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Sept. 9, 1943—Dec. 7, 2022
TWIN FALLS — Julina (Lyons) Curtis, 79, of Twin Falls, ID, passed away Wednesday, December 7, 2022 at St. Luke’s Magic Valley of natural causes. Julina was born September 9, 1943 in Burley, ID to Ivan Edward Lyons and Ruth (Smith) Lyons at the family home.
She was the youngest of seven children; Kent Ivan Lyons, Yvonne Low, K Lyman Lyons, Annette Wilson, Barton Edwin Lyons, and Lamont Smith Lyons. Julina grew up in Burley, ID and graduated from Burley High School in 1961.
She attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah where she met her husband, Lowell Byron Curtis. They were married on July 17,1964 in the Idaho Falls Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple.
Julina and Lowell moved back to the family ranch in Driggs, Idaho. They owned and operated the—C Cattle Ranch there for 41 years before relocating to a ranch in Twin Falls County, Idaho. Julina was an expert homemaker, ranch cook, hay raker, and supporter to her family in all of their endeavor’s. She was an avid reader and loved to travel, especially to church history sites.
Julina and Lowell were blessed with four children: Brenda and Stacy Lerwill, Tetonia, Idaho; Cary and Stephanie Curtis, Rupert, Idaho; Brett and Suzanne Curtis, Brigham City, Utah; Katie and Wesley Panter, Hollister, Idaho. Julina and Lowell’s life has been greatly enriched by their 13 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.
Julina was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where she served in many callings and led her family with great faith.
On December 19, 2022 funeral services will be held at 11 am in Hollister, Idaho, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints building, 2718 E US-93 Twin Falls, ID 83301, with viewing 1 hour prior from 10 to 10:45. Interment will follow on December 20, 2022 at the Victor, Idaho Cemetery at 11 am. Those that would like to visit with the family are invited to join them back at the Tetonia Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints building after the graveside services, for a warm place out of the Teton Valley weather.
A recording of Julina’s funeral service will be available to view on “whitereynoldschapel.com” on her obituary page, Monday, December 19, 2022 at 5:00 pm. Funeral services for Julina are under the direction of White-Reynolds Funeral Chapel. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/julina-lyons-curtis/article_6338eb67-f0e6-5c4c-90b1-7130b035c4d9.html | 2022-12-11 07:16:41 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/julina-lyons-curtis/article_6338eb67-f0e6-5c4c-90b1-7130b035c4d9.html |
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva finishes the first 100 days of his third term as Brazil’s president on Monday and his return to power has been marked by efforts to reinstate his social policies and undo his predecessor’s legacy.
Lula unseated Jair Bolsonaro by a razor-thin margin last October. He and his team announced plans to hit the ground running. Then, a week after Lula’s inauguration, Bolsonaro supporters stormed government buildings in capital Brasilia, hoping military intervention would remove the leftist from power.
Quelling unrest while staving off potential coups was a challenge unseen by any president since Brazil’s return to democracy over three decades ago, and it has overshadowed the efforts of Lula’s administration since then.
Lula, who governed between 2003 and 2010, started his third term faced with the stiff challenges of achieving his goals of eradicating poverty and hunger while preventing economic slowdown.
To the extent that he has ushered in change since Jan. 1, that has entailed reactivating policies from past Workers’ Party administrations: The cash-conditional Family Grant welfare program, the My House, My Life housing program, and the More Doctors initiative to expand medical care.
“Other governments inherited an organized state; Bolsonaro disorganized the state. Everything needs to be redone,” Carlos Melo, a political science professor at Insper University in Sao Paulo, said. “Even so, the government hasn’t presented a (new) project.”
Lula has blamed Bolsonaro for the challenges faced by his government, whose official slogan includes the word “reconstruction.” Before taking power, Lula commissioned and publicized a detailed report on the government’s debilitated state. On March 17 on Twitter, Bolsonaro remarked that governing is very easy for Lula: “just undo what Bolsonaro did.”
“I am not used about talking about the first 100 days of the administration,” Lula said during a ceremony at Brazil’s presidential palace on Monday to recognize a date with symbolic significance in this and many other nations. “But I think it is important to remind you that, in 2003 I took over from a democratic president, which did not happen now.”
Lula successfully rallied lawmakers and Supreme Court justices in defense of democracy and began executing a strategy to remove the armed forces from politics. Almost three months later, he has made inroads with a vastly pro-Bolsonaro military and garnered some support in Congress. He also received a nod from moderates and business leaders for his finance minister’s proposed fiscal rules to address recurring budget deficits; the government aims to zero the primary budget deficit by the end of next year.
Still, polls show Lula lacks popular support. Of 2,028 Brazilians polled by Datafolha, 38% said Lula’s administration was either good or excellent – just above Bolsonaro’s approval rating after three months in office. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points.
Some analysts say Lula likewise still lacks the congressional support to pass legislation.
In order to fund social investments and ensure job creation, Lula also needs the economy to grow. Economists surveyed weekly by the central bank forecast sub-1% growth this year, and little more in 2024, down from 2.9% last year even with a fourth-quarter contraction.
To spur activity, Lula has spent considerable time and effort pressuring the president of Brazil’s independent central bank to lower the benchmark interest rate from its highest level since 2016 – thus far to no avail.
While Lula has struggled on the economic front, he has scored wins on the environment after pledging to usher in a new era of responsible stewardship of the Amazon rainforest.
His biggest environmental win has been a humanitarian operation to rescue Yanomami people from disease and malnutrition in the Amazon. The armed forces, under the leadership of a newly appointed army commander, provided food and medical supplies, while newly empowered environmental agents destroyed illegal gold mining camps that lay waste to the rivers and forest, and expelled miners from the Indigenous territory.
This reflected a shift from the policies of Bolsonaro, who encouraged prospecting, criticized such protected lands as unproductive and systematically defanged environmental authorities.
Environmentalists, Indigenous rights activists, the media and foreign governments have cheered the Lula administration’s efforts in Yanomami land. Lula also reactivated donations to the Amazon Fund that is the most important international cooperation effort to preserve the area.
There are bigger environmental tests ahead. Lula has yet to rebuild Brazil’s environmental bodies, not only for preservation efforts, but also to demonstrate the government’s full commitment to foreign investors and governments, said Marcio Astrini, the executive-secretary of the Climate Observatory, a network of non-profits.
Bolsonaro went about “institutionally sabotaging the environment. The (Lula) government has taken important steps, but one cannot underestimate Bolsonaro’s legacy,” Astrini said.
Reasserting Brazil’s place on the international stage has also been a priority for Lula, and he has reconnected with leaders from the United States, France, China and Argentina. Bolsonaro showed little interest in foreign travel or bridgebuilding.
The Brazilian leader has also sought to project himself as a leading voice for a peaceful end to the Ukraine conflict, though some have criticized his position as unduly soft on Russia. Eduardo Grin, a public administration professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, a university and think tank in Sao Paulo, also that Lula has voiced support for authoritarian regimes in Latin America, including Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
Speaking in Brasilia on Monday, the president said that he still has a lot of time to correct his administration’s missteps. His social communications minister said Lula will host weekly broadcasts on social media to talk about his work, a strategy employed by Bolsonaro throughout his presidency to connect with ordinary people and offer accountability.
Lula also instructed his ministers to be more vocal about their achievements.
“Our task, besides governing, is to talk a lot,” Lula told them. “Brazil has a future again. And this is just the start.”
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Savarese reported from Sao Paulo. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/brazils-lula-struggling-to-move-forward-after-100-days/ | 2023-04-11 20:10:01 | 1 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/brazils-lula-struggling-to-move-forward-after-100-days/ |
TACOMA, Wash., June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Toray Industries, Inc., global leader in innovative technologies and advanced high-performance materials, will be at the 54th International Paris Air Show, in Le Bourget Parc des Expositions on June 19 to 25. The Toray team is looking forward to continued dialogue with customers and industry partners on advancements in composite material technologies to meet the ever-evolving needs of the aerospace industry. At the forefront will be discussions on emerging technologies for next-generation, clean, and zero-emission aircraft.
Toray's rich heritage of innovation has established technologies that played a pivotal role in shaping the aerospace industry. With TORAYCA™ carbon fiber, thermoset materials and thermoplastic composites, Toray enabled the large-scale adoption of composites in commercial and general aviation, and continues to pave the way for next generation programs through valued customer collaborations.
In the area of zero-emissions air mobility, TORAYCA™ carbon fiber, Toray thermoset and Cetex® thermoplastic composites are the material of choice of eVTOL (electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing) programs currently in development. These materials provide optimal strength and toughness, efficient processing, and necessary databases required for certification, allowing companies to meet performance targets and adhere to certification schedules. Extending beyond eVTOL applications, Toray's diverse product portfolio has enabled tailored solutions for primary and secondary aerostructures, rotorcraft, radomes, antenna systems, large payload fairings, landing leg assemblies, and more.
To meet the evolving needs of customers, Toray recently announced an upgrade of its Alabama facility in the United States which doubles the production capacity of the high-performance TORAYCA™ T1100 carbon fiber. This is a critical component in several US DoD weapon systems to include missiles and munitions, rotor systems, and primary aerostructures.
Additionally, Toray will continue to invest in advanced material technologies and leverage it to provide sustainable solutions. "Sustainability is a core value that drives everything we do," said Tim Kirk, vice president of marketing. "It is a fundamental part of our identity – part of our DNA. We used to think of sustainability as just being a responsible corporate citizen, supporting measures to reduce environmental burden, reduce our carbon footprint, promote recycling, etc. These are still important, but sustainability is now much more. It is now with a 'Big S', a table stake. Our customers expect nothing less from their supply chains, and we're proud to lead the way with sustainability."
Participating Toray Companies:
Toray Composite Materials America, Inc.
Developer, manufacturer and supplier of polyacrylonitrile-based TORAYCA™ carbon fiber and carbon fiber prepreg.
Toray Advanced Composites
Developer, manufacturer and supplier of thermoset and thermoplastic-based materials, including prepregs in fabric, unidirectional tape, bulk-molded compounds and reinforced thermoplastic laminate formats.
Toray Carbon Fibers Europe
European manufacturer of TORAYCA™ carbon fiber and pultruded composite materials.
About Toray
Toray is a leading global company in innovative technologies and advanced materials. Since its foundation in 1926, the Company has contributed to society through the creation of new value and addressed global challenges by delivering high value-added products including fibers and textiles, resins and films, and carbon fiber composite materials. It operates in 29 countries and regions with about 48,000 employees worldwide. https://www.toray.com/
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How we work, when we work, how much we work – it's all shifting on a scale not seen in decades.
The pandemic left workplaces reimagined and workers changed. The number of job openings right now outnumbers people looking for work by almost two-to-one.
Last year saw a record exodus of workers, and companies say they are still struggling to hire. Millions have re-evaluated what type of work they were willing to do for what type of pay or benefits and in what type of environment.
On Labor Day, here's a snapshot of what's happening with American workers.
Jobs are growing, and workers are still quitting
Despite inflation and economic slowdown, the labor market remains tight. Employers kept adding jobs all summer, particularly in food and retail. Layoffs have been confined to pockets of the economy – the tech sector, cryptocurrency, home buying – and to select companies, like the beleaguered Bed Bath & Beyond.
Most employers would rather hold on to workers. Too many have grappled with short staffing: More than 4 million people quit their jobs each month for the past year, the highest in decades.
It's not just about the money, it's about worker well-being
While millions quit, others have felt emboldened to fight for change.
From baristas to warehouse staff to frontline nurses, more workers are filing charges of unfair labor practices against their employers or staging walkouts and strikes. They're demanding not just higher wages, but improvements to safety and wellbeing: longer breaks, more paid leave, more control over their schedules.
Office culture, too, has changed. Just over a third of workers were going to offices in person at the end of August in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, according to Kastle Systems, which tracks office card swipes. At Apple, J.P. Morgan, the Washington Post and other companies, workers have pushed back on the notion that they have to return to offices to be productive.
And the TikTok-fueled concept of "quiet quitting" has stormed into summertime work conversations: the idea of doing the bare minimum at work, skipping the hustle and those above-and-beyond tasks. Some, like Arianna Huffington, are dismayed at the idea, calling it a step toward quitting on life; while many experts and workers see the term as a misnomer, better described as boundary-setting for personal time.
Biggest American brands are getting their first unions
Labor organizers declared mid-2022 the #hotlaborsummer. Petitions to form a union are up almost 60% compared to last year, continuing to reverse a long-running decline in union interest. Many of these workers are in food and retail, coffee shops and non-profits, media and tech. Labor experts say more women and particularly women of color are leading the charge.
Unions have won first-time victories at big-name companies: Amazon and REI in New York, an Apple store in Maryland, Trader Joe's in Massachusetts and Minnesota, Chipotle in Michigan and of course Starbucks, where more than 200 stores nationwide have unionized in less than a year.
A union is about collective bargaining, but getting there is arduous
Companies have many paths to try to slow down or even undo labor organizing. A key goal for new unions is a collective-bargaining contract to seal their wage, benefit and other demands. But research finds that when an employer resists, only a small fraction of workers who unionize successfully reach a contract.
Legal delays are abundant. Amazon, for example, launched a monthslong appeal to overturn the historic union win at its Staten Island warehouse. Starbucks has so far begun negotiations with only three of more than 200 stores. Both companies have taken the remarkable step of challenging the fairness of the union election process itself.
Union membership remains low, though support is at a 57-year high
Only about 10% of U.S. workers belonged to a union as of early 2022. At the same time, the level of public support for unions has been growing for over a decade.
This summer, 71% of Americans told Gallup they approve of unions, a level not seen since 1965. Labor experts say support is even higher with younger people, potentially growing a new generation of organizers.
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The NFL is making its move into offering its own media streaming platform.
The league announced that “NFL+” launched on Monday. Owners were briefed about it during the league meetings in May, while Brian Rolapp, the NFL’s chief media and business officer, confirmed in a column for “Sports Illustrated” last week that it would be starting this season.
Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a phone interview with The Associated Press that the direct-to-consumer offering gives the league the ability to understand what fans and non-fans are seeking in terms of content and customize it for them.
“We think this is a major step forward. It will evolve, build and get better as more and more content becomes available on this platform. The work that we’ve done either with other offerings or research has helped us sort of frame this in a way that we think would be very attractive and engage our fans.”
The launch of “NFL+” comes as 15 games on Thursday night will be carried exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. The “Sunday Ticket” package of out-of-market Sunday games currently will expire at the end of this season. Amazon, Apple and Google have emerged as the frontrunners to take over the rights that DirecTV has held since 1994.
“NFL+” will allow fans to view out-of-market preseason games on all devices; local and national regular-season and postseason games on mobile devices; team and national radio feeds, NFL Network shows on-demand along with the NFL Films archive. It could also include content produced by teams. It will be able to be accessed through the NFL app and website.
It is an upgrade of the “Game Pass” service that has been available to fans in the United States since 2015. The league began offering a package in which fans could watch replays of games online — appropriately called “Game Rewind” — in 2009. It started to gain favor among fans and analysts in 2012 when it added coaches film, including two angles where all 22 players on the field could be viewed.
The league has also offered out-of-market preseason games either through a separate package or “Game Pass” in previous seasons.
The key to the package is the live regular-season and playoff games. The league regained the mobile rights after its contracts with mobile carriers expired at the end of last season.
“NFL+” will be available for $4.99/month or $39.99/year. A premium package — which includes full and condensed game replays as well as the coaches film — is $9.99/month or $79.99/year. The “Game Pass” package was previously available for $100/year. “NFL+” will part of fans who purchase season tickets for their teams.
“We’ve had our toe in the water with ‘Game Pass,’ but this is our next step forward,” said Hans Schroeder, the executive vice president of NFL Media. “We think this will be attractive for fans and sort of bring down the price point for fans on a monthly basis. There is an eye on future content down the road. We’re excited to see where this can go this year and beyond.”
Goodell said recently the league is hoping to make a decision about “Sunday Ticket” and possibly selling an equity stake in NFL Media properties by the end of the year. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/nfl-debuts-nfl-streaming-service/ | 2022-07-25 14:53:20 | 1 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/nfl-debuts-nfl-streaming-service/ |
Charlie Puth goes for a different sound in his first new album in four years Published October 15, 2022 at 5:00 PM EDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 6:09 The superstar talks about "Charlie," which came out this month, and how he didn't want to stick with a specific genre. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.nepm.org/2022-10-15/charlie-puth-goes-for-a-different-sound-in-his-first-new-album-in-four-years | 2022-10-15 22:23:40 | 0 | https://www.nepm.org/2022-10-15/charlie-puth-goes-for-a-different-sound-in-his-first-new-album-in-four-years |
The U.S. government’s highway safety agency said Thursday it will send a team to investigate a Thanksgiving Day pileup on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge involving a Tesla that may have been using the company’s “Full Self-Driving” software.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Thursday that it sent the team after gathering information from law enforcement officers and Tesla.
The eight-vehicle crash happened about noon, closing two lanes and clogging traffic on the holiday. Nine people were treated for minor injuries including a child who was hospitalized, according to CNN, which got a copy of the crash report through a public records request.
The Tesla Model S driver reportedly told the California Highway Patrol that the company's “Full Self-Driving” system was operating when the crash occurred, and that it braked unexpectedly while traveling at 55 miles per hour (88.5 kilometers per hour). The Model S shifted into the far left lane, then braked to 20 mph, causing the pileup, CNN said the report stated.
A message was left Thursday seeking comment from Tesla on the latest NHTSA action. The company based in Austin, Texas, has disbanded its media relations department. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/US-probes-Tesla-crash-automated-system-may-have-17672161.php | 2022-12-22 19:06:30 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/US-probes-Tesla-crash-automated-system-may-have-17672161.php |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Kansas City police detective convicted of shooting and killing a Black man in 2019 is asking that his conviction be overturned or that he be given a new trial.
Jackson County Circuit Judge Dale Youngs convicted Eric DeValkenaere in March of involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the death of 26-year-old Cameron Lamb on Dec. 3, 2019.
DeValkenaere, who is white, and his partner shot Lamb within seconds of arriving at a home where Lamb lived. They had followed him after reports of several traffic violations. Lamb was backing a pickup truck into a garage when he was shot.
In announcing the conviction, Youngs said the detectives violated Lamb’s constitutional rights because they had no probable cause to believe he had committed a crime, had no warrant for Lamb’s arrest and had no search warrant or consent to be on the property.
In a motion filed Oct. 27 with the Missouri Court of Appeals, DeValkenaere's attorneys argued that DeValkenaere and his partner had probable cause to be on Lamb's property and to arrest him for the traffic violations, The Kansas City Star reported. They also argued that police did not trespass on private property, were not the “initial aggressors” and that Lamb's death was a lawful use of force by a police officer.
DeValkenaere testified that he shot Lamb to save his partner's life because he believed Lamb had a firearm. Lamb’s family has said he was not armed and that a gun found at the scene was planted.
DeValkenaere was sentenced to three years for involuntary manslaughter and six years for armed criminal action, with the sentences to run consecutively. He has been allowed to remain free while his conviction is appealed.
DeValkenaere was suspended from the police force after his conviction and left the force in January. Police have not said if he was fired, resigned or retired. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Kansas-City-officer-appeals-conviction-in-17567727.php | 2022-11-08 16:58:08 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Kansas-City-officer-appeals-conviction-in-17567727.php |
Earth’s mightiest new eye in the sky got its first ever shot of a planet in another solar system.
The James Webb Space Telescope, which already wowed Earthlings with its clearer vision of the universe earlier this year, as well as its up-close shots of Jupiter here in our solar system, trained its infrared stare on a gas giant orbiting a star that’s 356 light years away.
NASA stated HIP 65426 b is six to 12 times the size of Jupiter, but significantly younger than our own planet, about 15 to 20 million years old compared to Earth’s 4.5 billion years.
It’s been shot before, by Hubble Space Telescope after it was discovered by astronomers in 2017 using the Earthbound SPHERE instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile.
But the power of James Webb’s longer infrared wavelength tools along with its ability to block out the encroaching light of the planet’s star, offers the clearest view yet. Near IR imagery renders the planet 10,000 times fainter that the star it orbits, while mid-infrared, makes it only a few thousand time fainter. James Webb has tools for both ranges.
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NASA’s image shows the still fuzzy planet in four different infrared light bands. The instruments use a coronagraph to block out the starlight that would obscure the planet’s view otherwise. HIP 65426 b orbits its star about 100 times farther away than Earth does from our sun, so that distance allows James Webb to perform its snapshot magic.
“This is a transformative moment, not only for Webb but also for astronomy generally,” said Sasha Hinkley, associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom in a press release. She led these observations as part of James Webb’s international collaborative effort among NASA, the European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency.
The image released by NASA shows details that will be included in a future scientific paper, so the details announced Thursday have yet to be peer reviewed by the scientific community.
A future space telescope, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope set to lift off on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center on a mission targeting liftoff in October 2026, will fly up with even more advanced coronographs that could allow for even clearer exoplanetary research, NASA said.
For now, though, James Webb has been keeping busy, including adding to the work plates of eight UCF researchers that are happy to get their hands on data since it launches last December.
“There’s a big, big universe out there to explore,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson this week.
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Which Nespresso milk frothers are best?
A perfect cup of coffee can help set a positive mood early in the morning and motivate you to get the rest of the day moving in the right direction. A Nespresso milk frother can add a sophisticated and delicious touch to any coffee drink, such as a cappuccino. A Nespresso machine and milk frother helps to save both time and money by allowing you to create the perfect coffee with tasty frothed milk from the comfort of your home.
What is Nespresso?
According to the Nestle-Nespresso website, Nespresso is a massive Switzerland-based coffee selling brand within the Nestlé Group. Nestle Group owns hundreds of subsidiaries and has a wide reach within the food market and industry. Nespresso is marketed as a luxury coffee brand and can often be found in more high-end stores.
Luckily, Nespresso products are available for purchase both in-store and online. Nespresso makes Nespresso machines that specialize in single-use drinks, such as espresso and coffee. The company also creates a variety of prepackaged coffees and appliances to add a tasteful flair to most kitchens and daily routines.
What is frothed milk?
Frothed milk is milk that has been aerated to create a foam. Aerated comes from the term aeration, which means simply to pass air through or to move air around. The tiny air bubbles produced when frothing milk create a light texture that also increases the volume of the milk.
If you don’t own a milk frother, there are ways to make frothed milk without one. With just two ingredients, you can shake your milk inside of a tightly sealed container until the milk becomes frothy and textured. However, this method requires a fair amount of physical exertion in comparison to using a milk frothing device.
What’s the difference between frothed and steamed milk?
Whereas frothed milk is simply milk that has been whipped into a heavy foam, steamed milk is often heated with a steam wand. A steam wand steams the milk with pressurized heat, which increases the temperature of the drink. Steamed milk is always hot, but frothed milk isn’t necessarily.
What is a milk frother?
A milk frother is a cooking utensil that adds air into milk in order to create that recognizable layer to delicious coffee drinks like cappuccinos and lattes. Milk frothers can range in both size and price, so it’s important to keep your budget and usage in mind before purchasing one. Given that milk frothers have the potential to create extreme amounts of heat, it’s important to remain vigilant and ensure that young children are properly attended to.
The best Nespresso milk frother
Nespresso has milk frothers that were designed to be compatible with their machines. Some milk frothers are built into the actual machines, but you can also purchase a standalone milk frother.
Nespresso Aeroccino3 Milk Frother
This milk frother comes in one size and can create three different kinds of frothed milk. The black frother only has one button, so it’s designed for a simple usage process and automatically turns off. The milk quickly increases in temperature and can reach around 160 degrees Fahrenheit.
Where to buy: Amazon and Bed Bath & Beyond
Best Nespresso milk frother bundles
The ideal milk frother bundle will have the perfect coffee and espresso options to best fit your needs and will also provide you with amazing beverage preferences.
Nespresso Lattissima Touch Original Espresso Machine with Milk Frother
This sleek machine comes in three different colors: washed black, frosted silver and white. The automatic milk frother is built into the machine and ensures that each drink you create is perfect every time. After each coffee is brewed, the capsules are discarded into a trash container within the machine to reduce the cleaning time between each use.
Where to buy: Amazon and Macy’s
Nespresso Vertuo Plus and De’Longhi Espresso Maker
This set includes both the VertuoPlus Deluxe and the Aeroccino Milk Frother. The espresso machine weighs about 10 pounds and includes a 40 ounce water tank that heats up within 15 seconds. It also automatically shuts down after 10 minutes of inactivity in order to conserve power. The milk frother comes in one size and creates ideal frothed coffee drinks.
Where to buy: Amazon and Macy’s
Nespresso Essenza Mini Original Espresso Machine Bundle
The machine has a water tank that holds over 20 ounces of water and only takes around 30 seconds to heat up. After 3 minutes, the machine goes into eco-mode for low energy consumption and after 9 minutes of inactivity, it shuts off to save power. The Aeroccino3 Milk Frother included in this bundle can froth up to 8 ounces of hot milk.
Where to buy: Amazon
Nespresso Citiz Coffee and Espresso Machine DeLonghi with Aeroccino3 Milk Frother
This product is an ideal bundle that includes the Aeroccino 3 Milk Frother and the Nespresso Citiz Coffee Espresso Machine. The compact machine features a tank that can hold around 34 ounces of water and reaches the perfect temperature in under 30 seconds, perfect for creating a single-serve coffee with frothed milk.
Where to buy: Amazon
Nespresso Pixie Coffee and Espresso Machine by De’Longhi with Aeroccino
The machine includes a high-pressure pump that helps to create a coffee shop caliber beverage. It has a water tank that holds up to 24 ounces and alerts you once it needs to be refilled. The included Aeroccino3 Milk Frother is the perfect addiction to create a delicious coffee beverage.
Where to buy: Amazon and Macy’s
Nespresso Inissia Espresso Maker with Aeroccino Milk Frother by De’Longhi
This machine is available in a sleek shade of black and weighs just under 2 pounds. This combination set includes an espresso maker and the milk frother in order to easily create a delicious beverage from the comfort of your home or office. As an added bonus, each machine comes with a complimentary set of Nespresso capsules to get you started.
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A three-day trial is scheduled to begin Wednesday over the only remaining legal claim in Republican Kari Lake’s challenge of her defeat six months ago to Democrat Katie Hobbs in the Arizona governor’s race.
The former TV anchor was among the most vocal of last year’s Republican candidates promoting former President Donald Trump’s election lies, which she made the centerpiece of her campaign.
While most other election deniers around the country conceded after losing their races in November, Lake did not. She lost to Hobbs by more than 17,000 votes.
Courts have dismissed most of her lawsuit, but the Arizona Supreme Court revived one claim that challenges the implementation of signature verification procedures on early ballots in Maricopa County, home to more than 60% of the state’s voters.
Superior Court Judge Peter A. Thompson said in a ruling Monday that Lake alleges Maricopa County officials failed to perform any higher level signature verifications on mail-in ballots that had been flagged by lower level screeners for any inconsistencies. Lake’s lawyers maintain they are challenging all levels of signature verification.
Three workers on lower-level signature verification who filed declarations in court on Lake’s behalf have said they experienced rejection rates due to mismatched signatures on 15% to 40% of the ballots they encountered.
Attorneys for Arizona election officials said the workers’ speculation on signature verification efforts does not amount to a violation of the law or misconduct by election workers — and raised questions about whether the three workers could know the outcome of the specific ballots they had flagged.
Lake isn’t contesting whether voters’ signatures on ballot envelopes matched those in their voting records.
In a ruling Monday night, Thompson refused to throw out Lake’s claim.
Lake faces a high bar in proving not only her allegation over signature verification efforts but also that it affected the outcome of her race.
County officials say they have nothing to hide and are confident that they will prevail in court.
Lake’s lawyers say there was a flood of mail-in ballots in Maricopa County at a time when there were too few workers to verify ballot signatures. Her attorneys say the county ultimately accepted thousands of ballots that had been rejected earlier by workers for having mismatched signatures.
By reviving the claim, the Arizona Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision that found Lake waited too long to raise it.
Earlier in her lawsuit, Lake had focused on problems with ballot printers at some polling places in Maricopa County. The defective printers produced ballots that were too light to be read by the on-site tabulators at polling places. Lines were backed up in some areas amid the confusion. Lake alleged ballot printer problems were the result of intentional misconduct.
County officials say everyone had a chance to vote and all ballots were counted because those affected by the printers were taken to more sophisticated counters at election headquarters.
In mid-February, the Arizona Court of Appeals rejected Lake’s assertions, concluding she presented no evidence that voters whose ballots were unreadable by tabulators at polling places were unable to vote.
The following month, the state Supreme Court declined to hear nearly all of Lake’s appeal, saying there was no evidence to support her claim that more than 35,000 ballots were added to vote totals.
Earlier this month, the court sanctioned Lake’s lawyers $2,000 for making false statements when saying that more than 35,000 ballots had been improperly added to the total count.
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The 2023 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship Odds & Preview: Hannah Green
The KPMG Women’s PGA Championship is underway, and Hannah Green is currently in 86th place with a score of +4.
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Hannah Green Insights
- Over her last 13 rounds, Green has shot below par on seven occasions, while also shooting one bogey-free round and eight rounds with a better-than-average score.
- She has finished with one of the 10 best scores of the day in one of her last 13 rounds.
- Over her last 13 rounds, Green has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round twice, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on seven occasions.
- In her past five events, Green has finished atop the leaderboard once.
- The past five times she has played a tournament, she's made the cut three times.
- Green has finished with a score better than the tournament average in one of her past five appearances, including one finish within three shots of the leader.
Over the last year
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KPMG Women’s PGA Championship Insights and Stats
- Green has one top-five finish in her past two appearances in this tournament. Her average finishing position has been 46th.
- Green has made the cut in each of her last two trips to this event.
- Green finished 86th on the leaderboard in her previous appearance at this event, in 2023.
- This tournament will take place on a par 71 listed at 6,621 yards, compared to the average for Tour stops in the past year.
- The average course Green has played i the last year (6,562 yards) is 59 yards shorter than the course she'll be playing this week (6,621).
Green's Last Time Out
- Green finished in the 38th percentile on the 20 par-3 holes at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give, with an average of 3.05 strokes.
- She averaged 4.00 strokes on par-4 holes (of which there were 32) at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give, which was strong enough to place her in the 71st percentile of the field on par 4s (the tournament average was 4.09).
