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LONDON — President Joe Biden arrived in London to pay his respects to Queen Elizabeth II at a time of transition in U.S.-U.K. relations, as both a new monarch and a new prime minister are settling in.
The hawkish approach of Prime Minister Liz Truss to Russia and China puts her on the same page as Biden. But the rise of Truss, 47, who once called the relationship “special but not exclusive,” could mark a decidedly new chapter in the trans-Atlantic partnership on trade and more.
Of high concern for Biden officials in the early going of Truss’s premiership is her backing of legislation that would shred parts of the post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland. Analysts say the move could cause deep strain between the U.K. and the European Union, and undermine peace in Northern Ireland. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the move “would not create a conducive environment” for crafting a long-awaited U.S.-UK trade deal coveted by Truss and her Conservative Party.
“She’s signaled that she’s willing to go to the mattresses on this and that’s going to cause a rift not just between the U.K. and EU, but the UK and the U.S.,” said Max Bergmann, director of the Europe program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and a former senior State Department official in the Obama administration. “It’s one that’s going to keep the White House up at night.”
Biden arrived in London late Saturday and had been set to meet with Truss on Sunday, but the prime minister’s office said Saturday they would skip the weekend hello, opting instead for a meeting in New York at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, though Truss still planned to gather with other world leaders converging on London for the royal funeral. The White House confirmed the U.N. meeting just as the president boarded Air Force One.
The two close allies now find themselves in a period of political uncertainty on both sides of the Atlantic. Not unlike his fellow septuagenarian Biden, King Charles III faces questions from the public about whether his age will limit his ability to faithfully carry out the duties of the monarch.
Charles, 73, and Biden, 79, discussed global cooperation on the climate crisis last year while both attended a summit in Glasgow, Scotland. They also met at Buckingham Palace in June 2021 at a reception the queen hosted before a world leaders’ summit in Cornwall.
Truss finds herself, as Biden does, facing questions about whether she has what it takes to lift a country battered by stubborn inflation borne out of the coronavirus pandemic and exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unleashing chaos on the global energy market.
All the while, Britain — and the rest of Europe — is carefully watching to see what the upcoming U.S. midterm elections will bring for the Democratic American president after he vowed upon taking office that “America is back” to being a full partner in the international community after four years of Republican Donald Trump pushing his “America First” worldview.
“It certainly is a time of change and transformation in the U.K.,” said Barbara A. Perry, presidential studies director at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. She added, “We don’t know what will happen in our midterms. We don’t know what will happen in 2024.”
Truss, a former accountant who was first elected to Parliament in 2010, hasn’t had much interaction with Biden. The U.S. president called her earlier this month to congratulate her. Truss, as foreign secretary, accompanied her predecessor, Boris Johnson, on a White House visit last year.
It’s been more than 75 years since Winston Churchill declared there was a “special relationship” between the two nations, a notion that leaders on both sides have repeatedly affirmed. Still, there have been bumps along the way.
Tony Blair was derisively branded by the British tabloids as George W. Bush’s “poodle” for backing the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq. David Cameron and Barack Obama had a “bromance,” but Obama also had his frustrations with the Brits over defense spending and the U.K.’s handling of Libya following the 2011 ouster of Muammar Gaddafi.
Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan forged a close alliance in the midst of the Cold War, with the prime minister once telling students that the Republican president’s “really good sense of humor” helped their relationship. But there were difficulties too, such as when Thatcher and members of her Cabinet bristled at the Reagan administration’s initial neutrality in the Falklands War.
The White House wasn’t expecting Truss’s announcement in May, when she was foreign secretary, that the government would move forward with legislation that would rewrite parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol. The agreement was part of the U.K.’s 2020 Brexit withdrawal from the EU that was designed to avoid a hard north-south border with Ireland that might upset Northern Ireland’s fragile peace.
Now, in the first weeks of Truss’s premiership, Biden administration officials are carefully taking the measure of the new British leader. Analysts say there is some trepidation in the administration that undercutting the Northern Ireland protocol could plunge Europe into trade turmoil at a moment when Biden is working mightily to keep the West unified in confronting Russia over its aggression against Ukraine.
“Brexit could once again become the issue — the issue that can make it difficult for all of Europe to work together at a time when it is critical for Europe to work together,” Bergmann said. “If you’re the Biden administration, this is not the time for the two of your closest partners getting into fights.”
To be certain, there were areas of friction between Biden and Johnson, who had a warm rapport with former President Donald Trump.
Biden staunchly opposed Brexit as a candidate and had expressed great concern over the future of Northern Ireland. Biden once even derided Johnson as a “physical and emotional clone” of Trump.
Johnson worked hard to overcome that impression, stressing his common ground with Biden on climate change, support for international institutions and most notably by making certain Britain was an early and generous member of the U.S.-led alliance providing economic and military assistance to Ukraine in the aftermath of the Russian invasion.
The former prime minister also unsuccessfully pressed Biden starting days into his administration to begin negotiations on a new U.S.-U.K. trade deal just as the U.K. regained control over its national trade policy weeks before Biden took office and following the end of a post-Brexit transition period.
But Biden largely kept focus on his domestic to-do list in the early going of his presidency— passing trillions in spending on coronavirus relief, infrastructure, and more — and put negotiations on trade deals on the back burner.
Elliot Abrams, chairman of the conservative foreign policy group Vandenberg Coalition, said that Truss needs Biden to make a new U.S.-U.K. trade deal a priority. Queen Elizabeth’s funeral won’t be the setting for tough bilateral conversations, but it still marks a moment for the two leaders to begin taking stock of each other.
Truss, who succeeded Johnson after he was forced to resign in the face of a string of scandals, has lagged in the opinion polls. She also won her election with a smaller margin than her recent predecessors and is looking for an early win.
“I think if I were (Truss), I want recognition of the leading role Britain’s played, far more than any other country outside the United States in supporting Ukraine,” said Abrams, who served in senior national security and foreign policy roles in the Trump, George W. Bush and Reagan administrations. “And I think I’d want some positive economic message to give the British people, which could be that the free trade agreement negotiations are starting.”
Madhani reported from Washington. | https://www.mcall.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-queen-death-us-uk-relations-20220917-cicngmb24jcgzkbet3awmp4ivy-story.html | 2022-09-18 00:50:38 | 1 | https://www.mcall.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-queen-death-us-uk-relations-20220917-cicngmb24jcgzkbet3awmp4ivy-story.html |
WATCH: Convicted killer elbows lawyer in face during sentencing hearing
LEE COUNTY, Fla. (Gray News) - Joseph Zieler was attending his sentencing on Monday when he was caught on camera elbowing his attorney in the face.
The assault happened before bailiffs took Zieler out.
The judge handed down the death sentence Monday after the jury recommended it last month by a 10-2 vote.
Because of a change in Florida law in April, death penalties no longer require a unanimous vote.
Zieler faces death for the 1990 murders of 11-year-old Robin Cornell and her babysitter, 32-year-old Lisa Story, in Cape Coral.
The two were found dead by the girl’s mother, the Associated Press reported. Police said they had been sexually assaulted and suffocated.
Zieler was found guilty of first-degree murder in their killings back in May.
He had been jailed on an unrelated assault charge in 2016 when his DNA matched the 1990 cold-case murders, the Associated Press reported.
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Twitter isn’t real life. I take any chance I can to emphasize that. It represents a fraction of the population, typically rewards extreme opinions, and distorts reality to the point that folks erroneously think a vocal minority is speaking for the vast majority.
But every now and then, the site offers a telling glimpse into people’s minds that we wouldn’t otherwise uncover. I think it happened earlier in the week.
After Thursday night’s NBA draft, when Seattleites Paolo Banchero, Tari Eason, and MarJon Beauchamp were each selected in the first round, local sports-radio host Dave “Softy” Mahler tweeted his frustration about the Huskies’ inability to land any of them.
“Great that all these dudes from Seattle are getting drafted,” Mahler said. “But blows that UW can’t take advantage of the talent here.”
There is little doubt those 21 words encapsulated what thousands of Washington basketball fans were thinking at the time. Great as it was to see NBA Commissioner Adam Silver call the names of the Emerald City’s finest young hoopers, there had to be disappointment about them never wearing purple and gold.
Enter Washington assistant coaches Will Conroy and Quincy Pondexter, two of the men tasked with recruiting local talent into UW’s program. Each felt inclined to respond to Softy.
“When the most popular radio voice tweets things like this it doesn’t help kids want to stay…but it will get you liked tho,” tweeted Conroy.
“Haha knew the hate would come again…,” followed Pondexter on the social-media platform. “It’s either you with us or against us. Pick a side buddy.”
This is my experience: If somebody says something ridiculous, people ignore it knowing it doesn’t reflect reality. But if somebody says trenchantly truthful — something that strikes an emotional chord — people are quick to go on the defensive.
The fact is, Washington men’s hoops hasn’t made the postseason in three years, finished 11th and 12th in the Pac-12 in two of those seasons, and has watched local NBA-caliber talent sign elsewhere. So is this a serious problem? Have the Huskies lost their hometown recruiting touch?
Their defenders would point to last year’s roster and ask: What are you talking about? Terrell Brown Jr., Daejon Davis, Emmitt Matthews Jr., and P.J. Fuller were all locals who transferred to UW last season to help the Huskies to a 17-15 record. Brown led the conference in scoring with 21.7 points per game. But it’s doubtful that any of those four will ever make a dent in the NBA. Could the Huskies have not been an NCAA Tournament team with at least one of Thursday’s draftees?
Take Banchero, the O’Dea grad who went No. 1 overall. Logic says that there is no way Washington could have competed recruiting-wise with Duke, where Paolo ended up going. Except … they did sign former No. 1 overall pick Markelle Fultz six years ago. They had the nation’s No. 1 recruit in Michael Porter Jr. for the next season before Lorenzo Romar got fired. In 2019, they landed the country’s No. 3 recruit in Isaiah Stewart and the No. 8 recruit in Jaden McDaniels, a Federal Way High product.
It’s actually kind of wild how consistently UW was able to lure five-star recruits and future first-round draft picks given their lackluster NCAA tourney résumé over the past decade, but those kids kept coming to Montlake. Not so much now.
Tari Eason, who was selected 17th Thursday, would have been a game-changer had he been inserted into the Huskies’ lineup last season. The 6-foot-8 power forward’s 16.9 points and 6.6 rebounds could have catapulted Washington toward the top of the Pac-12. But the Garfield grad posted those numbers for LSU, who beat out the Huskies for his services after he transferred from Cincinnati. Eason was a potential golden goose, but UW laid a recruiting egg.
As for Beauchamp, who went 24th — it’s hard to know that any four-year school could have landed him. The former Rainier Beach star played at Yakima Valley College after graduating high school, but forewent a Division I career due to eligibility concerns and eventually joined the G League.
Can’t fault the Huskies there. But what about Shane Nowell, brother of former Husky standout Jaylen Nowell? He signed with Arizona after graduating from Eastside Catholic. Or Nolan Hickman, the Sammamish-born point guard who also played at Eastside Catholic before moving to Utah for his senior season? He’s at Gonzaga.
It’s more than fair to wonder whether the Huskies have an issue reeling in homegrown hoopers, though this might not have much to do with the coaching staff’s pitches. This likely has much more to do with the Huskies’ record. Going 5-13 in conference one season and 4-16 the next serves as a rather potent repellant.
Still, Seattle is and has long been one of the nation’s great recruiting hubs. But it seems that the Huskies keep making great recruiting flubs. | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-basketball/what-it-means-for-uw-mens-basketball-that-seattles-three-nba-first-rounders-played-elsewhere/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-06-26 00:03:37 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-basketball/what-it-means-for-uw-mens-basketball-that-seattles-three-nba-first-rounders-played-elsewhere/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
WFO SEATTLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, December 25, 2022
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ICE STORM WARNING
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Seattle WA
346 AM PST Sun Dec 25 2022
...ICE STORM WARNING IS CANCELLED...
Temperatures have warmed up above freezing at both Stevens and
Snoqualmie pass early this morning. The ice storm warning is
canceled.
...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM THIS
MORNING TO 4 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Minor coastal flooding expected.
* WHERE...San Juan County, Western Whatcom County, Western
Skagit County and Admiralty Inlet Area zones.
* WHEN...From 7 AM to 4 PM PST Sunday.
* IMPACTS...Flooding of lots, parks, and roads with only
isolated road closures expected.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...King tides Sunday will result in unusually
high water levels at high tide. Minor tidal overflow and coastal
erosion is possible.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If travel is required, allow extra time as some roads may be
closed. Do not drive around barricades or through water of
unknown depth. Take the necessary actions to protect flood-prone
property.
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Focus is on wrong issues
While unhinged people buy assault weapons and high-capacity magazines to kill Texans, our governor and Legislature spend their time on controlling women’s bodies and deciding who should be allowed to play on junior high soccer teams.
It appears to me that they are preserving the wrong liberties.
David A. Ladensohn
All about human greed
Re: “Deaths loom over Derby Day,” Sports, Monday:
I usually skip the sports section, but the article about the deaths of seven horses in the days surrounding the Kentucky Derby pulled me in.
I, too, once marveled at the beauty of the horses that raced with such astonishing grace. Now that I’ve become more involved with horses of my own, I’d like to let readers know some facts that aren’t often mentioned in horse racing publicity.
First, the skeletons of horses have not finished developing until 6 years of age. The horses racing professionally are typically 2 or 3 years old. They are subjected to extraordinary and unnatural stress on their bodies.
Second, horses tend to be stoic, meaning, for survival purposes, they attempt to hide pain. Humans with a stake in the horse’s ability to compete may not want to look for more subtle signs.
