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LONDON (AP) — The Prince of Wales has edited an edition of British African-Caribbean newspaper “The Voice” to mark its 40-year anniversary.
Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, said he “was so touched” to be asked to edit the edition, which will feature interviews with movie star Idris Elba and Baroness Doreen Lawrence, the campaigning mother of Stephen Lawrence, who was murdered in a racist attack in 1993.
Elba, the Black British actor who starred in “The Wire” and several Marvel movies, tells the weekly newspaper, due to be published on Sept. 1, that a grant from Charles’ youth charity, The Prince’s Trust, at age 16 “opened doors that changed my life.”
Baroness Lawrence will describe a new partnership between the Stephen Lawrence Day Foundation and The Prince’s Foundation, another charity, to provide applied arts scholarships for young people from diverse backgrounds affected by social and economic inequality.
Speaking about the publication, Charles said: “Over the last four decades, with all the enormous changes that they have witnessed, Britain’s only surviving black newspaper has become an institution and a crucial part of the fabric of our society.
“This is why I was so touched to be invited to edit this special edition.”
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LOS GATOS, Calif., June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- RiverMeadow Software Inc., a leading provider of workload mobility solutions, has today introduced comprehensive solutions that address the challenges customers face migrating and protecting their data on Google Cloud. The integrated solution offers enhanced flexibility, performance, and a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) through NetApp Cloud Volume Service (CVS).
The collaboration between RiverMeadow and NetApp, a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company, aims to simplify and optimize the following use cases for Google Cloud customers:
1. Migrating to Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE):
Customers looking to utilize GCVE often over-purchase Nodes (hyper-converged infrastructure including a specific amount of usable storage) due to the fixed capacity of compute and storage resources. NetApp CVS enables independent scaling of GCVE nodes and CVS storage, resulting in a lower TCO and the advantages of consolidated storage. RiverMeadow and NetApp deliver a seamless, integrated method for migrating and modernizing workloads onto GCVE with CVS-enhanced data stores.
2. Migrating to Google Cloud Compute Engine (GCE):
Customers using Google Compute Engine instances often rely on the provided SCSI storage options in GCE, which lack the on-demand scalable performance and a unified management interface. NetApp CVS offers versatile storage solutions for cloud-native instances via SMB or NFS. RiverMeadow supports the migration of unstructured data from any source directly onto SMB Shares or NFS Mount Points using a user-friendly UI-based workflow, eliminating complexity.
3. Protecting workloads for DR on Google Cloud:
Google Cloud and NetApp CVS deliver a cost-effective and adaptable DR environment for both on-premises and cloud-based workloads. NetApp and RiverMeadow enable customers to choose between protecting workloads to a "Zero-compute" target or a "Pilot-light cluster" target based on their budget and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) requirements.
Jim Jordan, CEO of RiverMeadow, commented on the partnership, "RiverMeadow and NetApp worked closely to develop an end-to-end solution that allows customers to quickly and cost-effectively adopt both GCVE and CVS. Together, NetApp and RiverMeadow are committed to delivering innovative solutions that simplify cloud migration and provide robust DR options for businesses leveraging Google Cloud."
Ronen Schwartz, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Storage at NetApp, stated, "Our partnership with RiverMeadow represents a step forward in providing customers with streamlined migration, optimized storage, and cost-effective disaster recovery solutions. By combining the strengths of NetApp's Cloud Volume Service with RiverMeadow's workload mobility expertise, we're empowering businesses to fully harness the potential of Google Cloud while minimizing complexity and maximizing efficiency. We are proud to be part of this innovative collaboration, and we remain dedicated to driving the success of our customers in the ever-evolving cloud landscape."
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RiverMeadow is a leading provider of cloud migration and workload mobility solutions dedicated to helping organizations move their workloads to the cloud. RiverMeadow's Workload Mobility Platform and Services enable customers to migrate, modernize, optimize, and protect any source workload in private, hybrid, and public cloud environments. RiverMeadow has successfully facilitated cloud migration projects for cloud vendors and enterprises across industries and regions. To learn more, visit www.rivermeadow.com.
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BEIJING, Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Recon Technology, Ltd (NASDAQ: RCON) ("Recon" or the "Company"), a China-based independent solutions integrator in the oilfield service and environmental protection, electric power and coal chemical industries, today announced that Nanjing Recon Technology Co. ("Nanjing Recon") has been awarded a RMB6.73 million (approximately USD 0.94 million) two-year contract to provide automation control and instrumentation maintenance services for a gas generation plant operated by a top mainland China's oil and gas company.
Pursuant to the contract, Nanjing Recon, a variable interest entity of with contractual ties to a subsidiary of Recon Hengda Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., which is one of the Company's subsidiaries based in mainland China, will be responsible for the safety and orderly maintenance and oversight of the on-site machineries to ensure the timely completion of the China oil and gas company's production goals. The scope of Recon's tasks includes monitoring all instruments and meters, control valves, broadcasting, network communication, fiber optic communication and other daily maintenance of machineries and network systems at the production site located in China's Sichuan province. The contract involves both fixed maintenance fees and variable expenses on component replacement fees
Recon will also be in charge of repair works and provide emergency troubleshooting across platforms and channels to ensure smooth data transfer, power supply and stable remote connection on the production site.
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Mr. Shenping Yin, Founder and CEO of Recon commented: "Following previous RMB3.2 million (approximately USD0.45 million) contract obtained in October, we are delighted to announce another milestone achieved by our dedicated team to secure the recognition and service contract from one of China's leading oil and gas companies. With our ability to effectively meet the bulk orders, we have been able to cater to the precise needs of our valuable customers. Being a quality conscious company, we customize the plants according to the specifications provided by our customers to achieve high performance, low maintenance costs with a longer functional life.
About Recon Technology, Ltd ("RCON")
Recon Technology, Ltd (NASDAQ: RCON) is the People's Republic of China's first NASDAQ-listed non-state owned oil and gas field service company. Recon supplies China's largest oil exploration companies, Sinopec (NYSE: SNP) and The China National Petroleum Corporation ("CNPC"), with advanced automated technologies, efficient gathering and transportation equipment and reservoir stimulation measure for increasing petroleum extraction levels, reducing impurities and lowering production costs. Through the years, RCON has taken leading positions within several segmented markets of the oil and gas filed service industry. RCON also has developed stable long-term cooperation relationship with its major clients. For additional information please visit: http://www.recon.cn/.
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SHANGHAI, China — Protesters angered by strict anti-virus measures called for China’s powerful leader to resign, an unprecedented rebuke as authorities in at least eight cities struggled to suppress demonstrations Sunday that represent a rare direct challenge to the ruling Communist Party.
Police using pepper spray drove away demonstrators in Shanghai who called for Xi Jinping to step down and an end to one-party rule, but hours later people rallied again in the same spot. Police again broke up the demonstration, and a reporter saw protesters under arrest being driven away in a bus.
The protests — which began Friday and have spread to cities including the capital, Beijing, and dozens of university campuses — are the most widespread show of opposition to the ruling party in decades.
In a video of the protest in Shanghai verified by The Associated Press, chants sounded loud and clear: “Xi Jinping! Step down! CCP! Step down!”
Xi, the most powerful leader since at least the 1980s, awarded himself a third five-year term in October as leader of the ruling party. Some expect him to try to stay in power for life.
Three years after the virus emerged, China is the only major country still trying to stop transmission of COVID-19. Its “zero COVID” strategy has suspended access to neighborhoods for weeks at a time. Some cities carry out daily virus tests on millions of residents.
That has kept China's infection numbers lower than those the United States and other major countries, but public acceptance has worn thin. People who are quarantined at home in some areas say they lack food and medicine. The ruling party faced public anger following the deaths of two children whose parents said anti-virus controls hampered efforts to get medical help.
Protests erupted after a fire broke out Thursday and killed at least 10 people in an apartment building in the city of Urumqi in the northwest, where some have been locked in their homes for four months. That prompted an outpouring of angry questions online about whether firefighters or people trying to escape were blocked by locked doors or other anti-virus restrictions.
About 300 demonstrators gathered late Saturday in Shanghai, most of whose 25 million people were confined to their homes for almost two months starting in late March.
On a street named for Urumqi, one group of protesters brought candles, flowers and signs honoring those who died in the blaze. Another, according to a protester who insisted on anonymity, was more active, shouting slogans and singing the national anthem.
The protester and another, who gave only his family name, Zhao, confirmed the chants against Xi. Like others who spoke to the AP about the protests, they didn't want to be identified due to fear of arrest or retaliation.
The atmosphere of the protest encouraged people to speak about topics considered taboo, including the 1989 crackdown on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, the unnamed protester said.
Some called for an official apology for the deaths in the fire in Urumqi in the Xinjiang region. One member of Xinjiang's Uyghur ethnic group, which has been the target of a security crackdown that includes mass detentions, shared his experiences of discrimination and police violence.
“Everyone thinks that Chinese people are afraid to come out and protest, that they don’t have any courage,” said the protester, who said it was his first time demonstrating. “Actually in my heart, I also thought this way. But then when I went there, I found that the environment was such that everyone was very brave.”
The scene turned violent early Sunday. Hundreds of police broke up the more active group before they came for the second as they tried to move people off the main street. The protester said that he saw people being taken away, forced by police into vans, but could not identify them.
Zhao said one of his friends was beaten by police and two were pepper-sprayed. He lost his shoes and left barefoot.
He said protesters yelled slogans, including one that has become a rallying cry: “(We) do not want PCR (tests), but want freedom.”
On Sunday afternoon, crowds returned to the same spot and again railed against PCR tests. People stood and filmed as police shoved people.
Officers in surgical masks and yellow safety vests told the crowd of about 300 spectators to leave but appeared to be trying to avoid a confrontation. There was no sign of shields or other riot gear.
In Beijing, a group of about 200 people gathered in a park on the capital’s east side and held up blank sheets of paper, a symbol of defiance against the ruling party’s pervasive censorship.
“The lockdown policy is so strict,” said a protestor, who would give only his surname, Li. “You cannot compare it to any other country. We have to find a way out.”
Postings on social media said there were also demonstrations at 50 universities.
About 2,000 students at Xi’s alma mater, Tsinghua University in Beijing, gathered to demand an easing of anti-virus controls, according to social media posts. Students shouted “freedom of speech!” and sang the Internationale, the socialist anthem.
The protesters left after the university’s deputy Communist Party secretary promised to hold a school-wide discussion.
Videos on social media that said they were filmed in Nanjing in the east, Guangzhou in the south and at least six other cities showed protesters tussling with police in white protective suits or dismantling barricades used to seal off neighborhoods. The Associated Press could not verify that all those protests took place or where.
The human rights group Amnesty International appealed to Beijing to allow peaceful protest.
“The tragedy of the Urumqi fire has inspired remarkable bravery across China,” the group’s regional director, Hanna Young, said in a statement. “These unprecedented protests show that people are at the end of their tolerance for excessive COVID-19 restrictions.”
Urumqi and a smaller city in Xinjiang, Korla, eased some anti-virus controls in what appeared to be an attempt to mollify the public following Friday's protests.
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Father dies in assault over middle school fight, family says
BROOKLYN PARK, Md. (WBAL) - A Maryland father was beaten to death outside his home while protecting his children from a fight that started at his son’s middle school, his family says.
Christopher Wright, 43, was killed when a fight that started at Brooklyn Park Middle School was brought to his doorstep, according to his fiancée, Tracy Karopchinsky. She says her 14-year-old son got into a fight with another teenager at school Friday afternoon.
Later that day, she says three teenagers and two adults showed up at her house looking to fight her son. She says Wright went outside and told the group that the 14-year-old would not be coming out to fight.
“Then, they said that if he’s not going to fight, then you’re going to fight us,” Karopchinsky said.
Wright was badly beaten by the group, his fiancée says. He was taken to a trauma center, where he was pronounced dead Saturday from a traumatic brain injury.
“Just looking at the damage that was done to him, that wasn’t just punching that did that... I mean, the damage was done before the ambulance ever took him away. He had had a seizure. It was done. There was nothing that the hospital could do,” Karopchinsky said.
The incident was caught on the victim and a neighbor’s security cameras.
“My dad and I tried to go on to the camera to look, and the first video that comes up is my 12-year-old son screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy, Daddy’ and running out of the house to go into the street and help his dad. I couldn’t watch anymore after that. I just couldn’t,” Karopchinksy said.
School officials confirmed the fight between the teens and say they worked to address the issue. Now, they’re working with police on the investigation.
Police say charges could be filed against the individuals involved.
“Anybody who assisted or abetted or was an accomplice of the main suspect or the primary suspect in this incident would be culpable,” said Marc Limansky, spokesman for Anne Arundel County Police.
Karopchinsky is now warning parents that violence among teens has gone too far and that parents need to step up.
“They didn’t just ruin our lives. Their lives are gonna be changed forever. Their parents’ lives are gonna be changed forever, and nobody thinks about that just from a fight. It’s everywhere, and somewhere, we as parents, are failing these children... It’s not the school’s responsibility. It’s our responsibility,” she said.
She adds that Wright was a devoted father who loved the stars and gardening. The family is planning to hold a candlelight vigil in his memory.
Police are asking anyone with information on the case to contact them.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Supreme Court publicly reprimanded the judge who oversaw the penalty trial of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz on Monday for showing bias toward the prosecution.
The unanimous decision followed a June recommendation from the Judicial Qualifications Commission. That panel had found that Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer violated several rules governing judicial conduct during last year’s trial in her actions toward Cruz’s public defenders. The six-month trial ended with Cruz receiving a receiving a life sentence for the 2018 murder of 14 students and three staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after the jury could not unanimously agree that he deserved a death sentence.
The 15-member commission found that Scherer “unduly chastised” lead public defender Melisa McNeill and her team, wrongly accused one Cruz attorney of threatening her child, and improperly embraced members of the prosecution in the courtroom after the trial’s conclusion.
The commission, composed of judges, lawyers and citizens, acknowledged that “the worldwide publicity surrounding the case created stress and tension for all participants.”
Regardless, the commission said, judges are expected to “ensure due process, order and decorum, and act always with dignity and respect to promote the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary.”
Scherer retired from the bench at the end of last month. The 46-year-old former prosecutor was appointed to the bench in 2012, and the Cruz case was her first capital murder trial. Broward County’s computerized system randomly assigned her Cruz’s case shortly after the shooting.
Scherer’s handling of the case drew frequent praise from the parents and spouses of the victims, who said she treated them with professionalism and kindness. But her clashes with Cruz’s attorneys and others sometimes drew criticism from legal observers.
After sentencing Cruz, 24, to life without parole as required, Scherer left the bench and hugged members of the prosecution and the victims’ families. She told the commission she offered to also hug the defense team.
That action led the Supreme Court in April to remove her from overseeing post-conviction motions of another defendant, Randy Tundidor, who was sentenced to death for murder in the 2019 killing of his landlord. One of the prosecutors in that case had also been on the Cruz team, and during a hearing in the Tundidor case a few days after the Cruz sentencing, Scherer asked the prosecutor how he was holding up.
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Who counts as Black?
The thorny question has quietly found its way before the U.S. Supreme Court again, ensnared in a major legal battle over the Voting Rights Act that could further gut the landmark law and make it harder to protect the political power of voters of color.
The battle is playing out over new maps of congressional voting districts created by Republican-led legislatures in Alabama and Louisiana after the 2020 census. The fate of the maps rests on how the Supreme Court rules first in the case out of Alabama — Merrill v. Milligan — which the high court heard this month and may set a precedent for lawsuits about Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
In both cases out of the Deep South states, lower courts have separately found that the maps were drawn in a way that likely dilutes Black voters' strength at the polls. That would violate the Voting Rights Act by giving a minority group, as spelled out in Section 2, "less opportunity than other members of the electorate to participate in the political process and to elect representatives of their choice."
GOP state officials have pushed back against the analyses that led to those findings, partly by questioning a definition of Blackness that, for close to two decades, has been the standard in cases focused on the voting power of Black people and no other racial or ethnic group whom the federal government classifies as a protected minority population.
Voting rights cases focused on Black voters have used a broad definition of "Black"
Since a 2003 ruling by the Supreme Court, that definition of "Black" has included every person who identifies as Black on census forms — including people who check off the boxes for Black and any other racial or ethnic category such as white, Asian and Hispanic or Latino, which the federal government considers to be an ethnicity that can be of any race.
Republican state officials, however, have called for narrower definitions of Blackness that do not include people who also identify with another minority group.
Citing no evidence, GOP officials in Alabama argued in lower court filings that limiting the definition to people who mark just the "Black" box and do not identify as Latino for the census would be "most defensible."
And in the Louisiana case — Ardoin v. Robinson — officials have been arguing for the definition to only include people who check off either just the "Black" box or both "Black" and "White" and do not identify as Latino.
Before appealing their redistricting case to the Supreme Court, Alabama officials dropped their push to redefine Blackness.
But the state of Louisiana and its Republican secretary of state, Kyle Ardoin, have asked the country's highest court to weigh in with a final word on which definition should be used in Section 2 cases.
Lower courts have already found that even when using more limited definitions of "Black" as proposed by the Republican officials, the premise of the courts' analyses of the voting maps does not change.
Still, in one filing to the high court, Louisiana officials say using the more expansive definition of Blackness, which includes all people who identify themselves as Black, to analyze the state's new map of congressional districts is an "independent legal error warranting this Court's intervention."
A narrower definition of "Black" could end up allowing other redistricting plans to minimize Black voting strength.
How the Supreme Court decides the case over Alabama's congressional map, however, could have broader implications on the political power of all voters of color. Many voting rights advocates are watching to see if enough of the court's conservative majority adopts one of Alabama's more extreme arguments — that race cannot be taken into account when drawing voting districts unless there's evidence of intentional racial discrimination.
A ruling along those lines could make it virtually impossible to use Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to challenge voting maps in the future, turning how "Black" is defined in redistricting into a less urgent question.
Still, the challenges Republican state officials have already made on who counts as Black have raised uneasy questions about the complicated history of defining Blackness and the future of Black voting power in a country where growing numbers of people identify with more than one race.
A footnote set a new definition of Blackness for redistricting after the 2000 census
There was no substantial debate about how to define Blackness for redistricting after the Supreme Court's 1986 ruling in Thornburg v. Gingles, a North Carolina redistricting case that established a way of using census data to test whether the racial or ethnic makeup of an election district, among other factors, resulted in the dilution of a minority group's voting power.
In the 1980 and 1990 census data, there was only one way people could identify their race as Black on census forms — filling in the circle for "Black" and nothing else.
But the turn of the century came with a major change in the 2000 data released by the Census Bureau.
"2000 was really a watershed moment for the U.S. census because it was the first time in American history that all Americans got the opportunity to identify themselves with more than one race," explains Ann Morning, a professor of sociology at New York University who studies racial classification and has served as an outside adviser to the bureau.
That shift brought a new layer of complication for enforcing voting and other civil rights laws. After decades of federal agencies relying on census data sorted into single-race categories, the White House's Office of Management and Budget put out new guidance on how to sort data released in 2001 about people who identified themselves as multiracial.
Based on that guidance, census responses from people who marked both the "Black" and "White" boxes should be counted with the Black population. And when focused on discrimination specifically against Black people, responses marking boxes for two or more minority races including "Black" should also be counted as Black.
That approach was echoed in a footnote of the 2003 Supreme Court ruling in a redistricting case known as Georgia v. Ashcroft, which set the current standard for who counts as Black when calculating what is called in Voting Rights Act cases an election district's "Black voting age population."
For the high court's majority opinion, former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that limiting the definition of "Black" to non-Hispanic people who identify themselves as Black and those who identify as both Black and white — as the Justice Department under former President George W. Bush's administration had advocated for in this case — "may have more relevance if the case involves a comparison of different minority groups."
But noting that the Georgia case was examining "only one minority group's effective exercise of the electoral franchise," O'Connor concluded: "In such circumstances, we believe it is proper to look at all individuals who identify themselves as black."
Republican state officials are litigating what was thought to be a settled issue
For many redistricting experts, who counts as Black in voting maps has not been up for debate since the Supreme Court's ruling in the Georgia case.
"It was thought to be settled," says Morgan Kousser, a professor emeritus of history and social science at the California Institute of Technology who wrote Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction and joined a friend-of-the-court brief with other historians supporting the groups challenging Alabama's map.
In Louisiana, however, Republican state officials claim that the ruling in Georgia v. Ashcroft — a case about Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act — should not be applied to their Section 2 case, noting in a court filing that "no court has ever conclusively settled the question of what degree persons who self-identify with more than one racial or ethnic identity should be categorized for the purposes of the Voting Rights Act."
They also argue that a more limited definition of "Black" would "prevent state actors from artificially inflating the minority counts of their redistricting plans."
That argument, though, carried no weight with the lower court judges who have heard Louisiana's case. In a trial court ruling, U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick pointed out that, when reviewing another lower court's ruling for the Alabama case that also used the more expansive definition of "Black," Chief Justice John Roberts concluded that there were "no apparent errors" for the Supreme Court to correct based on the court's past decisions.
Kareem Crayton — a former law professor and redistricting consultant who advised Alabama's Democratic state House minority leader during the drawing of the state's new congressional map — says he did not expect Alabama GOP lawmakers to challenge the definition of Blackness in court given that they've publicly emphasized they drew congressional districts "race-blind."
"It was a mild surprise that a group that had in many places tried their best not to talk about race, at least in the formal proceedings, all of a sudden took a very, let's just say, staunch and, I'd say, retrograde understanding of race and decided to say that in court," Crayton adds. "It also made me wonder how much the Republican lawmakers were willing to just take their chances in court. That is, maybe this legislature looked at the U.S. Supreme Court and said, 'You know, we're going to try our hand at revisiting what most people thought about both racial definitions and, frankly, the state of the law on race and how race is used.' "
Adopting a more limited definition of Blackness for redistricting would cut against the Voting Rights Act's goal of allowing racial and ethnic minority groups to "determine for themselves who they wish to vote for and how they wish to participate in the political process," says Atiba Ellis, a professor at Marquette University Law School whose research focuses on voting rights law.
"Drawing lines around identity based on what might come off as an arbitrary distinction on a census form would undercut that opportunity for self-determination," Ellis adds. "And certainly in other contexts throughout American history, having the majority dictate to a racial minority who belongs in that racial minority has been seen as discriminatory."
Who is considered Black in Louisiana has shifted
The push by Louisiana GOP officials for a narrower definition of Blackness in redistricting has resurfaced the state's history with the "one-drop rule," which governments around the U.S. once used to define a Black person as anyone with ancestors who were considered Black.
"It would be paradoxical, to say the least, to turn a blind eye to Louisiana's long and well-documented expansive view of 'Blackness' in favor of a definition on the opposite end of the spectrum," Dick, the trial court judge who heard the Louisiana case, wrote in a ruling that rejected the proposal for a narrower definition of "Black."
In fact, state lawmakers passed Act 46 of 1970, which, until its repeal in 1983, codified that "a person having one-thirty second or less of Negro blood shall not be deemed, described or designated by any public official in the state of Louisiana as 'colored,' a 'mulatto,' a 'black,' a 'negro,' a 'griffe,' an 'Afro-American,' a 'quardroon,' a 'mestizo,' a 'colored person' or a 'person of color.' "
That formula was put into place after decades of Louisiana state courts using a "traceable amount" test to determine whether a person was Black under law.
Wendy Gaudin, a historian at Xavier University of Louisiana whose research focuses on race and racial mixture in the Americas, says there was a "very specific purpose for using this blood math" — to define "racially ambiguous" people as Black and ultimately preserve white wealth and white political power when anti-miscegenation and other racial segregation laws helped enforce a color line.
Gaudin says it's important to keep in mind that definitions of Blackness have shifted over time in Louisiana, where its Indigenous history, its pasts as a French and Spanish colony and ties to the circum-Caribbean region have often defied the kind of Black-white binary that has been more pervasive in other parts of the United States.
"Blackness as an idea, as a concept, came out of a very specific history of exploitation. Over time, historians have shown us that it changes into a source of strength, a source of resistance, a source of connection," Gaudin adds.
The way Gaudin sees it, though, this current legal fight over who counts as Black in redistricting "has nothing to do with people's identity."
"It has to do with power and how different populations — whether it's their inclusion or their exclusion or their carefully curated inclusion — how all of that works to promote the political power of a person or a party," Gaudin says.
Ellis, the Marquette University Law School professor, warns that justices on the Supreme Court who may be inclined to dismantle Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act might see the highlighting of alternative definitions of "Black" for redistricting as a "kind of manipulation of race that would reinforce their view that the Voting Rights Act ought to be held unconstitutional."
"That could be the worst case of the outcomes here," Ellis says.
Whatever the court decides, efforts to redefine what "Black" or any other race means in politics are not likely to go away.
"This is a set of games that Americans have been engaged in and practiced throughout our history," says Kousser, the Caltech professor emeritus of history and social science. "This is just the most recent iteration of things."
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Report: State trooper refuses to give blood sample in DWI arrest
Lake Charles, LA (KPLC) - A Louisiana State Trooper arrested for a DWI in Atlanta declined to provide a blood sample, according to the incident report.
Aubin Young, 34, of Lake Charles, was placed on leave last week following his arrest, according to Troop D officials.
The Atlanta Police Department provided the incident report at the request of KPLC’s Investigative Team.
An Atlanta police officer saw Young driving the wrong way on a one-way street around 2 a.m. on Thursday, June 23, according to the report. Young was pulled over on another street before continuing on for a short distance, then pulled over again, the report says.
The officer said he smelled alcohol on Young’s breath, according to the report. When he asked Young for his license, Young looked all over the inside of his vehicle despite it sitting right next to him in the driver’s door handle, the report reads.
Young told officers that he was a Louisiana State Trooper and that he was a military officer.
A second officer put Young through field sobriety tests then asked him to provide a preliminary breath test.
Young agreed, but “once the device was set up and ready Mr. Young attempted multiple times to provide a sample but either did not blow any air out, sucked in, or provided an insufficient sample,” the report reads.
Young was then arrested for a DUI, read his rights “and refused to provide a sample of his breath or his blood,” the report reads.
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House GOP demands info from former prosecutors in Trump case
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Wednesday demanded testimony and documents from two former Manhattan prosecutors who had been leading a criminal investigation into Donald Trump before quitting last year in a clash over the direction of the probe.
Rep. Jim Jordan, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, sent letters to Mark Pomerantz and Carey Dunne as the party rallies around the former president. They request transcribed interviews and a series of communications by March 27. A grand jury in New York is weighing whether or not to bring an indictment against Trump.
The letters, obtained by The Associated Press, are part of a larger GOP-led congressional investigation into Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg as he is wrapping up a probe into whether Trump engaged in an illegal hush money scheme involving a porn actor. Jordan and other senior Republicans have called the Bragg’s investigation a “political persecution,” and one that is without merit.
“Last year, you resigned from the office over Bragg’s initial reluctance to move forward with charges, shaming Bragg in your resignation letter — which was subsequently leaked — into bringing charges,” Jordan, an Ohio Republican, wrote in the letter to Pomerantz late Wednesday. “It now appears that your efforts to shame Bragg have worked as he is reportedly resurrecting a so-called ‘zombie’ case against President Trump using a tenuous and untested legal theory.”
Requests for comment from Pomerantz and Dunne were not immediately returned Wednesday night.
The outreach to Pomerantz and Dunne comes days after Jordan and two other Republican chairmen sent a letter to Bragg, a Democrat, seeking information about his actions in the Trump case, which they characterized as an “unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority.” They requested testimony as well as documents and copies of any communications with the Justice Department.
“No authorities wanted to take the case but then what changed? President Trump announces he’s running for president and shazam,” Jordan told reporters Monday.
By effectively demanding transparency in the middle of a criminal investigation, House Republicans are using the power of their new majority to defend Trump — who is still seen as the leader of the party — as he mounts a second run for president.
The Manhattan grand jury appears close to finishing its work, after hearing last week from Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, but the timing of a possible decision on whether to charge the ex-president remains uncertain. Prosecutors canceled a scheduled grand jury session Wednesday and it wasn’t clear if the panel would meet Thursday.
Pomerantz and Dunne were top deputies tasked with running the investigation on a day-to-day basis. Both started on the probe under former District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., and Bragg asked them to stay when he took office in January. Both Vance and Bragg are Democrats.
Pomerantz released a book last month titled “People vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account.” In the book, he detailed how Vance authorized him in December 2021 to seek Trump’s indictment. He has portrayed the hush-money payments — made or arranged by Cohen — as perhaps the most challenging, legally fraught of the potential cases against the former president.
Vance abandoned the hush-money angle in 2019, pivoting the investigation’s focus to other matters, but Pomerantz said he revisited it when he joined the office in January 2021, looking for a way to make more serious felony charges stick.
He considered whether Trump could be charged with money laundering and explored if porn actor Stormy Daniels had demanded payment to remain quiet, thereby extorting him. Pomerantz said the hush-money matter became known around the office as the “zombie” case.
Still, Pomerantz wrote, “Over the months that I and others worked on the case, we developed evidence convincing us that Donald Trump had committed serious crimes.”
Even if a conviction wasn’t a certainty, Pomerantz said he thought they owed it the public to bring the case to trial. “Losing it would be better than not even trying,” he wrote.
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Associated Press writer Michael R. Sisak in New York contributed to this report.
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South Carolina maintained its hold on top of The Associated Press women's basketball poll Monday, reaching a milestone in the process.
The Gamecocks have held the No. 1 spot for 27 consecutive weeks, which is the fifth longest run all-time. UConn has three of the top four streaks, including the record 51-week run from Feb. 18, 2008-Dec. 10, 2010. Louisiana Tech has the second longest streak of 36 weeks. The Huskies also had 34-and 30-week runs at No. 1.
South Carolina started last season at No. 1 and hasn't relinquished the ranking since, including a week a year ago when they lost a game, but remained the top team.
The Gamecocks have now passed Texas' 26-week run to move into fifth all-time. They've gone 17-0 against top 25 teams over the past two seasons, including a 3-0 mark this season.
The top five teams in the poll remained unchanged as Stanford, Ohio State, Indiana and Notre Dame stayed behind the Gamecocks, who garnered all 28 votes from a national media panel. South Carolina (12-0) hosts Texas A&M on Thursday.
While every team had a light week because of the holidays, conference play picks up now. The Buckeyes face rival No. 14 Michigan on Saturday after playing Northwestern on Wednesday. The Wolverines made the biggest jump, moving up five spots after beating then-No. 6 North Carolina in the Jumpman Invitational. The Tar Heels fell to 13th.
North Carolina State, Virginia Tech, UConn, LSU and UCLA round out the top 10.
LSU will face its first ranked opponent of the season when the Tigers visit No. 24 Arkansas on Thursday. The Razorbacks fell seven spots in the poll after losing to Oregon and South Florida last week. It was the first two losses of the season for Coach Mike Neighbors' team.
ELITE COMPANY
Iowa guard Caitlin Clark matched Elena Delle Donne as the fastest player to reach 2,000 points in her career, according to the school. Both players did it in their 75th game. Clark made the 242nd three-pointer of her career to get to the milestone. Kelsey Plum, a former Arkansas volunteer assistant coach, holds the NCAA record with 3,527 points in her career.
"Elena Delle Donne, she's a person I idolized growing up. I have her shoes in my locker, I wear them," Clark said after the game. "She actually just sent me a pair shoes that are dedicated to Lyme disease. Elena Delle Donne has battled Lyme disease in her career. She's an awesome human."
AILING AURIEMMA
UConn hopes to have Coach Geno Auriemma back when the eight-ranked Huskies visit No. 21 Creighton on Wednesday.
Auriemma missed the past two games, both UConn wins. The school said he began experiencing flu-like symptoms after shootaround on Dec. 18 before the Huskies faced Florida State. Auriemma's 91-year-old mother died on Dec. 8.
"There's been a lot going on in the last couple weeks, and I think it caught up to me physically," the 68-year-old Hall of Famer said in a statement. "I've been feeling under the weather for about 10 days now, and my doctor recommended I take a few days off to fully recover. CD [associate head coach Chris Dailey] and the coaching staff will continue to do a phenomenal job in my absence, and I look forward to returning to the team in a few days."
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WASHINGTON, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Learning Without Tears, a leading early childhood education company, is announcing new literacy initiatives at International Society for Technology in Education's ISTELive 22 conference and expo. Widely seen as the leading EdTech event for the Education industry, ISTELive 22 is taking place June 26-29 both virtually and in-person. After being shut down for years due to the pandemic, ISTELive 22 is generating a great deal of buzz and excitement in the education world.
"Our presence at ISTELive 22 is expanding as is our portfolio of powerful solutions," explained CEO Terry Nealon. "Learning Without Tears saw significant growth and interest during the pandemic, and our teams have responded to the growing and changing needs of the market with exciting new products and professional learning that are research based, outcomes driven and using all formats, technology, print, manipulatives and services to ensure teachers are best equipped to meet the needs of their students. We will be announcing and presenting new products, new partnerships, greatly enhanced product features, integrated print and digital curricula, and efficacy research that demonstrates the quantifiable effectiveness our products have on successful learning. There is no better place for us to make these exciting announcements than ISTELive 22."
Learning Without Tears will be launching and demonstrating for the first time Phonics, Reading, and MeÔ - a K-3 supplemental phonics program designed to help children learn the skills they need to become proficient readers. This breakthrough literacy program provides an integrated print/digital instruction model and combines the powerful use of technology, assessment and embedded professional learning for teachers. With a partnership with Dublin-based SoapBox Labs - which will also be announced at ISTE - Phonics, Reading, and Me will leverage speech recognition technology to provide first-of-its-kind digital assessments, making it easier for teachers to provide personalized learning paths and instruction for each student. It will be a first introduction for many to the new A-Z Mat Man and MeÒ program, the new assessment for Pre-K in Get Set for SchoolÒ and the new digital assessment teaching for Keyboarding Without TearsÒ. All these programs are supported by new Professional Learning and Development.
"This is a pivotal time in education," Nealon continued. "Students have fallen behind, foundational learning skills like reading have suffered, and teachers are exhausted. For 40 years, Learning Without Tears has leveraged its expertise in early childhood education to meet the needs of teachers and students, and we are continuing to do so today - putting equity and access at the center of our products, so all young students have the opportunity for successful learning and a bright future."
There will be a reception on Monday, June 27 6:30-8:30pm at the Kimpton Hotel Fontenot, where Learning Without Tears' leaders will share exciting information about upcoming news.
Company education experts will be presenting Modern Test Prep for a New Age of Online Assessments– a new approach to prepare students for online assessments on Wednesday, June 29, 9:30-11:00am in the La Nouvelle Ballroom, Table 19.
Learning Without Tears will be exhibiting in booth 2848 in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.
Learning Without Tears is a leading early education company offering a proven and unique approach to teaching and learning, from crucial readiness skills in Pre-K to foundational writing and typing skills, including handwriting, keyboarding and cursive. The elementary school-level programs benefit all learners with multisensory, developmentally appropriate, proven practices, and are used by millions of students around the world. Learning Without Tears professional development programs deliver early education expertise to thousands of teachers, tutors, and occupational therapists in the US and across the globe.
