenses wasn’t immediately clear, nor was it clear how quickly the district court in Shawnee County, home to the state capital, Topeka, would deal with the case. Judges have the option of sending the lawsuit to a trial court to do fact-finding, which could delay a resolution for months.
The new Kansas law was among a raft of measures rolling back transgender rights enacted this year in statehouses across the U.S. But only a few states do not allow transgender people to change their birth certificates. Federal judges last month upheld policies in Oklahoma and Tennessee, and a no-changes rule in Montana is expected to face a legal challenge.
Kelly won her first term as governor in 2018 by defeating Kobach, then the Kansas secretary of state. He staged a political comeback last year by winning the attorney general’s race as she captured a second term, both of them by slim margins.
The governor’s statements about the new law are at odds with descriptions from LGBTQ+ rights advocates before the Republican-controlled Legislature enacted it over Kelly’s veto. The advocates predicted that it would prevent transgender people from changing their driver’s licenses and amounted to a legal “erasure” of their identities, something Kobach confirmed as the intent when he issued his legal opinion.
“For me to go into a bathroom and not have a marker that represents who I am, I was terrified. I was afraid I was going to get accosted or harassed,” said Ty Goeke, a 37-year-old transgender Topeka resident who changed both his birth certificate and driver’s license last month.
Goeke participated in a transgender rights rally last week with his wife, Mallory, who carried a sign made from a toilet seat, calling for the new law to be “flushed.” Ty Goeke said he sobbed with joy in a state health department office when he changed his birth certificate.
“Now that I have the correct marker, I feel much better, feel more confident,” he said. “I feel at ease with myself.”
The legal wrangling is complicated by a federal lawsuit filed in 2018 against Kansas health department officials by four transgender residents over a previous no-changes policy on birth certificates imposed under a Republican governor. That policy also hindered changes in driver’s licenses.
Kelly settled the federal lawsuit months after taking office in January 2019, and a federal judge issued an order to enforce the settlement that requires the state to allow birth certificate changes. The order remains in effect.
Kobach has asked the federal judge to rescind his order but argues that the new state law supersedes it. Others disagree.
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Which Doja Cat merch is best?
Doja Cat is an American rapper, singer and songwriter who has had multiple top-10 hits on the Billboard charts since 2020. She’s created songs alongside megastars including Nicki Minaj, Ariana Grande and The Weeknd. Her most popular songs include “Say So” and “Kiss Me More,” the latter of which went viral on TikTok. Luckily for Doja Cat fans, sometimes known as Kittenz, there is plenty of merchandise to show support for the singer.
The best piece of Doja Cat merchandise is the Planet Her T-shirt. This officially licensed shirt comes in black and features the cover of the “Planet Her” album sprawled across the front.
What to know before you buy Doja Cat merch
Doja Cat albums
Doja Cat has released three full-length studio albums since 2018. The first was titled “Amala,” which some fans will recognize as the artist’s real name. This album included a few hit singles including the TikTok viral hit “Candy.” It wasn’t until the album “Hot Pink” dropped the next year that Doja Cat began to jump into the hearts and minds of millions of fans around the world. “Say So,” the biggest single from the album, featured rap superstar Nicki Minaj and reached the #1 spot on the Billboard charts. “Planet Her” is Doja Cat’s newest album and includes a slew of merchandise to go with its release. Most of the Doja Cat merchandise that you will find is from her latest album and singles.
Clothing types
Usually the clothing types offered for artists are standard T-shirts and hooded sweatshirts. These are the most popular items because they can fit most body types and styles. Doja Cat offers four T-shirt styles and two hoodies on her official Amazon store. The current offerings are from her latest studio album “Planet Her.” The cover art features Doja Cat floating in space and painted in vibrant colors and glitter. There are T-shirts and hoodies that feature the same cover art and others that show the title of her latest single “Kiss Me More.”
Other merch
Among the clothing in Doja Cat’s store are two smartphone cases. These cases are designed for the iPhone 12 and the Galaxy S20, among others. They come in all black with an image of Doja Cat covered in pink from the “Kiss Me More” single. They also include the artist’s name in bright blue and pink bubble lettering. You can even purchase her album directly from the store in an MP3 format or download it to stream from Amazon Music.
What to look for in quality Doja Cat merch
Officially licensed
If you’re buying a Doja Cat CD, it’s guaranteed to be officially licensed. That is to say, it’s straight from the artist herself and not a ripoff. For merchandise, this can be a little tricky. There are many third-party sellers that offer Doja Cat merchandise that are not authentic items. Officially licensed merchandise is always of a higher quality. Plus, it directly supports the artist. If you’re unsure if an item is officially licensed, check with the official Doja Cat website or her official page on Amazon.
Materials
There’s nothing worse than buying merchandise from your favorite artist and realizing you can’t wear it because the materials are uncomfortable. Doja Cat merchandise uses 100% cotton for solid colors such as black and white. The heathered varieties are made of soft material made of 50% cotton and 50% polyester.
Sizes and styles
High-quality Doja Cat merchandise comes in a wide variety of sizes. Officially licensed clothing from her store on Amazon includes adult T-shirts ranging from small sizes up to 3XL. All come in various widths and lengths. There is also youth sizing for small children that range from size 2 all the way up to size 12.
How much you can expect to spend on Doja Cat merch
Doja Cat merch ranges from $20 to $45.
Doja Cat merch FAQ
Does Doja Cat merch ship worldwide?
A. Some Doja Cat merch will ship worldwide if you are purchasing from her official Amazon store. Be sure to read all instructions during check out to ensure the item can ship to your country internationally.
Is Doja Cat merch true to size?
A. Yes. Doja Cat merch is labeled as “classic fit,” which means it is designed to be true to size. Be mindful if you are purchasing a product that is 100% cotton as it may shrink after washing.
What’s the best Doja Cat merch to buy?
Top Doja Cat merch
What you need to know: Designed with the stunning “Planet Her” album cover, this all-black T-shirt is officially licensed.
What you’ll love: This T-shirt is 100% cotton, making it lightweight and comfortable. The black background of the shirt makes the graphics colors very vibrant.
What you should consider: Wash this shirt with dark colors because the black dye may bleed.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Doja Cat merch for the money
Doja Cat “Kiss Me More” iPhone case
What you need to know: With this iPhone case, you can show your love of one of Doja Cat’s biggest singles.
What you’ll love: Protect your phone in style with this two-part protective case that includes a scratch resistant polycarbonate shell and a shock absorbent liner to keep your phone safe.