Horse racing has everything to do with human greed and nothing to do with the welfare of the horse. Horses who don’t win are discarded like used tissues and depend on horse welfare groups for any future.
Maybe the deaths of these young horses, who are age equivalent of 6- to 9-year-old children, will wake people up.
Oh, wait. Even the deaths of 6- to 9-year-old human children don’t wake people up, so why would it matter if it’s just horses?
Susan Hull, Bandera
Incident is an ‘atrocity’
With regard to the shooting in the mall in Allen, Gov. Greg Abbott described the incident as an “unspeakable tragedy.” His choice of words was incorrect: the event was an atrocity.
In his blog “The Importance and Proper use of Words: Tragedies vs. Atrocities,” Paul Arneberg states: “Human acts of evil done to others are atrocities, not tragedies.”
Tragedies are caused by lack of planning, ignorance or simply disregarding the obvious. Governments take steps to reduce the possibility of tragedies: dams are built to prevent flooding, traffic laws are passed to prevent automobile accidents, studies are performed to reduce the risk of disasters.
The use of firearms to intimidate, injure or kill other people is an act of atrocity. Our government does a lot to prevent tragedies but does very little (i.e., nothing) to prevent these types of atrocities.
Bill Holland | https://www.expressnews.com/opinion/letters-editor/article/letters-may-11-shooting-in-allen-is-an-18091259.php | 2023-05-11 02:06:48 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/opinion/letters-editor/article/letters-may-11-shooting-in-allen-is-an-18091259.php |
Man sentenced to prison in severed head case in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 58-year-old man with an extensive criminal history was sentenced Thursday to 18 to 45 years in prison for killing and dismembering a man whose severed head was found in a stolen vehicle the ex-convict was driving about a year ago in Las Vegas.
Eric John Holland declared himself “truly remorseful” about the shooting death of a friend, 65-year-old Richard P. Miller, whose remains were found in coolers in the bed of a stolen Chevrolet Avalanche following a police chase.
Holland pleaded guilty July 19 to a reduced charge — second-degree murder — and felony theft, avoiding trial on an open murder charge that could have resulted in a life sentence.
“It’s a terrible thing that happened and I’m just so sorry,” he said Thursday.
With Miller’s adult daughter in the courtroom and Miller’s son listening by internet audio hookup, Holland said he hoped authorities would continue to investigate his motive for the killing.
“I was going to bring it up in court, but I’m not going to because of family members,” Holland told Clark County District Court Judge Tierra Jones. “There was a reason, and I hope that they’ll get closure today.”
Holland’s attorney, Daniel Westbrook, told the judge he would not say more than what his client said. Westbrook declined additional comment after the sentencing hearing.
Miller’s daughter, Amanda Dawn Potter of Portland, Oregon, sobbed and haltingly addressed the judge.
“I feel very little relief,” Potter told the judge, calling her father’s slaying “the most bizarre thing to ever happen to my family.”
“I don’t know how to make sense of it,” she sobbed. “My dad didn’t deserve this.”
Holland was friends with Miller, who lived on a houseboat at Lake Mead, the Colorado River reservoir about a 30-minute drive from Las Vegas.
Miller was reported missing in November 2021, and investigators later determined he was killed during an argument with Holland.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Thursday that in jailhouse interviews, Holland said he wanted police to investigate whether Miller was responsible for the disappearance of Miller’s ex-wife, Jing Me Zhu, in 2018 or 2019.
“I’m going to prison for the rest of my life, and I just want to make sure that she wasn’t forgotten,” Holland told the newspaper.
Holland said he believed Zhu lived in China and Canada before marrying Miller in 2018. In divorce proceedings less than a year later, Miller alleged in court documents that Zhu left him and moved to China. Records showed that Zhu could not be located to receive a court summons.
Westbrook told the newspaper that Holland believes Zhu is dead and that Miller killed her.
Holland did not provide details of Miller’s death, the Review-Journal reported.
Las Vegas police did not immediately say Thursday whether detectives are investigating.
The Clark County coroner found Miller had been shot several times, including at least once in the head. His death was ruled a homicide.
Las Vegas police said Holland drove away from patrol officers trying to stop him on Dec. 23, 2021, in a stolen pickup truck. They said that he was seen switching vehicles before he was arrested in the second vehicle by police, who tracked him to an apartment complex west of the Las Vegas Strip.
Police later found receipts in the vehicles for items including a power saw and trash bags purchased from a home improvement store after Miller’s disappearance.
Holland had been sought since May 2019 on an arrest warrant in a 2018 case in Las Vegas accusing him of embezzlement, identity theft, issuing false checks and theft, according to court records. He had posted $5,000 bail in that case.
Records show Holland also used the name Eric Allen Holland and served prison time in Nevada for a felony theft conviction stemming from a 2000 forgery case in Las Vegas. He also used names including John Carl Hall, Phil Whidden, Robert Daniel Lauer and Steven Tauber, prison records show.
Holland had prior felony convictions dating to 1987 in California for embezzlement, assault with a deadly weapon, resisting arrest causing substantial bodily harm and property theft and false identification, according to a Las Vegas prosecutor, prison and court records.
Records show that Holland was convicted in Texas in a federal counterfeiting case, and later of attempted escape and aiding in an escape.
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DENVER, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ViewRay, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRAY) announced today that the Company will present at the Stifel 2022 Healthcare Conference. Scott Drake, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Zach Stassen, Chief Financial Officer, will participate in a fireside chat at 2:25 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, November 15, 2022.
An audio webcast of the Company's presentation will be available on the investor relations section of ViewRay's website at https://investors.viewray.com/events-and-webinars. A replay of the webcast will be available for 7 days after the date of the presentation.
ViewRay, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRAY), designs, manufactures, and markets the MRIdian® MRI-Guided Radiation Therapy System. MRIdian is built upon a proprietary high-definition MR imaging system designed from the ground up to address the unique challenges and clinical workflow for advanced radiation oncology. Unlike MR systems used in diagnostic radiology, MRIdian's high-definition MR was purpose-built to address specific challenges, including beam distortion, skin toxicity, and other concerns that potentially may arise when high magnetic fields interact with radiation beams. ViewRay and MRIdian are registered trademarks of ViewRay, Inc.
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The state-by-state winning lottery numbers through Friday:
4-9-9
(four, nine, nine)
7-0-4
(seven, zero, four)
0-9-4-2
(zero, nine, four, two)
7-4-0-2
(seven, four, zero, two)
18-20-22-30-32
(eighteen, twenty, twenty-two, thirty, thirty-two)
Estimated jackpot: $460,000
2-8-6
(two, eight, six)
1-3-1
(one, three, one)
5-1-4-5
(five, one, four, five)
1st:10 Solid Gold-2nd:12 Lucky Charms-3rd:7 Eureka, Race Time: 1:45.25
(1st: 10 Solid Gold, 2nd: 12 Lucky Charms, 3rd: 7 Eureka; Race Time: one: 45.25)
01-03-11-17-23
(one, three, eleven, seventeen, twenty-three)
06-08-13-18-27
(six, eight, thirteen, eighteen, twenty-seven)
3-7-8
(three, seven, eight)
7-5-6
(seven, five, six)
7-4-6, WB:
(seven, four, six; WB: zero)
1-7-7-1, WB: 4
(one, seven, seven, one; WB: four)
04-13-21-23-29-34
(four, thirteen, twenty-one, twenty-three, twenty-nine, thirty-four)
Estimated jackpot: $94,000
5-8-8
(five, eight, eight)
9-1-6
(nine, one, six)
6-8-6-0
(six, eight, six, zero)
3-4-9-9
(three, four, nine, nine)
0-6
(zero, six)
9-4
(nine, four)
5-8-8
(five, eight, eight)
0-7-7
(zero, seven, seven)
3-3-1-9
(three, three, one, nine)
9-8-4-5
(nine, eight, four, five)
7-4-1-8-3
(seven, four, one, eight, three)
3-9-8-8-4
(three, nine, eight, eight, four)
6-5, Fireball: 3
(six, five; Fireball: three)
0-2, Fireball: 1
(zero, two; Fireball: one)
8-5-6, Fireball: 3
(eight, five, six; Fireball: three)
2-5-2, Fireball: 1
(two, five, two; Fireball: one)
3-0-3-9, Fireball: 3
(three, zero, three, nine; Fireball: three)
2-9-8-2, Fireball: 1
(two, nine, eight, two; Fireball: one)
8-4-2-2-1, Fireball: 3
(eight, four, two, two, one; Fireball: three)
8-9-0-3-9, Fireball: 1
(eight, nine, zero, three, nine; Fireball: one)
6-9-5
(six, nine, five)
8-5-3
(eight, five, three)
4-3-3-6
(four, three, three, six)
7-2-8-8
(seven, two, eight, eight)
7-6-2-1-8
(seven, six, two, one, eight)
1-7-5-3-6
(one, seven, five, three, six)
6-7-9
(six, seven, nine)
8-1-3
(eight, one, three)
3-1-1-7
(three, one, one, seven)
5-2-6-5
(five, two, six, five)
06-13-16-19-31
(six, thirteen, sixteen, nineteen, thirty-one)
07-08-28-40-41
(seven, eight, twenty-eight, forty, forty-one)
Estimated jackpot: $350,000
05-06-08-13-14-18-20-23-24-29-32-33-42-43-50-53-55-59-71-73, BE: 6
(five, six, eight, thirteen, fourteen, eighteen, twenty, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-nine, thirty-two, thirty-three, forty-two, forty-three, fifty, fifty-three, fifty-five, fifty-nine, seventy-one, seventy-three; BE: six)
5-6-9, SB: 5
(five, six, nine; SB: five)
7-5-1-3, SB: 5
(seven, five, one, three; SB: five)
5-6-9
(five, six, nine)
7-5-1-3
(seven, five, one, three)
5-7-6
(five, seven, six)
3-3-5
(three, three, five)
7-4-3
(seven, four, three)
2-4-3-3
(two, four, three, three)
2C-4D-7D-5H-6H
(2C, 4D, 7D, 5H, 6H)
09-12-18-20-22, Bonus: 34
(nine, twelve, eighteen, twenty, twenty-two; Bonus: thirty-four)
8-2-8
(eight, two, eight)
6-2-0
(six, two, zero)
1-2-0-6
(one, two, zero, six)
8-6-2-4
(eight, six, two, four)
2-1-4-9-4
(two, one, four, nine, four)
4-1-1-8-7
(four, one, one, eight, seven)
02-14-17-25-28
(two, fourteen, seventeen, twenty-five, twenty-eight)
3-9-0-5
(three, nine, zero, five)
8-1-4-6
(eight, one, four, six)
09-10-35-36-39
(nine, ten, thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-nine)
QC-AD-JH-10D-2S
(QC, AD, JH, 10D, 2S)
2-2-7
(two, two, seven)
3-9-3-3
(three, nine, three, three)
4-8-8
(four, eight, eight)
6-5-5-4
(six, five, five, four)
03-18-19-24-27
(three, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-four, twenty-seven)
Estimated jackpot: $145,000
08-21-22-23-32-35-37-38-43-47-48-49-51-56-58-59-61-62-63-66-68-79
(eight, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, thirty-two, thirty-five, thirty-seven, thirty-eight, forty-three, forty-seven, forty-eight, forty-nine, fifty-one, fifty-six, fifty-eight, fifty-nine, sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-three, sixty-six, sixty-eight, seventy-nine)
0-8-8
(zero, eight, eight)
05-07-13-14-17
(five, seven, thirteen, fourteen, seventeen)
Estimated jackpot: $280,000
03-16-21-25-29
(three, sixteen, twenty-one, twenty-five, twenty-nine)
Estimated jackpot: $25,000
6-7-6
(six, seven, six)
8-7-2
(eight, seven, two)
3-1-1-4
(three, one, one, four)
4-7-9-9
(four, seven, nine, nine)
04-24-27-33-36
(four, twenty-four, twenty-seven, thirty-three, thirty-six)
02-09-17-27, Bonus: 8
(two, nine, seventeen, twenty-seven; Bonus: eight)
Month: 10, Day: 15, Year: 75
(Month: ten; Day: fifteen; Year: seventy-five)
2-0-5, Fireball: 7
(two, zero, five; Fireball: seven)
8-7-6-6, Fireball: 7
(eight, seven, six, six; Fireball: seven)
1-8-6
(one, eight, six)
4-8-0-6
(four, eight, zero, six)
11-16-22-32-39
(eleven, sixteen, twenty-two, thirty-two, thirty-nine)
0-3-6
(zero, three, six)
0-7-2-6
(zero, seven, two, six)
05-07-11-18-19-20-23-37-42-51-58-61-63-66-67-68-70-74-75-79
(five, seven, eleven, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-three, thirty-seven, forty-two, fifty-one, fifty-eight, sixty-one, sixty-three, sixty-six, sixty-seven, sixty-eight, seventy, seventy-four, seventy-five, seventy-nine)
2-9-3, Lucky Sum: 14
(two, nine, three; Lucky Sum: fourteen)
3-4-1-2, Lucky Sum: 10
(three, four, one, two; Lucky Sum: ten)
6-7-0
(six, seven, zero)
9-9-8
(nine, nine, eight)
6-8-1-4
(six, eight, one, four)
7-2-6-1
(seven, two, six, one)
9-4-9-1-5
(nine, four, nine, one, five)
8-5-4-2-1
(eight, five, four, two, one)
04-12-13-24-36
(four, twelve, thirteen, twenty-four, thirty-six)
Estimated jackpot: $100,000
01-17-19-23-29
(one, seventeen, nineteen, twenty-three, twenty-nine)
0-3-5
(zero, three, five)
01-07-09-13-17-23-26-31
(one, seven, nine, thirteen, seventeen, twenty-three, twenty-six, thirty-one)
Estimated jackpot: $60,000
1-7-2-0
(one, seven, two, zero)
5-5-7-9
(five, five, seven, nine)
0-7-0-6
(zero, seven, zero, six)
05-20-29-33-41
(five, twenty, twenty-nine, thirty-three, forty-one)
Estimated jackpot: $250,000
01-11-14-28-45-47
(one, eleven, fourteen, twenty-eight, forty-five, forty-seven)
Estimated jackpot: $1,240,000
2-5, Wild: 8
(two, five; Wild: eight)
8-3, Wild: 2
(eight, three; Wild: two)
0-4-4, Wild: 8
(zero, four, four; Wild: eight)
4-7-8, Wild: 2
(four, seven, eight; Wild: two)
6-8-6-7, Wild: 8
(six, eight, six, seven; Wild: eight)
4-0-4-9, Wild: 2
(four, zero, four, nine; Wild: two)
0-4-6-0-6, Wild: 8
(zero, four, six, zero, six; Wild: eight)
3-2-0-0-9, Wild: 2
(three, two, zero, zero, nine; Wild: two)
06-07-22-26-27
(six, seven, twenty-two, twenty-six, twenty-seven)
Estimated jackpot: $32,000
4-7-0-7
(four, seven, zero, seven)
3-3-2-0
(three, three, two, zero)
06-10-13-22-31, Extra: 29
(six, ten, thirteen, twenty-two, thirty-one; Extra: twenty-nine)
Estimated jackpot: $200,000
12-21-22-27-34, Power-Up: 2
(twelve, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-seven, thirty-four; Power, Up: two)
3-7-8, FB:
(three, seven, eight; FB: zero)
4-5-3, FB: 5
(four, five, three; FB: five)
7-3-8-4, FB:
(seven, three, eight, four; FB: zero)
1-2-3-5, FB: 5
(one, two, three, five; FB: five)
9-3-2, Wild: 5
(nine, three, two; Wild: five)
9-3-9, Wild: 8
(nine, three, nine; Wild: eight)
0-4-3, Wild: 6
(zero, four, three; Wild: six)
9-4-1-6, Wild: 7
(nine, four, one, six; Wild: seven)
2-1-5-3, Wild: 2
(two, one, five, three; Wild: two)
9-0-4-1, Wild:
(nine, zero, four, one; Wild: zero)
01-02-05-06-07-08-09-10-11-13-16-19
(one, two, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, thirteen, sixteen, nineteen)
02-03-04-06-08-09-15-16-17-18-19-20
(two, three, four, six, eight, nine, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty)
01-07-08-09-10-13-15-17-18-20-23-24
(one, seven, eight, nine, ten, thirteen, fifteen, seventeen, eighteen, twenty, twenty-three, twenty-four)
1-5-8-1, FIREBALL: 9
(one, five, eight, one; FIREBALL: nine)
8-0-5-4, FIREBALL:
(eight, zero, five, four; FIREBALL: zero)
0-9-0-0, FIREBALL: 7
(zero, nine, zero, zero; FIREBALL: seven)
1-3-7, FIREBALL:
(one, three, seven; FIREBALL: zero)
9-1-3, FIREBALL: 9
(nine, one, three; FIREBALL: nine)
6-4-6, FIREBALL: 1
(six, four, six; FIREBALL: one)
6-2-2, FB: 8
(six, two, two; FB: eight)
2-6-7-2, FB: 8
(two, six, seven, two; FB: eight)
01-03-04-13-14-22
(one, three, four, thirteen, fourteen, twenty-two)
0-3-0
(zero, three, zero)
3-8-3-5
(three, eight, three, five)
04-07-09-11-12-13-15-17-18-19-22
(four, seven, nine, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fifteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-two)
2-8-5
(two, eight, five)
0-1-9-8
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Sounding alarms about artificial intelligence has become a popular pastime in the ChatGPT era, taken up by high-profile figures as varied as industrialist Elon Musk, leftist intellectual Noam Chomsky and the 99-year-old retired statesman Henry Kissinger.
