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Special service
Boat-in-Worship, hosted by the Churches of Syracuse/Wawasee, will be 8:30 to 9 a.m. every Sunday through Sept. 4. Sunday’s service will have music by Acacia Flamm and service by minister Josh Weiland. Participants can board the SS Lilly Pad for free beginning at 7:30 a.m. at The Frog Tavern or bring a chair or blanket and sit on the shore at the Oakwood Inn Resort.
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Everything you need to know about carbonation
It seems like everything we want or need has been affected by either a supply shortage or inflation. Even things we never thought could be impacted, such as CO2, are becoming harder to get. Whenever supply goes down and demand remains consistent, it creates a problem.
Fortunately, the shortage isn’t hitting the home market as much. If you can’t find your favorite carbonated beverage ready-made, there are ways to make them at home.
In this article: SodaStream Terra Sparkling Water Maker Bundle, SodaStream Fizzi One Touch and Bubly Drops
What is carbonation?
Carbonation is simply carbon dioxide dissolved in water. The process is fairly straightforward. For mass production, sodium bicarbonate is added to cold water in a pressurized container, such as a keg. CO2 gas is pumped to the bottom of the water through a tube where it enters as tiny bubbles. Since the water is pressurized, the CO2 cannot escape. Instead, it dissolves in the water, much in the same way that sugar dissolves in water. A side effect is this makes the water slightly acidic. Sodium bicarbonate is added because it helps reduce some of that acidity.
Why do carbonated beverages go flat?
In order for the CO2 bubbles to remain in the beverage, the container has to stay sealed and pressurized. Once the lid has been removed, those tiny bubbles of CO2 start traveling up through the water and release into the air. The process is like slowly letting the air out of a balloon until there is no pressure left. Once all the CO2 has escaped from the beverage, it becomes normal water once again.
Where does CO2 come from?
If you take a brief look at the word, you see that carbonation has the word “carbon” in it. It’s kind of a giveaway that you need carbon dioxide to make the process work. We all know that carbon dioxide is a gas made up of one part carbon and two parts oxygen, but where does it come from?
In nature, carbon dioxide enters the atmosphere whenever an organism breathes or decomposes. It also enters the atmosphere whenever there is a forest fire, a volcano erupts or when carbonate rocks dissolve.
In commercial industries, CO2 is created in synthesis gas plants. It can also be reclaimed during the fermentation process at breweries. And CO2 is formed whenever a company burns fossil fuels.
There are different grades of CO2
CO2 isn’t always pure. It can be contaminated by substances, such as ammonia, benzene, oxygen and carbon monoxide. Since it is not healthy to ingest these substances in any appreciable amount, the CO2 that is used in food and beverages must be 99.9% pure. Any contaminant that drops the purity level below this amount makes the CO2 unsuitable for food and beverage purposes.
What is CO2 used for?
Besides making carbonated water, CO2 has many other uses. For example, it extends the shelf life of grains, fruits and vegetables. It can also preserve meat, poultry and ready-to-eat meals. In solid form (dry ice), CO2 can keep foods cold during transit. In the food industry, CO2 is also used to stun animals before slaughter. A shortage can impact nearly everything we eat and drink.
Why is there a CO2 shortage?
Although people like to pinpoint a single reason for a problem, it’s not always possible to place the blame on one thing. The most important bit of information to realize is there has been a CO2 shortage for over two years, so this situation is not something new. Yes, the problem has been compounded by several recent events, but it has been an issue for a while.
Much of the blame is being dumped on the contamination of the Jackson Dome in Mississippi — one of the largest naturally occurring CO2 sources in the country. However, this particular issue is only impacting the southeastern states. Additionally, the majority of CO2 in the food and beverage industry is a byproduct of industrial processes. It doesn’t come from naturally occurring sources.
There are several other issues in play. Workforce shortages, supply chain challenges and even the shipment of the Pfizer vaccine is a contributing factor because it must be packed in dry ice, which is the solid form of CO2. All of these issues have combined to create problems that have diminished the availability of CO2.
The good news
The good news is that companies that supply the small CO2 canisters for home carbonation are currently not reporting any supply issues. If you visit the SodaStream website, you will find the following message regarding CO2: “We are not currently experiencing any supply issues. We shall continue to regularly monitor the situation and act accordingly, making sure to prioritize informing our consumers of any issues.” This means that now is the perfect time to start making carbonated beverages at home. All you need is a portable sparkling beverage maker and a way to flavor your drink.
What you need to make carbonated drinks at home
SodaStream Terra Sparkling Water Maker Bundle
This comprehensive bundle gives you everything you need to make carbonated beverages at home. You get the soda maker, two CO2 cylinders, three reusable bottles and two bottles of flavoring. Sold by Amazon
This offering from SodaStream is powered by electricity to give you carbonated water at the touch of a button. It comes with a soda maker, one CO2 cartridge and one reusable carbonating bottle. Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
SodaStream 60-liter CO2 Refill Cartridge
The one thing you need to buy to keep your soda maker working is the CO2. This offering from SodaStream will make up to 63 quarts of carbonated water. Sold by Home Depot and Staples
Unlike SodaStream, DrinkMate says you can carbonate other beverages besides water. This model is suitable for adding carbonation to juices, iced tea, coffee, wine, cocktails or even flat beer. Sold by Home Depot
The Isi Classic MeshSodamaker has an elegant design that makes it perfect for display on your bar. It uses one Isi Soda Charger per filling (sold separately). Sold by Amazon
Making sparkling water is fun, but to get the most out of any soda maker, you need flavoring. This variety pack includes blackberry, cherry, strawberry, mango, lime and grapefruit flavoring. Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Torani is a top-shelf name in flavoring. This set of four syrups includes blue raspberry, lime, strawberry and orange. Sold by Amazon
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Roger Larson and Andres Jacobi: Development: Loss of courts would be blow to tennis community
The Boulder community is in jeopardy of losing the Rocky Mountain Tennis Center (RMTC). The Millennium Harvest House hotel and its 15 tennis courts have been purchased by a developer who plans to scrape the hotel and eliminate this thriving tennis facility. The RMTC offers year-round tennis instruction for junior players, tournament and league play for tennis enthusiasts of all age groups, and a wheelchair tennis program that takes players to the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament in Flushing Meadows, NY. Every winter for the past forty-plus years the RMTC has erected a bubble to cover five courts on the north side of the Boulder Creek. The bubble makes recreational tennis possible during our drawn-out winter season and has provided a home for the CU Women’s PAC 10 tennis team for winter practice and home matches. The demise of the RMTC will not just eradicate 15 tennis courts, it eliminates a dynamic tennis program for its 250-plus members and over 1,000 tennis enthusiasts in the greater Boulder area.
If the RMTC closes, Boulder tennis players will be left with just two other local tennis club options. Unfortunately, the Meadows Tennis Club and the Boulder Country Club both have a multi-year waitlist for new members. The future of recreational year-round tennis for Boulder residents looks dim. Locals who want to play indoor tennis in the winter may have to relocate or drive to neighboring communities.
If the Millennium Harvest House hotel indeed gives way to the proposed 295 apartment complex, surely the developer with guidance from the Boulder Planning Committee will find a way to preserve the Boulder-based Rocky Mountain Tennis Center and its many vibrant year-round tennis programs.
Roger Larson and Andres Jacobi, Boulder
Isabella Rippstein: Local resources: Students must prioritize their mental health
Mental health is crucial, and socializing can greatly impact it. Having a diverse group of friends can improve your mental health and introduce you to new experiences you might not have considered before. Whether you’re new to the area, seeking new friends or interested in trying new activities, several ways can help you achieve these goals. Websites with local attractions, rock climbing gyms, hiking groups and more are accessible to anyone interested. Additionally, social media platforms such as Facebook, Reddit and Instagram have threads with information on the best activities available at any given time.
As a college student, you have access to several activities, clubs and intramural sports that can help you meet like-minded people or those trying something new. Imagine the potential friendships you could develop. Remember, prioritizing your mental health is essential, and socializing with different types of people can greatly benefit you.
Some of the sources that are available to the public:
• https://www.bouldercoloradousa.com/events/
• https://www.colorado.com/co/boulder/festivals-events
• https://www.meetup.com/find/us–co–boulder/social/
Some of the sources that are available to students:
• https://www.colorado.edu/studentaffairs/student-events
• https://www.cuanschutz.edu/student/campus-life/annual-campus-events
• https://www.colorado.edu/recreation/intramural-sports
Let this be a reminder to prioritize your mental health and try new things for your own health. Have fun exploring new opportunities!
Isabella Rippstein, Boulder
Elvia Allen: Housing: Colorado land-use bill must be defeated
Citizens, please write your senators to urge them to defeat SB23-213! Boulder has been independent as to matters of what its citizens want and need. We do not want Denver or any other government to tell Boulder what it should want or need! We are in an environmental crisis in the world, we don’t need to look more like Denver or any other suburbia city. The citizens of Boulder are proud that everyone loves Boulder, but we don’t want to be loved to death for what Boulder is! Boulder needs to remain independent, like any other city does as to where and what its citizens feel is best for them and its town. The majority of the citizens in Boulder do not like what its “temporary city council” members are doing for the reason that they are speaking and doing what money and developers want. You will be ousted — this has got to be a MAGA ploy to destroy our beautiful mountain town which has done pretty good for itself — thank you very much! We are a sanctuary city that does things for the greater good and not for the latest whim of some “taken over” city council members who I think are in the pockets of MAGA and developers! Boulder citizens do NOT want to be “ruled by anyone else.” We will rectify this current city council of Boulder — you are temporary!
Elvia Allen, Boulder | https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/05/05/letters-to-the-editor-a-blow-to-the-tennis-community-prioritizing-mental-health-defeating-land-use-bill/ | 2023-05-05 14:20:18 | 0 | https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/05/05/letters-to-the-editor-a-blow-to-the-tennis-community-prioritizing-mental-health-defeating-land-use-bill/ |
INDIANAPOLIS — A holistic sober living home for women with children could be opening its doors in what used to be the Indy Hostel on the north side of Indianapolis.
South of Broad Ripple in the Meridian-Kessler neighborhood, several houses now have red and white yard signs that read "No Rezone."
The signs showcase the residents of the Meridian-Kessler neighborhood who disapprove of Overdose Lifeline's request to rezone the lots of 4903 and 4907 Winthrop Avenue as a holistic recovery residence for women and their children.
Ami Rice, who says she's lived in the Meridian-Kessler neighborhood for about 7 years, told WRTV she applauded the nonprofit's efforts to open a home for women struggling with addiction who could also bring their children. However, Rice says she believes Overdose Lifeline has not wisely chosen selecting this area.
"There's an active problem in our community with drug trafficking and drug abuse and alcoholism," Rice said.
Meridian-Kessler is about 2 miles from Broad Ripple Avenue, where several clubs and bars line the popular nightlife district.
Rice is a local doctor and says she and other board-certified physicians she's spoken with believe that putting newly-recovered addicts so close to places that could trigger them to relapse would not be conducive to their recovery.
"I am supportive of the need for a women's recovery center," Rice said. "I think that they've (Overdose Lifeline) chosen a very unfortunate location for these women."
Heather Barney has been sober for over 22 years and has lived in the Meridian-Kessler neighborhood for 12 of those years. Barney points out that Carvel Club, a place for AA and other 12 Step recovery groups, is around the corner. She says she has gone there often over the years.
According to Google Maps, Carvel is a roughly 7-minute walk from the 4900 block of Winthrop Avenue.
"There's people with 50 years of sobriety in there," Barney said.
Justin Phillips, the executive director of Overdose Lifeline, told WRTV it's not about proximity to alcohol or drugs that causes addicts to relapse.
"There is no academic research to support that exposure to liquor stores or other alcohol-serving establishments increased setback amongst those with recovery," Phillips said.
"I've been in recovery a long time. And I promise you, driving by a liquor store, living near a liquor store, is not what's going to get me drunk," Phillips continued. "It's not having appropriate tools. And the purpose of this house is to give women a community of support and tools."
Erin Mooney, another longtime Meridian-Kessler resident of 12 years, says she looks at the women's recovery home as a chance to help.
"I look forward to the opportunity to be of service to them when they move in," Mooney said.
Mooney also believes the home Overdose Lifeline wants to open would not only be a place for the community to step up and help during the national addiction crisis, but it's also an opportunity for women who are parents or guardians looking for a stable, sober living facility.
"A lot of them won't go to sober living because they can't take their children with them. They have a newborn that they can't take. And so, this gives them the opportunity to have a safe place to raise their child and in a recovery-oriented home," Mooney explained.
Mooney works in a recovery facility in Greenfield and shares that the number of homes for women recovering from an addiction is low. It's rare that a sober living home will accept women with children.
"They're needed all across the state; women's homes are needed all across the country. We're so short on them. Every single day, I'm trying to find an open bed for a women's home in Indiana, Indianapolis especially," Mooney explained of her job overseeing business development for sober living homes.
Mooney thinks her neighbors with "No Rezone" signs in their yards are not aware of the core functions of the women's residence Overdose Lifeline is working to open.
According to the request for rezoning in the Department of Metropolitan's planning report, Overdose Lifeline's women's recovery residence is about providing a continuum of care and structured living for mothers who happen to be struggling with their sobriety during the early stages.
The goal of the home is to help keep mothers from relapsing by decreasing their dependence on social services. There's also a focus on health and wellness to reduce their housing instability.
The program would require a mandatory 30-day stay, daily programming that includes therapy, 12 Step meetings, life skills training, career-building, and mindfulness activities.
Opponents of the home have different ideas. Rice says, instead, that she thinks women struggling with their addiction need to depend on social services and have a fuller care plan in moments like these.
"What these women really need is comprehensive care. All of the research has shown us (physicians) they need social services, they need mental health services, and they need child care," Rice said.
Phillips, however, contends Overdose Lifeline follows the National Association of Recovery Residences (NARR) guidelines, federal law, and recovery experts in their decision to open such a home with the services they're offering.
Phillips says Overdose Lifeline chose those two parcels of land for the women's recovery home because it was close to the IndyGo bus line and the Monon Trail.
"People in early recovery often don't have their own transportation, and it's really one of the main requirements when you look at housing," she said. "The guidelines around providing housing programs for individuals who need supportive housing is access to public transportation."
The following imperative factor for Phillips was the home's proximity to a grocery store and other recovery support centers, such as Carvel, which has been in the area for decades.
In talking with Rice and another Meridian-Kessler resident who did not want to be named, they say another concern for some of the residents with No Rezone yard signs is the overall tone of the meetings between Overdose Lifeline and the community.
According to Rice, when she brought up parking issues and safety protocols, Overdose Lifeline "became defensive."
"It's been very much like coming in and dictating terms rather than cooperating with us as a community and we are good people. We have social workers and teachers. I mean, it's just like a good middle-class kind of a neighborhood. A lot of small families and a lot of us have family members who are dealing with addiction. I'm a physician. I have patients who deal with addiction and so obviously, we want what's best for these women," Rice explained.
Emma Clust, the land use committee chair for the Meridian-Kessler Neighborhood Association, says it's a solid mix of residents who are either in support of or against the women's recovery residence.
"I'd say there's a vocal contingent of opposition. And those people have made their voices quite loud. And then there are a lot of neighbors in the immediate vicinity, who are quietly supportive, and sort of choose to go about voicing their support a little differently," Clust explained.
Clust pointed out that when these two properties previously operated as a hostel, the vetting process for who came into the community was nowhere near what it would be for a women's recovery home.
The properties allow for up to 42 guests, but Overdose Lifeline proposes using the homes for 18 to 20 women. The women will also be randomly drug tested, whereas travelers who came from all over the world to stay at Indy Hostel were not.
"I feel like it's a less risky choice than the hostel was at times. I mean, the hostel wasn't always a great neighbor. I think sometimes people look through rose-colored glasses at the past," Clust said.
Clust said the Indy Hostel hosted concerts and weddings and would create parking and loitering issues.
When it comes to Overdose Lifeline's women's recovery residence, Clust thinks her neighbors will find they will barely realize it's there, instead of how aware they had to be of the hostel.
"I think that there are a lot of people suffering in the community that needs a resource like this. And, you know, I hope that this will be a stable place for people to get back on their feet for years to come," Clust said.
Barney says she came from a family in a high-income bracket, graduated from college, and was only 25 when she became an alcoholic.
"It's not about the drive to stop or the lack of willpower, or whatever, it is truly a disease," Barney explained.
Barney says if it weren't for "Pathway to Recovery" giving her a place to live in a structured living environment when she started her journey to sobriety over 20 years ago, she wouldn't have had any place to go. She says she's one of the lucky ones.
"I just progressed really fast in my alcoholism," Barney explained. "I was almost gone."
Pathway, at that time, typically only allowed homeless veterans in their facilities.
"I had $5 going into that facility, and I've come out sober. I own a home, full-time job; I got professional degrees," Barney said. "If you give the people a place and a chance, it's gonna save lives."
Barney has been sober for 22 years now. As a longtime resident of Meridian-Kessler and an Overdose Lifeline volunteer, she can't wait to welcome the women with open arms and give back.
"These places, they're amazing. They are critical to any city's infrastructure, and there are so many [recovery homes] around us people don't know about," Barney said. "There's going to be a lot of good coming back."
Mooney says she tells those who oppose the women's recovery residence that it's simply a structured home.
"It's just a place for them to live and take care of their children. And, you know, be a member of society. That's what we are all striving for as humans," Mooney said.
Phillips echoed the same sentiments.
"Everyone deserves an opportunity," Phillips said. "Recovery residences can and will contribute positively to the neighborhood and the community and there's plenty of academic research to support crime doesn't increase. Drug use doesn't increase," she continued, "We're just going to be a house of women who are there to help each other change their lives."
A public hearing about the rezoning proposal for the women's residence is scheduled for Thursday, April 14.
The City of Indianapolis has granted $700,000 to Overdose Lifeline to support this program. The nonprofit was also awarded an undisclosed amount to purchase the properties through a Community Development Block Grant.
WRTV Digital Reporter Shakkira Harris can be reached at shakkira.harris@wrtv.com. You can follow her on Twitter, @shakkirasays. | https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/indianapolis/north-side/its-gonna-save-lives-neighbors-weigh-in-on-proposed-recovery-home-for-women-on-indys-north-side | 2022-04-08 20:28:59 | 0 | https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/indianapolis/north-side/its-gonna-save-lives-neighbors-weigh-in-on-proposed-recovery-home-for-women-on-indys-north-side |
WATCH: German shepherd rescued via helicopter after falling 300 feet off cliff
Published: Jun. 16, 2023 at 9:10 AM EDT|Updated: 49 minutes ago
CLATSOP COUNTY, Ore. (CNN) - A German shepherd is lucky to be back home after an unusual rescue on the Oregon coast.
A park visitor was visiting Ecola State Park Wednesday night when their dog fell 300 feet off a cliff to a remote section of beach.
The area can only be reached by rappelling down from the trail, so the U.S. Coast Guard was called in to help rescue the injured pup.
A crew from Astoria Station used a rescue swimmer to retrieve the dog and airlift its owner to the parking lot.
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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Tigrayan authorities say Eritrea has launched a full-scale offensive along the country’s border with northern Ethiopia in what appears to be an escalation of last month’s renewal of fighting.
The Eritreans are fighting alongside Ethiopian federal forces, including commando units, as well as allied militia, Tigray spokesman Getachew Reda said Tuesday.
“Eritrea is deploying its entire army as well as reservists. Our forces are heroically defending their positions,” he tweeted.
A humanitarian worker in the northern Ethiopian town of Adigrat told The Associated Press that Eritrean forces were shelling the surrounding areas.
It was not immediately possible to obtain comment from authorities in Ethiopia or Eritrea, which lies north of Tigray.
Britain and Canada issued travel advisories last week telling their citizens in Eritrea to be vigilant after authorities there called up citizens to report for military duty.
The war in Tigray is estimated to have killed tens of thousands of people and left millions without basic services for well over a year.
Eritrean forces fought on the side of Ethiopian federal troops in Tigray when war started in November 2020. Eritrean forces were implicated in some of the worst atrocities committed in the conflict — charges they deny. The war reignited in August after a lull in fighting earlier this year.
The U.S. envoy to the Horn of Africa told reporters Tuesday that Washington has been tracking Eritrean troop movements across the border.
“They are extremely concerning, and we condemn it,” Mike Hammer said of the troop movements. “All external foreign actors should respect Ethiopia’s territorial integrity and avoid fueling the conflict.”
He reiterated a call for the warring sides to enter into talks saying that “there is no military solution to the conflict.”
Inside Tigray now, millions of residents are still largely cut off from the world. Communications and banking services are severed, and their restoration has been a key demand in mediation efforts.
The full-blown entry of Eritrea into the Tigray war looks set to complicate any peace efforts between Tigrayan leaders and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who mended ties with Eritrea as soon as he rose to power in 2018.
But that rapprochement was viewed suspiciously by Tigrayan authorities, for whom Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki remains a foe two decades after Ethiopia and Eritrea fought a bloody border war.
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Associated Press reporters in Nairobi, Kenya, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, contributed to this report. | https://who13.com/news/international-news/ap-international/ap-eritrea-accused-of-starting-offensive-on-ethiopias-tigray/ | 2022-09-21 00:51:10 | 1 | https://who13.com/news/international-news/ap-international/ap-eritrea-accused-of-starting-offensive-on-ethiopias-tigray/ |
Wimbledon 2022: Nick Kyrgios fined $10,000 for spitting at heckling fan
Kyrgios lashed out at reporters who continued to question him over the incident on Thursday
Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios was fined $10,000 after he admitted to spitting in the direction of a heckling fan following his first round victory over British wild card Paul Jubb at Wimbledon on Tuesday.
The All England Club issued Kyrgios the $10,000 fine for unsportsmanlike conduct Thursday because the incident that was just one of many outbursts the top-ranked player suffered during the match.
"He literally came to the match to not even support anyone really, just to stir up disrespect. That's fine, but if I give it back to you, that's just how it is," Kyrgios said during his press conference after admitting to spitting in the fan’s direction.
WIMBLEDON 2022: NICK KYRGIOS SPITS IN DIRECTION OF HECKLING FAN, LASHES OUT AT ‘SNITCH’ LINE JUDGE
"I've been dealing with hate and negativity for a long time, so I don't feel like I owed that person anything."
The 27-year-old pro also went on a rant about 12 minutes into the match after a female line judge approached the chair umpire to report something that he had said at the back of the court.
"Has one person today come here to see her speak? No," Kyrgios said to the chair umpire. "Why is she doing that? No one person in the stadium has watched her come to do anything. Not one person."
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Kyrgios fired back at reporters Thursday who continued to question him about the match, even after his brilliant second round victory over Filip Krajinovic.
"Why would you be asking me a question about two days ago? Is it because you have no story for today?" he asked one female journalist. "I played Filip Krajinovic today. Do you not want to know how I played today?"
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Kyrgios will next play Stefanos Tsitsipas in a heavily anticipated third round match on Saturday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.foxnews.com/sports/wimbledon-2022-nick-kyrgios-fined-10000-spitting-fan | 2022-07-01 17:52:54 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/sports/wimbledon-2022-nick-kyrgios-fined-10000-spitting-fan |
By FRANCES D’EMILIO
Associated Press
ROME (AP) — Advocates for abortion rights in San Marino expressed satisfaction Thursday that lawmakers voted to legalize abortion in the tiny republic, one of the last European states to have had the procedure outlawed under all circumstances.
Wednesday’s parliamentary vote was the culmination of a referendum last year in which citizens overwhelmingly voted to overturn a 150-year-old law that criminalized the procedure.
The legislature of the predominantly Catholic nation voted 32 in favor, seven against and 10 abstaining to make abortion legal in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
The September 2021 referendum found that 77% of voters wanted the new law, which would also allow abortion beyond the first trimester of pregnancy if the grave fetal anomalies put a woman’s life or health – both physically or psychologically – at risk.
“We are satisfied,” said Elena D’Amelio, one of the advocates who had collected signatures as part of a petition drive to hold the referendum.
The cost of the procedure will be covered by San Marino’s public health system.
San Marino is surrounded by central Italy, and many women traveled to have an abortion an a hospital in Italy, where the procedure was made legal — over fierce objections from the Vatican — in 1978. Under the old law, women risked criminal prosecution if their abortion abroad became known, although D’Amelio said, no one was actually prosecuted.
“Before the new law legalizing it, women not only had to pay for it, you had to do it in secret,” D’Amelio said.
Passage of the new law gave women “the right that was asked for resoundingly through the referendum,” lawmaker Giacomo Simoncini told San Marino RTV.
Turnout in the referendum was 41% in the republic of 33,300 inhabitants.
In 2018, voters in Ireland overwhelmingly called for abortion’s legalization. Abortion is still illegal in Malta and Andorra. Poland introduced a near-total ban on the procedure in 2021.
One of the provisions of San Marino’s law provides for sex education in the republic’s schools, a measure aimed at preventing unwanted pregnancies, D’Amelio said.
It is too soon to know what percentage of health care workers in San Marino’s only public hospital might declare themselves conscientious objectors, meaning they could opt out of providing an abortion. But the law calls for San Marino’s citizens to be reimbursed by the government for any abortion they might have in Italy as a result of a lack of health care workers refusing to perform one in their own country.
Women in San Marino must have a consultation with medical personnel before having an abortion, but that can be done online. No one can be denied the procedure in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
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The 2023 Charles Schwab Challenge Odds & Preview: Justin Lower
The Charles Schwab Challenge is underway, and Justin Lower is currently in 50th place with a score of E.
Looking to bet on Justin Lower at the Charles Schwab Challenge this week? Read on for the betting odds and stats you need before you make your picks.
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Justin Lower Insights
- Over his last 15 rounds, Lower has scored under par seven times, while also posting seven rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has not finished any of his most recent 15 rounds with a top-10 score on the day.
- Over his last 15 rounds, Lower has finished within five strokes of the top score for the day two times.
- In his past five events, Lower has had an average finish of 59th.
- The past five times he has played a tournament, he's made the cut four times.
- In his past five tournaments, Lower has posted a score better than average in one of them.
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Charles Schwab Challenge Insights and Stats
- Lower finished 50th when he last played this event, which was in 2023.
- In the past year, the Tour has played on courses with an average length of 7,297 yards, 88 yards longer than the 7,209-yard par 70 at this week's event.
- Colonial Country Club is 7,209 yards, 77 yards shorter than the average course Lower has played in the past year (7,286).
Lower's Last Time Out
- Lower was in the 45th percentile on par 3s at the AT&T Byron Nelson, with an average of par on the 16 par-3 holes.
- He shot well to finish in the 85th percentile on par 4s at the AT&T Byron Nelson, averaging 3.82 strokes on those 44 holes.
- Lower was better than just 17% of the golfers at the AT&T Byron Nelson on par-5 holes, averaging 4.67 strokes per hole in comparison to the field average of 4.47.
- Lower carded a birdie or better on one of 16 par-3s at the AT&T Byron Nelson (the other golfers averaged 1.7).
- On the 16 par-3s at the AT&T Byron Nelson, Lower carded one bogey or worse (less than the tournament average of 1.8).
- Lower's 12 birdies or better on par-4s at the AT&T Byron Nelson were more than the field average of 6.8.
- At that last competition, Lower's par-4 performance (on 44 holes) included a bogey or worse four times (better than the field's average, 4.5).
- Lower ended the AT&T Byron Nelson with a birdie or better on six of the 12 par-5s, more than the field's average of 4.9.
- On the 12 par-5s at the AT&T Byron Nelson, Lower carded more bogeys or worse (two) than the field average (0.4).
Charles Schwab Challenge Time and Date Info
- Date: May 25-28, 2023
- Course: Colonial Country Club
- Location: Fort Worth, Texas
- Par: 70 / 7,209 yards
- Lower Odds to Win: +80000 (Bet now with DraftKings!)
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Coronavirus-related hospital admissions are climbing again in the United States, with older adults a growing share of U.S. deaths and less than half of nursing home residents up to date on COVID-19 vaccinations.
These alarming signs portend a difficult winter for seniors, which worries 81-year-old nursing home resident Bartley O’Hara, who said he is “vaccinated up to the eyeballs” and tracks coronavirus hospital trends as they “zoom up” for older adults, but remain flat for younger folks.
“The sense of urgency is not universal,” said O’Hara of Washington, D.C. But “if you’re 21, you probably should worry about your granny. We’re all in this together.”
One troubling indicator for seniors: Hospitalizations for people with COVID-19 rose by more than 30% in two weeks. Much of the increase is driven by older people and those with existing health problems, said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The numbers include everyone testing positive, no matter why they are admitted.
When it comes to protecting seniors, “we’re doing a terrible job of that in this country,” said Dr. Eric Topol, head of Scripps Research Translational Institute.
As nursing home leaders redouble efforts to get staff and residents boosted with the new vaccine version, now recommended for those 6 months and older, they face complacency, misinformation and COVID-19 fatigue. They are calling on the White House for help with an “all hands on deck” approach.
Clear messages about what the vaccine can do — and what it can’t — are needed, said Katie Smith Sloan, president of LeadingAge, which represents nonprofit nursing homes.
Breakthrough infections do not mean the vaccine has failed, she said, but that false perception has been hard to fight.
“We need to change our messaging to be accurate about what it does, which is prevent serious illness and hospitalization and death,” Sloan said. “This virus is insidious, and it just keeps popping up everywhere. We just need to be real about that.”
Problems include unwarranted hesitance to prescribe the antiviral pill Paxlovid quickly in the elderly, which prompted five major medical societies to hold a web-based educational session for doctors, “Vax & Pax: How to Keep Your Patients Safe This Winter.”
Easing restrictions, broader immunity in the general population and mixed messages about whether the pandemic is over have softened the sense of threat felt by younger adults. That may be a welcome development for most, but the attitude has seeped into nursing homes in troubling ways.
Getting family consent for vaccinating nursing home residents has become more difficult, nursing home leaders say. Some residents who can give their own consent are declining the shots. Only 23% of nursing home staff are up to date on COVID-19 vaccinations.
Cissy Sanders of Austin, Texas, met multiple obstacles trying to get a booster for her 73-year-old mother, who is in a nursing home. No booster clinic was scheduled. The facility told her they couldn’t find a vaccinator. So she made plans to take her mom to Walgreens later this month.
“I’m concerned about the uptick in hospitalizations and deaths among seniors, and concerned about the lack of urgency at my mother’s nursing home in getting the residents and staff vaccinated” with the latest booster, she said.
Staff and visitors are potential entry points to nursing homes for the virus. The best facilities use a multi-layered approach, protecting residents with masks, screening questions, temperature checks and enhanced infection control.