- On the 20 par-5 holes at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give, Green was better than 47% of the field (averaging 4.65 strokes).
- Green shot equal to the field average on par-3s in the last time out, recording a birdie or better on two of 20 par-3s at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give.
- On the 20 par-3s at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give, Green had more bogeys or worse (three) than the tournament average (2.1).
- Green's five birdies or better on the 32 par-4s at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give were more than the tournament average (3.0).
- In that most recent competition, Green posted a bogey or worse on five of 32 par-4s (the field averaged 4.8).
- Green ended the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give outperforming the tournament average of birdies or better on par-5s (6.4) with seven on the 20 par-5 holes.
- The field at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give averaged 1.1 bogeys or worse on the 20 par-5s, but Green finished without one.
KPMG Women’s PGA Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: June 22-25, 2023
- Course: Baltusrol GC
- Location: Springfield, New Jersey
- Par: 71 / 6,621 yards
- Green Odds to Win: +6600 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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EQT CEO, Toby Z. Rice Recognized as Top Leader
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT) today announced it has been awarded a 2022 Top Workplace honor placing second among large Pittsburgh-based employers in the Post-Gazette's annual Top Workplaces survey program. In addition, EQT President and CEO, Toby Z. Rice was honored as Top Leader in the large employer category.
"The 2022 Top Workplace Award for EQT symbolizes the cultural transformation that we have driven over the past 36 months. Thanks to everyone on the Qrew that makes EQT such a productive, challenging, rewarding, and fun place to work," said Rice. "I am proud to lead this organization as we work together with our stakeholders to achieve our higher purpose - providing energy security to the world while arresting emissions."
The Post-Gazette Top Workplaces program is based solely on employee feedback gathered through a third-party survey administered by employee engagement technology partner Energage LLC. The anonymous survey uniquely measures 15 culture drivers that are critical to the success of any organization, including alignment, execution, and connection. The Top Workplace awards highlight companies that listen to what matters most to employees and use that insight in decision-making.
EQT, which is the largest natural gas producer in the United States, has operations in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio and is dedicated to responsibly developing our world-class asset base in the core of the Appalachian Basin. More than 700 employees participated in the employee engagement survey earlier this year.
"It's a privilege to work in a corporate environment built on trust, teamwork, evolution, and heart. It's these values that show up every day, in everything that we do. Our Qrew is highly engaged and inspires one another to work towards our higher purpose in delivering every detail," said Lesley Evancho Chief Human Resource Officer.
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About EQT
EQT Corporation is a leading independent natural gas production company with operations focused in the cores of the Marcellus and Utica Shales in the Appalachian Basin. We are dedicated to responsibly developing our world-class asset base and being the operator of choice for our stakeholders. By leveraging a culture that prioritizes operational efficiency, technology, and sustainability, we seek to continuously improve the way we produce environmentally responsible, reliable, and low-cost energy. We have a longstanding commitment to the safety of our employees, contractors, and communities, and the reduction of our overall environmental footprint. Our values are evident in the way we operate and in how we interact each day – trust, teamwork, heart, and evolution are at the center of all we do. To learn more, visit eqt.com.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Five years after the term “Steele dossier” entered the political lexicon, a think tank analyst who contributed to research about Donald Trump and Russia goes on trial Tuesday for lying to the FBI about his sources of information.
Igor Danchenko is the third person to be prosecuted by Special Counsel John Durham, who was appointed to investigate the origins of “Crossfire Hurricane" — the designation given to the FBI's 2016 probe into former president Trump's Russia connections. It is also the first of Durham's cases that delves deeply into the origins of the dossier that Trump derided as fake news and a political witch hunt.
Here's some background on what the case is about.
WHO IS DANCHENKO AND WHAT IS HE ACCUSED OF?
Danchenko, a Russian analyst, was a source of information for Christopher Steele, a former British spy who was paid by Democrats to research ties between Russia and presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The compilation of research files, which included salacious rumors and unproven assertions, came to be familiarly known as the “Steele dossier." Though the dossier did not help launch the FBI's investigation into potential coordination between Russia and Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, the Justice Department did rely on it when it applied for and received warrants to monitor the communications of a former Trump campaign adviser.
As part of its efforts to verify information in the dossier, the FBI interviewed Danchenko in 2017.
He is charged with lying to agents about his information sources, with prosecutors accusing Danchenko of misleading the FBI in an effort to make his own contributions seem more credible.
WHAT DO THE PROSECUTORS SAY?
Prosecutors say Danchenko lied when the FBI asked him about how he obtained the information he gave to Steele. Specifically, they say he denied that he relied on a Democratic operative, Charles Dolan, a public relations executive who volunteered for Hillary Clinton’s presidential 2016 campaign.
Prosecutors also say Danchenko lied when he said he received information from an anonymous phone call that he believed was placed by a man named named Sergei Millian, a former president of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce. They argue Danchenko knew that Millian wasn't a source of any anonymous phone call.
The indictment says the FBI could have better judged the veracity of the Steele dossier had it known that a Democratic operative was the source of much of its information.
WHAT DOES THE DEFENSE SAY?
Danchenko's lawyers say the prosecution “is a case of extraordinary government overreach.” They note that Danchenko agreed to multiple voluntary FBI interviews throughout 2017. They say his answers to the FBI were all technically true.
For instance, an FBI agent asked Danchenko whether he ever “talked” with Dolan about the information that showed up in the dossier. While prosecutors have produced evidence that the two had email exchanges about topics in the dossier, there's no evidence that they talked orally about those topics.
“It was a bad question,” said Danchenko’s lawyer, Stuart Sears, at a pretrial hearing last month. “That’s the special counsel’s problem. Not Mr. Danchenko’s."
And while Danchenko said he believed Millian was the voice on the anonymous phone call, he never told the FBI with any certainty that it was Millian. Sears argued that ambiguous statements like that fall short of what's necessary to convict on a false statements charge.
WHAT OTHER CASES HAS DURHAM BROUGHT?
Durham was the U.S. Attorney in Connecticut in 2019 when he was tapped by then-Attorney General William Barr to hunt for potential misconduct by government officials who conducted the original Russia investigation.
But after more than three years, Durham's work has failed to meet the expectations of Trump supporters who hoped he would uncover sweeping FBI conspiracies to derail the Republican's candidacy.
The probe has produced only three criminal cases.
The first case was against an FBI lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith, who was accused of altering an email related to the surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. It ended in a guilty plea and a sentence of probation – and involved FBI misconduct already uncovered by the Justice Department’s inspector general.
Last year, Durham's team charged a Democratic lawyer with making a false statement to the FBI's top lawyer during a 2016 meeting in which he presented information about a purported — and ultimately debunked — backchannel between a Russia bank and the Trump organization. The case against the lawyer, Michael Sussmann, ended in a swift acquittal in May.
Durham's work has continued deep into the Biden administration Justice Department, but the Danchenko trial seems likely to be the last criminal case his team will bring. It is not clear when Durham might produce a report summarizing his findings.
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WOODLAND PARK, N.J., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Anterix (NASDAQ: ATEX) today announced it will release its first quarter financial results for the 2023 fiscal year after the close of the market on Monday, August 8, 2022. Anterix senior management will hold its analyst and investor conference call to discuss its first quarter fiscal 2023 financial results at 4:30 P.M. ET on Monday, August 8, 2022. Interested parties can participate in the call by dialing 888-267-2845 and using the conference code 961551. A replay of the call will be accessible on the Investor Relations section of Anterix's website at https://www.anterix.com/events/.
About Anterix
At Anterix, we are focused on delivering transformative private broadband that enables the modernization of critical infrastructure for the energy, transportation, logistics and other sectors of our economy. As the largest holder of licensed spectrum in the 900 MHz band (896-901/935-940 MHz) throughout the contiguous United States, plus Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico, we are uniquely positioned to enable the private LTE solutions that support secure, resilient and customer-controlled operations. For more information, visit: www.anterix.com.
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‘Blacks only,’ ‘whites only’ signs posted on Ohio high school water fountains, parents say
CINCINNATI (WXIX/Gray News) – Signs recently appeared on the water fountains at a high school in Ohio appearing to segregate the water fountains along racial lines, according to parents.
According to WXIX, school officials at Colerain High School confirmed the signs were posted May 5 and then shared on social media.
The school’s principal sent a letter to parents saying, “The administration is taking this incident very seriously, as matters of racial insensitivity are not condoned or tolerated.”
“We will not stand for intolerance of any kind and will discipline any student who participates in displaying intolerant behavior,” Principal Erin Davis said in the letter.
Some parents take issue with the part of Davis’ letter that says even students who share the post online will be subject to disciplinary action.
They argue that some students wanted to let others know they were hurt, but the school is trying to silence them.
“These water fountains were labeled ‘blacks only,’ ‘whites only,’ which pushed us back so many generations,” said one parent who preferred to remain anonymous. “My heart dropped. I could not believe it. It was so offensive.”
The parents say in order for students to process information like this, they need to be able to talk about it openly without the chilling threat of censure from above.
A spokesperson for the school district called the signs “unacceptable on all levels” and a deviation from the district’s “culture of inclusivity, respect, kindness and compassion for everyone.”
According to the school’s spokesperson, an investigation into the matter revealed the signs were posted over the water fountains for 30 seconds and “were never seen by other students or staff members.”
“The three students involved in the incident posted the signs, took photos and removed the notes before posting the photos online,” the spokesperson explained.
The school district said the students involved have been disciplined for their actions.
Here is a full copy of the letter sent to parents:
CHS Families,
Earlier today, Colerain High School (CHS) Administration was made aware of an inappropriate and racist message that was displayed at CHS. The administration is taking this incident very seriously, as matters of racial insensitivity are not condoned or tolerated. We are currently in the process of investigating this matter. At this time, we have identified two students who were involved. Additionally, we have been made aware that the posting has been shared on social media. Any student, including those who are found to have taken part in sharing the post online will also be subject to disciplinary action.
The actions that were displayed do not reflect the values and culture of Colerain High School or the Northwest Local School District. CHS stands firm on creating a culture of inclusivity, respect, kindness and compassion. As a school community it is our responsibility to make sure that our CHS family uphold and live out these values. We will not stand for intolerance of any kind and will discipline any student who participates in displaying intolerant behavior.
Erin Davis
Principal
Colerain High School
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Best-in-class sportsbook continues expansion with a new, fully native iOS experience
CHEYENNE, Wyo. and LAS VEGAS, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: CZR) ("Caesars") today announced its sports wagering mobile app, Caesars Sportsbook, is available for download throughout Wyoming. Eligible sports fans in the state can now enjoy a new Caesars Sportsbook experience on iOS ahead of its rollout in other states, as well as on Android and desktop.
The new native iOS Caesars Sportsbook app features improved performance with a focus on speed, ease of use, and intuitive features to make getting your bet down easier than ever. Caesars Sportsbook combines this elevated sports wagering experience with the unmatched rewards that Wyoming sports fans can enjoy through the app's integration with the industry-leading customer loyalty program, Caesars Rewards.
"We're ready to give sports fans in Wyoming the first-class sports betting experience they deserve," said Eric Hession, Co-President of Caesars Digital. "Our upgraded mobile sports wagering app together with unforgettable experiences through Caesars Rewards is a special combination we're excited to bring to this market."
In addition to mobile betting on a wide variety of sports from anywhere in the state, Caesars Sportsbook is the only app in Wyoming that rewards sports bettors with exclusive industry-best opportunities at Caesars destinations across the United States and at locations on the famed Las Vegas Strip. Bettors can now earn Tier Credits and Reward Credits on every wager placed that can be redeemed for Caesars Rewards experiences or bonus cash in the app.
Starting today, eligible sports fans anywhere in Wyoming can download the Caesars Sportsbook app on iOS, register, and deposit funds to take advantage of a special sign-up offer for first-time users. In the event that a first-time wager isn't a winner, new users receive a free bet equal to the amount of that first wager up to $1,500.
Caesars is an industry leader in responsible gaming with a decades-long commitment to responsible gaming practices that have carried over as an emphasis for Caesars Sportsbook. Wyoming sports bettors will have access to responsible gaming resources through Caesars Sportsbook's commitment to working with regulators and the community. In addition, the Caesars Sportsbook app has best-in-class tools in place to prevent problem gambling, including Deposit Limits, Spending Limits, Daily Time Limits, and Cool Off Time Limits.
Caesars Sportsbook is live in 24 states and jurisdictions—18 of which are mobile—and operates the most retail sportsbooks across the country. For real-time industry updates and to join the empire of like-minded Caesars, players can engage with the Caesars Sportsbook social handle @CaesarsSports on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
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Turkey cracks down on building contractors as quake death toll reaches grim milestone
By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN
Turkish authorities have arrested or detained a number of property developers as the death toll from last week’s catastrophic earthquake soared past 36,000.
The 7.8-magnitude quake that struck southeastern Turkey near the border with Syria last Monday has now caused 31,643 deaths in Turkey, according to the Turkish Emergency Coordination Center SAKOM on Monday. The number of dead in Syria now stands at 4,574, state media said Sunday.
Last week’s earthquake will likely become Turkey’s deadliest — a 1939 quake killed 32,962 people.
Emergency responders have been frantically working to reach residents trapped beneath the rubble in Turkey. In northwest Syria, rescue operations have now ended, the White Helmets volunteer organization said.
As families mourn the loss of loved ones, resentment has grown among those affected and many are now looking to assign blame for the extent of the disaster.
Crackdown on contractors
Amid growing public anger, authorities in Turkey are investigating 163 people in connection with building collapses. Of those under investigation, eight have been arrested and 48 are in police custody, according to Turkey’s state-run news agency Anadolu.
Eight were arrested pending trial, whose responsibilities were determined by public prosecutors, Anadolu reported. Authorities didn’t provide further details of what they’re being investigated for.
During a visit to Diyarbakir earlier on Monday, Turkey’s justice minister Bekir Bozdag said the public prosecutor’s offices in all earthquake-affected areas were conducting the judicial investigations.
Bozdag explained that “some of the buildings are 30 years old, some are older, some are 20, and some were built more recently, so our municipalities have this information.” He added: “Audits are subject to the evaluation of this information, and our public prosecutors carry out investigations to determine who is involved in these constructions.”
According to Anadolu, prosecutors in the city of Malatya issued arrest warrants for 31 people on Monday over ties to collapsed buildings.
Nazmi Tosun, a construction supervisor and technical representative of Emre Apartment, which was destroyed in Gaziantep province, was arrested in Istanbul early on Monday, Anadolu reported, citing the security forces.
Several contractors believed by officials to be responsible for several destroyed buildings in the city of Adiyaman were arrested Sunday at Istanbul airport while attempting to leave the country. Yavuz Karakus, and his wife, Sevilay, who have built several buildings in Adiyaman, were taken into custody, with Anadolu reporting that the couple had $16,000 and an additional 20,000 Turkish lira (approximately $1,061) on them at the time. Karakus told reporters: “My conscience is clear. I built 44 houses. Four of them fell. I did everything according to codes.”
Mehmet Yaşar Coşkun, a contractor responsible for Rönesans Residence, a block of high-rise luxury flats which collapsed in Hatay province, was intercepted by authorities at the airport on Saturday while attempting to flee to Montenegro, according to Anadolu. He claimed that he did not know why his building collapsed and that his flight had nothing to do with the collapsed building. Another contractor, Mehmet Ertan Akay, whose Hatay residential building also fell has been arrested by Istanbul police, Anadolu also reported.
Another contractor, İbrahim Mustafa Uncuoğlu, was detained in Istanbul Saturday after his inspections of the collapsed Bahar Apartments, located in the earthquake’s epicenter of Gaziantep, were found to be negligent, Anadolu reported, citing the Gaziantep Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. At least nine people died when that building crumbled.
Meanwhile, Hasan Alpargün, owner of a company that erected buildings that have since collapsed in the city of Adana, was detained in Northern Cyprus on Saturday, Anadolu reported, citing the security forces. Prosecutors in Adana have arrested 31 people as part of their probe on Monday.
The clampdown on contractors comes amid increased scrutiny over Turkey’s construction standards and building regulations.
Earthquakes are not uncommon in Turkey, as the country straddles multiple tectonic plates. However, last week’s quake was particularly destructive, with the United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths describing it on Monday as the “worst event in 100 years in this region.”
The country has strict rules that came into place following a devastating Izmit quake in 1999 in the Marmara region, which left more than 17,000 dead and around half a million people homeless. Many may view the detentions of contractors as an attempt from the government to shift responsibility for the extent of the disaster from the state onto individuals.
Man-made disaster?
After previous disasters, building codes were tightened — which should have ensured that modern builds would withstand large tremors. Yet many damaged buildings across the stricken region appeared to have been newly constructed. Residents and experts are now questioning if the government failed to take the necessary steps to enforce building regulations.
Yasemin Didem Aktas, structural engineer and lecturer at University College London, told CNN that while the earthquake and its aftershocks constituted “a very powerful event that would challenge even code compliant buildings,” the scale of damage indicates that buildings didn’t meet safety standards.
“What we are seeing here is definitely telling us something is wrong in those buildings, and it can be that they weren’t designed in line with the code in the first place, or the implementation wasn’t designed properly,” Didem Aktas said. “We are also seeing in Turkey quite commonly that post-occupancy modifications on buildings compromise their structural safety.
“These are the early days, hopefully we’ll be on the ground to complete our engineering assessments in due course but in the time being we can say they were definitely faulty,” she added.
Several critics are also questioning the Turkish government’s periodic approval of so-called “construction amnesties” — essentially legal exemptions that, for a fee, forgave developers for constructing projects without the necessary safety requirements.
The amnesties were designed to legalize older sub-standard buildings that had been erected without the proper permits. They also didn’t require developers to bring their properties up to code.
The most recent construction amnesty was passed in 2018, when the government said more than 50% of buildings in the country were known to be against building code. The state identified that the vast majority of building violations occurred between 1950 and 2000.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has frequently put construction at the heart of his economic development policies during his two decades as president and prime minister. The government’s amnesties over the years have often coincided with campaigning ahead of elections and have been seen by many as a way to garner votes.
Experts also say that contractors wouldn’t have been able to proceed with their projects if their substandard work hadn’t been potentially waved through by various local officials and suggested corruption was to blame.
Ajay Chhibber, an economist who was World Bank director for Turkey when the 7.6-magnitude Izmit quake struck in 1999, told CNN building amnesties were “a huge issue.”
“They just go ahead and make the building. They don’t follow the code. They know that at some point some politicians — because they’re financing their political parties — they’ll grant them an amnesty. That’s a huge problem.”
Chhibber added earthquakes don’t necessarily equate to widespread destruction as witnessed this past week. “It need not be a disaster to this scale, unless it’s man-made. And the man-made part comes from the lack of a proper building code being enforced. There’s no reason these buildings should have collapsed that easily. Some of them were built only a year or two ago,” he said.
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NEW YORK, July 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Bloomberg published a story that inaccurately characterizes CLEAR's robust security and our work with the TSA in keeping airports safe. Despite engaging with the reporters for nearly two weeks and providing them on-the-record responses and factual information that directly contradicts their reporting, they chose to largely ignore key facts and specific details regarding how our system works. Those facts are:
- There was a July 2022 incident that was the result of a single human error – having nothing to do with our technology. We took immediate action to end the practice that led to the human error and took corrective action to fully re-enroll the miniscule percentage of our customers enrolled under this process.
- The results speak for themselves – in the last six months alone, the TSA has reverified 4.7 million IDs without citing a single issue.
- The images included in the article lack important details. Specifically the images in question were not relied upon during the secure, multi-layered enrollment process and CLEAR does not currently use face as a biometric to verify a member on the day of travel – we rely on fingerprints or iris.
- It is also deeply disappointing to us that images that were shared with the federal government as part of its review of this enrollment were subsequently shared with the press. We expect that appropriate steps will be taken to determine how this occurred.
We share TSA's unwavering commitment to aviation security, and have proven ourselves a capable and trusted partner for more than 13 years having performed over 130 million passenger verifications. We are disappointed that some continue to spin a false narrative about our company and the important role we play in aviation security as a Registered Traveler provider. We look forward to continuing to partner with our aviation stakeholders, including airports, TSA and the Department of Homeland Security.
CLEAR has consistently delivered on state-of-the-art technology that strengthens airport security and enhances travel for millions of passengers – and that is exactly what we will continue to do.
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By ZEKE MILLER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden had lunch Monday with former President Bill Clinton as Democrats are facing long odds to retain their congressional majorities in November’s midterm elections — a predicament the former president knows only too well from his own time in office.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki declined to say what the pair would discuss, only saying “I’m sure they will have a broad conversation.”
Biden and Clinton both eulogized former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright at the funeral for her last week. The lunch comes weeks after former President Barack Obama returned to the White House to meet with Biden and staff, and attend an event marking the tenth anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Psaki also revealed Monday that Biden and Obama had a private lunch last week as well.
The Washington Post first reported on the meeting.
While out of office for more than two decades, Clinton remains one of his party’s strongest communicators, and is a sought-after surrogate for Democrats. Clinton suffered significant Democratic losses during the 1994 midterms, when Republicans took control of the House and Senate, a fate Biden is trying to avoid.
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BEIJING, April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SANY Heavy Industry ("SANY", SSE: 600031), a leading global heavy machinery manufacturer, has published the annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report, detailing the group's progress and achievements of social responsibility strategy and practice with heightened emphasis on sharing SANY's experience in tackling the climate challenges. Upholding the mission of "Quality Changes the World," SANY remains true to its aspirations and thrives to build a better world with its customers and partners.
Adhering to the strategy of "intelligent digitalization, electrification, and internationalization," SANY has been consistently improving the corporate governance and risk management efficiency, driving sustainable development through technological innovations, and meeting environmental governance targets to pursue green economy.
SANY is also promoting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and reaching China's carbon peaking and carbon neutralization goals, while taking better care of employees, focusing on talent development, and actively investing in and engaging in social welfare events.
"SANY has always been actively fulfilling our economic, social, and environmental responsibilities to achieve sustainable development. Looking ahead into 2023, we will continue to seize opportunities and collaborate with our partners and all stakeholders to explore a sustainable development path that tackles global challenges, creates greater value for employees, shareholders, and society, and contributes to reaching the global sustainable development goals," said Xiang Wenbo, chairman of SANY Heavy Industry.
Intelligent digitalization, electrification, and internationalization: SANY's global roadmap for the transformative time
SANY's global development roadmap emphasizes leveraging intelligent digitalization to reach the "Dual Carbon" goals, advancing electrification development to target clean energy opportunities, and accelerating global industrial layout.
The group is shifting conventional manufacturing and consumption models towards green, energy-saving, and circular development. Driving the future with the power of data, its intelligent digitalization strategy is leading the industry's technological progress, especially in the area of low-carbon transformation of product development – integrating clean technology optimization for construction machinery equipment, including pure electric and hydrogen energy technologies.
SANY is also stepping up its commitment to allocate more resources in expanding the overseas market and sales network. It recorded an annual international sales revenue of 36.571 billion yuan (USD 5.3 billion) in 2022.
Strengthening corporate governance to promote technological innovation, sustainable and green development, people development and social responsibility
SANY has established a standardized and effective risk management and internal control structure to achieve long-term sustainable development, while improving the systems of R&D, quality control, and supplier management with sustainability the key to the corporate governance processes.
In 2022, SANY invested 7.826 billion yuan (USD 1.13 billion) in R&D, representing a 1.68 percent increase year-on-year and accounting for 9.78 percent of its operational revenue.
SANY is implementing clean production technologies to conserve resources, boost recycling, and reduce environmental pollution. In 2022, it invested 3.22 million yuan (USD 466,673.31) in photovoltaic projects that generate an average of 900,000 KWH annually, with its total clean energy usage amounting to 16.013 million KWH. SANY also invested over 140 million yuan (USD 20.29 million) to control gas emissions and reduce VOCs emissions by 134.83 tons.
Building on a human touch, SANY has been improving its safety production and occupational health management systems to guarantee and support the well-being and safety of employees and suppliers. In addition, it has organized various events for employees to promote engagement and communication, as well as creating a better environment for work and life.
In 2022, SANY employees completed 687.4 hours of volunteer work. The group's total investment in various social welfare projects reached 45.769 million yuan (USD 6.63 million), encompassing poverty alleviation, disaster relief, and public welfare initiatives.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Outset Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: OM) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased Outset Medical common stock between September 15, 2020, and June 13, 2022.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: September 6, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Outset Medical, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company's flagship product, Tablo Hemodialysis System ("Tablo"), would require an additional 510(k) application to be filed with The United States Food and Drug Administration ("FDA"), as defendants had "continuously made improvements and updates to Tablo over time since its original clearance"; (2) as a result, the Company could not conduct a human factors study on a cleared device in accordance with FDA protocols; (3) the Company's inability to conduct the human factors study subjected the Company to the likelihood of the FDA imposing a "shipment hold" and marketing suspension, leaving the Company unable to sell Tablo for home use; and (4) as a result, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and /or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Outset Medical you have until September 6, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Outset Medical securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the OM lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/loss-submission-form-outset-medical-class-action?id=30843&from=4.
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho wildlife officials say an attack by two wolves panicked a flock of sheep and 143 died after they ran into a gully where they were crushed and suffocated.
The Idaho Department of Fish and Game and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services on Thursday confirmed the sheep deaths in mid-May in southwestern Idaho in foothills north of Boise.
The area is popular for recreation such as mountain biking and hiking, and also has deer, elk and large predators such as bears, mountain lions and wolves.
Sheep owner Frank Shirts says it’s the worst incident of wolf predation he’s experienced since wolves were released into central Idaho in 1995. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/143-sheep-die-while-fleeing-2-attacking-wolves-in-idaho/ | 2022-06-03 12:15:42 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/143-sheep-die-while-fleeing-2-attacking-wolves-in-idaho/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nerves lasted longer than usual for Jacob deGrom. He was perfectly fine with that after waiting so long to get back on the mound.
Making his first major league start in more than a year, deGrom looked almost back to his Cy Young Award self. He allowed one run on three hits and struck out six in five innings before a bullpen meltdown cost the New York Mets in a 5-1 loss to the Washington Nationals that halted their season-high seven-game winning streak Tuesday night.
“To get out there and pitch and be healthy, that’s the reward,” deGrom said between smiles afterward. “The goal was to win a baseball game and we weren’t able to do that tonight, but to be out there and be healthy and feel good is definitely a good step.”
Sidelined for the second half of last season by an elbow injury and shut down late in spring training because of a stress reaction in his right scapula, deGrom got a standing ovation from a crowd full of Mets fans prior to his first game back in almost 13 months. Serenaded with applause when he delivered a 99 mph fastball on his first meaningful pitch since July 7, 2021, deGrom threw 46 of 59 for strikes before coming out of the game around the time the team planned for.
He averaged 99.7 mph on 31 fastballs, throwing 13 in triple digits and topping out at 101.6 mph.
“His fastball was over 100, and his slider is nasty,” Washington manager Dave Martinez said. “I know that he’s still trying to build up, but his stuff was really good.”
The 34-year-old two-time NL Cy Young Award winner got all but one of his strikeouts swinging and was much sharper than his final rehab start in the minors last week when he allowed four runs in four innings on 67 pitches. He left with a no-decision after Francisco Lindor homered for the NL East leaders in the sixth, and criticized himself for making two mistakes in the fourth that added up to a Nationals run.
“That’s going to be part of this: not being out there in that long and getting a good feel for the stuff,” deGrom said. “Overall I felt like I was able to locate the ball where I needed to.”
Mets reliever Stephen Nogosek (0-1) took the loss after allowing a two-run homer to Luis Garcia and a solo shot to Yadiel Hernandez in the sixth. Yoan López also gave up a homer in the seventh, when he got big help from center fielder Brandon Nimmo on a diving catch to end the inning.
“What a play,” manager Buck Showalter said. “He’s been a lot of fun to watch and a joy to watch play baseball this year.”
New York’s lead in the NL East was trimmed to 2 1/2 games over Atlanta.
Making his first start of the season in the aftermath of the blockbuster trade that sent Nationals superstar outfielder Juan Soto and veteran first baseman Josh Bell to San Diego, Cory Abbott allowed two runs and struck out three in five shutout innings. Victor Arano (1-0) got the win in relief.
TRADE DEADLINE
While the Nationals were selling, the Mets were buying at the trade deadline, acquiring right-handed power hitter Darin Ruf from the Giants and reliever Mychal Givens from the Cubs. New York sent DH/3B J.D. Davis and three pitching prospects to San Francisco for Ruf, and minor league pitcher Saúl González to Chicago for Givens.
Washington made no other moves aside from the blockbuster with San Diego and a trade Monday that sent utility player Ehire Adrianza to Atlanta for minor league outfielder Trey Harris.
WELCOME TO THE MAJORS
Joey Meneses, called up to the majors for the first time at age 30 to fill Bell’s spot on the roster, struck out against deGrom in his first at-bat and homered in the seventh. Although his time starting at first base may be short-lived with the arrival of first baseman Luke Voit, Meneses made some history by becoming the first Mexico-born player to homer in his major league debut.
“The emotions were amazing,” Meneses said. “I was a little bit in shock when I first realized what was going on. I didn’t know what to do. I was focused on getting my first hit in the big leagues, and luckily it turned out to be even better than that.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Mets: RHP Trevor May (right triceps) could be activated as soon as Wednesday. He has been on the injured list since May 3. “I’m hoping that’s a good addition for us,” Showalter said. “Comparably speaking to some other things, if we get him back right, that’s a big piece to add to our bullpen.”
Nationals: Rookie LHP MacKenzie Gore, the furthest along of the five young players acquired from the Padres for Soto and Bell, will not get rushed back from elbow inflammation by a last-place team looking toward the future. Gore went on the injured list last week, though the injury wasn’t an obstacle to completing the trade after the Nationals got the thumbs up from their doctor. “We’re going to take it slow with him, for sure,” general manager Mike Rizzo said.
UP NEXT
Ruf could make his Mets debut in the series finale Wednesday after coming over in a trade from the Giants. Chris Bassitt (7-7, 3.83 ERA) is set to start for New York against Aníbal Sánchez (0-3, 7.47).
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy likely rolled out of 2022 with momentum, registering decent growth in the face of painful inflation, high interest rates and rising concern that a recession may be months away.