But it’s the concerns of insiders in the AI research community that are attracting particular attention. A pioneering researcher and the so-called “Godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton quit his role at Google so he could more freely speak about the dangers of the technology he helped create.
Over his decades-long career, Hinton’s pioneering work on deep learning and neural networks helped lay the foundation for much of the AI technology we see today.
There has been a spasm of AI introductions in recent months. San Francisco-based startup OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed company behind ChatGPT, rolled out its latest artificial intelligence model, GPT-4, in March. Other tech giants have invested in competing tools — including Google’s “Bard.”
Some of the dangers of AI chatbots are “quite scary,” Hinton told the BBC. “Right now, they’re not more intelligent than us, as far as I can tell. But I think they soon may be.”
In an interview with MIT Technology Review, Hinton also pointed to “bad actors” that may use AI in ways that could have detrimental impacts on society — such as manipulating elections or instigating violence.
Hinton, 75, says he retired from Google so that he could speak openly about the potential risks as someone who no longer works for the tech giant.
“I want to talk about AI safety issues without having to worry about how it interacts with Google’s business,” he told MIT Technology Review. “As long as I’m paid by Google, I can’t do that.”
Since announcing his departure, Hinton has maintained that Google has “acted very responsibly” regarding AI. He told MIT Technology Review that there’s also “a lot of good things about Google” that he would want to talk about — but those comments would be “much more credible if I’m not at Google anymore.”
Google confirmed that Hinton had retired from his role after 10 years overseeing the Google Research team in Toronto.
Hinton declined further comment Tuesday but said he would talk more about it at a conference Wednesday.
At the heart of the debate on the state of AI is whether the primary dangers are in the future or present. On one side are hypothetical scenarios of existential risk caused by computers that supersede human intelligence. On the other are concerns about automated technology that’s already getting widely deployed by businesses and governments and can cause real-world harms.
“For good or for not, what the chatbot moment has done is made AI a national conversation and an international conversation that doesn’t only include AI experts and developers,” said Alondra Nelson, who until February led the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and its push to craft guidelines around the responsible use of AI tools.
“AI is no longer abstract, and we have this kind of opening, I think, to have a new conversation about what we want a democratic future and a non-exploitative future with technology to look like,” Nelson said in an interview last month.
A number of AI researchers have long expressed concerns about racial, gender and other forms of bias in AI systems, including text-based large language models that are trained on huge troves of human writing and can amplify discrimination that exists in society.
“We need to take a step back and really think about whose needs are being put front and center in the discussion about risks,” said Sarah Myers West, managing director of the nonprofit AI Now Institute. “The harms that are being enacted by AI systems today are really not evenly distributed. It’s very much exacerbating existing patterns of inequality.”
Hinton was one of three AI pioneers who in 2019 won the Turing Award, an honor that has become known as tech industry’s version of the Nobel Prize. The other two winners, Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun, have also expressed concerns about the future of AI.
Bengio, a professor at the University of Montreal, signed a petition in late March calling for tech companies to agree to a 6-month pause on developing powerful AI systems, while LeCun, a top AI scientist at Facebook parent Meta, has taken a more optimistic approach.
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AP Technology Reporter Matt O’Brien reported from Cambridge, Massachusetts. | https://www.kron4.com/technology/ap-technology/godfather-of-ai-leaves-google-warns-of-techs-dangers/ | 2023-05-03 03:39:02 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/technology/ap-technology/godfather-of-ai-leaves-google-warns-of-techs-dangers/ |
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Workers at a Chipotle store in Michigan have voted to unionize, becoming the first of the Mexican fast-food chain’s 3,000 locations to do so amid a broader unionization push across the country.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters said workers at a Chipotle store in Lansing, Michigan, “voted overwhelmingly” Thursday to form a union with the Teamsters.
The workers “are forming a union to improve their work schedules, increase wages, and gain the respect from management that they’ve rightfully earned,” the union said in a statement.
Newport Beach, California-based Chipotle said in a statement Friday it is “disappointed that the employees at our Lansing, MI restaurant chose to have a third party speak on their behalf because we continue to believe that working directly together is best for our employees.”
Laurie Schalow, the company’s chief corporate affairs officer, added that Chipotle “is proud to offer our employees industry-leading benefits such as competitive wages, debt-free degrees, tuition reimbursement up to $5,250 per year, health benefits and quarterly bonuses for all employees.”
The Lansing store’s vote to unionize comes amid a broader unionization push across the country, with workers at Starbucks unionizing more than 180 U.S. stores since late last year, while Amazon workers at a warehouse in New York voted to unionize this spring.
In July, Chipotle closed a store in Augusta, Maine, that had been leading efforts to unionize the chain. That closure came after the store’s employees filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board in June asking to hold a union — the first of the company’s stores to file such a petition, according to NLRB filings.
Scott Quenneville, the president of the Lansing-based Teamsters Local 243, which represents more than 4,000 workers across Michigan, said the Lansing Chipotle store’s workers now “have a union they can be proud of, that knows how to get things done.”
“Chipotle pulled in revenue of $7.5 billion last year, and just as we’re seeing workers of all ages and backgrounds across the country take on these corporate giants, it’s so inspiring to see Chipotle workers stand up and demand more from a company that can clearly afford it,” he said in a statement. | https://www.kark.com/news/business/ap-michigan-chipotle-stores-workers-unionize-a-1st-for-chain/ | 2022-08-27 12:02:32 | 0 | https://www.kark.com/news/business/ap-michigan-chipotle-stores-workers-unionize-a-1st-for-chain/ |
Bill Paxton family settles lawsuit with hospital over 2017 death
The family of the late actor Bill Paxton has agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit against a Los Angeles hospital and the surgeon who performed his heart surgery shortly before he died in 2017, according to a court filing Friday.
The suit, filed against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center more than four years ago, had been scheduled to go to trial next month. But attorneys for Paxton's wife of 30 years, Louise, and their two children, James and Lydia, filed a notice in Los Angeles Superior Court that they had agreed to settle the case.
“The matter has been resolved to the mutual satisfaction of the parties,” plaintiffs' lawyers Bruce Broillet and Steve Heimberg said in a statement.
The terms are confidential, the attorneys said. Emails seeking comment from the defendants were not immediately returned. The agreement must still be approved by a judge.
Paxton, who starred in films including “Apollo 13,” “Titanic” and “Aliens” and in television series including “Big Love,” died on Feb. 25, 2017.
The cause was a stroke that came 11 days after surgery to replace a heart valve and repair aorta damage, according to his death certificate.
The lawsuit, filed a year later, alleged that the surgeon, Dr. Ali Khoynezhad, used a “high risk and unconventional surgical approach” that was unnecessary and that he lacked the experience to perform, and that he downplayed the procedure’s risks.
The misguided treatment caused Paxton to suffer excessive bleeding, cardiogenic shock and a compromised coronary artery, the suit alleged, and said that Cedars-Sinai knew that Khoynezhad, tended to “engage in maverick surgeries and show suboptimal judgment.”
The defendants said in court documents that Paxton and his family knew and understood the risks involved in the procedure, and voluntarily went on with the surgery. The defendants' said there was no negligence that led to his death.
The four-year legal battle was marked by frequent attempts by the Paxton family to extract more discovery evidence from the hospital, and frequent court hearings over the issue.
Paxton, who was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, was among the industry’s busiest actors from the early 1980s until his death, amassing nearly 100 credits, including “Twister” and “Weird Science.” He was starring in the CBS drama series “Training Day” when he died. | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/bill-paxton-family-settles-lawsuit-with-hospital-over-death/40945080 | 2022-08-20 11:13:27 | 0 | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/bill-paxton-family-settles-lawsuit-with-hospital-over-death/40945080 |
NEW YORK (PIX11) — Ticketmaster was in the hot seat Tuesday as the company went before a Senate judiciary committee.
The investigation comes in response to the Taylor Swift ticket fiasco in November. Some of the experts called before the committee were blunt, saying Live Nation-Ticketmaster must be broken up.
In November, long wait times, massive technical issues, and sky-high prices frustrated fans and broke Swiftie hearts. Ticketmaster took the heat before senators but blamed high demand, scalping, and computer bots for the meltdown.
Ticketmaster has more than 70 percent of the market for ticketing large events while simultaneously owning many of the concert venues and promoting them through Live Nation.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar said the Taylor Swift ticket debacle spotlighted a problem that’s existed for years. Ticketmaster’s merger with Live Nation in 2010 set the stage for what one expert called a monopoly on par with Standard Oil of the early 1900s.
Live Nation’s President and Chief Financial Officer Joe Berchtold apologized to fans and to Swift, and said the company knows it must do better.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Nearly every single Alaskan got a financial windfall amounting to more than $3,000 Tuesday, the day the state began distributing payments from Alaska’s investment fund that has been seeded with money from the state’s oil riches.
The payments, officially called the Permanent Fund Dividend or the PFD locally, amounted to $2,622 — the highest amount ever. Alaska lawmakers added $662 as a one-time benefit to help residents with high energy costs.
A total of $1.6 billion in direct deposits began hitting bank accounts Tuesday, and checks will arrive later for those who opted for them.
Residents use the money in various ways, from buying big-screen TVs, vehicles or other goods, using it for vacations or putting it in savings or college funds. In rural Alaska, the money can help offset the enormous costs of fuel and food, like $14 for a 12-pack of soda, $4 for a celery bunch and $3 for a small container of Greek yogurt.
“We’re experiencing record high inflation that we haven’t seen since the first PFD was paid in 1982,” Gov. Mike Dunleavy said in a video. “Alaskans have been bearing the brunt of this inflation from the gas pump to the grocery store, and this year’s PFD will provide much needed relief as we head into winter.”
The timing of the checks couldn’t have come at a better time for those living on the state’s vast western coast, which was devastated last weekend by the remnants of Typhoon Merbok. Damage to homes and infrastructure was widespread along a 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers) of coastline.