“What we’ve learned during COVID is that the rate of spread is dependent on the community rate of spread,” said Tina Sandri, CEO of Forest Hills of D.C., a nursing home in the nation’s capital. “I feel safer in my building than anywhere else, including the grocery store.”
Meanwhile, hospitals across the country are seeing an influx of senior patients that Topol calls “pretty alarming.” Nationally, the rate of daily hospital admissions for those 70 and older with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 rose from 8.8 per 100,000 people on Nov. 15, to 12.1 per 100,000 people on Dec. 6, according to statistics from the Department of Health and Human Services. In California and New York, Topol said, hospitalizations for seniors with COVID-19 have already surpassed those during spring and summer omicron waves.
At NYU Langone Health, chief hospital epidemiologist Dr. Michael Phillips said a growing number of seniors are being admitted to his hospital with COVID-19. But the biggest increase he’s seen is in the emergency department, “which is very, very busy” with COVID-19, as well as flu patients.
Dr. Wesley Long, a pathologist at Houston Methodist in Texas, said his hospital has also seen an increase in COVID-19 admissions over the last couple of weeks — and many of the patients are seniors with other health problems. Some are admitted for different illnesses and test positive for COVID-19 in the hospital. The good news? “We haven’t seen an increase in ICU admissions,” he said.
The new combination booster shot, which targets both omicron and the original coronavirus, provides protection against one of the main omicron variants pushing up cases lately: BQ.1.1, which is especially adept at escaping immunity.
“But our booster rates among seniors are pathetically low,” Topol said, with only about a third getting the shot.
Long said health care providers at Houston Methodist promote the booster “every chance we get.” But they don’t administer it to people hospitalized with COVID-19, who are generally told to wait three months after being infected to get it.
Phillips also urges people to get their boosters, especially if they are at risk of serious illness or planning to spend time with someone who is. He said they see many more hospitalizations among people who are unvaccinated.
Deaths, like hospitalizations, are now rising.
The ultimate worry is that more seniors will die. Last spring and summer, death rates declined overall as more people gained protection from vaccination and prior infection. But the share of COVID-19–related deaths for the oldest old — adults 85 and older, who make up 2% of the population — grew to 40%.
Over the course of the pandemic, 1 in 5 COVID-19 deaths was among those who were in a long-term care facility.
Dr. Walid Michelen, chief medical officer for seven nonprofit nursing homes operated by the Archdiocese of New York, said Americans need to continue taking the pandemic seriously.
“It’s not going away. It’s here to stay,” he said. “We’re going to get a new variant, and who knows how aggressive that variant is going to be? That keeps me up at night.”
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NEW YORK, June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Marblegate Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: GATE) ("GATE"), a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a business combination, today announced the confidential submission with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") of a draft registration statement on Form S-4 (the "Registration Statement") relating to its previously announced proposed business combination with DePalma Acquisition I, LLC and DePalma Acquisition II, LLC (collectively "DePalma"), market leaders in providing specialized financing solutions to the regulated mobility sector, with a geographic focus on the NYC taxi market.
The transaction is expected to close in Q3 2023, subject to, among other things, SEC review, approval of GATE shareholders and regulatory approvals, and the satisfaction of other customary closing conditions.
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Sen. John Fetterman acknowledges there was a time not that long ago, when he didn't want to talk about depression — at all. Now, the Pennsylvania Democrat, who returned to the U.S. Senate this week after taking leave in mid-February to seek treatment for clinical depression, says it's his responsibility to "pay it forward" with candor about the disease.
"I thought every night when I was laying in bed when I was in the hospital — like what if I just would have done something about this before, and I could kick myself and I just think about how my family wouldn't [have been] put through it and my constituents," he told NPR's Scott Detrow in his first broadcast interview since his return to Congress.
"But now that I am back, I'm really committed to ... letting people know: to anyone that has any of these feelings, there's a path, and you can get better."
Fetterman's colleagues cheered his return, giving him a standing ovation during the Democratic caucus meeting this week.
"I can't tell you how moving it was to me," Fetterman said. "I would have been blown away if it was just warm, but a standing ovation and hugs and big shakes and everything --- and it was just — I'm so grateful to our colleagues and to Leader [Chuck] Schumer."
He added that some Senate colleagues visited him while he was receiving treatment at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center: Democratic Sens. Tina Smith of Minnesota and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, as well as Republican Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama.
Fetterman sat down with Detrow in his Capitol Hill office, a windowless space that his team has decorated with posters of Philadelphia sports mascots Gritty and the Phanatic. The freshman senator — who recently learned that he can vote without wearing a suit — was wearing his signature Carhartt hoodie and grey gym shorts. He was also sporting brand-new hearing aids and using closed captioning to help process speech.
Ever since he suffered a severe stroke during his Senate campaign last year, Fetterman has had to answer questions about his health. Still, the former Lt. Gov of Pennsylvania defeated Trump-endorsed celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz in November for the first open Senate seat in the state in a dozen years. His victory was a triumph for Democrats and helped cement their control of the Senate.
But Fetterman says there wasn't a moment of relief, even after coming out triumphant in the wake of an extremely competitive and toxic campaign.
"After I won, I still felt that depression — like, I felt lost," he said. "I wasn't elated. I wasn't happy about it. I was relieved that it was over. But at the same time, I never had the opportunity to recover from the stroke, and I had depression, and a lot of just the stress and everything. [I] really wasn't able to address it."
He said the pressures of political campaigning and the seemingly endless attack ads, coupled with the stroke, all led to a "perfect storm."
On addressing his illness with his family
Fetterman didn't shy away from talking about the pain his depression caused himself and his family. For instance, the day he checked himself into the hospital was his eldest son's 14th birthday.
"I always get emotional just thinking about it," he said. "I think back [to] when I was 14 years old, what if this would have been what happened to me?"
Fetterman said he fears his son will always associate his birthday with the day his father checked himself into the hospital.
"My oldest son had a conversation where he was having a hard time understanding — 'why, Dad, why are you depressed? Like, you know you ran and you won.' And I tried to explain to him, like, geez, you know, Karl — I had this stroke and all of these ads and everything, and he's like, 'but aren't we enough?" he remembered through tears. "Aren't we enough?'"
Fetterman said the six weeks in treatment was "about me redeeming, trying to redeem myself in their eyes."
And he said that he's grateful for so much now that his depression is in remission.
"Being a partner in a full [way], and being present, just taking my kids out to go and get pizza [are] simple things I've just cherished."
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Audio story edited by Ashley Brown.
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Europa League final: Frankfurt tops Rangers in penalty shootout for trophy
Rafael Borré had the equalizer and the decisive penalty for Frankfurt
Eintracht Frankfurt’s 42-year wait for a European trophy is over.
The German club ended its title drought with a penalty shootout win over Rangers in the Europa League final on Wednesday.
Goalkeeper Kevin Trapp came up with a big save at the end of extra time and another in the shootout to help give Frankfurt the 5-4 win on penalties. The game ended 1-1 after regulation and extra time.
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Colombia striker Rafael Borré, who scored a second-half equalizer for Frankfurt, converted the decisive penalty to clinch the club's first European trophy since the 1980 UEFA Cup, a predecessor to the Europa League. The win also secures a first appearance in the Champions League next season for Frankfurt.
"It feels incredible," Trapp said. "I’m trying to catch my breath still. For us, for Frankfurt, for the region. For the whole of Germany I think it’s a wonderful thing. To be able to give back to our fans this way is so special."
Trapp, a former Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper, made a key save in the final minutes of extra time by stretching out a leg to stop a close-range shot by Ryan Kent. The veteran goalkeeper used his left leg to stop Aaron Ramsey's penalty in the shootout, setting off huge celebrations by Frankfurt's "white wall" of fans behind the opposite goal.
There were also wild celebrations back in Germany as Frankfurt fans packed the club’s stadium to watch a telecast of the final.
Joe Aribo gave Rangers the lead in the 57th minute and Borré equalized in the 69th for Frankfurt, which became the third team to go through the Europa League unbeaten after Chelsea in 2019 and Villarreal in 2021.
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Ramsey, the former Arsenal and Juventus midfielder, entered the match in the final minutes of extra time to be in the shootout. Christopher Lenz, Ajdin Hrustic, Daichi Kamada and Filip Kostic also converted penalties for Frankfurt, while James Tavernier, Steven Davis, Scott Airfield and Kemar Roofe found the net for Rangers in the shootout.
"It’s the small margins when you get to this stage of competitions," Rangers captain Tavernier said. "It was in our own hands but we conceded that goal and then Trapp makes a great save from Ryan Kent. Then he makes the save in the shootout and we are all just devastated."
Rangers coach Giovanni van Bronckhorst said Kent's miss made the difference.
"You have to score those, especially in the last minutes," he said.
Rangers was trying to win its first European title since the Cup Winners’ Cup in 1972. The Scottish club also lost to Zenit St. Petersburg in the 2008 UEFA Cup. It was trying to cap a comeback 10 years after it was sent to the lower divisions because of a financial meltdown.
"It’s going to be a sore one to take," Rangers midfielder Davis said. "We know how difficult it will be to get to this stage again."
Frankfurt will return to the top flight of European competition for the first time since 1960, when it lost in the European Cup final to Real Madrid in Glasgow.
The game had been mostly even until a mistake by Frankfurt’s Brazilian defender Tuta, who tripped while trying to chase down a routine back header. That allowed Aribo to speed past him to open the scoring at Sevilla’s Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán Stadium by calmly sending a low shot past Trapp.
Tuta had to be substituted after getting injured in the incident. It was Aribo’s first Europa League goal this season.
Frankfurt equalized 12 minutes later with Borré sliding in between two defenders to convert a cross by Kostic from the left flank. He came from behind central defender Calvin Bassey to send the ball past veteran goalkeeper Allan McGregor.
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There was fan violence outside the stadium before the match, with supporters from both clubs throwing chairs and tables at each other. Five German fans were detained the night before after a confrontation with police. More than 150,000 fans came to the southern Spanish city, most of them without tickets for the final at the 43,000-capacity stadium. | https://www.foxnews.com/sports/europa-league-final-frankfurt-rangers-penalty-shootou | 2022-05-19 01:25:57 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/sports/europa-league-final-frankfurt-rangers-penalty-shootou |
CINCINNATI (AP) — Joey Votto homered and hit a go-ahead, two-run single in his return to the Reds' lineup after a 10-month absence that followed surgery, helping Cincinnati extend its longest winning streak in a decade to nine with a 5-4 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Monday night.
Cincinnati took over the NL Central lead for the first time since early April, moving a half-game ahead of Milwaukee. The Reds are on their longest winning streak since taking 10 in a row from July 19-29, 2012.
Colorado has lost six in a row and 12 of 15.
Returning 10 months to the day after surgery on his left biceps and rotator cuff, Votto was greeted with a standing ovation when he walked to the plate in the second inning. He took off his helmet and waved to the crowd, then tapped it against his heart before lining out to center.
He drove a first-pitch, belt-high fastball from Austin Gomber (4-7) about a dozen rows into the right-field seats for a 3-1 lead in the fifth. After circling the bases on his 343rd home run, Votto emerged from the Reds dugout for a curtain call, wearing the celebratory Viking helmet and cape that have followed Cincinnati long balls this season. He had not homered since last Aug. 6 against Milwaukee’s Jake McGee.
Votto’s two-run single to center off Jake Bird put the Reds ahead 5-4 in the sixth. The 39-year-old, coming back from surgery to repair his left biceps and rotator cuff, had not played since last Aug. 16. The 2010 NL MVP went 2 for 3 with three RBIs.
Alex Young (1-0) walked Mike Moustakas with the bases loaded in the sixth, giving Colorado a 4-3 lead, then retired Jurickson Profar on an inning-ending grounder.
Singles by Moustakas and Profar put runners at the corners with no outs in the ninth, but Alexis Díaz got his 19th save in 20 chances, striking out Randal Grichuk and Ryan McMahon, then retiring Elias Díaz on a game-ending groundout.
Colorado dropped to 13-27 on the road. The Rockies, last in the NL West, are 16-19 at Coors Field.
Kevin Newman homered leading off the bottom of the first and Nick Senzel hit a solo homer in the second, his first home run since returning Friday from an IL stint caused by right knee irritation.
Elias Diaz hit a solo homer in the fourth and added an RBI single during a three-run sixth that included Jorge Alfaro's run-scoring double.
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Rockies: INF Ezequiel Tovar was placed on the paternity list. ... INF Connor Kaiser had his contract selected from Triple-A Albuquerque.
Reds: RHP Hunter Greene (right hip pain) was placed on the 15-day IL. .... RHP Kevin Herget was designated for assignment.
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RHP Ben Lively (4-4, 4.07) starts against the Rockies for the first time Tuesday night. LHP Kyle Freeland (4-8, 4.48) starts for Colorado.
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Both breakfast treats feature moist cake and craveable flavor, perfect for bringing a little extra delight to your family's day
LENEXA, Kan., March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hostess Brands announced today the launch of two new breakfast snacks: Hostess® Donettes® Old Fashioned mini donuts and Hostess® Chocolate Drizzle Baby Bundts. The delectable new Baby Bundts flavor and Donettes variety are extensions of two of the brand's most loved product lines.
Donettes Old Fashioned deliver donut shop taste and quality to breakfast, complete with a scrumptious, moist texture and a sweet glaze in poppable form. Baked with real cocoa*, Chocolate Drizzle Baby Bundts feature rich chocolate cake topped with a delicious drizzle. The mini donuts and bundt cakes have no artificial colors or flavors and contain no high-fructose corn syrup.
"We're excited to introduce these two new snacks to our lineup of delicious indulgences," says Chris Balach, general manager of Hostess Brands LLC. "The new Donettes Old Fashioned bring the flavor of a classic donut shop offering right to your home from the grocery store and fan-favorite chocolate is a perfect match for our popular Baby Bundts line. These delicious new treats are sure to bring a little bit of joy to the start of the day."
Both products will be available later this month at grocery retailers nationwide. The Donettes Old Fashioned mini donuts will come in 10.5-ounce packages and Chocolate Drizzle Baby Bundts will come in 10-ounce multipacks containing eight individually wrapped bundts. The snacks also will be available at convenience stores nationwide with Donettes Old Fashioned sold in 10.5-ounce packages and Chocolate Drizzle Baby Bundts sold in 2.5-ounce single-serve packages.
To find a retailer near you, visit the Hostess website at https://www.hostesscakes.com.
About Hostess Brands, Inc.
Hostess Brands, Inc. (NASDAQ: TWNK) is a premier snacking company with a portfolio of iconic brands and a mission to inspire moments of joy by putting our heart into everything we do. Hostess Brands is proud to make America's No. 1 cupcake, mini donut and zero sugar cookie brands. With annual sales of $1.4 billion and approximately 3,000 dedicated team members, Hostess Brands produces new and classic snacks, including Hostess® Donettes®, Twinkies®, CupCakes, Ding Dongs® and Zingers®, as well as a variety of Voortman® cookies and wafers. For more information about Hostess Brands please visit www.hostessbrands.com.
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The 2023 The Open Championship Odds & Preview: Denny McCarthy
The field for the 2023 The Open Championship in Hoylake, United Kingdom at Royal Liverpool Golf Club will include Denny McCarthy. The event runs from July 20-23.
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Denny McCarthy Insights
- McCarthy has finished below par on 11 occasions, completed his day bogey-free twice and finished 13 rounds with a better-than-average score over his last 18 rounds played.
- He has carded the best score of the day once while finishing in the top-five four times and with a top-10 score in six of his last 18 rounds played.
- Over his last 18 rounds, McCarthy has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round six times, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on nine occasions.
- In his past five appearances, McCarthy has one top-five finish and three top-10 finishes.
- McCarthy has finished within three shots of the leader in one of his past five tournaments. In that span, he finished within five shots of the winner three times and with a better-than-average score three times.
- This week McCarthy is trying for his fifth top-20 finish in a row.
- McCarthy will attempt to extend his streak of made cuts to five by qualifying for the weekend again.
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The Open Championship Insights and Stats
- This course is set up to play at 7,383 yards, 378 more than the average course on the Tour in the past year.
- Royal Liverpool Golf Club has had an average tournament score of -3 recently, which is higher than the Tour scoring average of -5 on all courses in the past year.
- The average course McCarthy has played in the past year has been 124 yards shorter than the 7,383 yards Royal Liverpool Golf Club will be at for this event.
- Events he has played in the past year have seen players average a score of -5. That's lower than this course, which has a scoring average of -3.
McCarthy's Last Time Out
- McCarthy was relatively mediocre on the 16 par-3 holes at the John Deere Classic, averaging 2.94 strokes to finish in the 59th percentile of the field.
- He shot well to finish in the 99th percentile on par 4s at the John Deere Classic, averaging 3.68 strokes on those 44 holes.
- McCarthy was better than just 13% of the field at the John Deere Classic on the tournament's 12 par-5 holes, averaging 4.92 strokes per hole compared to the field average, which was 4.60.
- McCarthy carded a birdie or better on three of 16 par-3s at the John Deere Classic (the other participants averaged 1.9).
- On the 16 par-3s at the John Deere Classic, McCarthy had two bogeys or worse (more than the tournament average of 1.6).
- McCarthy's 16 birdies or better on par-4s at the John Deere Classic were more than the tournament average of 6.4.
- At that last outing, McCarthy carded a bogey or worse on three of 44 par-4s (the field averaged 4.8).
- McCarthy finished the John Deere Classic underperforming compared to the field's average of birdies or better on par-5s (3.8), with three on the 12 par-5 holes.
- On the 12 par-5s at the John Deere Classic, McCarthy fell short compared to the field average of 0.6 bogeys or worse on those holes by recording one.
The Open Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: July 20-23, 2023
- Course: Royal Liverpool Golf Club
- Location: Hoylake, United Kingdom
- Par: 71 / 7,383 yards
- McCarthy Odds to Win: +12500 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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By MARIA CHENG and CHINEDU ASADU
Associated Press
OSUN, Nigeria (AP) — As health authorities in Europe and elsewhere roll out vaccines and drugs to stamp out the biggest monkeypox outbreak beyond Africa, some doctors acknowledge an ugly reality: The resources to slow the disease’s spread have long been available, just not to the Africans who have dealt with it for decades.
Countries including Britain, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, the United States, Israel and Australia have reported more than 250 monkeypox cases, many apparently tied to sexual activity at two recent raves in Europe. No deaths have been reported.
Authorities in numerous European countries and the U.S. are offering to immunize people and considering the use of antivirals. On Thursday, the World Health Organization will convene a special meeting to discuss monkeypox research priorities and related issues.
Meanwhile, the African continent has reported more than five times as many cases this year.
There have been more than 1,400 monkeypox cases and 63 deaths in four countries where the disease is endemic — Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo and Nigeria — according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So far, sequencing has not yet shown any direct link to the outbreak outside Africa, health officials say.
Monkeypox is in the same family of viruses as smallpox, and smallpox vaccines are estimated to be about 85% effective against monkeypox, according to WHO.
Since identifying cases earlier this month, Britain has vaccinated more than 1,000 people at risk of contracting the virus and bought 20,000 more doses. European Union officials are in talks to buy more smallpox vaccine from Bavarian Nordic, the maker of the only such vaccine licensed in Europe.
U.S. government officials have released about 700 doses of vaccine to states where cases were reported.
Such measures aren’t routinely employed in Africa.
Dr. Adesola Yinka-Ogunleye, who leads Nigeria’s monkeypox working group, said there are currently no vaccines or antivirals being used against monkeypox in her country. People suspected of having monkeypox are isolated and treated conservatively, while their contacts are monitored, she said.
Generally, Africa has only had “small stockpiles” of smallpox vaccine to offer health workers when monkeypox outbreaks happen, said Ahmed Ogwell, acting director of the Africa CDC.
Limited vaccine supply and competing health priorities have meant that immunization against monkeypox hasn’t been widely pursued in Africa, said Dr. Jimmy Whitworth, a professor of international public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
“It’s a bit uncomfortable that we have a different attitude to the kinds of resources we deploy depending on where cases are,” he said. “It exposes a moral failing when those interventions aren’t available for the millions of people in Africa who need them.”
WHO has 31 million doses of smallpox vaccines, mostly kept in donor countries and intended as a rapid response to any re-emergence of the disease, which was declared eradicated in 1980. Doses from the U.N. health agency’s stockpile have never been released for any monkeypox outbreaks in central or western Africa.
Dr. Mike Ryan, WHO’s emergencies chief, said the agency was considering allowing rich countries to use the smallpox vaccines to try to limit the spread of monkeypox. WHO manages similar mechanisms to help poor countries get vaccines for diseases like yellow fever and meningitis, but such efforts have not been previously used for countries that can otherwise afford shots.
Oyewale Tomori, a Nigerian virologist who sits on several WHO advisory boards, said releasing smallpox vaccines from the agency’s stockpile to stop monkeypox from becoming endemic in richer countries might be warranted, but he noted a discrepancy in WHO’s strategy.
“A similar approach should have been adopted a long time ago to deal with the situation in Africa,” he said. “This is another example of where some countries are more equal than others.”
Some doctors pointed out that stalled efforts to understand monkeypox were now complicating efforts to treat patients. Most people experience symptoms including fever, chills and fatigue. But those with more serious disease often develop a rash on their face or hands that spreads elsewhere.
Dr. Hugh Adler and colleagues recently published a paper suggesting the antiviral drug tecovirimat could help fight monkeypox. The drug, approved in the U.S. to treat smallpox, was used in seven people infected with monkeypox in the U.K. from 2018 to 2021, but more details are needed for regulatory approval.
“If we had thought about getting this data before, we wouldn’t be in this situation now where we have a potential treatment without enough evidence,” said Adler, a research fellow at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
Many diseases only attracted significant money after infecting people from rich countries, he noted.
For example, it was only after the catastrophic Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014-2016 — when several Americans were sickened by the disease among the more than 28,000 cases in Africa — that authorities finally sped up the research and protocols to license an Ebola vaccine, capping a decades-long effort.
Jay Chudi, a development expert who lives in the Nigerian state of Enugu, which has reported monkeypox cases since 2017, hopes the increased attention might finally help address the problem. But he nevertheless lamented that it took infections in rich countries for it to seem possible.
“You would think the new cases are deadlier and more dangerous than what we have in Africa,” he said. “We are now seeing it can end once and for all, but because it is no longer just in Africa. It’s now everybody is worried.”
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Cheng reported from London. Cara Anna in Nairobi and Mike Stobbe in New York contributed to this report.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Longtime ESPN reporter M.A. Voepel shared Tuesday that he is transgender.
Voepel shared his trans identity in a series of tweets on Tuesday and explained what his byline on stories would be going forward.
"In sports media, we're lucky to tell stories of others’ journeys. We have our own, too. Part of mine is being transgender, and I'm transitioning to male. Byline now M.A. Voepel, pronouns he/him. Please feel free to call me Voepel, MV, Michael, Mike; I’m good with them all," he wrote.
Voepel has worked for ESPN since 1996 covering college and professional women's basketball. ESPN described him as "the foremost authority on women's basketball in both the collegiate and professional ranks" after he was named a Naismith Hall of Fame Curt Gowdy Media Award winner. The annual award is given to outstanding sports journalists covering basketball.
The award played a role in his decision to announce his transition now, Voepel said.
"I have the great honor of receiving Gowdy Award next month from Naismith Hall of Fame, and wanted to do that as authentic self, hence this announcement now," Voepel continued on Twitter. "Fear can keep us paralyzed for decades, especially when we think we will lose all that is dear to us, including career. "
The announcement was met with congratulations and love on social media from colleagues and friends.
"Proud to be teammates with you, Voepel!" wrote fellow ESPN women's basketball reporter Alexa Philippou.
"At some point, you realize you need to have faith that your happiness/well-being is worth pursuing, and also have faith in other people's kindness and grace. Grateful for a company that supports all of its employees, for terrific family and friends, and for societal progress," Voepel added.
"I may look and sound a little different. Glad to be who I’ve always been inside. Dedication to covering women’s sports, a lifelong joy as well as job, and admiration for all involved – players, coaches, execs, fans, referees, colleagues – that stays exactly the same."
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WFO EUREKA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, January 13, 2023
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FLOOD WATCH
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Flood Watch
National Weather Service Eureka CA
622 AM PST Wed Jan 11 2023
...The Flood Watch is extended for the following rivers in
California...
Eel River at Fernbridge affecting Northern Humboldt Coast zone.
For the Eel River including Fernbridge...flooding is possible.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If you are in the watch area, remain alert to possible flooding.
Stay tuned to further developments by listening to your local radio,
television, or NOAA Weather Radio for further information. Residents
and those with interests near the river should monitor rising water
levels and be prepared for possible flood warnings.
Additional information is available at weather.gov/eka.
The next statement will be issued this morning at 1100 AM PST.
...FLOOD WATCH NOW IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY AFTERNOON TO FRIDAY
EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding is possible.
* WHERE...Eel River at Fernbridge.
* WHEN...From Thursday afternoon to Friday evening.
* IMPACTS...At 22.0 feet, the western half of the Eel Delta may be
completely flooded, especially if at or above this level for an
extended period of time. This includes areas northwest of Loleta
and Cannibal Island Road. A Special Action Advisory is being
issued to all owners of livestock in low-lying areas of the Eel
River Delta. Owners of livestock should take appropriate action to
protect their animals.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 5:15 AM PST Wednesday the stage was 15.0 feet.
- Forecast...Flood stage may be reached early tomorrow
afternoon.
- Flood stage is 20.0 feet.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
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LEBANON, Ore., Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ENTEK and Brückner Group USA sign agreements for 18 battery separator film production lines.
ENTEK, the only US-owned and US-based producer of 'wet-process' lithium-ion battery separator materials, continues to invest in the future of the US lithium battery industry. To support the growing US electric vehicle and energy storage demand, ENTEK announces it will decisively expand production capacity in addition to its earlier announced 1.4 billion square meters per year project which was selected for a Department of Energy grant award. Agreements for 18 separator film production lines have been signed with Brückner Group USA.
Rick Pekala, ENTEK CTO, shared, "we will create American jobs producing lithium battery components, using the most advanced technologies, and meeting the cleanest environmental standards in the world. Brückner's newest generation biaxial stretching film equipment together with ENTEK's material science, coating, recycling, and separator production expertise fulfils this mission."
Karl Zimmerman, Brückner Director of Sales & Marketing added, "this extraordinary partnership fills us with great pride. As two pioneers join forces, we know we will build something outstanding together to create innovative, sustainable, and reliable plants for battery separator films in America."
About:
ENTEK has over 35 years of experience producing battery separators for batteries to support standard vehicles, advanced start-stop vehicles, trucks, emergency vehicles, emergency backup power, utility-scale energy storage, and industrial batteries. ENTEK enjoys more than two decades of experience as the only US-owned and US based producer of 'wet-process' separator for lithium batteries and continues to invest in the future of the domestic lithium battery industry. ENTEK also designs and manufactures extruders and material-handling equipment for the production of battery separators. In the area of plastics and fiber machinery, Brückner Group USA sells, services, and supports the Brückner Group GmbH family of products in the US, Canada, and Mexico, operating as a separate entity. This family includes: Brückner Maschinenbau, Brückner Servtec, Kiefel Technologies, and PackSys Global.
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GREENSBORO — An important piece of city history is being saved under an agreement announced Monday.
The North Carolina Railroad Company said it will purchase the 123-year-old Southern Railway Passenger Depot for preservation and redevelopment. The building at 400 S. Elm St. is currently owned by Norfolk Southern Railway.
It sits across railroad tracks from the renovated Cascade Saloon, which was built in 1895.
A news release from North Carolina Railroad didn’t include the price or exact details of the agreement, but Ginny Horne said the deal is expected to close Aug. 12. Horne is with Eckel & Vaughan, a public relations firm North Carolina Railroad hired to make the announcement.
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“The North Carolina Railroad Company is proud to play a part in preserving and revitalizing this historic landmark,” Carl Warren, the railroad’s president and CEO, said in the release.
The North Carolina Railroad Co. is a private corporation with 100% of the stock owned by the state of North Carolina, according to its website. It was chartered in 1849 for the purpose of economic development and owns a 317-mile rail corridor across 16 counties.
While the railroad company will own the site, it is partnering with the city, the Preservation Greensboro Development Fund and Downtown Greensboro Inc. in the project. Horne said the partnership is to ensure the refurbishment will be “useful to the city, to the community and fits with the aesthetic of downtown — that we're acknowledging the historical significance of the property.”
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“We’ve been in conversation with the railroad for a long time,” Mayor Nancy Vaughan said. “Working with NCRR and Preservation Greensboro, we foresee another renovation like the Cascade Saloon.”
The Cascade Saloon was renovated five years ago as office space and is owned through a partnership between The Christman Co. and Preservation Greensboro Inc.
“The depot has been on the radar of Preservation Greensboro for many, many years,” said Benjamin Briggs, the organization's executive director.
The building is in a downtown district listed on the National Register of Historic Places, making it eligible for federal and state historic-preservation tax credits.
“I get so many comments about empty storefronts,” said Zack Methany, president and CEO of Downtown Greensboro Inc. “So their purchase of this building is going to be a tremendous asset for downtown Greensboro.
"We want to help them in any capacity we can.”
The structure features granite trim harvested from Mount Airy and what was a new type of brick in the late 1800s. The brick was highly pressurized and had a very smooth and dense composition, Briggs said.
“It was incredibly durable,” he said, adding the building is in much better shape than the Cascade Saloon was before it was rehabilitated.
“Its maintenance has not kept up with its needs through the years,” Briggs said of the depot.
The building, which has been vacant for several years, also has modifications to its windows and its roofline was flattened. It was designed as a three-story building in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. It originally had dormer windows topped with finials, a projecting canopy, a clay tile roof and a prominent three-story turret overlooking the intersection of Elm Street and Smother’s Place.
“It had a very spectacular roofline of clay tile that was almost château-esque,” Briggs explained. “It had a conical tower on a rounded corner of the building that still stands today.”
The building underwent a Neoclassical makeover after the station was replaced by the Galyon Depot on West Washington Street in 1927, according to the news release. After that it was used as office space by Southern Railway and its successor Norfolk Southern Railway for many years.
“The opportunity is there to return it to being a wonderful landmark for South Elm Street and … a central point to our downtown Greensboro National Register Historic District,” Briggs said.
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Delivered record-breaking second quarter performance in Total Revenues, Operating Profit and net new adds
Total Revenues up 25%; System Sales grew 32% in constant currency; Operating Profit increased 216%
Store openings accelerated, 655 net new adds in the first half, on track for full-year net new store target
SHANGHAI, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Yum China Holdings, Inc. (the "Company" or "Yum China") (NYSE: YUMC and HKEX: 9987) today reported unaudited results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2023.