Economists have estimated that the gross domestic product — the broadest measure of economic output — grew at a 2.3% annual pace from October through December, according to a survey of forecasters by the data firm FactSet.
The Commerce Department will issue its first of three estimates of fourth-quarter GDP growth at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time Thursday.
Despite a likely second straight quarter of expansion, the economy is widely expected to slow and then slide into a recession sometime in the coming months as increasingly high interest rates, engineered by the Federal Reserve, take a toll. The Fed’s rate hikes have inflated borrowing costs for consumers and businesses, from mortgages to auto loans to corporate credit.
The housing market, which is especially vulnerable to higher loan rates, has been badly bruised: Sales of existing homes have dropped for 11 straight months. Investment in housing plunged at a 27% annual rate from July through September.
And consumer spending, which fuels roughly 70% of the entire economy, is likely to soften in the months ahead, along with the still-robust job market. The resilience of the labor market has been a major surprise. Last year, employers added 4.5 million jobs, second only to the 6.7 million that were added in 2021 in government records going back to 1940. And last month’s unemployment rate, 3.5%, matched a 53-year low.
But the good times for America’s workers aren’t likely to last. As higher rates make borrowing and spending increasingly expensive across the economy, many consumers will spend less and employers will likely hire less.
Last year, the Fed raised its benchmark rate seven times in unusually large increments to try to curb the spike in consumer prices. Yet another Fed rate hike, though a smaller one, is expected next week.
The central bank has been responding to an inflation rate that remains stubbornly high even though it has been gradually easing. Year-over-year inflation was raging at a 9.1% rate in June, the highest level in more than 40 years. It has since cooled — to 6.5% in December — but is still far above the Fed’s 2% annual target.
Another threat to the economy this year is rooted in politics: House Republicans could refuse to raise the federal debt limit if the Biden administration rejects their demand for broad spending cuts. A failure to raise the borrowing cap would prevent the federal government from being able to pay all its obligations and could shatter its credit.
Moody’s Analytics estimates that the resulting upheaval could wipe out nearly 6 million American jobs in a recession similar to the devastating one that was triggered by the 2007-2009 financial crisis.
At least the economy is likely beginning the year on firmer footing than it did at the start of 2022. Last year, the economy shrank at an annual pace of 1.6% from January through March and by a further 0.6% from April through June. Those two consecutive quarters of economic contraction raised fears that a recession might have begun.
But the economy regained strength over the summer, propelled by resilient consumer spending and higher exports. It expanded at an unexpectedly strong 3.2% annual pace from July through September. | https://www.fox16.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-us-economy-likely-slowed-but-still-posted-solid-growth-in-q4/ | 2023-01-26 12:32:56 | 0 | https://www.fox16.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-us-economy-likely-slowed-but-still-posted-solid-growth-in-q4/ |
DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service has given the green light to install new seismometers on Glacier Peak, classified as one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the United States.
There’s only one monitor there now, according to federal agencies. More early warning sensors could provide precious time to evacuate, the Everett Herald reported.
The U.S. Forest Service determined the project would have no significant impact on the environment. Two groups opposed the use of helicopters in a wilderness area. The Forest Service considered a “full range of alternatives” in making the decision to move forward. Crews carry equipment in backpacks, cutting down on flight time.
The U.S. Geological Survey can start installing four new monitors and upgrade the old one, as part of a 30-year special use permit. Government officials estimate the GPS stations could detect eight times as many earthquakes.
The seismometers could be installed as soon as this summer. But the work might not happen until at least next year, according to USGS.
Glacier Peak is one of the region’s most active volcanoes. About 13,000 years ago, the volcano blew off five times as much rock as the 1980 explosion of Mount St. Helens.
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Extension of 20-year agreement will offer members and patients special dental financing options, modern digital payment features and financial education resources.
STAMFORD, Conn., March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Academy of General Dentistry (AGD) and Synchrony (NYSE: SYF), a leading consumer financial services company, announced the extension of their sponsorship and exclusive benefits agreement, making CareCredit, a Synchrony product, the only patient financing solution offered in AGD's exclusive benefits program. This collaboration highlights the special financing options, digital payment features and value-added resources Synchrony's CareCredit credit card delivers to AGD's more than 35,000 members comprised of dentists.
"We share the Academy of General Dentistry's commitment to connecting dentists and their teams with the modern tools they need to serve patients. One of those tools is financing, which gives their patients access to the treatments they need and deserve," said Bete Johnson, senior vice president and general manager, Dental, Synchrony. "Synchrony has a long-standing legacy of offering reliable and efficient solutions, such as CareCredit, that span the dental healthcare journey for both providers and patients. We're thrilled to continue to work closely with the AGD to bring solutions and value to their members."
CareCredit is the industry's leading health and wellness credit card and is accepted by 80% of all dental practices. Synchrony has worked with the AGD, the country's second-largest dental association, for more than 23 years with CareCredit as the exclusive patient financing solution offered within their benefits program. The renewed CareCredit program will offer AGD members education, resources and financing solutions that will enable dental teams to have confident and successful cost conversations with patients.
"There are two things we feel are critical to a general dentist's success. First, is continuing education to enable these talented doctors to deliver the best clinical care available," said Hans P. Guter, DDS, FAGD, President of AGD. "The second is providing patients access to the dental care they and their families need. Synchrony provides resources that help AGD members and their patients."
Dental patients looking for a flexible way to pay for dental care can see if they prequalify for the CareCredit credit card in a dental practice or on their own device with no impact to their credit bureau score. If patients prequalify for CareCredit, they can accept the offer and complete the application. A credit decision is made within minutes and if approved, patients can use their account to pay the dentist right away. Cardholders may select from short-term and long-term financing options on qualifying services Additionally, patients may use the CareCredit payment calculator to estimate their monthly payments based on the amount of care financed and the financing option selected.
Today, CareCredit is accepted at more than 260,000 healthcare provider and retail locations, including more than 118,000 dental care locations. For more information, please visit www.carecredit.com.
Founded in 1952, AGD is the only association that exclusively represents the needs and interests of general dentists. AGD's mission is to "advance general dentistry and oral health through quality continuing education and advocacy."
Synchrony (NYSE: SYF) is a premier consumer financial services company delivering one of the industry's most complete digitally enabled product suites. Our experience, expertise and scale encompass a broad spectrum of industries including digital, health and wellness, retail, telecommunications, home, auto, outdoor, pet and more. We have an established and diverse group of national and regional retailers, local merchants, manufacturers, buying groups, industry associations and healthcare service providers, which we refer to as our "partners." We connect our partners and consumers through our dynamic financial ecosystem and provide them with a diverse set of financing solutions and innovative digital capabilities to address their specific needs and deliver seamless, omnichannel experiences. We offer the right financing products to customers in their channel of choice. For more information, visit www.synchrony.com and Twitter: @Synchrony.
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Acquisition Expands Suite of Solutions and Augments North American Presence
WEYMOUTH, Mass., July 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Vertex Companies, LLC ("Vertex"), a portfolio company of Wind Point Partners ("Wind Point"), is pleased to announce the acquisition of Breakwater Forensics, LLC ("Breakwater"), a highly respected expert witness and business consulting firm. Vertex is a leading multidisciplinary AEC company that provides forensics, engineering, construction project advisory, and environmental consulting. This partnership expands Vertex's bench of technical experts and extends its forensic consulting and expert testimony capabilities.
"Today, we celebrate a significant milestone as we welcome Breakwater to the Vertex team, and we congratulate the owners on the exceptional business they have built," stated Vertex's CEO, Bill McConnell. "This partnership marks the beginning of an exciting journey together as we combine our expert services, office platform and mutual dedication to bettering outcomes for our clients, colleagues and communities."
Breakwater Forensics is a full-service expert witness and business consulting firm that is well-regarded for experts in damages, scheduling and government contracts. Breakwater's team brings decades of consulting and testifying experience and its staff includes Professional Engineers, Certified Public Accountants, Certified Fraud Examiners and professionals experienced in analyzing complex issues and providing meaningful analysis and opinions on challenging assignments.
"Breakwater augments Vertex's team perfectly," said Nathan Brown, Managing Director at Wind Point. "Strengthening our forensics presence and expert bench are key steps within the Vertex value creation plan. The Breakwater team has created an outstanding business, and this combination comes with great upside for Vertex, Breakwater and our collective customers and employees."
In a joint statement, Diana Minchella, Managing Director of Vertex's Claims, Disputes and Forensics Department and Jeff Katz, Executive Vice President of the Contract Claims group noted, "We are excited to welcome the Breakwater team to Vertex. Our teams have already worked together, and we know the excellent caliber of people and work product that Breakwater offers. This partnership furthers our commitment to working seamlessly on client matters and to providing our clients with the best possible services."
Vertex's multi-disciplined professional services, North American office footprint, and commitment to quality, value and continuous growth opportunities make it an excellent fit for Breakwater. Breakwater and its clients will have direct access to Vertex's resources and suite of specialized services. In a joint statement, Co-Founders, Joseph Egan and Neil Miltonberger explained, "With Vertex, our team will continue to bring the technical excellence our clients have come to rely on while expanding the breadth of our services." Co-Founders, Sashi Mahtani and Dayna Anderson elaborated by saying, "We are extremely excited to join the Vertex family; the move adds significant value to both our clients and employees."
Vertex will continue seeking acquisitions that add exceptional talent, complementary employee-focused cultures and a deep commitment to clients. Jeff Picard, Chief Strategy Officer of Vertex said, "The addition of the amazing team at Breakwater represents our continued commitment to add value for our clients and create opportunities for our employees. We have been fortunate to have a partner in Wind Point that shares our vision and growth strategy, as we continue to expand as an industry leader."
About Breakwater Forensics
Established in 2019 and headquartered in Chicago, IL, Breakwater's areas of expertise include commercial damages, forensic accounting, fraud investigations, business valuations, government contracts, construction contract claims (delay and disruption), intellectual property and insurance. Breakwater provides these services across numerous industries, including public contracts, commercial developments, infrastructure, oil and gas, renewable energy, and power generation. Additional information about Breakwater is available at www.breakwaterforensics.com.
About The Vertex Companies
Vertex is an AEC firm that provides expert witness and dispute resolution services, forensic consulting, engineering design, surety, construction project advisory and environmental consulting throughout the globe. Vertex focuses on cleaning the environment, engineering and guiding the construction of communities, and solving complex challenges to provide a more sustainable, safe and just world. ENR currently ranks Vertex as a top engineering design firm, construction/program management firm and environmental firm. Vertex is also ranked as a "Best Firm to Work For" by Zweig, which underscores Vertex's commitment to our employees. Additional information about Vertex's growth strategy and solutions is available at www.vertexeng.com.
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Wind Point Partners is a Chicago-based private equity investment firm with approximately $6 billion in assets under management. Wind Point focuses on partnering with top caliber management teams to acquire well-positioned middle market businesses where it can establish a clear path to value creation. The firm targets investments in the consumer products, industrial products and business services sectors. Wind Point is currently investing out of Wind Point Partners X, a fund that was initiated in 2022. Additional information about Wind Point is available at www.windpointpartners.com.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Two anglers accused of stuffing fish with lead weights and fillets in an attempt to win thousands of dollars in an Ohio fishing tournament were indicted Wednesday on charges of attempted grand theft and other counts.
Jacob Runyan, 42, of Broadview Heights, Ohio, and Chase Cominski, 35, of Hermitage, Pennsylvania, were indicted in Cleveland on felony charges of cheating, attempted grand theft, possessing criminal tools and misdemeanor charges of unlawfully owning wild animals. They’re due to be arraigned Oct. 26.
Neither man immediately responded to voicemails seeking comment.
The cheating allegations surfaced Sept. 30 when Lake Erie Walleye Trail tournament director Jason Fischer became suspicious because Runyan and Cominski’s fish were significantly heavier than walleye of that length typically are. A crowd of people at Gordon Park in Cleveland watched Fischer cut the walleye open and announce that there were weights and walleye fillets stuffed inside.
An officer from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources confiscated the fish as evidence.
Fischer also did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment.
Runyan and Cominski would have received $28,760 in prizes for winning the tournament.
According to search warrant affidavits, the five walleye contained a total of eight 12-ounce (.34 kilogram) lead weights and two 8-ounce (.23 kilogram) weights, as well as the fish fillets. Officers from ODNR, the Hermitage Police Department and the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission seized a boat, trailer and fishing gear belonging to Cominski on Tuesday in Pennsylvania. The anglers had used the boat during last month’s tournament, the affidavits said.
One of the affidavits disclosed that Runyan and Cominski were investigated by Rossford police in northwest Ohio in April after being accused of cheating in a different walleye tournament. According to a Rossford police report, an assistant Wood County prosecutor concluded that although the men may have cheated, there was not enough evidence to charge them. | https://www.ksn.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-prosecutor-fisherman-caught-cheating-at-tournament-charged/ | 2022-10-13 11:39:15 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-prosecutor-fisherman-caught-cheating-at-tournament-charged/ |
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A slate of gun control measures was headed Saturday to Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont’s desk, after an all-night state Senate debate and early morning vote to approve the state’s most wide-ranging gun legislation since the laws that followed the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting.
Lamont, a Democrat, plans to sign the measure. He said in a statement that the legislation would “modernize our firearm safety laws in a smart and strategic way to help prevent tragedy from happening.”
Among other things, the changes would ban openly carrying firearms and prohibit selling more than three handguns within 30 days to any one person, with some exceptions for instructors and others.
Other provisions include expanding Connecticut’s current assault weapon ban to include some other similar weapons; stiffening penalties for possession of large-capacity magazines; expanding safe-storage rules to more settings; and adding some domestic violence crimes to the list of disqualifications for having a gun.
The measure passed the Senate 24-11, following a 96-51 House vote last week. Democrats control both chambers.
The measure comes as mass killings occur at a record pace in the United States.
Nearly half the states have passed legislation addressing guns or school safety this year, but the measures differ sharply depending on legislatures’ partisan makeup.
Democratic-led states have enacted new laws to restrict semiautomatic weapons and expand background checks and waiting periods to buy guns. Republican-controlled states have backed the right to carry concealed guns without permits or for trained staffers to bring guns to school.
In Connecticut, Republican lawmakers have complained that majority Democrats are punishing law-abiding gun owners, not targeting criminals who commit gun violence.
Lamont, however, maintained that “the overwhelming majority of Connecticut residents” supports the changes.
“They want to live in a community that has common-sense measures that encourage gun safety and prevent harm from impacting our neighborhoods and homes,” he said.
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On King’s holiday, daughter calls for bold action over words
ATLANTA (AP) — America has honored Martin Luther King Jr. with a federal holiday for nearly four decades yet still hasn’t fully embraced and acted on the lessons from the slain civil rights leader, his youngest daughter said Monday.
The Rev. Bernice King, who leads The King Center in Atlanta, said leaders — especially politicians — too often cheapen her father’s legacy into a “comfortable and convenient King” offering easy platitudes.
“We love to quote King in and around the holiday. ... But then we refuse to live King 365 days of the year,” she declared at the commemorative service at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where her father once preached.
The service, sponsored by the center and held at Ebenezer annually, headlined observances of the 38th federal King holiday. King, gunned down in Memphis in 1968 as he advocated for better pay and working conditions for the city’s sanitation workers, would have celebrated his 94th birthday Sunday.
Her voice rising and falling in cadences similar to her father’s, Bernice King bemoaned institutional and individual racism, economic and health care inequities, police violence, a militarized international order, hardline immigration structures and the climate crisis. She said she’s “exhausted, exasperated and, frankly, disappointed” to hear her father’s words about justice quoted so extensively alongside “so little progress” addressing society’s gravest problems.
“He was God’s prophet sent to this nation and even the world to guide us and forewarn us. ... A prophetic word calls for an inconvenience because it challenges us to change our hearts, our minds and our behavior,” Bernice King said. “Dr. King, the inconvenient King, puts some demands on us to change our ways.”
President Joe Biden on Monday addressed an MLK breakfast hosted in Washington by the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network. Sharpton got his start as a civil rights organizer in his teens as youth director of an anti-poverty project of King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
“This is a time for choosing,” Biden said, repeating themes from a speech he delivered Sunday at Ebenezer at the invitation of Sen. Raphael Warnock, the senior pastor at Ebenezer who recently won re-election to a full term as Georgia’s first Black U.S. senator.
“Will we choose democracy over autocracy, or community over chaos? Love over hate?” Biden asked Monday. “These are the questions of our time that I ran for president to try to help answer. ... Dr. King’s life and legacy — in my view — shows the way forward.”
Other commemorations echoed Bernice King’s reminder and Biden’s allusions that the “Beloved Community” — Martin Luther King’s descriptor for a world in which all people are free from fear, discrimination, hunger and violence — remains elusive.
In Boston, Mayor Michelle Wu talked about a fight for the truth in an era of hyper-partisanship and misinformation.
“We’re battling not just two sides or left or right and a gradient in between that have to somehow come to compromise, but a growing movement of hate, abuse, extremism and white supremacy fueled by misinformation, fueled by conspiracy theories that are taking root at every level,” she said.
Wu, the first woman and person of color elected mayor of Boston, said education restores trust. Quoting King, she called for overcoming the “fatigue of despair” to enact change. “It is sometimes in those moments when we feel most tired, most despairing, that we are just about to break through,” Wu told attendees at a memorial breakfast.
Volunteers in Philadelphia held a “day of service” focused on gun violence prevention. The city has seen a surge in homicides that saw 516 people killed last year and 562 the year before, the highest total in at least six decades.
Some participants in the effort’s signature project, led by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, worked to assemble gun safety kits for public distribution. The kits include “gun cable locks and additional safety devices for childproofing,” according to organizers. They also include information about firearm storage, health and social services information, and coping in the aftermath of gun violence.
Other kits being assembled highlighted Temple University Hospital’s “Fighting Chance” program and included materials to enable immediate response to victims at the scene of gunfire, organizers said. Recipients are to be trained in the use of the materials, which include tourniquets, gauze, chest seals and other items to treat critical wounds, they said.
In Selma, Alabama, a seminal site in the civil rights movement, residents were commemorating King as they recover from a deadly storm system that moved across the South last week.
King was not present at Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge for the initial march known as “Bloody Sunday,” when Alabama state troopers attacked and beat marchers in March 1965. But he joined a subsequent procession that successfully crossed the bridge toward the Capitol in Montgomery, punctuating efforts that pushed Congress to pass and President Lyndon Johnson to sign the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The Pettus Bridge was unscathed by Thursday’s storm.
Maine’s first Black House speaker urged residents Monday to honor King’s memory by joining in acts of service.
“His unshakable faith, powerful nonviolent activism and his vision for peace and justice in our world altered the course of history,” Rachel Talbot Ross said in a statement. Talbot Ross is also the daughter of Maine’s first black lawmaker, and a former president of the Portland NAACP.
“We must follow his example of leading with light and love and recommit ourselves to building a more compassionate, just and equal community,” she added.
At Ebenezer, Warnock, who has led the congregation for 17 years, hailed his predecessor’s role in securing ballot access for Black Americans. But, like Bernice King, the senator warned against a reductive understanding of King.
“Don’t just call him a civil rights leader. He was a faith leader,” Warnock said. “Faith was the foundation upon which he did everything he did. You don’t face down dogs and water hoses because you read Nietzsche or Niebuhr. You gotta tap into that thing, that God he said he met anew in Montgomery when someone threatened to bomb his house and kill his wife and his new child.”
King, Warnock said, “left the comfort of a filter that made the whole world his parish,” turning faith into “the creative weapon of love and nonviolence.”
While echoing Bernice King’s call for bolder public policy, Warnock noted some progress in his lifetime. As he’s done through two Senate campaigns, Warnock noted he was born a year after King’s assassination, when both of Georgia senators were staunch segregationists, including one Warnock described as loving “the Negro” as long as he was “in his place at the back door.”
But, Warnock said, “Because of what Dr. King and because of what you did ... I now sit in his seat.”
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Associated Press journalists Will Weissert in Washington, David Sharp in Portland, Maine, and Ron Todt in Philadelphia contributed.
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Sextortion cases rise across the country; child abduction survivor speaks out to raise awareness
(InvestigateTV) — One day, Alicia Kozak was a 13-year-old chatting online with a new friend she met online. The next day, she was trapped in a basement, secured with a dog collar, after she agreed to meet the new friend in person.
Before her horrific ordeal ended, her abductor shared tortuous sexual assaults online of the young teen.
Kozak is one of the first-known victims of internet abduction and online exploitation.
Now, more than a decade after Kozak was lured from her Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania home, thousands of other children and young adults find themselves at risk of being blackmailed in another online crime known as sextortion — where adults threaten to, or actually share, sexually-explicit images of young people.
According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, its cyber tipline received over 32 million reports in 2022. More than 80,000 of those reports were for “Online Enticement,” the category that includes sextortion.
“I certainly never thought in a million years that this could happen to me,” Kozak said. “My family certainly never did. When it comes to a story like mine, there are a lot of dark details.”
In 2002, Kozak, like many teenagers, loved chatting on the internet.
“I was online, and I was talking to my friends from school in a chat room, and somebody messaged me who I thought was a boy around my own age, and what I didn’t know was he had immediately begun to groom me,” Kozak said.
Because the internet was still relatively new, Kozak said she didn’t know the red flags to look for that could have clued her in on the fact she was speaking with a predator looking to take advantage of her. So, she kept chatting.
“This went on for about nine months. And on New Year’s Day, 2002, I agreed to meet this person. And to this day, I can’t tell you why. I thought I was meeting a friend. I was doing something so completely out of my character. I didn’t take my coat with me … and I left the door open just a little bit because I thought I was planning on coming right back through it,” Kozak recalled.
She said a man lured her out of her home, abducted her, and held her captive in a Virginia basement where she was raped, beaten and tortured.
Kozak said she was there for four days.
“He kept me chained to the floor by a locking dog collar,” Kozak said. “He didn’t feed me, and he broke my nose during one of the struggles. "
Kozak said on some occasions, her kidnapper live-streamed the abuse to an online audience.
She said she was given a second chance when someone watching the stream recognized her face from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s poster and called in a tip to authorities.
“And it’s believed he was going to kill me on the day that I was rescued,” Kozak said.
Ultimately, her kidnapper was convicted and sentenced to prison.
From internet chats to sextortion
Since Kozak’s abduction, internet crimes against children have skyrocketed — in large part because internet usage has become ubiquitous.
“Kids have so much more access. There are so many more pitfalls, but also predators have access to kids 24/7,” Kozak said.
As technology has evolved, so too has the way predators take advantage of children online.
According to the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, there are two forms of sextortion: traditional and financial.
Traditional sextortion occurs when someone threatens to share private, often sexually explicit material with the victim’s family, friends, or the public if they do not send more images.
Financial sextortion takes it a step further, with the criminal demanding money in exchange for keeping sexual images private.
Law enforcement says in most sextortion cases, cybercriminals pretend to be somebody else, often a fellow teen. Once they gain the victim’s trust, the criminal will ask for explicit photos, then blackmail the victim for more images or money.
FBI Supervisory Special Agent Timothy Simon said the agency saw an explosion in the number of financial sextortion incidents in early 2022.
“They often impersonate children of a certain age, certain characteristics and location,” Simon said. “They will locate children. Target them on any type of platform: social media, instant messaging, video chat, gaming platforms. Pretty much any internet [or] cable device that a child can be targeted on.”
The fallout for victims and their families can have catastrophic consequences.
“We’ve seen, in 2022 alone, over 12 suicides of child victims within the U.S., and that number has increased since then. So, it definitely has a devastating impact,” Simon said.
Simon said over the past year, law enforcement agencies received more than 7,000 reports of online financial sextortion of minors with at least 3,000 victims, most of whom were boys.
Simon said they are working to understand why many sextortion victims are young boys.
“Our best guess, at this point, is just the shame and embarrassment that boys feel when they produce those images,” he said.
Like other online crimes, a major hurdle in tackling sextortion is location. Law enforcement officials say many cybercriminals are from other countries, with many located in Nigeria and the Ivory Coast.
“It’s not an easy solution for the FBI just to go into other countries and take down offenders. We are working hard to do that. But as much power and authority that the FBI may have, we don’t have jurisdiction or authority in countries around the world. And that’s where our relationships and our partnerships with the host nation, law enforcement, and their government officials play a really big role,” Simon said.
‘Once your images are out there, they’re not yours anymore’
Kevin Metcalf is a deputy prosecuting attorney in Arkansas. He’s also the CEO and Founder of the National Child Protection Task Force, which provides local and regional detectives, analysts and officers access to investigative expertise and resources that sometimes are unavailable or under-funded in most law enforcement organizations.
“The law is slow to adapt to any kind of social changes, any technology. It’s very, very slow, so everybody tried to stay away from that. It’s a grey area, so I said, ‘That’s where I’ll go,’” Metcalf said.
Metcalf said a contributing factor to the increase in sextortion cases is the excessive amount of personal images people share on social media.
“Once your images are out there, they’re not yours anymore. You can’t control them,” he said. “You don’t know how many times they’ve been downloaded, how many times they’ve been shared. You don’t know how many of them that exist out here.”
To show how easy it is to find someone’s personal information, Metcalf utilized websites commonly used by cybercriminals to look up information on an InvestigateTV reporter. In a matter of seconds, Metcalf managed to find the reporter’s email addresses and phone numbers, as well as their immediate family members’ details and contact information.
Metcalf also discovered some of the reporter’s information had been potentially exposed in a data breach.
“Your email addresses, passwords, phone numbers, and your names. Physical address, license plate. All of this information is exposed on you,” Metcalf said during the demonstration. “And this is how sextortion takes place in a lot of ways.”
Metcalf explained cyber criminals can use login information exposed in a data breach to access any explicit images stored online.
“Even if you’re very careful and never sent images out, but you have some that you may not want shared in your personal storage, this is how I can get access. I can start collecting a lot of information on you,” Metcalf said.
To prevent this, Metcalf recommends using a different password for each online account, and to update those passwords frequently.
Turning a traumatic experience into advocacy
In the years since her abduction, Kozak has made it her mission to protect others — sharing her story at schools across the nation and testifying before Congress.
In addition, she has helped persuade lawmakers in 12 states to pass Alicia’s Law, which assists in securing funding for exploited children task forces.
“We have to fund the groups that can protect and rescue the children,” Kozak said. “The Internet Crimes Against Children task forces are so incredibly underfunded, and the risk is with every single child. And every single child has a device if not, more devices that they can fall victim to a predator on.”
Kozak said the best thing parents can do when it comes to prevention is have honest conversations with their children about the dangers that lurk online.
“At my presentation, at the end, I have so many kids come up to me afterwards and share such painful stories. And often they are stories of sextortion. We have to talk to kids about why that it is actually dangerous. And not just say, that it’s disrespectful to your bodies and all of these things, but there are true consequences that are potentially life-ending,” Kozak said.
If you believe your child has encountered a sextortion scheme, you can call the Homeland Security tip line at (866) 347-2423 or the FBI at (800) 225-5324. You can also visit The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s website to file a report.
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Mike Leach’s impact on college football is far reaching and spans 35 years across 10 universities.
He may have had no bigger impact than his influence on Josh Heupel.
The current Tennessee head coach transferred to Oklahoma from Snow College prior to the 1999-2000 season. That’s when he met Leach, who had just been hired as Oklahoma’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.
Leach played a key role in the development of Heupel, who was named the starter that season and eventually quarterbacked the Sooners to a national championship the following year.
In the wake of the shocking news of Leach’s death due to complications from a heart condition Tuesday, Heupel issued a statement on Twitter to express his appreciation for his former coach.
Heartbroken. Prayers for the entire Leach family and @HailStateFB pic.twitter.com/pluR0EMCDN
— Josh Heupel (@coachjoshheupel) December 13, 2022
“I am heartbroken on the passing of Coach Leach,” Heupel’s statement read. “In 1999, he gave a kid out of Snow College in Utah a shot at major college football. He saw something in me when no one else did. Like so many across our sport, I am grateful for Coach Leach’s impact on my life both personally and professionally. His offensive philosophy and vision were ahead of his time, and they continue to shape the game today.
“Off the field, he was one of a kind — an incredible storyteller, a man full of wisdom and someone who always cared about his former players and coaches. I enjoyed our friendship over the years. My deepest condolences go out to Coach Leach’s family, his wife Sharon, his kids and grandkids and the entire Mississippi State football program.”
Heupel wasn’t the only former or current Sooner to pay tribute to Leach via social media.
Leach, 61, was hired by long-tenured coach Bob Stoops prior to the 1999-2000 season and helped lay the groundwork for the Sooners’ future success during his one season in Norman. He helped lead the Sooners to a 7-5 record, the program’s first winning season in six years, while orchestrating an offense that ranked eighth nationally in scoring (36.8 points per game) and 11th in total yards (427.18 per game.)
RIP Mike my friend, you’ll always be cherished by Sooner Nation! Love and peace to Sharon and your children. pic.twitter.com/BunOTeLuTC
— Bob Stoops (@CoachBobStoops) December 13, 2022
“RIP Mike my friend, you’ll always be cherished by Sooner Nation,” Stoops said in a statement via Twitter. “Love and peace to Sharon and your children.
Leach accepted the head coaching position at Texas Tech the following season, and most recently served at the helm of Mississippi State.
OU head coach Brent Venables, who coached alongside Leach as the Sooners’ co-defensive coordinator in 1999, expressed his condolences on Twitter.
We lost a Great One Too Soon…Incredible Father, Husband, Coach, & Friend! Your Loyalty & Humor made You One Of a kind! Thank You for making college football special. RIP✝️ brother Love,Prayers & Condolences to Sharon & his children🙏🏽❤️ pic.twitter.com/5o9WWddUTh
— Brent Venables (@CoachVenables) December 13, 2022
“We lost a great one too soon,” wrote Venables. “... Incredible father, husband, coach and friend! Your loyalty and humor made you one of a kind. Thank you for making college football special.”
OU athletic director Joe Castiglione was hired a year before Leach arrived in Norman, and he expressed his appreciation for Leach's impact on the program.
Our hearts are broken but we will never forget the immense impact Coach Leach had on our players/staff/program & all of college football. We continue to pray for Sharon,his entire family & the MSU family. It’s impossible to count how many lives he impacted throughout his career https://t.co/Sl9O8FsVrS
— Joe Castiglione (@soonerad) December 13, 2022
“Our hearts are broken but we will never forget the immense impact Coach Leach had on our players/staff/program and all of college football,” Castlgione tweeted. “We continue to pray for Sharon, his entire family and the MSU family. It’s impossible to count how many lives he impacted through his career.”