Among the communities experiencing the greatest damage was Nome, the largest city on the coast with about 3,500 residents and known for being the end point of the world’s most famous sled dog race.
Howard Farley, now 90, helped secure Nome as the Iditarod’s finish line over 50 years ago. His century-old home was safe from the storm on high ground in Nome, but they did lose about 100 feet (30.48 meters) of frontage and one building at the family’s camp site about 5 miles (8 kilometers) east of town.
“The beach is a lot closer,” he said.
He said the payments — which would be more than $16,000 for a family of five — are much needed.
“Even people that didn’t have damage, with the inflation up here, that’s really, really hitting hard,” he said.
Farley said gas is $7 a gallon and will remain that way until the next shipment arrives next spring because barges can’t deliver once the Bering Sea freezes.
“The price won’t go down like it does in Anchorage and other places because you guys can get deliveries almost any time,” he said.
“What it will mean for a lot of families is that they can break even with the high prices we’re paying,” he said.
The oil-wealth check, which some in Alaska see as an entitlement, typically is derived from the earnings of the nest-egg investment account. The diversified fund was established during construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline in the 1970s and now is worth $73.6 billion.
There is a yearly application process and residency requirements to qualify for a dividend. Dividends traditionally have been paid using earnings from the Alaska Permanent Fund. Lawmakers in 2018 began using fund earnings to also help pay for government and sought to limit how much can be withdrawn from earnings for both purposes. The amount going to the dividend this year represents half the authorized draw.
Residents received the first check, $1,000, in 1982. Amounts have varied over the years, and traditionally were calculated on a five-year rolling average to buffer downturns in the economy.
The smallest check ever was $331 in 1983. The largest before this year’s check was $2,072 in 2015. If someone has collected every check since 1982, it would amount to $47,049.
Mildred Jonathan, 74, and her husband, Alfred, 79, live about 100 miles (161 kilometers) west of the Canadian border in the interior Alaska village of Tanacross.
There will be no frivolous spending when they receive their paper check in October. Instead, the Jonathans’ major purchase will be firewood.
“The wood I’m hoping to get is $1,600, and it’s a 10-cord load,” she said. “I’ll survive the winter if I buy that.”
Snow was already falling on nearby mountains, and temperatures in the Athabascan village during the winter are typically well below zero. “It’s cold, cold, cold,” she said.
Any money the couple have left over will go to a new hot water system, flooring for their home and Christmas gifts for their grandchildren, who want new phones. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/ap-alaskans-pocket-over-3000-in-annual-oil-wealth-payments/ | 2022-09-21 04:28:15 | 1 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/ap-alaskans-pocket-over-3000-in-annual-oil-wealth-payments/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — A Ukrainian player declined to shake hands with Victoria Azarenka after the three-time U.S. Open runner-up from Belarus beat her at Flushing Meadows on Thursday.
Marta Kostyuk waited at the net with her racket held up, which Azarenka tapped with her racket following her 6-2, 6-3 victory.
Belarus helped Russia launch its invasion of Ukraine in February, and Kostyuk said it had been on her mind since she saw the U.S. Open draw that she may have to play Azarenka in the second round.
“It’s pretty personal,” Kostyuk said. “It wasn’t a personal match for me because it was Vika specifically, but overall it was not just a casual match that I play in a tournament.”
Asked about the traditional handshake that follows a match, Kostyuk said: “I just don’t think it’s the right thing to do in the circumstances I’m in right now.”
Azarenka said she had already faced that situation with a Ukrainian player when she played Dayana Yastremska last month in Washington.
“It is what it is. I just move on,” Azarenka said. “I cannot force anybody to shake my hand. It’s their decision.”
Kostyuk said she texted Azarenka a day before the match to inform her there would be no handshake. Azarenka returned the text, telling Kostyuk she was no longer onsite, so Kostyuk dropped the subject because she wanted to deliver the message in person.
Azarenka said she reached out to all the Ukrainian players she has a relationship with in March after the invasion. Kostyuk isn’t one of them, but Azarenka said she tried nevertheless.
“Well, I’ve offered many times through the WTA, because I believe that there is a sort of sensitivity. I’ve been told that that’s not a good time,” Azarenka said.
“If Marta wants to speak with me, like she texted me yesterday, I replied. I’m open any time to listen, to try to understand, to sympathize. I believe that empathy in the moment like this is really important, which has, again, been my clear message in the beginning.”
Kostyuk questioned Azarenka being part of the “Tennis Plays for Peace Exhibition” that the U.S. Tennis Association held the week before the tournament to raise money for Ukraine. Azarenka was dropped from the lineup the day of the event, which helped generate more than $1 million for humanitarian assistance.
“Everyone is trying to be super democratic about this thing that happened and because it’s like, my nation is being killed daily, I’m going to tell you from my perspective very quickly so I don’t think I ever want to answer this question again,” Kostyuk said. “Imagine there is a World War II and there is a fundraiser for Jewish people and a German player wants to play. During the war, not 70 years after the war happened. During the war. I don’t think Jewish people would understand.”
Azarenka, a member of the WTA Tour players council, said the important thing was that the event was held, not whether she was part of it.
“I feel like I’ve had a very clear message from the beginning, is that I’m here to try to help, which I have done a lot,” Azarenka said. “Maybe not something that people see and that’s not what I do it for. I do it for people who in need, juniors who need clothes, other people who need money or other people who needed transportation or whatever. That’s what is important to me, to help people are in need.”
Russian and Belarussian players were banned from Wimbledon in response to the war. They are allowed to play at the U.S. Open, without their nations or their flags being listed.
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LOS ANGELES, May 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Electrum, the nation's leading home electrification marketplace, today announced that it has successfully completed its Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type II certification. The SOC 2 is an auditing standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). This major milestone further validates Electrum's dedication to security and compliance.
SOC 2 defines criteria for managing customer data based on five "trust service principles."
- Security
- Availability
- Processing integrity
- Confidentiality
- Privacy
Achieving certification demonstrates a company's ability to not only implement critical security policies but also to prove compliance over an extended period of time.
"Our SOC 2 Type II certification underscores our commitment to maintaining the highest standards of security and data protection for our customers and partners," said Chris Blevins, CTO of Electrum. "This achievement highlights our ongoing efforts to ensure the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of our services."
This SOC 2 Type II audit certification further solidifies Electrum's position as the trusted home electrification marketplace provider for Fortune 100 companies such as Hyundai, Genesis, LG, and numerous electric utility companies across the nation, and a leading education resource through the solar.com learning center.
To learn more about Electrum and its commitment to security and compliance, visit the website at Electrum.co.
About Electrum
Electrum is the nation's leading home electrification marketplace, offering a comprehensive range of services to help homeowners and businesses transition to electric solutions. Partnering with Fortune 100 companies and electric utility providers, Electrum aims to make the electrification process seamless, secure, and sustainable. For more information, visit Electrum.co.
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Quick-action grants aim to help communities become more livable for people of all ages
WASHINGTON, June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --Today, AARP announced it is investing $3.6 million in 310 Community Challenge grants for quick-action projects to help communities become more livable. These grants will improve public places; transportation; housing; digital connections; diversity, equity and inclusion; and more, with an emphasis on the needs of adults age 50 and older.
"These grants continue to lead to long-term, positive changes in communities across the country," said Nancy LeaMond, AARP Executive Vice President and Chief Advocacy & Engagement Officer. "This year, we are proud to support the largest number of projects in the program's seven-year history, which will improve residents' quality of life through tangible changes so everyone can thrive as they age."
AARP Community Challenge grant projects will be funded in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. True to the program's quick-action nature, projects must be completed by November 30, 2023.
This year, the AARP Community Challenge accepted applications across three different grant opportunities, including existing flagship grants in addition to new capacity-building microgrants for improving walkability and community gardens. New demonstration grants will focus on improving transportation systems, with funding support provided by Toyota Motor North America, and housing choice design competitions.
AARP is also bolstering its investment in rural communities, mobility innovation, transportation options, and health and food access. Examples of this year's projects include:
- Laramie, Wyoming: Converting a donated bus into an accessible greenhouse in an established community garden.
- Munich, North Dakota: Transforming an under-staffed, nonprofit grocery store to a self-service grocery store to address food insecurity in a rural community.
- Saint Louis, Michigan: Expanding access to high-speed internet, Wi-Fi, and setting up a public computer lab for veterans, military and their families.
- McLoud, Oklahoma: Expanding the Kickapoo Tribal Nation's reservation transportation system to take older adults and those that are unable to drive to community meetings, field trips, and meal services.
- Miami: Creating free, permitted plans that encourage the development of accessory dwelling units for older adults and their families.
The Community Challenge grant program is part of AARP's nationwide Livable Communities initiative, which supports the efforts of cities, towns, neighborhoods and rural areas to become great places to live for people of all ages, especially those age 50 and older. Including this year's projects, AARP has awarded $16.3 million through more than 1,300 grants since 2017 to nonprofit organizations and government entities across the country.
View the full list of grantees and their project descriptions at aarp.org/communitychallenge and learn more about AARP's livable communities work at aarp.org/livable.
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AARP is the nation's largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to empowering people 50 and older to choose how they live as they age. With a nationwide presence, AARP strengthens communities and advocates for what matters most to the more than 100 million Americans 50-plus and their families: health security, financial stability and personal fulfillment. AARP also produces the nation's largest circulation publications: AARP The Magazine and AARP Bulletin. To learn more, visit www.aarp.org/about-aarp/, www.aarp.org/español or follow @AARP, @AARPenEspañol and @AARPadvocates on social media.
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Pfizer says it has enough promising data on its respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, vaccine designed to protect newborns that it will end enrollment in the study and submit for US Food and Drug Administration approval by the end of the year.
RSV is a common respiratory virus that typically causes mild, cold-like symptoms, but it can cause serious illness, particularly in older adults and infants. Pfizer's vaccine candidate is administered to pregnant women who then make antibodies that cross the placenta and protect the baby after birth.
"The [study data monitoring committee] recommended, based on the data that we have, that we should go ahead and file, that this offers the potential for a safe and effective vaccine that could really dramatically help to prevent RSV during the winter season," Dr. William Gruber, Pfizer's senior vice president of vaccine clinical research and development, told CNN.
In the trial, the vaccine was given to pregnant people and appeared to be about 80% effective at preventing severe RSV disease in their infants in the first three months of life. It also cut a baby's risk of needing to see a doctor for an RSV infection by half.
Potential for first new product in decades
If approved, Pfizer's inoculation will be the first against RSV and the first new product related to the infection in over two decades.
In March, the FDA designated Pfizer's RSV vaccine a breakthrough therapy, a status that speeds its review.
"That puts us in a very good position to essentially have something well in advance of next winter," Gruber said, noting that both Pfizer and the FDA are conscious of the ongoing heavy RSV season in the US.
"It will be up to them whether or not they can think of any other path that could allow this to come sooner," he said.
Pfizer's vaccine contains the virus' F-protein, the site that it uses to attach to human cells. The protein is frozen into the shape it folds into before it fuses with a cell, so the immune system can build antibodies against it. Pfizer's RSV vaccine is bivalent, containing F-proteins from both the A and B subgroups of the RSV virus, which are the two most commonly circulating strains.
In a study of 7,400 pregnant people and infants, the vaccine was 82% effective at preventing severe lower respiratory tract infections in hospitalized babies for the first three months of life. It was about 70% effective at preventing severe RSV in hospitalized infants for six months.
Hospitalized babies were considered to have severe RSV if they were breathing very rapidly, over 70 breaths per minute in a 2-month-old; if their blood oxygen levels fell below 93%; if they required high-flow oxygen in the ICU for more than four hours; or if they were unresponsive.
The vaccine cut the need for infants to need to see a doctor because of RSV by an average of more than 50% compared with a placebo. That result did not fall within a statistical range that was specified by the FDA before the outset of the trial, however, so the company acknowledges that the vaccine missed that particular goalpost.
Gruber points out, however, that a 50% reduction in doctor visits due to RSV is still likely to be a noticeable and important benefit in the real world.
"This is clearly sufficient and frankly, great news, for filing for our approval," he said.
Pfizer also recently announced positive results in an ongoing trial of the same vaccine in older adults.
Longer-term research
The drugmaker's FDA filing would make it the first in a crowded field of companies developing vaccines against RSV. GSK had been testing a maternal vaccine but paused its study after learning of a safety problem.
GSK said Monday that the trial remains stopped, though it did not share any details on the safety issue.
"Further analysis to better understand safety data from these trials is ongoing," spokesperson Alison Hunt said in a statement to CNN. "The relevant regulatory authorities and trial investigators have been informed. We're committed to transparently sharing more data as we have it."
No safety issues have been identified with Pfizer's vaccine, Gruber said, and a panel of independent reviewers that looks over the study findings while the trial is progressing found no problems.
"The vaccine is very tolerable, and no safety signals were identified," he said, though the full results of the trial have not been published.
Although Pfizer will suspend enrollment in the maternal vaccination trial, Gruber says it will continue to follow the infants who are enrolled.
"We know that children that have RSV end up having compromised lung status, and they become more susceptible, in many instances, to other respiratory infections that puts them back in the hospital. So we're very interested in determining does this not only have a specific effect as the vaccine was intended to have against protection against RSV, but it may have a side benefit of allowing these children to fare better over the longer term," he said. | https://www.phillytrib.com/news/health/after-promising-trial-results-for-maternal-rsv-vaccine-pfizer-says-it-will-seek-fda-approval/article_d98f5b72-488b-5b3c-a807-8e16c94fbb56.html | 2022-11-01 16:55:43 | 0 | https://www.phillytrib.com/news/health/after-promising-trial-results-for-maternal-rsv-vaccine-pfizer-says-it-will-seek-fda-approval/article_d98f5b72-488b-5b3c-a807-8e16c94fbb56.html |
JUNO BEACH, Fla. (AP) _ NextEra Energy Inc. (NEE) on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter earnings of $1.52 billion.