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UTHAI SAWAN – CNN pulled a story on the massacre of Thai preschoolers and apologized Sunday over criticism its journalists entered the day care where the children were slain and filmed the crime scene without permission.
The two CNN journalists involved were fined after authorities found that they had been working in the country after entering on tourist visas, but cleared of wrongdoing for entering the day care center where more than 20 children were killed, deputy national police chief Surachate Hakparn said.
He said his investigation had determined the journalists believed they had obtained permission to enter and film after being waved into the building by a volunteer or a health officer, and were unaware the person was not authorized to allow them inside.
They each agreed to pay fines of 5,000 baht ($133) and leave the country, he said.
Both journalists apologized, as did CNN International’s executive vice president and general manager Mike McCarthy.
In a statement, he said his reporters sought permission to enter the building but the team “now understands that these officials were not authorized to grant this permission,” adding that it was “never their intention to contravene any rules.”
“We deeply regret any distress or offense our report may have caused, and for any inconvenience to the police at such a distressing time for the country,” he said in the statement tweeted by CNN.
He said CNN had ceased broadcasting the report and had removed the video from its website.
Authorities began looking into the incident after a Thai reporter posted an image on social media of two members of the crew leaving the scene in northeastern Thailand, where they were reporting on the Thursday attack by a fired policeman who authorities say massacred 36 people, 24 of them children. One CNN crew member was seen climbing over the low wall and fence around the compound, over police tape, and the other already outside.
That prompted criticism from the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand, which said it was “dismayed” by CNN’s coverage and the decision to film the crime scene inside.
“This was unprofessional and a serious breach of journalistic ethics in crime reporting,” the FCCT said.
The Thai Journalists’ Association criticized CNN’s actions as “unethical” and “insensitive,” and called for an internal company investigation of the incident in addition to the official Thai probe.
In an initial response, CNN tweeted that the crew had entered the premises when the police cordon had been removed from the center, and were told by three public health officials exiting the building that they could film inside.
“The team gathered footage inside the center for around 15 minutes, then left,” CNN said in its tweet. “During this time, the cordon had been set back in place, so the team needed to climb over the fence at the center to leave.”
As Thailand's worst such massacre, the attack drew widespread international media attention to the small town of Uthai Sawan in the country's rural northeast. By Sunday, few remained but a large number of Thai media continued to report from the scene. | https://www.wsls.com/business/2022/10/09/thai-police-investigating-cnn-crews-coverage-of-attack/ | 2022-10-09 19:25:59 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/business/2022/10/09/thai-police-investigating-cnn-crews-coverage-of-attack/ |
Today on the Bijou Star files on 93.1 WZAK, June 1, 2023: Click to Listen Live and read more on these stories below.
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After Adidas secretly won a court order last year, that froze $75 million in Yeezy bank accounts held by Kanye West, a federal judge lifted the order; and now the German sportswear brand is dropping their case against the rapper and designer, with plans to privately settle their issues. Read More
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BOSTON (AP) — Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launched his longshot bid to challenge President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination next year.
Kennedy, a member of one of the country’s most famous political families who has in recent years been linked to some far-right figures, kicked off his campaign in Boston on Wednesday and likened his campaign to the American revolution.
“My mission over the next 18 months of this campaign and throughout my presidency will be to end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power that is threatening now to impose a new kind of corporate feudalism in our country,” Kennedy said.
Self-help author Marianne Williamson is also running for the Democratic nomination. Biden has said he’s planning on running again but has not formally announced a campaign. He’s expected to have a glide path to the nomination, with much of the Democratic establishment behind him.
Kennedy, a nephew of President John F. Kennedy and the son of his slain brother Robert F. Kennedy, repeatedly referenced both of them during his lengthy speech Wednesday.
Kennedy Jr. was once known most as an environmental lawyer who worked on issues such as clean water. But over the past nearly two decades, he’s become one of the leading voices of the anti-vaccine movement. His work has been described by members of his own family and public health experts as misleading and dangerous.
His efforts intensified after the pandemic and development of the COVID-19 vaccine, and an AP investigation in 2021 showed he had linked up with anti-democratic figures and other groups. He has appeared at events pushing the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen and with people who cheered or downplayed the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
A photo posted on Instagram showed Kennedy backstage at a July 2021 Reawaken America event with former President Donald Trump’s ally Roger Stone, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and anti-vaccine profiteer Charlene Bollinger. All three have promoted the lie about the 2020 election being stolen.
Kennedy has been a guest on Infowars, the channel run by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and on the “War Room” podcast hosted by longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon, where he promoted his bestselling 2021 book, “The Real Anthony Fauci,” in which he accused the U.S.’s top infectious disease doctor of participating in “a historic coup d’etat against Western democracy.”
The AP documented how Kennedy and his anti-vaccine group, Children’s Health Defense, had capitalized on the COVID-19 pandemic – raking in funding and followers in the U.S. and abroad, and doubling its revenue from 2019 to 2020. Researchers have found that the group is among the most influential spreaders of anti-vaccine misinformation, and the AP found traffic to its website had soared.
In the second year of the pandemic, Children’s Health Defense continued its huge growth, according to a more recent filing with charity regulators in California. Revenue more than doubled from $7 million in 2020 to $16 million in 2021.
Facebook and Instagram removed the accounts of Children’s Health Defense for spreading misinformation.
Kennedy has repeatedly invoked Nazis and the Holocaust when talking about measures aimed at mitigating the spread of COVID-19, such as mask requirements and vaccine mandates. He has apologized for some of those comments, including when he suggested that people in 2022 were worse off than Anne Frank, the teenager who died in a Nazi concentration camp after hiding with her family in a secret annex in an Amsterdam house for two years. | https://www.wric.com/news/politics/anti-vaccine-activist-rfk-jr-launches-presidential-campaign-2/ | 2023-04-20 16:56:02 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/politics/anti-vaccine-activist-rfk-jr-launches-presidential-campaign-2/ |
MIDLAND, Texas — The I-20 Wildlife Preserve will be holding its 'Playtime at the Playa' event on July 20.
The event will run from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and is for ages 2-7. This event is free for the community. There will be activities and opportunities for kids to engage in play, learning and discovery.
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Bases loaded, one out, full count and Justin Verlander knows exactly what pitch he wants to throw.
Starting this month, he can call it himself.
In yet another nod to new technology, Major League Baseball will permit pitchers in spring training to wear wristbands that will let them signal to the catcher what’s coming next.
The experiment that will begin Feb. 24 when exhibition play begins with Seattle-San Diego and Texas-Kansas City matchups in the Cactus League. All 30 teams are scheduled to be in action the next day.
It’s an extension of the PitchCom system that MLB teams were allowed to employ last season, when catchers could push buttons on their wristbands to call for fastballs, curves, changeups and anything else, along with the location. The pitcher would then hear the result on an earpiece inside his hat.
Now, pitchers can make the calls themselves.
MLB will evaluate how things go and then decide whether to approve it for the regular season, executive vice president Morgan Sword said Thursday.
Worries over clubs stealing catchers’ signals — either by alert opponents or illicit electronic schemes — prompted the rise of the PitchCom system. Some teams and pitcher/catcher batteries immediately embraced the new method; others were a bit more hesitant.
As the season went on, and boosted by tweaks to the tech aspects, more and more clubs became comfortable with putting it in play. Along with the pitcher, usually the shortstop and second baseman had earpieces so they knew what was coming.
Catchers often wore earpieces, too, so they could hear audio confirmation of what pitch they called.
Over the years, there have been plenty of baseball stories about pitchers calling their own games, working out a set of hidden signals with catchers.
In a few weeks, there will no need for secrecy — pitchers can make their calls out in the open, right on the mound.
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The SARS-CoV-2 virus caused panic and errors future generations must learn from. The telltale spike proteins exposed more than our weakened immune systems.
Civil liberties should never be allowed to take a backseat to public health ever again. There’s a compromise that was too easily surrendered at the peak of the pandemic. We’re not China, where a zero-spread mantra has led to people being imprisoned in their own homes.
Health officials here spent too much time on those who were already sick and not the asymptomatic. The masking advice was handled poorly; the vaccination mandates were too draconian; washing your groceries was the height of hysteria.
Now the DPH is facing a class-action lawsuit for allegedly using Google technology to covertly install tracking apps on over 1 million Android phones. The state made a big push to crowdsource the COVID infection warning system, but if these allegations prove true, it was a step in the wrong direction.
We had a choice to participate or not in that program and it should have ended there.
It’s clear we all need to evolve after this pandemic. When you’re feeling ill — from a cold or COVID — stay home. Don’t go near the elderly, the very young or those with compromised immune systems. At least be compassionate enough to warn others.
Congregate housing, we already knew from SARS, are Petri dishes. That’s where the focus should have been from the start. We let COVID get a foothold into the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home here and worse nationwide.
Flights from Wuhan, the epicenter of the pandemic, should have been banned immediately. The Chinese government remains hesitant to admit they botched the coronavirus spread and should come out with a forceful post-mortem.
The World Health Organization still looks toothless and too politically focused.
The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), a nonpartisan civil rights firm, is suing the DPH over what it alleges is a “brazen disregard for civil liberties” by installing “spyware that deliberately tracks and records movement and personal contacts onto over a million mobile devices without their owners’ permission and awareness.”
Spyware is nothing new, so why didn’t the DPH take steps to guard against such accusations? They won’t say as the lawsuit remains in play.
This we do know. The virus does not discriminate. It has no political agenda. It is designed to spread and kill.
That’s how we should approach this. COVID kills but we don’t need to trample on each other to solve the problem.
“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world, yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history, yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise,” Albert Camus wrote in “The Plague.”
He published it in 1947, and he sure had 2020 pegged.
“We tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn’t always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away,” he added.
It doesn’t have to be that way. Maybe next time it won’t.
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Sam Despotovich is here with a little friend. Anubis is a dark chocolate Labrador mix. He’s eight months old. Super active and love treats.
The ARL has a few upcoming events. Sunday July 30th at the Surety Hotel, the ARL is hosting Yappy Hour. Humans will be able to purchase drinks from Surety’s bar featuring a Tito’s cocktail – the Rhubarb Rover and proceeds from every purchase of this drink will go back to the pets in their care. There will be raffle prizes, Frost Paws 7 Bomb pops, and other ARL retail items. This event is free to attend, and all proceeds go back to the ARL.
Dogs Days of Summer is back Tuesday, August 1st at Principal Park. Bring your best fur-end to the Iowa Cubs Baseball game vs. the Toledo Mud Hens. Dogs attend free with a paid human admission. 100% of the proceeds from tickets sold through the ARL is donated back to the pets in their care.
Equine & Wine is happening Thursday, August 24th. Enjoy spending time with the beautiful horses at the ARL’s Kruidenier Second Chance Ranch while enjoying a glass or two of wine. This is a wine event like no other! Meet horses, barn cats and other barn pets in their care. Free event to attend, wine will be purchasable, and all proceeds support the homeless pets at the ARL. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/iowa-live/a-friendly-visit-with-the-arl/524-7a9d176e-41c3-4083-91ee-d7aa538d0ec3 | 2023-07-28 19:19:40 | 1 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/iowa-live/a-friendly-visit-with-the-arl/524-7a9d176e-41c3-4083-91ee-d7aa538d0ec3 |
Here's how much range electric vehicles lose in the cold
All electric vehicle driving ranges shrink in cold weather.
But some keep more of it than others.
Low temperatures increase the resistance inside batteries, which reduces their performance.
The effect varies widely from vehicle to vehicle and doesn't necessarily change in lockstep with falling temperatures, so it's tough to pin down.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 14, 2018: An electric BMW vehicle gets its batteries charged in the parking lot of a hotel in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images)
e it a shot by collecting data from EV owners and onboard vehicle systems to estimate how much range is lost between 70 degrees and freezing.
Of the 13 vehicles studied, the Jaguar I-Pace performed the best, losing just 3% of its 234-mile range in cold weather.
The Audi e-tron Premium Plus was second with an 8% drop, which is particularly good for its owners because the model looked at had a range of just 204 miles on a full charge. New models have longer ranges.
Both models benefited from using an efficient heat pump for their climate control systems, which redistributes heat being generated by the powertrain.
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At the low end was the Chevrolet Bolt with a 32% drop, which was slightly outdone by the Ford Mustang Mach-E Premium AWD with Extended Range battery and the VW ID.4, both at 30%.
The Tesla Model 3, Y, S and X all ranked mid-pack between 13% and 19%, some of the cars included also relying on the heat pump technology.
Recurrent lists several ways to improve an EV's cold-weather performance. Key among them is utilizing the preconditioning feature when available, which typically draws on the home power to keep the battery warm while it's still plugged in.
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Drivers are also advised to rely more on the heated seats and steering wheel than the cabin climate control.
Ford recently shared similar tips, adding a reminder to remove snow from the vehicle, which can create aerodynamic drag, and keeping the tires at the proper pressure. | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/heres-how-much-range-electric-vehicles-lose-in-the-cold | 2022-12-20 03:07:57 | 1 | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/heres-how-much-range-electric-vehicles-lose-in-the-cold |
With the exception of street festivals, no category of culture changes more in the summer than classical music, with an entirely different set of presenting organizations just for June through August. As the calendar flips, here's a brief summary of some summery classical choices.
The Big Ticket: Classical music loosens up for summer, plus lots of fests
• Ravinia. For full-orchestra stuff, check out the concert Magic Flutes Aug. 4 and 6 with Chicago-area natives Janai Brugger and Matthew Polenzani alongside reigning Queen of the Night Kathryn Lewek; and the alignment of threes Aug. 5 with Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3. For chamber, the Danish String Quartet pairs core rep with folk-tune confection on July 27, and violinist Tessa Lark plays all the Ysaÿe solo sonatas in alternation with her own compositions Sept. 3. June 6-Sept. 10.
• Grant Park Music Festival. Antonín Dvořák's choral-orchestral masterpiece Stabat Mater crosses the calendar June 16 and 17, and Wynton Marsalis's violin concerto headlines a concert that throws in some choral gems July 7 and 8. Millennium Park and other locations. June 14-Aug. 19.
• Rush Hour Concerts. The free, end-of-the-workday Tuesday summer fixture this year jams in three concerts featuring piano quintets, on June 6, Aug. 1 (Reena Esmail's Hindustani-influenced quintet on this program) and Aug. 15; and an energetic-sounding program for brass quintet and pipe organ on Aug. 8. St. James Cathedral. June 6-Aug. 22.
• Opera Festival of Chicago. The young summer-only opera presenter this year is all about that bass, with two big-name Italian bassos performing: Ferruccio Furlanetto and Andrea Silvestrelli. In addition to the operatic version of "Murder in the Cathedral" and Giuseppe Verdi's "Attila," a recital by Furlanetto shows all stripes of the bass. Various locations. July 6-23.
Rhinoceros Theater Festival
Beating the drums and sounding the horn, the Rhinoceros Theater Festival, Chicago's longest-running fringe theater festival, stampedes through June with a full lineup of more than 30 shows, back to its pre-COVID rhino size. In the weird-welcome way of fringe, Rhinofest tries to cram the schedule with as many shows as possible, attracting the dada devotees, habitués of outré and exponents of the eccentric. Some sample text from show descriptions, out of context: "a ship made of eyes," "dialogue spoken entirely in haiku," "we'll be an organism together." If the list of performances seems too daunting, consider the version of "12 Angry Men" performed by only four actors; "The Fever," a dramatic monologue written (but not performed) by Wallace "Inconceivable!" Shawn; and "Strangulation Day," a version of the Alfred Hitchcock film "Rope" that fulfills the vision of doing it in one long take.
Various locations. May 31-July 1.
The Memory Place
As if the schedule weren't fringe-loaded enough just from Rhinofest, Pivot Arts, a group that aims to leverage artistic community connections into unique multidisciplinary performances, has this year converted its annual festival into a single promenade show with the umbrella title "The Memory Place." As the audience shuttles from station to station, they see performances such as Davon Suttles's "Past the Heavens," which examines queer relationships and religion through gospel music and tap dance; and the drag performer Lucky Stiff's "Jesu Maria," a gender exploration named after a slogan from Joan of Arc's battle standard.
Pivot Arts at The Edge Theater. June 1-11.
North Shore Chamber Music Festival
Pianist Angela Yoffe and violinist Vadim Gluzman, power couple and international classical-music soloists (Gluzman plays Shostakovich this coming weekend with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, as a matter of fact), live on the North Shore. Every June, they invite talented musical friends to their home turf for a few concerts of chamber music, often venturing into seldom-visited rooms of the chamber repertoire. Unjustly neglected rarities this year include Ernest Chausson's Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet on the June 7 concert, as well as Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time—almost certainly the best piece ever premiered in a prisoner of war camp—on June 9.
Village Presbyterian Church. June 7-10.
Notable events in Chicago
• The often collaborative, always creative dance company The Seldoms presents the very colorful world premiere "Superbloom," accompanied by the rock band Finom. Harris Theater. 7:30 p.m., June 1.
• Maifest Lincoln Square rolls out the gemütlichkeit. Leland Avenue at Lincoln Avenue. June 1-4.
• Do Division Street Fest ups the hipness quotient with a music lineup, booked by Subterranean and The Empty Bottle, that doesn't book the street-fest standbys. Saturday's headliners on the two stages are Finnish soul singer Bobby Oroza and shoegaze band Cloakroom. Division Street between Leavitt Street and Damen Avenue. June 2-4.
• One day only, the Chicago Gospel Music Festival testifies to the joys of the free summer music season. Tye Tribbett headlines. Millennium Park. June 3.
• The long-running 57th Street Art Fair sprawls across its eponymous street in Hyde Park for the 76th year. June 3-4.
• Although this is the third time the Emerson String Quartet has appeared in a farewell performance in Chicago, they are always worth seeing, and this time pianist Emanuel Ax joins for a Dvořák quintet. Plus, I think they really mean it this time on the farewell thing. Symphony Center. 3 p.m., June 4.
• The Kontras Quartet plays string quartets by American composers such as Walter Piston and Amy Beach in a new installment from the locally headquartered American Music Project. Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University. 7 p.m., June 7.
Opening in Chicago
• The fourth-wall breaking musical "Pippin" does its magic again. Music Theater Works at The North Shore Center for the Performing Arts. June 1-25.
• The bio-musical jukebox show "Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical" illustrates the life of the singer of '50s-era hits such as "Personality," "Stagger Lee" and "Lawdy Miss Clawdy." Studebaker Theater. June 2-Sept. 3.
• Powered by—or possibly superpowered by—gouache paintings, sketches and busts of the likes of Spider-Man, Captain America and Black Panther, "Marvelocity: The Art of Alex Ross" tells the origin story of one of the most esteemed comic book artists. Elmhurst Art Museum. June 3-Aug. 20.
• Blockbuster exhibit "Warhol" runs from soup to nuts, with 94 works, more than 150 photographs, the fun "Silver Clouds" balloon installation, lectures, stuff for kids et cetera, adding up to way more than 15 minutes' worth of famous art. Cleve Carney Museum of Art, College of DuPage. June 3-Sept. 10.
• Four-film series Science on Screen pairs movies with post-show discussions with experts on the real-life topics depicted onscreen, such as a scholar of happiness after "Ikiru" and an expert on global annihilation after "Fail Safe." (There's free popcorn at the "Fail Safe" show to counteract the depressing topic, something they may have learned from the happiness researcher.) Gene Siskel Film Center. June 5-21.
• Every summer Wednesday on the aquarium's terrace and inside, Jazzin' at the Shedd lets partygoers see the stars (in the sky), see the stars (of jazz) and see the sea stars. Shedd Aquarium. June 7-Aug. 30.
Extended
"The Gospel at Colonus." Court Theatre. Now through June
18.
Closing
"Is God Is." A Red Orchid Theatre. Through June 4.
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Grant provides financial relief for students struggling to find affordable housing
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cooper Housing Institute, a nonprofit organization that supports research and programs that address housing affordability and homelessness in the United States, announced today that it has awarded the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a $50,000 grant. The grant will fund the Housing Voucher Program and Housing Advocate Program for students in financial and housing crises.
"It has become more important than ever for the Cooper Housing Institute to continue offering support to anyone struggling to afford housing," said Cooper Housing Institute's co-founder, Wilfred Cooper Jr. "We support UCSB's housing programs, and similar programs across the country, to help combat the rising threat of homelessness."
The University of California, Santa Barbara, will allocate part of the funds to their Housing Voucher Program. This voucher program allows UCSB to rehouse and offer rent support to students suffering housing emergencies. This program is in place to assess the needs of students, identifying those who might be experiencing systematic financial difficulties so they can be directed to additional resources.
The remaining funds will be contributed towards their Housing Advocate Program. This program employs two undergraduate Housing Advocates who will represent students experiencing housing insecurity. The Housing Advocates are available to all UCSB students struggling to find affordable housing, and will assist students to find nearby housing, help them navigate leases, and connect students with additional resources and community housing programs.
The Cooper Housing Institute is a private 501(c)(3) foundation founded in 2018 by the Cooper family, whose commitment to affordable housing spans 50 years. The foundation strives to make housing a priority in the United States by supporting research, education and programs that address housing affordability and homelessness. The organization focuses on the root causes of the shortage of affordable housing and chronic homelessness across the nation, and aims to focus on objective, fact-driven research that brings often divergent groups together to embrace common sense solutions. The Cooper Housing Institute was formed by Will N. Cooper Sr. and Will N. Cooper Jr., leaders of Irvine, California-based WNC, a leading provider of investment, asset management and development services in the affordable housing industry. To learn more, visit https://cooperhousinginstitute.org/.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Country music star Chris Stapleton will hit next month’s Super Bowl to sing the national anthem, while R&B legend Babyface will perform “America the Beautiful.”
The performances will take place Feb. 12 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, before the championship matchup and halftime show featuring Rihanna. The performances will air on Fox.
Actor-singer Sheryl Lee Ralph, who won an Emmy last year, will also perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” She stars in the hit comedy series “Abbott Elementary,” which stars Quinta Brunson.
Oscar winner Troy Kotsur will perform the national anthem in American sign language. He became the second deaf actor to win an Academy Award for his role in the film “CODA.” Colin Denny will sign “America the Beautiful” and “Lift Every Voice and Sing” will be signed by Justina Miles.
The U.S. Navy’s flyover of State Farm Stadium will commemorate 50 years of women flying in the service.
Jay-Z’s Roc Nation company is executive producing the halftime show for a fourth year. Jesse Collins returns as an executive producer.
Stapleton, an eight-time Grammy winner, is considered one of the country’s most respected and beloved musicians. He took home three Grammys last year and was honored with a Country Music Association Awards for male vocalist of the year in 2021.
Babyface, who won 12 Grammys, has recorded multiple hits throughout his lauded career including “Whip Appeal,” “When Can I See You” and “Give U My Heart” with Toni Braxton. He’s the co-founder of LaFace Records and collaborated with a number of big names including Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige, Ella Mai and Patti LaBelle.
Ralph won an Emmy as a first-time nominee at the age of 66 last year. She has spent decades in the business with multiple iconic roles from “Dreamgirls” on Broadway in the 1980s to the stepmother to the title character on the 1990s sitcom “Moesha.” | https://www.ksn.com/sports/the-big-game/stapleton-babyface-to-sing-at-super-bowl-pregame/ | 2023-01-24 20:01:35 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/sports/the-big-game/stapleton-babyface-to-sing-at-super-bowl-pregame/ |
MEXICO CITY -- A band of gunmen invaded a resort where dozens of vacationers were spending the weekend in central Mexico and opened fire, killing six adults and a 7-year-old, authorities said.
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Officials in the Cortazar municipality in Guanajuato state said in a statement that an eighth person was seriously wounded in the midafternoon attack at the La Palma resort. The statement did not speculate on a possible motive.
The victims have all been identified as Mexican nationals.
After the shooting, the attackers destroyed the spa shop and took the security cameras before fleeing, officials said. Three women, three men and the child died.
A video posted on social media shows several people in swimsuits running about crying, screaming and hugging their children.
Mexican soldiers and police aided by a helicopter were searching for the attackers.
Guanajuato, an agricultural and industrial hub, has been Mexico's most violent state for years. The Jalisco New Generation drug cartel has been fighting with local criminal groups, including the Santa Rosa de Lima cartel, which is apparently backed by the Sinaloa cartel. | https://abc7ny.com/la-palma-resort-shooting-central-mexico-gunmen-shootout-cortazar/13138640/ | 2023-04-17 11:22:52 | 0 | https://abc7ny.com/la-palma-resort-shooting-central-mexico-gunmen-shootout-cortazar/13138640/ |
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BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore judge has ordered professional boxer Gervonta Davis to serve the remainder of his hit-and-run crash sentence behind bars instead of in home detention after he moved to a luxury hotel and then a new home without the judge’s permission, the state’s attorney’s office confirmed Friday.
Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Althea Handy sentenced Davis on May 5 to 90 days of home detention after he pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a 2020 hit-and-run crash that left four people injured. But Davis’ attorney indicated that the address his client gave at sentencing for serving his home detention was too small for the boxer and his security detail, State’s Attorney’s Office spokesperson Emily Witty said in an email Friday.
Davis moved to the Four Seasons Hotel, where a GPS monitoring company monitored him, and then about a week ago, Davis moved into a waterfront high-rise in south Baltimore, Witty said. Handy hadn’t given permission for either move and as a result, she ordered Davis on Thursday to serve the remainder of his home detention sentence at the city’s jail, she said. The order was first reported by The Baltimore Banner.
Deputies who were present in the courtroom Thursday took Davis into custody and transported him to Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center, Sheriff Sam Cogen said by telephone.
Davis’ attorney Michael Tomko confirmed that Davis was ordered to serve out the rest of his 90-day sentence in jail at an “impromptu” 5 p.m. hearing Thursday, but he declined to comment further, The Baltimore Banner reported. Davis had already been ordered to perform 200 hours of community service, complete a program at the University of Maryland’s R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center and take part in a Mothers Against Drunk Driving victim impact panel.
The November 2020 crash happened after Davis, now 28, left a downtown Baltimore nightclub in a 2020 Lamborghini and ran a red light, crashing into a Toyota, according to charging documents. Davis, whose driver’s license was suspended, fled to the Four Seasons Hotel before Baltimore police officers arrived at the crash site, where occupants of the Toyota suffered bruises, cuts and sprains, according to police.
Davis pleaded guilty to four counts: leaving the scene of an accident involving bodily injury, failing to notify an owner of property damage, driving on a revoked license and running a red light.
The Baltimore native has a 29-0 record, with all but two of his victories by knockout. His most recent fight was a highly anticipated match against Ryan Garcia in Las Vegas in April in which he delivered a body shot in the seventh round, causing Garcia to stumble and go to a knee.
Davis defended his WBA world lightweight championship in January in Washington, D.C. The fight was in danger of being called off when Davis was arrested and charged with domestic violence in late December, before the woman who called police put out a statement on social media days later saying Davis “did not harm me or our daughter.” | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/sports/ap-sports/boxer-gervonta-davis-jailed-after-moving-without-permission-while-on-home-detention/ | 2023-06-03 03:21:30 | 1 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/sports/ap-sports/boxer-gervonta-davis-jailed-after-moving-without-permission-while-on-home-detention/ |
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Max Homa has a Twitter feed that reads like a “Saturday Night Live” script.
The world’s fifth-ranked player is quick-witted, cheeky and self-deprecating, and his one-liners zing hard and fast and with about as much destruction as a skulled 3-iron.
Take the time Homa arrived for the Sony Open, and a lovely card was waiting to welcome him to Oahu’s south shore. It read: “Aloha Max Honma. Welcome to Hawaii.” He tweeted a picture of it and said simply: “Play better.”
Indeed, given how well Homa’s playing these days, you’d think everyone would know how to spell his name. He’s won five times since holding off the equally affable Joel Dahman to win the Wells Fargo Championship in 2019, including another Wells Fargo title last year and a victory at the Farmers Insurance Open in January.
Homa’s brilliant golf game has suddenly matched his social media savvy.
With it comes heightened expectations of competing for a green jacket at the Masters this week.
“As you start to play better, expectations come up. And expectations, I would imagine for any walk of life — but especially athletics — is kind of the devil,” Homa said.
“When you’re, let’s just say, 50th in the world, and you come to a major, if you play great, everyone is like, ‘Oh, of course. He’s a great player.’ And if you don’t play great, no one notices.”
Homa is the first to admit he hasn’t played well in majors. Patrick Cantlay is the only player ranked higher in the world without a win, and unlike him, Homa’s barely come close. He has missed eight cuts in 13 starts — two in three tries at Augusta National — and his best finish is a tie for 13th at last year’s PGA Championship.
“It’s a work in progress,” Homa said, “but also, I’m starting to learn everyone is a work in progress, so that’s been kind of nice. You play this game, you think you’re the only one going through things, and it’s not the case. Everyone has their own battles going on in their head. Confidence is awesome when you have it; when you don’t, it feels like it’s impossible to get back.”
That perspective makes sense when you consider the yo-yo ride Homa has been on as a professional. He only needed one year to graduate from the Web.com Tour to the PGA Tour, then lost his card and headed right back. Homa qualified again for the PGA Tour, then missed 15 of 17 cuts to lose his card again in spectacular fashion.
“Had a few caddies hit me up recently hoping to team up,” Homa tweeted during that disastrous 2017 season, when he made exactly $18,008. “They heard they usually get weekends off which is apparently a great selling point.”
Making money is a better one.
And to be sure, Homa and his caddie — longtime friend Joe Greiner — have made plenty lately. The turning point came late in 2018, when Homa finished the Web.com Tour season on a tear. The momentum carried into his PGA Tour return, and his win that May at the Wells Fargo earned him $1,422,000. Homa hasn’t slowed down since.
Nor has his Twitter feed, which exploded from about 30,000 followers back then to about 560,000 today.
It’s a far cry from the 6.6 million of Tiger Woods or the 3.2 million of Rory McIlroy, but it’s also a whole lot funnier.
Homa’s account really gained steam after the Presidents Cup, when a Twitter user asked Homa to critique a video of his swing. Homa light-heartedly roasted it, and one critique became two and became a flood of them:
— “Prepared to quit the game completely,” one amateur said with his video, to which Homa replied: “Trust ur gut.”
— “Pretty sure anything would help,” another grumbled, to which Homa answered: “Yes literally anything.”
— Fellow pro J.T. Poston’s caddie, Aaron Flener, tweeted video of his boss, who challenged Homa to “do your worst.” He dutifully replied: “I’d rather roast the real JT. Boom roasted.” (The “real JT” being two-time major winner Justin Thomas.)
“He’s got some good comebacks,” said Brett Schremmer, who played college golf in Nebraska and now works in the Houston area, and who also might be Homa’s biggest fan. He has been tweeting Homa daily in the hopes of playing with him, and while they’ve had some interactions, his persistence has been unsuccessful — the eve of the Masters was Day 269.
Homa did respond last Christmas, though, when Schremmer sent a video of his swing during a batch of roasts.
“UR not as creepy looking as I thought you’d be,” Homa replied. “Still not playing tho.”
“He’s been through it all,” Schremmer said, explaining his fandom. “He’s a prime example of hard work paying off.”
That hard work, both mental and physical, has led Homa to this week. He find himself among the favorites at the Masters, where more patrons than ever are recognizing him, and not just for his Twitter sass.
“If I don’t play well this week, it does not mean I’m not a great golfer,” Homa said, “and I’ve been telling myself that pretty much every week. So as much as I know that this is not just any other event, I also have been practicing, essentially, mentally treating each event the same. And I’ve had good success. So I don’t see why that would not continue to happen.”
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Woman charged with stealing $12,000 Rolex watch, hiding it inside herself, police say
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) – A woman was arrested Sunday for stealing a $12,000 Rolex watch and hiding it inside her genitals, according to police.
Sarah Richards, 33, of Baltimore, was in Las Vegas for a court hearing regarding theft charges from June in which police said she stole a $100,000 watch. While in Las Vegas for her court hearing on those charges, she stole a $12,000 watch, police said.
Richards is now facing multiple charges, including theft over $100,000 in value, residential burglary, grand larceny of $100,000 or more, administering drugs to aid in commission of a felony, and grand larceny between $5,000 to $25,000.
On June 4, a hotel guest reported to police that he believed the woman he was with the night before had stolen his Patek Philippe wristwatch valued at $100,000. He also said he believed he had been drugged by the woman he met at a casino, who was identified as Richards.
The man said he fell asleep in his room and woke up the next morning to find his watch missing from his wrist.
On Monday, Richards was set to appear for her preliminary hearing in court in that case. However, on Sunday, police responded to another hotel on South Las Vegas Boulevard.
A 911 caller told authorities a woman – later identified as Richards – had stolen items from his room, including a $12,000 Rolex.
Security found Richards, and despite searching her person, could not find the stolen watch.
The alleged victim told investigators he had met Richards in the hotel and later went to his room to drink wine. The man said he began to feel tired after Richards insisted that he drink more wine, and he began to doze off. He later noticed his watch was missing and confronted Richards about it.
Richards panicked, he said, and left the room.
When officers checked the room, they did not find the watch but did find the man’s wine glass with a white powdery substance at the bottom.
In addition, a metal detector wand passed over Richards “kept alarming around her vaginal region,” police said.
Richards agreed to take the watch out from inside her.
“She stated that we were going to find it anyways at jail, and she did not want to go through the hassle,” the police report said.
The watch was placed into a biohazard bag and impounded. Police said they also found a pill capsule that had a white powdery substance in Richards’ possession.
Richards’ Monday court hearing was canceled. She has since posted bond, and her next court hearing is scheduled for Jan. 10.
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- In response to news of MyPlate app closing its doors, Cronometer hopes to ease user journey while transitioning to an alternative nutrition tracking app.
- Cronometer hopes to speak with current MyPlate users to understand their needs and learn how they can better support their nutrition tracking requirements.
- Cronometer is offering all previous MyPlate users a 15% discount off a premium Cronometer Gold subscription.
REVELSTOKE, BC, June 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Amongst recent news of calorie counting app MyPlate, closing its doors, Cronometer aims to ease the transition over to an alternative nutrition tracker. In order to better understand the needs of current MyPlate users, leading nutrition tracking app, Cronometer is asking for feedback via an online survey and is also encouraging users to reach out to mystory@cronometer.com with any concerns they may have about making the switch.
"Of course, we want to help all current MyPlate users and welcome them with open arms to our platform, but our hearts also go out to any of the staff members, business owners and investors that may have been impacted from these events." Aaron Davidson, CEO of Cronometer, "We understand this is a challenging time for everyone that is a part of the MyPlate community and hope that we can help by offering a solid alternative, which fits most people's nutrition tracking needs."
In an effort to reduce friction while transitioning to an alternative tracking app, Cronometer has compiled a list of the main differences between the two apps and has provided guidance for what MyPlate users can expect when switching to Cronometer. For more details, click here.