OU offensive line coach Bill Bedenbaugh spent six seasons on Texas Tech’s staff under Leach.
Devastated and heartbroken that my coach, Mike Leach is gone. Coach was one of a kind and had a lasting impact on my life and career. I would not be where I am without him. Love you coach. Praying for Sharon and his family!
— Bill Bedenbaugh (@OU_CoachB) December 13, 2022
“Devastated and heartbroken that my coach Mike Leach is gone,” Bedenbaugh wrote. “Coach was one of a kind and had a lasting impact on my life and career. I would not be where I am without him. Love you coach. Praying for Sharon and his family!”
Oklahoma Football’s official Twitter account released a statement with the caption "Rest in peace, Coach Leach" to honor the former Sooner and offer condolences to his family.
Rest in peace, Coach Leach 🏴☠️ pic.twitter.com/BZqp7FOaLb
— Oklahoma Football (@OU_Football) December 13, 2022
“Coach Leach was uniquely personable in so many ways, and his innovative impact on the game of football — at every level — is nothing short of monumental. In Oklahoma, he will be remembered for his role in the resurgence of OU football in 1999 when he served as offensive coordinator and helped set the stage for our national championship the following season.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Africa House, a project that convenes the best and brightest entrepreneurs, initiatives, and opportunities from Africa to leaders across industry and government, is excited to announce the successful completion of a high-level event held in Washington D.C. last week. Nikkole-Charlene Wilkerson, in collaboration with Africa House, brought together U.S. Black Mayors, top American business leaders, and investors in a private gathering with African ministers, organization heads, and executives.
The meeting sought to bolster economic relationships and access to capital, aligning with the Biden and Harris Administration's focus on economic growth and development in Africa, including the African Continental Free Trade Area, and development financing and grants throughout the continent.
"This meeting represents a significant step forward in strengthening economic ties between Africa and the U.S., specifically the African Diaspora," said Wilkerson, who organized and hosted the event. "The African Union considers the Diaspora to be the sixth region of Africa, and we look forward to working with the Biden/Harris Administration and other partners to support the growth and development of the continent."
The meeting was held during the Biden and Harris Administration's weeklong U.S. Africa Summit and was attended by senior leaders such as Mayor Sylvester Turner of Houston, Texas; Dr. Benedict Oramah, President and Chairman of the African Export–Import Bank; Mayor Brandon Scott of Baltimore, Maryland; Equatorial Guinea's Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons, Gabriel Mbaga Obiang; Mrs. Kanayo Awano, Vice President of Intra-African Trade Bank; Commissioner Rodney Ellis of Harris County; Mayor Stephen K. Benjamin of the United States Conference of Mayors; Federal Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment of Nigeria, Niyi Adebayo; Arnold W. Donald; Rodney J. Boyd of NEXUS and Stephanie Nellons Paige of Nellons Paige Group Inc., amongst others.
"We are thrilled with the outcome of this historic gathering," said Nima Elmi, CEO and Co-Founder of Africa House. "Not only did it benefit the United States and African diplomatic relationships, but leaders will also leave with tangible business and economic outputs."
Africa House will hold various events throughout the year, with the next one scheduled to take place in Davos, Switzerland next month as part of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting.
About Africa House
Africa House is a platform to spearhead Africa's rising by bringing the best and brightest entrepreneurs, initiatives, and opportunities to leaders across industry and government attending Davos. Africa House is a non-profit project supported by a team of experts that bring together a combined 30+ years of experience on the continent and leading African initiatives.
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NAHB Selects LG HVAC Solutions, Home Appliances and Consumer Electronics for Official IBS 2023 Net-Zero Showcase Home
LAS VEGAS, Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovative home appliances, HVAC solutions and consumer electronics from LG Electronics are delivering high performance, unparalleled home connectivity, enhanced convenience and energy efficiency to The New American Home® (TNAH), official show home of the 2023 NAHB International Builders' Show® (IBS). The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) chose LG as Platinum Partner for this year's featured "Net Zero" home in the Nevada desert outside of Las Vegas.
Built and designed by Michael Gardner, principal of Luxus Design Build/Studio g Architecture, TNAH is a desert-contemporary masterpiece located in the upscale luxury home community of Ascaya in Henderson, Nevada. The exhibition home presents two-levels with a chef's kitchen, spa, game room, private office, outdoor fire features and a roof deck designed to capture Las Vegas and the scenic views of the mountain range. This contemporary home marks the 40th edition of this showcase and delivers yet another example of how the program continues to be on the cutting-edge of innovation and energy efficiency. With 7,575 total square feet of living space, the two-story property includes four bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a two-car garage, flex/exercise area, home office, indoor-outdoor living features, pool courtyard, a gas fireplace, numerous ultra-energy-efficiency elements, net-zero features, astonishing fire features and a luxurious outdoor kitchen.
As the official show home of IBS, TNAH 2023 is a symbol of energy efficiency and innovation/ The Luxus Design Build team worked with their building partners to produce a home that incorporates energy and material-saving strategies from design through construction, showcasing how any home can be transformed into a high-performance, high-tech space when integrating the latest building techniques and product innovations to reduce energy consumption, increase efficiency and enhance daily life.
The home is expected to earn the highest marks for energy efficiency and performance, including the lofty goal of becoming one of the most energy efficient in the state of Nevada, if not the entire country, according to Travis Holden, project manager for Luxus Design Build.
According to Drew Smith, energy consultant, National Green Building Standard (NGBS) Master Verifier for the project and COO of Two Trails, Inc., "This year's home is one of the most efficient in IBS show home program history and boasts an impressive negative 15 (-15) rating on the HERS (Home Energy Rating Score) Index, the industry standard by which a home's energy efficiency is measured; by point of comparison, a home built to code scores a HERS Index rating of 100, while a net zero energy home scores zero - making this year's project incredibly efficient. This level of efficiency would have been very difficult without the incorporation of LG's highly efficient portfolio of ENERGY STAR® appliances and VRF (Variable Refrigerant Flow) HVAC technology," said Smith. TNAH's noteworthy environmental distinctions include National Green Building Standard "Emerald" certification, ENERGY STAR building certification, EPA's Indoor airPLUS certification and Zero Energy Ready status from the Department of Energy.
Advanced Air Conditioning Heat Pump Technologies for Efficient Indoor Comfort and Control
TNAH features advanced heat pump HVAC systems and controls from LG Air Conditioning Technologies USA that complement the home's unique design characteristics. Two energy efficient LG Multi V™ S® 5-ton Heat Recovery outdoor units are connected to multiple LG Vertical Air Handler units, which feature LG inverter technology and offer discrete and flexible installation. They effortlessly enhance the high-end design of the home while ensuring homeowner comfort in all seasons. LG Art Cool ™ Mirror duct-free systems within the home feature sleek, mirror-finished indoor units. Wall indoor units are a great option where ducting is hard to route, and with minimal clearance around the unit, they provide flexible installation options, while producing low sound and air louver adjustability. These customizable home comfort solutions are easily controlled via wall-mounted smart thermostats or with a smartphone using the LG ThinQ™ app.
Convenience and Design from Smart Home Appliances for a Better Life at Home
Smart LG appliances in TNAH 2023 deliver added convenience with advanced technologies and come equipped with elevated design and sleek styling packages. A number of home appliance innovations from the LG Builder division are featured, including:
- LG Styler Steam Closet (model S3MFBN): Located in the owner's suite closet on the second floor are two LG Stylers that refresh, deodorize and sanitize with the gentle power of steam – no chemicals needed. This product features room for three hangers and an additional pants hanger in the door for perfect creases – no plumbing required.
- LG TurboWash Washer and Dryer (models WM4500HBA and DLEX4500B): Located in the laundry room on the second level of the home are dual laundry systems including the ENERGY STAR® certified TurboWash front-load washer that delivers a complete clean in just 30 minutes1 while the dryer uses TrueSteam™ to instantly refresh fabrics. Also, with the LG ThinQ app, homeowners can start and stop wash cycles remotely, get notifications when laundry is done and receive helpful reminders about scheduled maintenance.
Additionally, the chef's kitchen designed for five-star cooking and entertainment features built-in appliances – advanced pro-style rangetops, wall ovens, column refrigerators, undercounter refrigerators, wine refrigerators and more – from LG's fast-growing luxury brand, Signature Kitchen Suite. (See separate news release.)
Immersive Home Entertainment Experience from Smart 4K OLED TVs
Bringing an immersive home entertainment experience to TNAH are OLED TVs from LG Electronics, selected by the NAHB and the home designers as exclusive consumer electronics partner. Known throughout the industry as the pinnacle of premium television technology, LG OLED TVs offer perfect black and vibrant color for impressive picture quality. TNAH features the 97-inch OLED G2 series TV in the home's impressive game room with an awe-inspiring 97-inch diagonal screen that leverages LG's self-lit OLED technology to deliver immersive viewing experiences on a grand scale. The 97-inch G2 series model also incorporates LG's flush-to-the-wall Gallery Design, offering a seamless, integrated look that will instantly elevate any space. LG OLED Gallery TVs are featured within the residence with an impressive 83-inch model in the main living room and a 65-inch model integrated in the primary suite sitting area. Additional LG 4K TVs are included within each bedroom.
Visitors to IBS are invited to tour the home free of charge between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Jan. 31 - Feb. 2. Complimentary shuttle buses will depart every half hour from the Las Vegas Convention Center. For more information, visit www.TNAH.com.
About LG Electronics USA
LG Electronics USA, Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc., a $68 billion global innovator in technology and manufacturing. In the United States, LG sells a wide range of innovative home appliances, home entertainment products, commercial displays, air conditioning systems, energy solutions and vehicle components. LG is 2022 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year-Sustained Excellence. The company's commitment to environmental sustainability and its "Life's Good" marketing theme encompass how LG is dedicated to people's happiness by exceeding expectations today and tomorrow. www.LG.com.
About The New American Home
The New American Home® (TNAH) is the official show home of the annual NAHB International Builders' Show®. It showcases industry best practices, innovative design concepts, state-of-the-art products and the latest construction techniques. Each year, a new home is unveiled to demonstrate the most noteworthy advancements in home building, allowing industry professionals to glean new ideas that they can replicate within other housing projects. A principal goal of the program is to maximize housing performance and energy efficiency. Each home incorporates elements from the NAHB Green Building Standard and embodies only the highest levels of quality, safety, aesthetics, and sustainability.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — While the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore has long touted its transparency in publishing the names of clergy credibly accused of sexual abuse, a report released this week by the Maryland attorney general’s office raises questions about the integrity of the church’s list.
Following the report’s long-awaited release Wednesday, victims and advocates called on the Baltimore archbishop to address discrepancies — their latest demand for transparency in a decadeslong fight to expose the church’s coverup tactics.
They also celebrated a major step toward potential legal recourse: state legislation passed Wednesday that would eliminate the existing statute of limitations on civil litigation against institutions like the archdiocese in cases of child sexual abuse. Similar proposals failed in recent years, but the attorney general’s investigation brought renewed attention to the issue this legislative session. The bill has been sent to Gov. Wes Moore, who has said he supports it.
The report reveals the scope of over eight decades of abuse and coverup within the Archdiocese of Baltimore. More than 150 Catholic priests and others associated with the archdiocese sexually abused over 600 children and often escaped accountability, the investigation found.
The report also names 39 people who aren’t included on the archdiocese’s list, which officials first published in 2002 and have continued to update since.
The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, known as SNAP, said in a statement Wednesday that some omissions “might be understandable,” but called for the archbishop to “err on the side of being more transparent” for the sake of victims and others.
The archdiocese acknowledged the discrepancies Thursday, saying none of the 39 people are currently serving in ministry in the Baltimore area, and at least 33 have died. Archdiocese spokesperson Christian Kendzierski said most didn’t make the list because they are laypeople, including deacons and teachers; they were never assigned to ministry in the Archdiocese of Baltimore; or they were first accused posthumously and received only a single, uncorroborated allegation.
Kendzierski said the archdiocese is reviewing its list “in light of the Attorney General’s report” and expects to add more names soon. The report recommended expanding the list to include non-priests, which officials are also reviewing.
When Cardinal William Keeler released the Baltimore list in 2002, his decision earned the diocese a reputation for transparency at a time when the nationwide scope of wrongdoing remained largely unexposed. But years later, a Pennsylvania grand jury accused Keeler himself of covering up abuse allegations in the 1980s.
While Baltimore was among the first, other dioceses across the country have since published similar lists.
“But there’s always the concern that even credibly accused people have been left off these lists,” said Terence McKiernan, president of BishopAccountability.org, which tracks clergy abuse nationwide. “Now, in Baltimore, we have confirmation that’s what was happening.”
Several of the clergy members not on the church’s list admitted to abusing children and teens, according to the report. Sometimes they were asked to leave the ministry but often avoided serious consequences. In some cases, church officials agreed to financial settlements with victims — actions that suggest the allegations were considered credible, McKiernan said.
For example, one victim repeatedly contacted church officials in the late 1990s and early 2000s to report abuse he experienced in the 1930s at the hands of Father Alphonsus Figlewski, who would take altar boys on Baltimore’s streetcars and touch them inappropriately, according to the report. The diocese ultimately engaged in mediation and reached a settlement, the report says — but Figlewski was never listed as a credibly accused priest.
One of the church officials who reviewed the case, Father Michael Kolodziej, was himself later accused of abuse and included on the list.
Allegations in another case surfaced in 1968 and Father Albert Julian admitted to having an “almost uncontrollable sexual attraction toward young people of the opposite sex” and said he “had yielded to temptation from time to time,” according to the report, which cites a 1970 letter from the archdiocese to Vatican authorities. Julian received psychiatric treatment and was assigned to desk work “where he would not be exposed to temptation,” the report says. He requested to leave the church in 1970 and get married.
Further allegations against Julian came to light in 2002, but he was never listed on the archdiocese’s list.
Yet another priest, Father Thomas M. Kelly — whose heavy drinking, overt racism and “bad habit of pawing women” came up during a 1971 meeting of his colleagues and superiors — was hospitalized for psychiatric treatment and allowed to continue ministering, according to the report. In 1982, he caused a car crash that killed another priest and escaped criminal charges. He died in 1987.
When a woman reported in 2006 that Kelly had sexually abused her as a child in 1971, church officials deemed her account not credible, the report says. He also was never included on the archdiocese’s list.
“They talk about being transparent, but it’s time for this diocese to take responsibility,” said David Lorenz, director of the Maryland chapter of SNAP.
Lorenz and others advocated strongly for the legislation passed Wednesday to eliminate the statute of limitations for civil lawsuits.
Currently, victims of child sex abuse in Maryland can’t sue after they turn 38. The bill, if signed into law by Moore, would eliminate the age limit and allow for retroactive lawsuits. However, the measure includes a provision that would pause lawsuits until the Supreme Court of Maryland can determine whether it’s constitutional.
The Maryland Catholic Conference, which represents the three dioceses serving Maryland, opposed the measure, contending it was unconstitutional to open an unlimited retroactive window for civil cases.
“While there is clearly no financial compensation that can ever rectify the harm done to a survivor of sexual abuse, the devastating impact that the retroactive window provision will potentially have by exposing public and private institutions — and the communities they serve — to unsubstantiated claims of abuse, cannot be ignored,” the group said in written testimony.
Several other states have passed similar legislation in recent years, and in some cases, the resulting lawsuits have driven dioceses into bankruptcy. Just last month, the Diocese of Albany sought bankruptcy protection amid a deluge of lawsuits following a 2019 law change in New York that allowed more people to sue.
Barry Salzman, a New York attorney who has represented numerous victims of church sex abuse pro bono in recent years, said the Maryland legislation is unique in entirely eliminating a statute of limitations.
“I see this as another jurisdiction coming on the right side of things,” he said. “It would be a dramatic change.”
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The most comprehensive accounts payable automation integration for SAP Business Suite, SAP ECC, SAP R/3, and SAP S/4HANA.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stampli, the industry-leading Accounts Payable (AP) Automation software, today announces its enhanced enterprise resource planning (ERP) integrations for SAP Business Suite, SAP ECC, SAP R/3, and SAP S/4HANA.
The comprehensive integration means that mutual enterprise customers performing any manual invoice or payment process in SAP ERP – can now be optimized with Stampli's AP Automation software.
Stampli's integration with SAP ERP is seamless as the bi-directional sync pushes and pulls data in real-time to ensure both systems are one and the same, including:
- Purchase Orders (POs) & Receiving Information
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- Invoice Data & Payment Data, and More
"We are thrilled to strengthen our SAP ERP partnership to enhance invoice and payment processes for enterprise businesses, helping them control and streamline AP, all the while maintaining their existing SAP ERP investment and maintaining SAP ERP as their source of truth," shared Eyal Feldman, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder at Stampli. "Developing fully automated and deep integrations for SAP ERP with real-time PO and receiving data is one of the many things that differentiates Stampli from its competitors."
The Stampli AP Automation integration for SAP ERP is available. For more information on the integration or to schedule a demo, visit our website here.
Stampli currently has United States office locations in Mountain View, California, and Nashville, Tennessee, and internationally in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Kiev, Ukraine. Stampli was most recently recognized in G2's 2022 Best Software Awards for "Best Software Products," "Best Accounting & Finance Products," "Best Mid-Market Products," and "Highest Satisfaction Products." Stampli also earned recognition as "The Best AP Solution for 2022" in the FinTech Breakthrough Awards; named on the "Top Fintech Companies of 2021" list by CB Insights; designated one of the "Top 50 Most Promising Startups in Israel" by CTech; named "The Best AP Automation Company in the USA" from New World Report; earned top marks by Comparably for "Best Company Outlook," "Best Company Work-Life Balance," "Best CEO," "Best Company for Women," "Best Company for Diversity," and "Best Company Culture."
Stampli is a complete AP Automation platform that brings together accounts payable communications, documentation, corporate cards, and payments all in one place, allowing AP to have full control and visibility over corporate spending. By centering communications on top of the invoice itself, AP departments collaborate and communicate better with approvers, vendors, and anyone else involved with purchases, allowing approvals to happen 5x faster.
In addition, Stampli's AI, Billy the Bot, learns an organization's unique patterns to simplify GL-coding, automate approval notifications, identify duplicate invoices, and reduce time spent on manual data entry. Stampli's flexible platform fits seamlessly into any existing processes and integrates with financial systems, including NetSuite, Sage Intacct, QuickBooks, Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, and more. For more information, visit www.stampli.com.
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US Catholic bishops worry about abortion views in the pews
By PETER SMITH
Associated Press
BALTIMORE (AP) — Even as they signaled a continued hardline stance on opposing abortion and same-sex marriage, the nation’s Catholic bishops acknowledged Wednesday that they’re struggling to reach a key audience: their own flock.
The members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops rounded out their leadership bench during the last day of public sessions of their fall annual meeting in Baltimore, which concludes with private meetings Thursday.
They also set in motion a plan to recirculate their long-standing election document in 2024 — a 15-year-old statement that prioritizes opposition to abortion — while acknowledging it’s outdated and adding a cover statement addressing such things as the teachings of Pope Francis and the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling in June that overturned the nationwide right to abortion.
The bishops elected Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley as secretary in a 130-104 vote over Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, who had been named a cardinal by Pope Francis. It’s the second time in five years that the bishops have passed over a Francis-appointed cardinal for a key leadership post.
Earlier this year, Coakley had applauded the decision by San Francisco’s archbishop to deny Communion to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic Democrat from that city who supports abortion rights. So had the bishops’ new point man on opposition to abortion — Bishop Michael Burbidge of Arlington, Virginia, elected Wednesday as chairman of its Committee on Pro-Life Activities.
The votes came a day after the bishops elected as their new president Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services. Broglio is also seen as more of a culture warrior than Pope Francis, though Broglio has dismissed the idea of any “dissonance” between the two.
At the same time, Coakley cited the importance of Francis’ priorities in a news conference Wednesday.
Coakley is leading the bishops’ review of, “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,” a document they have used in election years with only minor revisions since 2007.
While a full revision will take years, bishops approved Coakley’s recommendation to begin drafting a new introduction to issue with the document in time for 2024’s election. It would incorporate recent events such as the Ukraine war and the Dobbs decision.
The plan also includes using parish bulletins and social media to share main ideas from the lengthy document.
Coakley said the new introduction needs to reflect Pope Francis’ priorities, such as promoting civil discourse and protecting the environment.
“It’s a rich pontificate that offers us plenty to lay out for people … to embrace the vision that Pope Francis has articulated,” Coakley said.
Bishops from both the progressive and conservative flanks of the church echoed concern that Catholics aren’t reading the document.
Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, a Francis appointee, said that bishops need a statement that’s relevant amid the shaken confidence in democracy following the U.S. Capitol riot and in the wake of Dobbs and defeats for abortion opponents in votes on five state ballot measures. “It’s irresponsible to issue an old teaching and suggest the church has nothing new to say when so much of this context has changed,” he said.
Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, one of the most outspoken conservative bishops, lamented the recent state ballot measures. Polls show Catholics to be mixed on legal abortion.
“I think it’s a solid document,” Strickland said, but “I think we have to acknowledge people aren’t listening.”
The gap between Francis and the U.S. bishops reflects in part the conference’s continued emphasis on culture-war battles over abortion and same-sex marriage.
Francis, while also opposing both in keeping with church teaching, has used his papacy to emphasize a wider agenda of bringing mercy to those at the margins, such as migrants and other poor. The Vatican said in 2021 the church cannot bless gay unions because God “cannot bless sin,” but Francis has made outreach to the church’s LGBTQ members a hallmark of his papacy. As recently as last Friday, Francis met with the Rev. James Martin, an American Jesuit priest whom the pontiff has supported in his calls for dialogue with LGBTQ Catholics.
Both Pelosi and President Joe Biden, another Catholic who favors legalized abortion, have received Communion since 2021 in churches in Rome, the pope’s own diocese.
The bishops also heard an impassioned talk Wednesday by Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Archeparchy of Philadelphia on behalf of war-torn Ukraine.
Gudziak thanked U.S. Catholics for providing millions in relief for displaced Ukrainians and urged continued American support for Ukraine’s self-defense, saying Russian assaults have left many vulnerable in the coming winter.
At the same time, he said that on a conference call with staff at a Catholic university in Lviv, he heard only joy and resolve even amid losses of electrical power in Russia’s missile barrage Tuesday. One staff member told him, “Better without electricity and with Kherson,” he said, alluding to the recently liberated city.
Gudziak accused Russia of a “genocide” through such attacks and through its denial of Ukrainians’ identity as a separate people.
Also Wednesday, a small group of survivors of sexual abuse and their supporters held a sidewalk news conference outside Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, where the bishops are meeting. While this year marks the 20th anniversary of the bishops’ landmark policy barring all abusers from ministry, advocates are seeking more transparency.
They called for bishops in every diocese to post detailed lists of credibly accused abusers and to stop lobbying against state legislation that would extend statutes of limitations for abuse lawsuits.
David Lorenz, Maryland director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, cited Archbishop Broglio’s archdiocese as one of the few that still does not publish even a minimal list of abusers. Broglio declined to comment.
“I don’t need another apology because it doesn’t do anything to protect kids,” Lorenz added. “I want action to help kids. I want them (bishops) to be totally, absolutely transparent.”
Also Wednesday, the bishops voted to advance efforts to have three American women declared saints.
They include Michelle Duppong of North Dakota, a campus missionary who died of cancer in 2014 and is credited with showing faithfulness in suffering.
They also include two 20th century women: Cora Evans, a Catholic convert from Utah who reported mystical experiences from an early age; and Mother Margaret Mary Healy Murphy of Texas, founder of a religious order, who provided education and other ministry to African Americans.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man accused of killing six people and injuring dozens of others when he allegedly drove his SUV through a Wisconsin Christmas parade last year gave a tearful opening statement Thursday as he defended himself at trial but didn’t outline any defense theories that might save him from prison.
Darrell Brooks faces 76 charges, including six homicide counts, in the Nov. 21 tragedy in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha. Investigators maintain he drove into the parade route after fleeing a domestic disturbance with his ex-girlfriend, though police were not pursuing him at the time.
Brooks took the unusual step of dismissing his public defenders just days before his trial began this month, electing to represent himself. At times, Brooks has refused to recognize his own name and become so disruptive that Waukesha County Circuit Judge Jennifer Dorow ordered him removed from the courtroom. He frequently has muttered under his breath about the trial not being fair and objected to almost every question prosecutors have asked of witnesses, usually to no avail.
District Attorney Susan Opper rested her case Thursday after 2 1/2 weeks of testimony, including from multiple police officers and others who attended the parade. They variously testified that they saw the SUV enter the parade, were hit by the SUV or saw Brooks behind the wheel.
After a lunch break, Brooks began his side of the case with a rambling opening statement. Brooks told jurors he hadn’t rehearsed anything and would speak from the heart. However, he didn’t lay out his version of what happened, allude to how he would defend himself or reveal who would testify on his behalf.
Opening statements are usually when prosecutors and defense attorneys offer the jury a roadmap of their version of the case, often presenting their theories about guilt or innocence and noting which witnesses will take the stand and what they’ll say.
Brooks called what happened at the parade “a tragedy” while reminding jurors that there’s two sides to every story.
“It’s easy to look at the magnitude of something like this and form opinions,” he said. “I think it’s easy to disregard a lot of factors. … It’s easy to forget the other side of the coin.”
He then started choking back tears and dabbing his eyes with a tissue. He said the entire community is suffering, including his family.
“There’s been a lot of words thrown out there about the alleged, lot of speculation, lot of ridicule. Words like ‘demon.’ Words like ‘molester,’” he said.
Brooks has been wearing a surgical mask in court but removed it during his speech. “It’s important that you see me for who I am. No mask. For who I am. This is the moment for that. I pray that your eyes and ears remain as open as possible,” he told jurors.
Finally, he broke down in tears, sat down at the defense table and bowed his head.
Dorow then called a short break to allow Brooks to gather himself.
When court resumed, Brooks called the state of Wisconsin to the stand. Throughout the proceedings he has maintained the government doesn’t have jurisdiction over him and only a “living human brain” can bring a claim against another in court. When told the state isn’t a person, he asked that the case be dismissed. Dorow told him to call his next witness.
Brooks called Nicholas Kirby, who testified that he helped Brooks’ ex-girlfriend escape as Brooks was assaulting her in his SUV minutes before he drove into the parade.
Brooks pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease earlier this year, then withdrew the plea without explanation. Psychologists have determined he is competent. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-us-news/ap-wisconsin-parade-suspect-gives-tearful-opening-statement/ | 2022-10-21 12:28:31 | 1 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-us-news/ap-wisconsin-parade-suspect-gives-tearful-opening-statement/ |
Lisa Lynne began her Hands on Harps tour at the Hood River Library, located on State Street, April 21. Lynne and husband Aryeh Frankfurter showcased their skills and taught about a dozen community members how to play the harp. The tour continues at several other locations throughout Oregon.
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Prime Phoenix Will Feature Five Data Centers, 210 Megawatts of Critical Power, Water Conservation and High-Density Capability
SAN FRANCISCO, May 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Prime, a developer and operator of hyperscale and wholesale data centers in America and Europe, today announced expansion into the Phoenix market with a five-building, 66.5-acre campus in Avondale. Prime Phoenix will feature 210 megawatts of critical power and 1.3 million square feet of space. The project will culminate in a sustainable, high-density data center campus designed to support hyperscale services providers, large Internet brands, global technology companies and the Fortune 500 enterprise.
"Phoenix presents an incredible growth opportunity for Prime as a top-five, North American data center market with increasing demand from cloud and enterprise data center buyers," stated Chris Sumter, EVP of Acquisitions at Prime. "With compelling state tax incentives, power costs 16% to 18% below national averages and low risk of natural disasters, Phoenix will sustain its position for years to come. This project will further Prime's commitment to sustainability and technology advancement through efficient enablement of higher power densities and recycled water."
The Avondale location is in Maricopa County a few minutes west of downtown Phoenix. Dark fiber access from the campus will provide customers with low-latency connectivity to local carrier-hotel meet-me rooms and Internet exchange points. The first data center at the campus is projected for Q3 2025 completion and will provide 260,400 square feet and 42 critical megawatts to the capacity-constrained market.
"It is with great pleasure that we welcome Prime to Avondale," comments Avondale Mayor Kenneth Weise. "With Prime's data center campus and investment of more than two billion dollars, Avondale is poised to become a next-generation technology hub. This will foster lasting, positive economic growth for years to come with hundreds of permanent and temporary jobs created with the construction of each data center. Also, the sustainable campus design aligns with local and state government commitments to water conservation, energy efficiency and the proliferation of clean energy consumption."
Prime will provide customers access to reliable, 100% renewable energy. Additionally, the closed-loop cooling system at each Phoenix data center will save millions of gallons of water when compared to evaporative systems. The result will be near-zero Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE) and 97% less water consumed than an equally sized residential neighborhood.
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Prime is a global provider of hyperscale and wholesale data centers. Data-driven organizations such as cloud providers, Internet businesses, and the Global Fortune 500 choose Prime for build-to-suit, powered-shell, and Prime-design data centers that help them advance, defend, and achieve their technology and sustainability objectives. Prime differentiates with risk mitigation, nimble operations for predictable results, and data centers delivered on customer terms such as unique ownership options and dynamic lease structures. At the company's core, Prime's mission is to be the go-to infrastructure solutions partner for its customer base. With a roadmap of more than two gigawatts of critical power capacity spread across established and emerging markets, Prime will be where they need to grow next over the long term.
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TORONTO (AP) — Seattle Mariners pitcher Easton McGee took a no-hitter into the seventh inning of his first major league start Saturday before Matt Chapman doubled off the center-field wall for the Toronto Blue Jays with two outs.
McGee was removed after Chapman's hit, and reliever Matt Brash struck out Daulton Varsho to end the inning. The game was scoreless heading to the eighth.
McGee retired his first 12 batters before walking Chapman to begin the fifth. The 6-foot-6 right-hander then set down the next eight Blue Jays hitters. He threw only 64 pitches in 6 2/3 innings, striking out two.