On a per-share basis, the Juno Beach, Florida-based company said it had net income of 76 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, were 51 cents per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 50 cents per share.
The parent company of Florida Power & Light Co. posted revenue of $6.16 billion in the period.
For the year, the company reported profit of $4.15 billion, or $2.10 per share. Revenue was reported as $20.96 billion.
NextEra expects full-year earnings in the range of $2.98 to $3.13 per share.
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Saints’ Kamara pleads no contest to misdemeanor in man’s beating at Las Vegas club
By KEN RITTER and MARK ANDERSON
Associated Press
LAS VEGAS (AP) — New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara pleaded no contest Tuesday to a misdemeanor and agreed to pay medical costs for a man who was beaten into unconsciousness at a Las Vegas nightclub the weekend before the 2022 NFL Pro Bowl, authorities said.
Three other men, including Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Chris Lammons and co-defendants Darrin Young and Percy Harris, also entered pleas to reduced charges Tuesday in an agreement that avoided a trial and possible prison time.
None of the defendants was in court for the written plea agreement. Each was represented by their attorney before Clark County District Court Judge Tara Clark Newberry. The court action was confirmed by Kamara’s attorney, David Chesnoff.
Kamara, 27, pleaded no contest to breach of the peace and was sentenced to 30 hours of community service, which he can complete in New Orleans, Chesnoff said.
“Alvin is pleased that this matter is behind him and looks forward to a successful NFL season,” Chesnoff and attorneys Richard Schonfeld and Drew Findling said in a statement on Kamara’s behalf.
The plea by Lammons, a 27-year-old cornerback, was to a similar breach of peace charge.
The agreement calls for Kamara and Lammons together to pay the victim of the beating, Darnell Greene Jr., of Houston, a total of about $210,000 in medical costs.
Attorneys for Lammons, Young and Harris did not respond to messages from The Associated Press.
Prosecutor Parker Brooks told the AP Greene was “kept informed the entire time and approved” of the plea agreement.
Greene’s attorney said a $10 million civil lawsuit he filed against Kamara last year in Civil District Court of Orleans has been settled.
“The settlement terms are confidential,” attorney Tony Buzbee said. “It was separate from the criminal matter. We settled with all parties, to include Chris Lammons.”
Buzbee noted that Kamara and Lammons each provided written apologies to Greene.
Greene’s lawsuit said he was left unconscious for more than two minutes and suffered injuries to his face, shoulder, back, head, knees and neck.
Kamara was arrested Feb. 6, 2022, after he played in the NFL Pro Bowl at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Police say he told officers he punched a man after he thought he had done something to someone in his group and was trying to run away.
Lammons, Young and Harris turned themselves in after police issued warrants for their arrest in mid-February 2022.
All four men were indicted in February on felony battery and misdemeanor conspiracy to commit battery charges, more than a year after the attack. The felony charge carried a possible sentence of one to five years in state prison.
Police said surveillance video showed Greene approached a group near an elevator at Drai’s Nightclub at The Cromwell Las Vegas Hotel & Casino before he was punched and kicked and stomped on.
Kamara still faces possible suspension by the NFL.
“We have been closely monitoring all developments in the matter which remains under review,” the NFL said in a statement.
The Saints had no comment.
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(CNN) — Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has asked the state Court of Appeals to overturn his conviction for the 2020 murder of George Floyd, according to an appeal filed Monday.
The 82-page filing lists more than a dozen aspects of the case and trial that Chauvin’s attorney argues tainted the proceedings and rendered them “structurally defective,” including extensive pretrial publicity and protests outside the courthouse, as well as the city’s announcement during jury selection that it would pay a $27 million settlement to Floyd’s family.
Floyd’s death and video showing it ignited prolonged protests across the country over police brutality and racial injustice. And an investigation launched a week later found Minneapolis and its police department engaged in “a pattern or practice of race discrimination,” state human rights officials said in a report Wednesday.
Among the issues Chauvin and his attorney, William Mohrman, are asking the appeals court to review are whether the venue should have been changed, the jury fully sequestered or the trial delayed because of pretrial protests and media coverage.
The appeal also accuses prosecutors of misconduct, alleging the state’s attorneys failed to properly disclose discovery information and adequately prepare prosecution witnesses.
Prosecutors will “save our comment for our reply in court to Mr. Chauvin’s appeal,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s deputy chief of staff, John Stiles, told CNN. Ellison led Chauvin’s prosecution.
Proceedings were ‘structurally defective,’ appeal states
Chauvin was convicted in April 2021 of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
Body camera and bystander video that captured the final moments of Floyd’s life on May 25, 2020, shows Chauvin kneeling on the 46-year-old Black man’s neck and back for more than nine minutes as Floyd gasped for air and told officers, “I can’t breathe.”
Chauvin’s appeal filing argues his conviction should be overturned or the court should order a new trial in a different venue, saying the court proceedings were “so pervaded by error, misconduct and prejudice that they were structurally defective.” The filing also argues Chauvin was not given his constitutional right to due process and a fair trial.
If the conviction is upheld, the appeal filing says, the court should reduce Chauvin’s sentence to be within the state’s sentencing guidelines.
The former officer was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison, which exceeded Minnesota’s sentencing guideline range of 10 years and eight months to 15 years.
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DETROIT, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. (AAM), (NYSE: AXL) will webcast the management presentation portion of AAM's Technology Day on January 4 at 1:00 p.m. PT (4:00 p.m. ET).
The live audio webcast will be accessible through the Investor Relations page on AAM's website (www.aam.com). A replay of the webcast will be available following the event.
As a leading global Tier 1 Automotive and Mobility Supplier, AAM (NYSE: AXL) designs, engineers and manufactures Driveline and Metal Forming technologies to support electric, hybrid and internal combustion vehicles. Headquartered in Detroit with nearly 85 facilities in 18 countries, AAM is bringing the future faster for a safer and more sustainable tomorrow. To learn more, visit aam.com.
Our presentation may contain "forward-looking" statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties described in our most recent filings on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and actual results may differ materially. Our presentation also may include certain non-GAAP financial measures. Information regarding these non-GAAP measures, as well as a reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures to GAAP financial information, is available on AAM's website (www.aam.com).
For more information:
Investor Contact:
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Head of Investor Relations
(313) 758-2006
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STAMFORD, Conn., Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) (the "Company" or "Charter") will host a virtual investor meeting on Tuesday, December 13, 2022 at 4:05 p.m. Eastern Time (ET). Following formal remarks, the Company will host a Q&A session.
The virtual meeting can be accessed live via the Company's investor relations website at ir.charter.com. The webcast will be archived at ir.charter.com after completion of the event.
Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:CHTR) is a leading broadband connectivity company and cable operator serving more than 32 million customers in 41 states through its Spectrum brand. Over an advanced communications network, the Company offers a full range of state-of-the-art residential and business services including Spectrum Internet®, TV, Mobile and Voice.
For small and medium-sized companies, Spectrum Business® delivers the same suite of broadband products and services coupled with special features and applications to enhance productivity, while for larger businesses and government entities, Spectrum Enterprise provides highly customized, fiber-based solutions. Spectrum Reach® delivers tailored advertising and production for the modern media landscape. The Company also distributes award-winning news coverage and sports programming to its customers through Spectrum Networks. More information about Charter can be found at corporate.charter.com.
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Top programs make it easy for travelers to earn and redeem.
WASHINGTON, July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. News & World Report, publisher of Best Hotels, Best Cruise Lines and Best Vacations, today revealed the 2023-2024 Best Travel Rewards Programs for everyday travelers deciding on the best loyalty program to suit their travel needs.
With inflation causing higher airfare and hotel rates, rewards programs can make travel more affordable and accessible. U.S. News analyzed travel rewards programs in two categories: Best Hotel Rewards Programs and Best Airline Rewards Programs. The rankings consider highly coveted factors by travelers, including the ease of earning free flights or stays, property and flight availability, and additional benefits such as complimentary checked bags, discounted room rates and elite member perks.
The 2023-2024 rankings feature 15 hotel rewards programs and 10 airline rewards programs that provide travelers with diverse perks and ways to use and redeem points and miles:
- Wyndham Rewards moves into the No. 1 spot on the Best Hotel Rewards Programs ranking for 2023-2024 – a standout because loyalty program members only need to stay eight nights (on average) before earning enough points for a free night. Members have plenty of options on where to stay, thanks to Wyndham's 8,000-plus eligible properties that range from budget to upscale. Choice Privileges follows at No. 2, Marriott Bonvoy remains at No. 3, World of Hyatt is No. 4, and IHG One Rewards is No. 5.
- Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan holds on to the No. 1 spot for the ninth consecutive year in the Best Airline Rewards Programs ranking. The rewards program consistently outperforms others with its high earning power, and offers elite status members benefits like lounge access, upgrades and same-day confirmed flight changes. Maintaining their rank positions at No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, Delta SkyMiles and United MileagePlus excelled for their overall flight volume and availability, while also offering meaningful benefits to elite status members. American Airlines AAdvantage is No. 4 and JetBlue TrueBlue is No. 5.
"In a competitive market, frequent and leisure travelers will choose brands that provide memorable experiences that go beyond the standard stay or flight. A growing number of hotel reward programs have reintroduced experiences, tours and activities as additional ways to earn and use points," says Elizabeth Von Tersch, U.S. News' senior travel editor. "We also see that more programs are allowing elite status members to customize their benefits, so members can choose what's best for them. Ultimately, everyday travelers are looking to effortlessly earn points and use them for free flights or hotel stays. The programs that make this easy come out on top in our rankings."
U.S. News analyzed travel rewards programs in two categories, airline frequent flyer programs and hotel loyalty programs, using a comprehensive and transparent methodology that factors in membership benefits, network coverage, the ease of earning and redeeming points or miles, hotel property diversity and airline quality rating scores, with expert and editor analysis. This year, the methodology includes an additional tier for flights to provide credit to those airlines offering more choices to its members; and for hotel rewards, supplemental tiers were added for the number of hotels in the network category.
2023-2024 Best Travel Rewards Programs Rankings
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- Wyndham Rewards
- Choice Privileges
- Marriott Bonvoy
- World of Hyatt
- IHG One Rewards
- Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan
- Delta SkyMiles
- United MileagePlus
- American Airlines AAdvantage
- JetBlue TrueBlue
For more information on the Best Travel Rewards Programs, explore Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using #BestRewards.
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INLET BEACH, Fla., June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BrightNight CEO, Martin Hermann issued the following statement in response to the Biden Administration's actions to support the U.S. solar industry.
"The Biden Administration's move to place a two-year pause on new solar tariffs protects a thriving U.S. clean energy economy, helps to create valuable jobs across the renewable energy industry, and clears the way for hundreds of renewable energy projects under development across the U.S. While the environmental value of solar power is critical, the broader economic and energy reliability benefits affect every American; as President Biden shared, 'the stakes could not be higher.' BrightNight prides itself on providing best-in-class dispatchable renewable power solutions to its utility and corporate customers across the U.S. The game plan in this decade is about renewable capacity and the urgency for the provision of safe, reliable, and affordable renewable power at industrial scale. Thanks to these crucial steps taken by President Biden and his administration, I am confident that our industry has never been better positioned to meet these needs. Together, we can harness the power of the American economy, our country's history of innovation, and the strength of our nation's workforce to deliver a clean, reliable, energy future."
BrightNight is the first renewable integrated power company designed to provide utility and commercial and industrial customers with clean, dispatchable renewable power solutions. BrightNight works with customers across the U.S. and Asia Pacific to design, develop, and operate safe, reliable, large-scale, hybrid renewable power projects optimized to better manage the intermittent nature of renewable energy. Its deep customer engagement process, team of proven power experts, and industry-leading prices empower customers to overcome challenging energy sustainability standards, rapidly changing grid dynamics, and the transition away from fossil fuel generation. To learn more, visit: www.brightnightpower.com.
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Judge shortens road to decide NFL racial discrimination suit
By LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Thursday quickened the time it will take to rule whether NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell gets to decide the merits of racial discrimination claims made by Black coaches against the league and its teams, saying that it appears an effort to gather more evidence is a try at “an impermissible fishing expedition.”
U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni said in a written ruling that lawyers for coaches Brian Flores, Steve Wilks and Ray Horton cannot gather additional evidence from defendants to support their arguments that the lawsuit in Manhattan federal court should remain in court rather than be sent to arbitration.
“Because Plaintiffs should know whether they entered into any other contracts or agreements that would affect their agreement to arbitrate, the Court can only assume that they are attempting to embark on an impermissible fishing expedition,” Caproni wrote.
Still, the judge said lawyers for the coaches may well be able to argue that the proposed arbitrator is so biased against them that the motion to compel arbitration should not be granted, but they do not need discovery to do so.
Flores, who was fired in January as head coach of the Miami Dolphins and is now an assistant coach with the Pittsburgh Steelers, filed the lawsuit in February, saying the league was “rife with racism” even as it publicly condemns it. The other coaches later joined the lawsuit, which sought unspecified damages and class-action status.
The NFL and six of its teams say the lawsuit they maintain is “without merit” is required to go to arbitration, where Goodell would be the arbitrator, according to the terms laid out in employment contracts and the NFL’s constitution.
Caproni wrote that courts have not historically allowed lawyers to gather evidence prior to deciding whether a case is required to go to arbitration.