Cronometer has also extended a 15% discount to MyPlate users, which can be used towards a Cronometer Gold subscription. Those looking to redeem this offer can click here which will automatically apply the savings upon signing up or signing in. Do note, however, that the discount can only be redeemed via the web version of the Cronometer app.
About Cronometer Software Inc.: Cronometer is a leading health and nutrition tracker with a comprehensive nutrition database. Unlike other tracking apps, the nutritional data is curated from verified, lab-analyzed sources. Cronometer is aimed at helping anyone looking to develop healthy habits and gain a better insight into their health and nutrition. Cronometer was originally developed by CEO Aaron Davidson in 2005 and started as a personal side project. Over the years it has transformed from a hobby into a thriving business with over 7.5 million users worldwide. They are a proudly Canadian company with a head office based in the small mountain town of Revelstoke, British Columbia. Visit cronometer.com for more information.
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24-year-old man charged with reckless homicide in 9-month-old Milwaukee boy's death
A man has been charged for his involvement in the death last Friday of a 9-month-old child.
Anthoni J. Cirra, 24, was identified in a Milwaukee Police complaint as one of three adults taken into custody after a boy died of his injuries at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. The child, who is not related to Cirra, was admitted early Thursday morning unresponsive and not breathing, prompting a child abuse investigation. He was determined to have internal bleeding consistent with brain injury.
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Cirra, a friend of the parents, had been watching the child on Wednesday at their home in the Clock Tower Acres neighborhood on the south side after driving the parents to work in the morning.
Cirra denied to the parents and the police he had abused the child but later disclosed the child's head had struck the floor after a bath on Thursday afternoon. He also claimed he had dropped the car seat with the child in it on the front porch steps that morning, but the child appeared uninjured.
Later that afternoon, Cirra picked the parents up from work. One of the parents noticed the child had a bruise on his arm and that his breathing was "labored and spaced out.". Cirra claimed at the time he didn't know what caused the bruise.
Throughout the evening, the child remained lethargic and nonresponsive, and refused to feed. The parents and Cirra disagreed over whether to take the child to the hospital.
The child eventually fell asleep and his parents and Cirra slept in a separate room.
Around 5:30 a.m. on Friday, Cirra and the parents discovered the child was not breathing andt his lips were blue. A parent attempted to perform CPR before the child was taken by the fire department to the hospital. During this time, Cirra said he had made a mistake and "this is my fault," the complaint said.
The child was declared brain dead and removed from life support Friday evening.
Cirra was charged with reckless homicide in the first degree, neglecting a child, and felony bail jumping. The three counts carry a combined 91-year sentence. Cirra had previously been convicted for felony possession of THC and bail jumping. | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2022/07/12/man-charged-reckless-homicide-death-9-month-old-milwaukee-boy/10041592002/ | 2022-07-13 00:12:22 | 0 | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2022/07/12/man-charged-reckless-homicide-death-9-month-old-milwaukee-boy/10041592002/ |
PISCATAWAY, N.J., March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Clio Snacks of Piscataway, N.J. is voluntarily recalling 581 cases of its Strawberry Granola & Greek Yogurt Parfait Bar due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
Product was distributed to select Walmart stores between 3/5/2023 and 3/8/2023.
The impacted product comes in a single-serving box with UPC Code 854021008152, Lot Number 048C2023 and an expiration date of 4/30/2023 stamped on the side of the box.
Strawberry Granola & Greek Yogurt Parfait Bar is the only product impacted. No other products are being recalled. No illnesses have been reported to date.
This potential limited exposure was found at a third-party manufacturer's facility where Parfait Bars are produced. The third-party manufacturer does not manufacture any other Clio products. Clio does not manufacture Parfait bars at its own facility.
The recall was the result of a routine testing program by the company which revealed that affected Strawberry Parfait product produced by Clio's contract manufacturer may contain Listeria monocytogenes. The third-party manufacturer has ceased production and Clio has ceased distribution of the affected product while the FDA and the company continue their investigation into what caused the problem.
Consumers who have purchased Clio Strawberry Granola & Yogurt Parfait bar with an expiration date of 4/30/2023 should not consume the product and are urged to return it to the place of purchase for a full refund or to destroy the recalled product.
Consumers with questions may contact the company at 1-908-505-2546 (Monday – Friday, 9-5pm EST).
About Clio Snacks
Clio Snacks is a leading refrigerated bar brand offering handheld Greek Yogurt Bars available in several varieties: Original, Minis, Less Sugar and Granola & Yogurt Parfait. Clio products combine the benefits of whole milk Greek yogurt - which is high in protein and probiotics - with an irresistible cheesecake-like texture and decadent dark chocolatey coating. Available in grocery stores nationwide and online at cliosnacks.com, Clio's portfolio of better-for-you snacks that taste like a treat are empowering consumers to love what they crave. To learn more, please visit www.cliosnacks.com, Instagram or Facebook.
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CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A Chesterfield woman says someone with a BB gun shot at her car twice in one week while she was driving on a major road — and this is not the first time police have heard of this happening in the area.
Madison Moss was recently driving towards the Hickory and Matoaca Road roundabout when she heard something hit her car. When she got a closer look, she saw her her passenger door was hit by what Chesterfield Police say was a BB gun.
Moss filed a police report only for the same thing to happen to her four days later when she was driving on Matoaca Road again. This time, her fender above her front tire was hit.
Chesterfield Police said this is not the only report they have received about a BB gun shooting at cars in the area. Police received a report from a different resident that their car was hit last Friday, the same day as Moss.
Moss said she has lived in the area her whole life and something like this has never happened to her.
“Just knowing that something like this in the area I’ve grown up in is happening to not only me but other people as well, it’s kind of upsetting because it could be very much worse than what happened to me,” Moss said.
Moss said the person behind the shootings targeting a major street like Matoaca Road is especially frustrating now that she has to change her routine.
“The fact that I have to drive a whole other route to get anywhere says enough,” Moss said. “I mean, if I have to go to the interstate or go all the way through Ettrick or Colonial Heights just to get to Chester instead of just taking Matoaca Road like I would normally every day — it’s upsetting.”
Police say their investigation into these shootings is ongoing. If your car has similar damage or if you have information about these incidents, call Chesterfield Police at 804-748-1251. | https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/chesterfield-county/chesterfield-womans-car-shot-by-bb-gun-twice-in-one-week-on-matoaca-road/ | 2023-06-23 03:52:24 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/chesterfield-county/chesterfield-womans-car-shot-by-bb-gun-twice-in-one-week-on-matoaca-road/ |
Kellogg Community College names Paul Watson II as interim president
The Kellogg Community College Board of Trustees has appointed Paul Watson II as interim president, effective immediately.
Watson, KCC's vice president of instruction since 2019, was unanimously appointed to the role Wednesday, according to a release. He succeeds Adrien Bennings, who had been president of KCC since 2020.
Bennings recently announced she had accepted a position as president of Portland Community College in Portland, Oregon.
Reflecting on his appointment, Watson said he's humbled by the opportunity.
“I am excited to lead KCC at a pivotal time in higher education and look forward to working with all constituents: our board, faculty, administrators, staff, community members and students to ensure that we continue to thrive and uphold our legacy as an exceptional institution of higher education,” Watson said in the release. “I look forward to our continued partnership towards the betterment of our students and community.”
Prior to joining KCC in 2019, Watson accumulated 20 years of teaching experience at the secondary and post-secondary levels and seven years of experience as an administrative leader in higher education.
Watson worked at the Pennsylvania College of Technology from 2011 to 2019 as a director, assistant dean and dean. Prior to that, he served as a high school math teacher in Jefferson, New York, and an assistant professor of mathematics at Houghton College in Houghton, New York.
“Dr. Watson has provided strong leadership to the instructional side of KCC during his employment. The Board looks forward to working with him to exceed the commitment we have made to our staff, students and community,” Board Chair Steve Claywell said in the release. “We are excited to write the next chapter at KCC and uphold our commitment to excellence on behalf of the premier educational institution that we are. We are Bruins.”
The board has yet to determine whether it will conduct a search for a permanent president, Eric Greene, KCC's vice president for strategy, relations and communications said Friday.
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BigID Named to CNBC's Inaugural Top Startup for the Enterprise List
NEW YORK, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BigID, the leading platform for data security, privacy, compliance, and governance, has been named to CNBC's 2022 Top Startups for the Enterprise list.
CNBC's Top Startups for the Enterprise list highlights private tech companies, stating that "firms like these are in a particularly good position to meet the needs of large enterprises that are doubling down on emerging opportunities, despite the uncertain economic climate." BigID has been selected as one of the 25 private tech companies by CNBC's Technology Executive Council (TEC), based on their innovative technology, market leadership, and company vision & growth.
BigID helps organizations understand and minimize data risk across the cloud & on-prem with a data-first approach – from AI automation to end-to-end data lifecycle management – for data security, privacy, compliance, and governance. Customers use BigID to reduce their data risk, automate security and privacy controls, achieve compliance, and understand their data across their entire data landscape: including multicloud, hybrid cloud, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and on-prem data sources.
"This recognition by CNBC is a huge achievement for BigID, and underscores BigID's position as a leader in data security, compliance, and cloud data risk" said Dimitri Sirota, CEO and co-founder of BigID. "It's a testament to our team, partners, and customers as we continue to grow and innovate - enabling our customers to proactively discover, manage, protect, and get more value from their data in a single platform for data visibility and control."
Nominees for this first-ever list were selected from the more than 1,200 companies that were nominated for the 2022 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, with selection criteria including scalability, sales and user growth rates, profitability, and measures of workforce and boardroom diversity.
BigID is a leader in data security, privacy, compliance, and governance: enabling organizations to proactively discover, manage, protect, and get more value from their data in a single platform for data visibility and control. Customers use BigID to reduce their data risk, automate security and privacy controls, achieve compliance, and understand their data across their entire data landscape: including multicloud, hybrid cloud, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and on-prem data sources. Learn more at www.bigid.com, and get started for free at www.smallid.com.
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First over-the-counter birth control pill gets FDA approval
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials have approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill, which will let American women and girls buy contraceptive medication from the same aisle as aspirin and eyedrops.
The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it cleared Perrigo’s once-a-day Opill to be sold without a prescription, making it the first such medication to be moved out from behind the pharmacy counter. The company won’t start shipping the pill until early next year, and there will be no age restrictions on sales.
Hormone-based pills have long been the most common form of birth control in the U.S., used by tens of millions of women since the 1960s. Until now, all of them required a prescription.
Medical societies and women’s health groups have pushed for wider access, noting that an estimated 45% of the 6 million annual pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended. Teens and girls, women of color and those with low incomes report greater hurdles in getting prescriptions and picking them up.
Some of the challenges can include paying for a doctor’s visit, getting time off from work and finding child care.
“This is really a transformation in access to contraceptive care,” said Kelly Blanchard, president of Ibis Reproductive Health, a non-profit group that supported the approval. “Hopefully this will help people overcome those barriers that exist now.”
Ireland-based Perrigo did not announce a price. Over-the-counter medicines are generally much cheaper than prescriptions, but they typically aren’t covered by insurance.
Forcing insurers to cover over-the-counter birth control would require a regulatory change by the federal government, which women’s advocates are urging the Biden administration to implement.
Many common medications have made the switch to non-prescription status in recent decades, including drugs for pain, heartburn and allergies. Birth control pills are available without a prescription across much of South America, Asia and Africa.
Perrigo submitted years of research to FDA to show that women could understand and follow instructions for using the pill. Thursday’s approval came despite some concerns by FDA scientists about the company’s results, including whether women with certain underlying medical conditions would understand they shouldn’t take the drug.
FDA’s action only applies to Opill. It’s in an older class of contraceptives, sometimes called minipills, that contain a single synthetic hormone and generally carry fewer side effects than more popular combination hormone pills.
But women’s health advocates hope the decision will pave the way for more over-the-counter birth control options and, eventually, for abortion pills to do the same.
That said, FDA’s decision has no relation to the ongoing court battles over the abortion pill mifepristone. The studies in Perrigo’s FDA application began years before the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade, which has upended abortion access across the U.S.
With some states curtailing women’s reproductive rights, the FDA has faced pressure from Democratic politicians, health advocates and medical professionals to ease access to birth control. The American Medical Association and the leading professional society for obstetricians and gynecologists backed Opill’s application for over-the-counter status.
An outside panel of FDA advisers unanimously voted in favor of the switch at a hearing in May where dozens of public speakers called for Opill’s approval.
Dyvia Huitron was among those who presented, explaining how she has been unable to get prescription birth control more than three years after becoming sexually active. The 19-year-old University of Alabama student said she still isn’t comfortable getting a prescription because the school’s health system reports medical exams and medications to parents.
“My parents did not let me go on the pill,” Huitron said in a recent interview. “There was just a lot of cultural stigma around being sexually active before you’re married.”
While she uses other forms of contraception, “I would have much preferred to have birth control and use these additional methods to ensure that I was being as safe as possible.”
Huitron spoke on behalf of Advocates for Youth, one of the dozens of groups that have pushed to make prescription contraceptives more accessible.
The groups helped fund some of the studies submitted for Opill and they encouraged HRA Pharma, later acquired by Perrigo, to file its application with the FDA.
Advocates were particularly interested in Opill because it raised fewer safety concerns. The pill was first approved in the U.S. five decades ago but hasn’t been marketed here since 2005.
“It’s been around a long time and we have a large amount of data supporting that this pill is safe and effective for over-the-counter use,” said Blanchard, of Ibsis Reproductive Health.
Newer birth control pills typically combine two hormones, estrogen and progestin, which can help make periods lighter and more regular. But their use carries a heightened risk of blood clots and they shouldn’t be used by women at risk for heart problems, such as those who smoke and are over 35.
Opill has only progestin, which prevents pregnancy by blocking sperm from reaching the cervix. It must be taken around the same time daily to be most effective.
In its internal review published in May, the FDA noted that some women in Perrigo’s study had trouble understanding the drug’s labeling information. In particular, the instructions warn that women with a history of breast cancer should not take the pill because it could spur tumor growth. And women who have unusual vaginal bleeding are instructed to talk to a doctor first, because it could indicate a medical problem.
Common side effects of the pill include bleeding, headaches, dizziness, nausea and cramps, according to the FDA. The label also cautions that certain drugs can interfere with Opill’s effectiveness, including medications for seizures, HIV and hypertension.
Perrigo executives said the company will spend the rest of the year manufacturing the pill and its packaging so it can be available in stores early next year.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Three U.S. tourists were stabbed in Puerto Rico early Monday after police said someone told them to stop filming in a renowned seaside community known as La Perla that is popular with visitors.
The confrontation began when one of the tourists, who lives in South Carolina, began filming a mobile hamburger cart and was told to stop and leave the area, police said.
Two of the tourists remain hospitalized, including one who was stabbed six times, police said.
No one has been arrested.
The attack happened nearly two years after a tourist from Delaware was killed and set on fire after police said he was warned not to take pictures while buying drugs in La Perla. A friend of his also was beaten but survived.
La Perla is located in the historic part of Puerto Rico’s capital known as Old San Juan and became famous after it was featured in the video of “Despacito,” a song released in 2017 by Puerto Rican singers Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee.
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OLYMPIA, Wash., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Heritage Financial Corporation ("Company" or "Heritage") (Nasdaq: HFWA) anticipates issuing its second quarter earnings release on Thursday, July 21, 2022 before the market opens. The Company has scheduled a telephone conference call to discuss the second quarter on Thursday, July 21, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific time (2:00 p.m. Eastern time).
To access the conference call, call the numbers listed below:
The conference call will be recorded and will be available following the live conference call for replay twenty-four hours a day ending July 28, 2022. Questions regarding the conference call may be directed to Kaylene Lahn at 360-943-1500.
About Heritage Financial
Heritage Financial Corporation is an Olympia-based bank holding company with Heritage Bank, a full-service commercial bank, as its sole wholly-owned banking subsidiary. Heritage Bank has a branching network of 49 banking offices in Washington and Oregon. Heritage Bank also does business under the Whidbey Island Bank name on Whidbey Island. Heritage's stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol "HFWA". More information about Heritage Financial Corporation can be found on its website at www.hf-wa.com and more information about Heritage Bank can be found on its website at www.heritagebanknw.com.
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ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A woman outfitted with a tiny microphone and hidden camera walked up to a dilapidated drug house on a chilly afternoon last year looking to buy meth from a dealer known on the streets as “Mississippi.”
But as the informant disappeared inside with a career criminal with a rap sheet spanning three decades, her law enforcement handlers left her undercover on her own — unprotected and unmonitored in real time. And the devices she carried passively recorded a crime far more horrific than any drug buy.
Under threat of violence, the dealer forced the woman to perform oral sex on him — twice — in an attack so brazen he paused at one point to conduct a separate drug deal, according to interviews and confidential law enforcement records obtained by The Associated Press.
“It was one of the worst depictions of sexual abuse I have ever seen,” said a local official who viewed the footage and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the ongoing case.
“Just the audio from it is enough to turn your stomach,” the official said. “It’s a female being sexually brutalized while she’s crying and whimpering.”
Even as the woman cried and her assailant threatened to put her “in the hospital,” narcotics deputies remained down the block in the blighted neighborhood, unaware of what was going on. That’s because, as authorities told the AP, they never considered such an attack might happen and the devices the woman carried didn’t have the ability to transmit the operation to law enforcement in real time.
“It was recording but not to where my guys were monitoring it,” said Rapides Parish Sheriff Mark Wood, blaming the January 2021 incident on his inexperience from only being in the top job six months at that time. “There are always things you learn that you can do better.”
The case in this central Louisiana city of 47,000 underscores the perils confidential informants face seeking to “work off” criminal charges in loosely regulated and often secretive arrangements with law enforcement. Police rely on informants in a wide range of cases, compensating them with money or leniency in their own cases yet often providing little or no training.
Records show it wasn’t until the woman left the area on her own and contacted her handlers that deputies searched the single-family home and arrested Antonio D. Jones, 48, on charges of second-degree rape, false imprisonment and distribution of meth after recovering 5 grams of the substance in the sting.
Deputies surveilling the home after the woman went inside assumed she “must be OK” because someone else entered after her to buy drugs, said Lt. Mark Parker, the ranking officer in the operation.
Parker, who retired this month, told the AP that the sheriff’s office didn’t start using equipment capable of monitoring in real time until after the alleged rape, and often would send informants into stings without any recording equipment at all.
“We’ve always done it this way,” Parker said. “She was an addict and we just used her as an informant like we’ve done a million times before. Looking back, it’s easy to say, ‘What if?'”
And while it’s not clear what kind of deal the woman struck with the Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office, her cooperation as an informant didn’t seem to make much difference in clearing her own criminal record.
Just three weeks after her recorded assault, court records show, the woman was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia stemming from an arrest that happened about a month before the sting, and she’s been pulled over and booked on possession charges at least twice since then. The woman, who declined interview requests and is not being named because the AP does not typically identify victims of sexual assault, pleaded guilty to possessing drug paraphernalia last year and was placed in behavioral health court in lieu of jail time.
“It’s absolutely horrible,” said the woman’s attorney, Harold Murry. “She has a drug problem and I don’t know if she’s going to be able to beat it or not. But when you become a snitch, they keep your drug problem going and then they arrest you for it.”
Wood, who worked in the sheriff’s office for two decades before his election, confirmed that the alleged rape has prompted his department to finally update its equipment to keep an eye on undercover transactions as they’re happening.
“That changed everything, the way we do business,” Wood said. “Technology has grown unbelievably. There’s things that we can do to keep the folks safe.”
Experts who reviewed the case for AP noted that the technology to monitor undercover transactions has existed for generations and should have been used to protect the woman in this case. The safety of the confidential informant is paramount, they said, prioritized over evidence collection or any other aim of the operation.
“I see this as a massive ineptitude,” said Michael Levine, a former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent who worked undercover for years and now testifies as an expert on police procedures. The deputies, he said, should “never in a million years” have sent the informant into such a high-risk setting without the ability to monitor the operation. “They’re cowards.”
David Redemann, a longtime Seattle police officer who now leads training on such stings, said the case highlights the vast disparities in law enforcement’s undercover playbook, with many agencies lacking the resources to properly train officers or monitor informant drug buys.
“We do this 10,000 times a day around the country, and not everybody has transmitting equipment,” Redemann said. “Is this tragic as hell? Absolutely. We need to learn from what happened here.”
Law enforcement’s use of confidential informants is akin to a black market in which “deals are made under the table and often undocumented,” said Alexandra Natapoff, a Harvard law professor and leading expert on informants.
Not only are informants treated as disposable pawns, she said, but qualified immunity has made it very difficult to sue the police when things go off the rails.
“As a matter of common sense and humanity, police should take obvious, straightforward precautions to protect their informants,” Natapoff said, “but there is no law that says they have to.”
With few exceptions, states have been slow to track or regulate law enforcement’s use of informants, even in the wake of high-profile oversights. In 2009, Florida lawmakers adopted Rachel’s Law, the first comprehensive legislation in the country governing use of informants, after the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Rachel Hoffman in connection with an undercover drug sting for Tallahassee police. Among other things, the law requires police consider the “risk of physical harm” to the informant.
None of the deputies who arranged the undercover buy in Louisiana were disciplined, the sheriff said, and no other law enforcement agencies were asked to examine the handling of the case. A spokesman for the Alexandria Police Department said the agency had not been made aware of the sexual assault, even though it allegedly happened in the city and the suspect Jones has an extensive criminal history dating to 1992, including convictions in neighboring Mississippi for robbery, car theft, aggravated assault and drug distribution.
Jones is scheduled to stand trial Oct. 17, having refused a plea offer from prosecutors. His attorney declined to comment.
Last month, as AP was reporting this story, prosecutors without explanation reduced Jones’ charges from forcible second-degree rape to third-degree rape, or simple rape, significantly lowering the amount of time he could spend behind bars if convicted.
Prosecutors did not respond to requests for comment on why the charges were reduced or why the informant was charged with drug crimes even after her cooperation in the ill-fated sting.
Weeks before the charges were reduced, Rapides Parish District Attorney Phillip Terrell defended the deputies’ handling of the case, telling AP “there is no indication in my file that law enforcement did anything wrong.” The prospect of any informant coming under attack “had not crossed their mind,” the district attorney said, adding he was “certain they wish this would not have occurred.”
“They never thought of that, and had they known that was occurring they would have certainly stopped it,” Terrell said. “One of their big concerns now is the safety of the confidential informant.” | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/louisiana-informant-allegedly-raped-during-2021-undercover-drug-investigation/ | 2022-09-13 22:51:30 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/louisiana-informant-allegedly-raped-during-2021-undercover-drug-investigation/ |
TOKYO (AP) — German truck maker Daimler, Japan’s top automaker Toyota and two other automakers said Tuesday they will work together on new technologies, including using hydrogen fuel, to help fight climate change.
The companies said Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp., whose top stakeholder is Daimler Truck, and Hino Motors, the truck maker in the Toyota group, will merge. Daimler Truck and Toyota Motor Corp. will equally invest in the holding company of the Mitsubishi-Hino merger, they said without giving a dollar amount for the deal.
The companies plan to cooperate in reducing carbon emissions and developing other technologies such as autonomous driving, net-connected services and electric vehicles.
“This collaboration among our four companies is a partnership for creating the future of commercial vehicles in Japan and the future of a ‘mobility society,’ said Toyota Motor Corp. Chief Executive Koji Sato.
The two truck companies will work on commercial vehicle development, procurement and production to become globally competitive, the executives said.
“We at Daimler Truck are very proud of our products, because trucks and buses keep the world moving. And soon they will even do so with zero emissions,” said Daimler Truck Chief Executive Martin Daum.
“Today’s announcement is a crucial step in making that future work economically and in leading sustainable transportation.”
Automakers are rushing to keep up with the global shift toward less polluting vehicles and to help in other ways to combat climate change. Commercial vehicles like trucks and buses are major contributors to auto emissions. In some cases rivals are joining forces to gain a a competitive edge and cut costs through “economies of scale” of by sharing knowledge and resources.
“It is hard to go at it alone. Working together is crucial,” Sato said,
Fuel cells power Toyota’s buses in Japan but its strength has been in hybrids, which have both electric motors like EVs and gasoline engines. Consumer acceptance of battery powered EVs has come faster than expected, Toyota officials say, and the company is hard at work on rolling out EVs in various markets.
Details of the merger, including shareholding ratios, the company name and its structure will be worked out over the next 18 months, the companies said. They aim to sign a definitive agreement by early next year and close the transaction by the end of 2024. The deal still needs shareholders’ and regulatory approval.
The deal is a chance for a fresh start at Hino, its chief executive, Satoshi Ogiso said, after the company’s image was marred by its disclosure last year that it had systematically falsified emissions data beginning as early as 2003.
“We will unite our aspirations to ‘support mobility and contribute to society’ and hand in hand accelerate advanced technology development to overcome the increasingly fierce global competition,” he said.
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DALLAS (KDAF) – Gen Z has ditched human relationships for furry companions.
OnePoll polled 2,000 pet owners on behalf of Synchrony and found that Gen Zers prefer to see their pets happier rather than their partners. Gen Z had a 21% higher rate compared to other generations, according to the study.
One Pol said, ” 72% of Gen Zers and Gen Xers would rather save money for pet expenses than go on vacation”.
Jonathan Wainberg, Senior Vice President and General Manager for Synchrony Pets, said “Many Gen Z pet parents are first-timers and the costs to care for a pet can be surprising. For that reason, we want pet parents to have a deeper understanding of what to expect financially and knowledge of the flexible payment solutions that are available to help them manage the costs of care throughout their pet’s lifetime”.
Recently-released data from the U.S. Census said about half of all households in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area own a pet. | https://cw33.com/news/i-woof-you-gen-z-loves-their-pets-more-than-their-partner/ | 2023-04-12 18:33:46 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/i-woof-you-gen-z-loves-their-pets-more-than-their-partner/ |
BALTIMORE (AP) — Even as they signaled a continued hardline stance on opposing abortion and same-sex marriage, the nation’s Catholic bishops acknowledged Wednesday that they’re struggling to reach a key audience: their own flock.
The members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops rounded out their leadership bench during the last day of public sessions of their fall annual meeting in Baltimore, which concludes with private meetings Thursday.
They also set in motion a plan to recirculate their long-standing election document in 2024 — a 15-year-old statement that prioritizes opposition to abortion — while acknowledging it’s outdated and adding a cover statement addressing such things as the teachings of Pope Francis and the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling in June that overturned the nationwide right to abortion.
The bishops elected Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley as secretary in a 130-104 vote over Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, who had been named a cardinal by Pope Francis. It’s the second time in five years that the bishops have passed over a Francis-appointed cardinal for a key leadership post.
Earlier this year, Coakley had applauded the decision by San Francisco’s archbishop to deny Communion to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic Democrat from that city who supports abortion rights. So had the bishops’ new point man on opposition to abortion — Bishop Michael Burbidge of Arlington, Virginia, elected Wednesday as chairman of its Committee on Pro-Life Activities.
The votes came a day after the bishops elected as their new president Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services. Broglio is also seen as more of a culture warrior than Pope Francis, though Broglio has dismissed the idea of any “dissonance” between the two.
At the same time, Coakley cited the importance of Francis’ priorities in a news conference Wednesday.
Coakley is leading the bishops’ review of, “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,” a document they have used in election years with only minor revisions since 2007.
While a full revision will take years, bishops approved Coakley’s recommendation to begin drafting a new introduction to issue with the document in time for 2024’s election. It would incorporate recent events such as the Ukraine war and the Dobbs decision.
The plan also includes using parish bulletins and social media to share main ideas from the lengthy document.
Coakley said the new introduction needs to reflect Pope Francis’ priorities, such as promoting civil discourse and protecting the environment.
“It’s a rich pontificate that offers us plenty to lay out for people … to embrace the vision that Pope Francis has articulated,” Coakley said.
Bishops from both the progressive and conservative flanks of the church echoed concern that Catholics aren’t reading the document.
Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, a Francis appointee, said that bishops need a statement that’s relevant amid the shaken confidence in democracy following the U.S. Capitol riot and in the wake of Dobbs and defeats for abortion opponents in votes on five state ballot measures. “It’s irresponsible to issue an old teaching and suggest the church has nothing new to say when so much of this context has changed,” he said.
Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, one of the most outspoken conservative bishops, lamented the recent state ballot measures. Polls show Catholics to be mixed on legal abortion.
“I think it’s a solid document,” Strickland said, but “I think we have to acknowledge people aren’t listening.”
The gap between Francis and the U.S. bishops reflects in part the conference’s continued emphasis on culture-war battles over abortion and same-sex marriage.
Francis, while also opposing both in keeping with church teaching, has used his papacy to emphasize a wider agenda of bringing mercy to those at the margins, such as migrants and other poor. The Vatican said in 2021 the church cannot bless gay unions because God “cannot bless sin,” but Francis has made outreach to the church’s LGBTQ members a hallmark of his papacy. As recently as last Friday, Francis met with the Rev. James Martin, an American Jesuit priest whom the pontiff has supported in his calls for dialogue with LGBTQ Catholics.
Both Pelosi and President Joe Biden, another Catholic who favors legalized abortion, have received Communion since 2021 in churches in Rome, the pope’s own diocese.
The bishops also heard an impassioned talk Wednesday by Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Archeparchy of Philadelphia on behalf of war-torn Ukraine.
Gudziak thanked U.S. Catholics for providing millions in relief for displaced Ukrainians and urged continued American support for Ukraine’s self-defense, saying Russian assaults have left many vulnerable in the coming winter.
At the same time, he said that on a conference call with staff at a Catholic university in Lviv, he heard only joy and resolve even amid losses of electrical power in Russia’s missile barrage Tuesday. One staff member told him, “Better without electricity and with Kherson,” he said, alluding to the recently liberated city.
Gudziak accused Russia of a “genocide” through such attacks and through its denial of Ukrainians’ identity as a separate people.
Also Wednesday, a small group of survivors of sexual abuse and their supporters held a sidewalk news conference outside Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, where the bishops are meeting. While this year marks the 20th anniversary of the bishops’ landmark policy barring all abusers from ministry, advocates are seeking more transparency.
They called for bishops in every diocese to post detailed lists of credibly accused abusers and to stop lobbying against state legislation that would extend statutes of limitations for abuse lawsuits.
David Lorenz, Maryland director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, cited Archbishop Broglio’s archdiocese as one of the few that still does not publish even a minimal list of abusers. Broglio declined to comment.
“I don’t need another apology because it doesn’t do anything to protect kids,” Lorenz added. “I want action to help kids. I want them (bishops) to be totally, absolutely transparent.”
Also Wednesday, the bishops voted to advance efforts to have three American women declared saints.
They include Michelle Duppong of North Dakota, a campus missionary who died of cancer in 2014 and is credited with showing faithfulness in suffering.
They also include two 20th century women: Cora Evans, a Catholic convert from Utah who reported mystical experiences from an early age; and Mother Margaret Mary Healy Murphy of Texas, founder of a religious order, who provided education and other ministry to African Americans.
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Man bought human body parts online, Cumberland County district attorney says
A man was purchasing human body parts online, according to the Cumberland County district attorney's office.
Jeremy Pauley, 40, was arrested Thursday and is charged with abuse of a corpse, receiving stolen property and dealing in the proceeds of unlawful activities.
East Pennsboro Township police received a complaint on June 14 about possible human body parts being sold online.
On or around July 8, police were called to Pauley's former home on North Enola Drive by a caller who reported finding possible human remains inside several buckets in the basement.
The district attorney's office said that after police conducted a search warrant and seized the buckets, a forensic pathologist confirmed the remains were human body parts. According to a criminal complaint, those parts included brains, a heart, kidney, spleen, livers, lungs and skin.
Pauley purchased the remains through Facebook Messenger, according to investigators.
Police said they obtained messages that showed Pauley was attempting to purchase additional remains from a woman in Arkansas. Those items were to be shipped via the U.S. Postal Service to Pennsylvania. The district attorney's office said the packages were intercepted in Scranton and contained human remains.
The criminal complaint alleges the woman was stealing the body parts from a mortuary in Arkansas and shipping them to Pennsylvania for sale. The human remains were determined to be the property of the University of Arkansas, according to investigators.
A criminal complaint alleges Pauley admitted to purchasing two shipments of human body parts to sell to people for monetary gain.
"This is one of the most bizarre investigations I have encountered in my 33 years as a prosecutor. Just when I think I have seen it all, a case like this comes around," District Attorney Seán M. McCormack said.
Police said Pauley was released on $50,000 dollars unsecured bail. | https://www.wgal.com/article/pennsylvania-man-bought-human-body-parts-online-district-attorney-says/40933445 | 2022-08-18 21:22:30 | 1 | https://www.wgal.com/article/pennsylvania-man-bought-human-body-parts-online-district-attorney-says/40933445 |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. , Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Friday, August 5, 2022, a Montgomery County Circuit Court jury returned a unanimous verdict awarding $15,000,000.00 in damages for the wrongful death of a nine-year-old child who was in the custody of the Alabama Department of Human Resources at the time of his death.
Attorneys Andrew Moak of Alexander Shunnarah Trial Attorneys, P.C., and Brett Turnbull and Robert LeMoine of Turnbull, Holcomb & LeMoine, P.C. collaborated to prepare the case and take it to trial. The jury deliberated for approximately 1.5 hours before returning a unanimous verdict for $15,000,000.00, finding that the DHR case worker and foster caregiver were responsible for the child's death.
"This was an especially devastating case of reckless mismanagement by DHR, and this verdict proves that our judicial system won't be a bystander of this severe injustice," states Alexander Shunnarah, Founder and CEO of Alexander Shunnarah Trial Attorneys. "We are proud of Andrew Moak for his unwavering dedication to this case over the last seven years as he fought for justice for the innocent life of a nine-year-old that was lost far too soon."
The child had sickle cell anemia when he was taken into DHR custody. Sickle cell anemia is a chronic, potentially life-threatening illness, and the child had numerous care requirements to ensure his condition was properly monitored and managed for complications. The plaintiff alleged that the DHR case worker's and foster caregiver's reckless mismanagement of the child's specific symptoms and complaints led to the child suffering a sickle cell anemia attack. The child died of complications of the sickle cell crisis at Children's Hospital in Birmingham in May 2013.
"We worked for seven years to bring this case to trial," states Attorney Andrew Moak. "When DHR chooses to take a child into its custody, whatever its reason may be, the child does not have a choice in the matter. This child died because adults who took responsibility for his life disregarded their rules and their training and unnecessarily allowed him to slip into a medical crisis that he did not survive. They knew this little boy had a dangerous disease and knew what could happen to him if they ignored its symptoms, but they refused medical care until it was too late."
"This is a landmark case in which the jury clearly sent the message that we have the right to expect more from an agency with as much power as DHR in terms of taking its own rules more seriously to ensure that clear medical instructions are followed, and children do not die needlessly," says Attorney Brett Turnbull, Founding Partner of Turnbull, Holcomb & LeMoine, P.C. "This child's death was completely preventable, and hopefully this verdict will cause DHR to re-examine its practices. This should not happen to anyone, and especially not to a child."