Second Quarter Highlights
- Total revenues increased 25% year over year to $2.65 billion from $2.13 billion (a 32% increase excluding foreign currency translation ("F/X")).
- Total system sales increased 32% year over year, with increases of 32% at KFC and 30% at Pizza Hut, excluding F/X. Growth was mainly attributable to same-store sales, new unit contribution and lapping of temporary store closures in the prior year.
- Same-store sales increased 15% year over year, with increases of 15% at KFC and 13% at Pizza Hut, excluding F/X.
- Opened 422 net new stores during the quarter; total store count reached 13,602, as of June 30, 2023.
- Operating Profit increased 216% year over year to $257 million from $81 million (a 228% increase excluding F/X), primarily driven by sales leveraging and margin expansion.
- Adjusted Operating Profit increased 215% year over year to $259 million from $82 million (a 227% increase excluding F/X).
- Restaurant margin was 16.1%, compared with 12.1% in the prior year period.
- Effective tax rate was 24.7%.
- Net Income increased 138% to $197 million from $83 million in the prior year period, primarily due to the increase in Operating Profit.
- Adjusted Net Income increased 137% to $199 million from $84 million in the prior year period (a 207% increase excluding the net loss of $9 million in the second quarter of 2023 and net gain of $16 million in the second quarter of 2022, from the mark-to-market equity investment in Meituan; a 219% increase if further excluding F/X).
- Diluted EPS increased 135% to $0.47 from $0.20 in the prior year period.
- Adjusted Diluted EPS increased 135% to $0.47 from $0.20 in the prior year period (a 206% increase excluding the net loss from the mark-to-market equity investments in the second quarter of 2023 and net gain in the second quarter of 2022; a 219% increase if further excluding F/X).
Key Financial Results
CEO and CFO Comments
Joey Wat, CEO of Yum China, commented, "We achieved outstanding results, delivering substantial growth in the top-line and bottom-line, in the second quarter, thanks to our teams' dedication and creativity. This once again demonstrates our anti-fragile business model and ability to capture opportunities in good times and stay resilient in bad times. Our innovative products and compelling value captured customer demand and drove double-digit same-store sales growth. KFC's "K-zza" and Pizza Hut's new menu items were hugely popular. Our exciting campaign with Genshin Impact and fun toy offerings with Sanrio and Pokemon spurred strong demand and brought consumers moments of joy. We registered record daily transactions of 8.5 million on Children's Day. Our amazing operations team, robust end-to-end digital capabilities and agile supply chain enabled us to flexibly handle surges in customer traffic through holiday periods and special marketing campaigns, while maintaining consistent quality and customer service. As a result of these collective efforts, our operating profit for the first half of this year already exceeded the entire year of 2022."
Wat continued, "We accelerated the pace of new store openings in the second quarter and celebrated two milestones. Pizza Hut surpassed 3,000 stores in China and KFC exceeded 500 stores in Shanghai alone. With 655 net new stores in the first half of 2023, we are on track to meet our expansion goals for the year. Importantly, new store payback periods remain healthy. Furthermore, we see abundant white space in China. With a presence in 1,900 cities, we are still tracking over 800 cities without a KFC. Similarly, Pizza Hut has a great potential for expanding its footprint. With our flexible store formats, we continue to expand addressable markets across city tiers. By actively pursuing our RGM (Resilience-Growth-Moat) strategy and leveraging our industry-leading strengths, we are confident in our ability to capture long-term growth opportunities."
Andy Yeung, CFO of Yum China, added, "We delivered record second-quarter revenues and profits, despite challenging macro conditions and an uptick of COVID infections during the quarter. When customer demand softened in May, we adjusted nimbly to address consumer needs, captured holiday spending and successfully regained sales momentum. Sales growth and proactive cost structure rebasing helped us improve operating leverage, expanding restaurant margins and delivering record operating profit in the quarter. Even though same-store sales remained below 2019 levels, our revenue in the second quarter has increased by 25% and operating profits have risen by 26% compared to pre-pandemic levels in 2019."
"As we move into the third quarter, driving sales remains our top priority. We have lined up exciting marketing campaigns and resources to seize sales opportunities in the peak summer season. Our efforts on efficiency improvement and cost structure rebasing should continue to benefit profitability in the long run. But, it is worth noting that last year's record third-quarter restaurant margins set a relatively high benchmark, due to austerity measures and temporary reliefs. We will continue to stay agile through evolving market conditions, expand our store network and fortify our competitive moat to drive sustainable long-term growth," Yeung concluded.
Share Repurchases and Dividends
- During the second quarter, the Company repurchased approximately 1 million shares of Yum China common stock for $62 million at an average price of $60.23 per share. As of June 30, 2023, approximately $1 billion remained available for future share repurchases under the current authorization.
- The Board declared a cash dividend of $0.13 per share on Yum China's common stock, payable on September 18, 2023 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on August 28, 2023.
Digital and Delivery
- The KFC and Pizza Hut loyalty programs exceeded 445 million members combined, as of quarter-end. Member sales accounted for approximately 66% of system sales in the second quarter of 2023.
- Delivery contributed approximately 35% of KFC and Pizza Hut's Company sales in the second quarter of 2023, a decrease of 3% compared with the prior year period.
- Digital orders, including delivery, mobile orders and kiosk orders, accounted for approximately 90% of KFC and Pizza Hut's Company sales in the second quarter of 2023.
New-Unit Development and Asset Upgrade
- The Company opened 422 net new stores in the second quarter of 2023, mainly driven by development of the KFC and Pizza Hut brands.
- The Company remodeled 171 stores in the second quarter of 2023.
Restaurant Margin
- Restaurant margin was 16.1% in the second quarter of 2023 compared with 12.1% in the prior year period, driven primarily by sales leveraging and ongoing benefits of cost structure rebasing efforts; partially offset by lapping austerity measures in the prior year, higher promotion costs, and wage inflation.
2023 Outlook
The Company's fiscal year 2023 targets remain unchanged:
- To open approximately 1,100 to 1,300 net new stores.
- To make capital expenditures in the range of approximately $700 million to $900 million.
Company Updates
- On July 17, 2023, the Company announced the appointment of Mr. David Hoffmann to the Board of the Directors. With this appointment, the Board is now comprised of 10 directors, nine of whom are independent.
Note on Non-GAAP Measures
Reported GAAP results include Special Items, which are excluded from non-GAAP adjusted measures. Special Items are not allocated to any segment and therefore only impact reported GAAP results of Yum China. See "Reconciliation of Reported GAAP Results to Non-GAAP Adjusted Measures" within this release. In addition, for the non-GAAP measures of Restaurant profit and Restaurant margin, see "Reconciliation of GAAP Operating Profit to Restaurant Profit" under "Segment Results" within this release.
Conference Call
Yum China's management will hold an earnings conference call at 8:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time on Monday, July 31, 2023 (8:00 a.m. Beijing/Hong Kong Time on Tuesday, August 1, 2023).
A live webcast of the call may be accessed at https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/4rchbbk4/.
To join by phone, please register in advance of the conference through the link provided below. Upon registering, you will be provided with participant dial-in numbers, a passcode and a unique access PIN.
Pre-registration Link: https://s1.c-conf.com/diamondpass/10031360-wcv829.html
A replay of the conference call will be available one hour after the call ends until Tuesday, August 8, 2023 and may be accessed by phone at the following numbers:
Additionally, this earnings release, the accompanying slides, as well as the live and archived webcast of this conference call will be available at Yum China's Investor Relations website at http://ir.yumchina.com.
For important news and information regarding Yum China, including our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, visit Yum China's Investor Relations website at http://ir.yumchina.com. Yum China uses this website as a primary channel for disclosing key information to its investors, some of which may contain material and previously non-public information.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including under "2023 Outlook." We intend all forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts and by the use of forward-looking words such as "expect," "expectation," "believe," "anticipate," "may," "could," "intend," "belief," "plan," "estimate," "target," "predict," "project," "likely," "will," "continue," "should," "forecast," "outlook," "commit" or similar terminology. These statements are based on current estimates and assumptions made by us in light of our experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors that we believe are appropriate and reasonable under the circumstances, but there can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. Forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements regarding the future strategies, growth, business plans, investment, dividend and share repurchase plans, earnings, performance and returns of Yum China, anticipated effects of population and macroeconomic trends, the expected impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, pace of recovery of Yum China's business, the anticipated effects of our innovation, digital and delivery capabilities and investments on growth and beliefs regarding the long-term drivers of Yum China's business. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of performance and are inherently subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict and could cause our actual results or events to differ materially from those indicated by those statements. We cannot assure you that any of our expectations, estimates or assumptions will be achieved. The forward-looking statements included in this press release are only made as of the date of this press release, and we disclaim any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement to reflect subsequent events or circumstances, except as required by law. Numerous factors could cause our actual results or events to differ materially from those expressed or implied by forward-looking statements, including, without limitation: whether we are able to achieve development goals at the times and in the amounts currently anticipated, if at all, the success of our marketing campaigns and product innovation, our ability to maintain food safety and quality control systems, changes in public health conditions, including the COVID-19 pandemic, our ability to control costs and expenses, including tax costs, as well as changes in political, economic and regulatory conditions in China. In addition, other risks and uncertainties not presently known to us or that we currently believe to be immaterial could affect the accuracy of any such forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements should be evaluated with the understanding of their inherent uncertainty. You should consult our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (including the information set forth under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q) for additional detail about factors that could affect our financial and other results.
About Yum China Holdings, Inc.
Yum China is the largest restaurant company in China with a mission to make every life taste beautiful. The Company has over 400,000 employees and operates over 13,000 restaurants under six brands across 1,900 cities in China. KFC and Pizza Hut are the leading brands in the quick-service and casual dining restaurant spaces in China, respectively. Taco Bell offers innovative Mexican-inspired food. Yum China has also partnered with Lavazza to develop the Lavazza coffee concept in China. Little Sheep and Huang Ji Huang specialize in Chinese cuisine. Yum China has a world-class, digitalized supply chain which includes an extensive network of logistics centers nationwide and an in-house supply chain management system. Its strong digital capabilities and loyalty program enable the Company to reach customers faster and serve them better. Yum China is a Fortune 500 company with the vision to be the world's most innovative pioneer in the restaurant industry. For more information, please visit http://ir.yumchina.com.
In this press release:
- The Company provides certain percentage changes excluding the impact of foreign currency translation ("F/X"). These amounts are derived by translating current year results at prior year average exchange rates. We believe the elimination of the F/X impact provides better year-to-year comparability without the distortion of foreign currency fluctuations.
- System sales growth reflects the results of all restaurants regardless of ownership, including Company-owned, franchise and unconsolidated affiliate restaurants that operate our restaurant concepts, except for non-Company-owned restaurants for which we do not receive a sales-based royalty. Sales of franchise and unconsolidated affiliate restaurants typically generate ongoing franchise fees for the Company at an average rate of approximately 6% of system sales. Franchise and unconsolidated affiliate restaurant sales are not included in Company sales in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income; however, the franchise fees are included in the Company's revenues. We believe system sales growth is useful to investors as a significant indicator of the overall strength of our business as it incorporates all of our revenue drivers, Company and franchise same-store sales as well as net unit growth.
- Effective January 1, 2018, the Company revised its definition of same-store sales growth to represent the estimated percentage change in sales of food of all restaurants in the Company system that have been open prior to the first day of our prior fiscal year, excluding the period during which stores are temporarily closed. We refer to these as our "base" stores. Previously, same-store sales growth represented the estimated percentage change in sales of all restaurants in the Company system that have been open for one year or more, including stores temporarily closed, and the base stores changed on a rolling basis from month to month. This revision was made to align with how management measures performance internally and focuses on trends of a more stable base of stores.
- Company sales represent revenues from Company-owned restaurants. Company Restaurant profit ("Restaurant profit") is defined as Company sales less expenses incurred directly by our Company-owned restaurants in generating Company sales, including cost of food and paper, restaurant-level payroll and employee benefits, rent, depreciation and amortization of restaurant-level assets, advertising expenses, and other operating expenses. Company restaurant margin percentage is defined as Restaurant profit divided by Company sales.
- Certain comparative items in the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements have been reclassified to conform to the current period's presentation to facilitate comparison.
Reconciliation of Reported GAAP Results to Non-GAAP Adjusted Measures
(in millions, except per share data)
(unaudited)
In addition to the results provided in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP") in this press release, the Company provides non-GAAP measures adjusted for Special Items, which include Adjusted Operating Profit, Adjusted Net Income, Adjusted Earnings Per Common Share ("EPS"), Adjusted Effective Tax Rate and Adjusted EBITDA, which we define as net income including noncontrolling interests adjusted for equity in net earnings (losses) from equity method investments, income tax, interest income, net, investment gain or loss, certain non-cash expenses, consisting of depreciation and amortization as well as store impairment charges, and Special Items. We also use Restaurant profit and Restaurant margin (as defined above) for the purposes of internally evaluating the performance of our Company-owned restaurants and we believe Restaurant profit and Restaurant margin provide useful information to investors as to the profitability of our Company-owned restaurants.
The following table set forth the reconciliation of the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures to the non-GAAP adjusted financial measures. The reconciliation of GAAP Operating Profit to Restaurant Profit is presented in Segment Results within this release.
Net income, along with the reconciliation to Adjusted EBITDA, is presented below:
Details of Special Items are presented below:
(1) In February 2020, the Company granted Partner PSU Awards to select employees who were deemed critical to the Company's execution of its strategic operating plan. These PSU awards will only vest if threshold performance goals are achieved over a four-year performance period, with the payout ranging from 0% to 200% of the target number of shares subject to the PSU awards. Partner PSU Awards were granted to address increased competition for executive talent, motivate transformational performance and encourage management retention. Given the unique nature of these grants, the Compensation Committee does not intend to grant similar, special grants to the same employees during the performance period. The impact from these special awards is excluded from metrics that management uses to assess the Company's performance.
(2) The tax expense was determined based upon the nature, as well as the jurisdiction, of each Special Item at the applicable tax rate.
The Company excludes impact from Special Items for the purpose of evaluating performance internally. Special Items are not included in any of our segment results. In addition, the Company provides Adjusted EBITDA because we believe that investors and analysts may find it useful in measuring operating performance without regard to items such as equity in net earnings (losses) from equity method investments, income tax, interest income, net, investment gain or loss, depreciation and amortization, store impairment charges, and Special Items. Store impairment charges included as an adjustment item in Adjusted EBITDA primarily resulted from our semi-annual impairment evaluation of long-lived assets of individual restaurants, and additional impairment evaluation whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value of the assets may not be recoverable. If these restaurant-level assets were not impaired, depreciation of the assets would have been recorded and included in EBITDA. Therefore, store impairment charges were a non-cash item similar to depreciation and amortization of our long-lived assets of restaurants. The Company believes that investors and analyst may find it useful in measuring operating performance without regard to such non-cash item.
These adjusted measures are not intended to replace the presentation of our financial results in accordance with GAAP. Rather, the Company believes that the presentation of these adjusted measures provides additional information to investors to facilitate the comparison of past and present results, excluding those items that the Company does not believe are indicative of our ongoing operations due to their nature.
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NEW YORK, July 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Evidence is mounting from the experiences of hospitals large and small, urban and rural that telehealth is having a positive effect on staffing, patient safety, clinical services and hospital revenue, Equum Medical reports.
The company, a leading provider of innovative telehealth services, has released the Equum Medical Lighthouse Series™. These customer success stories showcase the transformative power of telehealth in addressing key challenges faced by health systems and hospitals worldwide. The Series is intended to highlight real-world examples of how a complete acute care telehealth service using remote physicians, nurses and monitoring technologists supplements current hospital staff, provides specialist expertise and quickly moves patients to the most appropriate sites for care.
In today's rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, health systems and hospitals are constantly seeking innovative solutions to enhance efficiency, reduce costs and improve patient outcomes. The Equum Medical Lighthouse Series brings to the forefront some of the most pressing challenges faced by healthcare providers, including ED capacity, ICU mortality and length of stay, physician and nurse burnout, and rural hospital specialist access. Telehealth offers a promising solution by increasing access to care in underserved areas, alleviating the shortage of clinicians and reducing costs to make healthcare more accessible and affordable.
Dr. Scurlock, CEO and Founder of Equum Medical, emphasized the importance of sharing these success stories: "We are thrilled to launch the Equum Medical Lighthouse Series. By showcasing real-world examples of how telehealth has successfully addressed critical challenges, we aim to encourage broader adoption of telehealth and the dissemination of information on successful strategies."
The series aims to provide healthcare leaders with actionable insights and evidence-based strategies to navigate their own telehealth implementations by demonstrating the tangible benefits that can be achieved by embracing telehealth and leveraging its potential to drive positive change in healthcare delivery.
Healthcare providers, administrators and industry professionals can gain a valuable resource for understanding the diverse applications of telehealth and the significant impact it can have on healthcare delivery, patient outcomes and the overall well-being of both patients and providers.
"We are going to continue to grow the Lighthouse Series as we get additional results from our engagements," said Karsten Russell-Wood, MBA, MPH, Equum's Chief Marketing Officer. "We want this to be a resource for innovators and evidence of what our model of care can do to ease the pressure on hospitals and health systems in this time of profound change for our industry."
Equum Medical is an active member of the American Telemedicine Association and the National Rural Health Association, through which participating hospital systems can access thought leadership and engage with Equum Medical executives to expand telehealth understanding and applications.
About Equum
Equum Medical is a nationally recognized, tech-enabled clinical services company that provides the people and processes that ensure investments in telehealth technology succeed in transforming inpatient care. Equum's clinical services platform focuses on the acute care population spanning ED, ICU, nursing and sitter solutions. Our physicians are aligned in pods based on the needed specialty mix. Learn more at equummedical.com.
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CHICAGO (AP) — The Dallas Stars acquired Max Domi in a trade with the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday night on the forward's 28th birthday.
The move was announced after Dallas' 5-2 victory at Chicago. Domi was scratched for what the Blackhawks said was “roster management.”
The NHL trade deadline is Friday.
“We’re excited to add a player of Max’s caliber to our lineup,” Stars general manager Jim Nill said in a release. “His offense this season speaks for itself, but he’ll also provide energy, grit and a veteran presence as we continue our push to the postseason.”
The addition of Domi gives Dallas another veteran forward as it angles for playoff positioning. The Stars (33-16-13) are on top of the Western Conference, one point better than the idle Vegas Golden Knights.
Dallas also got minor league goaltender Dylan Wells from Chicago for veteran goaltender Anton Khudobin and a 2025 second-round pick.
The lowly Blackhawks (21-35-5) continue to lean into their tanking strategy, hoping for a chance to take Connor Bedard with the No. 1 pick in the draft.
Longtime star Patrick Kane, forwards Domi and Sam Lafferty and defensemen Jake McCabe and Jack Johnson have been traded away by Chicago since Sunday.
The Blackhawks also made two minor deals on Thursday. They acquired Maxim Golod from Anaheim for Dylan Sikura in a swap of minor league forwards, and they got forward Anders Bjork from Buffalo in exchange for future considerations.
Domi had a team-best 18 goals and 31 assists in 60 games with Chicago. He had two goals and an assist in a 4-3 victory at Dallas last week.
Domi, the son of former NHL forward Tie Domi, signed a $3 million, one-year contract with the Blackhawks in July.
The 36-year-old Khudobin was likely included for salary cap purposes. He hasn't appeared in an NHL game this season. The Blackhawks said he would report to Rockford of the American Hockey League.
The Stars assigned Wells and loaned forwards Fredrik Karlstrom and Fredrik Olofsson and goaltender Matt Murray to the AHL's Texas Stars.
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SAN DIEGO, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Preferred Employers Insurance, a Berkley Company, welcomes workers' compensation specialist, Sandra Marquez, to the team. Sandra brings nearly two decades of successful underwriting, sales, and broker development experience to Preferred Employers Insurance. As Sales & Distribution Manager for Southern California, Sandra will be responsible for broker relationships, assisting producers in achieving sales objectives, client retention and growing sales volume profitably. She will also focus on further developing the Preferred Employers Insurance brand, its regional expertise and promotion throughout Southern California.
Commenting on the appointment, Dennis Levesque, President of Preferred Employers Insurance, said, "Preferred offers California business owners of all sizes a comprehensive portfolio of workers' compensation insurance services centered around clients' workplace safety and claims management needs. Sandra's extensive industry knowledge within the Southern California region will go a long way towards contributing to our success. We are pleased to have her join our team."
Preferred Employers Insurance, a Berkley Company, was founded in San Diego, CA in 1998. The business is known for serving its brokers and policyholders with the best combination of price and workers' compensation insurance services available in the state of California. Visit www.peiwc.com for more information. Please contact your insurance broker to access the products and services of Preferred Employers Insurance.
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KIYV, Ukraine (AP) — UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations chief says Russia’s planned annexation of four Ukrainian regions will be a “dangerous escalation” that flouts the U.N. Charter and will have “no legal value.”
In unusually strong and blunt language, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told reporters Thursday that any annexation “stands against everything the international community is meant to stand for,” and “must not be accepted.”
The Kremlin announced that a ceremony will be held Friday to launch the process of annexing the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.
Guterres said “the so-called `referenda’” can’t be called “a genuine expression of the popular will” because they were conducted during armed conflict in areas under Russian occupation, and outside Ukraine’s legal and constitutional framework.
He reiterated an Oct. 24, 1970 General Assembly declaration which has been repeatedly cited by the International Court of Justice, that “no territorial acquisition resulting from the threat or use of force shall be recognized as legal.” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Guterres conveyed this message to Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia during a meeting on Wednesday.
KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
— Kremlin will annex 4 regions of Ukraine on Friday
— Hundreds of kids from east Ukraine stranded in Russian camps
— US: Focus new Russia sanctions on oil revenue, arms supplies
— Europe ramps up energy security after suspected sabotage
— Moscow tries to draft fleeing Russian men at the borders
— Finland to ban entry to Russian tourists starting midnight
— Ukrainian activist among winners of ‘Alternative Nobel’
— Agency: joining NATO makes Finland target for Russian ops
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
Moscow-installed officials in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region say that around 30 people have been killed after the Ukrainian military shelled a refugee convoy.
Vitaly Ganchev, administrative head of the Kharkiv region’s occupied areas, told state-run Russia 24 TV channel Thursday that seven people were evacuated.
Ganchev said Ukrainian forces used small arms and possibly grenade launchers in the attack.
Speaking to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti, Russian-backed official in Luhansk Rodion Miroshnik said emergency services were not yet able to collect the bodies because of continuing Ukrainian attacks. The claims by both Ganchev and Miroshnik could not be independently verified.
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Russian authorities are opening more military enlistment offices near Russia’s borders to stop fighting-age men from leaving the country in order to avoid getting called up to fight in Ukraine.
Officials said Thursday that new draft office opened in the Saratov region, at the Ozinki checkpoint on Russia’s border with Kazakhstan. Another enlistment center was set to open at a crossing in the Astrakhan region, also on the border with Kazakhstan.
Earlier this week, makeshift draft offices were set up near the Verkhny Lars border crossing into Georgia in southern Russia and near the Torfyanka checkpoint on Russia’s border with Finland.
Over 194,000 Russian nationals have fled to neighboring Georgia, Kazakhstan and Finland — most often by car, bicycle or on foot — since President Vladimir Putin last week announced a partial mobilization of reservists.
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KYIV — The chief of Ukraine’s presidential office says four marines and two civilians have returned to Ukraine as part of prisoner exchange with Russia.
Andriy Yermak said in an online statement Thursday that the four marines had taken part in the battle for Mariupol. The two civilians were arrested after data and photos of Russian military equipment were found on their mobile telephones.
Yermak didn’t specify how many people were handed over to Russia. Russian officials haven’t commented on the exchange yet.
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COPENHAGEN — NATO says it would retaliate for any attacks on the critical infrastructure of its 30 member countries as it suggested that damage to two gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea is the result of sabotage.
NATO ambassadors said in a statement Thursday that “Any deliberate attack against Allies’ critical infrastructure would be met with a united and determined response.” They said that the damage to the pipelines between Russia and Germany “is of deep concern.”
The alliance also said that “all currently available information indicates that this is the result of deliberate, reckless, and irresponsible acts of sabotage” and that the leaks are causing risks to shipping and “substantial environmental damage.”
The Swedish coast guard on Thursday confirmed a fourth leak on the Nord Stream pipelines off southern Sweden.
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KIYV — Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says the Nord Stream pipeline accident would have been impossible without the involvement of a state actor.
Peskov told reporters in a conference call Thursday that it “looks like a terror attack, probably conducted on a state level.”
He said “it would be hard to imagine” from the extent of damage to the pipeline that it didn’t happen without state involvement and urged a quick investigation.
Swedish coast guard officials reported Thursday a fourth leak to the Nord Stream pipelines conveying natural gas from Russia to Germany off southern Sweden.
Peskov dismissed media reports about Russian warships spotted in the area as “stupid and biased,” adding that “many more aircraft and vessels belonging to NATO countries have been spotted in the area.” He wouldn’t say if it could be possible to repair the pipeline.
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KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy paid his respects to the victims of the Babi Yar massacre on the 81st anniversary of one of the most infamous mass slaughters of World War II.
Nearly 34,000 Jews were killed within 48 hours in Babi Yar – a ravine in the Ukrainian capital – during the city’s occupation by Nazi forces in 1941.
Zelenskyy wrote on his social media page that similar crimes against humanity still occur today, “in particular, on our Ukrainian land.” He added that criminals responsible for such tragedies must be punished “so that dictators and tyrants are reluctant to repeat something similar in the future.”
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KYIV — Ukraine’s atomic power agency says a suspected landmine explosion on the perimeter fence of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has damaged electrical lines.
Energoatom said Thursday there have been six instances at the Russian-occupied plant, still run by Ukrainian technicians, where wild animals set off landmines that Russian forces have scattered around the plant.
Local officials had said earlier that the plant itself – Europe’s biggest – was safe and no radiation had leaked into the environment.
The plant has been the focus of fighting and concerns about its reactors getting hit in a firefight. Earlier this month, the plant shut down its last working reactor of its six after reconnecting the plant to the country’s power grid to make sure its nuclear material can remain cooled.
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European leaders have denounced Moscow’s announcement that it will incorporate Ukraine’s occupied four regions following the Kremlin-orchestrated referendums on joining Russia, pledging that they will never recognize the move.
Czech Republic Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky whose country holds the rotating EU presidency rejected as “absolutely unacceptable” what he called the “one-sided annexation” that was the process of a “fully falsified process with no legitimacy.”
Speaking on Czech public television Thursday, Lipansky dismissed the referendums as “a theater play” and that the four regions remain Ukrainian territory.
According to a statement from his office Thursday, Italian Premier Mario Draghi has told President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a phone call that Italy will not recognize the illegal referendums.
Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen posted on Twitter that his country “will never recognize any annexation attempt.”
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KYIV — Moscow has confirmed it will formally annex parts of Ukraine where occupied areas held Kremlin-orchestrated “referendums” on joining Russia that the Ukrainian government and the West have denounced as illegal and rigged.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend a ceremony in the Kremlin on Friday when four regions of Ukraine will be officially folded into Russia.
The official annexation was widely expected following the votes that wrapped up on Tuesday in the areas under Russian occupation in Ukraine and after Moscow claimed residents overwhelmingly supported for their areas to formally become part of Russia.
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BERLIN — German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Thursday dismissed the Kremlin-orchestrated referendums in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine as a “sham.”
Baerbock told a news conference in the German capital that people are being taken “under threats and sometimes even (at) gunpoint” to drop their ballots in transparent boxes.
She denounced the vote as a “dictated peace” that’s contrary to free and fair elections and warned that no citizen is either free or safe in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied territories as long as “this Russian diktat” prevails there.
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KYIV — Ukraine’s presidential office says that at least eight civilians have been killed and 16 others have been wounded as a result of Russian artillery, missile and rocket attacks over the past 24 hours.
The office said Thursday casualties include two adults and a child killed by a missile strike on the city of Dnipro Wednesday. The attack injured five – including a 12 year-old girl pulled from the rubble – and damaged 60 houses, a street market and power lines.
Russian shelling killed five civilians and wounded four in the eastern Donetsk region.
The mayor of the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk say 11 people have been wounded – one seriously – after four rockets hit the city. Oleksandr Honcharenko posted on Facebook that Thursday’s early morning attack damaged high-rise buildings and private homes.
Ukrainian military officials say the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has again been struck by a Russian missile. Officials said Thursday the Kh-59 missile struck a grain depot in Kryvyi Rih on Wednesday night.
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STOCKHOLM — A fourth leak to the Nord Stream pipelines conveying natural gas from Russia to Germany has been reported off southern Sweden.
Earlier, three leaks had been reported on the two underwater pipelines. Seismologists detected two explosions were detected before reports of the leaks which officials believe were “deliberate actions.”
Some experts have said Russia is likely to blame for any sabotage — it directly benefits from higher energy prices and economic anxiety across Europe.
Sweden’s coast guards told Swedish news agency TT on Thursday that the fourth leak was off Sweden. All the leaks are in international waters.
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KYIV — The Ukrainian military says Russia is sending undertrained fighters to the battle front as it tries to reinforce its positions in the eastern Ukrainian city of Lyman.
The Ukrainian military’s general staff said Thursday that of seven Russian tanks sent to Lyman recently, Russian troops crashed two of them on the way there.
It also said troops manning the tanks did not undergo training on how to use the vehicle’s weapons.
The Ukrainian military did not elaborate on how it knew about the tank unit’s condition. But Ukraine’s intelligence services have played purportedly intercepted phone calls of Russian troops complaining about their conditions on the front line.
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KYIV — Britain’s military says the number of Russian military-age men fleeing the country likely exceeds the number of forces Moscow used to initially invade Ukraine in February.
The British Defense Ministry made the estimate in its daily intelligence briefing Thursday amid a Russian push to mobilize more troops to replenish losses its forces have suffered in Ukraine.
The ministry said those who are financially better off and better educated are over-represented amongst those attempting to leave Russia.
It added that the economic impact from the call-up as a result of a loss of labor in combination with a ‘brain drain’ “is likely to become increasingly difficult.”
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KYIV — A Washington-based think tank says Ukrainian soldiers continue to advance around a key northeastern city occupied by Russian forces and may soon encircle it entirely.
The Institute for the Study of War, citing Russian reports, said Thursday that Ukrainian forces have taken more villages around Lyman, a city some 160 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.