What you should consider: There are a lot of sizes for this phone case, so be sure you’re purchasing one that matches your phone model.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Doja Cat “Kiss Me More” pullover hoodie
What you need to know: Doja Cat’s name is front and center on this all black hoodie that features vibrant accent colors and a large logo on the back.
What you’ll love: This cold weather hoodie is perfect for the fall and winter seasons because it’s made with 80% cotton to keep you warm and 20% polyester to keep you comfortable.
What you should consider: The “Kiss Me More” hoodie comes in unisex sizes for more generic fits.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Five people have been killed in a Kenyan border village, fueling concerns that such attacks are increasing after a decline.
The weekend attack raises the death toll over the last month to more than 30 people — including soldiers, police reservists and civilians.
In Saturday’s attack in the coastal Lamu county, four of the victims had their throats slit and one was shot at close range, according to local police.
The officials said about 30 attackers also torched houses in the village and stole food.
The village borders Witu Forest, where al-Shabab militants have created hideouts and held abductees.
Lamu County has been attacked two other times in the last two weeks, with both incidents targeting Kenya Defense Forces running a security operation in the area and leaving four of them dead.
In Kenya’s north, Mandera, Wajir and Garissa counties have seen several attacks this month in which more than 10 people – including soldiers, police reservists and civilians – have died.
Al-Shabab has in the past targeted Kenya, but a coordinated operation at the border and inside neighboring Somalia had led to fewer attacks until recently.
Kenyan President William Ruto on Friday suggested that the country’s troops might stay in Somalia into next month, past the date of withdrawal.
“We are very clear and we are going to send a very powerful message to al-Shabab, that they are not going to reverse the gains that we have made in the last couple of years,” he said during a France 24 interview in Paris.
Kenya is among countries in the region that have contributed troops to the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS).
Kenyan Interior Minister Kindiki Kithure has assured residents of their safety, citing a budgetary allocation in the upcoming new financial year to purchase advanced security equipment.
Defense Minister Aden Duale last week warned locals in Garissa County against aiding and working with militants.
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — French author Annie Ernaux was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in literature for “the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory,” the Swedish Academy said Thursday.
Ernaux, 82, started out writing autobiographical novels, but quickly abandoned fiction in favor of memoirs.
Her more than 20 books, most of them very short, chronicle events in her life and the lives of those around her. They present uncompromising portraits of sexual encounters, abortion, illness and the deaths of her parents.
Anders Olsson, chairman, Nobel Committee for literature, said Ernaux’s work was often “uncompromising and written in plain language, scraped clean.”
“She has achieved something admirable and enduring,” he told reporters after the announcement in Stockholm, Sweden.
Ernaux describes her style as “flat writing” (ecriture plate), a very objective view of the events she is describing, unshaped by florid description or overwhelming emotions.
In the book that made her name, “La Place” (A Man’s Place), about her relationship with her father, she writes: “No lyrical reminiscences, no triumphant displays of irony. This neutral writing style comes to me naturally.”
Her most critically acclaimed book was “The Years” (Les annees), published in 2008 and describing herself and wider French society from the end of World War II to the present day. Unlike in previous books, in “The Years,” Ernaux writes about herself in the third person, calling her character “she” rather than “I”. The book received numerous awards and honors.
Last year’s prize went to the Tanzanian-born, U.K.-based writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose novels explore the impact of migration on individuals and societies.
Gurnah was only the sixth Nobel literature laureate born in Africa, and the prize has long faced criticism that it is too focused on European and North American writers. It is also male-dominated, with just 16 women among its 118 laureates.
The prizes to Gurnah in 2021 and U.S. poet Louise Glück in 2020 helped the literature prize move on from years of controversy and scandal.
In 2018, the award was postponed after sex abuse allegations rocked the Swedish Academy, which names the Nobel literature committee, and sparked an exodus of members. The academy revamped itself but faced more criticism for giving the 2019 literature award to Austria’s Peter Handke, who has been called an apologist for Serbian war crimes.
A week of Nobel Prize announcements kicked off Monday with Swedish scientist Svante Paabo receiving the award in medicine for unlocking secrets of Neanderthal DNA that provided key insights into our immune system.
Three scientists jointly won the prize in physics Tuesday. Frenchman Alain Aspect, American John F. Clauser and Austrian Anton Zeilinger had shown that tiny particles can retain a connection with each other even when separated, a phenomenon known as quantum entanglement, that can be used for specialized computing and to encrypt information.
The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to Americans Carolyn R. Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless, and Danish scientist Morten Meldal for developing a way of “snapping molecules together” that can be used to explore cells, map DNA and design drugs that can target diseases such as cancer more precisely.
The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday and the economics award on Monday.
The prizes carry a cash award of 10 million Swedish kronor (nearly $900,000) and will be handed out on Dec. 10. The money comes from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, in 1895.
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NY Albany NY Zone Forecast for Saturday, April 29, 2023
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National Weather Service Albany NY
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
NYZ033-301500-
Hamilton-
Including the cities of Speculator and Indian Lake
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers this morning, then rain this
afternoon. Highs around 50. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to
30 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Lows in the upper 30s. East winds around 20 mph
with gusts up to 35 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph after midnight. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then partly sunny with showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the
upper 40s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain showers likely. Snow showers likely after
midnight. Little or no snow accumulation. Lows in the mid 30s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.TUESDAY...Snow showers in the morning. Rain showers. Little or no
snow accumulation. Highs in the mid 40s. South winds around 5 mph.
Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain showers, mainly in the evening.
Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain showers. Highs in the upper
40s. Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of rain showers. Highs in the upper 40s. Lows in the lower
30s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of rain showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening.
Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
$$
NYZ052-301500-
Eastern Albany-
Including the city of ALBANY
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. A slight chance of showers this morning, then rain
with a slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this afternoon. Highs in
the upper 50s. East winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Lows in the upper 40s. East winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph, becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 60s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
mid 40s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. South winds around 10 mph. Chance
of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers, mainly in the evening. Lows
in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows
in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
NYZ058-301500-
Western Greene-
Including the cities of Hunter, Tannersville, and Windham
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. A chance of showers this morning,
then rain with a slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this afternoon. Rain may be
heavy at times this afternoon. Not as cool with highs in the mid
50s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph, increasing
to east 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph this afternoon. Chance
of rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms. Rain. Some thunderstorms may
produce heavy rainfall. Rain may be heavy at times in the evening.