The verdict marks the third substantial verdict for Andrew Moak in 2022, including a verdict for $3,200,000.00 arising out of a police vehicle crash in Birmingham, Alabama and a $25,000,000.00 verdict arising out of a distracted driving case in Morgan County, Alabama.
"This is a state full of good people who follow the rules and want to see those in positions of authority and responsibility follow their rules too," states Moak. "When they do not, and people are hurt or killed, it is encouraging to see juries seek justice."
The case was defended by Felicia Brooks, head of the DHR legal department and Robert Meadows of the Montgomery law firm of Capell & Howard.
The child's name is confidential for privacy reasons.
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Which easy-set pools are best?
If you want to enjoy an aboveground pool without the hassle of complex assembly, an easy-set pool is the perfect solution. With just one ring to inflate, it could hardly be simpler to set up, so you’ll spend less time fussing and more time having fun.
When picking, you should consider factors such as the diameter and depth of the pool and its durability. Whether you’re looking to fit your whole household in your pool or just one or two people, you’ll find plenty of great options.
What is an easy-set pool?
An easy-set pool is a type of inflatable pool that’s particularly quick to set up. You can also find them described as fast-set, quick-set or top-ring pools. The only part that needs inflating is the top ring — the rest is held in place by water pressure.
To set up a top-ring pool, you start by laying it flat on a piece of ground that you’ve cleared of any sharp objects. Better yet, use a ground sheet underneath to further protect it. Then you need to inflate the top tube. Using an electric pump is the quickest way, but you can use a foot pump or hand pump. Once inflated, start to fill it with a hose and the water does the rest.
What to look for in an easy-set pool
Diameter
You can find these types of pools in a range of diameters, from around 6-foot to 18-foot. Small diameter pools are great for a couple of kids to splash around in, while the largest pools are big enough for a whole household to enjoy. In large pools, kids can swim quite easily and even adults can do laps, although it can get boring going in small circles after a while.
Depth
The depth of fast-set pools ranges from around 2-foot to 4-foot. The deepest pools are great for older kids and adults, making it easier to swim around, but they can leave little kids out of their depth. It’s always safer to choose a pool that users can comfortably stand in.
Durability
If you want your pool to last more than a couple of summers, make sure you choose a durable option. The best are made from two layers of heavy-gauge PVC with a layer of polyester mesh in between. Pools made from just a single layer of material are far more likely to get punctured.
Filter
Unless you choose a small pool, it’s a good idea to have a filter. Without a filter, you’ll need to keep emptying and refilling your pool to get rid of debris. Buying a pool that comes with a filter is often a more affordable option than buying one separately, plus it leaves you certain that the filter is appropriate for the pool.
Ladder
It’s a good idea to have a ladder to get in and out of your ring-top pool, as climbing in can pull down the edge and make water spill out. Some come with ladders included, but you can buy them separately.
Other accessories
Some pools come with other accessories, such as ground sheets to place them on to avoid punctures or chlorine tablets for water maintenance. Check what accessories are included and which you may need to buy separately.
Best easy-set pools
You can choose from a wide range of sizes, starting at 8 feet across and 2 feet deep, spanning all the way to 18 feet across and 4 feet deep. You can buy it either with or without a filter, but a filter is highly recommended for larger sizes.
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Summer Waves Transparent Quick-Set Pool
This pool stands out for having transparent sides and a cool 3D underwater scene on the base that you can view with the included 3D goggles, which is great fun for kids. It measures 8 feet in diameter and 30 inches deep.
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Bestway 57267E Fast-Set Aboveground Pool
The heavy three-ply PVC construction makes this pool durable enough to withstand many summers of use. It comes with a pump filter to keep the water free from debris.
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Intex 15-Foot by 48-Inch Easy-Set Pool
Thanks to its large 15-foot diameter and 4-foot depth, this is a great choice of pool for kids and adults alike. It comes with a filter, ladder, ground cloth and pool cover, so you have more or less everything you need to enjoy it safely and comfortably.
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Summer Waves P1001236A Quick-Set Top Ring Pool
You have a choice of three sizes with this pool: 8 feet by 30 inches, 10 feet by 30 inches or 12 feet by 3 feet. It comes with a filter pump to keep water clean and hygienic, plus its conveniently located drain makes emptying it easier.
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Jasonwell Inflatable Kiddie Pool
This quick-set kiddie pool is great for little kids to paddle and play in, measuring approximately 80 inches across and 18 inches deep. Its three-layer design is durable enough to withstand the wear and tear kids put on it.
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Summer Waves 15-Foot by 36-Inch Quick Set Pool
Measuring 15 feet in diameter and 3 feet deep, this is a large enough pool for kids to swim in and whole households to enjoy together. Made from a layer of polyester mesh sandwiched between two layers of thick PVC, it’s durable, too.
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Intex Inflatable Easy-Set Pool Set
If you’re looking for a large pool, this one fits the bill, with an 18-foot diameter and 4-foot depth. It comes with accessories, including a powerful pump, a ground cloth and pool cover.
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Moderately sized with 6-foot and 8-foot versions available, this is an ideal pool for kids or people with compact yards. Made from PVC with a central mesh layer, it’s surprisingly durable considering the low price.
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DUNKIRK, France (AP) — Building factories to boost job creation and make France more independent — that’s President Emmanuel Macron’s ambition for the French economy.
It’s a big challenge, as France reels from protracted protests, rising food and energy prices and other fallout from the Ukraine war.
While Macron woos investors to help “re-industrialize” France and reduce Europe’s dependence on China and the U.S., protesters follow him around the country, banging saucepans to protest economic injustice and his leadership.
More than 200 international business leaders are expected Monday at the ‘Choose France’ event staged at the palace of Versailles to promote foreign investment.
It follows a series of incentives announced by Macron last week to support innovative industries and transition towards greener technology. They include tax credits in fields like battery production, electric cars, hydrogen and wind power, as well as accelerating authorization for industrial projects.
“France is changing, is getting adapted to the course of the world and I believe that we're following the right path, which is to reindustrialize the country, to be more sovereign and more respectful of the climate and biodiversity," Macron said Friday during a visit to Dunkirk, in northern France.
Macron’s move comes after months of protests against his decision to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. The unpopularity of the reform has weakened his government at parliament and hampered his economic strategy.
Unions have called for a new round of nationwide demonstrations on June 6. Meanwhile, opponents keep staging small protests, with people loudly banging pots and pans in places where Macron and government members are scheduled to travel.
Credit rating agency Fitch last month downgraded France’s sovereign credit rating, citing the protest movement. “Political deadlock and (sometimes violent) social movements pose a risk to Macron’s reform agenda,” the agency wrote.
In Dunkirk Friday, Macron made time for many selfies with workers from several local factories who attended his speech at Aluminium Dunkerque, one of the biggest aluminum production sites in Europe. None of them asked him about the retirement age and, in contrast with his previous visits across French regions, he didn't walk through the city streets to meet with the crowd.
A heavy police presence was deployed in Dunkirk to keep potential protesters away.
Macron announced two major investments, both in the battery sector: one worth 5.2 billion euros ($5.7 billion) by Taiwanese group Prologium, the other one via a joint venture of China’s XTC with French energy giant Orano worth 1.5 billion euros ($1.6 billion). They are expected to create 3,000 and 1,700 jobs in the area respectively by 2030.
He seized the occasion to present the pension reform as part of a “package” that has already produced “results.” “If we want to be more competitive, we must work a little longer,” he said.
Since he took office in 2017, Macron has cut business taxes. He has made it easier to hire and fire workers and more difficult for the unemployed to claim benefits, amid other pro-business policies.
Macron said 300 new factories had been created since 2017 — two thirds in the past two years — while 600 had been shut down in the previous decade. The COVID-19 crisis and Ukraine war have shown that domestic industrial production is needed to strengthen the country's sovereignty, he stressed.
For a fourth consecutive year, France was the European country that had attracted the greatest number of foreign investments, Macron said, citing a survey by EY last week.
The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Friday its statistics showed France’s unemployment rate in March reached its lowest level since 2001, at 6.9% — down from about 10% when Macron was elected. Still, the proportion of jobless people in France is higher than the average in the European Union, which is stable at 6%.
ProLogium CEO Vincent Yang told reporters in Dunkirk his group considered establishing facilities in the U.S., yet eventually chose the European Union as being more a favorable environment to develop innovative battery technology.
France was a relevant choice, Yang said, because “we need to have stable, low-cost, and green electrical power" and Dunkirk, one of the major industrial ports in Europe, already has battery-related facilities. The country relies on nuclear power for 70% of its electricity, offering a low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels.
Macron has been one of the most prominent advocates for a strong EU response to the $375 billion U.S. Inflation Reduction Act announced last summer by President Joe Biden to favor clean energy technology.
Earlier this year, the European Union presented plans to revamp its policies on promoting green technologies, unleashing subsidies and other financial incentives to ramp up domestic production.
“We’re going to better target our subsidies on low-emission European productions,” Macron said. “We’re not being protectionist but taxpayers neither in the U.S. nor China fund batteries made in Europe. So why should we be the only place in the world where taxpayers’ money goes to helping non-European products? We’re going to stop doing that.”
He also called last week for a “pause” on EU environmental regulations, arguing the bloc of 27 already imposes tougher rules than its competitors. The comments prompted immediate criticism from French and European Green politicians.
Macron later insisted he was sticking to his climate-related commitments, including all policies aimed at making the EU reaching carbon neutrality by 2050, but said, "Let’s not add more.” | https://www.expressnews.com/news/world/article/macron-vows-to-build-back-factories-boost-18099159.php | 2023-05-15 07:58:15 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/world/article/macron-vows-to-build-back-factories-boost-18099159.php |
A 64-year-old man has been arrested in southern Russia for the shooting death of a former submarine commander who is alleged by some in Ukraine to have killed more than 20 civilians in a long-range missile strike last year.
Sergei Denisenko was detained on suspicion of shooting former 2nd Capt. Stanislav Rzhitsky, reportedly during a morning jog in the city of Krasnodar on July 10.
Denisenko was found in possession of a pistol and silencer, officials said. Some Russian media outlets identified him as a native of Sumy, a city in Ukraine.
Rzhitsky, 42, was attacked near the city’s Olimp sports complex where he often followed the same 4-mile path, according to the Russian online news outlet Baza, which didn’t specify the source of its report.
Baza reported that Rzhitsky often posted screenshots from a fitness app, leading to speculation the attacker could have used social media data to track his route. The reports could not be independently verified.
At the time of his death, Rzhitsky was deputy head of military mobilization in the Krasnodar city administration.
Ukrainian media reported that Rzhitsky was one of six submarine commanders able to launch long-range missiles that hit the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia in July 2022, killing 23 people and wounding more than 100.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces’ strategic communications division also said Rzhitsky was involved in carrying out the strike, citing Ukrainian intelligence. In a Telegram post, the division said Rzhitsky was “apparently liquidated by his own (people) for refusing to continue following orders of the command to launch missile attacks on peaceful Ukrainian cities.”
Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s main intelligence directorate, denied any involvement by Kyiv in the attack on Rzhitsky. However, the agency posted details about the killing on its Telegram channel, including the time of the attack, the number of shots fired, and local weather conditions.
Accounts of the killing differed. Ukrainian intelligence said Rzhitsky had been shot seven times, while Russian news outlets Baza and Mash reported he had been shot six times.
Rzhitsky was named commander of the submarine Krasnodar in 2016, and took part in Moscow’s military campaign in Syria, Russian media reported.
His address and other personal details had been posted on the Ukrainian website Myrotvorets — “Peacemaker” in English. The site, which acts as an unofficial database of those considered by its users to be enemies of Ukraine, described Rzhitsky in 2022 as a “Russian war criminal.”
Rzhitsky’s family denies he took part in the invasion, telling Baza he had resigned his post in December 2021. They also said Rzhitsky had been included on the Myrotvorets database as early as 2014, when Russia illegally annexed the Crimean Peninsula and took over a submarine based there that once was part of Ukraine's fleet.
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson said Friday that it's cutting 8% of its global workforce as it looks to reduce costs, the latest in a wave of tech company layoffs.
The Stockholm-based company, which provides equipment for high-speed 5G wireless networks, said it is expecting to lay off 8,500 employees this year and into 2024 as part of a strategy to reduce its spending by 9 billion Swedish kronor ($857 million) by the end of this year.
“Our aim is to manage the process in every country with fairness, respect, professionalism and in line with local labor legislation," Ericsson said in a statement.
The company in December announced its push to slash costs. It said Friday that it expects to see results in the second quarter as it simplifies and becomes more efficient, including cutting back its workforce of about 105,000 people worldwide.
“We are also working on our service delivery, supply, real estate and IT. We have already started to implement and accelerate various initiatives to help us reach" the cost-cutting goal, Ericsson said.
It comes as tech companies ranging from Spotify and Amazon to Microsoft and Facebook parent Meta have each slashed thousands of jobs in recent months. They had gone on hiring sprees over the past several years as demand for their products, software and services surged with millions of people working and studying remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last month, Ericsson reported profit of $1.86 billion and revenue of $26.93 billion for 2022. | https://www.mrt.com/business/article/telecom-maker-ericsson-to-cut-8-of-its-global-17804220.php | 2023-02-24 20:27:11 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/business/article/telecom-maker-ericsson-to-cut-8-of-its-global-17804220.php |
FBI chief says he’s ‘deeply concerned’ by China’s AI program
WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday that he was “deeply concerned” about the Chinese government’s artificial intelligence program, asserting that it was “not constrained by the rule of law.”
Speaking during a panel session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wray said Beijing’s AI ambitions were “built on top of massive troves of intellectual property and sensitive data that they’ve stolen over the years.”
He said that left unchecked, China could use artificial intelligence advancements to further its hacking operations, intellectual property theft and repression of dissidents inside the country and beyond.
“That’s something we’re deeply concerned about. I think everyone here should be deeply concerned about,” he said.
More broadly, he said, “AI is a classic example of a technology where I have the same reaction every time. I think, ‘Wow, we can do that?’ And then I think, ‘Oh God, they can do that.’”
Such concerns have long been voiced by U.S. officials. In October 2021, for instance, U.S. counterintelligence officials issued warnings about China’s ambitions in AI as part of a renewed effort to inform business executives, academics and local and state government officials about the risks of accepting Chinese investment or expertise in key industries.
Earlier that year, an AI commission led by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt urged the U.S. to boost its AI skills to counter China, including by pursuing “AI-enabled” weapons.
A spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request seeking comment Thursday about Wray’s comments. Beijing has repeatedly accused Washington of fearmongering and attacked U.S. intelligence for its assessments of China.
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Suspect trying to break into vehicles shoots security guard at Preston Center, city says
DALLAS - The city of University Park says there is a large police presence outside of Preston Center West following a shooting.
The city says a suspect was trying to break into cars around 3:30 p.m. when they were confronted by a security guard.
The suspect then shot the security guard and took off in a gold Toyota Camry, according to the city.
Police say the security guard was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
Dallas Police are investigating the case.
The suspect is still not in custody.
FOX 4 crews say that investigators appear to be focusing on a parking garage.
Police are asking people to avoid the area around the shopping center. | https://www.fox4news.com/news/preston-center-west-shooting | 2023-05-19 22:48:55 | 0 | https://www.fox4news.com/news/preston-center-west-shooting |
MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) — The officer who pulled Tyre Nichols from his car before police fatally beat him never explained why he was being stopped, newly released documents show, and emerging reports from Memphis residents suggest that was common.
The Memphis Police Department blasted Demetrius Haley and four other officers as “blatantly unprofessional” and asked that they be stripped of the ability to work as police for their role in the Jan. 7 beating, according to documents released Tuesday by the Tennessee Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission.
They also include revelations that Haley took photographs of Nichols as he lay propped against a police car, then sent the photos to other officers and a female acquaintance.
Nichols died three days later — the latest police killing to prompt nationwide protests and an intense public conversation about how police treat Black residents.
Yet what led to it all remains a mystery.
The five officers — Haley, Desmond Mills Jr., Tadarrius Bean, Justin Smith and Emmitt Martin III — have been fired and charged with second-degree murder. The new documents offer the most detailed account to date of those officers’ actions. Their attorneys have not commented to The Associated Press about the documents.
Another officer also has been fired and a seventh suspended of duty. Six others be disciplined, officials disclosed, without providing any details. That would bring the total involved to 13.
Erica Williams, a spokeswoman for the top prosecutor in Memphis, said more charges could still be filed.
Meanwhile, other residents are coming forward about interactions with Memphis police.
A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses the same officers now charged with murdering Nichols, 29, with also violating the rights of another man from the same neighborhood as Nichols during a similarly violent arrest three days before Nichols’ arrest.
According to the lawsuit, Monterrious Harris, 22, was visiting a cousin at an apartment on the evening of Jan. 4 when his car was “suddenly swarmed by a large group of assailants wearing black ski-masks, dressed in black clothing, brandishing guns, other weapons, hurling expletives and making threats to end his life if he did not exit his car.”
Harris thought the men were trying to rob him, the lawsuit says, and he tried to back up his car before hitting something. He then reluctantly exited with his hands raised and was “grabbed, punched, kicked and assaulted” for up to two minutes, the complaint states. The beating stopped only after people came out of their apartments to see what was happening, the lawsuit alleges.
Photos of Harris’ face taken after his release on bail about nine days later show thick scabs on his forehead and a healing black eye.
The suit accuses officers of fabricating evidence to support charges against Harris, including being a convicted felon in possession of a handgun, criminal trespass and evading arrest.
Also, a woman told WREG-TV that she tried to warn the Memphis Police Department about Haley after a Feb. 21, 2021, encounter. Kadejah Townes said she was returning a movie to a Redbox machine at a Walgreens when police responded to a false shooting call. Police initially told her she could leave, she said, but then officers stopped her when she put her car in reverse. Haley placed handcuffs on Townes so roughly that she feared her arm was dislocated, she said.
Her aunt recorded the encounter. Then police stopped her aunt and brother while they followed a squad car as it took Townes to a hospital. Townes said she was never charged with anything.
Haley’s disciplinary file showed that after Townes filed a complaint, he was written up for failing to fill out proper paperwork — not for use of force.
“I wasn’t surprised,” Townes told the TV station.
Police Chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis signed requests seeking to prohibit the five charged officers from working in law enforcement again. The Tennessee Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission will decide later whether to do that.
Haley, who was driving an unmarked car and wearing a black hoodie, forced Nichols from his car using profanity, then sprayed him in the eyes with a chemical irritant, according to the documents released Tuesday.
“You never told the driver the purpose of the vehicle stop or that he was under arrest,” the documents state.
Haley did not have his body camera on when he stopped Nichols but was on a phone call with someone who overheard.
Nichols ran from officers but was caught again a few blocks away. At that point, Haley kicked him in the torso as three other officers were handcuffing him. Other officers kicked Nichols in the face, punched him or struck him with a baton.
Charges against the other officers include that they misled officials about what happened.
Martin, for instance, claimed Nichols tried to snatch the officer’s gun from his holster after Haley forced him out of the vehicle, with Martin helping by grabbing Nichols’ wrist. However, video doesn’t corroborate the gun-grab claim, the documents said.
In a letter from Smith included in his file, he defended his conduct, stating that Nichols was “violent and would not comply.”
Audio from a body camera did not capture Nichols using profanity or making violent threats — instead, he appeared calm and polite in his comments to the officers.
The documents also highlight the failure to provide aid afterward, with Bean’s indifference to Nichols’ distress reported by a civilian who recorded video that has not been released.
All five also were faulted for violating rules on body cameras — either by not having them on the whole time or taking off their vests with cameras attached, the documents said.
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Associated Press reporters Kimberlee Kruesi in Nashville, Gene Johnson in Seattle, and Heather Hollingsworth in Mission, Kan., contributed. Mattise and Loller reported from Nashville.
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Colorado Rapids (2-7-6, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. Columbus Crew (5-6-3, eighth in the Eastern Conference)
Columbus, Ohio; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. EDT
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLS LINE: Columbus -155, Colorado +393, Draw +307; over/under is 2.5 goals
BOTTOM LINE: The Colorado Rapids aim to end a four-game losing streak when they take on the Columbus Crew.
The Crew are 4-1-2 at home. The Crew are 0-4-2 when they score only one goal.
The Rapids are 2-3-3 in road games. The Rapids rank ninth in the league with 68 shots on goal, averaging 4.5 per game.
The teams meet Wednesday for the first time this season.
TOP PERFORMERS: Lucas Zelarrayan has scored six goals and added three assists for the Crew. Mohamed Farsi has three assists over the last 10 games.
Michael Barrios has scored two goals with two assists for the Rapids. Lalas Abubakar has two goals over the last 10 games.
LAST 10 GAMES: Crew: 4-4-2, averaging 2.1 goals, 5.8 shots on goal and 5.0 corner kicks per game while allowing 1.3 goals per game.
Rapids: 2-4-4, averaging 1.0 goal, 4.8 shots on goal and 3.8 corner kicks per game while allowing 1.4 goals per game.
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Crew: Luis Diaz (injured), Kevin Molino (injured), Milos Degenek (injured), Josh Williams (injured), Eloy Room (injured), Will Sands (injured).
Rapids: Max (injured), Abraham Rodriguez (injured), Aboubacar Keita (injured), Cole Bassett (injured), Jack Price (injured), Diego Rubio (injured), Steven Beitashour (injured), Darren Yapi (injured), Keegan Rosenberry (injured), Bryan Acosta (injured).
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
5-1-1
(five, one, one)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
5-1-1
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BUFFALO, N.Y., July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- HELIXintel, a leading provider of cutting-edge risk management and loss control solutions for the insurance industry, is pleased to announce the appointment of Greg Ross as the company's Senior Vice President of Sales. With their Series A funding round's recent closure and accelerated growth trajectory, HELIXintel is poised to leverage Ross's expertise to drive sales expansion and establish market dominance.
Ross brings over two decades of experience in the sales and technology sectors, having held prominent leadership roles in high-growth companies like Google and HP. With an exceptional track record of cultivating strategic partnerships, scaling revenue streams, and fostering customer-centric cultures, Ross's addition to the HELIXintel team represents a significant milestone in the company's journey.
"Greg Ross's appointment as our Senior Vice President of Sales is a pivotal moment for HELIXintel," said Jon DeWald, CEO of HELIXintel. "His unparalleled expertise and proven ability to drive revenue growth align perfectly with our company's vision and strategic objectives. Greg will be crucial in expanding our customer base, driving sales initiatives, and solidifying HELIXintel as the go-to solutions provider for insurers."
HELIXintel recently closed a Series A funding round, led by National Grid Partners, to fuel their expansion plans and accelerate product development. With a comprehensive suite of advanced solutions, the company is revolutionizing how insurers predict risks and prevent losses, leveraging data to make informed decisions and gain a competitive edge.
"I am thrilled to join HELIXintel at this exciting phase of their journey," said Ross. "The company's commitment to innovation and vision for transforming the insurance industry landscape is awe-inspiring. I look forward to leading the sales team, driving revenue growth, and delivering exceptional value to our clients."
As the Senior Vice President of Sales, Ross will spearhead HELIXintel's sales strategies, focusing on strengthening existing customer relationships and forging new partnerships across industries. With his strong leadership skills and deep industry knowledge, Ross will empower the sales team to expand market reach and capitalize on emerging opportunities.
About HELIXintel:
HELIXintel is a premier provider of cutting-edge risk management and loss control products. The comprehensive platform offers a wide range of tools and data intelligence solutions, empowering insurers and their clients to extract valuable insights and take decisive action. By leveraging HELIXintel's innovative technology, organizations can confidently make data-driven decisions, mitigate risks, prevent losses, and drive impactful change. With a commitment to innovation and customer satisfaction, HELIXintel is a trusted partner in navigating the complexities of risk management and maximizing operational efficiency.
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DALLAS — The Mavericks return to Dallas looking for answers, down 0-2 in the Western Conference semis to Phoenix as the Suns roster looks to overmatch the Dallas rotation. With the Mavs aiming to right their ship, several changes will be needed to present a fighting chance for Luka Doncic and the gang.
Doncic and who?
With the rest of the team looking for a way to break out, Doncic has shouldered the brunt of the load with an offense that has opted for reactionary prayer shots rather than the efficient and planned attack that Dallas showed in their series win in Utah.
Dwight Powell in particular has been ineffective in this series, neutralized by his inability to contribute on either end of the floor.
It is clear that the coaching staff for the Suns have deployed a defensive effort meant to tire the All-NBA star as Dallas has shown no other viable offensive options this series, with Jalen Brunson particularly regressing after his standout performance against the Jazz in round one.
With Powell being a black hole for production, and Spencer Dinwiddie remaining cold, Doncic has turned into a one-stop shop for the Dallas offense, leveraging efficiency for desperation as the sole Dallas option.
Defend home court
The Mavs took a couple of haymakers in Phoenix while Luka turned his on-court trash-talking into legit stare-downs with Phoenix fans, showing the frustrations of playing in a hostile environment. Now, the team returns to the friendly confines of Dallas, Texas, looking to feed off their own home court energy and make a stand to fight off an 0-3 series result.
The first Western Conference semifinal game in the American Airlines Center since 2011 on Friday night should have the faithful rallying to the cause. Perhaps the home cooking can help Maxi Kleber to set the tone early and help space the floor for the Dallas guards. Brunson, meanwhile, will look to be a bigger part of the game after starting off cold in Phoenix.
Best in the west
Phoenix (64-18) is the number one seed for a reason. They won eight more games than second place Memphis and twelve more than Dallas (52-30). The Suns bring an incredibly deep squad with outstanding perimeter defense, multiple shot creators, and a reliable inside offensive game.
The Mavericks entered the series as the clear underdog and the ability of the Phoenix roster has not betrayed those expectations thus far. However, regardless of the series result, the Mavericks are playing with house money after climbing over the first-round hurdle.
But the Mavs can pat themselves on the back and celebrate their successes another day, as they still remain just one of eight NBA teams continuing their 2022 season.
While attempting to slay Goliath in the first two games, the Mavs made the Game 1 box score look closer with a rally in the 4th quarter. This was the complete opposite in Game 2, with Suns guard Chris Paul on a personal mission to make the game a blowout.
With Paul and Devin Booker taking turns closing out quarters, the Mavericks have their work cut out for them and will need to play near-perfect to have a chance at cutting into the series lead against the title contender.
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A caller to 911 in Salt Lake City said a man had come into a brewery in his underwear, tried to steal beer and was running around in the street, posing a danger to himself and to drivers. Police tried to detain the man. Soon, Nykon Brandon was dead.
After the Salt Lake City Police Department on Friday released body-camera footage of the Aug. 14 fatal encounter and the 911 recording, activists on Saturday were asking why an unarmed person wound up dead and were accusing police of using disproportionate force.
“Stealing a beer does not equate to the death penalty,” said Lex Scott, founder of Black Lives Matter-Utah. “I don’t care if this man robbed 10 banks in one day. He didn’t deserve to die. He deserved to make it to court.”
The death of Brandon, who was 35, comes as the United States is still seeing uncounted numbers of police killings of unarmed people, many of whom were suffering a mental health crisis. Activists have called for reforms, saying rather than armed police who can often escalate situations, a better solution would be for special mental health crisis teams to respond.
Brandon’s Facebook page says he’d attended Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and worked for a firm that sells appliances, plumbing and hardware. Many people who posted on his page expressed shock and grief over his death.
The 911 caller said a man had come to Fisher Brewing, attacked a person at the door and was “running around crazy. Very erratic. He just jumped in and out of the road.”
“Definitely mental health issues,” the caller said. “So if you’ve got mental health resources, send them out.”
Instead, bodycam footage shows a police officer get out of his patrol car and order Brandon to stop. When he resists and puts up a fist and appears to reach for the officer’s holstered pistol, another officer pushes Brandon to the ground and the two officers try to pin him down. “Stop,” one of the officers says repeatedly as Brandon is on a gravel bed between the road and the sidewalk and continuing to push against the officers.
No de-escalation attempts by the police are visible or audible in the footage from nine body-worn cameras, even though an executive order signed by Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall two years ago requires all Salt Lake City Police Department officers to use de-escalation techniques before using force.
“De-escalation tactics are no longer suggested or preferred — they are mandatory prior to using force to effect an arrest unless it would be unreasonable to do so,” Mendenhall said in announcing the police reforms, which were prompted in part by the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020.
Salt Lake City Police Department spokesperson Brent Weisberg said of the Aug. 14 incident: “As the body-worn camera video shows, this is a situation that rapidly unfolded. It was a chaotic situation and our officers were required to make very fast decisions to get a situation under control that was very tense.”
Before Brandon walked into Fisher Brewing, he had been taken by South Salt Lake Police to a detox facility after they received a report of a man acting confused and scared at a park just after 1 p.m. on Aug. 14, KUTV reported.
Officers determined he was intoxicated, took him to the facility and cited him for public intoxication. But the facility is not a detention center and patients can leave at their will, KUTV reported.
The Salt Lake City Police Department officers encountered Brandon at 3:22 p.m. In the videos, he’s not heard speaking during his struggles with the officers, except for maybe a couple of words that are unclear.
A minute later, a third officer arrives. Video shows Brandon grabbing onto his holster and gun. They finally manage to cuff Brandon’s hands behind his back as he lies on the gravel belly down.
“We want to help you,” an officer says. “You’ve got to stop fighting with us.”
After a few seconds, Brandon stops moving. An officer taps Brandon on the shoulder with his gloved hand and asks “Can you hear me?” three times. Brandon does not respond.
“Get him in recovery,” an officer commands, and the others roll Brandon onto his side.
“Come on man,” an officer says. All the camera footage released by the police goes dark at that point.
Salt Lake City Police said in a press release that officers began to perform medical aid at 3:27 p.m. A minute later, they administered the first of multiple doses of Narcan and started performing chest compressions.
“At 4:16 p.m. SLCPD is notified that Mr. Brandon died. The exact time of death is unknown,” the news release said.
The police department said a thorough investigation was being conducted by an outside agency and that the department’s own internal affairs unit would conduct a separate investigation.
Rae Duckworth, operating chairperson for Black Lives Matter’s Utah chapters, wants to know why the released footage doesn’t show the officers trying to help Brandon.
“We don’t even have proof they actually administered aid. We don’t have proof that they actually administered Narcan,” Duckworth said.
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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Russian energy giant Gazprom announced Monday that it will not further reduce natural gas to Moldova as it had threatened to do after claiming that bills went unpaid and that flows crossing through Ukraine were not making it to Moldova.
Gazprom tweeted that Moldovagaz has “eliminated the violation of payment” for November supplies and that “funds for the gas deposited on the territory of Ukraine, intended for consumers in Moldova, have been received.”
Last week, Moldova and Ukraine hit back at Gazprom’s claim that Russian gas moving through the last pipeline to Western Europe was being stored in Ukraine, saying all supplies that Russia sends through the war-torn country get “fully transferred” to Moldova.
“The volumes of gas that Gazprom refers to as remaining in Ukraine are our savings and reserves stored in warehouses in Ukraine,” Moldovan Infrastructure Minister Andrei Spinu said last week. “These volumes were and will be fully paid for by our country.”
The Russia state-owned company alleged “regular violation by the Moldovan side of contractual obligations in terms of payment for Russian gas supplies,” adding that it “reserves the right to reduce or completely stop gas supplies in case of violation of their payment.”
It comes as Europe’s poorest country — which had relied entirely on Russia for natural gas — is facing an acute energy crisis after Moscow dramatically reduced supplies in October and halved them in November as cold weather took hold. Moscow’s attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure also have triggered massive blackouts in several cities in Moldova.
Russia has cut off most natural gas to Europe amid the war in Ukraine, which European leaders have called energy blackmail. Gazprom's threats to further reduce flows raised concerns about rising prices heading into winter, when natural gas is needed to heat homes as well as generate electricity and power factories, with higher bills already squeezing households and businesses.
With inflation high all around, there were fears consumers in Moldova, a former Soviet republic of about 2.6 million, would struggle to pay their heating and electricity costs.
The European Union pledged 250 million euros (nearly $262 million) in aid to Moldova this month to help it weather the crisis. Last week, an international aid conference in Paris raised more than 100 million euros to support the country through the energy crisis.
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Cristian Jardan contributed from Chisinau, Moldova.
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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor returned to the Bronx community where she grew up to see the unveiling of her bronze statue at a shopping center in the heart of the community.
In brief remarks after the likeness was unveiled, Sotomayor, 68, said it was “always so heartwarming” to return to the neighborhood and that she was “deeply touched” by the bust with the Bronx Terminal Market.
Sotomayor, who became the first Hispanic justice to serve on the Supreme Court when she was sworn in in 2009, said she hoped every child who sees the statue of her at the Bronx market knows that she is a proud native.
“I love the Bronx. I love my community,” she said.
The justice said she grew up a few miles away from the shopping center, which sits at the site of a former wholesale fruit and vegetable market that’s been a local neighborhood landmark for generations.
The bust, encased behind protective glass, has her name on its base. It is surrounded by panels that feature a short biography about the justice.
Sotomayor marveled at how much the sculpture resembled her, remarking on how curly her hair is and noting with a laugh that she seemed to be wearing similar dangly earrings Thursday as were memorialized on the statue.
“It’s quite amazing. Looks a lot like me,” she said.
“I think they may have improved on the original a little,” she joked.
After looking through the glass at the bust, Sotomayor spoke to about a dozen people gathered around and wistfully noted that her mother, Celina Báez, died last year but had she been there Thursday, “she would have been bursting with pride.”
Sotomayor posed with several local eighth-grade students who helped unveil the sculpture but did not take any questions.
The statue at the Bronx Terminal Market shopping center is near Yankee Stadium, home to the justice’s beloved baseball team.
The bust was sculpted by artists Gillie and Marc. Sotomayor called them “two visionary artists who share a passion as I do for community service.”
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NEW YORK, April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) today published the latest edition in its Look Forward research series, focusing on developments in the private markets.
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"Private markets have moved off the sidelines and into the spotlight across multiple industries and sectors. While public markets remain essential to the global economy, many companies today have grown to dominant market positions without ever engaging with public financing," said Adam Kansler, President of S&P Global Market Intelligence. "Whether we are talking about private debt or private equity, venture capital or energy infrastructure, the scale of private market financing has reached a point where knowledge of these markets is essential."
The Look Forward research series from the S&P Global Research Council aims to provide a deep dive into the most important themes that are transforming the global economy, helping decision-makers look beyond the near term and explore the trends that will shape our future.
"In a rapidly changing world in which markets transform and evolve at a pace never seen before, new risks and opportunities are constantly emerging, and established wisdom is continually challenged," said Martina Cheung, President of S&P Global Ratings and Executive Sponsor of the S&P Global Research Council. "The Look Forward journal exemplifies the role of S&P Global in powering global markets and provides the perspectives our customers need to focus on the future."