“An agreement to arbitrate is binding on the parties unless the agreement is invalid under state contract law,” she wrote. “Thus, on a motion to compel arbitration, the Court’s analysis is generally limited to determining whether there is a valid agreement to arbitrate, whether one party has failed to perform its duties under that agreement, and whether the agreement, properly interpreted, encompasses the dispute at hand.”
Attorneys Douglas H. Wigdor and John Elefterakis, representing Flores, said in a statement that they are “confident that we will defeat the efforts of the NFL to move this matter into a private and confidential arbitration behind closed doors.”
“It is obvious that the NFL is trying to hide behind this process and avoid public scrutiny of the racial discrimination and retaliation claims we have brought. If they are confident in their defenses, they should let the process play out in court so the general public can see,” the lawyers said.
Lawyers for the NFL and its teams did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.
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- Honda Ridgeline captures Class 7 honors at iconic event
- Second consecutive Baja 1000 class win for the Honda Ridgeline
- Eighth class win for the Ridgeline in Baja competition
ENSENADA, Mexico, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Honda Off-Road Racing Team returned to Baja California this weekend, with the Honda Ridgeline Baja Race Truck taking Class 7 honors for the second consecutive year in the 55th running of the iconic Baja 1000.
Competing in Class 7 for unlimited V6-powered race trucks, the #709 Honda Ridgeline driving lineup of team owner Jeff Proctor, Richard Glaszczak and Chip Prescott faced a challenging course, starting in the coastal city of Ensenada and featuring wildly varying terrain throughout this year's "Single Loop" event.
The Ridgeline started off strong, with starting driver Proctor building an early lead, before handing off to Prescott at the 242-mile mark. The Ridgeline continued to stretch is Class 7 lead into the night, as Glaszcak assumed the driving duties just before 8:30 pm PT. Even a mild roll-over in the early-morning hours failed to significantly slow the Ridgeline, as the truck pressed on with only minor body damage.
The Ridgeline reached the finish with a time of 21 hours, 42 minutes and 56 seconds to claim the Class 7 win by a dominating margin of more than five hours; adding victory in this year's "Single Loop" event to the Class 7 win in 2021's "Point-to-Point" race from Ensenada to La Paz.
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Jeff Proctor (team owner/driver Honda Ridgeline Baja Race Truck) won Class 7 for unlimited V6 Trucks for the second consecutive year: "You know, Baja never disappoints. It's always full of excitement, and this race was no exception for us. It was tough. There was a lot of attrition, we saw a lot of broken competitors out there. It had every single element you can imagine. But this Ridgeline is so tough, it fought through everything to get to the finish.
"This was a bittersweet race for me. I'm going to be stepping back from driving duties next season. So this was probably my last time behind the wheel, and we were able to put the Ridgeline [in winner's circle]. I couldn't be more proud of our whole team. We've got some exciting plans coming out in the next three-four weeks. We're going to announce our [2023] schedule and our new driver. I'm going to be assuming the role of team principal/team manager. I'm definitely not leaving the sport, just taking on this new role."
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- This year's Class 7 victory was the eighth for the Honda Ridgeline Baja Race Truck in Baja since the start of the program in 2015, including three class wins in the Baja 1000 and five at the Baja 500. In addition to the eight class wins, the Ridgeline also twice finished second in the Baja 1000, and third once in the '500'.
- The Honda Ridgeline Baja Race Truck utilizes the same production-based, Honda Performance Development built turbocharged V6 engine that also powered this year's IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and Rolex 24 at Daytona-winning Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX05, driven by Tom Blomqvist, Helio Castroneves and Oliver Jarvis. The base 3.5-liter engine powers a variety of Honda and Acura passenger vehicles, including the Acura MDX and Honda Ridgeline.
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This weekend's Class 7 victory in the BFGoodrich SCORE Baja 1000 was the final race of 2022 for the Honda Off-Road Racing Team.
Honda Racing social media content and video links from the Baja 1000 can be found on Instagram (www.instagram.com/hondaracing_hpd), Twitter (twitter.com/HondaRacing_HPD) and Facebook (www.facebook.com/HondaRacingHPD). More features and videos can be found on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/HondaRacingHPDTV). Posts from the Ridgeline Baja Race Truck's efforts can be viewed on Instagram at @proctor_race.
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BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Ravens did not reach an agreement on an extension with former MVP quarterback Lamar Jackson, instead offering him a non-exclusive franchise tag.
This means Jackson is free to sign an offer sheet with another team, giving the Ravens a chance to match the offer sheet and keep him in Baltimore, or let him sign elsewhere and acquire two first round picks as compensation.
However, shortly after the announcement of the franchise tag was made, teams came out and made announcements of their own indicating they are not planning to pursue Jackson via an offer sheet.
Following this chain of events, accusations of collusion by NFL owners ran rampant - and Locked on Ravens host Kevin Oestreicher can see why.
"It was very fishy that all the sudden you saw that the Falcons weren't going to pursue him," Oestreicher said. "Then other reports that the Panthers weren't going to sign him, and the Commanders, and the Raiders.....a guy like Lamar would improve all of these teams."
Jackson missed Baltimore's final five regular season games and playoff contest with an injury, souring his relationship with the Ravens ahead of contract negotiations.
He's known to be asking for a guaranteed deal in the ballpark of Deshaun Watson's $230 million, and that asking price coupled with his recent injury history may be causing some concern among NFL owners and GMs.
Whether collusion is the actual cause of Jackson's tepid market after the franchise tag was applied or not is a question we may never fully get an answer to, but it will make for an interesting few weeks before the saga is resolved.
Check out Thursday's Locked On Ravens podcast for Oestreicher's full comments on the developments . | https://www.wthr.com/article/sports/locked-on/lo-baltimore/ravens-show/is-the-nfl-colluding-against-ravens-quarterback-lamar-jackson-miami-dolphins-atlanta-falcons-nfl-trade-free-agents-aaron-rodgers-jets-packers/535-271fd738-2b65-4752-ae69-8fb59c25465f | 2023-03-09 23:54:44 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/sports/locked-on/lo-baltimore/ravens-show/is-the-nfl-colluding-against-ravens-quarterback-lamar-jackson-miami-dolphins-atlanta-falcons-nfl-trade-free-agents-aaron-rodgers-jets-packers/535-271fd738-2b65-4752-ae69-8fb59c25465f |
TEMPLE, Texas -- A 6-year-old Texas boy who was holding hands with his father when struck by lightning has died, according to a GoFundMe post.
Grayson Boggs "went to be with our Lord and his father at 5:05 a.m. today. Please pray for the family at this time. Fly high, sweet boy. #graysonstrong," Stephanie Burris said Friday on the online fundraiser established for the family.
Grayson's father, Matthew Boggs, was killed in the mid-May lighting strike.
The boy, a resident of Valley Mills, had been in a coma after incident, battling for his life at a hospital in the nearby city of Temple. The area is about 70 miles north of Austin.
Funeral services for Grayson are scheduled for Saturday. He will be laid to rest alongside his father in Indianapolis, Indiana.
"Grayson attended the Bosque County Cowboy Church and was a huge part of the church and loved his church family unconditionally," according to his obituary. "He would shake all the men's hands and hug the ladies before service. He loved his donuts and was the biggest helper if you happened to use a cane walking stick, walker or even a wheelchair, he was always there to help someone to their seat and then again to their vehicles after the church service was over."
Grayson is survived by his mother, sister, brother and grandparents.
The GoFundMe had raised $102,370 as of Tuesday afternoon, according to the page.
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Online Digital Competition Opens as Part of IDEAL Elite Trades Championship Series
SYCAMORE, Ill., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IDEAL INDUSTRIES, INC., a family-owned business that designs and manufactures products for the professional trades, and Intersport, an independent award-winning marketing agency headquartered in Chicago, today joined with ServiceTitan, a software platform built to power the trades, to announce the first-ever ServiceTitan HVAC National Championship competition. The competition, now open, is the newest addition to the IDEAL Elite Trades Championship Series and will celebrate and showcase the incredible skills of HVAC professionals and students across the country.
The program will include two qualifying rounds before 30 finalists (fifteen professionals and fifteen apprentices) are selected for the all-expense-paid trip to compete in the National Championship semi-finals and finals on Nov. 2 in Tampa, Florida. In addition to title bragging rights, finalists will vie for cash and prizes totaling over $115,000.
"Tradespeople are the country's backbone, and the pandemic reminded us that we can't take our essential skilled trade workers for granted," said Doug Sanford, Senior Vice President of IDEAL INDUSTRIES, INC. "We're thrilled to partner with ServiceTitan to expand on the success of the series to include an all-new program focused on the HVAC technicians."
"Technicians are the unsung heroes that work tirelessly to keep our heaters working in the dead of winter, and our air conditioners running during a scorching summer heatwave," said Tom Howard, Vice President of Customer Success at ServiceTitan. "For far too long the trades industry has not been given the spotlight it deserves and I'm incredibly proud that ServiceTitan is a part of this effort to showcase the skills and experience of some of the most talented technicians in the industry."
Unlike the other national championship events in the series, which hold live regional qualifying events, the ServiceTitan HVAC National Championship will have its qualifying events exclusively online, increasing the opportunity for participation. The Digital Online Qualifier round, which runs through July 31, is open to any HVAC apprentices with less than three years of experience or any Professionals who are EPA-Certified, Licensed Technicians, and have more than three years of experience. While registration is required, there is no fee to participate.
The qualifying round will feature a five-minute multiple-choice test. Those who pass will advance to a practical skill set round, which will run from Aug. 1-Sept. 25. The top 15 apprentices and the top 15 professionals will be invited to compete live in the semi-finals at the Tampa Convention Center.
All qualifying round winners who advance to the semi-finals will receive a custom VIP prize package from ServiceTitan HVAC National Championship sponsors and an all-expenses-paid trip to Tampa, Florida, to compete in the 2022 program. Other sponsors supporting the ServiceTitan National HVAC Championship include 7-Eleven, Duluth Trading and Little Giant Ladder Systems.
For more information and to register to compete, visit www.HVACNationals.com.
IDEAL INDUSTRIES, INC. is a global, diversified family-owned business designing and manufacturing superior products for the electrical, lighting and infrastructure industries. The 105-year-old company was founded in 1916 on the premise of forging ideal relationships with customers, employees, partners and communities. The company has consistently grown and expanded under five generations of family ownership. For more information, visit www.idealindustries.com.
Since 1985, Intersport has been an award-winning innovator and leader in the creation of sports, lifestyle, culinary and entertainment-based marketing platforms. With expertise in Sponsorship Consulting, Experiential Marketing, Hospitality, Customer Engagement, Content Marketing, Productions and Sports Properties, this Chicago-based Marketing & Media Solutions Company helps their clients to create ideas, content and experiences that attract and engage passionate audiences. To learn more about Intersport, visit www.intersport.global, like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter and Instagram.
ServiceTitan is a cloud-based software platform built to power trades businesses. The company's end-to-end solution gives contractors the tools they need to run and grow their business, manage their back office, and provide a stellar customer experience. By bringing an integrated SaaS platform to an industry historically underserved by technology, ServiceTitan is equipping tradespeople with the technology they need to keep the world running. ServiceTitan is backed by world-class investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, ICONIQ Growth, Index Ventures, Tiger Global Management, and T. Rowe Price.
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Sunday Evening Weather At Your Fingertips
East Texas (KLTV/KTRE) - Here is a look at the weather where you live: Good evening, East Texas! Showers and thunderstorms showed some decent coverage across the area and many cities and towns also enjoyed some MUCH cooler temperatures throughout the heat of the day. Appreciate whatever precious drops we received today, because the forecast will trend mostly dry and very hot for the next several days. There will be a very low end chance at an isolated shower or t’shower for tomorrow morning, then skies stay dry for the rest of our Monday as temperatures quickly warm back into the upper 90s to near 100 degrees. The high-pressure ridge, or “heat dome”, returns to the Lone Star State this week and will shut down any and all rain chances as well as bring the mercury up even higher. Estimated highs for Tuesday and Wednesday are expected to climb above 100 degrees for many, with heat indices likely ranging from 105-115 during the heat of the day. Thursday will likely also sit very close to 100 degrees, then our higher pressure begins to slide further west, allowing for a slight cooldown Friday-Sunday as well as potentially some limited rain for the next weekend.
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Police: 10-year-old girl, dad die after being swept offshore
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Gray News) – A 10-year-old girl and her father died after being swept offshore Sunday evening around 6:45.
Detectives with the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said 42-year-old Michael Stephens was at Pass-a-Grille beach with his three daughters and his oldest daughter’s boyfriend.
According to detectives, they were in the water when they noticed an outgoing rip current getting stronger.
After helping his girlfriend out of the water, 20-year-old Jesse Johnson returned to help Stephens and his 10-year-old daughter Isabella Stephens, but they were both too far from shore and the current had become too strong.
While Johnson was trying to rescue Stephens and Isabella, his other daughters called 911.
The US Coast Guard and members of St. Pete Fire Rescue rescued Stephens and his daughter and took them to the hospital where they were later pronounced dead.
Authorities said the incident doesn’t appear suspicious.
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Macias to Continue Oversight of R&CPMK's Multicultural Marketing & Communications Division, While Helping Drive DE&I Efforts Across Octagon, R&CPMK, and OSEN's Global Agency Portfolio
LOS ANGELES, March 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Octagon Sports and Entertainment Network (OSEN) has elevated Stephen Macias to Head of Inclusive Diversity for OSEN Worldwide. Macias will take on the expanded role, while maintaining his current position as President of Multicultural Marketing & Communications, R&CPMK. The announcement was made today by Lisa Murray, Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer & Chief Diversity Officer, OSEN, to whom Macias will report.