Lows in the lower 40s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming west
after midnight. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the mid 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 30s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 40s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers, mainly in the evening. Lows
in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers, mainly in the evening.
Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the upper 40s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly sunny with a
chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows around 40. Chance
of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ065-301500-
Western Dutchess-
Including the cities of Poughkeepsie, Beacon, and Arlington
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. A chance of showers this morning,
then rain with a chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this afternoon. Highs in
the lower 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph this
afternoon. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms. Rain. Some thunderstorms may
produce heavy rainfall. Lows in the mid 40s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming southwest after midnight. Gusts up to 30 mph.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 60s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 40s. South winds around 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the mid 50s. Southwest winds
around 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely in the evening. Lows
in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with showers likely.
Highs in the mid 50s. Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
NYZ041-301500-
Northern Saratoga-
Including the city of Saratoga Springs
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. A slight chance of showers this morning, then rain
this afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Lows in the mid 40s. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming west 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 60s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers, mainly in the evening. Lows
in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows
in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 60.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
NYZ038-301500-
Southern Herkimer-
Including the cities of Ilion, Herkimer, Little Falls, Mohawk,
Frankfort, and Doldgeville
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
.TODAY...Showers this morning, then rain with a slight chance of
thunderstorms this afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy
rainfall this afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s. East winds 15 to
20 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain, breezy with lows in the mid 40s. East winds 15 to
25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph, becoming west around 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph after midnight. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers in the morning, then
mostly cloudy with showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the
upper 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the lower 40s. South winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers. Highs in the lower 50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Lows around 40.
Highs in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 40s. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
NYZ032-301500-
Northern Herkimer-
Including the cities of Atwell, Big Moose, Eagle Bay, Mckeever,
Nobleboro, Northwood, and Old Forge
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers this morning, then rain this
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Southeast winds around 15 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain, breezy with lows in the upper 30s. East winds 20 to
25 mph, becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Chance of
rain 90 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning, then
showers in the afternoon. Highs around 50. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain showers likely. Snow showers likely after
midnight. Little or no snow accumulation. Lows in the mid 30s. South
winds around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Snow showers likely in the morning. Rain showers. Little
or no snow accumulation. Highs in the upper 40s. South winds around
10 mph. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain showers. Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Rain showers. Highs in the upper
40s. Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain showers likely. Highs in the
upper 40s. Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening.
Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ042-301500-
Northern Warren-
Including the cities of North Creek, Warrensburg, and Chestertown
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers this morning, then rain this
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Lows in the mid 40s. East winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 35 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with showers likely in the morning, then
partly sunny with a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the
upper 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
upper 30s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers. Highs in the lower 50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers, mainly in the evening. Lows
in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Highs in the lower 50s.
Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the lower 50s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
NYZ083-301500-
Southeast Warren-
Including the city of Glens Falls
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. A slight chance of showers this morning, then rain
this afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Lows in the mid 40s. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming east 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with showers likely in the morning, then
partly sunny with a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs around
60. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
lower 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers. Highs in the mid 50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers, mainly in the evening. Lows
around 40. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Highs in the lower 50s.
Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the lower 50s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
NYZ043-301500-
Northern Washington-
Including the cities of Whitehall and Granville
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. A slight chance of showers this morning, then rain
this afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Lows in the upper 40s. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly sunny.
A 50 percent chance of showers. Highs around 60. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 40s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Showers. Highs in the mid 50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers, mainly in the evening. Lows
around 40. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows
around 40. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with showers likely.
Highs in the lower 50s. Lows around 40. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening.
Lows around 40. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
NYZ084-301500-
Southern Washington-
Including the cities of Hudson Falls, Fort Edward, Cambridge,
and Greenwich
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 11 PM EDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Cloudy. A slight chance of showers this morning, then rain
this afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s. East winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
40 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain, breezy with lows in the upper 40s. East winds 20 to
25 mph with gusts up to 45 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph after midnight. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly sunny.
A 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in the lower 60s. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
mid 40s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers. Highs in the mid 50s. South winds around 10 mph.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers, mainly in the evening. Lows
in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows
in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the lower 50s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
NYZ082-301500-
Northern Fulton-
Including the cities of Caroga Lake, Northville, and Mayfield
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
.TODAY...Showers likely this morning, then rain this afternoon.
Highs in the lower 50s. East winds 15 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph
this afternoon. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Rain may be heavy at times. Breezy with lows in the
lower 40s. East winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph, becoming
west 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph after midnight. Chance of
rain near 100 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning,
then partly sunny with showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the
lower 50s. Southwest winds around 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the upper 30s. South winds
around 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers. Highs in the mid 40s. South winds around 10 mph.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Lows in the upper
30s. Highs in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the upper 40s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 30s. Highs in the upper 50s.
$$
NYZ039-301500-
Southern Fulton-
Including the cities of Gloversville and Johnstown
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
.TODAY...Showers likely this morning, then rain this afternoon.
Highs in the upper 50s. East winds around 10 mph with gusts up to
20 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph this
afternoon. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Lows in the mid 40s. East winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 35 mph, becoming northwest 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph after midnight. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely, mainly in the evening. Lows in the
upper 30s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers. Highs around 50. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Lows in the upper
30s. Highs around 50. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the lower 50s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening.
Lows around 40. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
NYZ040-301500-
Montgomery-
Including the cities of Amsterdam, Wellsville, and Fonda
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
.TODAY...Showers likely this morning, then rain this afternoon.
Highs in the upper 50s. East winds around 10 mph with gusts up to
20 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph this
afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Lows in the mid 40s. East winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 35 mph, becoming west 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph after midnight. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely, mainly in the evening. Lows around
40. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers. Highs in the lower 50s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers, mainly in the evening. Lows
in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Highs in the lower 50s.
Lows around 40. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the lower 50s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening.
Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
NYZ047-301500-
Schoharie-
Including the cities of Cobleskill and Middleburgh
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
.TODAY...Showers this morning, then rain with a slight chance of
thunderstorms this afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy
rainfall this afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s. East winds 10 to
15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Lows in the lower 40s. East winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming west 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 50s. Southwest winds around 15 mph. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the upper 30s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers. Highs in the lower 50s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers, mainly in the evening. Lows
in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Highs around 50. Lows in
the upper 30s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the lower 50s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows around 40. Chance
of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 60.
$$
NYZ048-301500-
Western Schenectady-
Including the cities of Delanson, Esperance, and Duanesburg
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers this morning, then rain with a
slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Some thunderstorms
may produce heavy rainfall this afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s.
East winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph, increasing to 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Lows in the lower 40s. East winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming west 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Gusts up to 35 mph.
Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows around 40. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers, mainly in the evening. Lows
in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Highs around 50. Lows in
the upper 30s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the lower 50s. Lows around 40.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs around 60.
$$
NYZ049-301500-
Eastern Schenectady-
Including the cities of Schenectady and Rotterdam
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers this morning, then rain with a
slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Some thunderstorms
may produce heavy rainfall this afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s.
East winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph this afternoon. Chance
of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Lows in the upper 40s. East winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming west 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs
around 60. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 40s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. South winds around 10 mph. Chance
of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers, mainly in the evening. Lows
in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows
in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 60.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
NYZ050-301500-
Southern Saratoga-
Including the cities of Ballston Spa, Clifton Park, Mechanicville,
and Waterford
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. A slight chance of showers this morning, then rain
with a slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this afternoon. Highs in
the upper 50s. East winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Lows in the mid 40s. East winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming west 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 60s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 40s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. South winds around 10 mph. Chance
of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers, mainly in the evening. Lows
in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows
in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 60.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
NYZ051-301500-
Western Albany-
Including the cities of Altamont and Berne
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers this morning, then rain with a
slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Some thunderstorms
may produce heavy rainfall this afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph, increasing to
east 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph this afternoon. Chance of
rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain. Lows in the lower 40s. East winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming west 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 30s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 40s. South winds around 10 mph. Chance
of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers, mainly in the evening. Lows
in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Highs in the upper 40s.
Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the upper 40s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening.
Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
$$
NYZ053-301500-
Western Rensselaer-
Including the city of Troy
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 11 PM EDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Cloudy. A slight chance of showers this morning, then rain
with a slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this afternoon. Highs in
the upper 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph,
increasing to east 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph this
afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms in the evening. Rain. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall in the evening. Breezy with
lows in the upper 40s. East winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to
45 mph, becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Chance of
rain near 100 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 60s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 40s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. South winds around 10 mph. Chance
of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers, mainly in the evening. Lows
in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Highs in the lower 50s.
Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
NYZ054-301500-
Eastern Rensselaer-
Including the cities of Grafton and Hoosick Falls
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 11 PM EDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Cloudy. A slight chance of showers this morning, then rain
with a slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this afternoon. Breezy with
highs in the mid 50s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
30 mph, becoming east 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph this
afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms in the evening. Rain. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall in the evening. Windy with
lows in the lower 40s. East winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to
50 mph, becoming south 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph after
midnight. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the mid 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 40s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 40s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance
of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers, mainly in the evening. Lows
in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Highs in the upper 40s.
Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the upper 40s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening.
Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
$$
NYZ060-301500-
Western Columbia-
Including the city of Hudson
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. Patchy fog this morning. A chance of showers this
morning, then rain with a slight chance of thunderstorms this
afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this
afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance
of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain with a chance of thunderstorms. Some thunderstorms
may produce heavy rainfall. Lows in the upper 40s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming west 5 to 10 mph
after midnight. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 60s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 40s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. South winds around 10 mph. Chance
of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers, mainly in the evening. Lows
around 40. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows
in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
NYZ061-301500-
Eastern Columbia-
Including the city of Chatham
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 11 PM EDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Cloudy. Patchy fog this morning. A chance of showers this
morning, then rain with a slight chance of thunderstorms this
afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this
afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s. East winds around 10 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
40 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain with a chance of thunderstorms. Some thunderstorms
may produce heavy rainfall. Breezy with lows in the mid 40s. East
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 45 mph, becoming south 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph after midnight. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 40s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. South winds around 10 mph. Chance
of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers, mainly in the evening. Lows
around 40. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Highs in the lower 50s.
Lows around 40. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the lower 50s. Lows around 40.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
evening, then mostly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
NYZ059-301500-
Eastern Greene-
Including the cities of Catskill, Coxsackie, Athens, Cairo,
and Jefferson Heights
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. Patchy fog this morning. A chance of showers this
morning, then rain with a slight chance of thunderstorms this
afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this
afternoon. Not as cool with highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph, increasing to east 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain with a chance of thunderstorms. Some thunderstorms
may produce heavy rainfall. Lows in the upper 40s. East winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming west 5 to 10 mph after
midnight. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south around
15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 40s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. South winds around 10 mph. Chance
of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers, mainly in the evening. Lows
in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows
in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
NYZ063-301500-
Western Ulster-
Including the cities of Ellenville, Woodstock, West Hurley,
Kerhonkson, Napanoch, and Phoenicia
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Showers likely this morning, then
rain with a chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Rain may be
heavy at times this afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s. East winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain with a chance of thunderstorms. Some thunderstorms
may produce heavy rainfall after midnight. Rain may be heavy at
times in the evening. Lows in the lower 40s. East winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west 15 to 20 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
near 100 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 30s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Showers. Highs around 50. Southwest winds around 10 mph.
Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Showers. Lows in the upper
30s. Highs around 50. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the lower 50s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening.
Lows around 40. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
NYZ064-301500-
Eastern Ulster-
Including the cities of Kingston and New Paltz
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. A chance of showers this morning,
then rain with a chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this afternoon. Not as cool
with highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds around 5 mph, becoming
east 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph this afternoon. Chance of
rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms. Rain. Some thunderstorms may
produce heavy rainfall. Lows in the upper 40s. East winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 60s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 40s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Southwest winds around 10 mph.
Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with showers.
Lows in the lower 40s. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
NYZ066-301500-
Eastern Dutchess-
Including the cities of Pawling, Dover Plains, Millbrook,
Pine Plains, Amenia, and Millerton
333 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. A chance of showers this morning,
then rain with a chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall this afternoon. Highs in
the upper 50s. East winds around 10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph,
increasing to 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph this afternoon.
Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.TONIGHT...A chance of thunderstorms. Rain. Some thunderstorms may
produce heavy rainfall. Lows in the mid 40s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph, becoming southwest around 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the lower 40s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the lower 50s. Southwest winds
around 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with showers
likely. Lows in the upper 30s. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the lower 50s. Lows around 40.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening.