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Kids Coding Franchise Helps Kids Enjoy a Fun-Filled Season Ahead of New School Year
HOUSTON, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Beat the heat (and the boredom) this summer at Code Ninjas, the world's largest and fastest-growing franchise where kids learn to code. Code Ninjas offers a wide variety of summer camps for kids 5-14 that integrate video games, robotics and a ton of other tools and technologies to ensure that kids have fun and continue to be inspired outside of their regular school year schedule.
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Due to a spike in travel, amusement park and family vacation prices have soared, and summer activities are booking up quickly. With that in mind, summer 2022 is already bringing unexpected challenges to parents trying to fill up their schedule. Code Ninjas has parents covered with a wide assortment of camp curriculum over the summer months that offers parents an option for kids to have fun with fellow campers, learn new skills and beat summer boredom.
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- 1.6L, three-cylinder turbo engine delivers 300 hp and up to 295 pound-feet of torque
- GR-FOUR AWD system with customizable front-rear power settings
- Available in three models: Core grade, launch-year-exclusive Circuit Edition and ultra-limited MORIZO Edition
- Born from rally racing and tested to meet the highest standards set by master driver Akio Toyoda and professional TOYOTA GAZOO Racing drivers
- Pure Toyota sports car, precision built at the GR Factory at Toyota's Motomachi Plant
- Complimentary 1-year membership to the National Auto Sport Association, featuring a High-Performance Driving Event with expert instruction
- Starting MSRP of $35,900
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The first-ever 2023 GR Corolla might be the newest member of TOYOTA'S GAZOO Racing sports car family, but this hot hatch is ready to make a big impression on North American streets. Rooted in rally, developed under the scrutiny of master driver Akio Toyoda and inspired by Toyota's sports car lineage, GR Corolla looks to rocket to the top of driver wish lists as it debuts at dealerships later this year.
Powered by the lightweight, compact-yet-powerful G16E-GTS turbocharged, three-cylinder engine that pumps out an impressive 300 horsepower, GR Corolla will come in three grades: the Core grade, Circuit Edition and the limited, track-focused, MORIZO Edition. GR Corolla Core grade is expected to arrive at dealership lots in the Fall of 2022. The MORIZO Edition is expected in Winter 2023 and Circuit Edition is expected in Spring 2023.
GR Corolla's impressive output is thanks in part to a unique triple exhaust that reduces back-pressure for maximum power delivery. The Core grade and Circuit Edition push out 300 hp and 273 lb.-ft. of torque, while the MORIZO Edition hits 295 lb.-ft. High strength engine components and a turbocharger also help GR Corolla punch above its weight. With a max boost of 25.2 PSI on the GR Corolla Core grade and Circuit Edition and 26.3 PSI on the MORIZO Edition, GR Corolla models have a manufacturer estimated 0-60 mph time of about five seconds.
Peak torque output on the Core grade and Circuit Edition hits between 3,000-5,500 rpm, with max horsepower at 6,500 rpm. TOYOTA GAZOO Racing engineers have aggressively tuned the G16E engine for additional power on the MORIZO Edition, with peak torque coming in between 3,250-4,600 rpm. Regardless of the model, drivers will find satisfying torque across the powerband.
Exclusively available with an intelligent Manual Transmission (iMT), GR Corolla's short throw shifter and moderately tuned clutch keep drivers engaged with hands-on thrills. iMT is off by default for drivers who prefer finding the rev on their own but is easily turned on by the push of a button to the left of the steering wheel. For further responsiveness customization, Eco, Sport, Track and Custom drive mode selector comes standard on all grades.
Toyota's GR-FOUR All-Wheel-Drive (AWD) drivetrain brings rally-inspired engineering to the GR Corolla. With the twist of a dial or a push for Track mode, drivers can adjust the GR-FOUR system to fit a variety of road conditions and driving styles with 60-40, 50-50 or 30-70 torque distribution to the front and rear wheels.
The GR Corolla is built on Toyota's GA-C platform, with enhanced frame reinforcements developed specifically for GR Corolla at the GR Factory at Toyota Motomachi plant.
Available Core grade colors include Ice Cap, Black and Supersonic Red, all paired with a color keyed roof and rear lip spoiler, GR-FOUR stamped side rockers and wide-fender flares. On the inside, seating for five will come with GR-logoed fabric sport seats.
The Circuit Edition will be a limited-run model available for 2023 only. Standard colors are Ice Cap, Supersonic Red and Heavy Metal with the same GR-FOUR stamped side rockers and wide fenders as the Core grade. It adds a forged carbon fiber roof, vented bulge hood, a sporty rear spoiler, Brin-Naub® suede and synthetic leather-trimmed trimmed sport seats with red accents and a leather wrapped MORIZO signed shift knob.
The MORIZO Edition sheds the back seat in the name of weight savings and will be available in Windchill Pearl and a MORIZO Edition exclusive NEW matte finished Smoke gray color. It also comes equipped with a forged carbon fiber roof, rear lip spoiler, vented bulge hood, Brin-Naub® and synthetic leather-trimmed sport seats with red stitching, red mesh inserts and Ultrasuede® wrapped MORIZO signed shift knob.
All grades come equipped with Toyota's all-new, US-developed multimedia system with an 8-inch touchscreen standard. Toyota Safety Sense 3.0 (TSS 3.0) will also come standard.
Inspired Engineering
In 2007, Akio Toyoda wanted to expand the company's racing experience in its car development activities. As a starting point, he chose to compete in the 24 Hours of Nürburgring, the grueling endurance race held on the famous track winding through the German forest. It was an unofficial Toyota activity at the time, so the team was called GAZOO Racing and was made up of employees, including Akio Toyoda driving under the alias of MORIZO.
With a limited budget, the newly named team entered the race with two second-hand Altezzas. Despite adversity, both cars finished the challenging race, and a new era of Toyota motorsports and product development, one founded on a spirit of challenge aimed at instilling change, began.
As TOYOTA GAZOO Racing's first wholly developed and manufactured model for the North American market, the GR Corolla carries this spirit forward.
With professional drivers, experts and MORIZO at the wheel, GR Corolla was tested repeatedly at some of Japan's leading circuits, including Fuji Speedway, Suzuka and Tsukuba Circuit. In addition, the GR team carried out heavy duty dirt and snow driving with a Japanese Rally Championship driver. No road was left untested in the process, so engineers and technicians could sharpen acceleration and control worthy of the GR name.
GR Factory
To help meet the performance goals for the GR Corolla, Toyota has established a dedicated GR Factory at its production facility in Motomachi, Japan. It is the birthplace of legends such as the Lexus LFA and Supra A80 and is now home to the first GR production line, where GR Corolla and GR Yaris are assembled.
The body and component assembly lines comprise several different cells connected by automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) rather than the conveyors featured in conventional car plants. This fully flexible method of working, with many manual assembly techniques, enables precise body and suspension alignment, with variations in vehicle dimensions and weight kept to a minimum.
Being assembled by experts means that each GR Corolla takes longer than a conventional mass-produced car. The assembly line has been streamlined for precision, with elements such as body alignment and weld checks to ensure that each GR Corolla is crafted with meticulous care and attention.
TOYOTA GAZOO Racing has brought together highly skilled technicians from throughout the company to work on the GR Corolla. This team not only serves to assemble every GR Corolla but also helps to enhance the technical skills of other workers across Toyota facilities when learning is shared. It is a philosophy that's part of the overall GR mission at Toyota, developing people, growing the automotive enthusiast and motorsport community and making ever better cars.
The GR-FOUR System
With all TOYOTA GAZOO Racing sports cars firmly rooted in motorsports, it only makes sense that the GR Corolla's drivetrain was born from the rigors of rally racing.
At the heart of the new GR Corolla is the GR-FOUR All-Wheel-Drive system, Toyota's first sports all-wheel-drive system in over 20 years. Developed in collaboration with the TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team and honed by WRC drivers, it delivers exceptional levels of traction and control with engineering designed to optimize drive power to each wheel, while remaining simple and lightweight.
Inspired by rally driving, the GR-FOUR system is designed for a variety of conditions. Whether the driver is looking to adjust performance for dirt, rain or snow, or just in the mood for a different feel, the GR-FOUR system offers settings to match.
With a twist of the dial, GR Corolla adjusts its four-wheel drive performance to fit the driver's needs. For everyday situations, drivers can set a front/rear torque distribution of 60:40. For sporty driving, balance can shift to the rear, with 30:70 distribution for a fun-to-drive quality on winding roads and circuits. For maximum stability, a 50:50 setting can be used for fast, competitive track driving on circuits or special stages. In each mode, the torque balance will automatically adjust in response to the driver's inputs, vehicle behavior and road or track conditions.
The GR Corolla Circuit and MORIZO Editions are also equipped with front and rear Torsen® Limited-Slip Differentials (LSD), which offer enhanced cornering performance and grip with control of left and right-hand drive torque distribution on the front and rear axles. The Core grade comes with AWD open differentials standard, with the dual LSD available as part of the Performance Package on the Core grade.
Revolutionary Three-Cylinder Turbo Engine
For GR Corolla, Toyota engineers took the same turbocharged G16E-GTS powerplant used in the GR Yaris and boosted its output for performance you will feel. Thanks to a three-pipe exhaust system, GR Corolla produces 300 hp and a satisfying exhaust note without any augmented engine noise. For the pure joy of its rumble, the center pipe is open while idling and up to 20 mph, where it will then close. At 4,500 RPM's the pipe reopens, reducing exhaust backpressure for powerful acceleration.
The G16E also benefits from motorsport technologies that maximize performance, including multi-oil jet piston cooling, large-diameter exhaust valves and a part-machined intake port. Displacing 1,618 cubic centimeters, it produces a maximum power of 300 hp and 273 lb-ft. of torque on the Core grade and Circuit Edition and 295 pound-feet of torque in the MORIZO Edition model.
Compact and lightweight, the DOHC 12-valve engine features a single-scroll ball-bearing turbo and is matched to a 6-speed intelligent Manual Transmission (iMT) with rev-matching engineered to accommodate high torque levels. The turbocharger is integrated in the exhaust manifold, reducing weight, while control of wastegate bypass gases is used to improve the catalyst's warm-up efficiency.
Combustion is fed by Toyota's D-4S direct and port fuel injection system, which operates at high pressure for maximum fuel dispersion, for a manufacturer's estimated 21 city/28 highway/24 combined mpg rating.
Wide, Rigid and Designed to Handle
To achieve control worthy of the GR badge, a highly rigid body was specially constructed for GR Corolla. Based off the GA-C platform, GR Corolla is designed for handling performance that rewards the driver.
Enhanced rigidity comes from significantly more weld points in the frame, particularly to strengthen joints, with 349 more spot welds. Further gains are made through extensive use of structural adhesive, which increases the joint rigidity between component parts. There are just over nine additional feet of adhesive on the Core grade/Circuit Edition and nearly 20 more feet on the MORIZO than the Corolla Hatch.
Additional structural support includes underfloor tunnel and rear wheelhouse braces. The MORIZO Edition adds two braces that span the rear of the cabin for structural support. The brace also serves as an in-car "tire rack" that allows a spare set to be vertically placed for a track day.
The front suspension is a MacPherson-type strut design that is light weight and maximizes the tires' grip potential. Made up of circuit-tuned coil springs, shock absorbers and stabilizer bars, the front suspension is designed to maximize power delivery to the wheels and provide optimum cornering capability on all surfaces. The rear suspension uses a double-wishbone type multilink assembly that accommodates the AWD system's goal of maximum agility and stability. The MORIZO Edition tweaks the suspension with a stiffer spring rate on the circuit-tuned coils and red-painted monotube shock absorbers.
Wide tread tires ensure high cornering performance while maintaining the excellent high-speed stability of the GR Corolla's 103.9-inch-long wheelbase. The Core grade and Circuit Edition wear 235/40R18 Michelin Pilot Sport 4 tires and come equipped with 18-in. gloss-black 15-spoke cast alloy wheels. The MORIZO Edition wears 245/40R18 Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires that are mounted on 18-in. forged alloy wheels.
Stopping power comes from opposed, fixed-caliper disc brakes with 14-inch x 1.1-inch ventilated and slotted rotors outfitted with 4-piston aluminum calipers on all grades. At the rear, 11.7-in. x 0.7-in. ventilated rotors with 2-piston aluminum fixed-caliper disc brakes come standard on the Core grade. Red-painted GR logoed calipers are standard on the Circuit and MORIZO Editions. The red-painted front and rear calipers are available with the Performance Package on the Core grade.
Lightweight and Aerodynamic
Throughout GR Corolla, there has been a focus on saving weight to maximize the performance potential without compromising strength and safety. This rigorous approach is particularly evident in the car's construction, with extensive use of lightweight metals and materials used in key areas.
On the Circuit and MORIZO Editions, the roof is made of a forged carbon sheet molding compound. This lightweight, highly rigid material is lighter than steel, helping lower the car's center of gravity.
Aluminum is used for the hood while front door panels are steel on all grades, with light and strong high-tensile steel in critical areas designed so that the car's structure can help safely absorb and dissipate impact forces.
The MORIZO Edition takes weight savings a few steps further. The removal of the back seat, use of forged wheels and ounce-cutting measures like no rear door speakers, no rear window regulator or rear wiper, makes the MORIZO Edition about 100-pounds lighter difference than the Circuit Edition.
Curb weight for the Core grade comes in at 3,252 pounds (3,262 pounds when equipped with the dual LSD option), Circuit at 3,285 pounds, and MORIZO at 3,186 pounds.
GR Corolla's 0.35 coefficient of drag is partially attributed to GR Corolla's ascending nose and tapering roof line. Wind flow is directed onto the rear lip spoiler to reduce drag. As with rally cars, the shaping of the front and rear canards and GR-FOUR stamped lower rockers efficiently channel airflow down the sides of the vehicle and a flat underfloor helps reduce drag and improve stability.
Rally Ready Hot Hatch Style
The wide stance and broad hatchback design of GR Corolla projects a strong, attack-ready style with its black GR badged functional matrix grille. The dynamic exterior includes functional air ducts flanking both sides on the Core grade and MORIZO Edition, and a stylish front grille featuring integrated LED fog lamps and GR badge comes standard on all models. Auto on/off LED headlamps and LED DRLs are also standard on all grades.
All grades feature wide front and rear fender-flares. The Circuit and MORIZO Edition have a bulge hood with functional air ducts. The forged carbon fiber roof on the Circuit and MORIZO Editions are matched with a matte black roof-mounted shark fin antenna. The Core grade features an aluminum hood with a color-keyed roof and matching shark fin antenna, gloss black power outside mirrors with turn signal indicators and gloss black window molding. The Circuit Edition comes with heated side mirrors standard, which are available with the Cold Weather Package on the Core grade. Side, front and rear GR Corolla badges are standard on all models.
At the rear, all models feature a rear lower bumper cover with functional air vents, which come in gloss black on the Circuit Edition. The tapering of the roof and rear pillars are complimented by a high mounted black rear sport spoiler on the Circuit Edition and a color matched rear-lip spoiler on the Core grade and MORIZO Edition. The wide track and flaring of the rear fenders emphasize the car's wide, low silhouette, with a ground clearance of 5.3 inches on the Core grade and Circuit Edition and 5.1 inches on the MORIZO Edition.
Race Inspired Interior
The design of the GR Corolla's interior reflects the car's performance, especially around the driver's cockpit.
Incorporating the feedback of professional drivers, a GR Full TFT meter was newly developed with a 12.3-inch color Multi-Information Display (MID) that shows 4WD mode, turbo pressure, gear position indicator and tachometer. The brightly lit display is designed for easy viewing in any condition and even features a start-up GR animation.
The shift lever is designed for a quick throw between gears. Positioned where the driver's arm is naturally lowered from steering, the action is light with short shift strokes, adding to GR Corolla's performance quality. GR Corolla uses a pull type mechanical parking brake.
The Core grade's cabin is finished with black and silver details. Drivers and passengers will find fabric trimmed sport seats with gray stitching and GR badged headrests; 6-way adjustable driver's seat with suede covered sheet seatback pocket; 4-way adjustable front passenger seat with seatback pocket are standard on the Core grade.
The Circuit Edition's interior is finished in black with red trim details around the door handles, center console, steering wheel and side air vents. For an added touch, a leather wrapped "Morizo" signed shift knob comes on the launch year Circuit Edition. Drivers and front passengers are cradled by Brin-Naub® suede and synthetic leather-trimmed sport seats with red stitching, red mesh inserts, seat back pockets and GR badged headrests. The driver's seat is 6-way adjustable, and passenger's seats are 4-way adjustable.
The MORIZO Edition offers exclusive red and black trim and details, including a red seat belt strap and a GR Ultrasuede®-wrapped, tilt/telescopic sport steering wheel with red sight line. The limited-edition model comes with Brin-Naub® and synthetic leather-trimmed semi bucket sport seats with red stitching, red mesh inserts and GR badged headrests; 6-way adjustable driver's seat; and a 4-way adjustable front passenger seat. Ultrasuede is also wrapped around the MORIZO signature shift knob.
Single zone automatic climate control and power windows with one-touch auto up/down function is standard on all grades. Heated front seats and heated steering wheel are standard on the Circuit and MORIZO Editions and are available with the Cold Weather package option on Core grade.
A GR leather-trimmed tilt/telescopic sport steering wheel with audio, Multi-Information Display, Bluetooth® hands-free phone and voice-command controls comes standard on the Circuit Edition.
Standard on all models is a push button GR engine start/stop button, aluminum sport pedals, two USB Type C charging ports, one 12V auxiliary power outlet, lighted foot wells, front console tray and rear console box. Qi-compatible wireless smartphone charging with full charge indicator light is standard on the Circuit Edition and available with the Technology package on the Core grade.
Toyota Audio Multimedia
All GR Corollas feature Toyota's all-new, North American developed Audio Multimedia system. Displayed on an 8-inch touchscreen, the system offers an improved user experience and a wide range of enhanced connectivity and convenience features, including Connected Services trials1. Users can interact with the new system's design through touch and voice activation. And with Intelligent Assistant available with an active Drive Connect trial or subscription1, simple phrases like "Hey Toyota" awaken the system for voice-activated commands to search for directions, find Points of Interest (POI), adjust audio controls, change the cabin temperatures and more.
The cloud-based native navigation system offered through and active Drive Connect trial or subscription allows for real-time Over-the-Air updates for mapping and Points of Interest (POI), and Google POI data is integrated to ensure up-to-date search capability.
Toyota Audio Multimedia allows for simultaneous dual Bluetooth phone connectivity with support for wireless Apple CarPlay® and Android Auto™ capability. An active Wi-Fi Connect trial or subscription offers 4G connectivity through AT&T for up to five devices and enables the new Integrated Streaming feature, providing the ability to link separate Apple Music® and Amazon Music subscriptions to the vehicle for onboard control. Adding to the already robust offering of audio multimedia features, the GR Corolla has playback ability with HD Radio, USB data and a SiriusXM® Platinum Plan three-month trial subscription.
The Circuit Edition offers an enhanced audio experience with an available eight speaker JBL® Premium Audio system including an eight-channel, 800-watt amplifier.
The GR Corolla comes with a host of additional standard Connected Services. Safety Connect includes an Emergency Assistance Button (SOS), 24/7 Enhanced Roadside Assistance, Automatic Collision Notification, Stolen Vehicle Locator and Collision Assistance with up to a 10-year trial service. Service Connect offering drivers the capability of receiving Vehicle Health Reports, Maintenance Alerts and reminders with up to a 10-year trial.
14G network dependent. After the trial period ends, a paid subscription is required. More details on trial periods and subscription-based features can be found at https://www.toyota.com/connected-services/.
Safety & Other Technology
All GR Corolla models come standard with Toyota Safety Sense 3.0 (TSS 3.0), which includes enhancements made possible by system sensors with advanced detection capability. The Pre-Collision System with Pedestrian Detection is also capable of detecting motorcyclists and bicyclists in certain conditions. When making a turn or approaching an intersection, the system is designed to detect forward or laterally approaching oncoming vehicles and provides audio/visual alerts and automatic braking in certain conditions.
Lane Departure Alert with Steering Assist is designed to notify the driver via audible and visual alerts and slight steering force if it senses the vehicle is leaving the lane without engaging a turn signal. GR Corolla will be equipped with Dynamic Radar Cruise Control (DRCC), which is designed to detect the preceding vehicle and adjust speed in order to maintain a preset distance. And when DRCC is set and engaged, and Lane Tracing Assist is activated, this system uses sensors to detect the lane or a preceding vehicle and provides steering support to help keep the vehicle centered in its lane while improved lane recognition delivers refined performance of Lane Departure Alert with Steering Assist and Lane Tracing Assist.
Automatic High Beams are designed to detect preceding or oncoming vehicles and automatically switch between high beam and low beam headlights. Road Sign Assist is designed to recognize certain road sign information using a forward-facing camera and display them on the multi-information display (MID).
In addition to the TSS 3.0 system, other standard safety features on the GR Corolla include Blind Spot Monitor (BSM), which is designed to help detect and warn when vehicles are approaching or positioned in the adjacent lanes. Rear Cross Traffic Alert (RCTA) helps detect vehicles approaching from either side while backing out and provide a visual and audible warning. Toyota's Rear Seat Reminder comes standard on the GR Corolla Core grade and Circuit Edition. The feature can note whether a rear door was opened within 10 minutes of the vehicle being turned on, or at any time after the vehicle has been turned on, with a reminder message in the instrument cluster after the engine is turned off, accompanied by multitone chimes. Hill Start Assist Control (HAC) also comes standard on all GR Corolla models and helps improve control by reducing backward movement when starting from a stop going uphill.
Option Packages
GR Corolla Core grade is available with the following packages:
- Performance package: Includes front and rear Torsen® Limited Slip Differentials (LSD), 4-piston aluminum fixed-caliper disc brakes, red-painted calipers with GR logo; 14-in. x 1.1-in. ventilated and slotted rotors (front), and 2-piston aluminum fixed-caliper disc brakes with red-painted calipers and GR logo; 11.7-in. x 0.7-in. ventilated rotors (rear).
- Technology package: Includes Premium Audio with Dynamic Navigation and JBL® w/Clari-Fi® and Qi-compatible wireless smartphone charging.
- Cold Weather Package: Includes heated front seats and heated steering wheel.
Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP)
GR Corolla Core grade will arrive at dealership lots in the Fall of 2022. The MORIZO Edition will arrive in Winter 2023 and Circuit Edition will arrive in Spring 2023.
Limited Warranty and ToyotaCare
Toyota's 36-month/36,000-mile basic new-vehicle warranty applies to all components other than normal wear and maintenance items. Additional 60-month warranties cover the powertrain for 60,000 miles and corrosion with no mileage limitation. Toyota dealers have complete details on the limited warranty. GR Corolla also comes with ToyotaCare, a plan covering normal factory-scheduled maintenance and 24-hour roadside assistance for two years or 25,000 miles, whichever comes first.
About Toyota
Toyota (NYSE:TM) has been a part of the cultural fabric in the U.S. for more than 60 years, and is committed to advancing sustainable, next-generation mobility through our Toyota and Lexus brands, plus our nearly 1,500 dealerships.
Toyota directly employs more than 39,000 people in the U.S. who have contributed to the design, engineering, and assembly of nearly 32 million cars and trucks at our nine manufacturing plants. By 2025, Toyota's 10th plant in North Carolina will begin to manufacture automotive batteries for electrified vehicles. With the more electrified vehicles on the road than any other automaker, a quarter of the company's 2021 U.S. sales were electrified.
To help inspire the next generation for a career in STEM-based fields, including mobility, Toyota launched its virtual education hub at www.TourToyota.com with an immersive experience and chance to virtually visit many of our U.S. manufacturing facilities. The hub also includes a series of free STEM-based lessons and curriculum through Toyota USA Foundation partners, virtual field trips and more. For more information about Toyota, visit www.ToyotaNewsroom.com.
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US sending $500 million in weapons, military aid to Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration announced Tuesday that it is sending up to $500 million in military aid to Ukraine, including more than 50 heavily armored vehicles and an infusion of missiles for air defense systems, as Ukrainian and Western leaders try to sort out the impact of the brief weekend insurrection in Russia.
The aid is aimed at bolstering Ukraine’s counteroffensive, which has been moving slowly in its early stages.
It’s the 41st time since the Russian invasion into Ukraine in February 2022 that the U.S. has provided military weapons and equipment through presidential drawdown authority. The program allows the Pentagon to quickly take items from its own stocks and deliver them to Ukraine.
Because the aid packages are generally planned in advance and recently included many of the same critical weapons for the battlefront, the contents weren’t likely chosen based on the weekend rebellion by Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Wagner mercenary group that he controls. It isn’t clear if Ukrainian forces will be able to take advantage of the disarray in the Russian ranks, in the aftermath of the short-lived revolt.
But, the missiles and heavy vehicles can be used as Ukraine tries to capitalize on what has been a growing feud between the Wagner Group leader and Russia’s military brass, with simmering questions about how many of Prigozhin’s forces may leave the fight.
The mercenaries left Ukraine to seize a military headquarters in a southern Russian city and moved hundreds of miles toward Moscow before turning around after less than 24 hours on Saturday.
The Pentagon in a statement said the U.S. will send 30 Bradley Fighting Vehicles and 25 of the armored Stryker vehicles to Ukraine, along with missiles for the High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and the Patriot air defense systems. The package includes Javelin and high-speed anti-radiation (HARM) missiles, demolition munitions, obstacle-clearing equipment and a wide range of artillery rounds and other ammunition.
White House principal deputy press secretary Olivia Dalton said the new package “includes key capabilities” that will support Ukraine’s counteroffensive operations and strengthen its air defenses.
According to the Pentagon, the U.S. has delivered more than $15 billion in weapons and equipment from its stocks to Ukraine since the Russian invasion, and has committed an additional $6.2 billion in supplies that haven’t yet been identified. The more than $6 billion extra is the result of an accounting error, because the military services overestimated the value of the weapons they pulled off the shelves and sent to Ukraine over the past year.
More broadly, the U.S. has also promised to send more than $16.7 billion in longer-term funding for various weapons, training and other equipment through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, and an additional roughly $2 billion in foreign military financing.
The U.S. has at least $1.2 billion in drawdown authority that hasn’t yet been committed but will expire at the end of this fiscal year on Sept. 30. The remaining $1.9 billion in USAI funds does not expire until the end of the next fiscal year, in September 2024.
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LOVELAND, Colo. — The USDA found in the last year, more than 80% of farms across the country made less than $100,000, and low profits forced nearly 7,000 farms to shut down business. But there's a new, environmentally-friendly way of farming that's putting thousands of dollars back into farmers' pockets. It’s called carbon farming, and it’s gaining popularity in family-owned farms across the United States.
Todd Olander is trying the practice on his family farm. Since 1926, Olander’s family worked the land to make a living. Their farm sits in Loveland, Colorado under the sweeping mountains.
“I am the last remaining farmer that's left out of everyone,” said Todd Olander.
He’s trying to keep his family legacy alive, and to do that, he knows he must embrace change.
“I'm always open to trying different things,” he said.
The corn fields that once provided a stable paycheck weren’t making as much of a profit, so he started a malting operation that works with more than 150 Colorado breweries and distilleries.
It’s called Root Shoot Malting. Mike Myers helps him run it.
“We wanted to focus on quality more than anything, so that also kind of is why we've changed some of our farming practices is to make sure that our barley is the highest quality possible,” said Olander.
The biggest change to their farming practices: becoming a carbon farming operation.
Now, what does that mean?
When plants grow, they remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it. Now, there are companies making natural compounds to help crops do that better. The goal is to slow or reverse the impacts of climate change and grow crops better and faster.
Olander is getting paid by Locus Agricultural Solutions to apply their carbon farming powder on his crops’ seeds. The product allows more carbon to be taken out of the atmosphere than the crops could do on their own.
Olander said enrolling in the program earned him several thousand dollars in a time when every penny counts. The company that he’s working with has paid family-owned farms across the country more than $1.2 million for carbon farming.
“It's not going to replace like actually growing the crops. It's going to be just like extra money to kind of offset maybe some of the extra fertilizer costs or fuel costs that we're seeing,” said Olander.
Travis Kraft of Locus Agricultural Solutions said he hopes more family-owned farms will enroll in the program.
“Legacy transition in farming and ranching is under attack. With revenues inconsistent, extreme weather events, and increasing costs, profits are shrinking. Creating value through Carbon Credits that are valued at the highest level, with longstanding partners and entities is key for legacy transfer. CarbonNOW is breaking those barriers and allowing for more strategic and tangible decisions to be made. CarbonNOW and Locus AG, with our industry partners are and will continue to change the carbon credit industry, ultimately bringing more opportunity and tools back to the American producer,” said Kraft.
Olander agrees.
“That'd be my hope is that farmers are going to see the incentive to actually earn a little bit of extra money and they're going to take some of these steps towards regenerative farming,” said Olander.
Olander is not stopping with carbon farming. He is investing in regenerative farming practices throughout his operation. He’s growing radishes as ground cover to keep the soil cool, moist, and full of nutrients.
“Once you get the cycle working together, you should be able to eliminate fertilizer,” said Olander.
It's better for the planet, too, in the long run.
“I think we can reverse global warming. I mean, that's my hope,” said Olander.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister told her Polish counterpart Tuesday there will be no more World War II reparations because Berlin considers the matter is closed.
Annalena Baerbock directly addressed Poland’s Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau at a news conference in Warsaw following their talks on subjects that included Poland's request for reparations.
“The question of reparations is, as you know, concluded from the German government’s point of view," she said.
On Monday, Rau signed and expedited a note to Germany demanding some $1.3 trillion in reparations for material and other damages and losses Poland claims were caused by Nazi Germany’s wartime occupation from 1939-45.
At the news conference, Baerbock firmly restated Berlin’s stance that, while Germany recognizes its historical responsibility, the matter is closed.
Rau said he believes that position may change in the course of negotiations in which he hopes Germany will engage.
Baerbock stressed that today the two neighbors share the responsibility for keeping Europe united in the face of outside threats, like Russia's war in Ukraine. She also stressed the importance of the 1990 and 1991 bilateral treaties that confirmed Poland's postwar border with Germany and good neighborly cooperation.
Border security is of tantamount significance to the Poles, due to centuries of turbulent history.
In the years after the war, Germany paid compensation to Eastern Bloc nations, but — by Moscow’s decision — only a small portion of it went to Poland, which was the war's first and hardest-hit victim.
Also Tuesday, Polish lawmaker Arkadiusz Mularczyk, who spearheaded the efforts to reevaluate the amount of damages Germany owed, said a similar assessment should be made of wartime damages caused by the Soviet Red Army, which also invaded Poland in 1939 and later battled the Germans on Polish territory to drive them out.
Around 6 million of Poland’s citizens, including 3 million Jews, were killed in the war. Some of them were victims of the Soviet Red Army that invaded from the east. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/German-minister-tells-Poland-no-chance-for-WWII-17485442.php | 2022-10-04 12:06:52 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/German-minister-tells-Poland-no-chance-for-WWII-17485442.php |
This year, though, I’m doing things a little differently. Since I’m far from my home in the Midwest, I’m opting to stay in D.C. for Thanksgiving and will fly back for Christmas instead. I get to spend this Thanksgiving with my boyfriend, who is visiting from England for the week, but the scaled-down celebration has prompted some questions. How do I capture the essence of Thanksgiving for someone who doesn’t celebrate it, and how do I accomplish that without spending days in the kitchen making far more food than two people can reasonably eat?
As I’ve planned out my menu for the big day, I’ve gathered some advice that might be helpful for others in a similar situation. If you’re having a small Thanksgiving this year, here are my tips for a meal that’s more manageable and is still every bit as delicious.
Appetizers for 2
Fewer hands means less help in the kitchen, so opt for low-lift dishes. Two people can only do so much cooking, so make your life easier and opt for dishes that don’t require loads of active cooking time and tedious prep. If you have only a few people around the table, you also don’t want to fill up too quickly on elaborate appetizers. I think simple starters are always best, but especially so when the group is small. I’ll be having some Roasted Fall Fruit With Balsamic-Ginger Glaze (above) with cheese and crackers out while I prepare the remaining courses. A quick and easy dip such as this Triple Onion Dip served with veggies is another option that’s light yet flavorful.
Mains for 2
If you still want turkey, breast is best. Okay, thighs are also great, but there’s no need for a whole turkey for two people, unless you really want several days worth of leftovers. Making Stovetop Roasted Turkey Breast (above) is a great way to still have the traditional bird on the table without the several hours of roasting. Leftover pan juices and roasted vegetables pureed into a savory sauce is a great answer to gravy. Cider-Braised Turkey Thighs With Potatoes and Apples (pictured at top) and Sheet Pan Harissa Turkey Legs are other wonderful options.
Since I’m vegetarian, I won’t be having any meat on the table, but still want a nice, festive centerpiece. A Phyllo Galette With Butternut Squash, Feta and Olives captures the flavors of the season in a fun, unexpected way.
Sides for 2
Think about leftovers that can be repurposed. I love leftovers and don’t mind reheating what’s left of Thanksgiving dinner for lunch the next day, but when you have fewer people to help finish food, the meal can get repetitive quickly. Even with scaling the feast down, two people are bound to have leftovers, so give your future self another thing to be thankful for by thinking ahead about ways to give dishes new life. This Roasted Broccolini With Lemon and Chile Flakes (above) is a simple, elegant side that will pair well with most mains. Have it with turkey on Thanksgiving, and then toss with spaghetti aglio e olio or serve atop rice with a spoonful of chili crisp the next night.
Dessert for 2
Choose recipes that are easily scalable. Thanksgiving and pie are almost synonymous with one another. However, pie and desserts like it can be hard to halve, especially if you don’t have a small enough pie dish. I love the ideas of these Apple Pie Parfaits from Ellie Krieger that are assembled individually, giving you all the delicious elements of pie without the overwhelming amount of leftovers. Similarly, this Pumpkin Mousse drizzled with Pecan Butterscotch Sauce from Daniela Galarza captures the flavors of Thanksgiving classics. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/11/15/thanksgiving-dinner-for-2-menu/ | 2022-11-15 17:57:37 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/11/15/thanksgiving-dinner-for-2-menu/ |
James pours in 43 as Lakers hold off Hornets, 121-115
By STEVE REED
AP Sports Writer
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — LeBron James scored 43 points to pull within 500 of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s NBA career scoring record, and the Los Angeles Lakers avenged last month’s home loss to the Charlotte Hornets with a 121-115 victory Monday night.
James had two dunks on alley-oops, including a high-flying reverse slam off a feed from Dennis Schroder, to push his career total to 37,903 points, leaving him 484 behind Abdul-Jabbar’s long-standing record of 38,387.
Thomas Bryant had 18 points and 15 rebounds, and Austin Reaves and Schroder each had 15 points as the Lakers (16-21) finished a 3-2 road trip.