It was the second big league outing for McGee, who made one relief appearance for Tampa Bay late last season. He was called up from Triple-A Tacoma earlier in the day to start in place of struggling Chris Flexen, who was moved to the bullpen.
There have been six no-hitters in Mariners history and the most recent one came in Toronto, when Canadian-born lefty James Paxton threw one on May 8, 2018.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities law firm, is investigating potential claims against Avaya Holdings Corp. ("Avaya" or the "Company") (NYSE: AVYA).
If you suffered losses exceeding $50,000 investing in Avaya stock or options and would like to discuss your legal rights, call Faruqi & Faruqi partner Josh Wilson directly at 877-247-4292 or 212-983-9330 (Ext. 1310). You may also click here for additional information: www.faruqilaw.com/AVYA.
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On June 27, 2022, Avaya announced $600 million in aggregate financing commitments, including $350 million of new Senior Secured Term Loans and $250 million of Exchangeable Senior Secured Notes. Management claimed "[t]his funding supports and accelerates our business model transformation."
A month later, on July 28, 2022, Avaya announced its board fired CEO James M. Chirico, Jr. The company also announced disastrous preliminary Q3 2022 financial results that included expected revenues and adjusted EBITDA well below previously given guidance and an unquantified but "significant" impairment charge. In addition, the company withdrew its 2022 guidance. This news sent the price of Avaya shares crashing 57% lower the next day.
Then, on Aug. 9, 2022, Avaya announced: (1) it determined there is substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern; (2) it would not timely file its financial statements for the quarter ended June 30, 2022; (3) its Audit Committee commenced internal investigations into circumstances surrounding the company's financial results for the quarter; and, (4) the Committee also commenced an investigation into matters raised by a whistleblower. This news sent the price of Avaya shares crashing 45% lower that day.
Most recently, on Nov. 30, 2022, Avaya announced it would not timely file its financial statements for its fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2022, revealed that its internal investigation is continuing, and admitted that it did not appropriately log the whistleblower's email received by a member of its Board of Directors and did not convey its existence to management or to its outside auditor.
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New York Times: NY prosecutors signal they’re nearing end of Trump hush money investigation
By Kara Scannell, Kristen Holmes and Jack Forrest, CNN
Prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney’s office recently offered former President Donald Trump the chance to testify next week before a grand jury that’s been investigating a hush money payment scheme — signaling they are nearing the end of their investigation, The New York Times reported Thursday.
Trump’s lawyer recently met with the district attorney’s office, one source told CNN. His legal team has been concerned with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s intentions because of recently ramped up activity at the grand jury, according to another source familiar with the matter. Former Trump White House aides Hope Hicks and Kellyanne Conway recently appeared before the grand jury.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office declined to comment to CNN.
“The Manhattan District Attorney’s threat to indict President Trump is simply insane. For the past five years, the DA’s office has been on a Witch Hunt, investigating every aspect of President Trump’s life, and they’ve come up empty at every turn — and now this,” Trump’s spokesman said in a statement to CNN.
The investigation relates to a $130,000 payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in late October 2016, days before the 2016 presidential election, to silence her from going public about an alleged affair with Trump a decade earlier. Trump has denied the affair.
Hush money payments aren’t illegal. Prosecutors are weighing whether to charge Trump with falsifying the business records of the Trump Organization for how it reflected the reimbursement of the payment to Michael Cohen, Trump’s then-fixer who said he advanced the money to Daniels. Falsifying business records is a misdemeanor in New York.
A source familiar with the matter told CNN’s Don Lemon that Cohen — Trump’s former personal attorney who pleaded guilty to federal campaign finance charges for facilitating the $130,000 payment to Daniels — is expected to to provide additional testimony at the Manhattan district attorney’s office on Monday. That would mark Cohen’s 20th appearance before the district attorney’s office, including appearances when Bragg’s predecessor Cy Vance was in office.
Prosecutors are also weighing whether to charge him with falsifying business records in the first degree for falsifying a record with the intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal another crime, which in this case could be a violation of campaign finance laws. That is a Class E felony and carries a sentence of a minimum of one year and as much as four years.
The Trump Organization noted the reimbursements as a legal expense in its internal books. Trump has previously denied knowledge of the payment.
If the district attorney’s office moves forward with charges, it’s not without risk. Trump’s lawyers could challenge whether campaign finance laws would apply as a crime to make the case a felony.
CNN reported last month that Jeffrey McConney, the controller of the Trump Organization, would appear in front of the grand jury, according to people familiar with matter. McConney is one of the highest-ranking financial officers at the Trump Organization and has responsibility for its books and records.
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China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday urged the Pacific region not to be "too anxious" about his country's aims after a meeting in Fiji with his counterparts from 10 island nations was unable to agree to a sweeping trade and security communique.
Wang hosted the meeting with foreign ministers from Pacific island nations with diplomatic ties with China midway through a diplomatic tour of the region where Beijing's ambitions for wider security ties has caused concern among US allies.
A draft communique and five-year action plan sent by China to the invited nations ahead of the meeting showed China was seeking a sweeping regional trade and security agreement.
But the draft communique prompted opposition from at least one of the invited nations, Federated States of Micronesia, according to a letter leaked last week.
After the meeting, which included Samoa, Tonga, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Niue and Vanuatu, Wang said the nations had agreed on five areas of cooperation, but further discussions were needed to shape more consensus.
The five areas he listed included economic recovery after the Covid pandemic, and new centers for agriculture and disaster, but did not include security.
"China will release its own position paper on our own positions and propositions and cooperation proposals with Pacific island countries, and going forward we will continue to have ongoing and in-depth discussions and consultations to shape more consensus on cooperation," he told reporters in Fiji. Questions at the media briefing were not allowed.
Wang said some had questioned China's motives in being so active in the Pacific islands, and his response was China supported developing countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean also.
"Don't be too anxious and don't be too nervous, because the common development and prosperity of China and all the other developing countries would only mean great harmony, greater justice and greater progress of the whole world," he said.
Taking questions after Wang's briefing, China's Ambassador to Fiji, Qian Bo, said participants had agreed to discuss the draft communique and the five-year plan "until we have reached an agreement."
"There has been general support from the 10 countries with which we have diplomatic relations, but of course there are some concerns on some specific issues."
Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama told reporters the Pacific nations were prioritizing consensus.
"Geopolitical point-scoring means less than little to anyone whose community is slipping beneath the rising seas, whose job is being lost to the pandemic, or whose family is impacted by the rapid rise in the price of commodities," Bainimarama said.
In a written address to the meeting, China's leader Xi Jinping said China will always be a good friend of Pacific Island countries no matter how the international situation changes, China's state-owned CCTV reported.
Pacific tour
Several invited nations want to defer action on the draft communique or have it amended, an official from one Pacific country said earlier.
The United States, Australia, Japan and New Zealand have expressed concern about a security pact signed by the Solomon Islands with China last month, saying it had regional consequences and could lead to a Chinese military presence close to Australia.
The new Australian government has made the Pacific islands an early foreign policy priority to counter Beijing's push, sending the foreign minister to Fiji with the message Australia would put new priority on the region's biggest security challenge of climate change and announcing a new visa program to allow Pacific island citizens to migrate.
In Honiara last week, Wang condemned interference in the deal and said the Solomon Islands' relationship with China was a model for other Pacific island nations.
With borders closed across the region because of the Covid pandemic, most foreign ministers are attending the Fiji meeting by video link. In several Pacific countries, the foreign minister is also prime minister.
Wang will travel to the South Pacific kingdom of Tonga for a two-day visit on Tuesday.
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HONG KONG, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Highway Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: HIHO, "the Company" or "Highway Holdings") today reported results for its fiscal year 2023 second quarter and six-months ended September 30, 2022.
Net sales for the second quarter of fiscal year 2023 were $3 million, compared with $3.4 million in the year ago period, reflecting the adverse impact of shutdowns, disruptions and supply chain issues related to the Zero-COVID policy in China and Hong Kong. Net income for the second quarter of fiscal year 2023 was $396,000, or $0.10 per diluted share, compared with a net income of $242,000, or $0.06 per diluted share in the year ago period.
Net sales for the first half of fiscal year 2023 were $6 million compared with $6.4 million in the year ago period. Net income for the first half of fiscal year 2023 was $783,000, or $0.19 per diluted share, compared with $575,000 or $0.14 per diluted share in the year ago period.
"Our team remained focused during this challenging period and continued to work closely with our customers to best support their demands. The governments in China and Hong Kong helped during this period with some subsidies, which helped us achieve modest profitability on the reduced revenue level as we actively controlled operating and supply chain costs," said Roland Kohl, chairman, president and chief executive officer.
Mr. Kohl emphasized, "China's Zero Covid policy has caused virtually constant disturbances to our day-to-day business. For example, suppliers, customers and our own employees have to deal with office and residence closures and quarantines, which can last for several days, or more. This has a highly disruptive and disturbing impact on both our production cycles and on the broader supply chain, with the normal flow of supplies, components and people being upended. Even though the governments in China and Hong Kong provide us with occasional financial subsidies, these subsidies do not fully compensate for all the disturbances to our business. We will continue to take appropriate actions to adjust to the current environment. We hope the restrictions will be lifted in the near future, which should lead to more normal business levels and an acceleration of the encouraging new business opportunities we are developing."
Gross profit for the second quarter of fiscal year 2023 was $1,099,000 compared with $1,093,000 a year ago. Gross profit as a percentage of sales for the second quarter of fiscal year 2023 increased to 36.1 percent from 32.5 percent in the year ago period. Gross profit for the first half of fiscal year 2023 was $2.1 million compared with $2.0 million in the year ago period. Gross profit as a percentage of sales for the first half of fiscal year 2023 was 36.0 percent compared with 31.8 percent in the year ago period. The Company noted the comparisons are not very meaningful because of the disruptions and subsidies impacting different periods and distorting the numbers.
Net income for the second quarter of fiscal year 2023 reflects a currency exchange gain of $6,000 compared to a $3,000 gain in the year ago period. The company reported a currency exchange gain of $24,000 for the first half of fiscal year 2023, compared with a $4,000 loss in the year ago period.
The Company noted that its balance sheet remains strong, with cash and cash equivalents in excess of $6 million, or approximately $1.4 per diluted share, exceeding all of its short- and long-term liabilities by approximately $1.5 million, with a $12.5 million dollar balance of current assets. Total shareholders' equity at September 30, 2022 was $9.7 million, or $2.3 per diluted share.
About Highway Holdings Limited
Highway Holdings is an international manufacturer of a wide variety of quality parts and products for blue chip equipment manufacturers based primarily in Germany. Highway Holdings' administrative offices are located in Hong Kong and its manufacturing facilities are located in Yangon, Myanmar and Shenzhen, China. For more information visit website www.highwayholdings.com.
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release are forward-looking statements which involve risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to economic, competitive, governmental, political and technological factors affecting the company's revenues, operations, markets, products and prices, and other factors discussed in the company's various filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including without limitation, the company's annual reports on Form 20-F.
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ONTELAUNEE TWP., Pa. — It is only a test.
The Berks County Department of Emergency Services put the public on notice Monday about a special training exercise that is scheduled to take place this weekend.
The Luminant Ontelaunee Power Plant at 5115 Pottsville Pike (Route 61) in Ontelaunee Township will play host to the Berks County Special Operations Group, Team HazMat, and first responders on Saturday, Sept. 17, starting at 9 a.m.
The exercise, officials said, will test the responders' ability to address the emergency conditions surrounding a simulated release of hazardous materials.
People in the area may notice an increased presence of emergency vehicles during the exercise, but no actual materials will be released, officials said.
The power plant has the capacity to generate 600 megawatts of electricity for the PJM Interconnection, according to Luminant's website. PJM coordinates the movement of electricity in all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia. | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/berks-des-advises-of-hazmat-exercise-in-ontelaunee/article_10971e2e-32ae-11ed-979f-2f4603c6a8cb.html | 2022-09-12 17:35:40 | 1 | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/berks-des-advises-of-hazmat-exercise-in-ontelaunee/article_10971e2e-32ae-11ed-979f-2f4603c6a8cb.html |
Singer, actor and human rights activist Harry Belafonte died Tuesday. He was 96. He broke racial barriers and balanced his activism with his artistry in ways that made people around the world listen.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Numbers Evening" game were:
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BANGKOK – A court in Thailand sentenced a 27-year-old political activist to 28 years in prison on Thursday for posting messages on Facebook that it said defamed the country’s monarchy, while two young women charged with the same offense continued a hunger strike after being hospitalized.
The court in the northern province of Chiang Rai found that Mongkhon Thirakot violated the lese majeste law in 14 of 27 posts for which he was arrested last August. The law covers the current king, his queen and heirs, and any regent.
The lese majeste law carries a prison term of three to 15 years per incident for insulting the monarchy, but critics say it is often wielded as a tool to quash political dissent. Student-led pro-democracy protests beginning in 2020 openly criticized the monarchy, previously a taboo subject, leading to vigorous prosecutions under the law, which had previously been relatively rarely employed.
Since November 2020, according to Thai Lawyers for Human Rights, a legal aid organization, at least 228 people, including 18 minors, have been charged with violating the law, even as the protest movement withered due to arrests and the difficulties of conducting protests during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Chiang Rai court found that 13 messages posted by Mongkhon, an online clothing merchant, did not violate the law because they related to the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the father of current King Maha Vajiralongkorn, or did not mention a specific royal figure. Mongkhon was found guilty and sentenced to three years in prison for each of the other 14 posts. The 42-year total prison term was reduced by one third, to 28 years, because of Mongkhon’s cooperation with the court.
Mongkhon was granted release on bail while his case in on appeal, under the conditions that he does not engage in acts that damage the monarchy or leave the country.
Prosecutions under the lese majeste law have recently drawn increased public attention because of a prison hunger strike by two female activists charged with the offense.
The two, Tantawan “Tawan” Tuatulanon and Orawan “Bam” Phupong, had been free on bail but announced earlier this month that they were revoking their own release to return to prison in solidarity with others held pending trial on the same charge. They issued demands including reform of the justice system, the release of political prisoners and the restoration of civil liberties by abolishing legislation such as the lese majeste law.
After three days back in prison, they began a hunger strike in which they are not consuming either food or liquids, a life-threatening tactic. On Tuesday they were transferred from the prison hospital to a state hospital with better facilities.
As their strike continued, supporters staged small protests.
The opposition Move Forward Party, which has been offering support, has proposed amending the lese majeste law, but no action has been taken in Parliament.
The proposal would reduce the punishment for defaming the king to a maximum of one year in prison and a fine of up to 300,000 baht ($9,160), while an offense against the queen, the king’s heirs or the regent would be subject to a maximum six-month prison term and a fine of up to 200,000 baht ($6,100).
“The entire Thai justice system has a problem and so does the enforcement of the lese majeste law, which is also used as a political tool. Thailand has to solve this and make its distorted justice system better,” said Pita Limjaroenrat, the party’s leader. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2023/01/26/thai-activist-sentenced-to-28-years-for-online-posts-on-king/ | 2023-01-27 04:44:48 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2023/01/26/thai-activist-sentenced-to-28-years-for-online-posts-on-king/ |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A former Texas sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for killing his ex-wife, teenage stepdaughter and the stepdaughter’s boyfriend.
Former Travis County sheriff’s deputy Stephen Broderick, 42, was automatically sentenced after pleading guilty to capital murder Tuesday in Austin in the 2021 deaths of ex-wife Amanda Broderick, 35; stepdaughter Alyssa Broderick, 17; and Willie Simmons III, 18. Broderick rammed his vehicle into his ex-wife’s house and shot dead all three people inside.
Prosecutors set aside a possible death penalty in exchange for the guilty plea.
The ex-deputy killed the three during a custody visit with his son, whom he didn’t shoot. Stephen Broderick was free on bond at the time of the shooting after being charged the year before with the sexual assault of a child and losing his job as a result.
Stephen Broderick was ordered to wear a GPS tracking device, but state District Judge Karen Sage ordered the removal of the device five months after his release, the Austin American-Statesman reported. Prosecutors dropped the sexual assault charge as part of Broderick’s plea deal. Amanda and Alyssa Broderick’s family said the dismissal denied justice to Alyssa, who was the victim of the sexual assault.
But prosecutors said they doubted they could obtain a conviction on the charge because the victim was dead.
Sage, who passed the sentence on Broderick, expressed sympathy with their anger.
“I wish I could bring you justice,” Sage said. “But the truth is, the loss you’re suffering, there’s nothing I can do to make that loss go away. It’s the best we can do in the system we have, and it’s never enough. My heart goes out to you. Three beautiful, wonderful people — I see their lives shine on through all of you. I hope that at some point you can find some peace.” | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/ap-ex-deputy-gets-life-for-killing-ex-wife-stepdaughter-man/ | 2022-09-15 17:10:21 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/ap-ex-deputy-gets-life-for-killing-ex-wife-stepdaughter-man/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first flights of infant formula from Europe, authorized by President Joe Biden to relieve a deepening U.S. shortage, will arrive in Indiana aboard military aircraft this weekend, the White House announced Friday.
The White House says 132 pallets of Nestlé Health Science Alfamino Infant and Alfamino Junior formula will leave Ramstein Air Base in Germany and arrive in the U.S. this weekend. Another 114 pallets of Gerber Good Start Extensive HA formula are expected to arrive in the coming days. Altogether about 1.5 million 8-ounce bottles of the three formulas, which are hypoallergenic for children with cow’s milk protein allergy, will arrive this week.
While Biden initially requested that the Pentagon use commercially chartered aircraft to move the formula from Europe to the U.S., the White House said no commercial flights were available this weekend. Instead, U.S. Air Force planes will transport the initial batch of formula.
The Biden administration has dubbed the effort “Operation Fly Formula," as it struggles to address nationwide shortages of formula, particularly hypoallergenic varieties, after the closure of the country's largest domestic manufacturing plant in February due to safety issues.
U.S. regulators and the manufacturer, Abbott, hope to have that Michigan plant reopened next week, but it will take about two months before product is ready for delivery. The Food and Drug Administration this week eased importation requirements for baby formula to try to ease the supply crunch, which has left store shelves bare of some brands and some retailers rationing supply for parents nervous about feeding their children. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/First-formula-flights-from-Europe-to-arrive-this-17188524.php | 2022-05-21 02:49:58 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/First-formula-flights-from-Europe-to-arrive-this-17188524.php |
NEW YORK (AP) — Viola Davis, Paul Simon and Molly Shannon are among the nominees for prizes given for the spoken word: the annual Audie Awards, handed out by the Audio Publishers Association.
The publishers association announced nominees for 26 categories Thursday.
Davis' memoir “Finding Me," read by the Oscar-winning actor, is a finalist for audiobook of the year. The project recently won Davis a Grammy for best audio book, narration, and storytelling recording, catapulting her to EGOT status.
The other finalists are “The 1619 Project,” based on The New York Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning series about race and racism in U.S. history, “Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon,” “Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, and “Remarkably Bright Creatures.”
The awards range from from audio drama to fantasy and memoir, for which finalists include Shannon's narration of her own “Hello, Molly!"
Lucy Liu is a finalist in the fiction category as one of the narrators of Tom Perrotta's “Tracy Flick Can’t Win,” his sequel to “Election.” Rosamund Pike's narration of Robert Jordan's “The Eye of the World” and Thandiwe Newton's reading of “War and Peace” brought them each nominations for best female narrator. “Happy-Go-Lucky,'” written and narrated by David Sedaris, is a finalist for best humor audiobook.
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QB Mayfield has another revenge game, this time vs. Browns
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AP Sports Writer
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Baker Mayfield finds himself in a familiar position — entering a game seeking revenge. How he handles it is anyone’s guess. But at least one teammate said he expects the Carolina Panthers flamboyant quarterback will be “jacked up” on Sunday when he faces his former team, the Cleveland Browns, who traded him after replacing him with Deshaun Watson. Carolina wide receiver Rashard Higgins said he wants to see Mayfield “talking his talk and walking his walk.” He said Mayfield plays his best football when he’s fired up. | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/09/07/qb-mayfield-has-another-revenge-game-this-time-vs-browns/ | 2022-09-08 00:54:42 | 1 | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/09/07/qb-mayfield-has-another-revenge-game-this-time-vs-browns/ |
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. (AP) _ Barnes & Noble Education Inc. (BNED) on Tuesday reported fiscal second-quarter net income of $22.1 million.
On a per-share basis, the Basking Ridge, New Jersey-based company said it had profit of 42 cents. Earnings, adjusted for amortization costs and restructuring costs, were 46 cents per share.
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The operator of book stores on college campuses posted revenue of $617.1 million in the period.
The company's shares closed at $2.55. A year ago, they were trading at $6.71.
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By DANICA KIRKA
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, have been asked to vacate their home in Britain, suggesting a further fraying of ties with the royal family amid preparations for the coronation of his father, King Charles III.
Frogmore Cottage, on the grounds of Windsor Castle west of London, had been intended as the couple’s main residence before they gave up royal duties and moved to Southern California. The Sun newspaper reported that Charles started the eviction process on Jan. 11, the day after the publication of Harry’s explosive memoir “Spare.”
“We can confirm The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been requested to vacate their residence at Frogmore Cottage,” a spokesperson for the couple said in statement.
Disclosures Harry made in “Spare” deepened the rift between him and his family. The book included his account of private conversations with his father, and his brother, Prince William.
After they left Britain, Harry and Meghan had said Frogmore Cottage would remain their base when they visited the U.K.
In September 2020, a spokesman announced the couple had repaid 2.4 million pounds ($3.2 million) in British taxpayers’ money that was used to renovate the home when they were working members of the royal family.
The money “fully covered” the cost of the renovation, the spokesman said. | https://wtmj.com/entertainment/2023/03/01/harry-meghan-asked-to-leave-uk-home-in-further-royal-rift-2/ | 2023-03-02 22:44:51 | 0 | https://wtmj.com/entertainment/2023/03/01/harry-meghan-asked-to-leave-uk-home-in-further-royal-rift-2/ |
Space Camp Dudes Landing Fall 2022 – Subscribe to TDSC Waitlist
TORONTO, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- a revolutionary new PFP NFT called Throwing Dude Space Camp (TDSC) is launching in the Fall. 10,000 NFTs will be available. TDSC features next level art, astonishing rarity, and a ground-breaking road map. Click here to join the waitlist.
Gyro Plasmic (pseudonym), Founder of TDSC says; "we wanted to expand the boundaries of our character art to include action and a sports element, so we decided on the throwing motion and the abundance of throwing sports. We did not limit ourselves to earth or even our own galaxy. We expanded what is possible to be thrown and what it takes to do that. We built all of that into our avatars." https://throwingdudespacecamp.com/
Creative team members Gyroplasmic Overlord (Canada) and Velocity Man (South Africa) have been iterating the concept and art for a long time (with daily creative sprints) and have achieved over 650 traits with over 220 on the clothing alone. We discovered how to create different gender identities within our universe of Dudes.
Since our Dudes are from across our Universe, some of their capabilities go way beyond just throwing mere earthly objects and include galactic and even mythical throwing.
TDSC is about living the creative inspired life and pursuing the joy of throwing and the joy of exploring. No matter your skill level, or where you come from in our universe, Throwing Dude Space Camp galactically celebrates the comradery of Space Camp and throwing.
We are in it for the long haul and as TDCS gets resourced through revenue, we plan to introduce many benefits to the Throwing Dude Space Camp membership, which may include: our 57 planets art reveal, exclusive member merchandise, space camping festival under our aurora borealis, release of space camp song anthem and more. TDSC will push the boundaries of what is possible for a PFP NFT and will have a lot of fun doing it.
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If you thought you saw the last of your favorite Islanders, think again.
The cast of Peacock's Love Island USA is getting back together for the show's first-ever reunion special on September 1, and E! News has your exclusive first look at what will go down in the villa.
Returning alongside host Sarah Hyland for the post-finale festivities are this season's winning couple Zeta Morrison and Timmy Pandolfi, as well as runners-up Sydney Paight and Isaiah Campbell and third place duo Deb Chubb and Jesse Bray.
Fans can also expect to see several other fan-favorite cast members show up to hash out old drama, relive this season's best moments and give fans an update on their life after Love Island.
And based on E! News' exclusive reunion pics, there are plenty of must-see moments in store.
Find out which of your favorite Islanders are headed back to the villa below.
All episodes of Love Island USA are streaming now on Peacock and tune in to the reunion special on September 1.
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Objective: to clinically validate efficacy of a new form of immunotherapy utilizing CAR-T cells to target multiple difficult-to-treat tumors
PARIS, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mnemo Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing transformational immunotherapies, today announced the kick-off of their participation in the prestigious Hospital-University Research in Health (RHU) program. Designed by France's National Research Agency, the RHU funding supports cutting-edge research and cross-institutional collaborations, bringing together academia, businesses, and hospitals to push the boundaries of what is possible in healthcare.
In December of 2021, 17 proposals were selected for the RHU funding. Among them, receiving close to 10 million euros, is the EpCART project. Under the leadership of Sebastian Amigorena, Ph.D., one of Mnemo's scientific co-founders and head of the Immune Responses and Cancer Team at Institut Curie, the EpCART project aims to clinically validate a novel approach to CAR-T immunotherapy.
"We are honored to be named a laureate for this prestigious initiative and work alongside our long-standing partners at Institut Curie, as well as the MEARY Cell and Gene Therapy Center at Saint-Louis Hospital, AP-HP," said Mnemo CEO, Robert LaCaze.
The EpCART project focuses on epigenetic reprogramming of CAR-T cells. Through the inactivation of SUV39H1, a key enzyme in the differentiation pathway of T cells, the memory phenotype of these cells can be greatly increased. This works to achieve long-lasting tumor control, addressing patient relapse.
"Current immuno-oncology therapies often suffer from immune-cell memory loss, causing therapies to become less active and persistent in their ability to attack cancer cells over time," said Dr. Amigorena. "The EpCART project mines insights into the memory of the immune system to overcome this challenge and produce a new class of CAR-T therapies with enhanced memory and persistence. We believe this will drive more durable responses for cancer patients."
Over the next five years, the EpCART project will seek to clinically validate this technology as an autologous therapy. Mnemo will work in collaboration with the other EpCART partners to conduct a Phase I-II clinical trial, investigating the activity of these innovative CAR-T therapies in a cohort of 35 patients with difficult-to-treat solid tumors.
The EpCART project will accelerate research on Mnemo's EnfiniT Discovery Engine, an integrated drug discovery tool combining key technologies to create lasting immune memory, identify novel cancer-specific targets, and more.
"Today is an exciting step in our journey to develop transformational immunotherapies with the aim of improving the body's ability to detect, fight, and overcome cancer," said Mnemo Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Alain Maiore. "We are truly honored to collaborate with such esteemed partners and look forward to the fruits of this initiative."
About Mnemo Therapeutics
Mnemo is developing transformational immunotherapies to improve the body's ability to fight and overcome cancer. Integral to Mnemo's approach is the EnfiniT Discovery Engine, composed of key technologies that work to identify novel cancer-specific antigens and enhance immune cells' memory and persistence. Mnemo will harness these technologies with multiple modalities across a range of oncology indications, engineering the future of immunotherapies to transform the lives of people with cancer. Mnemo is headquartered in Paris with an office in New York City, and it maintains state of the art laboratories in Paris, New York, and Princeton, New Jersey. The company leverages an international talent pool and global resources in its quest to create immunological cures.
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Putin signs bill to suspend last nuclear arms pact with US
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday signed a bill formally suspending the last remaining nuclear arms treaty with the United States, amid soaring tensions with Washington over Moscow’s action in Ukraine.
Putin had declared a week ago in his state-of-the-nation address that Moscow was suspending its participation in the 2010 New START treaty. He had charged that Russia can’t accept U.S. inspections of its nuclear sites under the pact at a time when Washington and its NATO allies have openly declared Russia’s defeat in Ukraine as their goal.
Both houses of parliament quickly ratified Putin’s bill on the pact’s suspension last week. On Tuesday, Putin signed it into law, effective immediately. The document says that it’s up to the president to decide whether Moscow could return to the pact.
Putin has emphasized that Moscow was not withdrawing from the pact altogether, and the Russian Foreign Ministry said the country would respect the caps on nuclear weapons set under the treaty and keep notifying the U.S. about test launches of ballistic missiles.
On Monday, a top U.S. arms control official strongly criticized Russia for suspending its participation in the treaty, but noted that Washington will try to work with Moscow to continue its implementation.
“Russia is once again showing the world that it is not a responsible nuclear power,” Bonnie Jenkins, the U.S. undersecretary of state for arms control, said at a session of the Conference on Disarmament, a United Nations-affiliated international forum.
Jenkins told reporters that the U.S. has not fully assessed the consequences of Russia’s suspension move, but said: “We’re not seeing any evidence that Russia is in noncompliance.”
“We remain ready to work assertively with Russia to fully implement the New START treaty,” she added.
The New START, signed by then-presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev in 2010, limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers. The agreement envisages sweeping on-site inspections to verify compliance.
The inspections have been dormant since 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Discussions on resuming them were supposed to have taken place last November, but Russia abruptly called them off.
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TERRE HAUTE — Indiana State University is celebrating its largest individual donation ever which will help students and faculty.
Alumnus Steve and his wife Gloria Bailey are giving $8 million to the Bailey College of Engineering and Technology (BCET).
Steve Bailey is a 1971 alumnus of ISU who graduated with a degree in automotive technology and went on to lead Diesel USA Group as CEO until his retirement in 2019. He serves on the College of Technology Dean’s Advisory Council and the ISU Foundation Board of Directors.
Gloria helped Interior Architecture Design students at ISU redesign and furnish the atrium in the John T. Myers Technology Center.
"Every facet of Indiana State, and this gift, excites us because we know how much of an effect it can have on students. Steve attributes much of his success in his career to his time at Indiana State. We are hopeful that this gift will be the best investment of our lives," Gloria said.
The gift is going to three funds:
- The Bailey College of Engineering and Technology Scholars program will provide incoming freshmen majoring within the college a $3,000 scholarship. That scholarship will be renewable for up to two years. Fifty scholarships will be offered in Fall 2023.
- The Bailey Faculty Fellowship Fund will give a $10,000 award to five outstanding faculty members to fund activities such as research and conferences. The money will not supplement salaries.
- $50,000 per year for the next three years will go to the Dean’s Fund for Excellence to assist with new industry partnerships, expanding existing partnerships and recruiting students.