Lyman had been a key node in Russia’s front-line operations in the region before Ukrainian forces retook vast swathes of territory in the northeast earlier this month.
The institute said a possible collapse of the Lyman pocket would allow Ukrainian troops to “threaten Russian positions along the western Luhansk” region.
The institute suggested additional Russian losses would further erode morale amid a call-up of hundreds of thousands of men — the country’s first since World War II.
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WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, July 9, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
609 AM CDT Sat Jul 9 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Temperatures up to 105 degrees and heat index values up
to 110 degrees expected.
* WHERE...Along and west of a line from Graham to Stephenville
to Gatesville.
* WHEN...Until 9 PM CDT Saturday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity will increase the
risk for heat-related illnesses to occur, particularly for
those working or participating in outdoor activities.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
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rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS
EVENING...
* WHAT...Dangerously hot conditions with temperatures up to 108
degrees and heat index values up to 114.
* WHERE...Along and east of a line from Jacksboro to Mineral
Wells to Killeen.
* IMPACTS...Extreme heat and humidity will significantly
increase the potential for heat related illnesses,
particularly for those working or participating in outdoor
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SOUTHERN PINES, N.C., Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- First Bank has committed to giving the Lee County Education Foundation $50,000 to fund the newly announced "Durable Skills Project" in Lee County. A program formed through a partnership with Lee County Schools and the Boys & Girls Club of Central Carolina, the Durable Skills Project will reach 120 students across 3 schools: East Lee Middle School, SanLee Middle School and West Lee Middle School, teaching lifelong usable skills for the real world.
The primary goal of the Durable Skills Project is to provide support to middle schoolers through mentors and programming geared towards life skills like effective verbal communication, self-control, and goal setting, and how these can lead to personal and academic success. Utilizing established, proven Boys and Girls Club curriculum with an added focus on communication, the Durable Skills Project will help students build a framework for long-term success. Trained Boys and Girls Club staff will be on the middle school campuses meeting in person with students and leading them through this innovative program.
Lee County Education Foundation Chairman, Susan Keller, said of the program, "The Foundation is committed to enhancing success for students. The newly formed Durable Skills Project provides the students involved with positive mentorship and consistent development of skills like communication, leadership, and long-term goal-setting. First Bank's generous donation means these students will receive the guidance needed to develop traits and habits that lead to success in high school, the workforce, and beyond."
First Bank's Community Banking Executive and Lee County Education Foundation Board Member, Rob Patterson said of the partnership, "The vision of the foundation is to help create an outstanding public-school system that graduates students well prepared for the 21st century workplace and ultimately success in life. With the Durable Skills Project we are driving right into the core of our vision and giving tangible and meaningful skills to our students. First Bank is thrilled to have a hand in that."
The funds are donated as a part of First Bank's Project Launch initiative, a year-long program that focuses on improving and driving education in the Carolinas. There are several facets to Project Launch, including direct donations to education-based organizations, monthly grant winners, the First Bank Book Club, and the "Out of this World Educator" awards. Through August 2022, a total of $375,369 of the committed $500,000 funds has been given away to various education initiatives under the Project Launch umbrella.
First Bank is the banking subsidiary of First Bancorp and is headquartered in Southern Pines, North Carolina, with total assets of approximately $10.6 billion. As a state-chartered community bank, First Bank operates 108 bank branches in North Carolina and South Carolina. Since 1935, First Bank has taken a tailored approach to banking, combining best-in-class financial solutions, helpful local expertise, and technology to manage a home or business. First Bancorp's common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol "FBNC." Visit our website at www.LocalFirstBank.com. Member FDIC, Equal Housing Lender.
The Lee County Education Foundation is a public/private partnership committed to empowering educators and moving futures forward. This includes the improves the futures of our schools, students, and larger community. LCEF has awarded over $1M in grants and awards to the ultimate end of improving education for all in Lee County and creating a workforce-ready population committed to personal, professional and community success.
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Mahomet-Seymour's competitive spirit was fine-tuned while punishing Taylorville 12-2 in an Illinois high school softball matchup on April 22.
In recent action on April 8, Taylorville faced off against Mt Zion and Mahomet-Seymour took on Charleston on April 14 at Mahomet-Seymour High School.
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BUTTE - “I’ve been a wild rover for many a year, and I spent all me money on whiskey and be … “ —wait a minute, where’s the parade? Okay, I’m a little early for the St. Patrick’s Day parade, but Uptown businesses and the city are already preparing for Butte’s favorite Irish traditions.
“We’ve been extra-ordering for the last month, putting it in our cooler, paying for it, it will be ice cold for St. Patrick’s Day,” said Maloney’s Bar co-owner Gene Riordan.
Parade organizers say there are more than 60 entrants in this year’s parade that starts at noon on St. Patrick’s Day. The parade will head west on Granite Street, turn south on Montana, and then east on Park Street.
“Expect a lot more people. Friday is, of course, the start to a big weekend. I haven’t heard was Mike Heard has to say about it yet, but I expect he’s going to give us some sunshine,” said Parade Director Pat Ryan.
Though big crowds are expected, people should have no problem finding a spot to watch the parade.
“It’s a shorter parade route than the Fourth of July parade, but there’s lots of room, come up, join us in the parade, join us in celebrating our Irish heritage,” said Ryan.
With the crowds, some areas of Uptown Butte will be closed to motorized traffic throughout St. Patrick’s Day.
“We thought it best to keep the road closures in those areas to thru-traffic to keep the pedestrians and people safe,” said Butte Event Coordinator Ed Heard.
Gene Riordan said this celebration is not just going to be good for his bar.
“Man, it’s been a long winter. I mean, everyone’s looking forward to go out and have some fun,” said Riordan.
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Updated September 13, 2022 at 12:39 PM ET
R. Kelly's lead attorney told jurors during her closing argument Tuesday that federal prosecutors' case accusing the singer of producing child pornography, enticing minors for sex and rigging his 2008 child porn trial largely rests on the testimony of perjurers and blackmailers.
Standing at a podium a few feet in front of jurors, Jennifer Bonjean noted that many key government witnesses, including some of the women who accused Kelly of sexually abusing them, testified with immunity to ensure they wouldn't be charged with previously lying to authorities.
Bonjean said they hadn't come to the courthouse in Chicago, Kelly's hometown, to tell the unvarnished truth. "They came in here," she said, "to tell the government's version of the truth."
Among others, she cited Kelly ex-girlfriend Lisa Van Allen, who testified about how she stole a sex tape from a Kelly gym bag in the early 2000s. Bonjean also pointed to the testimony of Kelly's former merchandizing agent Charles Freeman, who told jurors that he asked the singer for $1 million in exchange for returning another sex tape that could potentially incriminate the singer. Both testified with immunity.
Bonjean likened their testimony and other evidence to a cockroach and the government's case to a bowl of soup the insect is found in.
"You don't just pull out the cockroach and eat the rest of the soup," she said, noting of the prosecution's case: "There are just too many cockroaches."
Bonjean reminded jurors that she told them during her opening statement that the government would rely on "perjurers, blackmailers and extortionists," and said prosecutors had done just that.
On Monday, a prosecutor in her closing told jurors that weeks of evidence proved the singer parlayed his fame to sexually abuse minors and record the abuse on video.
Kelly faces charges including production of child pornography, enticing minor girls for sex and obstruction of justice by rigging his 2008 child pornography trial in state court, at which he was acquitted. Jurors were expected to began deliberating later Tuesday.
In her closing, prosecutor Elizabeth Pozolo described Kelly as a secret sexual predator.
"Robert Kelly abused many girls over many years," she said, referring to the 55-year-old Grammy winner by his full first name. "He committed horrible crimes against children. ... All these years later, the hidden side of Robert Kelly has come out."
Kelly attorney Jennifer Bonjean twice called for a mistrial Monday, complaining that closing arguments by attorneys for Kelly co-defendants Derrell McDavid and Milton Brown were grounded in the presumption that "the world now knows Mr. Kelly is a sex predator."
"The presumption of innocence has been abolished for him," Bonjean said, meaning Kelly was unable to get a fair trial. Judge Harry Leinenweber denied the requests.
Prosecutors will have the opportunity for a short rebuttal after Bonjean gives her closing argument in Kelly's hometown of Chicago, where he rose from poverty to become an R&B superstar.
Known for his smash hit "I Believe I Can Fly" and for sex-infused songs such as "Bump n' Grind," Kelly sold millions of albums even after allegations of sexual misconduct began circulating in the 1990s. Widespread outrage emerged after the #MeToo reckoning and the 2019 docuseries "Surviving R. Kelly."
Kelly and McDavid, Kelly's former business manager, are accused of fixing the 2008 trial by intimidating and paying off witnesses. Both face child pornography charges. Brown, a former Kelly associate, is accused of receiving child pornography.
Kelly was sentenced in June to 30 years in prison after a separate federal trial in New York, where he was convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking. Convictions on just a few of the 13 counts Kelly faces at his current trial could add years to his imprisonment.
Pozolo focused much of her closing argument on the government's star witness, an accuser who went by "Jane" and who said Kelly sexually abused her hundreds of times starting when she was 14.
"He performed degrading acts upon her for his own sick pleasure," Pozolo said.
She reminded jurors of graphic video footage they had watched, which Jane testified depicted Kelly, at around age 30, abusing her when she was 14. The videos shown included one at the heart Kelly's 2008 trial. Jurors said later they had no choice but to acquit Kelly because Jane didn't testify.
"Who does that? Who uses a 14-year-old child to film a video like this?" she said. "This man. Robert Kelly."
Before Kelly's 2008 trial, Pozolo said, Kelly and his associates scrambled to recover multiple sex videos that had gone missing from a collection he often carried around in a large gym bag.
By doing so, she said, Kelly associates sought "to cover up the fact that ... R. Kelly, the R&B superstar, is actually a sexual predator."
In his closing, an attorney for McDavid said prosecutors had to show that his client actually knew about any abuse of Jane by Kelly in the 2000s — not just that it was likely he knew.
"Did they prove he knew ... behind a reasonable doubt?" Beau Brindley asked. "They did not."
Pozolo balked at the idea that McDavid had no inkling in the 2000s that the abuse allegations might be credible after helping to recover missing recordings and handing bags of cash to people who returned videos McDavid knew could destroy Kelly.
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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters said Friday he hopes Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will back his close campaign in Arizona, striking a magnanimous tone toward the GOP leader he fiercely criticized during the primary.
“I think he’ll come in and spend. Arizona’s gonna be competitive. It’s gonna be a close race, and I hope he does come in,” Masters told The Associated Press during a brief interview following a roundtable with construction industry leaders outside Phoenix. “And we’ll find a way to work together.”
Masters has softened the harder edges of his confrontational style and moved toward the center on key issues, including abortion and Social Security, since emerging atop a crowded GOP field in this month’s primary. He’s relying on deep-pocketed donors and national Republicans to make up for a severe financial deficit against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, one of the most prolific fundraisers in the Senate who collected nearly $55 million through the end of June. Masters reported raising $5 million.
The McConnell-controlled Senate Leadership Fund bought $28 million in advertising to boost Republican J.D. Vance in Ohio, a seat many Republicans thought to be safe. Vance, like Masters, won his primary with millions of dollars in support from billionaire Peter Thiel but has lagged his Democratic rival in fundraising.
Masters spoke a day after McConnell suggested that Republican efforts to win control of the Senate could be imperiled by lackluster candidates, a remark widely interpreted to be directed at candidates including Masters.
“I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate. Senate races are just different — they’re statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome,” McConnell told business leaders Thursday in his home state of Kentucky.
Masters said he’s “not Mitch McConnell’s favorite candidate,” but they’ll manage to get along.
“He wants to win Arizona,” Masters said. “I think I’m a much better candidate than Mitch McConnell gives me credit for.”
During the primary, Masters called for McConnell to be replaced as GOP leader, saying he’d support Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri or Tom Cotton of Arkansas for the position. McConnell was a roadblock to enacting parts of former President Donald Trump’s agenda, he said.
“I’ll tell Mitch this to his face,” Masters said during a GOP primary debate in June. “He’s not bad at everything. He’s good at judges. He’s good at blocking Democrats. You know what he’s not good at? Legislating.”
On Friday, Masters predicted McConnell will get another term as GOP leader and no Republicans will challenge him.
“I think he’ll be in charge. And I’m not just going to be a senator that falls in line to whatever he says,” Masters told construction company officials. “I’ll hear him out. I’m happy to listen. But my vote doesn’t belong to Mitch McConnell. It doesn’t belong to Donald Trump.” | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/politics/masters-hopeful-for-mcconnell-support-in-arizona-senate-race/ | 2022-08-19 23:02:04 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/politics/masters-hopeful-for-mcconnell-support-in-arizona-senate-race/ |
Nine home teams are underdogs in Week 3.
Behind the Dawg Pound, the Cleveland Browns aren’t among them.
The Browns host the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday night to kick off a week featuring more road favorites than home. Both teams are aiming for a 2-1 start and coming off disappointing losses.
The Browns, with Jacoby Brissett filling in for Deshaun Watson, are rolling on the ground behind Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt.
The Steelers, with Mitchell Trubisky replacing the retired Ben Roethlisberger, still haven’t found a rhythm on offense despite a talented receiving corps.
The Browns are 4 1/2-point favorites over the Steelers, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. That’s too many points in a matchup between bitter AFC North rivals.
The last time the teams met on a Thursday night in 2019, Myles Garrett smashed Mason Rudolph over the head with the quarterback’s helmet.
Expect cooler heads this time around.
BROWNS 20-17
Cincinnati (minus 4 1/2) at New York Jets
Joe Burrow has taken a beating and the defending AFC champions are winless. They’re set up to get back on the winning track against the improved Jets.
BEST BET: BENGALS 30-20
Green Bay (plus 1 1/2) at Tampa Bay
This could be a preview of the NFC championship. Brady and the Buccaneers destroyed the Packers 38-10 in the 2020 regular season and upset them on the road in the conference title game that season on their way to winning the Super Bowl. Tampa is too banged-up to do it again.
UPSET SPECIAL: PACKERS 23-20
Baltimore (minus 3) at New England
After a defensive collapse in the fourth quarter against Miami, the Ravens continue their season-opening, four-game stretch against the AFC East with a trip to New England. The Patriots are still figuring out their offense while Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson is a dynamic difference-maker.
RAVENS 26-20
Buffalo (minus 5 1/2) at Miami
The Bills have steamrolled the defending Super Bowl champion Rams and the Titans, who were the AFC’s No. 1 seed last season. They have a franchise-best, seven-game win streak over Miami and outscored the Dolphins by a combined 61-11 in two meetings last year. Tua Tagovailoa and the rest of Miami’s high-flying offense will help keep this one close.
BILLS 30-26
New Orleans (minus 3) at Carolina
The Panthers have lost seven in a row at home, nine straight games overall and coach Matt Rhule’s job status is in danger. The Saints couldn’t knock off the Buccaneers but have to avoid a letdown after an emotional game. Jameis Winston resorted to 2019 form against Tampa. Baker Mayfield is due for his first win with the Panthers if the offense relies on Christian McCaffrey.
PANTHERS 20-19
Kansas City (minus 6 1/2) at Indianapolis
Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs are rested after a Thursday night win over the Chargers. The Colts are embarrassed following a 24-0 loss at Jacksonville.
CHIEFS 27-23
Detroit (plus 5 1/2) at Minnesota
Jared Goff has Detroit’s offense soaring. The Vikings are coming off a short week following a beatdown in Philadelphia on Monday night. Kirk Cousins should have an easier time finding Justin Jefferson this time around.
VIKINGS 27-24
Philadelphia (minus 6 1/2) at Washington
The Eagles are flying high after dominating the Vikings. Jalen Hurts has been spectacular, setting up a showdown against Carson Wentz and the Commanders. The road team has won the last three meetings in this division rivalry.
EAGLES 26-20
Las Vegas (minus 2 1/2) at Tennessee
The Raiders are still looking for their first win under Josh McDaniels after wasting a 20-0 halftime lead against Arizona. The Titans are reeling and have a short week following Monday night’s debacle in Buffalo.
RAIDERS 24-20
Houston (plus 2 1/2) at Chicago
The Texans’ inability to finish games has cost them two wins. The Bears ran the ball well in a loss to Green Bay, and should rely on the ground game to take pressure off Justin Fields.
BEARS 22-17
Jacksonville (plus 7) at Los Angeles Chargers
Doug Pederson has not only changed the culture in Jacksonville but has the Jaguars playing like a team that should be in the mix in a wide-open AFC South. The Chargers, led by Justin Herbert, are on another level.
CHARGERS 29-17
Atlanta (plus 1 1/2) at Seattle
The Seahawks are struggling to score points. The Falcons are staying close but searching for their first win.
SEAHAWKS 20-17
Los Angeles Rams (minus 3 1/2) at Arizona
The Rams have been mistake-prone in two games but they’ve won 10 of the last 11 against the Cardinals, including a playoff win last season.
RAMS 28-24
San Francisco (minus 1) at Denver
Russell Wilson knows San Francisco quite well, and the Broncos have to get their sputtering offense going. The 49ers’ Super Bowl odds improved with Jimmy Garoppolo replacing the injured Trey Lance.
BRONCOS 23-20
Dallas (plus 2 1/2) at New York Giants
The Giants are looking for their first 3-0 start since 2009. Big Blue has reason to get hyped. They’re facing Cooper Rush, who filled in nicely for Dak Prescott in a win over the Bengals.
GIANTS 22-17
2022 RECORD
Last Week: Straight up: 10-6. Against spread: 8-8.
Season: Straight up: 17-15. Against spread: 14-18.
Best Bet: Straight up: 1-0. Against spread: 1-0.
Season: Straight up: 1-1. Against spread: 1-1.
Upset Special: Straight up: 0-1. Against spread: 0-1.
Season: Straight up: 0-2. Against spread: 0-2
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This recap of House of the Dragon's second episode contains spoilers for...well, for House of the Dragon's second episode. That's pretty much what a recap is. Proceed accordingly.
If you're just joining us, here's a recap of episode one and here's a glossary of people and places you may have forgotten.
Welcome to the Stepstones, the Seven Kingdoms' vacation wonderland. In this sun-dappled archipelago stretching between Westeros and Essos, you'll find crystal blue waters, white sand beaches, screaming pirates staked to the ground so crabs can feast on their soft bits, state-of-the-art spa facilities, balmy ocean breezes, the bleached, leering, picked-clean skulls of corsairs scattered across the sand, and fun souvenir shops. The fine folks of the Bloodstone Tourist Board invite you to "Step up to the StepstonesTM"!
Last week Corlys, leader of the King's fleet, mentioned to the Small Council that the Triarchy, an alliance of Free Cities, had tasked their navy's admiral with cleansing this vital trade route of pirates, earning said admiral the nickname "Crabfeeder" in the process.
If you thought this show was gonna just sort of leave that fact up to our collective imagination, you don't know this show. As should be clear by now, House of the Dragon, as a general rule, chooses violence.
At the Small Council, there is, as usual, Big Exposition: The Triarchy have overstepped, and sunk four of Corlys's ships; he wants to take out the Crabfeeder and seize the Stepstones, but to do so would be an act of war. We also learn that it's half a year since Daemon was soft-exiled, and he's now taken up residence on Dragonstone with an army of Gold Cloaks.
Quick aside about the Targaryen Dynasty's fetish for little tchotchkes and gewgaws: Every member of the Small Council has a little marble sphere they plunk into a receptacle on the table in front of them. Don't recall seeing that back in Game of Thrones. Doesn't seem to have anything to do with procedural votes or anything, though I've misplaced my copy of Aegon's Rules of Order. Maybe they're like the cocktail napkin you place over glass of Sav Blanc when you head to the john? Or is it just a needlessly complicated way to say "Present"?
Similarly, in the next scene, where Rhaenyra chooses a new member of the King's Guard, there's this whole business with figurines representing each House that the various candidates are from. Hold on: There are hundreds and hundreds of Houses mentioned in George R.R. Martin's books. Does each one get its own figurine? Think of the logistics! Think of the storage!
And then later on, the King has got his scale-model cities and dragons. Say what you will about Viserys's reign, but at least he's keeping Westeros's artisan class thriving.
Anyway, yeah: Amid a fair amount of fetishistic folderol, Rhaenyra chooses Ser Criston Cole to serve on the King's Guard, as he's the only one of the candidates with real combat experience. Otto Hightower argues for a more overtly political choice, but is rebuffed — and once again, his unctuous affect is giving me Littlefinger/Iago vibes.
Alicent? Her aim is true.
In King Viserys' chambers, he shows young Alicent his intricately carved stone model of Old Valyria, the birthplace of both his ancestors and of dragons. He asks her how his daughter's dealing with the death of her mother, and Alicent — firmly, but with a healthy dollop of flattery — suggests he should talk to her his own damn self. He then dwops one of his widdle stone dwagons; this is not a sexual metaphor, unless it very much is.
In a sept that pre-dates the doomed Great Sept of Baelor, Alicent prays, and asks Rhaenyra to join her. It's not stated explicitly, but the figure they're praying to (more work for the King's Landing artisans!) seems to represent The Mother, one of the Seven Gods of Westeros. (I base this on the fact that they spend this scene talking a lot about their dead mothers, and the fact that the figure before them is posed as if it's saying, "No, honey, don't feel like you have call to check on me, I'm fine, I mean I just gave birth to you.")
Rhaenyra tells Alicent she wishes she could talk to her father, and Alicent — firmly, but with a healthy dollop of flattery — suggests she should talk to him her own damn self. Alicent would make a canny and successful Real Housewife of King's Landing.
In the gardens of the Red Keep, the King meets with Ser Corlys Velaryon and his wife Rhaenys, the Queen Who Wasn't. They inform him that the Iron Throne is looking weak: A girl is set to inherit (Why, 'pon my word! The devil you say! Splutter!)! Daemon has disobeyed the King and instead of returning to the Vale, he has seized Dragonstone (the Targaryen ancestral home)! And now the Triarchy have set up a colony in the Stepstones! (This guy's more like Ser Corlys Exposishyon, amirite?)
Their carefully considered, entirely selfless, no-agenda-whatsoever solution? Have the King wed their daughter Laena, thereby uniting the Old Valyrian bloodlines of Targaryen and Velaryon.
Later, the King attempts to treat his latest Iron-Throne ouchie by sticking his finger into a bowl of maggots. Which I can't help but notice looks kind of soothing, like one of those devices they sell at Spencer Gifts with metal pins that take an impression of your hand? Only gooier?
Otto Hightower at first objects to the idea of a marriage to Leana, but quickly relents. (Gonna save myself time and make an "Otto relents" macro, because it seems like it's that guy's whole, oleaginous deal.) The King is worried about how Rhaenyra will feel about it all, and he should be.
"Can I steal you away from a minute? Disturbingly?"
In the gardens, The King has a gross and awkward blind date with 7-year-old (!) Laena. It's The Bachelor: Medieval, and neither of them wants to give, or get, a rose. They talk about dragons, and the fact that she won't have to lie with him until she's 14.
... yay?
Paddy Considine, bless him, finds the pitch-black humor in all this; he looks like a man who's gotten his first glimpse of the true face of the patrilineal oppression he embodies, and suspects it might not be all that great.
As has been pointed out by now, this is a show about meetings. When they're simply repeating stuff we've already seen, those meetings — and House of the Dragon itself -- can be bloodless, officious, boring.
But when the meeting in question is a scene like the one between Eve Best's world-weary Rhaenys and Milly Alcock's would-be-world-weary Rhaenyra? The episode pays for itself.
Rhaenyra makes a show of not caring if the Iron Thone is stolen out from under her, should the King finally get the male heir he's always longed for. Rheanys, who's been there and bought the t-shirt, sees through this smokescreen and impatiently waves it away. I really like the interplay between Best and Alcock, here — these characters clearly dislike each other, but there's a grudging respect and understanding hovering between them as well. The implacable, deeply entrenched systems of the Seven Kingdoms are arrayed against them, and both know enough to make a public show of accepting it. Privately, however, they can share their impatience, their disappointment — and, guardedly, their rage.
This is as close to a beating heart as the series has managed to find so far. It's hinted at in the book, but not given the room to breathe that it gets here. Here's hoping we get more of it, because House of the Dragon, aka Many Mendacious Medieval Meetings, could use it.
Alicent's had the King's broken dragon fixed, and gives it back to him. Also not a sexual metaphor, probably.
How do you say "Leggo my Eggo" in Old Valyrian?
We learn that Aemon's snuck into King's Landing and swiped a dragon egg from the Dragonpit. (We don't actually see this happen. This show being this show, we likely would have, had he hacked off a few dragonkeeper limbs and heads or disemboweled a hapless citizen or two in the process, but he didn't, so we don't.) He's declared himself the rightful heir, and announced that the dragon egg will be placed in the crib of his child, so that the kid can bond with it in the Targaryen way. He's also invited the King to attend his marriage ceremony to Mysaria on Dragonstone in two days' time.
"Uch," says the King, if he were me. "A destination wedding. See what I'm saying? This guy's the worst."
Upon learning that the egg in question was the one intended for the King's late infant son, Rhaenyra sets her jaw.
Otto Hightower arrives on Dragonstone with a detachment of soldiers, determined to take the egg back and send Daemon scurrying.
Daemon, Mysaria and a hell of a lot of Gold Cloaks confront Otto et al. on the bridge to the castle. There is the kind of saber-rattling you'd expect — taunts and challenges and defiance, etc. Daemon's dragon Caraxes crests a ridge behind him, and is all like, "'Sup?"
Hightower is just about to cede the day when Rhaenyra arrives astride her dragon Syrax ("'Sup, indeed?") and approaches Daemon.
They exchange a few words in Old Valyrian, and she challenges him to kill her, if that's really what he wants. Daemon backs down, but not before tossing her the egg like he's throwing a lateral in an NFC playoff.
Later, Mysaria gives Daemon a talking-to about lying that she's with child when she very much is not, and generally using her in his silly games with the King. She reminds him — and us — that she's the one in danger, not him.
Guys I don't think things are gonna turn out well for Mysaria.
At least they won't have to hire a Frozen princess for the wedding ceremony
The King gets more advice — yep, Li'l Laena's the one, the smart choice, the right pick, the ideal bride, everything's comin' up Laena.
Rhaenyra returns from Dragonstone, and the King dresses her down a bit for acting without his permission, but has to accept that she accomplished what Otto could never and would never. They then finally have the heart-to-heart they've been putting off for months. Rhaenyra assures him that she'll understand if he marries little Laena, the Playskool Princess, the Dollhouse Damsel, the Lady of LEGO, the Fairest in all First Grade.
The Small Council meets to let the King announce his new bride. Lord Corlys is there, looking smug. So is Otto Hightower, but that's less to do with anything he's expecting and more to do with his Resting Smug Face.
Game of Thrones delighted in what it believed were sudden, surprising rug-pulls, like in the episode in which Littlefinger met his ultimate fate. House of the Dragon also loves a fake-out, it seems, so when the King announces his decision to wed ... Alicent Hightower, the only ones not gobsmacked by this twist are those of us who've been watching the episode.
Alicent looks shocked. Rhaenyra looks betrayed. Otto looks smug (must be Tuesday). And Ser Corlys looks outraged and storms out.
If you found yourself feeling some degree of relief that we wouldn't have to watch a full-grown man wed a child, remind yourself that we will instead be watching a full-grown man wed a teenager. (All of this is complicated by the fact that in the book, Viserys is only around 29 at this point in his reign. Paddy Considine is 48. So either the show is ramping up the age difference to make it even more unsettling, or all that high-altitude dragonriding plays hell on Targaryen skincare regimens.)
On Driftmark, home to House Velaryon, Ser Corlys attempts to convince his guest, Daemon Targaryen (shocked gasp, ostensibly!) to prove his worth to the King and everyone by going after the Crabfeeder in the Stepstones.
Cut to: the Crabfeeder in the Stepstones, wearing a creepy mask as he sets about setting hordes of hungry crabs upon a bunch of pirates and slavers. It's like a Red Lobster seafood buffet in reverse.
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Royals vs. Tigers Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 19
Spencer Torkelson leads the Detroit Tigers (42-52) into a matchup against the Kansas City Royals (28-68) a game after homering twice in an 11-10 defeat to the Royals. It starts at 8:10 PM ET on Wednesday.
The probable starters are Eduardo Rodriguez (5-5) for the Tigers and Ryan Yarbrough (2-4) for the Royals.
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Royals vs. Tigers Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Wednesday, July 19, 2023
- Time: 8:10 PM ET
- TV: BSKC
- Location: Kansas City, Missouri
- Venue: Kauffman Stadium
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- Probable Pitchers: Rodriguez - DET (5-5, 2.70 ERA) vs Yarbrough - KC (2-4, 5.29 ERA)
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Royals Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Ryan Yarbrough
- Yarbrough gets the start for the Royals, his fifth of the season. He is 2-4 with a 5.29 ERA and 19 strikeouts through 32 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his most recent appearance on Sunday, July 9 against the Cleveland Guardians, the left-hander went six innings, giving up one earned run while surrendering six hits.
- Over 11 games this season, the 31-year-old has a 5.29 ERA and 5.3 strikeouts per nine innings, while allowing a batting average of .270 to his opponents.
- Yarbrough is trying to secure his second quality start of the season.
- Yarbrough will try to extend a three-game streak of going five or more innings (he's averaging 2.9 innings per outing).
- He has had three appearances this season in which he did not allow an earned run.
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Tigers Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Eduardo Rodríguez
- Rodriguez (5-5) will take to the mound for the Tigers and make his 14th start of the season.
- The left-hander's last start was on Saturday, when he tossed five innings while giving up two earned runs on three hits in a matchup with the Seattle Mariners.
- The 30-year-old has pitched in 13 games this season with a 2.70 ERA and 9.5 strikeouts per nine innings with a batting average against of .211.
- In 13 starts this season, he's earned six quality starts.
- Rodriguez has 11 starts of five or more innings this season in 13 chances. He averages 5.9 innings per outing.
- He has made 13 appearances and finished four of them without allowing an earned run.
Eduardo Rodríguez vs. Royals
- The Royals have scored 361 runs this season, which ranks 29th in MLB. They are batting .234 for the campaign with 82 home runs, 29th in the league.
- The left-hander has allowed the Royals to go 8-for-23 with a double and two RBI in five innings this season.
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Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of former President Trump's family business. The Trump Organization is accused of evading taxes by compensating employees through off-the-books benefits.
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ESPN began informing employees of layoffs Monday, which are job cuts that are taking place throughout its corporate owner, the Walt Disney Company.
Disney CEO Bob Iger announced in February that the company would reduce 7,000 jobs either through not filling positions or layoffs.
ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro said in a company memo sent to employees that those affected will hear from their supervisor and someone from human relations this week.
“As we advance as a core segment of Disney, with operational control and financial responsibility, we must further identify ways to be efficient and nimble,” Pitaro said in the memo. “We will continue to focus our workforce on initiatives that are most closely aligned with our critical priorities and emphasize decision-making and responsibility deeper into the organization.”
ESPN was not part of the first phase of Disney reductions last month. Besides this week’s layoffs, another round of job cuts will take place by the start of summer. Both phases impact off-air employees.
A round of cuts involving on-air talent will happen over the summer via contracts not being renewed, buyouts or cuts. It is not expected to resemble what happened in April of 2017, when reporters and hosts were informed at one time.
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FREEPORT, Maine, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Berenson Freeport Associates announced the grand opening and ribbon-cutting of the newly-expanded Lindt Chocolate Store, including new counter service at the Lindt Chocolate Bar.
"This new Lindt Chocolate Store and Lindt Chocolate Bar is a beacon for customers from Main Street into Freeport Village Station. The beautiful new store design reflects the unique passion and distinctiveness of premium chocolate, created by Lindt Master Chocolatiers since 1845," stated Alfred R. Yebba, of Berenson Freeport Associates, owners of Freeport Village Station.
Representatives of Lindt & Sprüngli (USA) Inc., headquartered in Stratham, NH, were joined by members of the Freeport business and tourism community for the ribbon-cutting celebration.
"We are excited to announce the grand reopening of the Lindt Chocolate Store at Freeport Village Station. Customers can explore an extraordinary assortment of Lindt Chocolate and enjoy new offerings including Lindt Crema Gelata, hand-crafted chocolate bark, and a variety of chocolate coffee drinks," said Patrick Diggelmann, Vice President, Retail, E-Commerce, B2B at Lindt USA. "The new and improved Lindt Chocolate Store at Freeport Village Station is the only one in the U.S. offering all of these sweet treats under one roof."
VIP guest, Slugger, the Portland Sea Dogs' Director of Crowd Entertainment and baseball's hardest-working mascot, made a special appearance to help cut the ribbon and officially bark open the new Lindt Chocolate Store and Lindt Chocolate Bar. "You have to taste it to believe it," barked Slugger.
Freeport Village Station's newly-expanded line-up includes: Lindt Chocolate, L.L. Bean Outlet, Old Navy Outlet, Carter's, Oshkosh B'Gosh, Famous Footwear Outlet, Brooks Brothers Factory Store, Francesca's, Oakley Vault, Talbots Outlet, Coach Outlet, sunglass hut, Claire's, AT&T, The Kitchen Store Outlet, Skechers (Opening Soon), and Freeport Market - a local makers market featuring high quality, unique goods from new & established makers. Please visit: onefreeportvillagestation.com.
Lindt & Sprüngli has been enchanting the world with chocolate for over 175 years. The traditional Swiss company with its roots in Zurich is a global leader in the premium chocolate sector. Today, Lindt & Sprüngli produces quality chocolates at its 11 factories in Europe and the USA. Its products are sold by 31 subsidiaries and regional offices, in around 500 of its own shops, as well as via a network of more than 100 independent distributors around the globe. With more than 14,000 employees, the Lindt & Sprüngli Group reported sales of CHF 4.59 billion in 2021.
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CA Medford, OR Zone Forecast for Thursday, December 22, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Southern Oregon and Northern California
National Weather Service Medford, OR
338 AM PST Fri Dec 23 2022
CAZ080-240000-
Western Siskiyou County-
Including the cities of Somes Bar, Happy Camp, Callahan, Etna,
Fort Jones, Greenview, and Scott Bar
338 AM PST Fri Dec 23 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. Snow
level 6500 feet. Highs in the lower 40s to lower 50s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then partly cloudy with a
chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid 40s to lower 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower to mid 40s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.CHRISTMAS DAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 50s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Lows in the
lower to mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with rain likely. Highs in the mid 40s to lower
50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain in the evening, then rain and slight chance
of thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Rain, snow and slight chance of thunderstorms in the
morning, then rain and snow in the afternoon. Breezy. Snow may be
heavy at times. Highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow. Colder. Snow may be heavy at
times. Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
rain and snow. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Lows in the
lower to mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Rain and snow likely in the morning, then chance of
rain and snow in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
$$
CAZ081-240000-
Central Siskiyou County-
Including the cities of Hilt, Klamath River, and Yreka
338 AM PST Fri Dec 23 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain this morning.
Snow level 6500 feet. Highs in the mid 40s to lower 50s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 30s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the east well after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid 40s to lower 50s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the mid 30s. South winds around 5 mph shifting to the
southeast well after midnight.
.CHRISTMAS DAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 50s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain after midnight.
Lows around 40.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs in the mid 40s to
lower 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Rain, breezy. Lows in the mid 30s to
lower 40s. Highs in the lower 40s to lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow in the evening, then rain and snow
likely after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times in the evening.
Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain and snow likely in the morning,
then chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Highs in the mid
30s to mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow.
Lows around 30.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Highs
in the lower to mid 40s.
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CAZ082-240000-
South Central Siskiyou County-
Including the cities of Mount Shasta, Dunsmuir, and McCloud
338 AM PST Fri Dec 23 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. Chance of rain and snow early this morning, then
chance of rain in the late morning and afternoon. Snow level
6000 feet rising to 6500 feet this afternoon. Highs in the lower
to mid 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the southeast
late this afternoon. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
evening. Snow level 6000 feet in the evening. Lows in the mid
30s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 10 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid 40s to lower 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of rain in
the evening. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.CHRISTMAS DAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 50s.
East winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the southeast late in the
afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs in the lower to mid
40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Rain and snow. Precipitation may be heavy at times.
Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow in the evening, then rain and snow
likely after midnight. Colder. Lows in the mid 20s to mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Highs
in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain and snow likely. Lows in
the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Rain and snow likely. Highs in the mid 30s to lower
40s.
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CAZ083-240000-
North Central and Southeast Siskiyou County-
Including the cities of Pondosa, Bray, and Tennant
338 AM PST Fri Dec 23 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow until early
afternoon, then slight chance of rain late this afternoon. Snow
level 6000 feet this morning. Highs in the lower to mid 40s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 10 percent chance of rain in the
evening. Lows in the lower to mid 30s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the mid 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of rain in
the evening. Lows in the lower to mid 30s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph shifting to the southeast late in the evening and
overnight.
.CHRISTMAS DAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 50. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain after
midnight. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs in the lower
to mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Rain and snow. Windy. Highs in the mid 30s to lower
40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow likely. Breezy, colder. Lows in
the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
rain and snow. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Lows in the mid
20s to lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Highs
in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
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CAZ084-240000-
Northeast Siskiyou and Northwest Modoc Counties-
Including the cities of Newell, Tulelake, Dorris, and Macdoel
338 AM PST Fri Dec 23 2022
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain this morning.
Highs in the lower to mid 40s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 30. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the lower to mid 40s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower to mid 30s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.CHRISTMAS DAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s to lower
50s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain after
midnight. Lows in the mid 30s.
.MONDAY...Cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Rain, windy. Highs in the lower to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain and snow likely in the
evening, then chance of rain and snow after midnight. Breezy.
Lows around 30.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Highs
in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Lows in
the mid 20s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Highs
in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
$$
CAZ085-240000-
Modoc County-
Including the cities of Day, Lookout, Adin, Alturas, Canby,
Davis Creek, and Likely
338 AM PST Fri Dec 23 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain and light freezing
rain this morning. Highs around 40. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 30. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 10 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain.
Lows around 30. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.CHRISTMAS DAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s to lower
50s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs in the lower
to mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening, then rain
after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Rain in the morning, then rain and snow in the
afternoon. Windy. Highs around 40.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow.
Windy. Lows around 30.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Highs
in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Colder.
Lows in the lower to mid 20s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow in the morning, then
chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s to
lower 40s.
$$
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CHICAGO, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Foodservice Manufacturers Association (IFMA) released its 2023 Foodservice Industry and Segment Projections today at its annual Marketing & Sales Conference. The forecast, which is hosted on the IFMA Scope® platform, projects that operator spend in the foodservice industry will decline by 0.1 percent, considered flat on a real basis in 2023, compared to 2022. The forecast models were created in conjunction with Datassential, a leading foodservice research firm, and validated by operators from the Foodservice Leadership Councils, who act as advisors to IFMA and its Board of Directors.
While the projection is for flat growth in 2023 in real terms, IFMA projects that the industry will see inflation of 7.7 percent. This means most foodservice segments will spend more in 2023 than they did in 2022 as a result of higher cost of goods rather than increased consumer demand. These projections are based upon several key assumptions, including an economic recession in 2022, supply chain constraints, labor shortages, and many white-collar employees continuing to work remotely rather than in the office.
"The foodservice industry has shown remarkable resilience throughout the pandemic and concurrent global economic challenges, and it isn't over," said Phil Kafarakis, IFMA President & CEO. "The need for a deeper understanding of our unsettled environment is greater than ever. IFMA offers our members proprietary data through IFMA Scope® and we work with them to interpret that data's impact on their businesses. Our research helps members and our industry prepare for what's ahead."
Some of the key highlights from the 2023 segment real growth comparisons to 2022 include:
- The total restaurant category – including full-service and limited-service restaurants – is projected to decline one percent. This expected decline is due to diminishing consumer demand due to a projected economic recession.
- Quick service restaurants (QSR), which have performed significantly better in recent years than other segments overall, are projected to decline 0.8 percent, while the Fast Casual segment declines 1.3 percent.
- Full-service restaurant segments, including Midscale and Casual Dining, are also both projected to decline in 2023, down 2.2 percent and 1.2 percent, respectively.
- Collectively, On-Site segments in 2023 are projected to grow 2.4 percent, largely because their recovery from 2020 was slower than that of restaurants. Additionally, many On-Site segment locations are "recession-proof."
IFMA members can access all projections, including an early look at 2024, through the IFMA Scope® portal, which provides an interactive and immersive view of real-time segment and market demographic information to aid in business planning
The International Foodservice Manufacturers Association (IFMA) is a trade association that has served its industry for 70 years. IFMA's mission is to equip foodservice manufacturers with the tools needed to navigate the future with confidence. By providing insights, fostering best practices, and developing networking and educational opportunities through events, IFMA enlightens its members and motivates change that improves both individual member organizations and the foodservice industry at large. For more information, visit IFMAworld.com. Follow IFMA on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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Why Jersey Shore locals must embrace the Benny’s and Shoobie’s of New Jersey
Welcome to summer at the Jersey Shore. That time of year when our roads get clogged and people get loud.
It's also that time of year when we feel like sardines walking along the boardwalks. I know it doesn't sound that great at first, but it really isn't all that bad.
Many people visit from all over to take advantage of our beautiful beaches and experience everything the Jersey Shore has to offer. But there is a particular type of people that tend to visit more than any other group.
Let's first start off with our Northern New Jersey friends, as well as our friends from around New York City. This first group of fine folks is commonly referred to as Benny's. But of course, if you're from the Jersey Shore, you already knew this.
Benny's can span all along the coast but are most commonly found along with the northern and central parts of the shore. They can, however, also be found further south on Long Beach Island. But beyond that, they tend to thin out.
One reason LBI tends to be unique with our summer tourists is that you'll also find another group of visitors that also frequent our beaches during the summer. Say hello to the Shoobie.
Shoobies come from a completely different region from Benny's. Instead of the Big Apple, Shoobies originate from the City of Brotherly Love. Shoobies live around the Philadelphia region and tend to prefer the southern Jersey Shore between LBI to Cape May.
These two groups combined completely take over the Jersey Shore. But as frustrating as they can be, we also need to make sure we embrace them.
Why Jersey Shore locals must embrace the Benny's and Shoobie's of New Jersey
16 Awful Things South Jersey Locals Have Witnessed Shoobies Do Down the Shore
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Jan. 8, 1923: Los Alamos Visited By Its First Airplane; Diavalo Thrills Thousands With His Death-Defying Stunts
Los Alamos Ranch School lined up en masse at the west end of the great Los Alamos mesa in front of the school and ranch buildings yesterday morning [and] welcomed its first airplane and gave Capt. Lowell Yerex, English ace, a real ovation as he swooped down out of the sky and made a perfect landing in the mile-long and half-mile-wide landing field afforded by the “big field.”
Jan. 8, 1948: One of the city’s most controversial topics, the proposed crosstown highway, will be discussed at the Junior CofC broadcast tonight from 7:30 to 8 over KTRC, Bob Nason, program committee chairman, said today.
The broadcast, one of a series on “Santa Fe, Today and Tomorrow,” sponsored by the Jaycees, will be on the topic, “Can Santa Fe’s Traffic and Highway Problems Be Solved?”
Jan. 8, 1973: The New Mexico Democratic Party is a headless horseman with no money, little leadership and bright prospects for a divisive 1974 governor’s race.
The state party treasury contains exactly $302. A fund-raising dinner to replenish Democratic coffers will be staged in early February in Santa Fe during the legislative session.
Jan. 8, 1998: Nearly 400 years ago, conquistador Don Juan de Oñate ordered his troops to cut off the right feet of warriors from Acoma Pueblo after an uprising there claimed his nephew’s life.
In the last few days, unknown vandals claiming to be acting on behalf of the “brothers of Acoma” sawed the right foot off a monumental bronze sculpture of Oñate at a public visitors center north of Española.
… “I would almost bet my life that this wasn’t done by a Native American or a Hispano,” Estevan Arellano, director of the Oñate Monument and Visitor’s Center, said Wednesday. “This was done by someone trying to get the two groups in conflict.” | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/past_100_years/the-past-100-years-jan-8-2023/article_772051a2-8e01-11ed-ad45-b33327c0e937.html | 2023-01-08 07:30:28 | 1 | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/past_100_years/the-past-100-years-jan-8-2023/article_772051a2-8e01-11ed-ad45-b33327c0e937.html |
PHILADELPHIA — Bryce Harper hammered his sixth postseason home run, whispered an assist to Alec Bohm before his solo shot and the Philadelphia Phillies tied a World Series record with five homers to rout the Houston Astros 7-0 Tuesday night and take a 2-1 Series lead.
Brandon Marsh also homered, and Kyle Schwarber and Rhys Hoskins hit back-to-back shots in the fifth inning to chase Astros starter Lance McCullers Jr. Philadelphia used the long ball to end the long wait for its first World Series home win since Game 5 of the 2009 World Series.
Those Phillies couldn’t finish the job.
Ranger Suárez tossed three-hit ball over five shutout innings and inched this year’s team closer to getting it done.
Harper, Bohm, Marsh and the rest of the Phillies on the last team to qualify for the playoffs are two wins away from ending the season as the last team standing. With a sparkling 6-0 record at Citizens Bank Park this postseason, the Phillies just may not return to Texas.
“It’s our fan base. I mean, plain and simple.” Harper said. “They keep us going, keep us fired up."
Another red, raucous, resolute crowd of 45,712 let the Astros have it from the first pitch with chants of “Cheater! Cheater!” for Jose Altuve and “Check the Bat! Check the Bat!” for Martin Maldonado.
The fans — already amped from the jump after another sliding catch by right fielder Nick Castellanos in the first — didn’t wait long to go wild for the home run barrage.
With leadoff hitter Schwarber on first base, Harper repeated his flair for playoff power when he ripped a two-run shot off McCullers into the right field seats for the fast lead. That made Harper 2 for 2 on home run swings in Philly — he sent the Phillies to the World Series with a two-run drive in Game 5 of the NL Championship Series to beat San Diego.
Harper crossed the plate and again exclaimed “This is my house!” before he ripped off his helmet, exposed his Phillie Phanatic headband and was mobbed by teammates in the dugout.
Harper’s homers shake the stadium to the point they should be measured on the Richter scale rather in feet — and they seem as automatic these days as a Phillie Phanatic spin on his ATV. Harper has hit four postseason homers that gave the Phillies the lead and showed that, yes, Bryce Bombs do go off in November, the first time more World Series games will be played in this month than October.
Oh, and Harper might have a second career as a homer whisperer.
Harper beckoned Bohm from the on-deck circle and back to the dugout for a quick word of advice.
Maybe Harper saw McCullers tipping his pitches?
“I think that’s just general conversation," Harper said. "Trying to get as much information as we can from each other. We just tried to have the best at-bats we could.”
Whatever the quiet counseling was, it worked, and Bohm lined his first postseason homer leading off the second inning and the 1,000th in World Series history into the left field seats for 3-0 lead.
So c’mon, Alec, fess up, what did Bryce tell you?
“That’s between us,” Bohm said on TV with a shrug and a big smile.
Marsh took the baton on the long-ball relay and knocked one into the right field seats that was dropped by a young kid from Delaware. The home run stood after a brief review — as it seems nothing can interfere with Philadelphia’s playoff push — and it was 4-0.
With that, McCullers had allowed four homers to his first nine batters. The right-hander who got his left triceps inked with nods to Houston got absolutely tattooed by the Phillies.
Schwarber, the NL home run champion, again dumped a two-run shot into a thicket of English ivy, Arborvitae and Holly beyond center field, and Hoskins connected on solo shot for a 7-0 lead that ended McCullers' night.
McCullers became the first pitcher to give up five home runs in a World Series game.
“We talked about it before the game, just trying to get on him early, trying to get on him often,” Harper said.
Suarez, the scheduled Game 4 starter before Game 3 was postponed a day by rain, delivered with the performance of his career and shut down the big bats in the AL champs’ lineup.
He needed only two pitches to get the first two outs of the game and struck out Yordan Alvarez to end the first. The few jams he got into, Suarez worked his way out, notably in the second when he whiffed Chas McCormick and left two runners stranded. He retired Altuve to end the fifth on a soft foul pop with two runners on base.
Four relievers each tossed a scoreless inning to finish the five-hitter.
THE CHAMPS ARE HERE
Philly sports champions Mike Schmidt, Julius Erving, Brandon Graham and Bernie Parent threw first pitches to 2008 World Series champions Ryan Howard, Cole Hamels, Jayson Werth and Shane Victorino. Country music star Tim McGraw, son of the late Phillies reliever Tug McGraw, received a huge ovation and wore his dad’s No. 45 McGraw jersey. McGraw closed the 1980 World Series with a strikeout.
UP NEXT
The Phillies send RHP Aaron Nola (2-1, 4.57 ERA in the postseason) to the mound against Houston RHP Christian Javier (1-0, 1.35 ERA) in Game 4. Nola was done after 4 1/3 innings in Game 1 of the World Series, though he retired the final six batters he faced and left in a tie game after the Phillies rallied from an early 5-0 deficit — and won 6-5. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/world-series-game-3/507-377f917b-ab67-486e-80f7-10bfcdfd0ab3 | 2022-11-02 04:46:43 | 0 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/world-series-game-3/507-377f917b-ab67-486e-80f7-10bfcdfd0ab3 |
MONTREAL (AP) — Cheers erupted from the crowd at Day 2 of the NHL draft when the Los Angeles Kings announced they were taking Jack Hughes with the 51st pick.
No, not THAT Jack Hughes, who already is in the league with the New Jersey Devils after going first in the draft three years ago. There was joy inside the Montreal Canadiens ‘ arena because this Jack Hughes is the son of the host team’s general manager.
Kent Hughes greeted Jack on the draft floor and gave him a hug and congratulations before the 18-year-old prospect could even put on a Kings jersey and hat.
“That part of it meant a lot,” Jerry Keefe, Hughes’ coach at Northeastern University, told The Associated Press in the stands at Bell Centre on Friday. “His whole family grew up here. His grandparents grew up here on both sides. Mom and dad grew up in Montreal. Having it here with his dad being the GM, I think that made it extra special.”
Jack said his father told him he wasn’t planning to take him, sparing him the pressure of being the GM’s son in Montreal. He already has plenty of pressure being the other Jack Hughes and has been in the spotlight playing college hockey.
“I wouldn’t have minded it,” Hughes said of the possibility of getting taken by the Canadiens. “It wouldn’t have really changed anything for me. At the end of the day, I want to play in the NHL … That’s really all that’s important to me. Whether it was Montreal, LA or any other team, I’d be fired up.”
FLAMES KEEP TALKING TO GAUDREAU
MVP candidate Johnny Gaudreau could hit the free agent market Wednesday, barring the Calgary Flames getting a last-minute deal done with the winger coming off a career year. GM Brad Treliving said he continues to talk to his agent in the hopes of keeping Gaudreau.
“Both sides are focused on trying to get a deal,” Treliving said. “These things take time. Johnny’s a really good player. There’s going to be a lot of attention. I think it’s real genuine on both sides to try and get a deal done.”
Gaudreau set career highs with 40 goals, 75 assists and 115 points in helping Calgary win the Pacific Division. He finished fourth in Hart Trophy voting as league MVP and could sign the richest free agent contract this year if he doesn’t return to the Flames.
“I genuinely think that everybody’s heart’s in the right place,” Treliving said. “We want to get the player signed. He wants to be in Calgary. But they’re big decisions. They’re life decisions. If he doesn’t sign with us, he’s earned the opportunity to look at the market. That’s something he’s got to consider. For us, it’s just trying to get our player signed.”
CIRELLI HAS SURGERY
Tampa Bay Lightning center Anthony Cirelli underwent surgery on his injured right shoulder on Tuesday, GM Julien BriseBois said. Cirelli played through the injury on the way to the Lightning reaching a third consecutive Stanley Cup Final before losing to Colorado.
Asked about a timeframe for Cirelli’s recovery, BriseBois said: “We’re still ironing that out. There’s a wide range there.”
USA HOCKEY SHINES
A total of 14 players from USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program were selected — nine more than the next-closest amateur club. The Philadelphia Flyers took two of them with their top picks: Cutter Gautheir fifth and Devin Kaplan 69th.
“Every year it continues to amaze me how many players they produce,” Flyers GM Chuck Fletcher said. “The whole development model they have is excellent. … There’s a lot of highly driven and motivated kids that play for the program, so I think they push each other and challenge each other.”
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South Carolina football transfer Austin Stogner works out with Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs receivers
Time and movement come at a premium for Austin Stogner.
Partly due to Stogner's 45-minute commute each way from his home in Plano, Texas, to Fort Worth where he’s been training to prepare for his move to South Carolina.
Stogner, the Oklahoma junior tight end transfer who committed to the Gamecocks in December, works out seven days a week, three of those days running routes at three separate times. He's also taking 21 credit hours online to close out his undergraduate business degree.
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For the 6-foot-6, 262-pounder, time must be calculated to maximize improvement in his game and school.
And at the end of one of those drives in April, he got more than a training session. Kansas City Chiefs star quarterback Patrick Mahomes was there throwing with some of the Chiefs receivers, including new signee Corey Coleman. Stogner worked through a throwing session with the Super Bowl-winning quarterback.
“It was really cool to see how the ball comes out of his hand you know which everyone raves about that,” Stogner told The Greenville News. “The hype is real about that. But the one thing I took away from it was how serious his throwing session was, how he explained exactly how every route he wanted was run. And all the guys were locked in. It was cool to see that side of things.”
Stogner said he didn’t get a chance to talk in-depth with Mahomes and he just missed Kansas City star tight end Travis Kelce.
Stogner has been making the drive to Fort Worth multiple times a week since he entered the transfer portal. Training on his own the last four-plus months, it’s been concerted effort to be the best version of himself once he reports May 26.
“I’ve been staying on top of my game from making sure my feet are right, my feet are quick. I had that (knee) injury two years ago and I didn’t have an offseason last year, so I’m really just getting back in the shape that I was in two years ago and just getting better from that.
“It’s up to me to get better. I have the drive for it. When I was home during COVID, I was in one of the best shapes of my life. I had a plan and that’s the plan I’m sticking to now. You just have to push through it, get out there and work.”
Stogner was in Columbia roughly a month from the end of February, spending time around his new teammates and coaching staff. Grad assistant Zeb Noland and offensive analyst Nick Coleman pored over coordinator Marcus Satterfield’s playbook with him while on campus.
South Carolina’s pro-stye offense and pro concepts are a far cry from the Air Raid that Stogner operated at Oklahoma.
“I wanted to play in a more pro-style offense and that’s what I’m was looking for in the portal. Coach Satterfield, with his offensive mind, how they used (former USC tight end) Nick Muse and in the past with the Joe Brady offense (with the Carolina Panthers), there’s a lot going for me,” Stogner said. “I want to play that wide position. They have a lot of two tight end sets, so that was big, too.
“The ‘why’ was on the field. I wanted to be a tight end that was a necessity not a luxury.”
Ability to catch the ball is there with 47 receptions for 654 yards and eight touchdowns in three years at Oklahoma. But Stogner knows his run blocking needs to improve to properly fit in South Carolina’s offense.
How to come in and fit in from a leadership role, Stogner has already seen first-hand with quarterback Jalen Hurts, who transferred to the Sooners from Alabama his freshman year.
“I would say I learned a lot about that from Jalen Hurts. I think he did really well coming in to OU, putting his head down and working. He earned his stripes through his workouts,” Stogner said. “I’m going into (South Carolina) expecting anything.
“Just stick to what I know which is working hard. It’s gotten me this far and it’ll carry me on. I just want to do everything I can to get better and help the team.”
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s Republican-led Senate voted Wednesday against confirming veteran educator Robert P. Taylor as state superintendent of education, angering some Black Democrats who said the rejection was at least partly because Taylor is Black and wrote years ago about the state’s racist history.
The state Board of Education — which has members chosen by the Republican governor, lieutenant governor and House speaker — conducted a nationwide search for a superintendent last year. Board members announced in November that their unanimous choice was Taylor, who had worked the past 30 years in North Carolina.
“This whole confirmation was a political process, and I knew that coming in,” Taylor told The Associated Press on Wednesday evening after the Senate vote. He said senators in the past have confirmed all previous nominees for state superintendent, and he is disappointed this group of senators did not confirm him.
“The fact that they didn’t, that is what I have to live with,” Taylor said. “I will always respect the process.”
It’s not unusual for nominees to serve while waiting for senators to consider confirmation, and Taylor had been working as superintendent in Mississippi since January. With the Senate’s rejection, the board will search for another superintendent.
About 38% of Mississippi residents are Black. Taylor would have been Mississippi’s second Black state superintendent of education, after Henry Johnson served from 2002 to 2005.
Taylor grew up in Laurel, Mississippi, and earned his bachelor’s degree in 1990 at the University of Southern Mississippi. As an undergraduate, he wrote for a newsletter called “The Unheard Word,” which he said gave Black students a voice that the campus newspaper often ignored.
A 2020 article on the university’s Center for Black Studies website focused on the short-lived newsletter.
“‘The Unheard Word,’ in my opinion, recognized that The University of Southern Mississippi was in the most racist state in the Union, and that while historical focus has always been on the University of Mississippi, Southern Miss had a past that was tainted as well,” Taylor told the Center for Black Studies.
Taylor told AP in a phone interview that it’s important for people to read his words in context. He said the newsletter wrote, for example, about the history of Clyde Kennard, who sought to become the first Black student the university in the 1950s and was rejected because of his race. The Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, a state spy agency at the time, led efforts to block Kennard’s enrollment.
The Senate vote on Taylor’s nomination Wednesday was mostly along party lines, 31 Republicans voting against. Of the 21 who voted for confirmation, five were Republicans and the others were Democrats.
“Because we reject him because of his race, we’re rejecting God because God made him that way,” said Democratic Sen. David Jordan, who is Black.
Republican Sen. Chris Johnson of Hattiesburg, who is white, voted in favor of confirming Taylor. He said Taylor answered senators’ questions in a straightforward manner during a confirmation hearing, including about what he had written about Mississippi’s racist history.
“He answered that by saying, ‘At that time, that’s how I felt,” Johnson told reporters Wednesday after the nomination failed.
The previous Mississippi superintendent of education, Carey Wright, retired on June 30 after 8 1/2 years in the job. An interim superintendent started July 1 and served until Taylor arrived.
Senate Education Committee Chairman Dennis DeBar, a white Republican from Leaksville, said race had nothing to do with his vote against the nomination of Taylor. DeBar said he thinks Taylor is a good man and should be respected.
“I think what really hurt Dr. Taylor the most … is we have several low-performing schools in our state,” DeBar said. “We would like to see someone with a better resume on improving low-performing schools.”
Democratic Sen. Derrick Simmons of Greenville, who is Black, said Taylor should have been confirmed.
“Dr. Taylor did everything that we tell people in the state of Mississippi to do — get a good education, try to use that good education, go out and get your experience and then come back to the state of Mississippi and give Mississippi all of your educational talents and all of your educational experience and give back to the community that gave to you,” Simmons said.
Hours after the Senate rejected Taylor’s nomination, Democratic Sen. Barbara Blackmon of Canton, who is Black, tried to amend other legislation to say Mississippi would only consider nominees who have never left the state — a way of expressing her anger about the rejection. Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann said the amendment was not relevant, and senators did not vote on it.
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FENGDU, China, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 4, the Foreigners@Chongqing: A Journey of Exploration into Fengdu County 2022 event was held in Fengdu, southwest China's Chongqing province, with a view to helping foreigners in Chongqing better visit and experience the county. Eighteen international students from Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications from 14 countries such as Russia, Pakistan and Ethiopia came to the Nantian Lake Scenic Area of Fengdu. They watched intangible cultural heritage performances, visited the Lakeside Park and the top of Nantian Lake Scenic Area, and experienced Chinese calligraphy, painting, and dance at a waterfront terrace. Natasha, an international student from Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications from Russia, said that the Nantian Lake Scenic Area in Fengdu County is a place with picturesque scenery, exciting entertainments, fresh air, and pleasant temperature. Also, It boasts time-honored history and profound culture. She hopes more foreigners will come and have fun here.
Located at the intersection of Chongqing's main urban area tour, the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River tour, and the folk custom and ecological tour in Wuling Mountain, the Nantian Lake Scenic Area has a planned area of 33.13 square kilometers. It consists of one town and three areas, namely, a Xiangba Resort Town, a Lakeside Recreation Area, a Forest Wellness Area, and an Ice and Snow Sports Area. The scenic area has an altitude of 1,400-2,000 meters, an average summer temperature of 20℃ and the lowest winter temperature of -10℃. These have made it an ecotourism resort for summer getaways, alpine skiing, sightseeing, and cultural performances. In December 2020, the Nantian Lake Scenic Area was rated as a national tourist resort.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has reversed a decades-old decision to revoke the security clearance of Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist called the father of the atomic bomb for his leading role in World War II’s Manhattan Project.
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said the 1954 decision by the Atomic Energy Commission was made using a “flawed process" that violated the commission’s own regulations.