Terry Rozier had 27 points to lead the Hornets, who have lost 13 of their last 16 games. LaMelo Ball added 24 points and Mason Plumlee had 18 points and 14 rebounds for Charlotte.
The Hornets (10-28) beat the Lakers 134-130 on Dec. 23.
James, battling ankle soreness, was on his game in this one, adding 11 rebounds and six assists to improve to 47-7 against owner Michael Jordan’s Hornets.
James picked up where he left off in December, when he averaged 31.2 points over 14 games, including a 47-point effort Friday night on his 38th birthday against the Atlanta Hawks.
He was 16 of 26 from the field Monday and had 23 points in the second half.
The Lakers used a 14-0 run to open the second quarter and build a 15-point halftime lead. James began to take over in the third, scoring on drives, dunks and mid-range jumpers — he was 0 for 5 from 3-point range — while helping the Lakers push their lead to 24.
The Hornets got a huge spark late from Rozier, who had 17 points in the fourth quarter, to cut the margin to 117-113 in the final minute. But then James made four free throws down the stretch to help seal the victory.
TIP-INS
Lakers: Outrebounded the Hornets 53-47.
Hornets: Dennis Smith Jr. returned from an ankle injury that had kept him out since Nov. 23. At one point he tried to dunk over James, but the ball slipped out of his hands. James was still called for a foul. … Ball picked up a technical foul for arguing a call while seated on the bench.
UP NEXT
Lakers: Return home to host Miami on Wednesday night.
Hornets: Complete a four-game homestand against Memphis on Wednesday night.
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Farm-gate opens wider as new Ever.Ag software sees the dairy farm
FRISCO, Texas, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ever.Ag, a leading agtech provider dedicated to empowering supply chains to feed a growing world, has acquired Cainthus, a company that offers artificial intelligence- enabled cameras for analyzing dairy operations. The addition of Cainthus to the Ever.Ag portfolio will provide dairy farmers and their advisors new insights from passive data collection.
"As part of our agtech vision, we are excited to add virtual eyes on the farm, Cainthus, to our portfolio," said Ever.Ag CEO Scott Sexton. "We believe precision agriculture, now in the dairy barn, is the future. We are committed to growing, expanding, and embedding Cainthus technology into our software suite that spans the supply chain."
The acquisition of Cainthus delivers on Ever.Ag's mission and continues its decades-long tradition of partnering with the dairy industry from farm to fork. Additionally, as consumers become more focused on purchasing environmentally friendly and sustainably produced goods, the data it collects can validate responsible farming practices throughout the supply chain. The information from Cainthus is invaluable to upstream affiliates and downstream consumers.
"At Ever.Ag, we continue to invest in the dairy industry as we've done for several decades, and Cainthus offers multiple benefits for our producer clients," said Mike Borman, Ever.Ag Chief Product Officer. "We look forward to continuing to develop its cost-saving, quality-enhancing capabilities for farmers, cooperatives, processors, and their partners."
Following the Cainthus acquisition, Ever.Ag plans to enhance the offerings of its My Dairy Dashboard product and producer portals ― which integrates data from milk pickups, feed delivered, recorded cow events, milk schedules, and pay information. Cainthus will use the operational data to associate and visually validate herd performance in the barn.
Both Ever.Ag and Cainthus are leaders in data digitization for dairy farm operations and their animals. Ever.Ag solutions are designed, developed, and produced by a global team with a passion for agtech, client sustainability, and mutual prosperity.
"Mobile cow-side data entry revolutionized the industry a decade ago, but it only digitized work, it did not reduce it," said Ryne Braun, Segment Leader at Ever.Ag. "Cameras from Cainthus, mounted in your barns, provide passive collection of herd health and feed consumption data -- that's literally a gift from above. Cainthus is very innovative technology for farmers who are willing to "look up" to improve their operations."
The Ever.Ag team is comprised of over 500 agtech professionals from around the world. With headquarters in Texas, and satellite offices or hubs in Wisconsin, Illinois, Tennessee, Ireland, India, and Canada, Ever.Ag is well positioned to serve a global client base.
For more information, visit News.Ever.Ag/Cainthus.
About Ever.Ag
Ever.Ag offers innovative AgTech solutions and services that empower agriculture, food, and beverage supply chains to feed a growing world. The breadth of the portfolio is uniquely capable of supporting the complex needs of companies involved in dairy, livestock, crops, and agribusiness. With decades of experience and industry-leading innovations, our technology, risk management, and market intelligence provide our customers with the tools and insights they need to operate more efficiently, sustainably, and strategically across every stage of the supply chain. To learn more, visit News.Ever.Ag.
About Cainthus
Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with an office in California, Cainthus is a computer vision company that turns visual information into actionable insights for farmers. Its proprietary technology passively tracks key farm management practices that impact nutrition, health, behavior, environment and the mental well-being of livestock. This breakthrough predictive imaging technology provides the analytics and information needed to drive business decisions.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Singer-songwriter and guitar extraordinaire John Mayer announced a new leg to his solo acoustic tour that includes a stop in Indianapolis.
Mayer will perform at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Oct. 17.
The tour features solo performances by Mayer that lean heavily on his acoustic guitar work with special performances on piano and electric guitar. Multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter JP Saxe will open.
Presale tickets are available Wednesday at 9 a.m. at Johnmayer.com, while tickets to the general public go on sale Friday at 9 a.m. | https://cbs4indy.com/indiana-news/john-mayer-adds-indianapolis-to-solo-acoustic-tour/ | 2023-03-27 15:42:35 | 0 | https://cbs4indy.com/indiana-news/john-mayer-adds-indianapolis-to-solo-acoustic-tour/ |
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Zone Forecast Product for Southern Oregon and Northern California
National Weather Service Medford, OR
306 AM PST Wed Jan 4 2023
CAZ080-050000-
Western Siskiyou County-
Including the cities of Somes Bar, Happy Camp, Callahan, Etna,
Fort Jones, Greenview, and Scott Bar
306 AM PST Wed Jan 4 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST THURSDAY ABOVE
4500 FEET...
.TODAY...Rain and snow. Snow may be heavy at times late this
afternoon. Snow level 4000 feet. Snow accumulation of 4 to
8 inches. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. Very windy. Southeast
winds 25 to 40 mph with gusts to around 60 mph. Chance of
precipitation 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain and snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow level
5000 feet lowering to 4500 feet after midnight. Snow accumulation
of 5 to 9 inches. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Very windy.
Southeast winds 25 to 40 mph. Gusts up to 60 mph decreasing to
50 mph well after midnight. Chance of precipitation 80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain and snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow level
4500 feet rising to 5000 feet in the afternoon. Snow accumulation
of 3 to 6 inches. Highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s. Windy. South
winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts to around 50 mph decreasing to
15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 40 mph late in the afternoon.
Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain and snow in the evening,
then chance of rain and snow after midnight. Snow level 4500 feet
lowering to 4000 feet after midnight. Lows in the lower to mid
30s. Breezy. South winds 15 to 25 mph decreasing to 10 to 15 mph
after midnight. Chance of precipitation 80 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain and
snow. Snow level 4000 feet rising to 4500 feet in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s. South winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow likely. Lows in the lower to mid
30s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Rain and snow. Breezy. Snow may be
heavy at times. Highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s. Lows in the
lower to mid 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow likely. Lows in the lower 30s to
lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Rain and snow likely in the morning, then rain and snow
in the afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Lows
in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Rain and snow in the morning, then rain and snow
likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
$$
CAZ081-050000-
Central Siskiyou County-
Including the cities of Hilt, Klamath River, and Yreka
306 AM PST Wed Jan 4 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST THURSDAY ABOVE
4500 FEET...
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM PST THIS
EVENING...
...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 4 PM
PST THURSDAY...
.TODAY...Rain and snow likely. Snow may be heavy at times late
this afternoon. Snow level 3500 feet rising to 4000 feet this
afternoon. Snow accumulation up to 1 inch. Highs in the lower to
mid 40s. Windy. Southeast winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts to around
55 mph. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain in the evening, then rain and snow after
midnight. Snow may be heavy at times after midnight. Snow level
5000 feet lowering to 4500 feet after midnight. Little or no snow
accumulation. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Very windy.
Southeast winds 25 to 40 mph decreasing to 20 to 30 mph well
after midnight. Gusts up to 60 mph decreasing to 45 mph well
after midnight. Chance of precipitation 80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain and snow likely in the morning, then rain likely
in the afternoon. Snow level 4500 feet rising to 5000 feet in the
afternoon. Little or no snow accumulation. Highs in the lower 40s
to lower 50s. Windy. South winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts to
around 50 mph. Chance of precipitation 80 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow. Snow
level 5000 feet lowering to 4000 feet after midnight. Lows in the
lower to mid 30s. South winds 10 to 20 mph decreasing to 5 to
10 mph well after midnight. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain and
snow. Snow level 4000 feet rising to 4500 feet in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 40s to lower 50s. South winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with rain and snow
likely. Windy. Snow may be heavy at times. Lows in the mid 30s.
Highs in the lower 40s to lower 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Rain and snow likely. Breezy. Snow
may be heavy at times. Lows in the lower to mid 30s. Highs in the
lower 40s to lower 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow likely. Lows in the mid 30s to
lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Rain and snow likely in the morning, then rain and snow
in the afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower to mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the mid 30s.
.TUESDAY...Rain likely in the morning, then chance of rain and
snow in the afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower to mid 40s.
$$
CAZ082-050000-
South Central Siskiyou County-
Including the cities of Mount Shasta, Dunsmuir, and McCloud
306 AM PST Wed Jan 4 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST THURSDAY ABOVE
4500 FEET...
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM PST THIS
EVENING...
...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 4 PM
PST THURSDAY...
.TODAY...Rain and snow. Precipitation may be heavy at times. Snow
level 3400 feet. Snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches at lower
elevations and 6 to 12 inches above 4000 feet. Highs in the mid
30s to lower 40s. Windy. Southeast winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts
to around 50 mph. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain and snow. Precipitation may be heavy at times.
Snow level 5000 feet lowering to 4500 feet after midnight. Snow
accumulation of 14 to 20 inches. Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
Very windy. Southeast winds 25 to 40 mph with gusts to around
55 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain and snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow level
4500 feet rising to 5000 feet in the afternoon. Snow accumulation
of 5 to 10 inches. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Windy.
South winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to around 50 mph. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
and snow. Snow level 5000 feet lowering to 4500 feet after
midnight. Lows in the lower to mid 30s. South winds 10 to 20 mph
decreasing to 5 to 10 mph well after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and
snow. Snow level 4500 feet. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
South winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow in the
evening, then rain and snow likely after midnight. Snow may be
heavy at times after midnight. Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
.SATURDAY...Rain and snow likely. Snow may be heavy at times.
Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Rain and snow. Snow may be heavy at
times. Lows in the lower to mid 30s. Highs in the mid 30s to
lower 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow likely. Lows in the lower to mid
30s.
.MONDAY...Rain and snow likely in the morning, then rain and snow
in the afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times. Highs in the mid
30s to lower 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Lows
in the lower to mid 30s.
.TUESDAY...Rain and snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Highs in
the mid 30s to mid 40s.
$$
CAZ083-050000-
North Central and Southeast Siskiyou County-
Including the cities of Pondosa, Bray, and Tennant
306 AM PST Wed Jan 4 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST THURSDAY ABOVE
4500 FEET...
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM PST THIS
EVENING...
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM PST
THURSDAY...
.TODAY...Snow likely early this morning, then snow in the late
morning and afternoon. Rain this afternoon. Snow may be heavy at
times late this afternoon. Snow level 4000 feet this afternoon.
Snow accumulation of 5 to 9 inches. Highs in the mid 30s to lower
40s. Windy. Southeast winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts to around
55 mph. Chance of precipitation 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain and snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow level
5000 feet lowering to 4500 feet after midnight. Snow accumulation
of 10 to 16 inches. Lows in the lower to mid 30s. Very windy.
Southeast winds 30 to 45 mph with gusts to around 70 mph shifting
to the south 25 to 35 mph with gusts to around 55 mph well after
midnight. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain and snow. Snow level 5000 feet. Snow
accumulation of 5 to 8 inches. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
Windy. South winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts to around 55 mph.
Chance of precipitation 80 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
and snow. Snow level 5000 feet lowering to 4500 feet after
midnight. Lows around 30. Breezy. South winds 15 to 25 mph
decreasing to 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain and
snow. Snow level 4000 feet rising to 4500 feet in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Breezy. South winds 15 to
25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow.
Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.SATURDAY...Rain and snow likely. Breezy. Highs in the mid 30s to
lower 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow likely.
Breezy. Snow may be heavy at times. Lows in the mid 20s to lower
30s. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Rain and snow likely in the morning, then rain and snow
in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Lows
in the lower to mid 30s.
.TUESDAY...Rain and snow in the morning, then rain and snow
likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
$$
CAZ084-050000-
Northeast Siskiyou and Northwest Modoc Counties-
Including the cities of Newell, Tulelake, Dorris, and Macdoel
306 AM PST Wed Jan 4 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM PST
THURSDAY...
.TODAY...Snow likely this morning, then rain and snow this
afternoon. Snow level 4000 feet this afternoon. Snow accumulation
of 1 to 2 inches. Highs around 40. Windy. Southeast winds 20 to
30 mph. Gusts up to 45 mph. Chance of precipitation 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Rain and snow. Snow level 5500 feet lowering to
4000 feet after midnight. Little or no snow accumulation. Lows in
the mid 30s. Very windy. Southeast winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts
to around 55 mph increasing to 30 to 45 mph with gusts to around
70 mph in the late evening and early morning, then decreasing to
25 to 35 mph with gusts to around 50 mph well after midnight.
Chance of precipitation 80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain and snow likely. Snow level 4500 feet rising to
5500 feet in the afternoon. Little or no snow accumulation. Highs
around 40. Windy. South winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts to around
55 mph. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain
and snow. Snow level 4500 feet. Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
Breezy. South winds 15 to 25 mph decreasing to 10 to 15 mph after
midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Snow
level 4000 feet rising to 4500 feet in the afternoon. Highs
around 40. South winds 10 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow.
Lows around 30.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Breezy.
Highs around 40.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Rain and snow likely. Breezy. Lows
around 30. Highs around 40.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow.
Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow in the morning,
then rain and snow likely in the afternoon. Highs around 40.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow in the evening, then rain after
midnight. Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
.TUESDAY...Rain likely in the morning, then rain and snow likely
in the afternoon. Highs in the lower to mid 40s.
$$
CAZ085-050000-
Modoc County-
Including the cities of Day, Lookout, Adin, Alturas, Canby,
Davis Creek, and Likely
306 AM PST Wed Jan 4 2023
...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 4 PM
PST THURSDAY...
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM TO 7 PM PST THURSDAY...
.TODAY...Chance of snow early this morning, then snow in the late
morning and early afternoon. Chance of rain and snow late this
afternoon. Snow level 4100 feet this afternoon. Snow accumulation
up to 1 inch except 2 to 3 inches in the Warner Mountains. Highs
in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Windy. Southeast winds 20 to 30 mph
with gusts to around 45 mph. Chance of precipitation 80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow in the evening,
then rain and snow likely after midnight. Snow level 4900 feet
lowering to 4100 feet after midnight. Snow accumulation up to
1 inch except 1 to 2 inches in the Warner Mountains. Lows in the
lower to mid 30s. Very windy. Southeast winds 20 to 30 mph
increasing to 25 to 40 mph in the late evening and early morning,
then decreasing to 20 to 30 mph well after midnight. Gusts up to
55 mph decreasing to 45 mph well after midnight. Chance of
precipitation 80 percent.
.THURSDAY...Rain and snow likely in the morning, then chance of
rain and snow in the afternoon. Snow level 4000 feet rising to
5500 feet in the afternoon. Little or no snow accumulation. Highs
around 40. Windy. South winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to around
45 mph. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
and snow. Snow level 4500 feet. Lows around 30. Breezy. South
winds 15 to 25 mph decreasing to 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of snow in the morning,
then slight chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Snow level
4500 feet in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation 10 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow in the
evening, then chance of snow after midnight. Lows in the mid 20s
to lower 30s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow in the morning, then
chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Breezy. Highs in the
mid 30s to lower 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with rain and snow
likely. Breezy. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s. Highs in the
mid 30s to lower 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow in the
evening, then chance of snow after midnight. Lows in the mid 20s
to lower 30s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Snow likely in the morning, then rain
and snow likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s to lower
40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow. Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
.TUESDAY...Rain and snow likely. Highs in the lower to mid 40s.
$$
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Updated June 7, 2023 at 9:43 AM ET
Chris Licht came into the top spot at CNN pronouncing he had a clear view of what was wrong with the cable news channel, the vision to fix it, and the corporate backing that would enable him to turn the ship around.
Barely more than a year later, with the channel's battered ratings further sagging, the formats for key shows still in doubt, internal strife at crisis levels, and journalists inside CNN still questioning what his vision is, Licht is gone, ousted by the corporate patron who wooed him to the network, Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav.
Zaslav personally confirmed the news to staffers after published reports that Licht was out.
Licht had argued that CNN had strayed too far from its roots, and spent much of his time publicly condemning the network's coverage of former President Donald Trump, the Covid-19 pandemic, and many other key subjects. In so doing, he was echoing the mandate of Zaslav, who had taken over CNN as part of Discovery's acquisition of Warner Media last year, and Discovery's most important investor, the conservative media magnate John Malone.
But according to colleagues at CNN, Licht's drumbeat of criticism about CNN's past journalistic performance created a deep internal rift, as did his near-constant focus on how the network had operated under his predecessor, Jeff Zucker.
Licht arranged a town hall in May with former President Donald Trump in New Hampshire to showcase a reporter he elevated to be a star, Kaitlin Collins, as he sought to unveil her new primetime show. Instead, it was widely panned, both as an exercise in futility (Trump steamrolled Collins' efforts to fact-check him) and in pandering (CNN had staged it as a live event before an audience stocked with Trump fans).
While his views on the network's overheated focus on Trump found some sympathies within CNN, Licht's remarks about Covid coverage, contained in a recently published 13,000-word profile by The Atlantic's Tim Alberta, uniformly outraged his journalists.
In addition, people at the network took offense at Licht's challenging whether an African-American woman who went to Harvard University would add to the network's diversity. CNN anchor Abby Phillip, whose parents are Trinidadian, graduated from Harvard, though it's not clear that Licht was directly referring to her.
Alberta's piece depicted Licht as spending vast amounts of time with an outside reporter while ignoring his own news staffers at gatherings. Licht was also quoted bragging about his ability to out-lift Zucker during an early-morning gym session.
Substantively, Licht appeared to lead most tangibly by subtraction.
He fired media correspondent and host Brian Stelter and canceled the media criticism show Reliable Sources, at that time CNN's longest running show. Licht also dismissed White House reporter John Harwood and shifted primetime star Don Lemon to a retooled morning show. The weekend show of Jim Acosta became more subdued in tone. All had been critics of Trump. (Licht fired Lemon in April after the host clashed with his female co-stars on the morning show.)
This is a developing story and will be updated.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.kbia.org/2023-06-07/chris-licht-ousted-at-cnn-after-a-year-of-crisis | 2023-06-07 14:54:31 | 0 | https://www.kbia.org/2023-06-07/chris-licht-ousted-at-cnn-after-a-year-of-crisis |
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Las Vegas-based researchers are finding so-called “forever chemicals” in water sources across the West and illicit drugs, like meth, in snow, leading scientists to sound the alarm about what the compounds could mean for our health and the environment.
Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, known colloquially as PFAS, are a group of chemicals found in manufactured products.
“We’re not going to be able to get rid of it. It’s there. It’s floating around in the water,” said Dr. Doug Sims, dean of the College of Southern Nevada’s School of Science, Engineering and Mathematics.
Beginning in the 1940s, humans put PFAS into the environment with items like non-stick pots and pans and certain plastics. 3M, which makes some products with PFAS, agreed last week to pay more than $10 billion over the next decade to water suppliers that have detected the chemicals.
Sims’ and his students, plus other CSN researchers and teams across the West, gathered samples from rivers and other water sources in 11 states. The research included the Las Vegas Wash, the 12-mile-long channel that moves treated wastewater out of the Las Vegas Valley and into Lake Mead.
“We found all types of drugs that people use,” Sims said about the research.
In May 2022, KLAS reported how Sims and CSN students took part in a global study to investigate the effects of pharmaceuticals on the world’s waterways. As part of the project, the team took samples up and down the wash.
Sims’ research found 28 compounds in the wash, including antidepressants, opioids, and medications to treat acid reflux, allergies, coughs, diabetes, high blood pressure, muscle spasms, nerve pain and shingles.
Researchers also homed in on changes in the detection of certain compounds during last year’s NFL Draft and that year’s Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC).
During EDC and in the days after, wastewater in Las Vegas contained a notable spike in MDMA, also known as Ecstasy or Molly. The amount of MDMA flowing through the Las Vegas Wash on the Monday after EDC 2022 was 300 times its level recorded before the festival began, Sims’ research found.
During the 2022 NFL Draft, Sims noted an influx of anti-depressants and medications to mitigate high blood pressure and cholesterol. The uptick in those chemical compounds is statistically significant compared to the other weekly-compiled data, Sims said.
The EPA is in the process of creating a nationwide standard for PFAS in drinking water. The amount detected in some water systems is in parts per trillion. Scientists do not yet know how PFAS gets in the water table or how it affects the human body, the agency said.
The CSN research found some PFAS in remote areas nearly untouched by humans, leading them to believe the forever chemicals traveled through the precipitation cycle.
“Why is it important to know if these chemicals are in these water sources?” Charns asked Andrea Seifert, the chief at Nevada’s Bureau of Safe Drinking Water.
“It’s important to know about PFAS in our environment in Nevada so we can address any concerns and protect the public,” Seifert said.
State researchers have monitored PFAS in Nevada for a decade, Seifert said, ramping up with the passage of a bill in 2021, which established a working group for their study. With the chemicals in everything from waterproof clothing to firefighting foam, Seifert said the state is doing its own research and awaiting the EPA’s guidance.
“We want to know what those levels are, what needs to be done to protect the public and to inform them so they can make decisions about the water that they’re drinking,” she said.
“At what point does the number really say, ‘This is a problem?’” Charns asked Sims.
“The drugs have the potential to be bio-magnified through the system ultimately entering the food web that we depend on,” Sims said. The magnification will only worsen in drought, if the Colorado River continues to dwindle, he said.
“The amount of water in the Colorado today, despite the current year, is drastically down compared to five, six years ago, so the concentration is going up in the Colorado because of climate change impact on the environment,” Sims said about the inorganic compounds.
A changing environment with synthetic chemicals CSN researchers are discovering in some of the least-suspecting of places.
“We’re finding PFAS and methamphetamines and other drugs actually in the snow, transported on the winds,” Sims said about upcoming research regarding Mt. Charleston.
Nevada received about $20 million from President Joe Biden’s infrastructure law to protect drinking water sources specifically from PFAS.
“We must be proactive to ensure that all Nevadans have access to clean, safe drinking water, free from contaminants like PFAS and other harmful chemicals,” Democratic Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen said at the time of the announcement. “This funding, which I helped secure through the bipartisan infrastructure law, will go toward protecting our state’s public water systems and the health and wellbeing of our communities.”
The Nevada Legislature passed a bill this legislative session meant to regulate PFAS, but Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo vetoed it, citing the EPA’s upcoming regulations.
“While protecting consumers from potential dangers associated with perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances is an important goal, [Senate Bill 76] aims to accomplish too much too soon,” the governor wrote in his veto message. “Awaiting the EPA’s determinations will avoid unnecessary burdens for doing business in Nevada, specifically.”
The EPA was expected to release its PFAS guidelines later this year. The Southern Nevada Water Authority was awaiting those guidelines, as well.
“While PFAS compounds are a recent topic in the public dialog, the Southern Nevada Water Authority has been monitoring and researching these potential contaminants for more than a decade,” spokesperson Bronson Mack said. “Based on analyses from SNWA’s research and development laboratory, southern Nevada’s water supply is expected to meet the EPA’s proposed regulations for PFAS. We will continue to sample, test and monitor PFAS to protect our community’s tap water.” | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/researchers-find-meth-in-snow-near-las-vegas-forever-chemicals-in-water-across-the-west/ | 2023-06-28 18:21:47 | 0 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/researchers-find-meth-in-snow-near-las-vegas-forever-chemicals-in-water-across-the-west/ |
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Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
(THE CONVERSATION) The Biden administration released its first National Cybersecurity Strategy on March 2, 2023. The last version was issued in 2018 during the Trump administration.
As the National Security Strategy does for national defense, the National Cybersecurity Strategy outlines a president’s priorities regarding cybersecurity issues. The document is not a directive. Rather, it describes in general terms what the administration is most concerned about, who its major adversaries are and how it might achieve its goals through legislation or executive action. These types of strategy statements are often aspirational.
As expected, the 2023 Biden National Cybersecurity Strategy reiterates previous recommendations about how to improve American cybersecurity. It calls for improved sharing of information between the government and private sector about cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities and risks. It prescribes coordinating cybersecurity incident response across the federal government and enhancing regulations. It describes the need to expand the federal cybersecurity workforce. It emphasizes the importance of protecting the country’s critical infrastructure and federal computer systems. And it identifies China, Russia, Iran and North Korea as America’s main adversaries in cyberspace.
However, as a former cybersecurity industry practitioner and current cybersecurity researcher, I think that the 2023 document incorporates some fresh ideas and perspectives that represent a more holistic approach to cybersecurity. At the same time, though, some of what is proposed may not be as helpful as envisioned.
Some of the key provisions in the current National Cybersecurity Strategy relate to the private sector, both in terms of product liability and cybersecurity insurance. It also aims to reduce the cybersecurity burden on individuals and smaller organizations. However, I believe it doesn’t go far enough in fostering information-sharing or addressing the specific tactics and techniques used by attackers.
The end of vendor indemnification?
For decades, the technology industry has operated under what is known as “shrink-wrap” licensing. This refers to the multiple pages of legal text that customers, both large and small, routinely are forced to accept before installing or using computer products, software and services.
While much has been written about these agreements, such licenses generally have one thing in common: They ultimately protect vendors such as Microsoft or Adobe from legal consequences for any damages or costs arising from a customer’s use of their products, even if the vendor is at fault for producing a flawed or insecure product that affects the end user.
In a groundbreaking move, the new cybersecurity strategy says that while no product is totally secure, the administration will work with Congress and the private sector to prevent companies from being shielded from liability claims over the security of their products. These products underpin most of modern society.
Removing that legal shield is likely to encourage companies to make security a priority in their product development cycles and have a greater stake in the reliability of their products beyond the point of sale.
In another noteworthy shift, the strategy observes that end users bear too great a burden for mitigating cybersecurity risks. It states that a collaborative approach to cybersecurity and resiliency “cannot rely on the constant vigilance of our smallest organizations and individual citizens.” It stresses the importance of manufacturers of critical computer systems, as well as companies that operate them, in taking a greater role in improving the security of their products. It also suggests expanded regulation toward that goal may be forthcoming.
Interestingly, the strategy places great emphasis on the threat from ransomware as the most pressing cybercrime facing the U.S. at all levels of government and business. It now calls ransomware a national security threat and not simply a criminal matter.
Backstopping cyber insurance
The new strategy also directs the federal government to consider taking on some responsibility for so-called cybersecurity insurance.
Here, the administration wants to ensure that insurance companies are adequately funded to respond to claims following a significant or catastrophic cybersecurity incident. Since 2020, the market for cybersecurity-related insurance has grown nearly 75%, and organizations of all sizes consider such policies necessary.
This is understandable given how many companies and government agencies are reliant on the internet and corporate networks to conduct daily operations. By protecting, or “backstopping,” cybersecurity insurers, the administration hopes to prevent a major systemic financial crisis for insurers and victims during a cybersecurity incident.
However, cybersecurity insurance should not be treated as a free pass for complacency. Thankfully, insurers now often require policyholders to prove they are following best cybersecurity practices before approving a policy. This helps protect them from issuing policies that are likely to face claims arising from gross negligence by policyholders.
Looking forward
In addition to dealing with present concerns, the strategy also makes a strong case for ensuring the U.S. is prepared for the future. It speaks about fostering technology research that can improve or introduce cybersecurity in such fields as artificial intelligence, critical infrastructure and industrial control systems.
The strategy specifically warns that the U.S. must be prepared for a “post-quantum future” where emerging technologies could render existing cybersecurity controls vulnerable. This includes current encryption systems that could be broken by future quantum computers.
Where the strategy falls short
While the National Cybersecurity Strategy calls for continuing to expand information-sharing related to cybersecurity, it pledges to review federal classification policy to see where additional classified access to information is necessary.
The federal government already suffers from overclassification, so if anything, I believe less classification of cybersecurity information is needed to facilitate better information-sharing on this issue. It’s important to reduce administrative and operational obstacles to effective and timely interaction, especially where collaborative relationships are needed between industry, academia and federal and state governments. Excessive classification is one such challenge.
Further, the strategy does not address the use of cyber tactics, techniques and procedures in influence or disinformation campaigns and other actions that might target the U.S. This omission is perhaps intentional because, although cybersecurity and influence operations are often intertwined, reference to countering influence operations could lead to partisan conflicts over freedom of speech and political activity. Ideally, the National Cybersecurity Strategy should be apolitical.
That being said, the 2023 National Cybersecurity Strategy is a balanced document. While in many ways it reiterates recommendations made since the first National Cybersecurity Strategy in 2002, it also provides some innovative ideas that could strengthen U.S. cybersecurity in meaningful ways and help modernize America’s technology industry, both now and into the future.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Xin Xin, the last panda in Latin America, is not your average bear. A native of Mexico, she’s the only remaining member of a diaspora descended from giant pandas China gifted to foreign countries during the 1970s and 1980s.
Mexico’s Chapultepec Zoo is one of only two zoos that houses pandas without the direct supervision of the Chinese government. That era may soon end after more than 50 years because Xin Xin, the granddaughter of pandas gifted by China, is childless, in menopause and, at 32, very old.
It could be the end for pandas in Latin America altogether if Mexico’s government balks at the price of a new panda.
Xin Xin is a second-generation Mexican-born panda, tracing her lineage to Pe Pe and Ying Ying, who arrived to the zoo in 1975. They were part of China’s early “panda diplomacy,” a period when the charismatic animals were gifted to countries around the world. In 1984, China ended panda gifts, switching to a policy of high-priced loans.
This history has made Mexico one of a few countries able to keep locally born panda cubs. Since 1985, the loan program has required that zoos return any cubs to China.
After Shuan Shuan’s death, Mexican officials began speaking with China’s ambassador. China now loans giant pandas for between 10 and 15 years at a cost of $1 million annually, meant to support panda conservation in China.
The austere administration of Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador appears unlikely to agree to this price. “Another arrangement will definitely have to be found, but it will depend a lot on the will and necessities of both countries,” said Fernando Gual, director of Mexico City Zoos and Wildlife Conservation.
Xin Xin’s own interests are more down to earth. She passes the time relaxing in a hammock and padding tranquilly around her enclosure looking for bamboo. Sometimes, her trainer also hides her favorite treat, red apples.
Watching Xin Xin, Gual smiled as he remembered the July 1, 1990 morning when her mother Tohui surprised everyone at the zoo by giving birth to a four-ounce Xin Xin, far from the camera that recorded her movements 24 hours a day.
“It’s impossible not to have an attachment to these animals,” Gual said. “We saw most of them being born here.” Tohui was the second panda ever born outside China, and the first to survive infancy, living to age 12. Pop star Yuri released a song expressing the city’s pride and excitement.
The life expectancy of a giant panda in the wild is about 15 years, but in captivity they have lived to be as old as 38. Decades of conservation efforts in the wild and study in captivity saved the giant panda from extinction, increasing its population from fewer than 1,000 at one time to more than 1,800 today in the wild and captivity.
Mexico’s remarkable success makes it one of only two zoos to run a panda program outside the control of the Chinese government, according to the Congressional Research Service. The other is in Taiwan, which received two pandas in 2008 in exchange of a pair of endangered sika deer.
Eight pandas have been born at in Mexico, of whom five survived to adulthood. Decades of study at the Chapultepec Zoo have yielded extensive knowledge, as well as genetic material — cryogenically preserved semen and ovarian tissue — that scientists here hope will allow them to continue assisting in the pandas’ conservation even after Xin Xin is gone.
Carlos Cerda Dueñas, a researcher at the Monterrey Institute of Technology who has studied panda diplomacy, said that Mexico’s strategic importance could encourage China to make a deal, but that López Obrador’s preference for austerity could make reaching an agreement “very difficult.”
China’s suspended new panda loans for a time during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the government of President Xi Jinping recently revived it, sending a pair of pandas to World Cup host Qatar.
China is Mexico’s second most important trade partner, behind the United States, and China’s government has been working to expand its influence in Latin America. The possibility of leaving the region without any pandas could be leverage for Mexico.
What is not in doubt is the drawing power of the pandas.
At the Chapultepec Zoo there is a panda museum displaying photographs of the animals over the years, plaster casts of their footprints, bits of panda hair and dozens of children’s drawings. Shuan Shuan’s last birthday piñata is there too.
But Xin Xin is the real attraction. She got a birthday piñata, shaped like a panda and stuffed with apples and carrots, on July 1.
On a recent day, Juan Vicente Araya of Costa Rica marveled at Xin Xin, alongside his family.
“When we decided to travel to Mexico, from the oldest to the youngest, everyone at home came with the dream of being able to see a panda,” Araya said, as he patted the head of his young son, who was playing with a stuffed panda his parents bought him on the visit.
Araya, who works for a U.S. company, said the first thing his group of family and friends did after arriving in Mexico City from Costa Rica was to go to the zoo to see Xin Xin.
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Warriors’ Draymond Green talks Jordan Poole punch: ‘I don’t just hit people’
Poole was traded to the Wizards for Chris Paul
The punch that Draymond Green landed on Jordan Poole during training camp in October was the start of a disappointing season for the Golden State Warriors.
After winning the organization's fourth NBA championship in eight years, the Warriors struggled during the regular season before falling to the Los Angeles Lakers in the second round of the NBA Playoffs.
Shortly after the playoff exit, Golden State traded Poole to the Washington Wizards for veteran point guard Chris Paul, ending Poole’s time in the Bay Area.
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On Wednesday, Green joined "The Pat Bev Podcast with Rone" and provided some background into what led to the punch.
"I don’t just hit people," Green said.
"Dialogue happens and dialogue happens over the course of time," he continued. "You usually ain't just triggered by something that fast to that degree. This is a team. You know what I’m saying? Ain’t nobody on my team triggering me in an instant. Dialogue of course happens over time."
"We know stuff that you don’t say amongst men," he added. "We know things that you have to stand on. As I’ve admitted before, I was wrong in the way I handled it for the situation where we were. But I’m a man at the end of the day. I stand on business."
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After being traded, Poole was asked about the altercation with Green and the impact it had on the season, with Poole sidestepping the question.