“We have seen firsthand the great work being done to provide first-generation college students with a high-quality education through mentorship, curriculum, and experiential learning. We feel passionately that the three prongs in this gift — the student scholarships, the faculty fellowships, and the dean’s fund — will positively impact the lives of engineering and technology students for years to come," Steve said.
The Bailey College of Engineering and Technology received ABET accreditation for its engineering program in August 2022. The college currently holds 13 ABET accredited programs. ABET accreditation verifies that programs provide the quality standards of the profession that’s being taught.
The school is currently conducting a nationwide search for a new dean of the BCET. | https://www.wrtv.com/news/state-news/indiana-state-university-receives-largest-gift-in-school-history | 2022-12-09 22:22:40 | 0 | https://www.wrtv.com/news/state-news/indiana-state-university-receives-largest-gift-in-school-history |
Steve Inskeep talks to Sheila Smith, senior fellow in Asia-Pacific Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, about what's next after the party previously led by Shinzo Abe won Japan's election.
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WFO PENDLETON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, February 13, 2023
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* WHERE...East Slopes of the Washington Cascades.
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SAN ANTONIO — It has been debated countless times: Who had the better career? Tim Duncan or Kobe Bryant?
Both NBA legends have a strong argument why one should be ranked higher than the other.
The San Antonio Spurs legend won five titles, as did Bryant. However, Duncan has three NBA Finals MVP trophies while Bryant has two.
Duncan was named back-to-back NBA MVP in 2002 and 2003 while Bryant won the award once in 2008.
Bryant was part of a Lakers three-peat while Duncan was never part of a title-defending Spurs team.
The comparisons go on and on, but in Fox Sports' Nick Wright's opinion, Duncan gets the nod over Bryant.
During a recent "First Things First" episode, Wright shared his personal top 50 NBA players of the last 50 years list.
When it came to him placing Duncan over Bryant, he said the San Antonio basketball legend was consistently winning, racking up 50-plus win seasons, unlike Bryant, as a retort to Ric Bucher who opines that Bryant ranks higher than Duncan.
"Tim Duncan never had a down year," Wright said. "Fifty wins every single year of his career. The playoffs every single year of his career. The only year he didn't win 50 [games] was when the season was 50 [games] and he won the title that year. "
Digging deeper, Duncan's NBA Finals record is 5-1 while Bryant's is 5-2, but both were named to 15 All-NBA Teams.
Ultimately, it is an interesting debate.
The pair went head-to-head countless times during their time in the NBA, and the West was usually won by Duncan's Spurs or Bryant's Lakers.
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A Nebraska church raised over $520,000 to cover medical expenses of residents in its neighborhood. It helps provides laundry, gasoline and health care to those in need, helping about 500 households.
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A Nebraska church raised over $520,000 to cover medical expenses of residents in its neighborhood. It helps provides laundry, gasoline and health care to those in need, helping about 500 households.
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NASHVILLE (AP) — Six people were killed at a small, private Christian school just south of downtown Nashville on Monday after a shooter opened fire inside the building containing about 200 students, police said.
Police received a call about an active shooter at The Covenant School — a Presbyterian school — around 10:15 a.m. Authorities said that about 15 minutes after that call to police, the shooter was dead. The remaining students were ferried to a safe location to be reunited with their parents.
Here’s what we know and don’t know about the shooting:
HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE KILLED?
Nashville police said six people, including three students, were killed. The victims were identified as Cynthia Peak, 61; Katherine Koonce, 60; Mike Hill, 61; and Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all age 9. Police officers also killed the shooter.
The website of The Covenant School, founded in 2001, lists a Katherine Koonce as the head of the school. Her LinkedIn profile says she has led the school since July 2016. Peak was a substitute teacher, and Hill was a custodian, according to investigators.
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WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE NASHVILLE SHOOTER?
Police gave unclear information on the shooter’s gender. For hours, police identified the shooter as a 28-year-old woman and eventually as Audrey Hale. Then at a late afternoon press conference, the police chief said that Hale was transgender. After the news conference, police spokesperson Don Aaron declined to elaborate on how Hale identified.
In an email Tuesday, police spokesperson Kristin Mumford said Hale “was assigned female at birth. Hale did use male pronouns on a social media profile.”
Police said Hale was a former student of the school, but it was unclear if Hale had any current affiliation with the school or was related to anyone in the school at the time of the shooting. Police said the shooter had made a detailed map of the school and conducted surveillance of the building before carrying out the massacre.
Police said Hale had two “assault-style” weapons and a pistol when Hale shot through the front door to enter the building. At least two of them were believed to have been obtained legally in the Nashville area, police said. Investigators found a sawed-off shotgun, a second shotgun and other unspecified evidence during a search of Hale’s home.
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HOW WAS THE NASHVILLE SHOOTER KILLED?
A team of five Nashville police officers entered the school after the initial call, said Aaron, the police spokesperson. While clearing the first floor of students and staff, they heard shots being fired on the second floor.
Two of the officers opened fire in response and fatally struck Hale at about 10:27 a.m., police said.
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DO WE KNOW THE MOTIVE?
Investigators were sent to the shooter’s home shortly after Hale was killed, police said. Hale had a map of the school with a planned route for the shooting, and officers found writings, police said.
No motive has been confirmed by police, and it was also unclear if Hale was trying to target any specific person during the shooting.
Police Chief John Drake said officers found writings that detailed the plan to attack the school and potentially other locations. He said in an interview with NBC News that investigators believe the shooter had “some resentment for having to go to that school.”
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HOW MANY SCHOOL SHOOTINGS HAVE THERE BEEN SINCE COLUMBINE?
There have been 15 mass shootings at schools or universities in the U.S. since the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. Mass shootings are defined as more than four people dying, not including the perpetrator, according to a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University, in addition to other AP reporting:
Of those 15 shootings, 175 people have died, the data shows. | https://cw33.com/news/u-s-news/ap-us-headlines/what-we-know-about-the-nashville-christian-school-shooting/ | 2023-03-28 15:29:31 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/u-s-news/ap-us-headlines/what-we-know-about-the-nashville-christian-school-shooting/ |
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Leading clinical trial endpoint technology provider sets ambitious targets to reduce translation timelines by 20-30% with investment in new technology and processes
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clario, a technology company that delivers the leading endpoint technology solutions for decentralized (DCT), hybrid and site-based clinical trials, today announced an investment in new translation service technology – the Clario Translation Workbench – to reduce translation times by 20-30% which will speed up eCOA study start-up and increase global patient access to clinical trials.
"Our clients need to deploy studies in multiple countries and ensure patients have access to accurate and timely translations of their electronic clinical outcomes assessments. This is critical to a successful study. With Clario's global reach and this investment in technology and process to reduce translation times, we can help increase patient access and speed up overall study set-up times," said Andy Cooper, EVP eCOA & Trial Enablement.
The Translation Workbench will:
- Use new technology to reduce the time spent in communications between the Translation vendor and Clario
- Reduce the burdensome processes associated with generating accurate screenshots and translations of the related screens on eCOA applications
- Reduce defects, and minimize human error through investment in automation and a new centralized data platform
Clients need reliable translation services to launch studies in multiple countries and reach a diverse patient population. However, they often face delays and challenges with the technical nature of the work. A key focus of the investment is to reduce the number of manual steps often needed in the technical and complex process of delivering accurate translations. Clario's new Translation Workbench technology has been developed and released to directly address those problems.
For nearly 50 years, Clario has been delivering the leading endpoint technology solutions for clinical trials. Through experience gained from over 19,000 clinical trials delivered in support of 870 regulatory approvals, Clario fuses scientific expertise and global scale into the broadest endpoint technology platform to empower pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device partners to transform lives. Clario's Trial Anywhere™ solutions have been powering hybrid and decentralized clinical trials (DCT) for over 15 years, enabling sponsors to collect high-quality endpoint data from any modality or location, all while improving the patient experience. Clario has 30 facilities in nine countries across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
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‘I have a lot of emotions’: Mother speaks out after son killed in hit-and-run crash
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) - Nearly two weeks after losing her son in a deadly hit-and-run crash, a mother is speaking out.
Tyteauna Smith is remembering her son, Jamall Anderson, but also talking about the changes she wants to see in her neighborhood after the tragic crash.
Las Vegas police said the incident happened on Aug. 13 at about 5:20 p.m. when they were called about a collision involving a vehicle and a bicyclist.
KVVU reports a juvenile on his bike entered the path of a U-Haul box heading towards an exit at an apartment complex. The juvenile fell to the ground and was run over by the truck.
Authorities said the driver of the U-Haul truck, later identified as 21-year-old Michael Burdick, checked on the bicyclist but then left the scene.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department was able to locate Burdick and arrest him on hit-and-run charges.
Smith said the family had recently moved to Las Vegas from California. A memorial with “slow down” signs, candles, balloons and toys is now at the spot where her Jamall was killed.
“I have a lot of emotions because I just lost my mama five months ago and now I lost my baby. I lost my heart and now I lost my soul,” Smith said.
She shared a poster with Jamall’s photo and an outfit of his.
“This was the outfit he was supposed to wear that night, his pajamas. I never got to put it on my baby,” she said.
Smith said a neighbor who lives at the apartment complex called 911. She also shared that the U-Haul driver was spotted earlier, narrowly missing a different child hours before the crash.
“They need to put more slow down signs where children play. The office is just not doing enough,” Smith said.
Jamall’s mother said her son loved basketball and football and his favorite meal was McDonald’s.
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Shawn Michaels knew when it was time to retire; discusses WrestleMania matches
Shawn Michaels is known as “Mr. WrestleMania,” but would it surprise you to learn his WrestleMania record is 6-11? Seventeen times he stepped into the ring at wrestling’s biggest event, and 11 times he walked out without his hand being raised.
We recently talked to Michaels via video to get his comments about some of his most memorable WrestleMania matches.
WrestleMania 5 (Atlantic City), The Twin Towers (Big Bossman and Akeem) d. The Rockers (Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty)
“I remember the ending of it (the 400-pound+ Akeem splashed him). And again, it being that first WrestleMania moment and I was overjoyed to be just on that show. I think even then Marty and I felt like we were a group before our time. I think we’d probably be more appreciated now in this environment. But I thought we did some really special stuff that flies underneath the radar. But I think there are a lot of people that see this as really good work.”
WrestleMania 6 (Toronto), Pat Tanaka and Sato d. The Rockers
“We had phenomenal chemistry with them. We had all worked with one another, you know, numerous times in numerous different places. Heck, I think we all sort of almost tagged with one another at different times. There was a lot of crossing one another’s paths early in our careers. We all could have been in that ring blindfolded.”
WrestleMania 7 (Los Angeles), The Rockers d. The Barbarian and Haku
“We really found our groove in that one. I think the guys would say that being in L.A. (event was at the L.A. Sports Arena) made WrestleMania feel big again. WrestleMania really began to feel larger than life, certainly to me at that time.”
WrestleMania 8 (Indianapolis), Shawn Michaels d. Tito Santana
“The thing I take away from that one was, my first stadium (the event was held at the Hoosier Dome). I’m now a singles competitor and I remember that day having no idea what the future might hold. And being in there there with a consummate pro like Tito, which is reassuring. The enormity of that event was the most challenging part for me. And I had Sherri Martel in my corner. She made me noticeable, gave me credibility right off the bat because of who she was. She was the one that had been with Randy Savage. She’s the one that had been with Ted DiBiase. Sherry was more of a top player than I was. So placing me with her raised me up in a way that that allowed me to skip a number of levels that I would ordinarily have to kind of go through to make your way up that card. So she was huge to my career, and she was such a professional and was an absolute blast to work with because she was just so open and willing to do anything.”
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WrestleMania 9 (Las Vegas), Shawn Michaels d. Tatanka
“I think that’s I think that was the beginning of me getting comfortable. And seeing there being bigger possibilities. Like WrestleMania is going to be a part of who I’m going to be.”
WrestleMania 10 (New York City), Razor Ramon (Scott Hall) d. Shawn Michaels, ladder match for the Intercontinental title
“This is really where the seeds of Mr. Wrestlemania began. A ladder match had never been done. And to have the opportunity to do it with one of my best buddies, Scott Hall. We had been with each other in the ring so many times, I could close my eyes and know where he would be. That’s how much we knew each other, and how comfortable we were with each other. There was kind of a joke about it, it was me wrestling Scott, and there was a ladder with us.”
Wrestlemania 11 (Hartford), Diesel (Kevin Nash) d. Shawn Michaels to retain the WWE title.
“That to me was the beginning of understanding that, oh, my goodness, I could actually main event Wrestlemanias and be someone that they would look at to carry this company. All the WrestleManias led up to this, going from somebody that was in a tag team, then building my singles career, to finding out that I could headline a WrestleMania. When I began the journey I just wanted to be added on the show.
WrestleMania 12 (Anaheim), Shawn Michaels d. Bret Hart in an Ironman match to win the WWE title.
You can watch Michaels’ entrance here
“Just very proud of it in a lot of ways. And people either love it, or they kind of malign it, I think unfairly. It was such a risk to do that type of match on a pay-per-view. And I’m just so proud of what Bret and I did. Ironman matches have come back in vogue, so to speak. That match is special to me personally.”
WrestleMania 14 (Boston), Stone Cold Steve Austin d. Shawn Michaels to win the WWE title.
You can watch the ending of the match here
“I was in a lot of pain in that match because of my back (Michaels left wrestling for several years after this match). I always think to myself, ‘Oh, I wish I’d been in a better place to do a better job for Steve.’ But then I also look at that match and everything in my life changed from that point on. Without that valley, without that despair, well, the sadness was really a turning point. It has a significance, it’s far more positive I think than than a lot of people would would imagine.”
Wrestlemania 24 (Orlando) Shawn Michaels d. Ric Flair, with Flair having to retire because he lost
“I’m out there with the guy I grew up watching, having his last match in the WWE. A lot of what we do has real emotion on both sides. I tell people it’s my love story to the wrestling business and my love story to Ric Flair. And that, to me is what that match epitomizes for me.
WrestleMania 25 (Houston) The Undertaker d. Shawn Michaels
“Sort of a fairy-tale story here again from the standpoint of two guys have shared that locker room for 20+ years. We had a lot of real disagreements early on, but then had a lot of real closeness. And then we’re able to go out there, even though our styles are so different, and it almost worked perfectly. And the overall respect that we have for one another, and how proud we are of this match and the following year’s, and what we created in that entire story.
WrestleMania 26 (Glendale, Ariz.) The Undertaker d. Shawn Michaels, with Michaels having to retire because he lost
“It goes back to the romance of the wrestling business. Two grown men honoring one another. And Taker doing everything he could to make sure I go out on the best possible platform. I always want to honor that effort from him and be able to give myself peace by doing that.
When did Michaels know it was time to retire?
“I guess after the first one against Taker. My wife and I were driving back to the family from Houston and I said to her ‘You know, I think that might be it.’ And she says, ‘What do you mean?’ And I said ‘I don’t know that if it’s gonna get any better than that one.’ She said ‘Like done, done?’ And I replied ‘Yeah.” I just felt that if I walked away at that point, I’d have complete peace with what I did in the WWE, and in the business as a whole. Then the more you talk about it, the more it just became, ‘Let’s go out like this.’ When I came back in 2002, I didn’t want to miss all of our childrens’ lives. And half of that had gone by. And if I wasn’t going to stop, then I probably wasn’t going to and I’d miss the other half. And I didn’t want to do that. So it was after the first one that I started addressing retiring.”
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Lindsey Darvin, Syracuse University; David Schultz, Hamline University , and Tia Spagnuolo, Binghamton University, State University of New York
(THE CONVERSATION) Concerns are being raised across the U.S. about whether schools have a right to compel female athletes to provide information about their menstrual cycles.
The Florida High School Athletic Association Board of Directors rejected a proposal in February 2023 that would have required high school girls to answer four questions about their menstrual cycles in order to play on school sports teams. The questions had previously been optional.
The four questions were: Have you had a menstrual cycle? How old were you when you had your first menstrual period? When was your most recent menstrual period? How many periods have you had in the past 12 months?
The answers, along with the rest of students’ medical history, would have been entered into an online platform and stored on a third-party database called Aktivate. School personnel would have had access to this information.
While Florida decided to scrap the questions from their student forms, many states currently ask similar questions of their female athletes prior to participation in their sport.
As researchers who are experts in Title IX, sports and health care equity, and constitutional law, we have identified three reasons why schools and states tracking female athletes’ menstrual history may conflict with federal laws.
1. It may violate federal anti-discrimination law
Title IX, a federal policy passed in 1972, prohibits federally funded schools from discriminating against students based on sex, sexual orientation or gender identity. The goal of the policy is to end sex discrimination, sex-based harassment and sexual violence in education.
While Title IX applies to all school settings, it is often most associated with athletics.
Requiring female student-athletes to submit menstrual cycle data to their schools could be a form of sex discrimination and therefore violate Title IX. The reason it is potentially discriminatory is because girls are the only students at risk of being denied the opportunity to play sports if they choose not to provide schools with details about their menstrual cycles.
In a 2020 Harvard Journal of Law and Gender study, three scholars argue that schools should create educational settings free of “unnecessary anxiety about the biological process of menstruation.”
“Because menstruation is a biological process linked to female sex,” they write, “educational deprivations connected with schools’ treatment of menstruation should be understood as a violation of Title IX’s core proposition.”
2. It threatens constitutional rights
Tracking female athletes’ menstrual history may be downright unconstitutional.
Forcing only females to disclose private medical information may violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits sex-based discrimination.
Also, 11 states have a “right to privacy” written into their state constitutions. For example, the Florida Constitution states that “all natural persons, female and male alike, are equal before the law and have inalienable rights,” including “the right to be let alone and free from governmental intrusion into the person’s private life.”
While other states do not explicitly provide a right to privacy in their constitutions, legal precedent has determined that this right is implicit in the U.S. Constitution.
And finally, federal laws that protect medical and educational records do not have standards for maintaining medical records that are shared with schools and stored on third-party databases. This lack of precedent may result in privacy breaches.
3. It could be used against transgender students
The recent passage of several anti-LGBTQ+ policies in Florida made the Florida High School Athletic Association’s attempts to track and digitally store menstrual data particularly worrisome to trans rights advocates.
In June 2021, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a billprohibiting trans girls from playing on girls athletic teams.
In March 2022, DeSantis signed the Parental Rights in Education bill, better known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. It prohibits classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in K-3 public school classrooms.
And just one week after the proposed mandate was struck down, a Florida House committee advanced a bill that would place the Governor’s office in control of the Florida High School Athletic Association.
As more states try to ban trans youth from receiving gender-affirming medical care – including hormone therapy, surgical procedures and other treatments – menstrual tracking in athletes could serve as another mechanism to harm and criminalize transgender youth.
Tracking menstrual cycles could “out” trans youth if they are required to disclose information about their menstrual cycle – whether that is the presence or absence of a cycle. If a school is responsible for outing trans kids, they violate both constitutional rights and Title IX policy, and they risk endangering the outed students’ welfare.
Protecting period privacy
While the proposed Florida mandate was rejected, we have found that most states do in fact collect data on high school athletes’ menstrual cycles.
Based on our collection of sports pre-participation forms, only four states – Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York and Oklahoma – as well as Washington, D.C., do not currently ask any questions about menstrual history on the sport pre-participation medical forms provided by their state athletic association.
Following the vote on the Florida proposal, three House Democrats introduced legislation called the Privacy in Education Regarding Individuals’ Own Data Act, or PERIOD Act. It would prohibit schools from collecting menstrual information altogether.
If this legislation is adopted, the estimated 3 million American high school girls who play sports in a state that still asks about menstrual history will no longer have to share this information.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday overturned the impeachment of the public safety minister ousted over a Halloween crowd surge that killed nearly 160 people last October at a nightlife district in the capital, Seoul.
The court’s decision allows Lee Sang-min to return as the minister of the interior and safety. Vice Minister Han Chang-seob has served as acting minister since February when South Korea’s opposition-controlled parliament voted to impeach Lee, saying he should be held responsible for the government’s failure to employ effective crowd control measures and its botched emergency response, which contributed to the high death toll in Itaewon.
Lee, 58, is seen as a key ally of conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol, whose office welcomed the decision and had accused the opposition liberals of creating “shameful history” by pushing for his impeachment.
In rejecting the parliamentary impeachment of Lee, the court said he could not be held chiefly responsible for the crowd crush, which it said reflected broader failures across different government organizations to “develop a combined ability to respond to large-scale disasters.”
There’s not enough evidence to prove that Lee failed to carry out his legal and constitutional duties as a government official to protect the safety and lives of citizens, the court said.
Lee was the first Cabinet minister impeached by the National Assembly, which previously impeached conservative President Park Geun-hye in 2016. The Constitutional Court formally removed Park from office in March 2017 by upholding lawmakers’ decision to impeach her. She was imprisoned for corruption before her liberal successor, Moon Jae-in, pardoned her in December 2021.
Following a 74-day investigation into the crowd crush in January, a special investigation team led by the National Police Agency concluded that police and municipal officials in Seoul’s Yongsan district failed to plan out effective crowd control measures despite correctly anticipating huge crowds of Halloween revelers in Itaewon.
Police also ignored hotline calls placed by pedestrians who warned of swelling crowds before the surge turned deadly on Oct. 28. Officials also botched their response before people began getting toppled over and crushed in a narrow alley near Hamilton Hotel and failed to establish control of the scene and allow paramedics to reach the injured in time, according to the investigation.
Police have pursued criminal charges, including involuntary manslaughter and negligence, against 23 officials — about half of them law enforcement officers — over the lack of crowd controls and safety measures in Itaewon.
But critics, including opposition politicians and families of the victims, have claimed that police investigators went soft on the higher members of Yoon’s government, including Lee and National Policy Agency Commissioner General Yoon Hee-keun, who had faced calls to resign.
Despite anticipating a crowd of more than 100,000, Seoul police had assigned 137 officers to Itaewon on the day of the crush. Some experts have called the crush in Itaewon a “manmade disaster” that could have been prevented with fairly simple steps, such as employing more police and public workers to monitor bottleneck points, enforcing one-way walk lanes and blocking narrow pathways.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The refusal thus far of Gov. Josh Shapiro to disclose who paid for his glitzy inaugural bash has exposed the gap in state law that lets governors in Pennsylvania escape the kind of transparency that is sometimes required elsewhere.
Presidential inaugural committees are required by federal law to disclose donors who give over $200 to inaugural celebrations. States like Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey have such laws, as do cities including New York and Philadelphia, where city officials also cap the amount that an individual donor can give to an inauguration.
Many other states have no such disclosure laws, and millions of dollars can be given secretly by donors who seek favorable treatment under state regulations, have contracts before state government or who rely on state government for subsidies.
That raises serious concerns about conflicts of interest, said Aaron McKean, a lawyer for the Washington-based Campaign Legal Center, a non-profit good government group.
“The whole goal here is to prevent corruption, or even the appearance of corruption,” McKean said. “That’s how we build confidence in our elected officials and our government.”
Nobody, he said, “is giving this money just for fun.”
Shapiro’s bash in Lititz last week — tickets were $50 apiece, while fundraisers sold sponsorship packages with VIP perks — attracted hundreds, perhaps thousands of people to drink, eat and watch top-notch music entertainment, including Smokey Robinson, Meek Mill, Wiz Khalifa and Mt. Joy.
Asked about the donors at an unrelated news conference last week, Shapiro, a Democrat, made no commitment to identify them.
“We’re going to follow all of the laws required with reporting and disclosure and that’s the approach we’re going to take,” Shapiro said.
No law requires such disclosure. But not disclosing who paid for it sets Shapiro apart from predecessors in Pennsylvania.
In states that do not regulate inaugural celebration donations, fundraising is typically set up and run by a governor’s aides, allies or a party organization.
Governors have, in some cases, disclosed inaugural donors, although sometimes they do it grudgingly and only after sustaining public criticism.
In Florida, where Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis won a second term, the Republican Party of Florida raised money for his inaugural party — with sponsorship packages topping out at $1 million — and filed a campaign finance report disclosing more than $10 million in donations in November and December.
In Texas, the Texas Inaugural Committee releases donors, but the Texas Tribune sued — successfully — to get details on how $5.3 million was spent on the 2019 event.
In Shapiro’s case, he named top campaign aides to run his inaugural committee and organized it as a nonprofit 501c(4) organization under federal tax laws that do not require the disclosure of donors or limit who can give or donation amounts.
Shapiro’s aides did not respond to questions asking why he chose not to disclose the identities of donors.
Shapiro’s predecessor, Democrat Tom Wolf, capped donations to his inaugural festivities at $50,000 per donor and disclosed those who contributed at least $500. In 2019, donors included labor unions, energy companies, health insurers, law firms and developers.
In Shapiro’s fundraising pitch to insiders, fundraisers sought “premier sponsor” donations of up to $150,000 for a package including a “limited edition commemorative” gift, 10 tickets to a VIP reception, “preferred” tickets to the swearing-in ceremony and other perks.
Money is often left over in a 501c(4)’s bank accounts and there is no law that dictates how the money must be spent. McKean said that, without transparency, such leftover money can turn into a “slush fund” for a governor.
Over the past two decades, Philadelphia has rolled out campaign finance reforms to fight corruption. Those city laws treat donations to an inaugural committee the same as donations to a campaign committee, requiring the disclosure of who gave and how much they gave.
It caps donations — currently $3,100 for individuals and $12,600 for businesses and organizations — and it dictates how left over money must be handled.
City Council members who approved the law understood that unregulated donations to inaugural committees could circumvent the purpose of the limits in the campaign finance law, said J. Shane Creamer, executive director of the city’s Board of Ethics, which enforces the law.
“And we’d be back to the influence days of large donors that we had before the campaign finance law took effect,” Creamer said.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The group owning long-haul carrier Emirates saw record-breaking half-year profits of $1.2 billion this year, the company announced Thursday, as global travel resumes after the lockdowns of the coronavirus pandemic.
The results from the Emirates Group represent a major turnaround after posting a $1.6 billion loss in the same period last year.
Emirates Group, which includes the airline, its dnata airport services firm and other companies, had revenues of $15.3 billion, compared to $6.7 billion last year at the same time. Emirates carried 20 million passengers between April and the end of September.
In a statement, Emirates CEO and Chairman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum said he expects the group “to return to our track record of profitability at the close of our full financial year.”
The emirate of Dubai, Emirates’ ultimate owner, provided a $4 billion bailout amid the pandemic, which the group has begun paying back.
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(NEXSTAR) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning Americans to make sure the tiny bottles they’re drinking aren’t accidentally something else — poppers, in particular. But you may be wondering just what that means.
“Poppers” is a term used to refer to a variety of liquid chemicals, typically amyl nitrate, which are sometimes inhaled by people recreationally for enhanced sexual arousal and temporary relaxation. While these items can be sold (and are widely available in places like adult novelty stores), their use is not approved in any way by the FDA and using them as a drug is illegal.
While poppers can’t legally be sold under the name “poppers,” the small bottles can be sold for other uses, like cleaners, nail polish removers or air fresheners. Some popular brands include Rush, Super Rush and Sub-Zero — many such brands come in bottles similar in size to those of energy drinks like 5-Hour Energy.
And the FDA says it’s still seeing deaths and hospitalizations after people accidentally ingested poppers instead of energy drinks, despite a warning it published in 2021.
“A single mistake can prove fatal,” the FDA wrote on its social media channels on Wednesday. “Drinking or inhaling poppers seriously jeopardizes your health.”
What do poppers do?
Though they are not approved for usage, poppers remain popular in some communities, including LGBTQ and party spaces. As Cleveland Clinic explains, poppers belong to a series of chemicals known as vasodilators.
When inhaled as vapors, these nitrates “allow blood vessels to widen and blood flow to increase,” in addition to relaxing smooth muscle tissues.
But the FDA warns against any use of poppers — because even using them in the way some people intend to can be dangerous or deadly.
“These chemicals can be caustic and damage the skin or other tissues they come in contact with, cause difficulty breathing, extreme drops in blood pressure, decreases in blood oxygen levels, seizures, heart arrhythmia, coma, and death,” said Judy McMeekin, Pharm. D., FDA Associate Commissioner for Regulatory Affairs. Do not ingest or inhale under any circumstances.”
Hazards of popper use include irregular heartbeats and conditions, dangerously low blood pressure, medication interactions, and loss of vision.
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Flyers forced to play more and more defense, suffer 3rd straight loss originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
The Flyers saw the circumstances catch up to them Wednesday night with a 5-2 loss to the Maple Leafs at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.
With the club's injuries and inexperience, John Tortorella's goaltenders have had to work a lot.
The Flyers (5-3-2) allowed 44 more shots against the Maple Leafs. The five goals surrendered marked a season high through 10 games.
They've lost three straight games, with two of the defeats coming in overtime.
The Flyers dropped to 0-3-0 in the second game of back-to-back sets. A lot of youth will do that.
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Joel Farabee gave the Flyers a brief 1-0 lead in the first period. Owen Tippett netted the other marker in the third period.
John Tavares scored a hat trick for the Maple Leafs (5-4-2), who halted a four-game losing streak.
On Tavares' third goal, Felix Sandstrom lost his skate blade and had no chance to stop the power play blast. On his second goal, Tavares made a highlight-reel move past Travis Sanheim before collecting his own rebound to beat Sandstrom.
• Tortorella's team entered the night allowing the NHL's third-fewest goals per game (2.44) but also permitting the third-most shots per game (35.9).
It's feeling like only a matter of time before the Flyers' dam starts to seriously leak.
A week and a half ago, Tortorella was asked if people make too much out of shots for and against.
"Yes," he said.
At that point, the Flyers were 4-1-0 but had been outshot in four of the five games.
Did that concern Tortorella?
"Coaches are concerned about everything," he said. "You guys live on numbers. I don't live on numbers. I use my eyes, I use my stomach. I just don't go by all of that stuff.
"Having said that, though, I still think we're playing in our end zone too much, there's no question."
The Flyers are definitely having to play too much defense. The eye test shows that and so do the numbers.
Sandstrom stopped 39 of the 44 shots Wednesday night. He got the start after Carter Hart denied 35 of 36 shots in a 1-0 loss the night before to the Rangers at Madison Square Garden.
Hart is 5-0-2 with a 2.10 goals-against average and .943 save percentage.