“As time has passed, more evidence has come to light of the bias and unfairness of the process that Dr. Oppenheimer was subjected to while the evidence of his loyalty and love of country have only been further affirmed," Granholm said in a statement on Friday.
Oppenheimer, who died in 1967, led the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. The theoretical physicist was later accused of having communist sympathies and his security clearance was revoked following a four-week, closed-door hearing.
In stripping Oppenheimer of his clearance, the Atomic Energy Commission did not allege that he had revealed or mishandled classified information, nor was his loyalty to the country questioned, according to Granholm's order. The commission, however, concluded there were “fundamental defects” in his character.
Years later, an Atomic Energy Commission lawyer concluded after an internal review that “the system failed" and a “substantial injustice was done to a loyal American," according to the secretary's order.
Granholm said the commission's decision was driven by a desire among its political leadership to “discredit Oppenheimer in public debates over nuclear weapons policy.”
“Such political motives must have no place in our personnel security process," she wrote.
U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont applauded the reversal, saying the 1954 decision followed a “manifestly unjust and unethical hearing that would be resoundingly condemned today.”
“This decision reaffirms that government scientists, whether renowned like Oppenheimer or a technician doing his or her daily job — including those willing to raise safety concerns or to express unpopular opinions on matters of national security — can do so freely and that their cases will be fairly reviewed based on facts, not personal animus or politics," Leahy said in a statement.
The decision comes as the story of Oppenheimer is headed to the big screen. Christopher Nolan's “Oppenheimer” film is expected to be released in theaters in July. It's based on Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” and stars Cillian Murphy in the title role. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Oppenheimer-wrongly-stripped-of-security-17661089.php | 2022-12-17 20:02:05 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Oppenheimer-wrongly-stripped-of-security-17661089.php |
Top programs make it easy for travelers to earn and redeem.
WASHINGTON, July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. News & World Report, publisher of Best Hotels, Best Cruise Lines and Best Vacations, today revealed the 2023-2024 Best Travel Rewards Programs for everyday travelers deciding on the best loyalty program to suit their travel needs.
With inflation causing higher airfare and hotel rates, rewards programs can make travel more affordable and accessible. U.S. News analyzed travel rewards programs in two categories: Best Hotel Rewards Programs and Best Airline Rewards Programs. The rankings consider highly coveted factors by travelers, including the ease of earning free flights or stays, property and flight availability, and additional benefits such as complimentary checked bags, discounted room rates and elite member perks.
The 2023-2024 rankings feature 15 hotel rewards programs and 10 airline rewards programs that provide travelers with diverse perks and ways to use and redeem points and miles:
- Wyndham Rewards moves into the No. 1 spot on the Best Hotel Rewards Programs ranking for 2023-2024 – a standout because loyalty program members only need to stay eight nights (on average) before earning enough points for a free night. Members have plenty of options on where to stay, thanks to Wyndham's 8,000-plus eligible properties that range from budget to upscale. Choice Privileges follows at No. 2, Marriott Bonvoy remains at No. 3, World of Hyatt is No. 4, and IHG One Rewards is No. 5.
- Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan holds on to the No. 1 spot for the ninth consecutive year in the Best Airline Rewards Programs ranking. The rewards program consistently outperforms others with its high earning power, and offers elite status members benefits like lounge access, upgrades and same-day confirmed flight changes. Maintaining their rank positions at No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, Delta SkyMiles and United MileagePlus excelled for their overall flight volume and availability, while also offering meaningful benefits to elite status members. American Airlines AAdvantage is No. 4 and JetBlue TrueBlue is No. 5.
"In a competitive market, frequent and leisure travelers will choose brands that provide memorable experiences that go beyond the standard stay or flight. A growing number of hotel reward programs have reintroduced experiences, tours and activities as additional ways to earn and use points," says Elizabeth Von Tersch, U.S. News' senior travel editor. "We also see that more programs are allowing elite status members to customize their benefits, so members can choose what's best for them. Ultimately, everyday travelers are looking to effortlessly earn points and use them for free flights or hotel stays. The programs that make this easy come out on top in our rankings."
U.S. News analyzed travel rewards programs in two categories, airline frequent flyer programs and hotel loyalty programs, using a comprehensive and transparent methodology that factors in membership benefits, network coverage, the ease of earning and redeeming points or miles, hotel property diversity and airline quality rating scores, with expert and editor analysis. This year, the methodology includes an additional tier for flights to provide credit to those airlines offering more choices to its members; and for hotel rewards, supplemental tiers were added for the number of hotels in the network category.
2023-2024 Best Travel Rewards Programs Rankings
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- Wyndham Rewards
- Choice Privileges
- Marriott Bonvoy
- World of Hyatt
- IHG One Rewards
- Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan
- Delta SkyMiles
- United MileagePlus
- American Airlines AAdvantage
- JetBlue TrueBlue
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Jarkel Joiner hit a jumper with 31 seconds left and Jack Clark added two free throws as North Carolina State held off Campbell 73-67 Friday night.
Joiner scored 11 points over the final 10 minutes, and after Anthony Dell'Orso's jumper pulled Campbell within two, 60-58, got to the basket for a pair of layups and hit his final jumper to help put the game away.
Terquavion Smith led the Wolfpack (2-0) with 19 points, adding six assists and three steals. Joiner finished with 17 points, six rebounds, three assists and two steals and Clark added 10 points and nine rebounds, converting 6 of 7 at the free throw line.
NC State shot 50% from the field (24 of 48), but was just 4 of 16 from beyond the 3-point arc. The Wolfpack shot 21 of 32 from the line.
Ricky Clemons scored 18 points and dished eight assists to lead the Camels (1-1). Jesus Carralero had 13 points with seven rebounds and six assists and Joshua Lusane added 11 points off the bench.
Campbell was 25 of 53 from the field (47.2%) and hit 55.6% from distance (10 of 18).
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NEW YORK, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ideanomics (Nasdaq: IDEX), a global company focused on accelerating the commercial adoption of electric vehicles (EV), today announced that a new vehicle assembly line at the Solectrac Windsor facility is fully operational, effectively tripling the production capacity of the e25 electric tractor. Ideanomics can now produce a total of 4,100 powerful, quiet and zero-emission Solectrac tractors annually.
"When Ideanomics acquired Solectrac, we committed to growing Solectrac's production capacity and product offerings," said Robin Mackie, Ideanomics Mobility president. "In less than one year, we efficiently increased production capacity by 300% and are now selling Solectrac tractors coast to coast across the United States through our rapidly expanding dealer showroom program. This is a remarkable accomplishment for any player in the EV space."
The Windsor facility assembly line features modern technology, enabling more efficient and safer operations. As the only company with electric tractor assembly facilities on the west and east coast of the U.S., Ideanomics and Solectrac are positioned to capture a greater share of the fast-growing market. Each facility is configured to assemble eight Solectrac tractors per day, with the ability to quickly ramp up assembly as needed.
In 2023, Ideanomics expects to commence assembly of the e70N tractor at the Windsor and Denton facilities, as well as introduce new models to the market. Solectrac's new range of tractors will incorporate advanced engineering and battery technology from Energica, modular and future-forward styling from Ideanomics Design as well as telematics and performance data from Ideanomics Digital.
Solectrac tractors assembled at the Windsor facility can feature an internet-connected telemetry device that collects data between tractors and customers to improve productivity, visibility, and maintenance. Customers can use a SolecSmart portal to remotely adjust their tractor's settings before starting work and view reports on their tractor's performance when the work is complete.
The combination of government incentives, volatile diesel fuel costs and corporate commitments to climate actions will accelerate the growth of electric machinery in the off-road market. For example, Solectrac recently supplied 17 e25 electric tractors to large customers in California. The California CORE program enabled these transactions to take place.
Recently, Solectrac introduced its SolecSave app, offering customers total cost of ownership data, environmental statistics and a way to find incentive programs in their locations.
Seventy-five people worked more than 10,000 hours to complete the facility expansion. During construction, Ideanomics' contracted with local vendors on everything from the installation of the assembly line to the new electric sign. Furthermore, the Windsor facility is powered by solar panels supplying an average of 80kWh daily.
Ideanomics is solving the complexity of fleet electrification by bringing together high-performance electric vehicles, charging infrastructure and financing solutions under one roof. The Company views Solectrac's electric tractors as a flagship solution for the fast-growing, high-value off-road vehicle market. Ideanomics expects revenue from Solectrac to double in 2023.
About Ideanomics
Ideanomics is a global group with a simple mission: accelerating the commercial adoption of electric vehicles. By bringing together vehicles, charging, and financing solutions under one roof, we are the one-stop partner needed to simplify the transition to and operation of any EV fleet. To keep up with Ideanomics, please follow the company on social @ideanomicshq or visit https://ideanomics.com.
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First-of-its-Kind Boxed Moonshine is the Latest Innovation from Piedmont Distillers' Portfolio of Award-Winning Brands
MADISON, N.C., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Midnight Moon, the small-batch moonshine brand handcrafted at North Carolina's first legal distillery, Piedmont Distillers, reveals their "Party in a Box" packaging innovation, with Watermelon, Lightning Lemonade, and Apple Pie flavors currently available in thirty states and counting.
Made to grab, sip and share, the portable 1.75L bag-in-boxes are equal to 2 ⅓ jars of the brand's original and iconic mason jar packaging. Full of triple-distilled, ultra-smooth tasting moonshine that's always handcrafted with all-natural ingredients, the lightweight and recyclable boxes have been a hit at this summer's beach trips, pool parties and backyard barbeques and are poised to be the hot item for apple-picking, tailgating and camping this fall.
Apple Pie Party in a Box is a mix of Midnight Moon moonshine and apple juice, naturally infused with a cinnamon stick. The 70-proof spirit tastes just like apple pie and works in both warm weather cocktails like the Apple Ale and cold weather classics, including Midnight Moon's twist on an Old Fashioned, spiced ciders and hot toddies.
Enjoyed neat or mixed simply with juice or club soda, Watermelon Party in a Box is a delicious blend of Midnight Moon's 100% corn moonshine recipe and watermelon that delivers a 70-proof spirit, guaranteed seedless, that tastes just like the last days of summer. Recommended cocktails include Watermelon Lemonade or a Watermelon Mojito.
Lightning Lemonade is also 70 proof and is a blend of Midnight Moon moonshine and lemonade that delivers a crisp, sweet and slightly tart taste that mixes well in tea-based cocktails while also working as a shot. Popular recipes include the Spiked Lightning Tea and Midnight Moon Lemon Ice.
Fans wanting to "get their shine on" while on the go can search for their nearest local retailer or order any of the Party in a Box flavors along with all Midnight Moon products and gear at the official online shop.
Introduced by North Carolina's first legal distillery in 2007, Midnight Moon has spent over a decade trailblazing the moonshine category by handcrafting authentic, all-natural spirits. Using 100% natural, 100% real ingredients, the brand likes to say, "We have spent the last 14 years handcrafting spirits before "craft" became cool." Midnight Moon is committed to preserving Southern moonshine traditions and celebrates the legacy of The Last American Hero – Junior Johnson.
Since opening its doors in 2005 as North Carolina's first legal distillery since Prohibition, Piedmont Distiller's passion has been handcrafting the best tasting, all-natural spirits. Piedmont's brands include Midnight Moon Moonshine, Catdaddy Spiced Moonshine, Method & Standard Craft Vodka, and The Clover Single-Barrel Whiskey Collection.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli archaeologists have found an ancient comb dating back some 3,700 years ago and bearing what is likely the oldest known full sentence in Canaanite alphabetical script, according to an article published Wednesday.
The inscription encourages people to comb their hair and beards to rid themselves of lice. The sentence contains 17 letters that read: “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.”
Experts say the discovery shines new light on some of humanity’s earliest use of the Canaanite alphabet, invented around 1800 B.C. and the foundation of all successive alphabetic systems, such as Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Latin and Cyrillic.
The mundane topic indicates that people had trouble with lice in everyday life during the time — and archaeologists say they have even found microscopic evidence of head lice on the comb.
The comb was first excavated in 2016 at Tel Lachish, an archaeological site in southern Israel, but it was only late last year when a professor at Israel’s Hebrew University noticed the tiny words inscribed on it. Details of the find were published Wednesday in an article in the Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology.
The lead researcher, Hebrew University archaeologist Yosef Garfinkel, told The Associated Press that while many artifacts bearing the Canaanite script have been found over the years, this is the first complete sentence to be discovered.
Garfinkel said previous findings of just a few letters, maybe a word here and there, did not leave much room for further research on the lives on the Canaanites. “We didn’t have enough material,” he said.
The find also opens up room for debate about the ancient era, Garfinkel added. The fact that the sentence was found on an ivory comb in the ancient city’s palace and temple district, coupled with the mention of the beard, could indicate that only wealthy men were able to read and write.
“It is a very human text,” Garfinkel said. “It shows us that people didn’t really change, and lice didn’t really change.”
Canaanites spoke an ancient Semitic language — related to modern Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic — and resided in the lands abutting the eastern Mediterranean. They are believed to have developed the first known alphabetic system of writing.
Finding a complete sentence would further indicate that Canaanites stood out among early civilizations in their use of the written word. “It shows that even in the most ancient phase there were full sentences” Garfinkel added.
He said experts dated the script to 1700 B.C. by comparing it to the archaic Canaanite alphabet previously found in Egypt’s Sinai desert, dating back to between 1900 B.C. and 1700 B.C.
But the Tel Lachish comb was found in a much later archaeological context, and carbon dating failed to determine its exact age, the article notes.
Austrian archaeologist Felix Höflmayer, an expert on the period who was not part of the publication, said this method of dating was not definitive.
“There are just not enough securely dated early alphabetic inscriptions currently known,” he said. Nonetheless, he added the discovery was highly significant and will help solidify Tel Lachish as a center of the early alphabet development.
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Which neck brace is best?
Neck braces can be worn for a variety of reasons, from small annoyances such as a sore neck to major health concerns such as spinal injuries. But choosing the wrong brace could worsen your condition, and there are other considerations, such as how they close around your neck.
The best neck brace is the Trusted Medical Solutions Cervical Neck Traction Device. The air pump lets you make minute adjustments for a perfect fit.
What to know before you buy a neck brace
Neck brace types
There are three types of neck braces.
- Cervical-thoracic braces are used to help heal neck and upper-back injuries. Chiefly made of plastic, they come in two pieces that extend down over your chest and upper back, then close with hook-and-loop straps to keep your neck secure.
- Rigid braces are also made of plastic and come in two pieces. But they only cover the neck, so they’re just for neck-related injuries.
- Soft cervical braces are basic low-cost braces made of foam and rubber. They help support the neck but don’t keep it as secure as cervical-thoracic and rigid braces, so they aren’t good for serious injuries.
Size and fit
A neck brace needs to fit perfectly to provide its benefits and avoid risking your injury becoming worse. The two measurements you need to know are your neck’s circumference and height. Once you have those, compare them to a brace’s sizing chart.
Neck braces typically have circumferences of 21 to 42 inches and heights of 2.4 to 4 inches.
Color
Neck braces come in a variety of colors such as white, tan and blue. Fashion is usually the last thing on someone’s mind when they have a neck or spine injury, but if you care, you can try finding an appropriate brace in a color you like.
What to look for in a quality neck brace
Inflation
Some neck braces can be inflated and deflated to finely adjust the amount of support and pressure placed on the neck. These are excellent for injuries that come and go with different severities, or for those who struggle to find comfortable braces.
Closure
Neck braces use a variety of closure types, some of which you may prefer over others. These can include hook-and-loops, hook-and-eyes, strings and straps.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval
The best neck braces have been examined and approved for use by the FDA. If your injury is mild, such as a simple sore neck, you can choose a non-FDA-approved brace over an approved one if it saves you money. Otherwise, stick to FDA-approved braces.
How much you can expect to spend on a neck brace
They can cost as little as $10 to as much as $100-plus. Basic braces shouldn’t cost more than $15, with better braces costing up to $30. The best braces for those who need to wear them for a long time start at around $50.
Neck brace FAQ
Can I wear a neck brace in the shower?
A. Many neck braces are safe to wear in the shower if you can’t or shouldn’t remove them. If yours isn’t, you can always have a caregiver safely remove your brace for just long enough to wrap it in plastic, then put it back on so you can shower.
How do I clean a neck brace?
A. You need to spot clean it by hand. Start by soaking a soft cloth in a mixture of warm water and soap, then wring out the excess water and gently wipe the brace’s surface clean. Don’t use any harsh cleaning chemicals — the next time you wear it, the fumes could harm you.
How long do I need to wear a neck brace?
A. That depends on what you’re treating. You could be in your brace for a few weeks, a few months, or off and on for the rest of your life. Speak to your doctor about what to expect.
How restricted are my movements when wearing a neck brace?
A. If you’re wearing it properly, you shouldn’t be able to turn your neck or move it in any other way. So there are many activities you shouldn’t engage in, such as driving and most forms of exercise. You should also avoid sitting anywhere an air bag could strike you and wrench your neck.
What’s the best neck brace to buy?
Top neck brace
Trusted Medical Solutions Cervical Neck Traction Device
What you need to know: This brace is highly adjustable and comes from a U.S. company.
What you’ll love: It uses hook-and-loop straps so you can make it as tight as it needs to be. The air pump can add or subtract small amounts of air at a time so you can put exactly as much pressure on your neck as needed.
What you should consider: A few consumers reported it smelling strange, though it eventually fades away. While the company is U.S.-based, the brace is made in China.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top neck brace for the money
Cozyhealth Soft Foam Neck Brace
What you need to know: This is the perfect budget brace for short-term and occasional use.
What you’ll love: It uses hook-and-loop straps to adjust the fit and has indentations to make the fit around your chin and clavicle more comfortable. There’s no latex and the cover is cotton for breathability. It comes in three sizes and in tan or black.
What you should consider: Some customers found the cotton cover a little rough on their skin. Others found the instructions lackluster.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This is among the most comfortable — and fashionable — braces.
What you’ll love: It’s available in three types. The comfort type prioritizes, well, comfort. The dual-use type includes a plastic plate to increase support. The enhanced type uses two layers of foam for extra softness and support. The types are spread among four sizes and three colors.
What you should consider: Some purchasers found none of the sizes would fit right. Others thought the plastic of the dual-use type too hard for comfort.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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The United States junior national volleyball team won the gold medal at the under-19 Pan American Cup on Saturday, and they did so with four future Huskers in the starting lineup.
The Americans swept Brazil 25-15, 25-14, 25-17 in the championship match. The U.S. squad finished the weeklong tournament in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with a 5-0 record and never lost a set.
Each of the four players with Nebraska ties started on Saturday — Husker freshman middle blocker Maggie Mendelson and Husker commits Harper Murray, Bergen Reilly and Andi Jackson.
Murray led Team USA on Saturday with 15 points on 13 kills and two blocks. She had the kill on match point on a back-row attack.
Mendelson, the U.S. captain, had 10 points with six kills, two blocks and two ace serves. Reilly, the setter, had a team-best three ace serves.
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The U.S. dominated Brazil in kills (41-17), blocks (10-9) and ace serves (9-1).
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Y&L's event is focused on helping business people understand what really motivates their customers.
INDIANAPOLIS, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Advertising agency Young & Laramore is hosting their second edition of their Unreasonable conference this Fall, inviting nationally and internationally respected psychologists, neuroscientists and experts in human behavior to talk about what actually motivates customers. The event will take place October 27th at Newfields in Indianapolis.
Creator of the event and Young & Laramore's President & CEO, Tom Denari, notes, "Too many marketing leaders and CEOs continue to cling to the misguided notion that their customers are mostly rational beings—and that their buying decisions are based more on reason than emotion. But, an abundance of research over the past 30 years or so has revealed that we all actually behave 'unreasonably,' often basing decisions on factors we're actually unaware of."
Seven highly recognized experts in behavioral psychology, neuroscience and marketing will be encouraging attendees to think differently about how we study behavior and market effectively to consumers. Notable speakers include Jonah Berger, author of Contagious, Invisible Influence and The Catalyst, and Paul Bloom, author of How Pleasure Works and The Sweet Spot. A full schedule of speakers and topics is available on the Unreasonable website, and online registration is now open.
About Young & Laramore
Located in a 19th century schoolhouse in Downtown Indianapolis, Young & Laramore is a nationally recognized advertising agency that reflects its building: they are, first and foremost, students of the consumer. Y&L is also proudly independent—believing the world has enough holding companies, thank you—answering to no one but its clients and its own compass. (Which one is tougher to please varies by the day.) Y&L believes the ideal creative partnership is just that, a true partnership. And it works best with brands who believe the same, along with sharing some of its other traits: nimble, scrappy, and with a healthy distrust of convention.
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SaaS Company Announces New CPO Amidst Rapid Growth
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SOCi Inc., the marketing platform for multi-location brands, has announced continued triple-digit revenue and employee growth as the company closes the books on the first half of 2022. In addition to realizing revenue growth of 120% compared to the first half of 2021, the SaaS organization cemented partnerships with notable brands across various industries, continued to release future-focused integrations and product optimizations, secured top business accolades, and bolstered its leadership team with a number of seasoned industry experts. In doing so, SOCi further solidified its position as the leading platform for enterprise level multi-location marketing.
Contributing to the immense growth of SOCi in 2022, the company has inked partnerships with some of the most recognizable multi-location brands in the U.S., including Ford Motor Company/FordDirect, Jersey Mike's, Rent-A-Center, Smashburger, and Taco John's. In total, 75 new multi-location brands made up of over 100,000 locations have joined the brand's customer portfolio since January 2022.
"SOCi works tirelessly to deliver innovative technologies and solutions for the complex needs of multi-location enterprises, and in so doing helps hundreds of thousands of local businesses and communities thrive and prosper," said Afif Khoury, CEO of SOCi. "It is more important than ever for national and global brands that transact locally to effectively reach and engage with their customers in a local and authentic way."
To meet the growing number of complex needs of multi-location marketers, SOCi rolled out several updates to its platform in the first half of 2022. The company launched a listings integration with Olo for restaurant brands to provide them with full funnel visibility and more robust consumer insight. Additionally, SOCi launched Google rankings visibility within SOCi Listings, which gives customers the ability to see how each of their specific locations ranks within Google at both the account and local level. To-date, there are over 300,000 Google Business Profiles managed within the SOCi platform.
Due to the company's unrelenting dedication to product innovation, growth, and its people, SOCi received several recognitions and awards including a spot on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies and Entrepreneur's Top Franchise Suppliers, each for the fifth year in a row. SOCi also earned G2's Best Software Awards for Marketing and Digital Advertising Products, was named one of Forbes' Best Startup Employers in America, secured a spot on the Inc. 5000 Regionals 2022: Pacific list, and was included on The Financial Times List of America's Fastest Growing Companies.
SOCi has grown its year-over-year headcount by 125% compared to the first half of 2021. Because of this, SOCi has welcomed Pam Perry as its chief people officer who will help the company invest further in the continuity of the culture and career paths of its employees. SOCi also welcomed two additional key members to the leadership and advisory team, including Shoaib Zahoori, who joined SOCi as the company's SVP of Strategy and Revenue Operations, and, Brandon Rhoten, who became a member of SOCi's Industry Advisory Board which focuses on continuing the company's verticalization efforts to deliver tailored solutions and localized strategy to the industries it serves.
To learn more about SOCi and how its growth will continue to support multi-location brands across verticals, visit www.meetsoci.com.
SOCi is the marketing platform for multi-location brands. We empower businesses like Ace Hardware, Sport Clips and Anytime Fitness to scale marketing efforts across all digital channels in a way that's brand directed, locally perfected, and data connected. As one central place to scale marketing, SOCi makes the impossible possible by enabling top brands and their locations to strengthen and scale their digital presence across limitless local search and social pages while protecting what matters most, their reputation. For more information on how SOCi can help fuel your localized marketing success, visit us at www.meetsoci.com or message us at hello@meetsoci.com.
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How fresh tax credits, rebates can launch eco home updates
If you've been holding off on home improvements, a new law signed last year and now in effect as of Jan. 1, 2023, may provide a fresh incentive.
The Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, includes tax credits and rebates for homeowners who make energy-saving updates to their homes. Credits for improvements like new solar panels, windows, doors and air conditioners are available now, while rebates for larger energy-efficient updates are expected to become available later this year or next year.
Here's what to know about these perks, plus tips to plan your projects.
TAX CREDITS FOR SMALLER UPDATES
The IRA includes tax credits for around-the-house eco-friendly updates. Eligible purchases include energy-efficient windows, doors, insulation, central air conditioners and home energy audits. An IRS fact sheet outlines eligible home improvements.
Tax credits reduce your tax liability for the year, says Los Angeles-based certified public accountant Michael DiBernardo. For example, a $500 credit lowers your taxes owed by $500.
The IRA allows homeowners a 30% tax credit for some energy-efficient updates, capped at $1,200 per year. There's also a $2,000 credit for heat pumps, heat pump water heaters and biomass stoves.
MAKE THE MOST OF IT: Combining projects — like new insulation and a heat pump — can get you up to $3,200, says Kara Saul Rinaldi, president and CEO of the energy and environmental strategy firm AnnDyl Policy Group and an advocate of policies that helped shape the IRA.
Keep receipts for each eligible update and add them to your tax forms, Saul Rinaldi says.
INCREASED CREDITS FOR SOLAR PANELS
The IRA also increased the credit for solar installations. Homeowners can get a tax credit for 30% of the cost to buy and install solar panels — up from the previous 26%. And there's no dollar limit. If you pay $15,000 to put solar panels on your house, you can claim a $4,500 tax credit.
Any unused credit carries to future years, so if you don't owe taxes this year, you can use it later.
MAKE THE MOST OF IT: The tax credit will reduce the cost of going solar, but if your goal is to lower your utility bill, first determine when you'll see savings. This often depends on how much you currently pay, says Duane Knickerbocker, owner of Brower Mechanical, a Sacramento -based company that helps homeowners optimize energy use.
The average payback period for solar panels is six to nine years, according to the Center for Sustainable Energy, a policy and research firm.
REBATES TO GENERATE BIG SAVINGS — EVENTUALLY
The "difference makers" in the IRA are two new rebates, Knickerbocker says. One program offers up to $8,000 for lowering the home's energy use and the other provides up to $14,000 for electrification updates like appliances and breaker box upgrades.
Unlike the credits, the rebates are designed to be offered at the point of sale.
Low- to moderate-income households — defined in the IRA as those with total annual incomes of less than 80% of their surrounding area's median — are eligible for larger rebates than those with higher incomes.
Even if you don't usually owe taxes and can't use the IRA credits, the rebates mean you can still get a discount on energy-efficient updates, Saul Rinaldi says.
MAKE THE MOST OF IT: It'll be months, at least, before homeowners can get the rebates.
In the meantime, consider a home energy audit to determine which projects to start once the rebates are available. Then work the savings into home improvement plans for this year and next, Saul Rinaldi says.
FINANCING ENERGY-EFFICIENT HOME UPDATES
The cost of some home improvements could diminish the IRA tax incentives. Here are ways to supplement financing for your project.
– OTHER ASSISTANCE. The North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center manages a database of state and local incentives that includes resources like solar installation rebates and low-interest loan programs.
– 0% INTEREST CREDIT CARD. A 0% annual percentage rate, or APR, credit card may be just as good as cash if you pay it off during the no-interest period, says Travis Gatzemeier, a certified financial planner based outside of Fort Worth, Texas. Good or excellent credit is usually required to qualify.
— HOME EQUITY. If you have equity, consider a home equity loan or line of credit to finance larger updates, like new solar panels. Rates are often lower than personal loans and credit cards, but your home is collateral for the loan.
– PERSONAL LOANS. Unsecured personal loans are a fast way to cover home updates and repairs: Some lenders provide funds the same or next day after approval.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) _ SiTime Corporation (SITM) on Wednesday reported second-quarter profit of $12.9 million.
The Santa Clara, California-based company said it had net income of 57 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense, came to $1.11 per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.01 per share.
The company posted revenue of $79.4 million in the period, also beating Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $77.1 million.
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Vandals destroy 76-year-old woman’s wheelchair ramp
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WCCB) – A grandmother in North Carolina is calling out the suspects who destroyed her wheelchair ramp at her home.
The 76-year-old woman, who did not want to be identified by name, told WCCB she relies on her wheelchair to get around after undergoing several surgeries.
She said she spends her days swinging in her chair, looking after her beloved dogs and minding her own business.
“I like where I’m at if people would just leave me alone,” she said.
Last week, she said her friend drove her to the store, and when she returned hours later, she found piles of debris scattered in her yard.
“I said, ’Oh my God, what happened to my deck?” she said.
It was remnants of her wheelchair ramp and deck. She quickly called police.
According to the incident report, detectives found her wheelchair ramp broken into two pieces and wooden boards broken in half. Officers also noticed tire tracks leading away from the ramp and a piece of a bumper from a truck.
The woman said she has lived there for more than 20 years and never had any problems until now. However, she says that she recently had “a problem” with one person, who she believes is the culprit.
“That’s who I really, in my heart, know that did this. But I can’t prove it, so my heart doesn’t do any good,” she said. “The thing is, they tried to hurt me, and it didn’t go their way.”
The vandalism caused about $5,000 worth of property damage. The woman hopes the person responsible will come forward.
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MIAMI, March 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) has scheduled a conference call with analysts for Monday, March 27, 2023, at 10 a.m. (EDT); 3 p.m. (BST) to provide a business update.
A simulcast of the call will be available via the company's websites at www.carnivalcorp.com and www.carnivalplc.com.
About Carnival Corporation & plc
Carnival Corporation & plc is the largest global cruise company, and among the largest leisure travel companies, with a portfolio of world-class cruise lines – AIDA Cruises, Carnival Cruise Line, Costa Cruises, Cunard, Holland America Line, P&O Cruises (Australia), P&O Cruises (UK), Princess Cruises, and Seabourn.
Additional information can be found on www.carnivalcorp.com, www.carnivalsustainability.com, www.aida.de, www.carnival.com, www.costacruise.com, www.cunard.com, www.hollandamerica.com, www.princess.com, www.pocruises.com.au, www.pocruises.com, and www.seabourn.com.
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DALLAS — Enjoy a day at the Dallas Zoo!
Saturday, November 12th
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9 AM – 5 PM
Come see the latest Dallas Zoo babies, feed giant giraffes, explore the award-winning Hippo Outpost, stroll through the Wilds of Africa, check out the Children's Zoo and more.
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(NEXSTAR) – Without a winner after Monday’s drawing, the Powerball jackpot has grown to an estimated $653 million. If a ticket matches all six winning numbers, seen below, they will have won the eighth-largest grand prize in the lottery game’s history.