Lows around 40. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
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BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks followed Wall Street higher Friday ahead of a United States inflation update traders hope might prompt the Federal Reserve to ease plans for more interest rate hikes.
Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney advanced. Oil prices declined.
Wall Street rose Thursday as worries about the global financial system eased following the collapse of two U.S. banks and one in Switzerland.
Traders hope a measure of U.S. inflation due out Friday that is closely watched by the Federal Reserve will show upward pressure on prices easing. That might prompt the Fed to postpone plans for a possible rate hike at its May meeting.
A softer inflation reading would be a “signal to continue with the risk-on theme,” said Tim Waterer of Kohle Capital Markets in a report.
The Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.3% to 3,269.83 and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong gained 1.1% to 20,532.33.
The Nikkei 225 in Tokyo advanced 1% to 28,046.75 after government data showed factory output rebounded and retail sales rose in February.
The Kospi in Seoul added 0.9% to 2,475.69 and Sydney’s S&P-ASX 200 was 0.8% higher at 7,176.00.
New Zealand declined while Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia advanced.
Traders were rattled by this month’s bank failures but regulators appear to have calmed fears by promising lending measures if needed to keep other institutions stable after repeated rate hikes caused prices of bonds and other assets on their books to fall.
Markets have shifted focus back to uncertainty about the global economic outlook as the Fed and other central banks try to extinguish inflation.
Traders have begun betting the Fed will be forced to cut rates as early as mid-year to shore up economic growth. That is despite statements by Fed officials that they plan to raise rates one more time before holding them steady into at least early 2024.
The Fed’s key lending rate stands at a range of 4.75% to 5%, up from close to zero at the start of last year.
On Wall Street, the benchmark S&P 500 index rose 0.6% on Thursday to 4,050.83 for its fifth gain in six days.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.4% to 32,859.03. The Nasdaq composite gained 0.7%, to 12,013.47.
Expectations for easier rates in turn have helped to buoy the Big Tech stocks that dominate the S&P 500 and other indexes.
Amazon rose 1.7% on Thursday, while Apple and Microsoft also rose.
A report Thursday showed slightly more U.S. workers applied for unemployment benefits last week than expected. That could be a sign of increased layoffs, but the number is low compared with historical levels.
In a separate report, the government revised down its estimate for how much the U.S. economy grew during the last three months of 2022. But it also still showed growth.
In energy markets, benchmark U.S. crude shed 6 cents to $74.31 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $1.40 on Thursday to $74.37. Brent crude, the price basis for international oil trading, lost 16 cents to $78.44 per barrel in London. It advanced 99 cents the previous session to $79.27.
The dollar gained to 132.93 yen from Thursday’s 132.47 yen. The euro was little-changed at $1.0903. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/business/ap-business/asia-stocks-mostly-rise-after-wall-st-rally-bank-fears-ease/ | 2023-03-31 09:02:12 | 0 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/business/ap-business/asia-stocks-mostly-rise-after-wall-st-rally-bank-fears-ease/ |
DALLAS (KDAF) — Pumpkin isn’t the only flavor of fall. Before there were pumpkin spice lattes there were other foods to signify the beginning of the fall season.
What better place to get great food than the State Fair of Texas, if you want food that makes you feel like you have entered fall, they have you covered.
According to a tweet from fair officials, there are five foods that will give you all the fall feels.
The tweet states, “In your fall feels? Here are Five Bites, sponsored by @visit_dallas, that will put you in the fall mood!”
- Good Luck Black Eyed Pea Soup from Bailey’s
- Texas Pumpkin Poke Cake from Highland Soda Factory
- Fried Thanksgiving Dinner from Trio on the Green
- Fried Taste of Autumn Pie from Stiffler’s Sweet Spot
- Pumpkin Spice Cheesecake from Drizzle Cheesecakes
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SubtleMR and SubtlePET will now be offered on Incepto's AI Platform
MENLO PARK, Calif., July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Subtle Medical, a healthcare technology company improving the quality and efficiency of medical imaging, announced they are expanding their partnership with Incepto, a leading platform of artificial intelligence solutions for radiology professionals in Europe, by offering their AI applications, SubtleMR and SubtlePET on Incepto's platform.
"We are excited to deepen our existing distributor partnership with Incepto and be included on their platform. This expansion will provide their existing customer base with quick access to our AI solutions without the long implementation process or IT hurdles," says Subtle Medical's Chief Product Officer, Ajit Shankaranarayanan.
"Today SubtleMR and SubtlePET AI based software products are installed at hundreds of facilities throughout the world making a positive difference everyday in workflow and patient comfort. We could not be more pleased to have our products running on the Incepto platform and providing access to Incepto customers," said Josh Gurewitz, Chief Commercial Officer at Subtle Medical.
Subtle Medical's suite of clinically validated AI-powered software solutions, SubtleMR™ and SubtlePET™, increase the efficiency of image capture by improving the quality of both accelerated and low dose imaging. Subtle's solutions are compatible with all scanner models and field strengths so institutions can see the benefit across their entire scanner fleet.
Incepto will be introducing SubtlePET™ and SubtleMR™ on their platform at ECR this week in Vienna, Austria. For more information or our products or partnership, please visit the Subtle Medical booth on-site, booth Expo X2 - #233, or request to meet with us here.
Today, there are hundreds of applications in medical imaging using artificial intelligence already approved for clinical use. With 100+ clinical sites routinely using Incepto's platform and more than a hundred thousand patient's exams screened by AI algorithms every month, Incepto is the leading European platform for artificial intelligence solutions for all radiology specialties. Incepto has two missions: integrate AI solutions from partner AI vendors and develop AI algorithms. On one hand, it provides the full range of technical and clinical services to integrate in clinical routine AI solutions through a unified, secure and interoperable platform. On the other hand, Incepto's scientific and medical teams are developing artificial intelligence solutions on clinical needs not currently addressed by other AI vendors. Our goal is simple: help doctors to make full use of AI technologies to save time, improve diagnosis and ultimately build together with them a more precise and human radiology for the patient.
For more information, please visit incepto-medical.com or email sales@incepto-medical.com.
Subtle Medical, Inc. is a healthcare technology company with deep learning solutions that make medical imaging faster, safer, and smarter. It was named CB Insights Top AI 100 and Digital Health 150 company in 2020 and is an Nvidia Inception Award Winner. For more information, please visit subtlemedical.com or email sales@subtlemedical.com.