With 23 saves, Maple Leafs netminder and former Capital Ilya Samsonov improved to 8-1-0 lifetime against the Flyers.
• Travis Konecny and Auston Matthews exchanged some words and hacks in the third period.
Veteran defenseman Mark Giordano came flying in to defend Matthews by tackling Konecny.
Kevin Hayes stood up for Konecny by dropping the gloves with Giordano.
The clubs meet twice more: Dec. 22 in Toronto and Jan. 8 in Philadelphia.
• The Flyers' power play went 1 for 6, cashing in on the sixth opportunity thanks to Tippett.
Over five minutes after taking a puck up high, Tippett showed he was OK by lacing home a nice shot.
The 23-year-old's second goal in the last three games brought the Flyers within 3-2. But Tavares then deked around Sanheim to cushion Toronto's lead back to two goals.
• Following the OT loss at Madison Square Garden, Tortorella said he was likely going to insert Tanner Laczynski and Egor Zamula into the lineup Wednesday for some fresh legs.
Morgan Frost and Justin Braun came out of the lineup against Toronto.
Braun is 35 years old and his rest allowed Zamula to slide onto the third defensive pair.
With Frost, Tortorella believes the 23-year-old center needs to do more offensively given his role.
"When you have a team that is looking for skill and a guy that is supposed to be skilled, I want to see more plays from him, because there are plays there," Tortorella said four days ago. "Until that comes, I want to see better play away from the puck from him."
"When things aren't going well there, then work at the other parts of the game. That's what I want to see out of him. Have I seen it consistently? No. But that's what I need to see out of him because I think that helps build his foundation and then it allows him to play."
• The Flyers finish their three-game road trip Saturday when they face Claude Giroux and the Senators in Ottawa, Ontario (7 p.m. ET/NBCSP).
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WASHINGTON (Nexstar) – On Capitol Hill, some lawmakers want to prohibit members of Congress from owning stocks because they say it create conflicts of interest and ethical problems.
Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley says stock trading by members of Congress is wrong and should be banned.
“It’s corrupt because members use advantageous access to information — information not available to the general public — to win stock market returns that beat the market year after year,” Sen. Merkley (D-OR) said.
Moves by some lawmakers to sell off stock just before the pandemic lockdowns created concerns and Senator Sherrod Brown says there are more recent examples of potentially problematic trading.
“As Silicon Valley Bank was closed, even during that period there are reports that members of Congress were trading bank stocks. I mean, imagine that,” Sen. Brown (D-OH) said.
Supporters of a trading ban say there’s too much temptation for lawmakers and say owning stocks can also create other conflicts of interest.
“Member portfolios have the potential to influence how they write legislation and how they vote on bills,” Merkley added.
The proposed ban has bipartisan support as Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) noted, “Unfortunately, it happens way too often in this town. You have a member of Congress who gets a special piece of information, maybe a classified piece of intelligence, and then they trade stocks getting rich off the public trust.”
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American Honda Sales Challenged by Supply Issues Published: Jul. 1, 2022 at 12:33 PM CDT | Updated: 1 hour ago
American Honda sales top 500,000 units in first half despite severe second-quarter supply issues Honda electrified sales stay strong as CR-V Hybrid sets June record and Accord Hybrid first-half sales up 39% HR-V posts best first-half sales of all-time with strong customer pre-orders (6,000+) for all-new 2023 model Supported by pre-orders, all-new Acura Integra rides strong demand in first month and leads Acura car sales Acura NSX has best month since December 2017 , with first-half sales of NSX Type S up 105% TORRANCE, Calif. , July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
American Honda sales top 500,000 units in first half despite severe second-quarter supply issues. HR-V posts best first-half sales of all-time with strong customer pre-orders (6,000+) for all-new 2023 model.(PRNewswire)
American Honda
Acura
Honda
Total
Cars
Trucks
Total
Cars
Trucks
Total
Cars
Trucks
Q2
239,789
82,324
157,465
24,624
8,211
16,413
215,165
74,113
141,052
-50.7 %
-56.5 %
-47 %
-51.2 %
-43.8 %
-54.3 %
-50.6 %
-57.6 %
-46 %
Total
Cars
Trucks
Total
Cars
Trucks
Total
Cars
Trucks
June
71,048
24,105
46,943
7,184
2,795
4,389
63,864
21,310
42,554
-53.6 %
-60.6 %
-49 %
-54.8 %
-45.9 %
-59 %
-53.5 %
-61.9 %
-47.6 %
"With strong turn rates of up to 90 percent for core Honda and Acura products, it's clear that success is a relative term in today's business environment and sales volume is not the best measure of true customer demand," said Mamadou Diallo , vice president of Auto Sales for American Honda Motor Co., Inc. "As we continue an incredible cadence of new model introductions, including the recent launch of the all-new Honda HR-V and Acura Integra, we are very proud of the efforts of our production and sales associates who are working tirelessly to meet the needs of our customers."
HONDA
BRAND REPORT
Sales Highlights
Notes
Core models lead the way for the Honda brand with CR-V topping 22,000 units and Accord over 10,000 units despite challenging supply issues.
· CR-V Hybrid and Accord Hybrid help Honda top 50,000 in first-half electrified sales for the second straight year
· Customer pre-orders for all-new 2023 HR-V total almost 6,000
· Honda brand pre-orders totaled over 50,000 units in first six months as customer demand remains strong
· Ridgeline posted best June sales in five years at almost 3,000 units
Stylish & sporty 2023 HR-V kicks off "year of the Honda SUV" with strong demand as the first units arrive at dealerships.
The most powerful, best performing Civic Type R ever will be officially unveiled this summer.
ACURA
BRAND REPORT
Sales Highlights
Notes
Supply issues limited sales of popular Acura SUV models, while all-new Integra welcomes new clients to the brand.
· Supported by pre-orders, all-new Integra leads Acura car sales; strong demand results in first-month sales of almost 1,500 units
· MDX and RDX combine for sales of 4,389 units
· NSX Type S first-half sales of 123 units kick off strong final sales year
'22 RDX, TLX & MDX earn IIHS TOP SAFETY PICK+ and NHTSA NCAP 5-Star rating, with '23 Integra expected to earn top scores.
Acura Type S models are most powerful & best handling in the brand's Precision Crafted Performance lineup.
American Honda Vehicle Sales for June 2022
Month-to-Date
Year-to-Date
June 2022
June 2021***
DSR** % Change
MoM % Change
June 2022
June 2021***
DSR** % Change
YoY % Change
American Honda Total
71,048
153,122
-55.4 %
-53.6 %
506,207
833,510
-39.7 %
-39.3 %
Total Car Sales
24,105
61,154
-62.1 %
-60.6 %
171,697
312,209
-45.4 %
-45.0 %
Total Truck Sales
46,943
91,968
-50.9 %
-49.0 %
334,510
521,301
-36.3 %
-35.8 %
Honda
Total Car Sales
21,310
55,985
-63.4 %
-61.9 %
156,686
288,306
-46.0 %
-45.7 %
Honda
Total Truck Sales
42,554
81,253
-49.6 %
-47.6 %
296,661
456,820
-35.5 %
-35.1 %
Acura
Total Car Sales
2,795
5,169
-48.0 %
-45.9 %
15,011
23,903
-37.6 %
-37.2 %
Acura
Total Truck Sales
4,389
10,715
-60.6 %
-59.0 %
37,849
64,481
-41.7 %
-41.3 %
* Total Domestic Car Sales
24,103
51,598
-55.1 %
-53.3 %
169,530
267,955
-37.1 %
-36.7 %
Honda Division
21,308
46,441
-55.9 %
-54.1 %
154,522
244,250
-37.2 %
-36.7 %
Acura Division
2,795
5,157
-47.9 %
-45.8 %
15,008
23,705
-37.1 %
-36.7 %
* Total Domestic Truck Sales
46,943
91,965
-50.9 %
-49.0 %
334,510
521,295
-36.3 %
-35.8 %
Honda Division
42,554
81,250
-49.6 %
-47.6 %
296,661
456,814
-35.5 %
-35.1 %
Acura Division
4,389
10,715
-60.6 %
-59.0 %
37,849
64,481
-41.7 %
-41.3 %
Total Import Car Sales
2
9,556
-100.0 %
-100.0 %
2,167
44,254
-95.1 %
-95.1 %
Honda Division
2
9,544
-100.0 %
-100.0 %
2,164
44,056
-95.1 %
-95.1 %
Acura Division
0
12
-100.0 %
-100.0 %
3
198
-98.5 %
-98.5 %
Total Import Truck Sales
0
3
-100.0 %
-100.0 %
0
6
-100.0 %
-100.0 %
Honda Division
0
3
-100.0 %
-100.0 %
0
6
-100.0 %
-100.0 %
Acura Division
0
0
0.0 %
0.0 %
0
0
0.0 %
0.0 %
MODEL BREAKOUT BY DIVISION
Honda Division Total
63,864
137,238
-55.3 %
-53.5 %
453,347
745,126
-39.6 %
-39.2 %
ACCORD
10,529
20,782
-51.3 %
-49.3 %
80,422
114,707
-30.4 %
-29.9 %
CIVIC
9,633
32,677
-71.7 %
-70.5 %
70,335
152,956
-54.3 %
-54.0 %
CLARITY
2
207
-99.1 %
-99.0 %
207
2,103
-90.2 %
-90.2 %
INSIGHT
1,146
2,157
-48.9 %
-46.9 %
5,722
9,867
-42.4 %
-42.0 %
CR-V
22,865
36,564
-39.9 %
-37.5 %
116,602
213,199
-45.7 %
-45.3 %
HR-V
5,813
14,019
-60.1 %
-58.5 %
73,016
68,441
6.0 %
6.7 %
ODYSSEY
2,721
8,397
-68.8 %
-67.6 %
20,709
47,556
-56.7 %
-56.5 %
PASSPORT
2,456
4,753
-50.3 %
-48.3 %
20,102
26,694
-25.2 %
-24.7 %
PILOT
5,739
14,714
-62.5 %
-61.0 %
46,435
76,560
-39.7 %
-39.3 %
RIDGELINE
2,960
2,806
1.4 %
5.5 %
19,797
24,370
-19.3 %
-18.8 %
Acura Division Total
7,184
15,884
-56.5 %
-54.8 %
52,860
88,384
-40.6 %
-40.2 %
ILX
208
2,093
-90.4 %
-90.1 %
6,267
8,233
-24.4 %
-23.9 %
INTEGRA
1,487
0
0.0 %
0.0 %
1,496
0
0.0 %
0.0 %
NSX
36
16
116.3 %
125.0 %
123
60
103.7 %
105.0 %
TLX
1,064
3,048
-66.4 %
-65.1 %
7,122
15,412
-54.1 %
-53.8 %
MDX
2,523
5,077
-52.2 %
-50.3 %
23,610
36,791
-36.2 %
-35.8 %
RDX
1,866
5,638
-68.2 %
-66.9 %
14,239
27,690
-48.9 %
-48.6 %
Selling Days
26
25
152
151
**** Electrified Vehicles
9,063
9,512
-8.4 %
-4.7 %
53,452
57,309
-7.3 %
-6.7 %
* Honda and Acura vehicles are made of domestic & global sourced parts
** Daily Selling Rate
*** 2021 totals include Honda and Acura model(s) discontinued following the 2020 model year
**** Electrified Vehicles equal: Total sales of Hybrid (FHEV & PHEV), EVs (BEV) and Fuel Cell Vehicles (FCV) from the Honda and Acura brands.
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Israel's police chief has ordered a probe into the actions of officers at the funeral of reporter Shireen Abu Akleh in Jerusalem. Germany's top diplomat Annalena Baerbock said she was "deeply shocked" by the events.
Israeli police on Saturday launched an investigation into the conduct of officers at the funeral of slain veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
Israel's Internal Security Minister Omer Barlev said he and the police commissioner had appointed a panel to carry out "a comprehensive investigation of what happened during the funeral."
Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American and correspondent for Al Jazeera, was killed on Wednesday while covering an Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank. Thousands of mourners attended the 51-year-old's funeral in Jerusalem's Old City on Friday.
Television footage showed police charging at and beating a crowd of mourners carrying Abu Akleh's casket, setting off stun grenades, and removing a Palestinian flag.
The police said they had coordinated funeral arrangements with the journalist's family, but "rioters tried to sabotage the ceremony and harm the police."
"The Israel Police supports its police officers, but as a professional organization that seeks to learn and improve, it will also draw lessons from the incident,'' the statement said.
The Jerusalem Red Crescent reported that 33 people had been injured during the procession, with six individuals taken to hospital. Six people were arrested, Israeli police said.
The violence drew global condemnation, including from the UN, the US, and the European Union.
On Saturday, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock expressed deep shock "that the funeral ceremony could not be held in peace and dignity. Honestly, personally speaking, I am deeply shocked by this."
She added that the media should "never become targets of violence" and called for a transparent investigation into the circumstances of the journalist's death.
Both Al Jazeera and the Palestinian Authority (PA) have blamed Israel, saying soldiers shot Abu Akleh deliberately.
Israel has rejected the accusations and called for a joint investigation into the incident alongside the PA, saying the only way to determine who killed Abu Akleh would be to conduct a forensic examination of the projectile.
The PA has refused the request, saying it will conduct its own investigation and send the results to the International Criminal Court.
Hussein al Sheikh, a senior PA official, said Saturday on Twitter that the PA would welcome the participation of international bodies in its inquiry.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Gunmen shot to death five men and one woman at a privately-run drug rehabilitation center in wester Mexico, authorities said Monday.
The prosecutors’ office in the western state of Jalisco said the attack occurred around midnight in Tlaquepaque, a suburb of the state capital, Guadalajara. Jalisco is home to the drug cartel of the same name, and has been plagued for years by violence between rival factions of the cartel in Guadalajara.
The office said that several people were involved in the attack, but did not offer information on a motive.
Drug gangs in Mexico have attacked rehab centers in the past, usually to kill drug users or dealers allied with rival gangs. In 2020, in the neighboring state of Guanajuato, gunmen killed 27 people at a rehab center.
Mexico has long had problems with rehab centers because most are privately run, underfunded and often commit abuses against recovering addicts. The government spends relatively little money on rehabilitation, often making the unregistered centers the only option available for poor families.
In addition, addicts and dealers who face attacks from rivals on the streets sometimes take refuge at the rehab clinics, making the clinics themselves targets for attack. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/6-dead-in-shooting-attack-on-mexico-drug-rehab-center/ | 2022-07-26 15:18:34 | 1 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/6-dead-in-shooting-attack-on-mexico-drug-rehab-center/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and three other GOP lawmakers should face ethics investigations for their refusal to comply with congressional subpoenas, the House Jan. 6 committee said Monday in the culmination of a monthslong standoff over their testimony.
The committee had issued subpoenas in May for the testimony of McCarthy — who is vying to become House speaker in January — as well as Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, and Andy Biggs of Arizona, saying all had crucial information to share about the Jan. 6 attack and the actions of former President Donald Trump.
But all of them defied the order for testimony and documents. The Jan. 6 committee on Monday acknowledged that sending referrals to the House Ethics Committee was a major step, but said their defiance could not go unanswered.
Another GOP member who ignored a committee subpoena, Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama who is leaving Congress after this year, was not cited by the panel.
“This was a significant step, but it was one that was warranted by the certain volume of information these members possessed that was relevant to the Select Committee’s investigation, as well as the centrality of their efforts to President Trump’s multi-part plan to remain in power,” the Jan. 6 committee wrote in explaining the referrals.
It will ultimately be up to the House Ethics panel, which is evenly decided between the parties, to investigate and decide on any punishment. The committee, which is responsible for investigating allegations of misconduct by members, has authority under the chamber’s rules to subpoena members for testimony or documents, and members are required to comply.
Russell Dye, a spokesperson for Jordan, called the referrals “another partisan and politician stunt” by the committee.
Jay Ostrich, a spokesperson for Perry, dismissed the committee’s move as “more games from a petulant and soon-to-be defunct kangaroo court desperate for revenge and struggling to get out from under the weight of its own irrelevance.”
Biggs, who has launched a challenge to McCarthy’s speakership bid, accused the committee of editing and misconstruing witness testimony, without providing specific evidence. He added that he looks forward to “setting the record straight” in the next Congress.
McCarthy did not respond to a request for comment.
The Jan. 6 committee also appealed directly to the Justice Department in their final report, suggesting that the testimony of McCarthy, Jordan and other Republicans in Trump’s orbit could be of importance to the ongoing federal investigations, including special counsel Jack Smith’s probe into Jan. 6 and Trump’s actions. The testimony of the lawmakers, the panel suggested, could be obtained “via grand jury subpoena or otherwise.”
Lawmakers had sought testimony from McCarthy, who has acknowledged he spoke with Trump on Jan. 6 as the president’s supporters were outside the Capitol and violently forcing their way into the building. At the time, the California lawmaker said he believed Trump bore responsibility for what had happened at the Capitol. But McCarthy later changed his tone, visiting Trump in Florida and rallying House Republicans to vote against investigations of the attack.
The committee had also subpoenaed Jordan, Perry, Biggs and Brooks, who attended meetings at the White House before Jan. 6 as Trump and his aides worked to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
Perry spoke to the White House about replacing acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen with an official who was more sympathetic to Trump’s false claims of voter fraud, while Biggs was involved in plans to bring protesters to Washington and pressuring state officials to overturn the legitimate election results, according to the panel. Jordan, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, was in contact with Trump on Jan. 6 and also involved in strategizing how to overturn the election.
Brooks, who has since become critical of Trump, was the only member not referred to the House Ethics Committee. He had spoken alongside the former president at the massive rally in front of the White House the morning of Jan. 6, telling supporters to “start taking down names and kicking ass” before hundreds of them broke into the Capitol. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/politics/ap-jan-6-panel-urges-ethics-review-for-mccarthy-gop-lawmakers/ | 2022-12-20 18:44:17 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/politics/ap-jan-6-panel-urges-ethics-review-for-mccarthy-gop-lawmakers/ |
Hot on the heels of the reveal of the 2024 Chevrolet Silverado HD ZR2 in April comes the reveal of the heavy-duty off-road pickup’s plusher GMC Sierra HD AT4X sibling.
Revealed on Monday in both regular and more capable AEV Edition guises, the Sierra HD AT4X is due at dealerships this fall as a 2024 model. It will join the rest of the updated 2024 Sierra HD range that benefits from more technology, performance, and luxury.
Key off-road upgrades on both Sierra HD AT4X versions include a 1.5-inch suspension lift, Multimatic’s DSSV spool-valve dampers, specific front upper and lower control arms, specific steering knuckles, an aluminum front skid plate, an enlarged steel transfer case skid plate, a rear e-locker, and 18-inch wheels wrapped in 35-inch Goodyear Wrangler Territory Mud-Terrain tires.
Upgrading to the AEV Edition adds parts developed in partnership with American Expedition Vehicles, a company that specializes in off-road gear. These include custom steel bumpers with integrated recovery points and mounting for a winch (front only), additional steel skid plates, and unique 18-inch Salta wheels.
Custom touches in the cabin include an Obsidian Rush color theme, along with full-grain leather and a massage function for the front seats. The trucks also get the 2024 Sierra HD’s 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster as standard, along with a 13.4-inch infotainment screen and a head-up display. The AEV Edition features the AEV logo on the front-seat head restraints and AEV-branded floor liners.
A new Off-Road mode in both trucks adjusts various vehicle settings to make things easier when tackling tough terrain. When activated, the mode adjusts elements like the ABS, traction and stability control, and the throttle and transmission.
The standard powertrain on both Sierra HD AT4X versions is a 6.6-liter V-8 with 401 hp and 464 lb-ft of torque, but for maximum towing GMC offers a 6.6-liter turbodiesel V-8 with 470 hp and 975 lb-ft of torque. The diesel delivers a maximum towing capacity of 18,500 pounds in both off-road trucks. A 10-speed automatic is standard with both powertrains.
Pricing will be announced closer to the market launch.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Concession workers at Dodger Stadium have voted to authorize a strike days ahead of MLB’s All-Star Game festivities in Los Angeles.
Workers employed by concessionaire Compass Group and its subsidiary Levy Restaurants voted 99% to authorize a strike, which could begin at any time, according to Unite Here Local 11. The union is seeking what it calls “a fair new contract.”
Levy employs nearly 1,500 food servers, bartenders, suite attendants, cooks and dishwashers at the stadium, which will host the All-Star Game for the first time since 1980. Events begin Saturday and culminate in the game on July 19.
“They are the backbone of our tourism and sports industry, yet many struggle to stay housed and to make ends meet,” said Susan Minato, co-president of the union. “No worker should have to continue to live like this.”
The union represents over 32,000 hospitality workers in Southern California and Arizona.
The Major League Baseball Players Association said Monday it stands with the stadium workers.
“They deserve to be treated fairly and will continue to have the 1,200 members of the MLBPA behind them,” a statement said.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — European companies are ramping up security around pipelines and energy prices are climbing again as the suspected sabotage of two pipelines that deliver natural gas from Russia underscored the vulnerability of Europe’s energy infrastructure and prompted the EU to warn of possible retaliation.
Some European officials and energy experts have said Russia is likely to blame for any sabotage — it directly benefits from higher energy prices and economic anxiety across Europe — although others cautioned against pointing fingers until investigators are able to determine what happened.
Russia has sharply curtailed natural gas shipments to Europe in retaliation for sanctions that the West put in place after its invasion of Ukraine. On Wednesday, Russian energy giant Gazprom increased the pressure, threatening on Twitter to cease dealing with a Ukrainian company that controls one of the two remaining pipelines that ship Russian gas to Europe.
Coming on top of the apparent sabotage to the Nord Stream gas pipelines, “that means a major escalation and readiness to escalate,” said Agata Loskot-Strachota, senior fellow in energy policy at the Center for Eastern Studies in Warsaw.
Seismologists say explosions rattled the Baltic Sea before unusual leaks were discovered Tuesday on the two underwater pipelines running from Russia to Germany.
“All available information indicates those leaks are the result of a deliberate act,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a statement on behalf of the bloc’s 27 members. “Any deliberate disruption of European energy infrastructure is utterly unacceptable and will be met with a robust and united response.”
Three leaks were reported on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, which were filled with natural gas but not delivering fuel to Europe ever since Russia stopped the flow to apply economic pressure on the continent.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said allegations that Russia would have sabotaged its own pipelines were “predictable and stupid.”
Yet as fears of further disruptions loomed, European energy companies and governments said Wednesday they have already begun to fortify energy infrastructure.
Norwegian state oil company Equinor said it raised the level of preparedness on all of its facilities, according to national broadcaster NRK. Norway’s energy exports have surged as European countries scramble to find alternatives to Russian supplies.
“What happened in the Baltic Sea is very serious,” Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre told a press conference in Oslo.
Before the pipeline leaks discovered Tuesday, natural gas prices in Europe had dropped from their all-time peak in late August because countries have filled storage facilities to 87% of capacity ahead of winter, when demand for the fuel soars to heat homes and generate electricity.
But Europe’s natural gas prices have spiked about 14% since the pipeline ruptures rattled nerves about energy security.
Natural gas prices are roughly three times higher than just before Russia invaded Ukraine. An energy crisis driven by the war is threatening rationing, business closures and recession in Europe. The continent’s ability to get through winter will be deeply affected by how cold it is and whether they can find supplies to make up for what’s been lost from Russia.
Another major source of Russian income – oil – has fallen sharply in price from June peaks of over $120 per barrel. On Wednesday, Brent crude futures traded at $87.40 per barrel, up more than 5% since Monday.
The extent of the pipeline damage, along with the political ramifications, raises serious doubts about the future of the Nord Stream project, which was launched so that Russia could deliver gas directly to Germany. The project has been heavily criticized by the West because it only increased Europe’s reliance on Russian gas imports.
The head of the Danish Energy Agency, Kristoffer Böttzauw, said Wednesday it wasn’t clear when it would be safe for investigators to examine the damaged pipes, which he said are made of 12 centimeter (5 inches ) thick steel coated with concrete. The pipelines lie on the seabed between 70 and 90 meters (230 feet and 295 feet) deep.
Sweden’s domestic security agency said Wednesday it was investigating the pipeline ruptures and that it couldn’t be ruled out “that a foreign power is behind it.”
Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau was more direct, suggesting Tuesday that the leaks could be part of Russia’s campaign to apply pressure on the West for supporting Ukraine.
“The explosions took place very close to Danish territorial waters, but not inside them, because that would have meant NATO territory,” Rau said during a discussion at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
“This could mean that someone is trying to intimidate the countries of the Baltic Sea,” he said.
The U.N. Security Council has scheduled an emergency meeting Friday afternoon at Russia’s request to discuss the suspected pipeline sabotage.
Even with eyes turning toward Russia, Anders Puck Nielsen, a researcher with the Center for Maritime Operations at the Royal Danish Defence College, said that it would be hard to establish who is responsible, and just as tough to prevent similar incidents.
“We have pipelines, we have communication cables like the internet. We have just power lines running on the seabed. All of this is vulnerable and our societies are very dependent on it. And it’s very, very difficult to monitor what’s going on and to prevent a case of sabotage,” he told The Associated Press.
A spokesman for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz declined to respond to media reports that the CIA had warned Germany earlier this summer that the pipelines could be attacked. “But let me say that according to our findings, there is no evidence that there is a natural cause for the pressure drop in the pipelines,” spokesman Steffen Hebestreit told reporters.
Simone Tagliapietra, an energy policy expert at Bruegel, said Russia’s latest threat to disrupt natural gas that flows through Ukraine is not having as much impact as it might have hoped.
“Its announcements are now having lower impact on prices, as both market and governments have internalized and got prepared for a full interruption of Russian gas to Europe,” Tagliapietra said.
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SHANGHAI, June 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 15, 2022, Dragon Boat announced that its IND application of the innovative anti-CLDN 18.2/CD47 bi-specific antibody (bsAb) injection (R&D code: BC007) was officially accepted by National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) under the acceptance number CXSL2200267. This drug is the first domestic clinical filing of the CLDN 18.2/ CD47 bsAb, which is intended for the treatment of late stage solid tumors.
BC007 is a innovative bsAb targeting CLDN 18.2 and CD47 and the early-stage development was completed collaboratively by Sanyou and Dragon Boat. Validation results of the in vivo efficacy showed that BC007 exhibited dose-dependent anti-tumor effects against CLDN18.2 overexpressing CDX mouse models of human gastric cancer, human pancreatic cancer and human colon cancer, and was significantly better than the selected comparator antibody. In the safety studies, hematological toxicity is one of the common challenges of CD47 targeting antibodies. But in the cynomolgus monkey toxicity study, multiple doses of BC007 was administered for 5 weeks without animal death, and the hematological toxicity was mild and well tolerated by the animals.
In March this year, the IND application of anti-CLDN 18.2 antibody injection (BC008) developed by Dragon Boat has been approved by National Medical Products Administration. In the future, Dragon Boat will bring greater clinical benefits to the patients by exploring more treatment options.
Dr. Guojun Lang, CEO of Sanyou, said "We sincerely congratulate Dragon Boat on the NMPA acceptance of IND application with the CLDN 18.2/CD47 bsAb, which is another milestone after the clinical approval of the anti-CLDN 18.2 nanoantibody co-developed by Sanyou and Dragon Boat in March. This project further proves the outstanding competency of Dragon Boat in the field of innovative biopharmaceutical research and development. This project is also another successful case of Sanyou's Cooperative Project Organization (CPO) business model. We wish the clinical studies will proceed successfully and benefit the patients as soon as possible".
About CLDN 18.2
Tight junction protein claudin-18 isoform 2 (CLDN18.2) is a member of the claudin family, which includes tight junction proteins that establish paracellular barriers to control the molecular passage and motions among cells. Normally, CLDN 18.2 is expressed only on the surface of differentiated epithelial cells of the gastric mucosa. However, after the development of malignant tumors, tight junction proteins are disrupted, exposing the CLDN 18.2 epitope on the surface of tumor cells. Studies have shown high CLDN 18.2 expression in the tumor cells of 50%-80% of gastric cancer patients and 60% of pancreatic cancer patients.
About CD47
CD47 is a glycosylated transmembrane protein, a key member of the immunosuppressive signaling pathway, which inhibits macrophage phagocytosis and mediates the immune escape mechanism of various malignant tumors, mainly by interacting with the inhibitory receptor signal-regulatory protein alpha (SIRPα), which is widely recognized as a "don't eat me" signal. Numerous studies have shown that CD47 is overexpressed in different types of tumors, including myeloma, smooth muscle sarcoma, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
About Dragon Boat Biopharmaceutical
Founded in 2005, Dragon Boat Pharmaceutical is a high-tech enterprise committed to the research and development of biologics. Dragon Boat focus on the therapeutic area for gastrointestinal cancer and are dedicated to bringing novel drugs for treating oncology and autoimmune disease to global patients. The company was wholly owned by Guilin Sanjin (002275) since 2013.
Adhering to the concept of independent innovation, Dragon Boat established a drug R&D center in Zhangjiang high-tech park, occupying 5,000 square meters, covering early discovery, preclinical research, IND, clinical research, BLA and manufacturing. The company's pipeline has 9 biologics candidates, covering multiple modalities and multiple immune targets. As of today, 4 of them entered the clinical development stage. With insistent investment to R&D and excellent drug discovery capability, Dragon Boat Pharmaceutical became a leading innovative biotech company in China.
About Sanyou Biopharmaceuticals
Sanyou Biopharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. is a biological high-tech enterprise focusing on R&D and services of innovative antibody drugs. Sanyou is committed to establishing a leading high-quality, high-throughput, integrated R&D and value transformation platform for innovative antibody drugs internationally, constructing a business ecosystem involving therapy, R&D, and diagnostic products and services, and cooperating with global biopharmaceutical, diagnostic, and drug R&D companies to make a new progress in the diagnosis and treatment of human diseases. Sanyou has established an innovative antibody drug integrated R&D laboratory of over 20,000 square meters with advanced facilities and equipment, and more than 40 core innovation technology platforms, including innovative antibody drug discovery featured with a series of trillion phage display antibody libraries, innovative antibody drug optimization, cell line construction, upstream and downstream process development, preclinical R&D and industrial development.