In his new role, Macias will continue to oversee R&CPMK's Multicultural Marketing & Communications division, focused on the agency's talent and brand clients. Additionally, Macias will help drive DE&I campaigns for Octagon's collection of athlete, personality, and brand clients. Macias will also help lead strategy and efforts dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion across the full Octagon Sports and Entertainment Network's six agency portfolio, including internal and external programming, global initiatives, and partnerships.
"Stephen has served as a valuable advisor to R&CPMK's clients, as well as Octagon and R&CPMK's leadership team, on a variety of projects and efforts surrounding the advancement of DE&I across our organization, the sports and entertainment industry, and society at large," said Murray. "We look forward to continuing to draw upon Stephen's strong insight and expertise, to help guide and grow our corporate and employee programs, strategy, content, and key initiatives throughout our agency network."
"I'm incredibly proud of the work we have done building and growing the Multicultural division at R&CPMK, as well as OSEN and IPG's long-standing commitment to advancing DE&I," said Macias. "I'm humbled to be partnering with Lisa, and OSEN staff worldwide, as we further our efforts and platforms surrounding our workplace, workforce, and client work. We have an exciting opportunity to evolve the way we approach inclusion, equity, and diversity in every aspect of who we are at work and what that can bring to the table for our clients around the world."
Macias has served as President of Multicultural Marketing & Communications, R&CPMK, since January 2022, and joined the agency as Executive Vice President Entertainment and Multicultural Practice Lead in 2020.
Under Macias' leadership at R&CPMK, the agency has built an industry-leading Multicultural Marketing & Communications practice, responsible for developing DE&I strategy, as well as influential public relations and marketing campaigns for R&CPMK's high-profile talent and Fortune 500 brand clients. Since launching the division, Macias and his team have significantly advanced DE&I efforts and conversations across the entertainment industry, driven millions of dollars in traditional and earned media focused on amplifying important societal conversations, and created progressive integrated content initiatives that have further connected brands and talent with diverse and emerging audiences, communities, and consumers.
Prior to joining R&CPMK, Macias served as Senior Vice President, Diversity and Inclusion Practice Lead, at MWWPR (MikeWorldWide), where he was responsible for overseeing multicultural marketing and programming for clients, as well as managing LGBTQ+ and multicultural resources within the firm.
Previously, Macias founded Macias Media Group LLC., where he grew the agency into one of the top boutique PR firms specifically targeting the LGBTQ+ community before it was acquired by MWWPR. Macias also spent eight years as Executive Vice President and GM for Here Media Inc., overseeing iconic media brands, including The Advocate and OUT magazine, and served as Entertainment Media Director for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).
Macias has also held a succession of senior leadership positions and worked with numerous leading nonprofits and organizations in the LGBTQ+ community, including the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Outfest, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival as well the United Nation's Free and Equal initiative and the U.S. State Department's Global Equality Fund.
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ABOUT OSEN:
The Octagon Sports and Entertainment Network, within the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), encompasses industry leaders Octagon, R&CPMK, FRUKT, Futures, Milkmoney, and No2ndPlace. This formidable family of agencies specializes in sports, entertainment, and lifestyle marketing and public relations for brands, athletes and celebrities.
ABOUT R&CPMK:
R&CPMK is the original entertainment and culture agency. For over 70 years the agency has been disrupting the marketplace - driving cultural relevance and engagement for talent, brands, and content creators throughout the world of entertainment, lifestyle, sports, influence, and popular culture. The agency represents more than 400 of the most prominent and influential actors, musicians, producers, directors, content creators and athletes in the world, and creates distinctive integrated marketing campaigns for some of the largest brands and Fortune 500 companies across the globe. With our unique position, and the insight to know what to do with it, we bring a depth of skill and relationships in key practices areas: Communications, Partnerships & Activations, Brand Integration, Talent & Influencer and Representation.
--OCTAGON SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK--
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WALES, Alaska — A polar bear has attacked and killed two people in a remote village in western Alaska, according to state troopers.
Alaska State Troopers said they received the report of the attack at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in Wales, on the western tip of the Seward Peninsula, KTUU reported.
“Initial reports indicate that a polar bear had entered the community and had chased multiple residents,” troopers wrote. “The bear fatally attacked an adult female and juvenile male."
The bear was shot and killed by a local resident as it attacked the pair, troopers said.
The names of the the two people killed were not released. Troopers said they were working to notify family members.
Troopers and the state Department of Fish and Game are planning to travel to Wales once weather allows for it, the dispatch said.
Wales is a small, predominantly Inupiaq town of about 150 people, just over 100 miles (161 kilometers) northwest of Nome.
Fatal polar bear attacks have been rare in Alaska's recent history. In 1990, a polar bear killed a man farther north of Wales in the village of Point Lay. Biologists later said the animal showed signs of starvation, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
Alaska scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey in 2019 found changes in sea ice habitat had coincided with evidence that polar bears’ use of land was increasing and that the chances of a polar bear encounter had increased. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/nation-world/polar-bear-kills-2-in-alaska-village/507-913f6e17-1ea3-429b-9809-f4c2da50d4a9 | 2023-01-18 07:28:49 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/nation-world/polar-bear-kills-2-in-alaska-village/507-913f6e17-1ea3-429b-9809-f4c2da50d4a9 |
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, April 29, 2023
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Our dry weather forecast continues, with no appreciable rain outside of an isolated shower or two this entire week. It's a bit of a dry stretch with lots of sunshine. Sunday featured a return to a decent amount of sunshine, and while northwesterly breezes gusted at times over 20 miles-per-hour, it was a refreshing breeze as afternoon high temperatures returned to more seasonable levels in the mid and upper 70s. The rest of the week looks seasonably and comfortably warm through Wednesday, before a passing cold front cools us around 10 degrees headed into Memorial Day Weekend. Morning lows will be comfortable within 5 degrees on either side of 50 throughout the week. At Lehigh Valley International Airport, Sunday marked the 20th straight day of less than .1" of rainfall. While this does happen from time to time, it looks like we will add at least another 6 days to this dry spell. Keep those newly planted gardens well watered. Next weekend, for Memorial Day weekend, we are following a potential system which could bring some showers, but much uncertainty with that part of the forecast remains so stay tuned!
DETAILED FORECAST
TONIGHT
Winds will gradually diminish tonight as overnight lows dip down to seasonably cool levels either side of 50 degrees under mainly clear skies.
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Early next week looks mostly or entirely dry, with an extended stretch of partly to mostly sunny and seasonably warm days with highs mostly between 75 and 80 degrees and comfy nighttime lows around the 50-degree mark. A passing cold front on Wednesday will cool our temperatures briefly going into Thursday and Friday with highs dropping back to the upper 60s. We'll increasingly need the rain, but rain chances look fairly scarce for the foreseeable future. Outside of the small chance of a shower or sprinkle on Monday afternoon/evening (mainly in the Poconos and northwestern New Jersey) and again Wednesday afternoon/evening with the aforementioned cold front, it's entirely dry through the week.
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Which Eskimo brand ice fishing gear is best?
Ice fishing is a pastime unlike any other, so there’s a range of gear specially made to make your fishing trip more fun, comfortable and successful. The Eskimo brand makes almost everything you need, from the augers used for drilling through the ice to the shelters you put up around your fishing spot.
It doesn’t make everything, though, with a key omission being the underwater fishing cameras many ice fishers use to make the activity easier and more successful.
What to know before you buy Eskimo brand ice fishing gear
Eskimo brand ice fishing gear types
Eskimo makes a wide range of gear to keep your body warm and your lines full.
- Shelter: Eskimo shelters come in a few forms and sizes, though they all share the same traits such as being relatively easy to set up. The best are insulated.
- Auger: Eskimo makes augers powered by gas, battery or elbow grease, as well as a range of accessories and replacement bits.
- Clothing: Eskimo makes a wide range of clothing, including hats, hoodies, shirts, gloves and mitts, jackets and bibs.
- Chisels: Chisels have a few uses for ice fishing, such as scouting for fishing spots, that make them good to have in addition to an auger.
- Accessories: Eskimo offers a huge range of accessories such as camp chairs, trailer hitches, travel bags, caddies, and replacement pieces and parts.
What’s the best Eskimo brand ice fishing gear to buy?
Top Eskimo brand shelters
Eskimo QuickFish Series Pop-Up Portable Ice Fishing Shelter
Eskimo says this shelter can be set up in 60 seconds, plus it has in-skirt grommets to make securing it to the ice easier. It comes in sizes to fit two, three or six people.
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Eskimo FF949 FatFish Pop-Up Portable Hub-Style Ice Shelter
This shelter has removable windows to let some fresh air in, with mesh storage pockets inside for some of your other gear. It fits three to four people in its 61-square-foot space.
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Eskimo Outbreak 450 Pop-Up Hub-Style Ice Fishing Shelter
This shelter uses an oversized and trip-proof door that zips down to the ice. It and everything it comes with fits inside an included duffel bag. Up to four people fit comfortably in its 75-square-foot space.
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Eskimo Sierra Portable Ice Fishing Shelter
This fully insulated shelter is 35% warmer than a non-insulated shelter. The interior has two steel-framed seats. It can attach to any tow hitch, but a pull-rope is also included for easy traveling.
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Eskimo FatFish 9416i Insulated Portable Pop-Up Ice Fishing Shelter
This shelter uses an all-metal ball-and-socket design with fiberglass poles for durability and to maintain a reasonable weight. It has removable window panels and mesh pockets. It fits seven to nine people.
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Top Eskimo brand augers
This hand auger uses a cross-bolt takedown system to prevent overtightening. The hand and pommel knobs are comfortable. It comes with blades in 6-, 7- and 8-inch lengths and includes a blade protector.
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This auger can be powered by any electric hand drill with at least a half-inch drill chuck, 18-volt/4-amp battery, brushless motor and a minimum of 725 pounds of torque. It has a protective plate to prevent your drill from falling down the hole.
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This auger series comes with engines that run on either gasoline or propane and with either 8- or 10-inch blades. They all use a fingertip-throttle trigger to precisely control the power.
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Top Eskimo brand clothing
Eskimo Men’s Flag Chaser Jacket
This jacket is stuffed with pockets including a left-side chest pocket and two waist-level zipper pockets you can also use to keep your hands warm. Stretch cuffs help keep your body heat in and cold winds out.
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This bib is perfect for bringing your child along to learn the ice fishing ropes. It’s insulated, windproof and waterproof to keep them comfortable, plus it has reflective accents for safety at night.
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Eskimo Unisex Adult Performance Hoodie
This hoodie has a lined hood to keep your head warm plus a traditional kangaroo pocket in the front with zippers if you want to use it for storage rather than as a hand warmer.
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Top Eskimo brand chisels
Eskimo CH9 Multi-Faceted Dual-Action Ice Chisel
This 19-inch-long chisel is made of fully welded steel for maximum durability. It has hammer-style and traditional chisel-style ends, plus the ends come with protective covers. A wrist tether rope to prevent drops is included.
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Eskimo CH11 Multi-Faceted Triple-Action Ice Chisel
This 59.5-inch-long chisel has a foam grip handle that’s anti-vibration to make your tasks as comfortable as possible. A wrist strap is attached to the handle end and a protective cover for the chisel end is included.
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Eskimo CH12 Multi-Faceted Triple-Action Ice Chisel
This chisel is identical to the CH11 chisel except for being longer at 64 inches, perfect for taller people who don’t want to bend down to get their work done.
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Top Eskimo brand accessories
This is the ultimate gear-hauling device, thanks to its laundry list of pockets and loops, such as the two large zippered pockets and the two D-rings for clipping anything you want to it.
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This folding chair is small and light, making it good if you’re fishing on ice that can’t hold heavy shelters and equipment. The backrest helps you maintain a better posture to limit backaches.
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Eskimo Ice Shelter Ice Anchors
This pair of ice anchors is perfect for replacing your lost or damaged shelter anchors. The handles are wide enough for comfortable use.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GEODIS, a world leader in transport and logistics, today announced it has completed its acquisition of American company Need It Now Delivers following regulatory approvals. The acquisition significantly expands GEODIS's U.S. presence in the areas of contract logistics and final mile delivery and strengthens its end-to-end freight network domestically and internationally.
Based in Keasbey, New Jersey, Need It Now Delivers operates a major freight network in the United States—with a strong presence in the East—including over 65 company locations and more than 300 interconnected distribution points. Need It Now Delivers features a workforce of more than 2,000 employees and serves over 1,600 customers across a variety of high-growth sectors, including apparel, electronics, home furnishings, automotive products and medical supplies. In addition to omnichannel and final mile capabilities, Need It Now Delivers offers logistics services including white glove home delivery, direct-to-consumer parcel delivery, contract logistics and same day logistics.
"The completion of the Need It Now Delivers acquisition will accelerate our continued growth in the U.S., which has become an essential market for GEODIS, as we remain committed to building a fully integrated network of transport and logistics hubs globally," said Marie-Christine Lombard, CEO of GEODIS. "This acquisition allows GEODIS to expand our offerings in a consolidating market and solidify our position as one of the world's top 10 leading logistics providers."
The acquisition will strengthen GEODIS's national freight distribution network and final mile delivery, omnichannel and e-Commerce capabilities in the United States alongside its existing contract logistics and freight forwarding lines of business in the country. GEODIS customers will now have access to expanded transportation management and warehousing capabilities in the U.S. while Need It Now Delivers clients will have the opportunity to bolster their global supply chains with new access to GEODIS's international freight forwarding and contract logistics networks for a comprehensive solution.
"GEODIS acquired Need It Now Delivers due to its proven and dedicated team, expansive national network with a commitment to best-in-class service, and diverse and longstanding customer relationships in high-growth industry verticals," said Mike Honious, President & CEO of GEODIS in Americas. "I am confident the combination of our two organizations will create a powerful set of end-to-end logistics solutions to best support our customers' growth."