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AUBURN, Maine (AP) — President Joe Biden — buoyed by new signs the economy is continuing on the upswing — took a swipe on Friday at House Republicans’ flirtations with an impeachment inquiry, quipping that GOP lawmakers may decide to impeach him because inflation is cooling down.
Standing in a textile manufacturing facility in Auburn Biden pointed to inflation statistics that showed the U.S. has the lowest rate of price increases among the world’s biggest economies. Though he was careful to say he was not taking a victory lap on the economy, Biden suggested that his Republican opponents in Congress may need to find a fresh line of attack against him because of improving economic circumstances.
“Maybe they’ll decide to impeach me because it’s coming down,” Biden said. “I don’t know. I’d love that one.”
Earlier this week, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made his most direct remarks yet that GOP lawmakers could launch an impeachment inquiry into Biden over unproven claims of financial misconduct related to Hunter Biden, the president’s son. However, the California Republican has acknowledged privately that it’s too soon to know whether the president was aware of — much less involved in — his son’s financial dealings in a way that would rise to the level of impeachable conduct.
While McCarthy publicly floated the inquiry this week, the White House has engaged little with those efforts, instead focused on promoting “Bidenomics” and the president’s domestic agenda. Aides have repeatedly played down any inquiry as a hypothetical and pointed out the hesitation among McCarthy’s own ranks about pursuing impeachment against the president.
“We’re not going to get into what House Republicans want to do, may not do, hypotheticals, that’s on them,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Air Force One en route to Maine earlier Friday. “What I can speak to is exactly what we’re doing today, right? We’re going to Maine. We’re going to be able to talk about an issue that matters to Americans: investing in America, manufacturing, bringing good union-paying jobs back to America.”
Indeed, that was the focus of the White House on Friday, as Biden used the trip to Maine to sign an executive order that would encourage companies to manufacture new inventions in the United States. It was Biden’s first trip to the state as president.
“I’m not here to declare victory on the economy. We have more work to do,” Biden said. But “we have a plan for turning things around. ‘Bidenomics’ is just another way of saying restoring the American dream.”
The Democrat won three out of the state’s four electoral votes in 2020 and is seeking to shore up his support in the state. Maine allocates its electoral votes by congressional district, and Biden lost the vote in the state’s 2nd District, which provided the only electoral vote in New England for then-President Donald Trump, a Republican.
By going to that district on Friday, Biden sought to show its blue-collar voters that he’s committed to them, as a single electoral vote could be critical in a narrow 2024 presidential election.
Democrats can compete in Maine’s 2nd District as Rep. Jared Golden has been its congressman since 2019. But Golden has also been one of the Democratic lawmakers who has openly criticized Biden over his handling of debt limit talks this year and the administration’s forgiveness of student debt that has since been overturned by the Supreme Court. Despite distancing himself from the White House on some policies, Golden traveled with Biden on Air Force One on Friday.
And shortly before Biden spoke at Auburn Manufacturing Inc., Golden noted to the audience that “it’s no secret” he doesn’t always agree with the president’s agenda but that he “proudly” supports Bidenomics.
Republicans have said that Biden’s policies have led to higher inflation. Consumer prices climbed to a four-decade high last summer, but inflation has eased over the past 12 months to a rate of 3% annually.
“ Bidenomics is hurting working people in my district,” said Maine state Rep. Joshua Morris, a Republican. “The cost of groceries, heating oil, gas, health care and electricity have gone up as a result of Joe Biden’s policies. He should be apologizing to us while he’s here, not bragging.”
The National Republican Congressional Committee went on the attack against Golden, calling him “Joe Biden’s loyal foot soldier” who had backed inflation-boosting policies earlier in his presidency.
The White House outlined the executive order being signed by Biden, which would improve the transparency of federal research and development programs to meet the administration’s goals for domestic manufacturing. The order asks agencies to weigh U.S. national security and economic interests when determining if domestic manufacturing requirements should be broadened.
The order also urges federal agencies to consider domestic production when investing in research and development and to use their own legal authorities to encourage manufacturing new technologies in the U.S. But when goods cannot be made in the U.S., the order instructs the Commerce Department to create a clearer and timelier process for receiving a waiver.
Auburn Manufacturing Inc., where Biden spoke Friday, is a maker of heat- and fire-resistant fabrics for industries that include shipbuilding, oil refining and electricity generation. The company challenged China for its unfair trade practices regarding amorphous silica fabric, or ASF, which is a heat-resistant material.
Biden was also scheduled to appear at a fundraiser in Freeport, Maine, later Friday.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Krane Funds Advisors, LLC ("KraneShares"), an asset management firm known for its global exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and innovative investment strategies, announced that the KraneShares Global Carbon Offset Strategy ETF (Ticker: KSET) now tracks the S&P GSCI Global Voluntary Carbon Liquidity Weighted Index—the first-to-market benchmark for the current performance of global voluntary carbon futures markets.
KSET, listed on the New York Stock Exchange on April 27 this year, is the first US-Listed ETF to track the global Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCM)1, which is complementary to the global carbon allowance markets tracked by KraneShares' flagship global carbon ETF (KRBN).
KSET's new index tracks carbon offset futures contracts. These contracts include nature-based global emission offsets (N-GEOs) and global emission offsets (GEOs), which trade through the CME Group, the world's largest financial derivatives exchange. Due to the evolving nature of carbon markets, an important characteristic of the index is the flexibility to reweight, add or remove constituents at regular intervals to ensure that it can adapt over time.
"Previously, KraneShares and IHS Markit, which is now part of S&P Global, made history when we launched the KraneShares Global Carbon Strategy ETF (KRBN). KRBN uses the IHS Markit Global Carbon Index as its benchmark," said Luke Oliver, Managing Director and Head of Strategy at KraneShares. "We are pleased to deepen our relationship with S&P Global and leverage their extensive history as an index provider and their strong research capabilities to capture the complex and ever-changing voluntary carbon market through KSET's new index."
"We're excited that KraneShares has selected our S&P GSCI Global Voluntary Carbon Liquidity Weighted Index as the underlying benchmark for its exchange-traded fund," said Fiona Boal, Head of Commodities and Real Assets at S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI). "This new voluntary carbon futures index is a key addition to S&P DJI's continued efforts to grow its suite of new and innovative thematic alternative indices for the commodities space."