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Students living with type 1 diabetes nationwide receive scholarships to seek higher education
SAN MATEO, Calif., May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fifty-eight students across the U.S. have been awarded scholarships from Diabetes Scholars, a program of nonprofit organization Beyond Type 1. This year, the program is awarding a record-breaking $166,000 to high school seniors of the 2021-22 school year, surpassing last year's record of $156,000.
The program is funded through a network of donations from across the nation, including individual and corporate contributions and named scholarships between $1,000-5,000. Each donation goes towards students who are living with type 1 diabetes and pursuing post-secondary education.
"We're proud to join our generous sponsors in honoring the accomplishments of the Diabetes Scholars' Class of 2022," said Jordan Jendricks, vice president, mission and programs, Beyond Type 1. "These students are incredibly deserving of recognition. They showcase strength in managing and thriving with a turbulent chronic illness while exceeding academic expectations, and we're continually inspired by their perseverance and resilience."
Studies show that students with chronic illnesses like type 1 diabetes exhibit higher stress levels, lower social confidence, illness-related school absences and a likelihood of repeating a grade. This program is designed so that students with type 1 diabetes can use the support to help propel their success.
Since 2008, Diabetes Scholars has awarded nearly $2 million in college scholarships with this goal in mind. Additionally, this year, Beyond Type 1 is again designating a portion of scholarships for students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC).
"Empowering young, historically marginalized students to pursue higher education is essential to the Diabetes Scholars program," said Tiana Cooks, senior community manager, Beyond Type 1. "These recipients have overcome their challenges to successfully juggle academic demands, extracurricular activities, jobs and so much more. We're incredibly proud of them."
Dedicated partners Dexcom, JDRF, Lilly Diabetes and Medtronic helped make this year's scholarships possible along with 23 scholarships provided by individual donations within the diabetes community. One-hundred percent of scholarship funds donated by individuals or partners are awarded directly to scholarship recipients, with Beyond Type 1 absorbing all operational costs associated with the program. Beyond Type 1 is proud to have directly sponsored 6 individual scholarships as part of this year's program.
To view the 2022 class of Diabetes Scholars, visit diabetesscholars.org.
About Beyond Type 1
Beyond Type 1 is a nonprofit organization changing what it means to live with diabetes. By leveraging the power of social media and technology, Beyond Type 1 empowers people to both live well today and support a better tomorrow. Through peer support programs, global campaigns and digital platforms, Beyond Type 1 is uniting the global diabetes community across both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, helping to change what it means to live with chronic illness. Founders + Leadership support operational expenses so that 100 percent of every dollar raised directly supports the most promising global efforts and programs working to educate, advocate and cure type 1 diabetes.
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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Resecurity, Inc. (USA), a Los Angeles-based cybersecurity company protecting major Fortune 500 giants worldwide announced today that Frost & Sullivan recognized the company in its Global Threat Intelligence Platforms Market 2022 report. The Frost & Sullivan report details the organization's market research, identifying trends in the market and top vendors and tools in the market. Inclusion in this report is a major milestone for Resecurity®, as the recognition validates the company's position as a top provider in the space.
Frost & Sullivan specifically highlighted Resecurity's HUNTER™ team that is dedicated to on-going research and intelligence. The HUNTER™ team actively researches and tracks changes to the threat landscape, supplying clients with the most relevant and current cyber threat intelligence. This has led Frost & Sullivan to recognize Resecurity's high rate of growth and 100% year-over-year customer retention rate.
"Resecurity has demonstrated impressive growth rates in the last three years. Its growth strategy is based on a 'reach and access' approach to threat intelligence as well as on the company's ability to provide visibility on the areas that really matter to customers. This strategy is aligned with Resecurity's vision of reimagining cybersecurity operations". Clara Dello Russo, Senior Research Analyst, Security Frost & Sullivan.
Resecurity serves clients in a variety of industries with global reach. Organizations around the world leverage Resecurity's cyber threat intelligence platform to analyze up to date threat intelligence and correlate it with their own risk profile and environment. Paired with Resecurity's other offerings, such as digital risk protection (DRP), Resecurity is well positioned to be a one stop shop for integrated threat intelligence solutions.
"Resecurity is elated to be included in the Frost & Sullivan TIP Market report for 2022. Coverage in this report validates what our customers already know – that Resecurity is a top provider of threat intelligence solutions in the market," said Gene Yoo, CEO of Resecurity.
Exposure in the Frost & Sullivan report will likely expand Resecurity's reach in the industry, as many organizations look to Frost & Sullivan for market research and intelligence. Poised to grow further, Resecurity has global reach with partners in countries around the world engaged in selling and promoting their threat intelligence solutions.
The cyber threat intelligence market is particularly relevant as the threat landscape becomes more complex and threat actors become more sophisticated. Organizations are tasked with protecting themselves from old and outdated threats as well as protecting themselves from new and emerging threats. Actionable intelligence is crucial to staying up to date on tactics being used by threat actors across the threat landscape.
About Resecurity
Resecurity® is a cybersecurity company that delivers a unified platform for endpoint protection, risk management, and cyber threat intelligence. Known for providing best-of-breed data-driven intelligence solutions, Resecurity's services and platforms focus on early-warning identification of data breaches and comprehensive protection against cybersecurity risks. Founded in 2016, it has been globally recognized as one of the world's most innovative cybersecurity companies with the sole mission of enabling organizations to combat cyber threats regardless of how sophisticated they are. Most recently, Resecurity was named as one of the Top 10 fastest-growing private cybersecurity companies in Los Angeles, California by Inc. Magazine. An Official Member of Infragard, AFCEA, NDIA, SIA and FS-ISAC. To learn more about Resecurity, visit https://resecurity.com.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
23-25-35-38-46-50, Extra Shot: 14
(twenty-three, twenty-five, thirty-five, thirty-eight, forty-six, fifty; Extra Shot: fourteen)
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- The exclusive event held in Havana, Cuba, was attended by people from 43 countries and renowned national and international artists, such as James Morrison, who was in charge of giving the closing concert of the evening
- During the event, two unique humidors in the world were auctioned for which 2,900,000€ were raised, funds that will go entirely to Cuban Public Health
HAVANA, Sept. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The long-awaited celebration of the 55th anniversary of Cohiba, Habanos' most emblematic and prestigious brand, took place in Havana, Cuba, the birthplace of what is considered the best cigar in the world. For three days, Habanos, S.A. offered its guests a full program of activities starting with a Welcome Cocktail, followed by a visit to the El Laguito Factory and ended with the acclaimed Gala Dinner.
Two years after the last Habano Festival, Cuba was once again visited by aficionados of Premium cigars, especially Habanos, with a Welcome Cocktail for 650 lucky people. Attendees were treated to a magical evening with an experiential journey through the brand's more than five decades of successful history and its main Lines: Classic, 1492, Maduro 5 and Behike.
There was also a visit to the emblematic El Laguito Factory, where the Cohiba brand vitolas have been produced since 1966, ensuring the delicacy and quality of these Habanos.
The final touch was provided by the exclusive Gala Dinner with 650 attendees from 43 countries and focused on the novelties that Habanos, S.A. presented on the so-called "Cohiba Year" with its launches Cohiba Ambar, Cohiba Colección Ideales and Cohiba 55 Aniversario Edición Limitada.
This dinner was the culmination of all the celebrations held around the world to commemorate Cohiba's 55th anniversary. An event full of tradition, luxury and moments of pleasure with the Habano as the protagonist, which has received international recognition from the most demanding aficionados. Since its birth in 1966, Cohiba has been synonymous with exclusivity, tradition and quality. The gala was attended by renowned artists with long careers such as César López, Miguel Patterson and Manolito Simonet, as well as by leading figures from the music scene such as Niurka González, Haila, Lily Daly and Mayko D'Alma, and artists with innovative proposals such as Camila Rodhe, Geidy Chapman, Emilio Frías "El Niño," Vocal Renacer or Tenores Los Clásicos. The evening ended with a concert by the internationally renowned James Morrison.
According to Leopoldo Cintra González, Commercial Vice President of Habanos, S.A.: "In addition to luxury and exclusivity, Cohiba is synonymous with the work and effort of generations that have managed to make it the most recognized Habanos brand worldwide." He added: "How could it be otherwise, such a singular date deserved some launches at the height of what we call the "Cohiba Year" with three unique and special vitolas such as Cohiba Ámbar, Cohiba Ideales, and Cohiba 55 Aniversario Edición Limitada."
During the event, and for the first time outside the framework of the Habano Festival, the auction of two unique humidors was held. All the Habanos they contain were made " Totally by hand with long filler" and by the best torcedores of the El Laguito Factory. The proceeds will go entirely to Cuban Public Health.
The Cohiba 55th Anniversary Humidor, worth 2,800,000€, contains 550 Habanos from all the prestigious brand lines and represents a tribute to Cohiba's success story. Made with precious woods, mother-of-pearl, and Swarovski on the outside and okume and mahogany on the inside.
Humidor Rare Le Rituel & Cohiba Ambar, worth 100,000€, was made to include a bottle of Champagne Rare Milésime 1988 and 44 Cohiba Ambar. It is the first of a series of 10 Limited Edition Humidors handcrafted on demand by the prestigious artisan workshop Elie Bleu, which has been making humidors for tobacco since 1976.
The 2020 and 2021 Habanos Awards were also presented to Eulalio Bejarano and Riad Boukaram in the Business category, Walid Saleh and Angel Garcia Muñoz in the Communications category, and Vicente Fausto Torres and Nelson Rodriguez Lopez in the Production category.
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Gov. Tim Walz has named an assistant Ramsey County attorney to the Second Judicial District bench in St. Paul.
Walz on Wednesday announced the appointment of Maria Mitchell to replace Ramsey County District Judge Robert Awsumb, who is retiring.
As assistant county attorney, Mitchell serves as the director of the Youth Justice and Wellness Division, which handles juvenile delinquency, truancy and educational neglect matters.
She previously worked as an assistant public defender in Hennepin County.
A past president of the Minnesota Association of Black Lawyers, Mitchell earned a bachelor of arts degree from Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., and a law degree from the University of Minnesota.
“I am honored to appoint Maria Mitchell to the Second Judicial District,” Walz said in a statement announcing her selection. “Ms. Mitchell is a dedicated public servant who has committed her career to helping others. Her experience working to address racial disparities in the juvenile criminal justice system as an assistant county attorney, combined with her background serving indigent clients as a longtime public defender, will make her a great addition to the Ramsey County bench.”
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HAVANA (AP) — Hurricane Fiona struck Puerto Rico’s southwest coast on Sunday as it unleashed landslides, knocked the power grid out and ripped up asphalt from roads and flung the pieces around.
Hundreds of people were evacuated or rescued across the island as floodwaters rose swiftly. Rushing rivers of brown water enveloped cars, first floors and even an airport runway in the island’s southern region.
Forecasters said the storm threatened to dump “historic” levels of rain on Sunday and Monday, with up to 30 inches (76 centimeters) possible in eastern and southern Puerto Rico.
“The damages that we are seeing are catastrophic,” said Gov. Pedro Pierluisi.
The storm washed away a bridge in the central mountain town of Utuado that police say was installed by the National Guard after Hurricane Maria hit in 2017. Large landslides also were reported, with water rushing down big slabs of broken asphalt and into gullies.
Fiona was centered 45 miles (75 kilometers) south-southeast of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph (140 kph) on Sunday night, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. It was moving to the west-northwest at 10 mph (17 kph).
Fiona struck on the anniversary of Hurricane Hugo, which hit Puerto Rico 33 years ago as a Category 3 storm.
The storm’s clouds covered the entire island and tropical storm-force winds extended as far as 140 miles (220 kilometers) from Fiona’s center.
U.S. President Joe Biden declared a state of emergency in the U.S. territory as the eye of the storm approached the island’s southwest corner.
Luma, the company that operates power transmission and distribution, said bad weather, including winds of 80 mph, had disrupted transmission lines, leading to “a blackout on all the island.”
“Current weather conditions are extremely dangerous and are hindering our capacity to evaluate the complete situation,” it said, adding that it could take several days to fully restore power.
Health centers were running on generators — and some of those had failed. Health Secretary Carlos Mellado said crews rushed to repair generators at the Comprehensive Cancer Center, where several patients had to be evacuated.
Fiona hit just two days before the anniversary of Hurricane Maria, a devastating Category 4 storm that struck on Sept. 20, 2017, destroying the island’s power grid and causing nearly 3,000 deaths.
More than 3,000 homes still have only a blue tarp as a roof, and infrastructure remains weak, including the power grid. Outages remain common, and reconstruction started only recently.
“I think all of us Puerto Ricans who lived through Maria have that post-traumatic stress of, ‘What is going to happen, how long is it going to last and what needs might we face?’” said Danny Hernández, who works in the capital of San Juan but planned to weather the storm with his parents and family in the western town of Mayaguez.
He said the atmosphere was gloomy at the supermarket as he and others stocked up before the storm hit.
“After Maria, we all experienced scarcity to some extent,” he said.
The storm was forecast to pummel cities and towns along Puerto Rico’s southern coast that have not yet fully recovered from a string of strong earthquakes starting in late 2019.
More than 1,000 people with some 80 pets had sought shelter across the island by Sunday night, the majority of them in the southern coast.
Ada Vivian Román, a 21-year-old photography student, said the storm knocked down trees and fences in her hometown of Toa Alta.
“I’m actually very anxious because it’s a really slow-moving hurricane and time does not move,” she said. “You look at the clock and it’s still the same hour.”
She said she is also worried about whether the public transportation she relies on to get to her job at a public relations agency will be operating by the time she has to go back to the office.
“But I know that I’m privileged compared with other families who are practically losing their homes because they are under water,” she said.
In the southwest town of El Combate, hotel co-owner Tomás Rivera said he was prepared but worried about the “enormous” amount of rain he expected. He noted that a nearby wildlife refuge was eerily quiet before the storm hit.
“There are thousands of birds here, and they are nowhere to be seen,” he said. “Even the birds have realized what is coming, and they’re preparing.”
Rivera said his employees brought bedridden family members to the hotel, where he has stocked up on diesel, gasoline, food, water and ice, given how slowly the government responded after Hurricane Maria.
“What we’ve done is prepared ourselves to depend as little as possible on the central government,” he said.
Puerto Rico’s governor, Pierluisi, activated the National Guard as the Atlantic hurricane season’s sixth named storm approached.
“What worries me most is the rain,” said forecaster Ernesto Morales with the National Weather Service in San Juan.
Fiona was predicted to drop 12 to 16 inches (30 to 41 centimeters) of rain over eastern and southern Puerto Rico, with as much as 30 inches (76 centimeters) in isolated spots. Morales noted that Hurricane Maria in 2017 had unleashed 40 inches (102 centimeters).
Fiona was forecast to swipe the Dominican Republic on Monday and then northern Haiti and the Turks and Caicos Islands with the threat of heavy rain. It could threaten the far southern end of the Bahamas on Tuesday.
A hurricane warning was posted for the Dominican Republic’s eastern coast from Cabo Caucedo to Cabo Frances Viejo.
Fiona previously battered the eastern Caribbean, killing one man in the French territory of Guadeloupe when floods washed his home away, officials said. The storm also damaged roads, uprooted trees and destroyed at least one bridge.
St. Kitts and Nevis also reported flooding and downed trees, but announced its international airport would reopen on Sunday afternoon.
In the eastern Pacific, Tropical Storm Madeline was forecast to cause heavy rains and flooding across parts of southwestern Mexico. The storm was centered about 160 miles (260 kilometers) west-southwest of Cabo Corrientes on Sunday night, with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (85 kph). | https://wgntv.com/news/hurricane-fiona-rips-through-powerless-puerto-rico/ | 2022-09-19 11:52:24 | 0 | https://wgntv.com/news/hurricane-fiona-rips-through-powerless-puerto-rico/ |
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Insurance losses from the March tornado that carved a path of destruction through parts of Mississippi are approaching $100 million, and uninsured losses will likely exceed that number, the state insurance department announced Tuesday. The damage is particularly severe in the Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest regions in the country.
The March 24 tornado lashed the Delta with 200 mph (320 kph) winds, devastating the rural communities of Silver City and Rolling Fork. About 300 homes and businesses in Rolling Fork were destroyed, and 13 people were killed. Large stretches of Amory, a north Mississippi town, were also damaged. Nearly 380,000 cubic yards of debris have been cleared since the storm, according to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.
Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says data is still being collected, but the trajectory toward over $100 million in both insured and uninsured losses underscores the daunting rebuilding process awaiting hard-hit areas.
“We just hope and pray we can get everything solved for these people,” Chaney told The Associated Press. “We've got some long lead times, and what bothers us is we've got about 3,000 claims that are still open.”
A patchwork of different policies can delay claims from being paid by insurance companies. Damage caused by tornadoes is covered under standard homeowners and business insurance policies, as well as some auto insurance policies, Chaney's office said.
Rolling Fork is in Sharkey County, where the poverty rate is around 35%, nearly double Mississippi’s roughly 19% rate and triple the nation’s nearly 12% rate. The tornado stacked the area's longstanding economic challenges on top of newer pressures, such as high inflation and rising interest rates.
Agriculture drives the local economy, with some families owning farmhouses and other properties that date back generations. As a result, heirs' property — or land passed down without a will from generation to generation, where numerous people often share an interest in the property — poses a challenge for towns in the Delta. Landowners may have trouble collecting relief funds or insurance benefits without a clear title or legal deed, documents that might be irretrievable after the storm.
“The challenge of heirs’ property is a serious issue in Sharkey, Humphreys, and Holmes Counties as elsewhere across the South," said Ryan Thomson, a professor of agricultural economics and rural sociology at Auburn University. “During disaster situations, many residents struggle to locate such files and have to rely on electronic records and community ties to validate their ownership.”
When tornadoes pummeled several Alabama counties in 2021, some people who lived in inherited homes had trouble accessing Federal Emergency Management Agency aid. This forced many residents to depart from their family residences because there was no money to rebuild, Thomson said.
FEMA later changed its policy and now accepts other ways to prove property ownership, such as motor vehicle registrations, court documents and letters from local organizations. There is some confusion as to how many uninsured private residences FEMA will cover, Chaney said.
President Joe Biden, who toured Rolling Fork after the tornado, approved a disaster declaration for Mississippi, freeing up federal funds for temporary housing, home repairs and loans to cover uninsured property losses. The state legislature also approved about $18.5 million for tornado relief in the latest state budget.
The Red Cross is helping Mississippi assist 533 citizens with food and lodging in 37 hotels. As of April 17, the U.S. Small Business Administration and FEMA had approved more than $12 million in aid, according to state officials.
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TX Fort Worth TX Zone Forecast for Wednesday, July 27, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Texas
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
TXZ119-282115-
Dallas-
Including the city of Dallas
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 100. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ118-282115-
Tarrant-
Including the cities of Fort Worth and Arlington
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 100. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ159-282115-
McLennan-
Including the city of Waco
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ158-282115-
Bell-
Including the cities of Killeen, Temple, and Fort Hood
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ104-282115-
Collin-
Including the cities of Plano, McKinney, Allen, and Frisco
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ103-282115-
Denton-
Including the cities of Carrollton, Denton, Lewisville,
and Flower Mound
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 108 this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 100. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ093-282115-
Grayson-
Including the cities of Sherman and Denison
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ092-282115-
Cooke-
Including the city of Gainesville
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ091-282115-
Montague-
Including the cities of Bowie and Nocona
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ102-282115-
Wise-
Including the cities of Decatur and Bridgeport
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ101-282115-
Jack-
Including the city of Jacksboro
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ100-282115-
Young-
Including the cities of Graham and Olney
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ115-282115-
Stephens-
Including the city of Breckenridge
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ116-282115-
Palo Pinto-
Including the city of Mineral Wells
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 100. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ117-282115-
Parker-
Including the cities of Weatherford and Briar
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ131-282115-
Hood-
Including the cities of Granbury and Oak Trail Shores
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 100. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ132-282115-
Somervell-
Including the city of Glen Rose
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ130-282115-
Erath-
Including the cities of Stephenville and Dublin
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ129-282115-
Eastland-
Including the cities of Cisco, Eastland, Ranger, and Gorman
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ141-282115-
Comanche-
Including the cities of Comanche and De Leon
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ142-282115-
Mills-
Including the city of Goldthwaite
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ156-282115-
Lampasas-
Including the city of Lampasas
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ157-282115-
Coryell-
Including the cities of Copperas Cove and Gatesville
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to 5 to
10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ143-282115-
Hamilton-
Including the cities of Hamilton and Hico
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ144-282115-
Bosque-
Including the cities of Clifton, Meridian, and Valley Mills
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to 5 to
10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ133-282115-
Johnson-
Including the cities of Cleburne and Burleson
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ134-282115-
Ellis-
Including the cities of Waxahachie, Ennis, and Midlothian
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ145-282115-
Hill-
Including the city of Hillsboro
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ146-282115-
Navarro-
Including the city of Corsicana
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ161-282115-
Limestone-
Including the cities of Mexia and Groesbeck
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ160-282115-
Falls-
Including the city of Marlin
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values up
to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ174-282115-
Milam-
Including the cities of Cameron and Rockdale
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values up
to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values
up to 105.
$$
TXZ175-282115-
Robertson-
Including the cities of Hearne, Franklin, and Calvert
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the upper 70s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values up
to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values
up to 105.
$$
TXZ162-282115-
Leon-
Including the cities of Buffalo, Centerville, Jewett, Normangee,
and Oakwood
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ147-282115-
Freestone-
Including the cities of Teague, Fairfield, and Wortham
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ148-282115-
Anderson-
Including the city of Palestine
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ135-282115-
Henderson-
Including the cities of Athens and Gun Barrel City
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ122-282115-
Van Zandt-
Including the cities of Canton, Grand Saline, Wills Point, Van,
and Edgewood
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ121-282115-
Kaufman-
Including the cities of Terrell, Kaufman, and Forney
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values
up to 105.
$$
TXZ120-282115-
Rockwall-
Including the cities of Rockwall and Heath
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds around
10 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 108 in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values
up to 105.
$$
TXZ123-282115-
Rains-
Including the cities of Emory, East Tawakoni, and Point
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ105-282115-
Hunt-
Including the cities of Greenville and Commerce
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
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.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
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Including the city of Sulphur Springs
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
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.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
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Delta-
Including the city of Cooper
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
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Lamar-
Including the city of Paris
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s.
Temperatures falling into the lower 90s in the afternoon. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
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Fannin-
Including the city of Bonham
307 AM CDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Heat index
values up to 106.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
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MUNCIE, Ind. — A Muncie Woman faces up to 60 years in prison after being convicted of dealing heroin inside the Delaware County Jail, resulting in an inmate’s death.
The Delaware County Prosecutor’s Office said Mya Moody was convicted of dealing in a controlled substance resulting in death Thursday. The conviction comes after a 2021 incident that took place inside the Delaware County Jail.
In October 2021, Moody was arrested and taken to the Delaware County Jail. The prosecutor’s office said at the time of the arrest, Moody hid heroin in a body cavity.
Once inside the jail, the office said Moody dealt the heroin to various other inmates inside the jail block. This included 37-year-old Dianna Rose Pace. PAce would later die of acute fentanyl intoxication.
It took a Delaware County jury about an hour and a half to convict Moody. They also found her to be a habitual offender. The prosecutor’s office said Moody has prior convictions for robbery and dealing in a lookalike substance.
“This conviction marks the second time this year our office has successfully prosecuted a defendant for Dealing in a Controlled Substance Resulting in Death,” said Delaware County Prosecuting Attorney Eric Hoffman. “Our office takes dealing causing death very seriously and we will continue to enforce the statute by prosecuting the offenders.”
Hoffman said the convictions should send a message to drug dealers that if they deal narcotics and their customer overdoses and dies, they will be prosecuted.
“Stop selling your poison in our community,” said Hoffman.
For the dealing in a controlled substance resulting in death charge, Moody faces 20-40 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine. For being a habitual offender, the court may impose an additional 6-20 years. | https://fox59.com/news/muncie-woman-convicted-of-jailhouse-drug-dealing-death/ | 2022-05-26 22:46:12 | 1 | https://fox59.com/news/muncie-woman-convicted-of-jailhouse-drug-dealing-death/ |
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- You see them pop up when you are shopping online, those "buy now and pay later" buttons. From Black Friday through Cyber Monday, "buy now, pay later" payments jumped more than 70%.
But before using that option, you need to be aware of the pitfalls.
"Buy now, pay later is a relatively new way of purchasing items. Instead of paying with a credit card or cash, you're actually paying with an installment plan," said Kimberly Palmer, personal finance expert at NerdWallet.
That plan breaks up the price into payments over several weeks, months, or longer. But there are some things to keep in mind, including possible fees, penalties, and more.
"In some cases there are fees, there's interest, and they're actually built into your installment payment plan. And you want to make sure you understand if you are taking on those additional costs or not," Palmer said.
Another thing to think about is purchase protection. When you buy something using a credit card, you have some protection if something goes wrong. That may not be the case with a "buy now, pay later" purchase.
"They don't really offer a type of purchase protection that is similar to a traditional credit card," said Lisa Gill, an investigative reporter with Consumer Reports.
They're also not subject to the same federal regulations. Consumer Reports surveyed 6,000 people on their purchase habits and found one in three have used "buy now, pay later," and about 28% have had an issue including with returns.
"You may wind up paying on the item still, even after you have returned it while you're waiting for this all to process," said Gill.
CR also says to be careful of "loan stacking" -- buying multiple items using multiple "buy now, pay later" options.
"It can get a little tricky to manage, especially if you have two or three or more loans," said Gill.
You're more likely to miss or be late on payments negatively impacting your credit history. You might also end up spending more money than you can afford, driving yourself into debt, and later unable to dig yourself out.
Action News spoke with several of the big "buy now, pay later" companies. They said they do not charge late fees or interest but consumers really need to read the fine print because plans vary widely. Also, some offer more transparency than others by providing full disclosure statements at check-out. | https://6abc.com/holidays-2022-shopping-help-buy-now-pay-later-tips/12529047/ | 2022-12-05 22:56:31 | 0 | https://6abc.com/holidays-2022-shopping-help-buy-now-pay-later-tips/12529047/ |
JUAREZ, Mexico (Border Report) – Juarez police say they won’t tolerate any more civil disobedience after dozens of migrants attacked Mexican National Migration Institute officers trying to check for papers inside a Downtown Juarez hotel on Wednesday.
The confrontation outside Hotel Ursula on Avenida Francisco Villa prompted Juarez police to reroute traffic and the Mexican National Guard to send troops. Two INM vehicles were pelted with rocks and other objects.
More than 200 migrants from other parts of the city converged on the hotel to prevent the arrest of several Venezuelans at Hotel Ursula. One migrant was seen climbing down the side of the six-story building along a drainpipe before some of his peers got him a ladder and celebrated the feat.
Some of the Venezuelans told reporters they have been robbed and beaten by Mexican authorities and that they will not allow further abuses. Some said they are waiting for asylum appointments in El Paso and won’t allow themselves to be detained by Mexican immigration officers.
This is the second confrontation between Venezuelan migrants and authorities in Juarez in as many weeks. Last week, Venezuelans protested the arrest of some migrants lacking Mexican visas who ran into the Juarez Cathedral. | https://www.krqe.com/news/border-report/visa-inspections-prompt-near-riot-by-migrants-outside-hotel-in-juarez/ | 2023-03-09 03:04:03 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/news/border-report/visa-inspections-prompt-near-riot-by-migrants-outside-hotel-in-juarez/ |
KIYV, Ukraine (AP) — WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is denouncing the referendums underpinning Russia’s planned annexation of four Ukrainian regions as a “sham” and vows that the United States will never recognize the land as Russian territory.
Speaking Thursday to Pacific island leaders in Washington, Biden said: “The so-called referenda was a sham, an absolute sham. The results were manufactured in Moscow.”
He called the hastily arranged election a “flagrant, flagrant violation of the U.N. charter.”
Biden commented a day after his administration said it has concluded that Moscow falsified results of the referendums and forced people to cast ballots under duress.
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:
PODGORICA, Montenegro — Montenegro ordered six Russian diplomats to leave the country, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
In a short statement published on Twitter, the ministry said the diplomats were asked to leave over “breaches of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.” It did not elaborate.
Montenegro was once considered a strong Russian ally, but in 2017 it joined NATO over strong opposition from Moscow. It has also joined Western sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.
Russia has put Montenegro and most other European nations on its list of “enemy states” for acting against Kremlin’s interests.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. top diplomat says Washington will never recognize Russia’s planned annexation of Ukrainian territory or the legitimacy of the Moscow-orchestrated referendums that amount to a “further attempt at a land grab.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Thursday the referendums in the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia don’t reflect the will of the people and are an illegitimate spectacle carried out by Russia’s “proxies” in violation of international law.
Blinken said the referendums on joining Russia are “an affront to the principles of international peace and security” and accused Moscow of compelling Ukrainian citizens who didn’t flee to “cast ballots at gunpoint, in fear of their safety and the safety of their loved ones.”
He reiterated President Joe Biden’s pledge that the U.S. will support Ukraine “for as long as it takes” and that it would continue to assist the country, along with its allies, “in its fight to defend its territory against Russian aggression.”
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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to “give negotiations another chance” and to take steps aimed at reducing tensions and leading to “more positive developments.
A statement from Erdogan’s office said Thursday that the Turkish leader renewed an offer to Putin during a telephone conversation for Turkey to act as a mediator between Moscow and Kyiv.
Erdogan also called for the extension of a UN and Turkish-negotiated deal that allows Ukraine to export millions of tons of grain through the Black Sea. The deal is scheduled to expire in November.
NATO-member Turkey has retaining its close ties with both Moscow and Kyiv.
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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.
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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.
— Follow the AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-live-updates-russia-ukraine-war-2/ | 2022-09-29 21:12:41 | 1 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-live-updates-russia-ukraine-war-2/ |
ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hyzon Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: HYZN), a global supplier of zero-emission heavy-duty fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs), today announced that on March 31, 2023, the Nasdaq Hearings Panel granted Hyzon's request for continued listing of its securities on The Nasdaq Capital Market until May 15, 2023, in order to allow Hyzon time to regain compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5250(c)(1) (the "Periodic Filing Rule").
The extension was granted following a hearing on March 16, 2023, in which Hyzon presented its comprehensive plan to regain compliance and requested the continued listing of its securities on The Nasdaq Capital Market pending such compliance.
The extension is subject to the condition that on or before May 15, 2023, Hyzon Motors will file all delinquent reports with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), in compliance with the Periodic Filing Rule.
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