The jackpot has been building since late November. Ahead of the drawing, lottery officials estimated the jackpot had a cash value of $350.5 million.
Here are the winning numbers for Wednesday, February 1: 31, 43, 58, 59, and 66, and Powerball 9. The Power Play was 2x.
If you didn’t win the jackpot, you may still have won some money.
Without a jackpot winner Wednesday, the jackpot could become the seventh-largest in the game’s history. The 10 largest jackpots in Powerball history are:
- $2.04 billion – Nov. 7, 2022; California
- $1.586 billion – Jan. 13, 2016; California, Florida, and Tennessee
- $768.4 million – March 27, 2019; Wisconsin
- $758.7 million – Aug. 23, 2017; Massachusetts
- $731.1 million – Jan. 20, 2021; Maryland
- $699.8 million – Oct. 4, 2021; California
- $687.8 million – Oct. 27, 2018; Iowa and New York
- Est. $653 million – Feb. 1, 2023
- $632.6 million – Jan. 5, 2022; California and Wisconsin
- $590.5 million – May 18, 2013; Florida
If the current jackpot were to surpass $687.8 million (it grew by $40 million since Monday’s drawing when the estimated jackpot was $613 million), it would become one of the largest lottery jackpots – Powerball or Mega Million – in U.S. history. There are a couple of factors that will impact just how fast a jackpot grows.
The most recent record-setting Powerball jackpot – worth $2.04 billion – was hit in early November. It currently holds the record as the largest national lottery jackpot in the world, according to Powerball officials. While we know the winning ticket was sold in California, it’s unclear if the ticketholder has claimed their prize.
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Additional promotions have also been announced
HOUSTON, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantix, North America's leading supply chain services company to the chemical industry, today announced it has promoted Alexandra (Alex) Buck to Group President, Export, Distribution Centers, Enhanced Services and 3PL Solutions.
Buck originally joined Quantix as Chief Strategy Officer focusing on growth strategy and key operational areas including safety, HR, legal, export start-up and communications. Notably, she oversaw the buildout of the company's first East Coast export facilities in Charleston and Savannah, totaling more than 1.6 million square feet.
Most recently, Buck served as President, 3PL Solutions at Quantix and spent the last year expanding the team and creating a culture of continuous improvement in order to deliver on customer needs and priorities.
"Prolonged challenging market conditions have led us to rethink how we can maximize our teams and meet the needs of our customers," said Quantix President and CEO, Chris Ball. "This leadership structure will allow for greater collaboration across these groups and position us best to win long-term. We are thrilled that Alex can provide a fresh set of eyes and work with her new managers on how to optimize our teams and provide excellent service to our customers."
Three additional promotions under Buck's direction have also gone into effect:
- Brandon Boyd has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Export Operations. Boyd is now responsible for all export duties on the East Coast and in Houston. He was previously Vice President, East Coast Export Packaging Operations. Prior to Quantix, Boyd worked for James Hardie and has over 12 years of operations leadership experience.
- Dustin Aaron has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Distribution Centers and In-Plant Services, overseeing all operations across these groups. He was previously Vice President, Commercial Warehousing & Packaging at Quantix. Aaron has been in the logistics space for over 16 years, largely serving in production planning and commercial account management.
- Steve Ebel has been promoted to Senior Vice President, 3PL Solutions. Ebel will lead the 3PL team, continuing to grow the business and manage division-related processes. He was previously Vice President, 3PL Operations. Prior to Quantix, Ebel worked in the chemical industry for more than 20 years, most recently at XPO and GXO Logistics.
Learn more at www.quantixscs.com.
Quantix is the leading supply chain services company to the chemical industry. It provides the world's largest chemical providers with end-to-end support through a nationwide network and comprehensive suite of services including transportation, 3PL solutions, distribution centers, export/import, in-plant and resin enhancement services, and Eco-Recovery. Headquartered in The Woodlands, TX with over 50 locations across the U.S., Quantix is committed to providing the highest level of safety, quality, compliance and integrity across its entire operation. Learn more at www.quantixscs.com.
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Kimitomo Muromoto received the French Legion of Honour at the NVC Memorial Hall from the Consul General of France in San Francisco.
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Healthy juice recipes for summer
As the temperatures rise and the sun lingers, you might crave something fresh and new to quench that thirst. Whether you’re lounging on a patio or taking a long, breezy bike ride, homemade summer juices are a great way to add some healthy variety to your palate.
The great thing about summer is the wide selection of mouth-watering, delicious fruits and veggies in season. It’s the time when they taste best and are widely available and often cheaper. Fruits and veggies are even more delicious when they come from your local farmer’s market. Plus, you can easily mix them with other produce for even more flavor combinations.
Use your imagination or give the recipes below a try using a juicer, blender or press. Each tasty concoction calls for at least one in-season ingredient.
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Easy juice recipes for summer
Watermelon-lime juice recipe
Watermelon comes with so many benefits, as it’s a natural antioxidant that promotes healthy skin and reduces inflammation.
To make this refreshing juice, cube 3 cups of seedless watermelon and add to the chamber of a juice press. It may be easier to use a watermelon slicer before cubing. To achieve the benefits of extra nutrients, include the skin. Grind a 1/5 lime and about 2 tablespoons of mint leaves (to taste), then press everything together.
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Strawberry-pear juice recipe with kiwi puree
This sweet, tasty and hydrating juice is an antioxidant and supports immunity.
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To start, quarter a ⅕ lemon and squeeze into your juice press. If you don’t have a press, use a peeler to remove the peel. Next, juice the lemon with everything else. With a blender or food processor, grind and press one medium pear, 10 strawberries and two slices of ginger. Pour into a glass or container and set aside.
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Since kiwi doesn’t juice too well, you’ll want to make it into puree instead. To do so, peel, seed and add it to the blender or food processor. Add a bit of the juice you just made to the kiwi and blend on low until mostly smooth. It’s essential to do this at a low speed so that the equipment’s heat doesn’t oxidize the juice, creating foam and separation. If you missed removing any seeds earlier, pour the kiwi puree over a fine sieve.
Pour into your juice mixture and enjoy!
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Apple lemonade recipe
This delicious apple lemonade packs some punch and offers a ton of health benefits, including assisting with inflammation, digestion and weight control, to name a few.
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Peel and quarter one medium lemon and add it to the chamber of a juice press. Cut the lemon in quarters and place it directly into the chamber. Finally, grind 2 ½ medium red apples and two slices of ginger, then press.
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Mango-lime juice recipe
For an amazingly refreshing treat on a hot summer’s day, this one’s your gem.
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Cut three mangos into chunks and place them in your blender. Add the juice from about 10 limes, ½ cup of honey (to taste), 2 cups of still or sparkling water and a handful of ice cubes. Blend until smooth and strain if needed. Mix in an additional 2 cups of water. Serve over ice and garnish with fresh mint and lemon or lime.
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If you have guests over, you can even stretch this recipe further by adding more water. Alternatively, give it a cocktail twist with gin, vodka, rum or tequila. If you’re a margarita fan, this salt mix is perfect!
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Best summer vegetable juice
Carrot-beet juice recipe
Get your C and K vitamins and beta-carotene in with this beautiful, deep, red juice, making it a great drink to support skin health and night vision.
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Using a juicer, juice two trimmed and scrubbed beets, three carrots and one cored Granny Smith apple (include the peels on for more nutrients). Throw in 1 tablespoon of chia seeds for some extra fiber, protein and nutrients, and let them soak for five minutes.
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Celery-cucumber juice recipe
It’s fair to say that celery juice, on its own, isn’t everyone’s taste. The good news is this low-sugar recipe combines cucumber, apple and ginger for a lovely summer treat.
Breville Juice Fountain Cold Plus Juicer
In your juicer, put one bunch of celery stalks and ½ cucumber through on low. Add one large green apple, ½ lemon and approximately 1 inch of ginger, and switch the juicer to its high setting.
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Homemade V8 recipe
V8 is a classic with its salty, seasoned taste that many people savor, but the downside is it’s highly processed. There’s an easy fix, though, since you can create your version in a snap! This cold-pressed recipe comes with plenty of vitamins and minerals, increases energy and offers numerous health benefits.
Omega Cold Press Machine Vegetable
Cut off the tops of 1 ½ medium carrots and one red beet. Cut a slice of beet about 1 inch in diameter. In your juicer, add the carrots and beet slice (with skin on for more nutrients) along with two tomatoes, one medium celery stalk, ½ cup of shredded romaine lettuce, ½ cup of spinach, ¼ cup of chopped parsley, a ⅕ cup of watercress and half a garlic clove.
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Next, chill the juice in the fridge or freezer for maximum enjoyment.
Boston Spice Bloody Rebellion Beverage Seasoning Mix
To spice things up a bit, you could even use this as a base for a bloody Mary cocktail by simply adding some vodka and seasoning.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LendingTree, Inc. (NASDAQ: TREE), operator of LendingTree.com, the nation's leading online financial services marketplace, today announced that it will participate in the Stephens Annual Investment Conference taking place at the Grand Hyatt Nashville on November 15-17, 2021.
Trent Ziegler, Chief Financial Officer at LendingTree, and Andrew Wessel, Vice President of Investor Relations, are scheduled to participate in a fireside chat on Wednesday, November 16 at 9:00 a.m. ET and will participate in one-on-one meetings throughout the day. The fireside chat will be webcast live and archived on the Company's website at investors.lendingtree.com.
About LendingTree, Inc.
LendingTree (NASDAQ: TREE) is the nation's leading online marketplace that connects consumers with the choices they need to be confident in their financial decisions. LendingTree empowers consumers to shop for financial services the same way they would shop for airline tickets or hotel stays, by comparing multiple offers from a nationwide network of over 500 partners in one simple search and choosing the option that best fits their financial needs. Services include mortgage loans, mortgage refinances, auto loans, personal loans, business loans, student refinances, credit cards, insurance and more. Through the My LendingTree platform, consumers receive free credit scores, credit monitoring and recommendations to improve credit health. My LendingTree proactively compares consumers' credit accounts against offers on our network and notifies consumers when there is an opportunity to save money. In short, LendingTree's purpose is to help simplify financial decisions for life's meaningful moments through choice, education and support.
LendingTree, Inc. is headquartered in Charlotte, NC. For more information, please visit www.lendingtree.com.
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America's favorite spreadable cheese brand is setting out to prove that no matter the occasion, "There's a Cheese for That" this fall
CHICAGO, Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This fall, Kaukauna® is setting out to prove that no matter the occasion, "There's a Cheese for That." As America's #1 manufacturer of cheese balls, Kaukauna is unveiling modernized packaging as well as a new clean recipe for its iconic cheese balls and logs reformulated with premium aged cheese that delivers the same great taste fans love.
This creamy, spreadable Midwestern staple is now available in a convenient 6-ounce size to make it easier to sample and share multiple flavors as part of your favorite cheese board, paired perfectly with every fall occasion. Sitting on the porch with friends? Check out Rosé White Cheddar. The perfect pair for leaf peeping? Turn to Sharp Cheddar. And don't miss out on Port Wine while hanging around the bonfire under a cozy plaid blanket.
"For more than 100 years, Kaukauna has been a casual entertaining staple that friends and families everywhere can rely on," said Michael Averbook, Brand Manager of Kaukauna. "As a brand with deep Midwestern roots, we know fall is the perfect time for casual entertaining and are excited for our fans to pair our new clean recipes with their favorite fall occasions."
All season long, Kaukauna will be sharing easy entertaining inspiration through a new social-led brand campaign, "Shauna from Kaukauna." Shauna is a fictional super fan who lives and breathes cheese and embodies Midwestern charm. Fans can expect to laugh at the short-form Instagram skits brought to life by Taylor Wolfe (@thedailytay), who will give fans – especially those who are in a hot climate and missin' fall – a one-of-a-kind look at fall in the Midwest with Kaukauna.
Kaukauna's clean recipe is made with no artificial flavors, no artificial growth hormones, is non-GMO, and is now available at major retailers nationwide including Walmart, Albertsons, Kroger and Publix for a suggested retail price starting at $4.49. The new formula made in Little Chute, Wisconsin can be found in seven varieties, so there truly is a Kaukauna cheese for every fall occasion. Flavors include:
- Port Wine Cheese Ball & Log
- Sharp Cheddar Cheese Ball & Log
- Rosé White Cheddar Cheese Ball
- Smoky Cheddar Cheese Ball
- White Cheddar Cheese Ball
- Double Sharp Cheese Log
- Sharp & Swiss Cheese Log
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Share your Kaukauna appetizers & charcuterie creations with us on Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook @KaukaunaCheese using #Kaukauna, and check out Shauna from Kaukauna's videos at #ShaunaFromKaukauna.
About Kaukauna:
The Kaukauna® Cheese Company was founded in 1918 by Hubert Fassbender as a dairy product distribution company. Today, Kaukauna is manufactured by Bel Brands USA Inc., a subsidiary of Bel Group, and has become the undisputed market leader of cheese balls. Bel Brands USA strives to promote healthier, responsible and accessible food for all consumers worldwide. Bel is a major player in the healthy fruit and dairy single-serving portion snacking, as well as a producer of entertaining and plant-based cheese options to meet a range of consumer needs. Bel produces more than thirty local and international brands that are sold in more than 130 countries around the globe. In addition to Kaukauna, other beloved USA brands include Boursin®, The Laughing Cow®, Nurishh® and popular cheese spreads marketing under Merkts® and Price*s® labels. Bel Brands USA delivers fun snacks to over 400 million consumers globally. For more information, please visit www.kaukaunacheese.com.
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More than 100 Coachella shuttle drivers sick from food poisoning
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) - An investigation continues after more than 100 Coachella shuttle drivers fell ill due to food poisoning.
At least 46 of them were assessed in local hospitals.
“Some of those people who didn’t go to the hospital apparently didn’t feel they needed to, but they probably sought their own medical attention. We want to, we would like to speak to them as well, not just those that were hospitalized,” Riverside County Health spokesperson Jose Arballo said.
Officials say it happened at an off-site dinner for the transportation employees Sunday night.
The exact source of the food poisoning is being investigated however, the county confirmed a pasta dish and pre-packaged salad tossed with other ingredients were served to the drivers.
“We did do some inspections of the facilities when food was served beforehand. As far as I know, everything went well there,” Arballo said.
Officials are actively working with other jurisdictions to speak with as many people as possible with hopes to pinpoint the source.
“Be able to test the food, you know, and without getting too many details, when people get stomach cramps and have diarrhea, that, you know, that would also provide some, if we could get samples there,” Arballo said.
This means that the county will conduct hundred of interviews to narrow down the cause.
Arballo says they are getting a list of all employees and with that information as well as medical records, they will be able to reach many who were at the dinner.
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War in Ukraine at 1 year: Pain, resilience in global economy
By PAUL WISEMAN and DAVID McHUGH
AP Business Writers
An Egyptian widow is struggling to afford meat and eggs for her five children. An exasperated German laundry owner watches as his energy bill jumps fivefold. Nigerian bakeries have shut their doors, unable to afford the exorbitant price of flour.
One year after Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, and caused widespread suffering, the global economy is still enduring the consequences — crunched supplies of grain, fertilizer and energy along with more inflation and economic uncertainty in a world that was already contending with too much of both.
As dismal as the war’s impact has been, there’s one consolation: It could have been worse. Companies and countries in the developed world have proved surprisingly resilient, so far avoiding the worst-case scenario of painful recession.
But in emerging economies, the pain has been more intense.
In Egypt, where nearly a third of the population lives in poverty, Halima Rabie has struggled for years to feed her five school-age children. Now, the 47-year-old widow has cut back on even the most basic groceries as prices keep rising.
“It’s become unbearable,” Rabie said, heading to her job as a cleaner at a state-run hospital in Cairo’s twin city of Giza. “Meat and eggs have become a luxury.”
In the United States and other wealthy countries, a painful surge in consumer prices, fueled in part by the war’s effect on oil prices, has steadily eased. It’s buoyed hopes that U.S. Federal Reserve inflation fighters will relent on interest rate increases that have threatened to tip the world’s biggest economy into recession and sent other currencies tumbling against the dollar.
China also dropped draconian zero-COVID lockdowns late last year that hobbled growth in the second-largest economy.
Some good fortune has helped, too: A warmer-than-usual winter has helped lower natural gas prices and limit the damage from an energy crisis after Russia largely cut off gas to Europe. Still, oil and gas prices were high enough to cushion the impact on the energy-exporting Russian economy from the international sanctions imposed after President Vladimir Putin’s invasion.
The war “is a human catastrophe,’’ said Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “But its impact on the world economy is a passing shock.’’
Still, in ways big and small, the war is causing pain. In Europe, for example, natural gas prices are still three times what they were before Russia started massing troops on Ukraine’s border.
Sven Paar, who runs a commercial laundry in Walduern, southwest Germany, is facing a gas bill this year of about 165,000 euros ($176,000) — up from 30,000 euros ($32,000) last year — to run 12 heavy-duty machines that can wash 8 tons of laundry a day.
“We have passed the prices on, one to one, to our customers,” Paar said.
So far, he has been able to keep his customers after showing them the energy bills that accompany the price increases.
“Fingers crossed, it’s working so far,” he said. “At the same time, the customers groan, and they have to pass the costs on to their own customers.”
While he’s kept his steady customers, they’re offering less business. Restaurants with fewer customers need fewer tablecloths washed. Several hotels closed in February rather than pay heating costs during their slow season, meaning fewer hotel sheets to clean.
Punishingly high food prices are inflicting particular hardship on the poor. The war has disrupted wheat, barley and cooking oil from Ukraine and Russia, major global suppliers for Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia where many struggle with food insecurity. Russia also was the top supplier of fertilizer.
While a U.N.-brokered deal has allowed some food shipments from the Black Sea region, it’s up for renewal next month.
In Egypt, the world’s No. 1 wheat importer, Rabie took a second job at a private clinic in July but still struggles to keep up with rising prices. She earns less than $170 a month.
Rabie said she cooks meat once a month and has resorted to cheaper byproducts to ensure her children get protein. But even those are becoming harder to find.
The government urged Egyptians to try chicken feet and wings as an alternative source of protein — a suggestion met with scorn on social media but that also led to a spike in demand.
“Even the feet have become expensive,” Rabie said.
In Nigeria, a top importer of Russian wheat, average food prices skyrocketed 37% last year. Bread prices have doubled in some places amid wheat shortages.
“People have huge decisions to make,” said Alexander Verhes, who runs Life Flour Mill Limited in the southern Delta state. “What food do they buy? Do they spend it on food? Schooling? Medication?”
At least 40% of bakeries in the Nigerian capital of Abuja shut down after the price of flour jumped about 200%.
“The ones still in the business are doing so at breaking point with no profits,” said Mansur Umar, chairman of the bakers’ association. “A lot of people have stopped eating bread. They have gone for alternatives because of the cost.’’
In Spain, the government is spending 300 million euros ($320 million) to help farmers acquire fertilizer, the price of which has doubled since the war in Ukraine.
“Fertilizer is vital because the land needs food,’’ said Jose Sanchez, a farmer in the village of Anchuelo, east of Madrid. “If the land does not have food, then the crops do not grow up.”
It all means a slowing global economy. The International Monetary Fund dropped growth expectations this year and in 2022 that equates to about $1 trillion in lost production. Europe’s economy, for example, “is still experiencing significant headwinds” despite a drop in energy prices and is at risk of falling into recessio n, said Nathan Sheets, global chief economist at banking giant Citi.
The IMF says consumer prices jumped 7.3% in the wealthiest countries last year — above its January 2022 forecast of 3.9% — and 9.9% in poorer ones, up from 5.9% expected pre-invasion.
In the U.S., such inflation has forced businesses to be nimble.
Stacy Elmore, co-founder of The Luxury Pergola in Noblesville, Indiana, said the cost of providing health insurance for eight workers has spiked 39% over the past year — to $10,000 a month. Amid a labor shortage, she also had to raise hourly wages for her top installer from $24 to $30 an hour.
Inflation-whipped consumers began to balk at paying $22,500 for a 10-by-16-foot louvered pergola — kind of a gazebo without walls — that was sold through dealers. Sales sank last year. So Elmore pivoted to do-it-yourself models, selling directly to shoppers at a sharply reduced price of $12,580.
“With inflation so high, we’ve worked to broaden the appeal of our products and make them easier for the average person to acquire,” Elmore said.
In the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, many street vendors know they can’t pass along surging food prices to their already struggling customers. So some are skimping on portions instead, a practice known as “shrinkflation.’’
“One kilogram of rice was for eight portions … but now we made it 10 portions,” said Mukroni, 52, who runs a food stall and like many Indonesians goes by only one name. Customers, he said, “will not come to the shop” if prices are too high.
“We hope for peace,” he said, “because, after all, no one will win or lose, because everyone will be a victim.’’
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Wiseman reported from Washington and McHugh from Frankfurt, Germany. AP journalists Samy Magdy in Cairo; Chinedu Asadu in Abuja, Nigeria; Anne D’Innocenzio in New York; Iain Sullivan in Anchuelo, Spain; and Edna Tarigan in Jakarta, Indonesia, contributed. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/02/15/war-in-ukraine-at-1-year-pain-resilience-in-global-economy/ | 2023-02-15 08:46:41 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/02/15/war-in-ukraine-at-1-year-pain-resilience-in-global-economy/ |
Go Baby Go gives child with special needs his own set of wheels
CLINTONVILLE, Wis. (WBAY/Gray News) - A Wisconsin child with special needs received a battery-powered car designed specifically for him on Friday, WBAY reports.
A collaboration between Children’s Wisconsin and Fox Valley Technical College is helping local children with special needs have more mobility, and it is all part of the nationwide program, Go Baby Go.
Nineteenth-month-old Myles Hill is the owner of a new child-sized Lamborghini made just for him.
Go Baby Go puts together specially fitted electric ride-on cars for children with special needs.
Myles’s mom Lisa Hill says that his brothers were concerned about getting to do some things with Myles, like riding a bike, when they found out he had Down syndrome.
“They were worried they wouldn’t be able to do some of those things, so this is amazing. They get to teach him how to use this, and he gets to go along on our bike rides and our walks, and gives Myles a little more freedom, too, so they can see that he’s just like every other kid,” Hill said.
After months of fittings and modifications, Myles finally took his Lamborghini out for a spin.
“It was making sure he was in the right age, the right size to get into the car, too. It’s been honestly amazing because Children’s has helped along the way with every step,” Hill said.
Thanks to donors and the hard work of engineering students at Fox Valley Technical College, the child-sized cars are free for families.
“I might as well use my knowledge to help other people,” Arlos Luna, a member of the FVTC Automation and Electronics Club, said. “We can start with something as basic as [modifying] a car, but those kids will appreciate it.”
Myles is catching on fast and celebrating some new milestones.
“We’ve been practicing with a little button. A friend made us a little button to practice with,” Hill said. “As you saw, he would keep pushing, pushing pushing, but not holding it, and then to see in a short period of time that he understands, ‘I push it and I go,’ so those little steps are huge steps for us.”
Those huge steps are helping Myles gain more mobility, independence and confidence, allowing him to just be a kid and have fun with his big brothers.
“I’m pretty sure his two older brothers are going to take him out for a spin,” Hill said.
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Amazon Workers in Palmdale, Calif., First in the Nation to Organize
WASHINGTON, April 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In a historic first, Amazon drivers and dispatchers in Palmdale, Calif., have joined the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and reached a strong tentative agreement containing a multitude of workplace improvements.
"Amazon workers are joining the Teamsters to demand more from this company, including good wages, safe working conditions, and respect," said Randy Korgan, Teamsters Amazon Division Director and Teamsters Joint Council 42 Director of Organizing. "The Teamsters are coordinating nationwide with Amazon workers, allies committed to holding this corporation accountable, and our union's 1.2 million members to make sure Amazon provides the benefits and protections that working people deserve."
"Amazon delivery drivers at DAX8 have made history by organizing their union with Teamsters Local 396 to demand dignity and respect at work," said Victor Mineros, Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 396. "I commend these workers for their courage to take on this greedy multibillion-dollar corporation. We are confident this will lead other Amazon workers nationwide to organize with the Teamsters."
The 84 workers won neutrality and voluntary union recognition to join Local 396 in Los Angeles. Local 396 and Joint Council 42 negotiated a tentative agreement with Amazon's Delivery Service Partner (DSP), Battle-Tested Strategies, on behalf of the new members.
The agreement, which will be voted on by the members in the coming weeks, includes immediate pay increases, substantial hourly raises in the fall, provisions that hold Amazon accountable on health and safety standards, a grievance procedure, and other benefits. Full details of the agreement will be available upon ratification by the members.
Amazon workers marched on Amazon in Palmdale on April 24 to call on the company to respect their right to a union and work with their DSP to honor the conditions of the agreement.
"We want fair pay and safe jobs, to be able to provide food for our families. We want to know we will make it home to our families at night after delivering Amazon packages in the extreme heat," said Rajpal Singh, an Amazon driver in Palmdale. "We organized with the Teamsters to change our working conditions for the better."
Singh and his coworkers have been calling on Amazon to provide a livable wage and reliable work environment, particularly concerning extreme heat conditions. The workers collectively petitioned Amazon on their demands for a safe workplace during the pandemic.
"We deliver in an Amazon van, wearing an Amazon uniform, but when we petition Amazon, they ignore us. We have a mass of support, we are a union, and now they need to listen," Singh said.
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.2 million hardworking people in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Visit Teamster.org for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and "like" us on Facebook at Facebook.com/teamsters.
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Police: Man fatally mauled by pit bulls inside Detroit building
DETROIT (AP) - A 58-year-old man whose body was found in a Detroit building apparently was attacked and killed by pit bull dogs, police said.
The victim was found Tuesday afternoon about 45 minutes after the attack, Detroit police Cpl. Dan Donakowski said.
Investigators found evidence the man was attacked by at least two pit bulls, Donakowski said.
Detectives believe the victim may have gone into the building to help the dogs and was attacked by them, Donakowski said.
The dogs were captured by the city’s Animal Care and Control Division. It was unclear what will happen to them.
Investigation by animal control officers revealed the building was under renovation and that the pit bulls were owned, licensed, vaccinated and secured by the property owner, said John Roach, a Detroit city spokesman.
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Study finds brain abnormality that could be linked to sudden infant death syndrome
(CNN) - Sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, is the leading cause of death for babies in their first year of life and the cause has been a mystery.
Most of the time it happens when the baby is asleep.
Scientists looked into one theory for the cause of SIDS, which is a disruption of breathing.
A team studied 58 babies who had died of SIDS and compared them to a control group of a dozen babies whose causes of death were unknown.
They found an abnormality in the brain receptor of the SIDS babies.
The receptor is involved in the body’s protective response to low oxygen, causing us to awaken and gasp for air.
An abnormality could interfere with that kick-start breathing process.
The finding suggested that a larger group of SIDS cases may be related to this brain receptor abnormality.
The study was published in the Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology.
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A month after 11 bald eagles were found sick from suspected poisoning in Inver Grove Heights, officials are starting to release the rehabilitated birds back to the wild.
Officials from the University of Minnesota Raptor Center on Friday released six of the eagles at the Carpenter Nature Center near Afton. A seventh eagle was released last week at the nature center on the St. Croix River.
Raptor Center officials have been caring for the eagles since they were brought to the center in early December with suspected poisoning from the same agent, pentobarbital, used in euthanasia solutions. Eagles can get secondary poisoning if they scavenge the carcass of an animal that was chemically euthanized.
Of the 11 poisoned eagles, three also were suffering from severe lead poisoning, a common affliction in birds of prey. Those three are still being treated, but doctors are optimistic on their prognosis, said Jennifer Vieth, Carpenter’s executive director.
One of the eagles, which also was infected with the avian flu, has died, she said.
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Poles mark 1944 uprising against Nazis; compare to Ukraine
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poles are marking the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, a doomed revolt against Nazi German forces during World War II. Some made comparisons between the wartime Polish resistance to that of Ukrainians under attack by Russia today. People in Warsaw observed a minute of silence Monday as a siren wailed at 5 p.m. to honor those who fought and died in the 1944 struggle that lasted 63 days and ended tragically for the Poles. President Andrzej Duda visited an exhibition titled “Warsaw-Mariupol — cities of ruins, cities of struggle, cities of hope.” He recalled how the “Germans ruthlessly murdered civilians in the capital,” adding that “the Russian aggression against Ukraine is similarly ruthless today.” | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/08/01/poles-mark-1944-uprising-against-nazis-compare-to-ukraine/ | 2022-08-01 19:21:21 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/08/01/poles-mark-1944-uprising-against-nazis-compare-to-ukraine/ |
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Three-Midday" game were:
7-4-0, Fireball: 8
(seven, four, zero; Fireball: eight)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Three-Midday" game were:
7-4-0, Fireball: 8
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A Tarrant County judge on Friday dismissed the lawsuit filed by a group of Carmelite nuns against Fort Worth Bishop Michael F. Olson after accusing the bishop of illegally accessing electronic communications.
In doing so, Judge Don Cosby agreed with the bishop's lawyers that the underlying issue was a church matter and not a legal matter.
Olson had accused the head nun, the Rev. Mother Teresa Gerlach of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Arlington, of breaking her vow of chastity by having a relationship with a priest outside the diocese. He dismissed her for the alleged wrongdoing June 1.
The nuns argued the bishop illegally seized Gerlach's phone and electronics on April 24 to find information related to the alleged affair.
Cosby heard arguments from each sides' attorneys in the case Tuesday. While Olson took the stand, his lawyers played an audio recording of an April meeting between Olson, Gerlach and other nuns.
In it, Gerlach allegedly admitted to a consensual affair with a Montana priest from the Transalpine Redemptorist.
"Bishop, at the time, I was having seizures, and I was in a very difficult position, and I think my brain just got really messed up," Gerlach says in the recording.
"I see," Olson says. "Well, I understand it even more so then why you shouldn't be prioress, right?"
Olson also said in his testimony that Gerlach's caretaker, Sister Francis Therese, told him the phone relationship involved "sexting."
Matthew Bobo, the nuns' attorney, released a statement Friday in response to the judge's ruling:
"This decision indicates that anyone who goes into a Catholic Church in Texas can be required to turn over his mobile device, the Church can make a copy of all of its contents, keep them for an indefinite period of time, trounce private citizens’ constitutionally-protected civil liberties, and that the Catholic Church may do all of this without any practical justification whatsoever," the statement reads.
The nuns also sued Olson for defamation after he publicly accused them of possessing marijuana paraphernalia.
Because Olson's lawyers argued the drug use investigation was also a church matter, that accusation was dismissed.