"The voluntary carbon market serves as a powerful tool in the global fight to combat climate change and an important way to accelerate the transition to a decarbonized world," said Eron Bloomgarden, co-founder of Climate Finance Partners (CLIFI) KSET's non-discretionary sub-advisor. "At the same time, it provides price discovery, a potential hedge for climate risk exposure, and diversification* from traditional asset classes."
The S&P GSCI Global Voluntary Carbon Liquidity Weighted Index was launched on June 22, 2022.
What are Carbon Offsets?
Carbon offsets are intended to counteract emissions that corporations, governments, or individuals generate as part of their business-as-usual activities. The governing bodies overseeing the registration and verification of carbon offset projects are called carbon offset registries. These registries issue credits for emission-reducing projects or programs such as forest conservation, the creation of wind farms, methane gas capture in a landfill, and hydropower projects. Credits are issued proportionate to the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) a project takes out of the atmosphere. Entities can calculate their emissions and purchase a corresponding quantity of credits to offset their activity. Entities often utilize offsets as a short-term bridge to abate emissions that they cannot avoid within their own operations while they work on implementing longer-term decarbonization measures.
For additional information on the KraneShares Global Carbon Offset Strategy ETF (Ticker: KSET), contact your financial advisor or visit kraneshares.com/KSET.
*Diversification does not ensure a profit or guarantee against a loss.
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Krane Funds Advisors, LLC is the investment manager for KraneShares ETFs. KraneShares is a premier platform that develops and delivers differentiated, high-conviction investment strategies to global investors.
Since 2013, KraneShares has become one of the leading China ETF providers. Given China's importance in addressing the global climate challenge, our Climate Suite is a natural extension of our China focus. KraneShares strives to deliver innovative first-to-market strategies based on strong partnerships and deep investing knowledge. KraneShares helps investors stay current on global market trends and provides meaningful diversification.
Krane Funds Advisors, LLC, is a signatory of the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investing (UN PRI). The firm is majority-owned by China International Capital Corporation (CICC).
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Climate Finance Partners delivers innovative climate finance solutions and investment products to address capital needs for emerging environmental challenges. CLIFI is led by a team of investment professionals with deep experience in the fields of traditional investment and environmental finance.
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The market for carbon offset credit futures may be less developed, and potentially less liquid and more volatile, than more established futures markets. While the market has grown, there can be no assurance that this growth will continue. The price for carbon offset credit futures is based on a number of factors, including the supply of and the demand for carbon offset credit futures as well as the supply and demand for carbon offset credits. The performance of carbon offset credit futures and carbon offset credits may differ and may not be correlated with each other, over short or long periods of time. There is no assurance that cap and trade regimes will continue to exist, or that they will prove to be an effective method of reduction in GHG emissions. Changes in U.S. law and related regulations may impact the way the Fund operates, increase Fund costs and/or change the competitive landscape. New technologies may arise that may diminish or eliminate the need for cap and trade markets. Ultimately, the cost of emissions credits is determined by the cost of actually reducing emissions levels. If the price of credits becomes too high, it will be more economical for companies to develop or invest in green technologies, thereby suppressing the demand for credits.
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The use of futures contracts is subject to special risk considerations. The primary risks associated with the use of futures contracts include: (a) an imperfect correlation between the change in market value of the reference asset and the price of the futures contract; (b) possible lack of a liquid secondary market for a futures contract and the resulting inability to close a futures contract when desired; (c) losses caused by unanticipated market movements, which are potentially unlimited; (d) the inability to predict correctly the direction of market prices, interest rates, currency exchange rates and other economic factors; and (e) if the Fund has insufficient cash, it may have to sell securities or financial instruments from its portfolio to meet daily variation margin requirements, which may lead to the Fund selling securities or financial instruments at a loss. Fluctuations in currency of foreign countries may have an adverse effect to domestic currency values. The Fund is subject to interest rate risk, which is the chance that bonds will decline in value as interest rates rise. Narrowly focused investments typically exhibit higher volatility. The Fund's assets are expected to be concentrated in carbon offset credit futures and carbon credit futures and its investments could react similarly to market developments. Thus, the Fund is subject to loss due to adverse occurrences that may affect these futures. KSET is non-diversified.
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Zelenskyy visit is a message to Putin that US will back Ukraine for ‘as long as it takes’: White House
White House says the visit shows America's 'staying power'
The White House this week said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s surprise visit to the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday should be seen by Russia as a sign that America will continue to devote political and financial support to Ukraine for the long haul.
"This is about sending a message to Putin and sending a message to the world that America will be there for Ukraine for as long as it takes," a senior administration official said late Tuesday.
"President Putin badly miscalculated the beginning of this conflict when he presumed that the Ukrainian people would yield and that NATO would be disunited," the official said. "He was wrong on both those counts; he remains wrong about our staying power."
ZELENSKYY TO ADDRESS CONGRESS WEDNESDAY AS LAWMAKERS DEBATE $45B IN UKRAINE AID
The official added that Zelenskyy’s visit might even inject "momentum" into U.S. support.
"For President Zelenskyy to be able to come to the United States to thank the American people for the incredible support that they’ve received — and to thank both parties, to thank the bipartisan support that he’s received – would be an important injection of momentum and sustenance to American and Allied support for the months ahead and for as long as it takes," the official said.
Zelenskyy arrives in Washington for a meeting with President Biden, a joint press conference at the White House and an address to a joint meeting of Congress 10 months after Russia’s invasion. He arrives just as lawmakers are trying to pass a $1.7 trillion spending bill that includes another $45 billion in Ukraine military and humanitarian aid, which would bring total U.S. spending on Ukraine to $110 billion if passed.
Republicans, who are set to take control of the House next year, have indicated that they intend to support Ukraine but have also indicated the path to funding will not be as smooth as it has been so far. Some have supported an audit of U.S. spending on Ukraine, and others are upset that so much funding is going out the door for Ukraine while other domestic priorities are ignored.
"I think the American people and the taxpayers of this country deserve to know why the Biden administration and this Congress is so interested in funding the protection of Ukraine’s border, and not the protection of our border," Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, R-Ga., said last month.
The White House dismissed the idea this week that a GOP-led House would change the fundamentals of U.S. support for Ukraine.
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"We have been confident all along that despite some rumors and suggestions to the contrary, support for Ukraine would remain broad, deep, and bipartisan," the White House official said.
In addition to the prospect of a new round of financial support from Congress, the White House Wednesday is expected to formally announce a new security assistance package for Ukraine worth nearly $2 billion, which will include a Patriot missile battery.