"We’re in Washington now. Playing with Kuz [Kyle Kuzma], great duo," Poole responded. "Being able to really flourish, expand your game. And hopefully, a new team, lead an entire group of guys. It’s a challenge that we're up for."
When asked if he had spoken with Green since being traded, Poole looked away.
Warriors head coach Steve Kerr discussed the incident following the end of the season, saying it impacted the team during their championship defense.
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"There was some of that that was lost this year, for sure," Kerr said when asked about the chemistry on the team during the season. "There's no hiding from it — the incident with Draymond and Jordan at the beginning of the year played a role in that. It's hard for that not to impact a team.
"Anytime some trust is lost, then it makes the process much more difficult, and there was some trust lost. That's as blunt as I can be. The only way to try to correct course is to continue to communicate with players and coaches, and those relationships have to be built. The bonds have to be built. I think that’s a major focus for us this offseason. We have to get back to what has made us really successful, which is a really trusting environment and a group that relies on one another and makes each other better."
Green signed a four-year, $100 million contract to remain in Golden State at the start of NBA free agency.
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ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) today announced that its board of directors has elected Leanne G. Caret as a director. Caret is an experienced aerospace and defense industry leader, most recently serving as executive vice president and senior advisor for The Boeing Company.
"Leanne Caret is one of the most accomplished leaders in our industry," said Raytheon Technologies Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Greg Hayes. "With a focus on rapid deployment of highly complex systems, she has driven development of groundbreaking technology solutions throughout her tenure. Raytheon Technologies and our shareholders will benefit tremendously from her customer- and people-first leadership philosophy."
Prior to her current role, Caret served as executive vice president of The Boeing Company and president and chief executive officer of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, which provides solutions for defense, government, space, intelligence and security customers. Caret previously held roles as president of Boeing's Global Services & Support organization; Defense, Space & Security chief financial officer; vice president and general manager of Vertical Lift; vice president of H-47 Programs; and general manager of Global Transport & Executive Systems.
Caret has a Bachelor of Science in business administration from Kansas State University and a Master of Business Administration from Wichita State University.
Fortune magazine named Caret to its Most Powerful Women list in 2021 for the fifth consecutive year. In addition to being a 2019 inductee of the Women in Aviation International Pioneer Hall of Fame, Caret is a Royal Aeronautical Society fellow and an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics associate fellow. She is also on the George W. Bush Institute's Women's Initiative Policy Advisory Council; the board of trustees for the Kansas State University Foundation; the board of directors for Deere & Company; USO board of governors; and the board of directors for FIRST, a leading youth-serving nonprofit advancing STEM education.
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Raytheon Technologies Corporation is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. With four industry-leading businesses ― Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Raytheon Missiles & Defense ― the company delivers solutions that push the boundaries in avionics, cybersecurity, directed energy, electric propulsion, hypersonics, and quantum physics. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
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GARLAND — Blum cashed in on its fourth try to win a state volleyball championship when the Bobcats rolled to a 25-10, 25-17, 25-16 victory against D’Hanis in the Class 1A final Thursday afternoon at the Curtis Culwell Center.
Freshman Kinsley McPherson was selected as the championship game MVP after recording 17 kills. Junior Emma Scott had 14 kills. Junior Ruby Rumohr had 30 assists and 14 digs. Junior Kayden Arrington had a team-leading 15 digs.
The Cowgirls, playing for their first state volleyball title, were led by Mabry Herrmann’s nine kills.
Blum’s pin-point attack left D’Hanis scrambling to established anything. It was an impressive showing against a team that registered 75 digs in a sweep against Benjamin in Wednesday’s semifinals. D’Hanis had 42 against Blum.
Blum didn’t drop a set in six playoff matches. D’Hanis hadn’t dropped a set in the playoffs until Thursday.
Blum finished its season at 33-13, while D’Hanis ended at 30-14.
Blum got going early in the first set, jumping to a 6-1 lead with Arrington delivering hard-to-handle serves.
That set it up for the rest of the first as the Cowgirls tried to get something going.
As a result, the Bobcats were able to set up shots, and they didn’t miss many. Blum totaled 14 kills on 24 attacks (.458) with McPherson leading the way with four.
Blum started fast again in the second set, going ahead 4-0. The Cowgirls pulled to 10-9. The Bobcats responded by scoring the next four points off Arrington’s serve. The Cowgirls didn’t cut it closer than two after that in the set.
The Bobcats used the same approach to secure the third set and the state title.
D’Hanis advanced to the championship match for the first time in four appearances at state.
Blum advanced to the final for the fourth time in its five tournament appearances. The Bobcats fell short in their four previous championship matches, including losses to Fayetteville in 2021 and Neches in 2020.
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Revenue flat YoY, with sales record in 2Q compensating for current macroeconomic challenges
Total Contract Value of Sales up 10.3%, with strong pipeline, particularly in hard currencies, supporting revenue growth in Q4
EBITDA margin increased 3.3p.p. from previous quarter, reaching 11.1% in 3Q22 coming from 7.8% in 2Q22
Cost efficiency efforts accelerated, mainly encompassing indirect costs and as well as operational improvements, increasing EBITDA by $10m million. Expecting to keep on generating further efficiencies
Strong Operating Cash Flow of $8mm, building on the positive trend in 2Q22. Free Cash Flow of negative $38 million, mainly due to $19.6 million bond coupon payment, $22.5 million cross currency swap expenses and $4.0 million in other interest expenses
Ending cash balance of $66 million, with no other significant payments expected for remainder of 2022 and cash position forecasted to increase in Q4
Successfully renewed all revolving credit facilities in Brazil
Reached lock-up extension with major shareholders committed to growing the Company
Due to challenging macroeconomic conditions, management revising 2022 EBITDA margin guidance range to 10.5% to 11.0% from 11.5% to 12.5% and Leverage Ratio range to 4.0x to 4.5x from 3.0x to 3.5x
NEW YORK, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Atento S.A. (NYSE: ATTO) ("Atento" or the "Company"), the largest provider of customer relationship management and business process outsourcing ("CRM BPO") services in Latin America and among the top providers globally, announced today its third quarter operating and financial results for the period ending September 30, 2022. All comparisons in this announcement are year-over-year (YoY) and in constant-currency (CCY), unless otherwise noted.
On track for another great year in TCV sales
- Total Contract Value of sales (TCV) increased 10.3% YoY to $86.8 million
- Revenue decreased 0.4% to $346.8 million, mainly due to lower-than-expected volumes related to deteriorating economic conditions in Brazil and Telefónica's (TEF) cost-cutting program in these challenging macro-economic conditions; all partially offset by inflation pass-through
- Multisector revenue decreased 1.4%, mainly due to a 6.0% decrease in Brazil on volumes below internal forecasts and corporate decision of terminating low margin contracts, partially offset by strong Multisector growth in EMEA
- TEF revenue increased 1.7% on 11.9% and 7.6% increases in the Americas and EMEA, respectively, while decreasing 13.6% in Brazil
EBITDA margin increased 3.3 p.p. sequentially on improved operational efficiency
- On a sequential basis, EBITDA increased 42.1% to $38.4 million in constant currency, mainly due to higher operating efficiencies related to Atento's cost reduction program as well as to lower severance and ramp-up costs. Year-over-year (YoY), EBITDA decreased 22.7%, mainly due to aforementioned factors in Brazil, partially offset by Multisector growth in EMEA
- EBITDA margin increased 3.3 p.p. sequentially to 11.1%, while contracting 2.8% YoY
- Net profit improved $13.2 million YoY to $1.5 million, or EPS of $0.10, on operating profit of $7.9 million, a $32.4 million improvement in net financial expenses resulting from the appreciation of the US dollar against the Euro, and a $2.7 million change in fair value of currency hedges
- Cash financial costs were $46.1 million, $19.6 million of which was a bond interest payment, $22.5 million in payments related to currency hedges and $4.0 million in other interest expenses
- Operating cash flow was $8.1 million, up sequentially from $7.7 million on lower operating costs and down from $25.9 million in 3Q21
- Free cash flow was negative $38.0 million, down from $6.7 million in 3Q21, mostly due to aforementioned financial costs related to bond and currency hedges
Renewed all revolving credit facilities and active cross currency management
- Quarter-end cash position of $66 million that includes $76 million drawn from existing credit facilities
- At the end of 3Q22, LTM net debt-to-EBITDA was 6.1x, or 4.3x when excluding one-time impact of cyber costs on EBITDA. LTM leverage ration
- Shareholders' equity was negative $164.1 million at September 30, 2022, mainly due to $47.4 million in financial items consisting of $20.5 million in balance sheet and P&L conversion, $7.1 million in net financial costs, partially offset by a positive $2.7 million change in the fair value of currency hedges and $1.2 million related to accounting treatment of hedges
- On July 27, 2022, Atento Luxco 1 S.A. unwound the full PEN/USD cross-currency swap entered with Morgan Stanley on March 10, 2021. The proceeds were used to decrease the % CDI with Morgan Stanley BRL swap. The floating leg was reduced from 142.25% to 133.45% CDI (Brazilian Interbank Market Rate).
Planned annualized cost savings increased to $45 million from $25 million under expanded cost reduction program
- Year-to-date, achieved approximately $10 million of $15 million in targeted 2022 cost reductions, resulting from consolidation of service delivery centers, lower headcount, rationalization of third-party services and improved procurement efficiency
- Targeting an additional $20 million in annualized cost savings by reducing additional corporate overhead and further increasing operational efficiency of service delivery
- Inflation pass-through (IPT) at 88% year-to-date
Opening new call center in Philippines
- Major contract won with a global fintech and payments company, following opening of new call center in Philippines
Summarized Consolidated Financials
Message from Management
In the face of a more challenging economic environment across the Americas, we have accelerated and expanded the scope of our revenue and cost initiatives to hasten the transformation of Atento's operational core beyond what we had considered under our growth plan. In addition to another $20 million in annual cost savings that we are targeting, our new sales strategy continues gaining traction, driving high TCV growth in the third quarter that will support Atento's top line going into 2023 as new clients are onboarded and volumes begin kicking in. And as revenues with existing clients pick up in the seasonally strong fourth quarter, we expect to see a strong sequential quarterly improvement in EBITDA and cash flow.
Besides adopting a global account model that has greatly enhanced our ability to sell across markets and more of Atento's expanding portfolio of solutions, we have become even more aggressive commercially in key growth sectors such as Tech, E-commerce, Healthcare and Travel. These businesses tend to grow faster than many of our traditional Blue-Chip clients, as they need to begin outsourcing many of their CX and back-office functions. Notably, 63% of 2022 sales through September came from new logos.
Our challenges are rooted in the LATAM markets that we serve, with some of these more in our control than others. We are mitigating the impact of inflation through significantly better IPT management, and price competition through a retooled offering. Even adverse political developments can be managed by creating a more agile organization. In the long-term, focusing on our developed market growth objective and particularly US Nearshore will be key to our success. Today, we are truly selling more, selling better and selling what we want. At the same time, we are further reducing Atento's cost structure. 2022 has been a transformational year during which we have been evolving into a stronger and more resilient company, enabling us to resume our profitable growth trajectory next year as well as establishing a solid foundation for longer-term growth.
Third Quarter Segment Reporting
Brazil
Third quarter Brazil revenue decreased 8.0% to $139.6 million, with Multisector and TEF revenues decreasing 6.0% and 13.6%, respectively. Multisector revenues declined on terminated low margin client contracts as well as volumes that were lower than internal projections and related to weakening economic conditions in this market. At the end of the quarter, Multisector revenue accounted for 74.7% of total revenue in Brazil, up 0.9 p.p. compared to the same nine-month period in 2021. The decrease in TEF revenues was mainly due to this client's cost-cutting program in Brazil, which included renegotiated prices. The decrease in Brazil's total revenue in the third quarter was partially offset by inflation pass-through.
The Company's EBITDA in Brazil decreased 33.4% to $15.1 million, with the corresponding margin contracting 4.1 p.p. to 10.8%. The decrease was mainly due to i) lower volumes and pricing; and ii) terminated low margin client contracts.
Americas Region
In the Americas region, third quarter revenue increased 3.4% to $151.7 million, driven by an 11.9% increase in TEF revenues. The increase in TEF revenues was mainly due to strong volumes in Colombia and Peru, and reflects hyperinflation in Argentina. Despite challenging economic conditions in the region, Multisector revenues decreased only slightly, as reductions in client volumes were limited. Multisector revenues accounted for 68.4% of the region's total revenue, 0.3 p.p. higher compared to the first nine months of 2021.
Americas EBITDA decreased 3.8% to $14.7 million, with the corresponding margin declining 0.4 p.p. to 9.7%. Although TEF accounted for a higher proportion of revenue in the third quarter, the effect of hyperinflation in Argentina would not translate into higher EBITDA. However, the EBITDA margin in the Argentina business became positive in the third quarter, due to improved operational efficiency.
EMEA Region
Revenue in EMEA increased 14.1% to $57.9 million on a 19.8% increase in Multisector revenues and a 7.6% rise in TEF revenues. Volumes related to new clients in the insurance and energy sectors primarily drove Multisector revenues. TEF volumes were higher, as Atento continued to benefit from this client's consolidation of service providers earlier in the year. On a nine-month basis, Multisector revenue accounted for 52.0% of total revenue, an increase of 0.5 p.p. compared to the comparable nine-month period in 2021.
EMEA EBITDA increased 4.2% to $5.0 million, while the corresponding margin decreased 0.8 p.p. to 8.6% as a greater mix of onshore volumes in the TEF business, as compared to more profitable offshore business, remained during the quarter. The forecast for 4Q22 projects a greater mix of offshore revenue, which should increase EMEA's margin.
Cash Flow
Third quarter operating cash flow was $8.1 million, up sequentially from $7.7 million and reflecting capex expenditures during this period. Free cash flow was negative $38.0 million, down from $4.5 million in 2Q22, mostly due to a $19.5 million bond interest payment, $22.5 million in payments related to currency hedges, $3.5 million in other interest expenses primarily related to bank credit facilities.
Indebtedness & Capital Structure
At September 30, 2022, Gross debt totaled $715.6 million, or $583.9 million when excluding lease obligations reported under IFRS 16. With cash and cash equivalents of $66.3 million, net debt was $649.3 million at the end of the quarter.
At the end of the third quarter, LTM net debt-to-EBITDA was 6.1x, or 4.3x when excluding the one-time impact of cyber costs on EBITDA in 4Q21, which will not be reflected in 4Q22 LTM EBITDA.
Management regularly assesses the Company's level of indebtedness and evaluates its liquidity profile as well as various financing, refinancing and other alternatives to enhance its capital structure and address maturities under existing debt arrangements. In addition, from time to time, management has explored opportunities to obtain financing from third parties, including through a receivables financing facility or other debt facilities permitted to be incurred under the terms of the documents governing Atento's existing debt arrangements.
Earnings /(Loss) Per Share
As of September 30, 2022, the Company's shares outstanding represented a total amount of 15,451,667 shares. On September 30, 2022, Atento S.A. held a total of 951,957 own shares.
Basic earnings/(loss) per share is calculated by dividing the profit/(loss) attributable to equity owners of the Company by the weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding during for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2021 are as below:
Fiscal 2022 Guidance
Conference Call
Atento will host a conference call and webcast on Wednesday, November 16, 2022, at 8:30 am ET to discuss the Company's fiscal third quarter 2022 operating and financial results. The conference call can be accessed by dialing: USA: +1 (866) 807-9684; UK: (+44) 20 3514 3188; Brazil: (+55) 11 4933-0682; Spain: (+34) 91 414-9260; or International: (+1) 412 317 5415. No passcode is required. Individuals who dial in will be asked to identify themselves and their affiliations. A live webcast of the conference call will be available on Atento's Investor Relations website at investors.atento.com (Click Here). A web-based archive of the conference call will also be available at the website.
About Atento
Atento is the largest provider of customer relationship management and business process outsourcing ("CRM BPO") services in Latin America and among the top providers globally. Since 1999, the company has developed its business model in 14 countries with a workforce of 131,000 employees. Atento has over 400 clients for which it provides a wide range of CRM/BPO services through multiple channels. Its clients are leading multinational companies in the technology, digital, telecommunications, finance, health, consumer and public administration sectors, amongst others. Atento trades under ATTO on the New York Stock Exchange. In 2019, Atento was recognized by Great Place to Work® as one of the 25 World's Best Multinational Workplaces and as one of the Best Places to Work in Latin America. In 2021, Everest named Atento a Star Performer, while in 2022 Gartner named the Company a leader fin the Gartner Magic Quadrant for the second consecutive year. For more information www.atento.com
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Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as "may," "should," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "intends," "continue" or similar terminology. These statements reflect only Atento's current expectations and are not guarantees of future performance or results. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. In particular, the COVID-19 pandemic, and governments' extraordinary measures to limit the spread of the virus, are disrupting the global economy and Atento's industry, and consequently adversely affecting the Company's business, results of operation and cash flows and, as conditions are recent, uncertain and changing rapidly, it is difficult to predict the full extent of the impact that the pandemic will have. Risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, competition in Atento's highly competitive industries; increases in the cost of voice and data services or significant interruptions in these services; Atento's ability to keep pace with its clients' needs for rapid technological change and systems availability; the continued deployment and adoption of emerging technologies; the loss, financial difficulties or bankruptcy of any key clients; the effects of global economic trends on the businesses of Atento's clients; the non-exclusive nature of Atento's client contracts and the absence of revenue commitments; security and privacy breaches of the systems Atento uses to protect personal data; the cost of pending and future litigation; the cost of defending Atento against intellectual property infringement claims; extensive regulation affecting many of Atento's businesses; Atento's ability to protect its proprietary information or technology; service interruptions to Atento's data and operation centers; Atento's ability to retain key personnel and attract a sufficient number of qualified employees; increases in labor costs and turnover rates; the political, economic and other conditions in the countries where Atento operates; changes in foreign exchange rates; Atento's ability to complete future acquisitions and integrate or achieve the objectives of its recent and future acquisitions; future impairments of our substantial goodwill, intangible assets, or other long-lived assets; and Atento's ability to recover consumer receivables on behalf of its clients. In addition, Atento is subject to risks related to its level of indebtedness. Such risks include Atento's ability to generate sufficient cash to service its indebtedness and fund its other liquidity needs; Atento's ability to comply with covenants contained in its debt instruments; the ability to obtain additional financing; the incurrence of significant additional indebtedness by Atento and its subsidiaries; and the ability of Atento's lenders to fulfill their lending commitments. Atento is also subject to other risk factors described in documents filed by the comp any with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which the statements were made. Atento undertakes no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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NEW YORK (AP) _ BGC Partners Inc. (BGCP) on Wednesday reported second-quarter earnings of $14.8 million.
The New York-based company said it had earnings of 4 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to 17 cents per share.
The brokerage company posted revenue of $435.8 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $435.8 million, which fell short of Street forecasts.
The company's shares closed at $3.64. A year ago, they were trading at $5.30.
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Cleveland police searching for missing endangered man
Published: Feb. 16, 2023 at 1:46 PM EST|Updated: 49 minutes ago
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Cleveland police are looking for a man last seen February 11.
Officials say Antonio Velez was last seen leaving the Motel 6 in Middleburg Heights around 8p.m..
Police say Velez was driving a blue 2011 Nissan Maxima with the temporary tag P898529.
Velez is 5′8 with brown hair and brown eyes, the report says.
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DALLAS (AP) — A man fatally shot two Dallas hospital employees over the weekend, opening fire after accusing his girlfriend who had just given birth of infidelity, authorities said.
Jacqueline Pokuaa, a 45-year-old social worker, and Katie Annette Flowers, a 63-year-old nurse, were killed in Saturday’s shooting at Methodist Dallas Medical Center, according to police and hospital officials.
Authorities have said Nestor Hernandez, 30, opened fire around 11 a.m. while at the hospital for the birth of a child by his girlfriend. Hernandez, who was on parole from prison and had been granted permission to be at the hospital while wearing an ankle monitor, was shot and wounded by a police officer, authorities said.
“In my opinion, this is a failure of our criminal justice system,” Dallas police Chief Eddie Garcia said at a news conference Monday. “A violent individual such as this should not have been on ankle monitor and should have remained in custody.”
Hernandez has been charged with capital murder but it wasn’t clear Monday if he has an attorney who could speak on his behalf. He was not listed among people being held in the Dallas County jail and authorities said that after the shooting he was treated at Methodist and then taken to another medical faculty for further treatment.
Hernandez arrived at the hospital around 10:20 a.m. to visit the woman in delivery and began to strike her repeatedly in the head with a handgun, Garcia said. According to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by WFAA-TV, Hernandez started hitting his girlfriend after accusing her of infidelity.
Hernandez then started making “ominous” calls and sending text messages to his family, told his girlfriend that they were both going to die and said “whoever comes in this room is going to die with us,” according to the Dallas TV station’s account of the affidavit. He shot Pokuaa when she came into the room to attend to the woman, then shot Flowers after she looked in the room upon hearing gunfire, Garcia said.
Hospital police Sgt. Robert Rangel saw Flowers get shot, called for backup and took cover outside the room where Hernandez was reloading his gun, the chief said. When Hernandez emerged, Rangel shot him in the leg and, after a standoff, police took him into custody, Garcia said.
Garcia said the woman Hernandez struck was treated for her injuries and that a newborn child who was in the room was not hurt.
Hernandez was released from prison on parole last October after having been convicted of aggravated robbery, according to Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Amanda Hernandez. She said he was given permission to be with his “significant other” at the hospital during her delivery.
Authorities haven’t released any information on how Hernandez came to have a gun while on parole for a felony conviction. Methodist Medical System Police Chief Glen Fowler said Monday that the hospital wasn’t given any notice of his criminal history or that he was being tracked with an ankle monitor.
“That’s not something we normally inquire about for a parent,” Fowler said. “This is an extremely horrific, out-of-the-norm situation. I wish that we would have known, but that is not some information that was provided to us beforehand.”
Garcia said Hernandez was sentenced to eight years for aggravated robbery, serving six before he was released on parole last year. In March 2022, he was arrested for a parole violation, then in April released to his parole officer. In June, Garcia said, Hernandez was arrested by police in a Dallas suburb for another parole violation, taken to a county jail and then turned over to the custody of Texas prisons, which released him this September with the ankle monitor he was wearing during the shooting.
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DETROIT (AP) — A Tennessee company could be heading for a legal battle with U.S. auto safety regulators after refusing a request that millions of potentially dangerous air bag inflators be recalled.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is demanding that ARC Automotive Inc. of Knoxville recall 67 million inflators in the U.S. because they could explode and hurl shrapnel. At least two people have been killed in the U.S. and Canada, and seven others have been hurt as a result of defective ARC inflators, the agency said.
The recall would cover a large portion of the 284 million vehicles now on U.S. roads, but the percentage is difficult to determine. Some have ARC inflators for both the driver and front passenger.
In a letter posted Friday, the agency told ARC that it has tentatively concluded after an eight-year investigation that ARC front driver and passenger inflators have a safety defect.
“Air bag inflators that project metal fragments into vehicle occupants, rather than properly inflating the attached air bag, create an unreasonable risk of death and injury,” Stephen Ridella, director of NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation, wrote in a letter to ARC.
But ARC responded that it no defect exists in the inflators, and that any problems are related to isolated manufacturing issues.
The next step in the process is for NHTSA to schedule a public hearing. It could then take the company to court to force a recall.
“We disagree with NHTSA’s new sweeping request when extensive field testing has found no inherent defect,” ARC said in a statement Friday night.
Also Friday, NHTSA posted documents showing that General Motors is recalling nearly 1 million vehicles equipped with ARC inflators. The recall covers certain 2014-2017 Buick Enclave, Chevrolet Traverse, and GMC Acadia SUVs.
The automaker says an inflator explosion “may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants, resulting in serious injury or death.”
Owners will be notified by letter starting June 25, but no fix is available yet. They’ll get another letter when one is ready.
GM says it will offer “courtesy transportation” on a case-by-case basis to owners who fear driving vehicles that are part of the recall.
The company said that it’s doing the recall, which expands previous actions, “out of an abundance of caution and with the safety of our customers as our highest priority.”
One of the two deaths was a mother of 10 who was killed in what appeared to be an otherwise minor crash in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in the summer of 2021. Police reports show that a metal inflator fragment hit her neck in a crash involving a 2015 Chevrolet Traverse SUV.
At least a dozen automakers have the allegedly faulty inflators in use, including Volkswagen, Ford, BMW and GM, NHTSA said.
The agency contends that welding debris from the manufacturing process can block an “exit orifice” for gas that is released to fill the air bag in a crash. Any blockage can cause pressure to build in the inflator, blowing it apart and hurling metal fragments, Ridella’s letter says.
But in a response to Ridella dated May 11, ARC Vice President of Product Integrity Steve Gold wrote that NHTSA’s position is not based on any objective technical or engineering conclusion about a defect, “but rather conclusory statements regarding hypothesized blockage of the inflator orifice from ‘weld slag.’”
He wrote that welding debris has not been confirmed as the cause in any of the seven inflator ruptures in the U.S. ARC contends that only five have ruptured while in use, and that “does not support a finding that a systemic and prevalent defect exists in this population.”
Gold also writes that manufacturers must do recalls, not equipment manufacturers like ARC. NHTSA’s recall demand, he wrote, exceeds the agency’s legal authority.
In a federal lawsuit filed last year, plaintiffs alleged that ARC’s inflators use ammonium nitrate as a secondary propellant to inflate the air bags. The propellant is pressed into tablets that can expand and develop microscopic holes if exposed to moisture. Degraded tablets have a larger surface area, causing them to burn too fast and ignite too big of an explosion, according to the lawsuit.
The explosion can blow apart a metal canister housing the chemical, sending metal shards into the cabin. Ammonium nitrate, used in fertilizer and as a cheap explosive, is so dangerous that it can burn too fast even without moisture present, the lawsuit says.
The plaintiffs allege that ARC inflators have blown apart seven times on U.S. roads and two other times in testing by ARC. There have so far been five limited recalls of the inflators that totaled about 5,000 vehicles, including three recalls by GM.
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This story has updated to clarify that the portion of U.S. vehicles on the road would be less than the one quarter because some vehicles have ARC driver and passenger inflators. | https://www.yourbasin.com/business/tennessee-company-refuses-us-request-to-recall-67-million-potentially-dangerous-air-bag-inflators/ | 2023-05-13 11:28:50 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/business/tennessee-company-refuses-us-request-to-recall-67-million-potentially-dangerous-air-bag-inflators/ |
Beanie Feldstein's girlfriend put a ring on it, and now they're engaged!
The Impeachment: American Crime Story star revealed Thursday on Instagram that her longtime girlfriend, Bonnie Chance Roberts, popped the question and she said yes! Well, actually, Feldstein said, "i do, bon." That's how she captioned the post that also included photos of Roberts getting down on one knee.
The beautiful moment included a scene filled with tons of lights and flowers in what appears to be the backyard of someone's home. The moment was so captivating, Feldstein appears to drop to her knees in excitement. The other photos included the newly engaged couple showing off the ring to friends via a FaceTime call.
Feldstein's brother, Jonah Hill, was also part of the big day that included nearly two dozen other people.
Feldstein also took to her Instagram Story to celebrate the memorable occasion, posting a photo of Roberts down on one knee set to ABBA's "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do" track. Feldstein captioned the post, "@bonnie_chance you make me happier than I knew was possible. I love you."
The actress and producer met on the set of the 2019 comedy How to Build a Girl and walked the red carpet that year in September but not as a couple. They made their red carpet debut as a couple when they attended the Cats premiere at Lincoln Center in New York City.
Two months before making their red carpet debut, Feldstein, who deftly portrayed Monica Lewinsky in FX's hit anthology series, told Dax Shepard on his Armchair Expert podcast how they "spent every day together" after they met, and the relationship blossomed from there.
"It was like, let's have breakfast at 9 a.m. and then it would be 11 p.m. and we would be like, 'I guess it's not breakfast anymore and we're still staring at each other and talking.'"
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What's next for Alex Jones after $49M Sandy Hook verdict?
The nearly $50 million defamation verdict against Alex Jones for his years of lies about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre is far from a final reckoning.
Jones' attorneys plan to appeal and try to lower the price tag a Texas jury put on his false claim that the nation's deadliest school shooting — which killed 20 students and six teachers — was a hoax. The conspiracy theorist faces bankruptcy and other defamation lawsuits. And the courtroom conduct of Jones and his lawyers has exposed the Infowars host to new legal perils, including possible sanctions, allegations of perjury and renewed scrutiny in the investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Here's a look at the fallout from the successful suit against Jones by the parents of one of the child victims in the Dec. 14, 2012, shooting at the school in Newtown, Connecticut.
Will Jones pay and how much?
A Travis County jury last week ordered Jones to pay Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis $4.1 million in compensatory damages for the suffering he put them through by saying the shooting that killed their 6-year-old son, Jesse Lewis, was staged to increase gun controls. The jurors also leveled $45.2 million in punitive damages against Jones, bringing the total fine to roughly a third of the $150 million the couple had sought.
It's the first time Jones has been held financially liable for repeatedly claiming the Sandy Hook shooting was faked. Lewis said after the trial that Jones had been held accountable. His lawyers plan to appeal and seek to reduce the damages.
Video above: Jones' Infowars files for bankruptcy amid Sandy Hook lawsuits
Legal experts say Jones probably won't pay the full amount.
In most civil cases, Texas law limits how much defendants have to pay in "exemplary," or punitive, damages to twice the "economic damages" plus up to $750,000. But jurors are not told about this cap, and eye-popping verdicts are often hacked down by judges.
Russ Horton, an Austin attorney, said it's "almost a surety" that the damages against Jones will be cut to conform with the law, either by an appeals court or the trial judge.
A Virginia judge did just that in Johnny Depp's defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife, Amber Heard. Under a cap similar to Texas' law, the judge in July cut the $10 million in compensatory damages that a jury awarded Depp to $350,000.
What Jones can afford is also disputed.
He testified that any award over $2 million would "sink us," and Free Speech Systems — which is Infowars' Austin-based parent company — filed for bankruptcy protection during the first week of the trial.
But economist Bernard Pettingill testified that Jones and his company are worth up to $270 million. He said Jones withdrew $62 million from the firm in 2021, when default judgments were issued in that case and two other Sandy Hood defamation suits.
Since the verdict, Jones has urged Infowars' supporters to buy the nutritional supplements, survival gear and other products he sells, saying he needs funds to continue the show and his legal fights.
"If we don't get solvent and get enough money to come out of this bankruptcy, they'll appoint a receiver and start selling off the equipment," he said Monday.
Perjury?
There would be extensive court wrangling before the Infowars studio could be sold for parts. But Jones has more immediate risks and may see his legal bills mount.
Jones appeared to be caught in at least one lie while on the witness stand, when a lawyer for the parents suing him revealed he had digital copies of texts and other content from Jones' cellphone. The messages, including communications about Sandy Hook, were accidentally emailed to the plaintiffs' attorneys by one of Jones' lawyers.
Jones sought to shrug the revelation off in cross-examination, ridiculing an opposing lawyer and denying that he lied. But legal experts say the episode could open Jones up to a possible perjury charge.
Video above: Fayetteville family impacted by Sandy Hook shooting responds to Alex Jones verdict
Criminal charges of perjury are rare and difficult to prove, but Jones' prominence may make him an attractive target, especially in liberal Austin.
"It would be very hard to imagine a state prosecutor going after someone in a civil case for perjury," said Benson Varghese, an attorney in Fort Worth, Texas. "The chances are slightly higher for Jones, given the high-profile case."
Aggravated perjury, the charge frequently brought in Texas for lies on the witness stand, is punishable with up to 10 years in prison.
A spokesman for the Travis County District Attorney's Office, which would handle a potential criminal case against Jones, declined to comment.
Sanctions?
Even if prosecutors never pursue a case, Jones could face further consequences from Judge Maya Guerra Gamble.
Before the trial, lawyers for the parents suing Jones filed a motion asking the judge to sanction him for failing to produce evidence. Gamble is set to take up that motion.
And in court, Gamble repeatedly admonished Jones to tell the truth.
At one point, she sent the jury out of the room and scolded him for telling jurors he complied with pretrial evidence gathering when he hadn't. And the judge scolded him further for testifying that he's bankrupt, which has not been determined by a court and prompted fury from the lawyers opposing Jones.
"This is not your show," Gamble told Jones. "Your beliefs do not make something true. You are under oath."
Judges have wide discretion to set sanctions – including fines, imprisonment and other punishments – but it's rare to see them imposed.
Avi Moshenberg, a lawyer for the parents, declined to say whether they would seek other sanctions but said, "there were certainly some troubling things that happened during trial."
Jones' attorney, Andino Reynal, did not respond to a request for comment.
Jones and the Jan. 6 investigation
Jones' lawyers accidentally handing over his text messages in the case also exposes him to further scrutiny from the U.S. House committee examining the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot that sought to overturn Joe Biden's victory in the presidential election.
The committee, which has spent months showing how former President Donald Trump relentlessly pushed his false claims of a rigged election, subpoenaed Jones to testify. And the panel's chairman accused him of helping to organize a rally near the Capitol that preceded the insurrection.
Now, the lawmakers reportedly have Jones' texts.
Video above: Roger Stone and Alex Jones issued subpoenas related to the January 6th insurrection
An attorney for the parents suing Jones, Mark Bankston, gave the committee two years' worth of Jones' messages, CNN reported Monday, citing an unnamed person familiar with the matter. Bankston told The Associated Press that he was "cooperating with the committee" but did not comment further.
On his Tuesday show, Jones downplayed the significance of the messages. He showed a photo of his wife in a swimsuit that he had sent to Roger Stone, a Trump confidant who was also subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 committee, and said the messages didn't include anything past April 2020.
"It's six months of limited texts," Jones said. "It's a fraction of my phone."
Other cases
Before the trial in Austin, Jones had already been found liable in a separate defamation lawsuit in Texas and another in Connecticut by relatives of some of the Sandy Hook victims.
The other Texas case was filed by Leonard Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, whose son Noah was killed in the shooting. The Connecticut case has the potential for a larger award because it consolidates three lawsuits filed by 15 plaintiffs, a former FBI agent who responded to the school and the relatives of nine Sandy Hook victims.
It will be up to a Connecticut jury to decide what, if any, damages Jones' owes in that case, although law there could also limit what he would have to pay.
Trials for damages were scheduled to begin in both cases next month, but their progress has been complicated by Free Speech Systems' July filing for bankruptcy protection, a process that freezes pending litigation.
Horton, the Austin lawyer, said the cases could potentially proceed against Jones personally while Free Speech Systems is in bankruptcy court, and he warned that filing for Chapter 11 gives the bankruptcy court tremendous power to examine Jones' finances.
"Bankruptcy is not a place to hide out if you have anything to hide," Horton said.