The Arlington Police Department also announced Friday it had closed its criminal investigation into the allegations. The department said it consulted with the Tarrant County district attorney and determined there was no probable cause to file criminal charges against either the bishop or the nuns.
"We are grateful for Judge Cosby’s ruling today in dismissing the nuns’ lawsuit," Bishop Olson wrote in a statement Friday. "The decision vindicates our steadfast belief that this is a private Church matter that does not belong in the courts. This matter will continue to proceed through an established canonical process."
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PHOENIX — Two people are dead and another person is hurt after a shooting early Saturday morning in north Phoenix.
Phoenix police say it happened around 3:15 a.m. near I-17 and Bell Road.
When officers arrived, they found three victims at the scene.
Two of the victims, a man and a woman, were pronounced dead at the scene.
The third victim, another woman, was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police detained a man in the area that they believe may have been involved in the shooting.
Police do not yet know how this man may have been involved.
What led up to the shooting remains under investigation.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — CSX and CPKC railroads announced a deal Wednesday that will allow them to beef up a little-used connection between their two networks in the southeastern United States to handle a significant amount of freight.
The deal involves a section of track linking the two massive railroads that is currently used only for local traffic. This could one day turn it into a major pipeline for all kinds of cargo.
CPKC CEO Keith Creel said the two larger railroads plan to invest in upgrades to the rail line, so it can handle more traffic and provide a shorter path between manufacturing plants his railroad serves in Mexico and the Southeast. Currently, trains crossing this section of track operated by a subsidiary of Genesee &Wyoming run only at 10-25 mph.
CSX CEO Joe Hinrichs said this deal “provides shippers with a compelling transportation option with access to markets in Texas and Mexico as well as into the heart of the thriving and dynamic U.S. Southeast.”
This new connection between CPKC and CSX will provide a new competitive option with the connection CPKC has with Norfolk Southern at Meridian, Mississippi.
As part of the deal, CPKC will acquire about 50 miles of track between Meridian, Mississippi, and Myrtlewood, Alabama, if regulators approve. CSX will take over the line it currently leases to the Meridian & Bigbee Railroad that runs east to Montgomery, Alabama.
Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed but the railroads said Genesee & Wyoming will receive certain Canadian properties owned by CPKC as compensation that will allow it to expand service in Alberta at one of its other small railroads. And the Meridian & Bigbee Railroad that had been operating the line in Alabama and Mississippi will be allowed to continue providing service to some of its local customers along the route.
In addition to announcing this deal, CPKC officials told investors that they expect the newly combined railroad’s earnings per share to grow this year at a mid-single digit rate over last year’s $3.77.
The railroad expects revenue to grow by high single-digit rates and earnings per share at a double-digit rate between next year and 2028 as the company continues to integrate Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern railroads after this spring’s merger.
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PITTSFORD, N.Y., June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On the cusp of its 75th anniversary, St. John Fisher College will become in name what it has been in practice for more than a decade, and transition to become St. John Fisher University (SJF). The new name will be effective July 1. President Gerard J. Rooney, joined by Board of Trustees Chairman Tom Bowles '71, revealed Fisher's new status and logo during a celebratory event held on Monday, June 20, which also marked the 73rd anniversary of the institution's groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of Kearney Hall, Fisher's original building.
Fisher's decision follows New York State Board of Regents' new definition of "university," which requires institutions of higher education to offer "registered undergraduate and graduate curricula in the liberal arts and sciences, including graduate programs registered in at least three of the following discipline areas: agriculture, biological sciences, business, education, engineering, fine arts, health professions, humanities, physical sciences, and social sciences." The Board of Regents approved Fisher's university status during its meeting on Tuesday, June 14.
"Fisher's university status adds to our rich history of institutional achievements and accomplishments. It will convey greater prestige, allow us to build our reputation and impact, and better represent the type of institution we are today," Rooney said.
He added that fundamentally, Fisher will remain committed to delivering a student-centered education while serving the best interests of the surrounding community, making an impact locally, and as its reputation increases, throughout the country and the world.
"As we look to our seventy-fifth anniversary in 2023 as St. John Fisher University, we will continue to work hard each day to serve our students by providing a rich educational experience and a robust living and learning environment, and to prepare students to build successful lives of purpose," Rooney continued. "And as we become a University – we will continue to strive to move Fisher forward, renew our purpose, and broaden our impact."
Fisher's evolution was bolstered with the introduction of a new MBA program in 1983; leading the Board of Regents to approve the College's charter change from an undergraduate to graduate degree-granting institution. Over the next several decades, Fisher enjoyed consistent enrollment growth as it expanded its academic offerings, co-curricular experiences, and campus footprint. In the early 2000s, Fisher reorganized into five Schools: the School of Arts and Sciences, School of Business, Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. School of Education, Wegmans School of Nursing, and Wegmans School of Pharmacy. During that time, Fisher also added two doctoral programs—the Doctor of Pharmacy and the Doctor of Education in Executive Leadership—to its academic portfolio, paving the way for the Carnegie Foundation to reclassify it as a Doctoral/Research University—now known as a Doctoral/Professional University. Since then, Fisher has awarded more than 3,400 master's degrees and nearly 1,600 doctorate degrees to its alumni base, which is more than 30,000 strong.
Bowles, who has served as a Trustee since 1993, credited innovative academic offerings, directed philanthropy, and talented administration, faculty, and staff with Fisher's substantial growth over the years.
"Fisher has always embraced the student experience; we have stayed true to our mission and purpose and that has allowed us to be successful," Bowles explained. "This is a momentous occasion; university designation is a recognition of all we have accomplished over the last several decades."
Rochester Mayor Malik Evans joined the Fisher community for this morning's historic announcement.
"I am very honored and pleased to congratulate the administration, faculty, staff, students and alumni of St. John Fisher for this remarkable achievement of gaining university status," said Mayor Malik D. Evans. "Fisher's continued evolution from a small Catholic college with 10 teachers and 11 majors to a university that is advancing the progress of teaching and learning through groundbreaking research is a proud moment for our entire community. The presence of another university in our region will elevate our reputation as a center of knowledge and innovation and help us reach our goals to create a safe, equitable and prosperous Rochester."
United States Congressman Joe Morelle, who represents the 25th district of New York State, sent a proclamation recognizing the occasion.
"Monroe County is blessed to be home to many outstanding educational institutions like St. John Fisher, which has a longstanding history of academic excellence," said Congressman Morelle. "Now, they will build upon that legacy and begin a new era as St. John Fisher University. I want to congratulate President Rooney and the entire St. John Fisher community for achieving University status, and I look forward to their continued growth and success in the years to come."
For more information, visit the Fisher website.
About St. John Fisher University
St. John Fisher University is a liberal arts institution that provides a transformative education to approximately 3,800 undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students each year. Across its five Schools, Fisher offers nearly 40 majors in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, business, education, and nursing; 11 pre-professional programs; and master's and doctoral programs in business, nursing, education, pharmacy, sport management, and public health. Located just beyond Rochester, New York, the University's residential campus boasts a robust living and learning community and a successful intercollegiate athletics program.
An independent institution today, the University was founded by the Congregation of St. Basil in 1948 and remains true to its Catholic tradition. As Fisher moves forward into the next 75 years, it celebrates its Basilian heritage by embracing their motto, "Teach Me Goodness, Discipline, and Knowledge."
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Developer will use funding to continue transformation of its long-held mixed-use asset
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DJM, a prominent California-based real estate developer, announced today its successful recapitalization of Village Del Amo, a 180,000 square-foot, grocery-anchored, mixed-use retail property, in partnership with longtime urban mixed-use investor, Arc Capital Partners.
This loan refinancing follows the opening of the newly built HanNam grocery store, as well as a trend of improved leasing and positive tenant performance coming out of the pandemic. These proceeds will be used to redevelop restaurant pads and bring in high-quality establishments desired by local residents, refresh the center, and focus on DJM's signature placemaking abilities to bring long-term value to current equity holders and the community.
Village Del Amo is centrally located in the City of Torrance at the intersection of Torrance and Hawthorne Boulevard. Strong national co-tenancy including Tender Greens, BevMo, Benihana, Starbucks—and now HanNam—have proven resilient post-pandemic with visitor traffic returning to 2019 levels. DJM originally acquired the Village Del Amo in 2004 and has managed it through its evolution, with the next phase focusing on updating its "restaurant row" and a complete repositioning and refreshening of the property.
"As retail evolves, we are confident in the continued evolution and success of Village Del Amo. Neighborhood grocery-anchored centers have continued to perform extremely well. With the addition of HanNam, several new retail stores and restaurants—and plans for a property-wide design update—we know we have positioned the property for the future," said Lindsay Parton, President of DJM.
Arc Capital Partners and DJM are also partners in Lido Marina Village, a waterfront Newport Beach mixed-use asset. The two firms continue to expand on their successful relationship with the addition of Village Del Amo.
"We are incredibly excited to partner with DJM again, our second investment together, to support the revitalization of a grocery-anchored, community-serving retail property located in a vibrant multicultural neighborhood," said Neville Rhone, Managing Partner of Arc Capital Partners.
"Our ability to execute a recap like this in such a challenging capital market environment speaks both to the quality of the real estate and the strength of the DJM platform," said Rob Grant, SVP of Investments at DJM.
DJM also developed Ovation Hollywood, which was formerly known as Hollywood & Highland, with Gaw Capital, as well as Pacific City in Huntington Beach.
DJM is a private equity real estate owner, operator and developer based in California. DJM creates long-term value by transforming real estate to meet the 21st century demands of consumers, retailers, and office users. With a focus on placemaking, DJM leverages design, development, and best-in-class management to create places where people thrive. DJM is represented by a current portfolio of approximately four million square feet with an estimated portfolio value of $2 billion. For more information, please visit www.djmcapital.com.
Arc Capital Partners (Arc) is a minority-owned, real estate owner and investment manager dedicated to redefining urban mixed-use properties and environments. Arc invests across the equity capital stack to target compelling risk-adjusted returns with downside protection. In partnership with large institutional investors, Arc is currently pursuing urban real estate located primarily in the major metros of the Western United States. Through the lens of diversity and inclusion, Arc targets middle-market investments ($25 million to $100 million in gross asset value) that typically exhibit value-add business plans in primarily multicultural neighborhoods with strong demand fundamentals. For more information, please visit: arccapitalpartners.com.
For DJM Capital Press Contact: For Arc Capital Partners Press contact:
Carolyn Lowe Matt Pressberg, Vectis Strategies
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The earthquake heaps more misery on a country where millions face increasing hunger and poverty. The health system has been crumbling since the Taliban retook power last year.
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The earthquake heaps more misery on a country where millions face increasing hunger and poverty. The health system has been crumbling since the Taliban retook power last year.
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WATERLOO, ON, Oct. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - The United States Hockey League (USHL) is pleased to announce that Athletica Sport Systems Inc. will be the Preferred Rink Equipment Supplier to the league and their member clubs. Athletica, the world leader in the design, manufacture, and installation of dasher board systems, has a long history of supplying innovative infrastructure equipment to competitive Ice Hockey globally.
"We are proud to partner with Athletica who has an outstanding reputation as a rink system provider and someone who is a trusted name in the safety of our sport," said USHL President and Commissioner Bill Robertson. "Athletica and their rink systems have always been the very best is so many aspects. We look forward to working with them as a league partner and an organization that has great brand awareness in the hockey world."
With the addition of the USHL, Athletica continues to develop its industry leading position as the Preferred Rink Equipment Supplier to the National Hockey League (NHL), American Hockey League (AHL) and USA Hockey.
"The sponsorship of the USHL continues our support of competitive ice hockey as we extend our existing league relationships" said Andrew McRae, CEO of Athletica Sport Systems Inc. "This partnership underpins our industry commitment and "Safety through Innovation" brand promise across all levels of hockey - from community and development, through all professional leagues. We look to continue our collaborations with member USHL Clubs and host Arenas over the next three seasons and well into the future."
Athletica, a leader in arena services is a designer, manufacturer, and installer of dasher board systems for hockey arenas and multi-sport athletic facilities, serving the professional, semi-pro and community end-markets. Headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, the company also has offices in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Vancouver, British Columbia. Athletica is the Preferred Rink Equipment Supplier to the National Hockey League (NHL), American Hockey League (AHL) and USA Hockey.
To learn more, please visit Athletica's website.
To learn more, please visit the USHL's website.
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Congressman George Santos is in custody in a New York courthouse. He's charged with making false statements to Congress, money laundering, wire fraud and theft of public funds.
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Congressman George Santos is in custody in a New York courthouse. He's charged with making false statements to Congress, money laundering, wire fraud and theft of public funds.
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LOS ANGELES, April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- City of Hope, one of the largest cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States, today announced the appointment of John D. Carpten, Ph.D., as director of the National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center, director of Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope and chief scientific officer. Carpten will also hold the Irell & Manella Cancer Center Director's Distinguished Chair and the Morgan & Helen Chu Director's Chair of the Beckman Research Institute. Carpten will provide overall executive leadership and strategic direction for research at City of Hope. He joins City of Hope from the University of Southern California (USC), where he was professor and chair of the Department of Translational Genomics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and associate director of the cancer center.
"We are excited to welcome Dr. Carpten to City of Hope and look forward to his leadership in advancing the research mission of our growing national cancer research and care system," said Robert Stone, City of Hope's CEO and Helen and Morgan Chu Chief Executive Officer Distinguished Chair. "Dr. Carpten's expertise and unwavering commitment to drive and accelerate cancer research and discovery will benefit our patients across the country."
Carpten is an internationally recognized expert in genome science, with training in multiple disciplines, including germline genetics for disease risk and predisposition, somatic cancer genomics, health disparities research, cell biology, functional genomics and precision medicine. Prior to USC, he served as director of the Division of Integrated Cancer Genomics, and later, deputy director of Basic Research at Translational Genomics Research Institute, now a part of City of Hope. Earlier in his career, Carpten completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Human Genome Research Institute (part of the National Institutes of Health) in cancer genetics, where he was later promoted to the tenure track in 2000. Carpten earned his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 1994, with a focus on human genetics.
Nationally recognized as a leader in health disparities research, he has been a tireless advocate for reaching underserved populations. Carpten has been a pioneer in the understanding of the role biology plays in disparate cancer incidence and mortality rates experienced by underrepresented populations. As such, his work has impacted our understanding of a variety of cancer types, particularly those that disproportionately affect underrepresented minorities, including prostate cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, multiple myeloma and pediatric cancers.
Carpten has also played a significant role in the national cancer research agenda and has won numerous awards. He has served as a member of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Board of Scientific Counselors. In 2019, he served as Program Committee chair for the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Scientific Conference in Atlanta, which included over 21,500 international participants. In 2021, he was inducted into the AACR Fellows of the Academy. Appropriately, in 2022, President Joe Biden appointed Carpten as the first African-American chair of the National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Advisory Board, a distinguished post that helps set the national cancer research policy agenda.
"Dr. Carpten will be a key catalyst in driving the democratization of cutting-edge cancer care across the City of Hope national network in order to ensure more patients and diverse communities have full access to the leading cancer research, treatment and care they need," said Michael A. Caligiuri, M.D., president of City of Hope National Medical Center and the Deana and Steve Campbell Physician-in-Chief Distinguished Chair. "He has been a leading national voice and expert in ending disparities in cancer outcomes and care, and the importance of building a more diverse workforce in cancer research."
"Along with tremendous honor and humility, I am both thrilled and eager to work with the exceptional leadership, faculty, staff and trainees to build upon the significant success of the research enterprise at City of Hope," said Carpten. "My goal is to create, execute and advance a transformative vision for cancer research that aligns with national priorities to significantly reduce cancer mortality rates and improve outcomes for patients from all walks of life through the unique national patient reach of City of Hope. To have the opportunity to help lead this world-class, translational cancer research platform is a dream come true."
As part of this transition, City of Hope's current provost, chief scientific officer, and Beckman Research Institute and cancer center director, Steven T. Rosen, M.D., will step into a new leadership role as executive vice president and director emeritus of Beckman Research Institute and City of Hope's cancer center, continuing to improve the lives of cancer patients through his research and patient care, and his dedication to building coalitions among like-minded organizations and individuals dedicated to preventing and curing cancer. During his decade-long tenure, Rosen has made countless contributions to faculty recruitment, research and treatment advances in the field, to the growth and reach of City of Hope, to the education, development and mentorship of faculty and staff, and to guiding City of Hope as one of only 53 NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centers, most recently earning an "exceptional" rating by the NCI in the 2023 renewal of this designation.
"City of Hope and the countless patients he has so positively impacted owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to Dr. Rosen for all he has done to advance science and research at City of Hope and save lives," said Caligiuri. "We will benefit tremendously from Dr. Rosen's continued leadership and expertise through this transition and into the future."
About City of Hope
City of Hope's mission is to deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today. Founded in 1913, City of Hope has grown into one of the largest cancer research and treatment organizations in the U.S. and one of the leading research centers for diabetes and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope research has been the basis for numerous breakthrough cancer medicines, as well as human synthetic insulin and monoclonal antibodies. With an independent, National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center at its core, City of Hope brings a uniquely integrated model to patients spanning cancer care, research and development, academics and training, and innovation initiatives. City of Hope's growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. City of Hope's affiliated group of organizations includes Translational Genomics Research Institute and AccessHopeTM. For more information about City of Hope, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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(NewsNation) — Natalie Jones and Cole Fitch shared a spontaneous kiss at a festival but didn’t exchange contact info. With the help of a photo, Jones, a radio host in Cincinnati, launched a viral search to find her mystery man. Internet sleuths successfully solved the case.
I saw him standing in line to get a drink. I kind of tried to cut in line to stand next to this really cute guy so I could get my drinks and get back to my friends,” Jones recalled. “Then, we started chatting and immediately hit it off.”
Jones recounted that when Fitch asked if he could kiss her, she declined. However, somehow it ended up happening, and a stranger snapped a photo of them and texted it to Jones.
Fitch said he thought it was a “joke-type situation.”
“I thought it was her friend that took the picture, and she thought it was my friend that took the picture,” he said. “Just happened real quick, and we were both confused.”
Despite her efforts the next day, Jones was unable to obtain Fitch’s contact information.
Jones, is one of the hosts of the Q102 weekday afternoon show in Cincinnati, Ohio. In her quest to unveil the identity of her mystery guy, Jones turned to social media and posted the image, triggering numerous responses.
“To my co-hosts’ credit, it was their idea. They’re like we got to post it, let us post it for you,” Jones said. “We call our listeners the Q Fam; they’re like let’s let the Q Fam find him, and sure enough they delivered.”
The pair lives in separate states, Fitch lives in Pennsylvania, and they plan to meet up again on July 4.
“We’re just seeing where it goes. I mean, we seem to like each other, though,” Fitch said. | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/internet-sleuths-help-radio-host-find-man-she-kissed-at-festival/ | 2023-06-21 21:59:36 | 1 | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/internet-sleuths-help-radio-host-find-man-she-kissed-at-festival/ |
NEW YORK, Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Southwest Airlines Co..
Shareholders who purchased shares of LUV during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
CONTACT US HERE:
https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/southwest-airlines-co-loss-submission-form/?id=35695&from=4
CLASS PERIOD: June 13, 2020 to December 31, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Southwest continuously downplayed or ignored the serious issues with the technology it used to schedule flights and crews and how the Company stood to be affected worse than other airlines in the event of inclement weather; and (2) the Company did not discuss how its unique point-to point service and aggressive flight schedule could leave it prone in the event of inclement weather; and (3) as a result, defendants' statements about Southwest's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: March 13, 2023 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/southwest-airlines-co-loss-submission-form/?id=35695&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of LUV during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is March 13, 2023. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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Passenger charged with hiding camera in cruise ship restroom
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Officials say a passenger on a Caribbean cruise has been arrested after a hidden camera with video of dozens of people, including children, was discovered in a public restroom. Court documents show Jeremy Froias was arrested last Wednesday in Puerto Rico and charged with video voyeurism and attempted possession of child exploitation material. According to a criminal complaint, Froias boarded Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas in Miami on April 29 for a seven-day cruise. A day after the voyage began, officials say Froias put a hidden Wi-Fi camera in a public restroom on the ship’s top deck between a surfing simulator and a bar. A day after that, another passenger spotted the camera and alerted the ship’s crew. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/05/09/passenger-charged-with-hiding-camera-in-cruise-ship-restroom/ | 2023-05-09 22:29:29 | 1 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/05/09/passenger-charged-with-hiding-camera-in-cruise-ship-restroom/ |
NEW YORK, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Uber Technologies, Inc. ("Uber" or the "Company") (NYSE: UBER). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Uber and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On July 11, 2022, The Guardian published an exposé based on a leak of 124,000 internal documents that "revealed the inside story of how the tech giant Uber louted laws, duped police, exploited violence against drivers and secretly lobbied governments during its aggressive global expansion." Among other news, The Guardian reported that "[d]uring the fierce global backlash [to Uber's expansion], the data shows how Uber tried to show up support by discreetly courting prime ministers, presidents, billionaires, oligarchs and media barons" and that "[l]eaked messages suggest Uber executives were at the same time under no illusions about the company's law-breaking, with one executive joking they had become 'pirates' and another conceding: 'We're just [expletive deleted] illegal.'"
On this news, Uber's stock price fell $1.15 per share, or 5.15%, to close at $21.19 per share on July 11, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
CONTACT:
Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
rswilloughby@pomlaw.com
888-476-6529 ext. 7980
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Accelerating the development and expansion of Core Business, Developing Digital Assets and Crypto Markets; Increasing Engagement with End Customers and the Public; Exploring Technology Sales as a New Business Line
Ittai Ben Zeev, CEO of TASE:"The next five years are a critical window of opportunity for TASE to play an active role in the technological revolution of the global capital markets; the plan anticipates the needs of the market and takes the development and management of innovative services and products to the next level; we will not only partake in the change but aim to spearhead it; we will leverage our home court advantage in Israel to adopt and develop Fintech and position TASE as a hub of services and products. TASE will also build up the local capital market's activity to match Israel's economic strength and global activity, utilizing this unique opportunity for growth and expansion of its activity."
TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE: TASE) publishes this morning its new strategic plan for the years 2023-2027, following its approval by the Board of Directors of TASE, at the recommendation of TASE's management, headed by the CEO, Ittai Ben-Zeev.
The strategic goals of the plan include:
a. Developing and enhancing the value proposition of TASE's core activity.
b. Expanding and developing the direct engagement with the end customers.
c. Creating a platform for digital assets using Blockchain (DLT) and venturing into Crypto.
d. Development and sale of technological services and solutions to other exchanges and market participants.
Principal action plans for 2023-2027:
Continued development and enhancement of the value proposition of the core activity: TASE intends to focus on continued organic growth, reinforcement of TASE's international profile and bringing in foreign investors, including through expansion of the variety of international products traded and cleared on TASE. Strengthening the liquidity strategy and the derivatives market, including a relaunch of futures. The distribution channels to existing customers will be upgraded and the local market will be aligned with international standards. Reform in OTC, including the development of dedicated innovative systems for the clearing and reporting of OTC transactions.
Expanding the direct engagement with TASE customers: The digitalization of the global financial markets has reshaped the services that are offered to TASE's customers, creating an opportunity for direct engagement with the customers and many more benefits. Within this framework, TASE will work to strengthen the fields of digital, distribution of information and analytics, including by creating new digital assets and developing a wide range of innovative solutions and services that are customized for the specific segment of the customer. By providing direct services to institutional investors and liquidity providers, including through the TASE Clearing House (securities' custodianship, lending services), TASE will enable institutional investors to confront market challenges, upgrade the local capital market, reduce costs, eliminate existing concentrations in the financial sector and encourage competition.
Creating a platform for digital assets using Blockchain (DLT) and venturing into Crypto: TASE will promote the implementation of innovative technologies, including DLT, tokenizing of various classes of digital assets and smart contracts. TASE intends to examine multiple potential action plans, including conversion of existing infrastructure to innovative technologies, deployment of innovative technologies into specialized platforms, offering a basket of services and products for digital assets and more.
Export of technological services and solutions to foreign exchanges: Marketing of technological services and solutions tailored for small and medium exchanges, using TASE's existing and prospective proprietary knowhow and technology. This will strengthen TASE's collaborations and its international profile, highlighting Israel's technology and innovation leadership. These services and collaborations may include the acquisition of holdings in foreign exchanges.
In light of the new strategic goals, which significantly increase the volume and reach of activity beyond the scope of the core activity, and based on a study of the corporate structure of the leading global exchanges, TASE intends to advance a restructuring to support the effective implementation of the strategic plan and, down the road, the development and upgrading of the capital market for the benefit of the public. The new structure will consist of a holding company with several subsidiaries (both existing subsidiaries and subsidiaries that will be established to further the goals of the plan). Furthermore, TASE intends to consider the implementation of a plan for strategic purchases and/or investments in its areas of activity and/or in areas that offer added value to its activity.
As part of the approval of the new strategic plan, the management of TASE has set a revenue CAGR from organic growth of 10%-12% over the next five years.
The plan is based on an in-depth analysis of the trends and developments in TASE's business environment and in the markets. Most notable among these are the macroeconomic status of the State of Israel, the globalization of the financial markets, the competition among global financial centers, alongside regulation that advances the removal of barriers, global standardization, increase in the institutional money supply, and a significantly greater retail engagement in the capital market, mainly as a result of the growing digitalization, the development of investment tools, the removal of entry barriers and more. Also noteworthy are digital innovation trends that blur the borders between the regulated capital markets and the alternative markets, changes in local regulation and a rising interest environment that affects liquidity and investors' preferences.
The strategic plan for the years 2017-2022 was successfully completed:
The new strategic plan was formulated in preparation for the conclusion of TASE's previous strategic plan, orchestrated by the CEO, Ittai Ben-Zeev, upon taking office. The 4 principal achievements of the plan: positioning TASE as a key active player in the Israeli capital market, transition from a non-profit to a profitable public company, proof of competence in the development of services and selling processes as well as organizational streamlining, including improvement of the management flexibility.
These are reflected, among others, in strong financial results with a more than double profit margin - from 9% in 2017 to close to 25% in the first half of 2022, and a growth in revenue from services of 7.5% a year over the years 2017-2022, compared to an increase of only 4% a year in the operating cash outflow during the same period.
* The full and binding details are provided in the company's report and in the Investors' Presentation.
Link to the report and presentation: https://maya.tase.co.il/reports/details/1482792
Contact:
Orna Goren
Head of Communication and Public Relations Unit
Tel: +972 76 8160405
tase.ir@tase.co.il
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Tom Cruise is getting his first major honor of awards season. In February, the “Top Gun: Maverick” star will receive the David O. Selznick Achievement Award from the Producers Guild of America, the group said Thursday.
Cruise may not be best known for his behind-the-scenes work on movies, but he has been producing films since 1996’s “Mission: Impossible.” In addition to that ongoing franchise, including installments seven and eight which are scheduled to come out in 2023 and 2024, Cruise has producing credits on many of his own films, like “Vanilla Sky,” “The Last Samurai” and “Top Gun: Maverick,” and some that he didn’t act in, like “Elizabethtown” and “Without Limits.”
“Beginning with ‘Mission: Impossible,’ Tom Cruise has developed a talent for producing to match his extraordinary talent as an actor. Tom approaches producing with the same meticulous attention to detail he brings to all of his professional endeavors,” said Producers Guild Presidents Donald De Line and Stephanie Allain in a joint statement. “His commitment to telling bold, cinematic, and entertaining stories has elevated the global theatrical experience and has resulted in some of the most popular motion pictures in history.”
The Selznick Award has gone to some of the biggest names in Hollywood moviemaking including Steven Spielberg and Kevin Feige. Last year’s recipient was “Dune” producer Mary Parent.
Cruise is expected to accept the award in person at the untelevised ceremony set for February 25 at The Beverly Hilton. | https://www.kark.com/entertainment-news/ap-tom-cruise-to-get-producers-guilds-david-o-selznick-award/ | 2022-12-09 16:58:08 | 0 | https://www.kark.com/entertainment-news/ap-tom-cruise-to-get-producers-guilds-david-o-selznick-award/ |
Christopher Nolan breaks down the best ways to watch a movie, ahead of his ‘Oppenheimer’ release
By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer
It’s no secret that Christopher Nolan made “Oppenheimer” to be seen on the big screen, but not all “big screens” are created equal. As tickets go on sale early for over 1,000 of the best “big screens” out there including IMAX, 70mm and so forth, Nolan, in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, offers a guide to his favorite formats, why it matters and even where he likes to sit in different theaters so that audiences don’t feel like they need a film school degree (or one in theoretical physics) before settling on a projection type. “Opphenheimer” opens on July 21. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/06/01/christopher-nolan-breaks-down-the-best-ways-to-watch-a-movie-ahead-of-his-oppenheimer-release/ | 2023-06-01 13:46:33 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/06/01/christopher-nolan-breaks-down-the-best-ways-to-watch-a-movie-ahead-of-his-oppenheimer-release/ |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
2-9-2
(two, nine, two)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
2-9-2
(two, nine, two) | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Day-game-17601781.php | 2022-11-21 20:49:15 | 1 | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Day-game-17601781.php |
College baseball player has leg amputated following horrific boating accident, family says
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN/Gray News) – A prospective college baseball player had his lower leg amputated following a horrific boating accident that left him severely injured.
Parker Byrd has undergone numerous surgeries since the accident on Bath Creek on July 23.
Byrd was one of two people who fell off their tubes. Byrd’s friend safely got back on the boat, but as Byrd was approaching the boat, the ski rope got caught in the propeller and pulled Byrd toward it. Byrd was hit by the propeller and seriously injured.
Byrd has committed to playing baseball at East Carolina University as a freshman.
His mother Mitzi Byrd posted on social media confirming that her son had surgery to amputate his right leg below his knee. According to the post, doctors may have to perform another amputation above the knee.
“This is hard. I’m not going to lie, this is REALLY hard,” Mitzi Byrd wrote in another Facebook post. “Parker is trying to process it and we are trying to process it. I begged God to provide a miracle but we have to trust his plan.”
Parker Byrd underwent another surgery Friday morning to clean up and close some areas following the amputation. His mother said that marks surgery number nine.
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By SCOTT BAUER
Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican candidate for governor in Wisconsin endorsed by Donald Trump won’t rule out attempting to decertify President Joe Biden’s 2020 win in the state, even though GOP legislative leaders and attorneys from both sides have dismissed the idea as impossible and unconstitutional. Tim Michels told WKOW-TV on Tuesday that he would “need to see the details” when asked if he would sign a bill to decertify the election. Michels’ refusal to rule out the idea came days after Trump renewed his call for decertification following a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling that absentee ballot drop boxes are illegal.
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