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Biden and Zelenskyy will also review U.S. sanctions against Russia and examine new ways to choke off Russian funding for its war effort. The U.S. and members of the G7 have already agreed not to finance the transport of Russian oil unless that oil is priced at $60 a barrel, as a way to limit Russia’s ability to generate funding through energy exports. | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/zelenskyy-visit-is-a-message-to-putin-that-us-will-back-ukraine-for-as-long-as-it-takes-white-house | 2022-12-21 16:09:36 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/zelenskyy-visit-is-a-message-to-putin-that-us-will-back-ukraine-for-as-long-as-it-takes-white-house |
When a baby giraffe was born with an unusual joint problem in February, caretakers at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park got worried. And then they got creative.
The keepers were concerned that baby Msituni wouldn’t be able to feed or move properly. Joints in her front legs were hyperextended and bent the wrong way, putting stress on her hind legs and her entire skeletal structure.
In a flash, they reached out to folks at the Hanger Clinic, a national company that provides prosthetics and orthotics — to humans.
“It was pretty surreal when I first heard about it,” Ara Mirzaian, a Hanger employee who took the case, told the Associated Press. “Of course, all I did was go online and study giraffes for like 24/7 until we got out [to the zoo].”
Animals using prosthetics is not new, but a newborn baby giraffe presents a unique challenge. In addition to her joint issues, Msituni needed IV antibiotics for irregularities in her blood, and hoof extenders on her back legs to help compensate for the troubles in her front legs, according to a San Diego Zoo Safari Park press release.
So while Msituni’s crew at the zoo kept her stable, Mirzaian got to work. He teamed up with a company that makes braces for horses, using molds of the baby giraffe’s legs. The braces were completed in little more than a week, complete with giraffe spots!
”We put on the giraffe pattern just to make it fun,” Mirzaian said. “We do this with kids all the time.”
After spending her first weeks in the hospital, Msituni finally joined the zoo’s giraffe family under the care of Yamikani, an adult female with a baby born just days after Msituni. (Sadly, Msituni’s mom did not take her back after the calf’s extended hospital stay.)
The braces are now off Msituni’s healed legs and she’s free to frolic in the zoo’s savannah habitat. The zoo posted a sweet video of Msituni recently to celebrate her journey:
Meet Msituni. The now 3-month-old giraffe calf was born with unstable wrist joints, causing her front legs to bend improperly. Wildlife care specialists needed to intervene quickly to save her life and partnered with orthotists at the @HangerNews to design custom leg braces. pic.twitter.com/Mgd2szt05K
— San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance (@sandiegozoo) May 14, 2022
Go, Msituni, go!
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Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily freezes order meant to end Title 42 Wednesday
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday put a temporary hold on the termination of a controversial Trump-era immigration policy known as Title 42 that was set to end on Dec. 21, leaving it in place for now.
But in a brief order, Roberts signaled that the court wants to act quickly and asked the Biden administration to respond by 5 p.m. ET Tuesday to an emergency appeal filed by a group of Republican-led states.
The brief order from Roberts means the policy that allows officials to swiftly expel migrants at the U.S. border will stay in effect at least until the justices decide on the emergency application. The order does not necessarily reflect the final outcome of the case.
The states had raced to the Supreme Court earlier in the day in an emergency bid to keep in place a Trump-era immigration policy that is set to go off the books Wednesday.
A federal district court judge had vacated the policy last month, calling Title 42 "arbitrary and capricious." The judge said the program could remain in effect until Dec. 21.
Already, federal officials and border communities are bracing themselves for an expected increase in migrant arrivals as early as this week, as the issue of immigration continues to ignite both sides of the political divide. The Department of Homeland Security is putting in place a plan for the end of the program that includes surging resources to the border, targeting smugglers and working with international partners.
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich — who is taking the lead for the states — said in a statement that "getting rid of Title 42 will recklessly and needlessly endanger more Americans and migrants by exacerbating the catastrophe that is occurring at our southern border," adding: "Unlawful crossings are estimated to surge from 7,000 per day to as many as 18,000."
Brnovich told the justices in court papers that they should put the lower court ruling on hold. As an alternative, he said that the justices should grant an "immediate" temporary injunction to maintain the status quo and also consider whether to skip over the appeals court and agree to hear arguments on the merits of the issue themselves.
"Failure to grant a stay here will inflict massive irreparable harms on the States, particularly as the States bear many of the consequences of unlawful immigration," Brnovich argued.
Late Friday night, the DC Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled against the states, holding that they waited an "inordinate" amount of time before trying to get involved in the case. That order triggered the emergency application at the high court. It is addressed to Chief Justice John Roberts, who oversees the DC-based appellate appeals court that ruled in the case.
Roberts is likely to refer the matter to the full court.
"This is a longstanding problem, more people are fleeing persecution, gang violence, failed states and climate change than ever before," said Stephen Yale-Loehr of Cornell Law School, who has been critical of the policy. "Even without Title 42, we would have more people than ever before trying to enter the United States," he added.
"Title 42 is not an effective way to manage our borders, instead, we need to both enact immigration reform in the United States and work with other countries so that people don't feel so desperate to leave in the first place," Yale-Loehr said.
In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a public health order that officials said aimed to stop the spread of COVID-19. The border restrictions were controversial from the moment the Trump administration announced them.
In the case at hand, six families that unlawfully crossed the U.S.-Mexican border and were subject to the Title 42 process brought the original challenge.
In court papers, their lawyers at the American Civil Liberties Union argue that Covid-19 was always a thinly veiled pretense to increase immigration control. "There is no legal basis to use a purported public health measure to displace the immigration laws long after any public health justification has lapsed," said Lee Gelernt, an ACLU lawyer representing the migrant families in the suit.
The Biden administration objects to the states' attempt to intervene in the ongoing dispute and has said it is prepared to allow the program to end, but stresses it is still appealing the district court opinion to preserve the authority of the government to impose public health orders in the future.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said earlier Monday that the administration would have more details Tuesday on its plans ahead of the rule's planned expiration and reiterated the U.S. would continue to enforce its immigration laws amid the current influx. | https://www.wesh.com/article/chief-justice-john-roberts-temporarily-freezes-order-meant-to-end-title-42/42287147 | 2022-12-19 23:08:53 | 0 | https://www.wesh.com/article/chief-justice-john-roberts-temporarily-freezes-order-meant-to-end-title-42/42287147 |
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