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Collins reported from Hartford, Connecticut, and Tarm reported from Chicago. Associated Press writer Paul J. Weber in Austin, Texas, contributed to this report. | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/alex-jones-whats-next-after-sandy-hook-verdict/40860481 | 2022-08-10 18:08:40 | 0 | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/alex-jones-whats-next-after-sandy-hook-verdict/40860481 |
All author appearances are virtual and free unless otherwise noted.
SUNDAY
Amy Baron (“The Gentle Bulldozer”) reads in person at 10:30 a.m. at Brookline Booksmith . . . Natasha Pulley (“The Half Life of Valery K”) reads at noon at Brookline Booksmith . . . Scott Rothman (“Parfait, Not Parfait!”) reads in person at 4 p.m. at An Unlikely Story.
MONDAY
Camper English (“Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails”) is in conversation with Richard Thompson Ford at 6 p.m. at New England Historic Genealogical Society (Tickets are $32 for admission and include a signed copy of the book) . . . Sean McAdam (“The Franchise: Boston Red Sox: A Curated History of the Red Sox”) reads in person at 7 p.m. at An Unlikely Story
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TUESDAY
Catherine McKenzie (“Please Join Us”) is in conversation with Hank Phillippi Ryan in person at 7 p.m. at Belmont Books . . . Moiya McTier (“The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy”) reads in person at 7 p.m. at Harvard Bookstore . . . Emily Hall (“The Longcut”) reads in person at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books: Cambridge Edition . . . Dave Wedge (“Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang”) reads in person at 7 p.m. at An Unlikely Story.
WEDNESDAY
R.F. Kuang (“Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution”) is in conversation with Lily Rugo in person at 6 p.m. at Brattle Theatre at an event hosted by Harvard Book Store (tickets are $29.75 for admission and include a copy of the book) . . . Alex Aster (“Lightlark”) is in conversation with Dustin Thao in person at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith (tickets are $20 for admission and include a copy of the book) . . . Sandra Lim (“The Curious Thing”), Romeo Oriogun (“Sacrament of Bodies”), Lloyd Schwartz (“Who’s on First?: New and Selected Poems”), and Partridge Boswell (“Some Far Country”) read in person at 7 p.m. at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy at an event hosted by Grolier Poetry Shop . . . E.B. Bartels (“Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter”) reads in person at 7 p.m. at An Unlikely Story.
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THURSDAY
Jennifer Weiner (“The Summer Place”) reads in person at 6:30 p.m. at Sandwich Town Hall at an event hosted by Titcomb’s Bookshop (tickets are $30 for admission and include a copy of the book) . . . Steve Almond (“All the Secrets of the World”) is in conversation with Mark Cecil in person at 7 p.m. at Belmont Books.
FRIDAY
Karin Slaughter (“Girl, Forgotten”) is in conversation with Hank Phillippi Ryan in person at 6 p.m. at Coolidge Corner Theatre at an event hosted by Brookline Booksmith (tickets are $30 for admission and include a copy of the book).
SATURDAY
Bessie T. Wilkerson (“The Hungry Squirrel”) reads in person at 11 a.m. at the Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library . . . Mark Haber (“Saint Sebastian’s Abyss”), Lynn Steger Strong (“Flight”), and Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi (“Savage Tongues”) are in conversation with Katie Whittemore at 2 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith . . . Jamie Michalak (“Frank and Bean: Food Truck Fiasco”) reads in person at 4 p.m. at An Unlikely Story.
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GREENWICH, Conn., July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ennabl, a leading Insurtech data analytics platform, is proud to announce the successful completion of its Series A funding, which has raised $8M. This funding will accelerate the company's growth and expand its market reach.
The Series A round was led by Brewer Lane Ventures, with participation from Altai Ventures and private investors. The company will use the funds to invest in product development, expand the company's sales and marketing efforts, and grow its team.
"Ennabl's mission is to provide cutting-edge solutions for insurance brokers and agencies to help them grow their book of business and simplify their existing processes," said Kabir Syed, CEO of Ennabl. "We're thrilled to have Brewer Lane Ventures and our other investors on board as we continue to grow our platform and help brokers achieve their goals."
Ennabl's SaaS platform helps insurance brokerages and agencies to harness data to drive top-line growth. Ennabl's machine learning algorithms provide actionable intelligence for brokers to increase their commissions, find new customers, grow their book of business, and manage carrier strategy by extracting, cleaning, and enriching data from all of the broker's systems and processes.
Ennabl has experienced rapid growth since its founding in 2021, with a customer base that includes a number of the world's largest insurance brokers. The company has also partnered with several leading technology and service providers, including Reagan Consulting, NeuralMetrics, HazardHub, and Fenris Digital, to provide actionable external data that allows brokers to accelerate their top-line growth.
We're excited to partner with Ennabl as they continue to drive innovation in the insurance technology space," said Chris Downer, Partner at Brewer Lane Ventures. "Their platform is revolutionizing the way insurance brokers leverage data, and we see tremendous promise in Ennabl's ability to further impact the market."
ABOUT ENNABL
Ennabl launched in 2021 with a seasoned management and engineering team of industry veterans to help brokers with data, insights, and workflow challenges. Serving as an insurance platform, Ennabl is used by numerous brokers and agents to unify and manage their data. By utilizing the platform, brokers can minimize the time spent on data maintenance and allocate more attention to enhancing their clients' experience and their bottom line.
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TORONTO (AP) — Sergei Bobrovsky made 35 saves and the Florida Panthers defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 on Thursday night to take a 2-0 lead in their second-round playoff series.
Anton Lundell had a goal and an assist, and Aleksander Barkov and Gustav Forsling also scored for Florida.
Ryan O’Reilly and Alexander Kerfoot scored for Toronto, which blew an early 2-0 lead. Ilya Samsonov stopped 26 shots.
The best-of-seven series shifts to Sunrise, Florida, for Game 3 on Sunday. Game 4 is scheduled for Wednesday.
Toronto led 2-1 following a spirited, chippy first period. Trouble found the Maple Leafs in the second.
Barkov tied the game 19 seconds into the period on a long shot for his second goal of the postseason. Less than a minute later, there was some sloppy play by Toronto in the defensive zone when Mitch Marner flipped an ill-advised pass to Auston Matthews, who couldn’t get it out of the zone.
Florida quickly countered as Forsling finished off a setup by Matthew Tkachuk — his fourth of the series — for his second and a 3-2 lead.
The Maple Leafs took a while to recover before Nylander hit the post with a shot that also hit Bobrovsky in the back and stayed out. Florida defenseman Brandon Montour then hit the post at the other end.
Toronto captain John Tavares had a great chance in front before Josh Mahura took a Nylander shot off the visor that left a trail of blood on the ice as he exited for the locker room. The Panthers defenseman returned for the third period.
Toronto came out for the third with plenty of urgency, but couldn’t solve Bobrovsky, who has started to rediscover his Vezina Trophy-winning form in these playoffs after losing the starting job late in the regular season to third-stringer Alex Lyon.
Tavares was stopped in alone and Nylander hit another post. The Maple Leafs winger was also denied in tight with five minutes left in regulation.
Toronto continued to press with Samsonov on the bench for an extra attacker, but couldn’t beat Bobrovsky.
Toronto dropped the series opener 4-2 at Scotiabank Arena, but got off to a fast start Thursday when Kerfoot scored on the rebound of a Luke Schenn point shot for his second at 2:20 of the first.
Unable to connect on two early power plays in Game 1, the Maple Leafs made it 2-0 on a man advantage at 5:10 when Marner found O’Reilly, who scored his third on a one-timer.
The Panthers, who beat the record-setting Boston Bruins in seven games to make the second round, started to push back as the period wore on, including Sam Bennett putting Matthew Knies in a headlock and slamming him to the ice.
The Toronto rookie finished the period, but didn’t return for the second period due to an undisclosed injury.
Florida responded at 11:13 when Lundell scored his first after linemate Eetu Luostarinen crushed Leafs defenseman Timothy Liljegren behind Samsonov’s net and Tavares fell.
MATTHEWS ON THE MARK
Matthews assisted on O’Reilly’s first-period goal, giving him points in eight straight games and matching a franchise record previously shared by Gary Roberts (2002), Doug Gilmour (1993) and Gary Leeman (1986).
GET KRAKEN
Toronto defenseman Mark Giordano — the first captain in Seattle Kraken history — has been keeping tabs on his old team’s run in the playoffs.
The second-year franchise finished 30th in last year’s standings, but secured the Western Conference’s first wild-card spot this spring before upsetting the defending Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche in seven games in the first round.
“The foundation was laid in place last year,” said Giordano, acquired by Toronto prior to the 2022 trade deadline. “They also made some huge additions and really helped their team.”
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 29, 2022
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Rio Grande at Presidio International Bridge affecting Presidio
County.
.The river gauge at the Rio Grande Presidio International Bridge is
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One of the hundreds of migrants presumed dead after the smuggling ship they were on sank earlier this month, was a father seeking help for his ill child.
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Videos obtained by Nexstar’s KLAS show former NFL running back Marshawn Lynch’s luxury car stuck on a boulder in a crash that led to a parking ticket.
Lynch, 36, was driving in Las Vegas around 4 a.m. on Feb. 22 when his Lamborghini Aventador “collided with landscaping and a fence,” police wrote in a report. Las Vegas Metro Police body camera videos show Lynch’s car sitting in the landscaped area as police try to determine who was driving it.
Officers suspected Lynch was driving at “a high rate of speed” when his car veered off the road, hit a curb, and traveled about 50 feet before stopping on top of the boulder, the report said.
A person at the scene, who told police he was Lynch’s cousin, initially said Lynch was not driving, the report said and the videos reveal. Police had issued a citation to that person, but those violations “were voided due to the fact it was proven [that person] was not the driver at the time of the collision,” police wrote in the report.
“Is this your car?” an officer asks the man.
“My cousin,” he replied.
“And you’re saying you were driving?” the officer responded.
“Yup,” the man said.
“Where’s your cousin?” the officer asked.
“He’s probably at home,” the man said.
Police said witnesses saw Lynch walking away from the crash and then “returned and began attempting to remove the vehicle from the landscape area,” the report said. A van later arrived to aid in that attempt, the police report said. Lynch later left in the van, leaving the man police are talking to in the videos with the car.
“Who got picked up in the van?” an officer asked.
“No, I came in the van,” the man said.
“You came in the van? I thought you said you were driving this thing?” the officer replied, referring to the Lamborghini.
Officers do not believe the man they were talking to was the driver since witnesses saw a second man with a different description walking away from the crash site, they said on the videos.
“It’s hard to keep your story straight when you’re lying to me,” the officer said to the man.
Lynch does not appear in any of the videos. In one clip, officers appear to reference witness video of the driver getting out of the car. They described him as a “big dude” who was no longer at the crash site.
“They were trying to pull it out before anybody got here,” one officer remarked. “That’s the dude that was driving — a big dude — this is the dude that stayed.”
Three days after the crash, police met with Lynch, who owned up to driving, they wrote in the report. Lynch told officers he was new to the neighborhood and that he left the crash site “to avoid being placed on video,” the report said.
Police cited Lynch for the crash and did not arrest him. Officers said he was not impaired.
Court records show Lynch pleaded nolo contendere — accepting violation but denying guilt — to a charge of stopping, standing, or parking prohibited in specified places, which is a misdemeanor. A judge ordered him to pay a $750 fine.
“This is a non-story,” Lynch’s attorneys Richard Schonfeld and David Chesnoff said in a statement to KLAS about the February incident. “Marshawn addressed this matter many months ago and was found responsible for a parking violation.”
The court told KLAS the plea was negotiated between the Clark County District Attorney’s Office and Lynch’s attorneys.
On Aug. 9, Las Vegas Metro police arrested Lynch on suspicion of DUI after a traffic stop around 7:30 in the morning.
Officers said they found Lynch “asleep behind the wheel with the vehicle in an undrivable condition.” The car, a 2020 Shelby GT500 Coupe, was unregistered, police said.
In that case, Lynch faces charges of DUI liquor and/or drugs, failure or refusal to surrender proof of insurance, driving an unregistered vehicle, and failure to drive in a travel lane.
“Marshawn was not pulled over for a DUI,” Lynch’s attorneys said in a statement regarding Lynch’s August arrest. “Rather, the vehicle was safely parked and not in operation. We are confident that when all evidence is presented, this will not be a DUI under Nevada law. Marshawn appreciates and is thankful for everyone’s concern and support.”
Nevada law states a person sitting in the driver’s seat of a vehicle is deemed “in physical control” of the vehicle.
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NEW ORLEANS -- Southern Baptists took the first step Wednesday toward amending their constitution so that churches with female pastors would no longer qualify to be part of the nation's largest Protestant denomination.
Baptists also expelled two congregations that have female pastors.
Saddleback Church, the southern California megachurch founded by Pastor Rick Warren in 1980, was deemed "not in friendly cooperation" with the 13.2 million-member Southern Baptist Convention.
Fern Creek Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky. was ejected as well.
Though the vote was cast Tuesday, the results weren't made public until Wednesday morning.
Convention president Bart Barber, a Lake City native, urged his fellow Baptists to "behave like Christians" no matter the outcome, telling them: "We don't throw divorce parties at our church."
The denomination's executive committee had already determined that the congregations had strayed from the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message, which states that "the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture."
That decision was affirmed by Southern Baptist delegates, known as messengers, with them voting 9,437 to 1,212 -- or 88.46% to 11.36% -- for Saddleback's exclusion.
The Orange County congregation, one of the largest in the country, remains a member in good standing with the California Southern Baptist Convention.
The decision to cut ties with Fern Creek, a church located less than 10 miles from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, was even more lopsided: 9,700 to 806 -- or 91.85% to 7.63%.
Pastor Linda Barnes Popham, one of the school's alumna, had led the congregation since 1993 without denominational censure.
The denomination's credentials committee had deemed her "in friendly cooperation" just a couple of years ago, she said.
"What changed in SBC politics in the last few years? What is going on? Who 'pulls the strings now?'" she asked Tuesday.
At a news conference Wednesday, Barber was asked why Southern Baptists had waited 30 years to take action if Barnes Popham's role was contrary to the word of God.
"I actually think that's a beautiful thing because my desire for us, as Southern Baptists, when we reason with one another, is to give room and time for persuasion," he said. "We should seek persuasion, restoration. ... We should always be working toward unity. Working toward unity takes time."
"The fact is there has never been a moment in the history of the Southern Baptist Convention that the Southern Baptist Convention was supportive of the idea that women could occupy the office of pastor, elder and overseer. It's just that, I think we've had hope that people who had come to a different conclusion from us would rethink that and would have an opportunity to change," he said.
Wednesday, messengers took a first step to settle the issue moving forward, voting by a supermajority of two-thirds or more to add a bar on female pastors to the church's constitution.
If approved again at next year's annual meeting, a church would only be deemed to be "in friendly cooperation with the Convention" if it "affirms, appoints, or employs only men as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by Scripture."
Dianne Hamm, a messenger from First Baptist Church in Mena, voted for the amendment, saying the job is for males only.
"The men are more disciplined. They have the wisdom of the way God wants the church to be ruled," she said.
Aaron Anglin, pastor of First Baptist Church in Vandervoort in Polk County, also supported the amendment, saying it aligns with Scripture.
"God's word says that the office of a pastor is for the husband of one wife," he said. "The Bible's clear on it, and we can just simply stand behind the Bible as the authority and as God's word."
Warren, who stepped down as Saddleback's pastor last year after four decades of service, had urged messengers during Tuesday's debate to allow room for dissenting views on ordination for women.
Wednesday, Warren portrayed the ousters as wrongheaded and short-sighted, arguing that the Holy Spirit has empowered women as well as men to proclaim the gospel.
"It's not really smart, when you're losing a half million [members] a year, to intentionally kick out people who want to fellowship with you, but as I've said, they've chosen conformity and uniformity over unity," he said.
After peaking at 16.3 million in 2006, convention membership has fallen 16 straight years.
The denomination reported membership last year of 13,223,122, a decline of 457,371 members -- or 3.34% -- compared to 2021.
Despite the name and its regional origins, the Southern Baptist Convention includes congregations in all 50 states -- 47,198 nationwide.
Of those, nearly 2,000 "have a woman on staff either called a pastor or ordained as a pastor," Warren said.
That includes those serving as children's pastors or youth pastors without leading a congregation.
"There's going to be an inquisition now, and it's probably going to go on for 10 years if they have to ferret out 2,000 [churches]," he said. "We cannot complete the Great Commission" -- Jesus's command to spread the gospel to the entire world -- "if 50% of our people sit on the shelf and are not allowed to be who God made them to be."
In many instances, Barber said Wednesday, churches "could change that title and not change anything about what that person is doing and be perfectly in compliance with everything that the messengers have voted on here."
Warren, whose mother, Dorothy, grew up in Northwest Arkansas, is the son of Southern Baptist church planters and one of the denomination's best-selling authors.
His book, "The Purpose Driven Life," has sold more than 50 million copies.
Despite this week's vote, he said he still considers himself a Southern Baptist, though not part of the national convention.
"I fought for this because if you love something, you fight for it," he said.
Barber said women "actually have broad participation in governance and decision-making in Southern Baptist churches and in the Southern Baptist Convention."
The convention, he noted, also passed a resolution this week reaffirming "the gifts, ministries and value of women in the kingdom of God" and praising them for "courageously, sacrificially and selflessly" serving the cause of Christ and his church.
Southern Baptists, he said, may debate at annual meetings, but they're united in their desire to spread the good news.
During the annual meeting, the convention commissioned 76 new missionaries to serve around the globe, he noted.
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LONDON — Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Britain for his first visit to the U.K. since his nation was invaded by Russian forces nearly a year ago. It's one of the few times he has left Ukraine since the war began.
Zelenskyy is holding meetings with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and giving a speech to lawmakers inside British Parliament.
The U.K. has announced its armed forces will expand training efforts with Ukrainian troops, and extend this to include marine forces as well as combat fighter jets, so they become familiar with aircraft used by NATO members.
Amid applause, Zelenskyy told U.K. legislators that Ukraine "will always come out on top of evil." He told lawmakers inside the ancient Westminster Hall that "Russia will lose," adding that Britain "is marching with us to the most important victory of our lifetime."
He also thanked Britain for providing major military equipment and training.
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Cameron Hildreth had a triple-double, Damari Monsanto scored 20 points, and Wake Forest beat up on Hampton from the start in a 97-70 victory on Saturday.
Wake Forest led 24-3 through the first seven minutes of the game and led 53-24 at halftime. The Demon Deacons made nine 3-pointers in the first half and four players scored in double figures, led by Monsanto with 14.
Monsanto, who made 4 of 7 3-pointers in the first half, hit a couple more and Wake Forest extended its lead to 37 points eight minutes into the second half. Soon after, a 3-pointer by Bobi Klintman stopped an eight-point run by the Pirates. The closest Hampton would get was 26 points with 3:38 remaining.
Hampton’s Marquis Godwin scored 18 points and Russell Dean contributed 14 points, seven rebounds and seven assists for the Pirates (1-5).
Wake Forest will face its first on-campus road game of the season on Tuesday when the Demon Deacons visit Wisconsin for the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
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Soleil Moon Frye visits Ukraine and urges Americans not to become ‘indifferent’ to the war
By Chloe Melas, CNN
Actress Soleil Moon Frye spent one week with Ukrainian refugees and is urging the public to do what they can to help.
Frye was on the ground with CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort), Sean Penn’s emergency relief nonprofit which has supported disaster responses in the US and around the world. She traveled to the region alongside fellow board members and the organization’s co-founder and CEO Ann Lee to provide emergency relief supplies and essential resources.
Frye met with Ukrainian refugees who have fled to Poland and listened to their emotional stories.
“The stories are gut wrenching,” Frye told CNN in a recent interview. “Everything from children who have been living in a gymnasium for five months to these incredible families who I met who had just come over 12 hours earlier, three children with the clothes on their back.”
Frye also crossed the border into Western Ukraine, explaining that the people she met with there did not want to flee, despite the war going on around them.
“Some of these families who I came to love so much, their parents are elderly. They can’t be that far away from them [or] their husbands are all fighting … they’re in a position in which they are there with pure heart and soul to stay in the country that they love.”
“This is a true humanitarian crisis and history repeats itself,” Frye added. “If we do not continue to shed light then people become indifferent and indifference is a huge issue. We have to have to remember and carry the hearts of these people with us.”
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Medication abortions became the preferred method for ending pregnancy in the U.S. even before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. These involve taking two prescription medicines days apart — at home or in a clinic.
Abortion procedures are an invasive medical technique that empties the womb. They are sometimes called surgical abortions, although they don’t involve surgery.
Abortion by pills involves the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol. As more states seek abortion limits, demand for the pills is expected to grow.
HOW THE DRUGS WORK
Mifepristone is taken first, swallowed by mouth. The drug dilates the cervix and blocks the effects of the hormone progesterone, which is needed to sustain a pregnancy.
Misoprostol, a drug also used to treat stomach ulcers, is taken 24 to 48 hours later. The pill is designed to dissolve when placed between the gums and teeth or in the vagina. It causes the uterus to cramp and contract, causing bleeding and expelling pregnancy tissue.
HOW THE DRUGS ARE USED
Abortion medication is approved for use up to the 10th week of pregnancy.
The pills may be taken in a doctor’s office or clinic, where patients sometimes have an ultrasound or lab tests beforehand. Some providers also offer the pills through telehealth visits and then send patients the medication by mail.
Use of the pills has been increasing in recent years. As of 2020, they accounted for 54% of all U.S. abortions, according to preliminary data from the Guttmacher Institute. The group’s final estimate is due later this year.
SIDE EFFECTS
Studies and real-use evidence show that when taken together, the pills are safe and up to 99% effective. Side effects may include nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
Bleeding is normal. Very heavy bleeding — soaking more than two pads an hour for more than two hours — is uncommon but requires medical attention.
Dr. Stephanie Rand, a New York ob-gyn and abortion specialist with the advocacy group Physicians for Reproductive Health, says pregnancy tests should not be used right away to determine if a medication abortion was successful because the pregnancy hormone may linger in the body for several weeks. Bleeding, with blood clots that include lighter colored tissue, are signs of success, she said.
Serious complications are very rare. The Food and Drug Administration says more than 3.7 million U.S. women have used mifepristone since it was approved more than 20 years ago. The agency has received 26 reports of deaths in women using the medication, including two involving ectopic pregnancies, which grow outside the womb.
The medications are not recommended for certain patients, including those with suspected ectopic pregnancies or with implanted IUD birth control devices.
COSTS
Costs vary by location but are similar to abortion procedures and may total more than $500. Health insurance coverage varies, with some plans making the pills free or low cost and others not covering them at all.
Mifepristone is sold under the brand name Mifeprex and misoprostol under the brand name Cytotec, but both pills are available as generics.
FEDERAL RULES
The FDA approved mifepristone to terminate pregnancy in 2000, when used with misoprostol. At the time, it imposed several limits on how the drug could be prescribed and dispensed.
In December, the agency dropped the biggest restriction: a requirement that patients pick up the medication in person. The FDA said a scientific review of the drug’s use — including during the COVID-19 pandemic — showed that women could safely receive the pills through the mail after an online consultation, without any increase in side effects or complications.
The decision allowed mail delivery of the pills nationwide, a change long-sought by medical professional groups and abortion-rights supporters.
Still, millions of women will have trouble accessing the pills due to a patchwork of state laws targeting abortion broadly and the pills specifically. About half of U.S. states are expected to ban or greatly restrict abortion.
LEGAL CONFLICTS
Legal experts foresee years of court battles over access to the pills, as abortion-rights proponents bring test cases to challenge state restrictions.
There are strong arguments and precedents on both sides, experts note, though little certainty about which side might prevail.
The Biden administration’s Justice Department has already signaled plans to challenge state restrictions on medication abortion. And federal lawyers are likely to be joined by outside parties, including abortion rights groups like Planned Parenthood and even the companies that make the pills.
The chief argument against pill restrictions is likely to be the longstanding principle that federal laws, including FDA decisions, preempts state laws. Indeed, few states have ever tried to fully ban an FDA-approved drug because of past rulings in the agency’s favor.
Still, states with blanket abortion bans are likely to interpret them as barring abortion pills. Many of the laws don't distinguish between abortion procedures and medication abortion.
“In the short term, those states that ban abortion are going to assume that their bans also include medication abortion and that will be prohibited,” said Greer Donley, a professor specializing in reproductive health care at the University of Pittsburgh Law School.
STATE LAWS ON THE PILLS
Even if blanket bans are successfully challenged, more than 30 states have laws specifically restricting access to abortion pills. For example, 19 states require that clinicians be physically present when the drug is administered.
Those laws could withstand court challenges. States have long had authority over how physicians, pharmacists and other providers practice medicine.
States also set the rules for telemedicine consultations used to prescribe medications. Generally that means health providers in states with restrictions on abortion pills could face penalties, such as fines or license suspension, for trying to send pills through the mail.
Women have already been traveling across state lines to places where abortion pill access is easier. That trend is expected to increase.
Meanwhile, some women will still get the medication via online pharmacies in Canada and overseas, often with telehealth consultations from foreign doctors. The practice is technically illegal but essentially unenforced, and advocates believe women will increasingly choose this method as more states move to ban abortions.
“Anti-abortion states are going to do everything they can to restrict medication abortion, but practically speaking people have been and will continue to access it through the mail from international pharmacies,” Donley said.
YEARS OF UNCERTAINTY
Donley expects lawsuits based on various legal theories to play out for a few years before any clear decisions emerge.
One key question is how the nation’s top court might rule if and when it takes up those court cases. While the Supreme Court has rejected a constitutional right to abortion, conservative justices have also generally deferred to FDA's primacy over drug decisions.
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ATLANTA, July 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Veritiv Corporation (NYSE: VRTV), a leading business-to-business distribution solutions company, today announced new corporate social responsibility commitments with Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Purpose Built Communities through its community engagement and philanthropy program, Veritiv Connects.
Veritiv Connects advances programs that help individuals learn, grow, and thrive with education at the core of the company's community efforts. Building upon the success of the past few years, Veritiv is growing its philanthropic outreach by investing in two national relationships that further align with its community focus areas, including programs that create safe and sustainable neighborhoods, and mentorship opportunities for youth that unlock avenues for success and contribute to a vibrant workforce.
"Veritiv is on a journey to create the best culture for our employees, and our culture is not only shaped by who we are but also by what we do," said Sal Abbate, Chief Executive Officer of Veritiv. "Giving back to the communities where we live, work and serve is not simply a value add – it is a core responsibility. I am an advocate for our organization and our team members to use time, talent, and treasure to support non-profit organizations across our footprint."
"We are committed to enhancing our involvement in our communities to leave a lasting impact," said Kat Reynolds, Community Relations Manager at Veritiv. "We are excited to collaborate with Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Purpose Built Communities because both of these organizations are helping to holistically shape the success of many communities."
Boys & Girls Clubs of America's mission is to help young people reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens through youth development programs driven by local need and available resources. This collaboration with Veritiv will establish connections between Clubs and Veritiv employees through volunteer opportunities with local Keystone Club leadership programs in five markets across the United States, including Atlanta, Georgia; Jacksonville, Florida; Dallas, Texas; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Los Angeles, California. Boys & Girls Clubs of America's National Keystone Club provides unique development opportunities for teens ages 14 to 18 focusing on academic success, career preparation, community service, and teen outreach.
"We are honored to be selected as a corporate social responsibility partner through Veritiv Connects," said Chad Hartman, National Vice President of Corporate Partnerships & Engagement, Boys & Girls Clubs of America. "As Clubs continue to establish deep community connections through volunteer opportunities with Veritiv team members, kids and teens will gain meaningful experiences that will put them on the path to a great future."
Purpose Built Communities partners with local leaders to transform neighborhoods across the United States so neighbors can achieve greater racial equity, improved health outcomes, and increased upward mobility. Veritiv will directly support Purpose Built Communities' national efforts and local work underway in Atlanta, Georgia; Jacksonville, Florida; and Dallas, Texas. The support will include local engagement and volunteer opportunities for Veritiv employees who live and work in these areas.
"Purpose Built Communities knows that prosperity starts with place," said Carol Naughton, Chief Executive Officer of Purpose Built Communities. "We have a deep and long-lasting commitment to strengthening neighborhoods so that neighbors have all the resources they need to flourish. We are excited to collaborate with Veritiv and deepen the impact of our work."
To learn more about Veritiv's corporate responsibility initiatives, visit www.veritiv.com.
About Boys & Girls Club of America
For 160 years, Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA.org) has provided a safe place for kids and teens to learn and grow. Clubs offer caring adult mentors, fun and friendship, and high-impact youth development programs on a daily basis during critical non-school hours. Boys & Girls Clubs programming promotes academic success, good character and leadership, and healthy lifestyles. Over 5,000 Clubs serve over 3.6 million young people through Club membership and community outreach. Clubs are located in cities, towns, public housing and on Native lands throughout the country, and serve military families in BGCA-affiliated Youth Centers on U.S. military installations worldwide. National headquarters are located in Atlanta. Learn more about Boys & Girls Clubs of America on Facebook and Twitter.
About Purpose Built Communities
Purpose Built Communities partners with local leaders to design, direct, and accelerate neighborhood transformation initiatives across the United States with the shared goal to ensure every resident experiences greater racial equity, improved health outcomes, and increased upward mobility. The Purpose Built Communities model of holistic revitalization includes affordable, mixed-income housing, a cradle-to-college education pathway, community wellness programs and facilities, and a thriving commercial core that creates economic vitality, all within a defined neighborhood, coordinated by a dedicated, nonprofit community quarterback organization. The Purpose Built Communities includes 27, Network Members, community quarterback organizations, in 15 states. For more information, visit purposebuiltcommunities.org. Connect on Facebook @PurposeBuiltCommunities and Twitter @PurposeBuiltCS.
About Veritiv
Veritiv Corporation (NYSE: VRTV), headquartered in Atlanta and a Fortune 500® company, is a full-service provider of packaging, JanSan and hygiene products, services and solutions. Additionally, Veritiv provides print and publishing products. Serving customers in a wide range of industries both in North America and globally, Veritiv has distribution centers throughout the U.S. and Mexico, and team members around the world helping shape the success of its customers. For more information about Veritiv and its business segments visit www.veritiv.com.
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Comerica to Participate in Morgan Stanley US Financials, Payments & CRE Conference
Published: May. 31, 2022 at 4:25 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hours ago
DALLAS, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA) announced it will participate in the Morgan Stanley US Financials, Payments & CRE Conference on Monday, June 13, 2022.
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VILLAGE OF TEWA, Ariz. (AP) — They skateboarded on basketball courts and in parking lots, through highway intersections and down roads that twist from the mesas that rise above the high desert.
They set up tricks with old railroad ties and lumber, sometimes using their own skateboards to move the materials in place. During a pandemic that led to lockdowns, curfews and mask mandates on the Hopi reservation, the solo nature of skateboarding was a comfort.
But the reservation that borders the northeast corner of Arizona lacked a designated skate spot. So a group of Hopi teenagers made it happen, seeing out a project they initially thought would take months and displaying the Hopi cultural value of sumi’nangwa — coming together for the greater good.
“I hope this will inspire other youth groups to try and do something like this to make the Hopi community a better place for the future generations of our people,” said Quintin “Q” Nahsonhoya, one of a handful of co-leads on the project.
The skateboarding destination opened late this spring in the Village of Tewa. It’s called Skate 264 for the highway that runs through the 2,500 square-mile (6,474-square-kilometer) Hopi reservation and connects the more than dozen villages. Kira Nevayaktewa came up with the logo that features a cat named “Skategod” that was part of the crew.
The youth group first wanted to ensure the community wanted a skate park, so they surveyed residents who overwhelmingly supported the idea. The group received a grant for branding, sold merchandise to raise money, secured a plot of land and got materials donated through partnerships.
Skate parks have popped up across Indian Country in recent years, many of them youth-led. Some host competitions like one on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota or the All Nations Skate Jam held during the Gathering of Nations powwow in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to much smaller spots like those on Hopi. Native Americans also have created their own brands of skateboards that feature traditional designs with modern twists. The sport that has Indigenous roots tied to surfing has gained even more acceptance since it debuted at the 2020 Olympics, said Betsy Gordon, who curated an exhibit on skateboarding in Native communities at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.
“That gives it legitimacy in a lot of adult eyes, people who are making the rules or who fund (skate parks),” she said. “This sense of skateboarding being outsider and niche and oppositional and dangerous, I think it’s really disappearing.”
The creators of the Hopi skate spot — all teenagers when they started work in it in late 2020 — make it clear skateboarding is for everyone. Go at your own pace. Create your own style. No one is too good to fall, they say in an online Wipe Out Wednesday feature.
In one of their videos, someone picks up a skateboard for the first time, learns new tricks and is celebrated even when he doesn’t land them.
“For Hopi, a lot of things have to do from the heart and not willing to give up,” said Terrill Humeyestewa, one of the co-leads. “The skateboard is is kind of the same principle as that. Have a good mind, strong heart, think about what you’re doing it for and everything will work out OK.”
The co-leads, who also include Laela Nevayaktewa and Jacque Thorpe, have a mix of shy and outspoken characteristics. Each of them became comfortable talking with people outside their circle of family and friends. They got approval from the Village of Tewa for land to build the skate spot — no small feat on tribal land where development requires approval from clans, permit holders or the larger community.
The group raised money by selling beanies, stickers and shirts at roadside stands. Nahsonhoya’s father, Brandon, and stepmother, Valaura, served as fiscal sponsors and created partnerships with a Phoenix-area skateboard company that donated the ramp and props, and others who donated concrete for the foundation. Other family members and the broader community helped with the manual labor, feeding the crew or providing guidance.
Some of the co-leads have graduated high school since starting the project, others are finishing up. While safety was a priority, they said they also wanted to bring joy to others through skateboarding, stay active and avoid bad influences.
“It keeps you from doing nothing with your time, and that’s how I see Hopi and skateboarding coming together, filling your days and your time with something positive,” Thorpe said.
Adult mentors lent their skills for video production, photography, graphic design and organizing to keep the group on track and encourage them.
“I didn’t know about skateboarding, but what I do know is community organizing and local fundraising, and I have a lot of connections in the community, so I can figure it out with you guys,” Samantha Honanie, a mentor, told the group.
“If they believed in themselves, we were going to walk them through this whole process,” said Paul Molina, another mentor.
The Village of Tewa now is overseeing the park and eventually will have security guards to patrol the area. Village leaders are hoping to add lights and a basketball court alongside the softball fields for the youth, said Deidra Honyumptewa, chair of the village’s board of directors.
“It’s a huge testament to us leaders, or older people, that these kids can get things done and they see a need for it,” she said.
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Fonseca covers Indigenous communities on AP’s Race and Ethnicity team. Follow her on Twitter at https://twitter.com/FonsecaAP | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/hopi-teens-see-need-for-skateboarding-park-make-it-happen/ | 2022-08-24 15:24:30 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/hopi-teens-see-need-for-skateboarding-park-make-it-happen/ |
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