With the completion of the Need It Now Delivers acquisition, GEODIS now employs approximately 15,000 teammates in the U.S. (with more than 17,000 employees in the Americas region) and operates over 200 locations totaling 52.9 million square feet of warehousing space domestically. The combined organizations would have generated $3.7 billion for full year 2021 in the U.S.
To learn more about GEODIS, visit www.geodis.com.
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GEODIS is a leading global logistics provider acknowledged for its expertise across all aspects of the supply chain. As a growth partner to its clients, GEODIS specializes in five lines of business: Supply Chain Optimization, Freight Forwarding, Contract Logistics, Distribution & Express, and Road Transport. With a global network spanning nearly 170 countries and more than 44,000 employees, GEODIS is ranked no. 7 in its sector across the world. In 2021, GEODIS generated €10.9 billion in revenue.
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LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana man who ran into a burning home and saved five people, including a 6-year-old girl he jumped out of a second-floor window with, says he’s no hero and that the serious injuries he suffered were “all worth it.”
Nick Bostic, 25, of Lafayette, was driving early on July 11 in the northwestern Indiana city when he saw a house in flames. He stopped and ran inside to alert its residents.
“I slammed on the brakes, I turned the steering wheel, I did a 180. I ran into the back of the house and I was yelling for anybody. Four faces, three or four faces, came out the top,” he told WLFI-TV.
An 18-year-old woman was in the home babysitting her three siblings, ages 1, 6 and 13, along with a 13-year-old friend of the 13-year-old sibling, while the four siblings’ parents were out playing darts, The Washington Post reported.
Bostic said the 18-year-old was able to get three of the children out, but she told him one child was still missing, prompting him to search the smoke-filled home for that child.
“I heard a faint whine, a faint crying noise and I went down there till I found that baby,” he said.
Because of the dense smoke, he said his only option was to exit through a second-floor window. Bostic punched out the glass and jumped to safety with the 6-year-old girl in his arms. He suffered multiple injuries but the girl only suffered a minor cut to her foot.
Police body camera video captured the aftermath of the jump, with Bostic backlit by the burning home and walking toward first responders, the girl in his arms.
In the video, a police officer takes the crying child while Bostic — who is winded and wheezing, with a wounded right arm and blood on his clothes — sits down on the curb, saying, “I need oxygen.”
After an officer helps Bostic to a safer spot across the street, a tourniquet is applied to his arm after he lies down in the grass. Bostic then asks, “Is the baby OK? Please tell me the baby’s OK” before someone off camera assures him the child is fine.
“You did good dude, OK?” an officer tells Bostic.
Bostic, who suffered smoke inhalation in addition to his arm injury and other wounds, was airlifted to an Indianapolis hospital and discharged two days later.
He said he’s not a hero, and just did what he would have wanted someone to do for him and his family if their home was on fire.
“It was all worth it. I kept reminding myself what a small sacrifice. This temporary pain … it’s so worth it,” he told WLFI-TV.
A GoFundMe page set up for Bostic to help pay his hospital and medical bills had raised more than $470,000 by Wednesday afternoon, far surpassing its $100,000 goal.
David Barrett, the four siblings’ father, told The Washington Post, that his family feels “very blessed for what Nick did.”
“He’s a real hero, and my daughter’s a real hero for waking the kids up. I don’t like to think about what might have happened if Nick hadn’t shown up. I’m grateful beyond words,” he said.
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Many remember the banner draped over a Los Angeles highway last October. It read, “Kanye is right about the Jews.” This came after the singer made a number of antisemitic comments. Pictures went viral, and the group behind the banner was the Goyim Defense League (GDL) — the term “goyim” being a sometimes-derogatory Yiddish word for non-Jews, but seized by the group as a badge of honor.
Active around the country, the group has focused on Florida in recent months, with incidents in Daytona, Ormand Beach and South Orlando. So how big is the group? And how powerful?
Here & Now‘s Robin Young talks to Carla Hill, director of investigative research at the Center for Extremism at the Anti-Defamation League about the group, its leaders and the dangers it poses.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Employee priorities are changing as the labor market and economy continue to shift, and the way organizations think about employee engagement must change alongside them.
TORONTO, April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Like everything else in the world, employee engagement has gone through significant upheaval over the past several years. Employees' relationships with their organizations shifted with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the transition to remote and virtual work, with employee priorities undergoing a considerable change in tandem with these necessary adjustments to the way we work. To assist HR leaders in understanding and evaluating the causes, significance, and impacts of these changes, leading HR research and advisory firm McLean & Company has released its annual Employee Engagement Trends Report 2023. The timely industry report combines insights, analysis, and benchmarking data obtained from 2021 to 2022.
In the report, the firm defines employee engagement as "an overall sense of being energized by and passionate about one's work and dedicated toward one's workplace" and notes it is important to differentiate this concept from employee satisfaction. Employee engagement is also a component of the overall employee experience (EX), with EX remaining a high priority for organizations because of its impact on outcomes such as productivity and retention.
"In a challenging labor market and economy, employee engagement plays an even more critical role in talent retention," says Amanda Chaitnarine, director of Advisory Services at McLean & Company. "Individual employee engagement is the outcome of a strong overall employee experience, which is measured simply by asking 'How likely would you be to recommend this organization to a friend or family member as a great place to work?' If the answer isn't 'yes,' it's a good indication that an organization's employee engagement and experience need evaluation and intentional effort to improve."
To inform organizations' efforts to improve engagement, the firm identified and measured three key driver categories for employee engagement via a survey distributed to over 157,000 employees in 179 organizations. Those three drivers are outlined below:
- Organizational – Organizational drivers impact an employee's satisfaction and commitment to their organization. They include department collaboration, executive and departmental leadership, company potential, culture, and inclusion.
Organizational drivers saw mixed results, with department collaboration and executive leadership ranking lowest, signalling a need for improved communication. Culture and inclusion were viewed most positively and should remain a high priority. - Job – Job drivers affect an employee's motivation for and commitment to their day-to-day role. They consist of career advancement and development, recognition, employee empowerment, manager relationships, and co-worker relationships.
Employees viewed job drivers most positively, with career advancement and development increasing from the previous year by an average of 3.3 percentage points from 54.4% to 57.7%, and co-worker relationship drivers increasing by an average of 2.9 percentage points from 78.9% to 81.8%. - Retention – Retention drivers influence an employee's desire and likelihood to stay at an organization. An organization cannot make progress on engagement without satisfying a minimum requirement in these drivers. They include total compensation, working environment, and work-life balance.
Retention drivers were the lowest scoring area, likely due in part to economic uncertainty and inflation throughout the year impacting total compensation drivers, which decreased by 2.5 percentage points. Work-life balance and workload continue to be areas of opportunity for improvement.
With the talent acquisition and retention challenges that organizations are facing in the current labor landscape, it is unsurprising that retention drivers were the lowest performing of the three categories in this year's report. While prioritizing job and organizational drivers remains important to overall engagement success, there is a clear and critical need to put intentional effort into improving retention driver scores. Developing the retention driver areas of total compensation, working environment, and work-life balance can ultimately lead to increased talent attraction and retention and should be a primary focus for organizations in 2023 and beyond.
The firm advises that some of the ways organizational and HR leaders can work to improve employee engagement within their organizations are:
- Focusing on providing career and skill development opportunities for all employees by developing a high-potential program and creating a learning and development strategy.
- Revisiting career pathing and succession plans to ensure they are inclusive and free from barriers for all employees.
- Creating or revamping employee recognition programs for a quick win that leverages manager and co-worker relationships and that can be built on to create a culture of recognition and appreciation in the future.
McLean & Company also reminds HR leaders that employing benchmark engagement data when evaluating their organization's employee engagement is a key component in the process to provide direction, but it is not a final solution. Employee engagement action planning should always be based on feedback from an organization's employees, not on how other organizations are performing.
HR leaders seeking to understand, assess, and improve their organization's employee engagement can download the full Employee Engagement Trends Report 2023.
Additional resources from McLean & Company to support improving retention drivers include:
- Build a Total Rewards Strategy
- Create a Talent Acquisition Strategy
- Redesign the Talent Acquisition Structure
- Design a High-Value Succession Planning Program
The firm also offers various levels of support and practical resources to best suit organizations' unique, individual needs, including DIY toolkits, guided implementations, workshops, and consulting. For additional support in determining where to start in resolving engagement and retention challenges, visit mcleanco.com/services or follow McLean & Company on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Through data-driven insights and proven best-practice methodologies, McLean & Company offers comprehensive resources and full-service assessments, action plans, and training to position organizations to meet today's needs and prepare for the future.
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NEW YORK, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Novartis AG ("Novartis" or the "Company") (NYSE: NVS). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Novartis and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On May 5, 2022, Novartis "announced a temporary, voluntary suspension of production at its radioligand therapy production sites in Ivrea, Italy and Millburn, New Jersey." The production halt was to "address potential quality issues identified in its manufacturing process." On this news, Novartis's American Depositary Receipt ("ADR") price fell $2.06, or 2.3%, to close at $86.21 per ADR on May 5, 2022. Then, on May 31, 2022, STAT News published an article entitled "Documents show problems at Novartis facility where cancer drug production was halted." The article reported that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had cited deficiencies at the Company's New Jersey facility following an inspection in late 2021, including a "concern that Novartis failed to notify customers about batches of Lutathera . . . that were distributed despite failing to meet quality specifications."
On this news, Novartis's ADR price fell $1.82 per ADR, or 1.99%, over the following two trading days, closing at $89.64 per ADR on June 1, 2022.
The Pomerantz Firm, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Paris is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, the Pomerantz Firm pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 80 years later, the Pomerantz Firm continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomerantzlaw.com
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Hip to be smart: ‘Jeopardy’ savors run of super champions
NEW YORK (AP) — As Mattea Roach, Amy Schneider and Matt Amodio can attest, it’s cool to be smart again.
“Jeopardy!” is on an unusual run of super champs. In the past seven months, each of those contestants has landed in the television game show’s historical list of top five winning streaks. Roach’s run of victories ended on her 24th game Friday.
The timing couldn’t be better for “Jeopardy!” — and the show’s fans know all about timing.
The show had been reeling last summer after it bungled the process of replacing late host Alex Trebek. Mike Richards was fired as both host and executive producer of the show after insensitive statements he had made on a podcast surfaced.
“It has really let people fall in love with ‘Jeopardy!’ again and forget about what happened to focus on all of these amazing contestants,” said Andy Saunders, who runs thejeopardyfan.com website.
Amodio, a doctoral candidate at Yale University, ran off 38 straight wins before he was beaten last October. He soon gave way to Schneider, the engineering manager from Oakland who was a fixture on TV over the holidays before her streak ended at 40. Roach, a 23-year-old tutor from Toronto, was the show’s youngest major champion.
They joined Ken Jennings, whose 74-game streak in 2004 has never seriously been challenged and high-stakes gambler James Holzhauer, who won 32 in 2019, in the “Jeopardy!” top five.
The show, which has aired regularly since 1984, changed its rules in 2003 to allow people to stay on until they lose. Prior to that, winners were capped at five games.
Ask Michael Davies, the show’s executive producer, why the sudden run of big winners, and you get a verbal shrug.
“I don’t have a simple answer,” he said.
The “price” for such long runs can be a string of dull games because the players are so dominant. Yet the winning streaks create strong characters in ways that are unusual for game shows. People tune in to root for or against them like they do for sports teams, said Saunders, who has worked in game show production.
That’s reflected in the ratings. The “Jeopardy!” audience is up 400,000 this year in an era most shows are shrinking, Davies said. The game averaged 9.4 million viewers a night during the third week in April, more than any program that week on prime-time television, the Nielsen company said.
“The people that win are the people who make the most attempts, the ones who are able to unscramble what it is that they’re asking faster than anybody else,” Davies said.
Schneider and Roach were notable for their impressive breadth of knowledge, and they were rarely wrong. Amodio was particularly adept at harder questions with a big monetary value and he sought them out first, pinning hopes on a “shock and awe” strategy that demoralized opponents.
Since he’s been producer, Davies said “Jeopardy!” has been trying broaden out the subject matter that contestants face.
“We’re trying to test excellence,” said Davies, who was producer of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” during Regis Philbin’s heyday. “We’re trying to test people on how much they really know. We don’t want it to be for people who know trivia. We want it to be for people who spend a lifetime reading books, acquiring knowledge.
“We celebrate facts,” he said. “We celebrate people who know things.”
Not all television viewers know this, but “Jeopardy!” usually tapes a week’s worth of episodes in a single day. That can help a champion who gets on a roll.
But after they lost, both Schneider and Roach pointed to fatigue as a factor.
“I do think that my last two games, I was maybe just out of it,” said Roach, who had to come from behind for her last win. “I was really, really tired. I remember yawning uncontrollably before playing my second-to-last game. From what I recall, I believe I was slower on the buzzer, I was not able to come up with responses.”
She’ll be back for the yearly Tournament of Champions, competing with Amodio and Schneider. Davies, a sports fan, wants to put more emphasis on the event that brings together each year’s best contestants, and to make sure it is held each year at the same time, in the fall.
“I think it’s pretty clear that this has been good for the franchise,” he said.
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Television Writer Lynn Elber contributed to this report.
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Florida lawmakers take up condo bill in wake of Surfside
(AP) - Florida would require statewide recertification of condominiums higher than three-stories tall as a response to the Surfside building collapse that killed 98 people.
The issue was added to a special Legislative session Tuesday that was called to address rising property insurance rates.
Legislative leaders reached an agreement to introduce the measure that would require recertification after 30 years, or 25 years if the building is within 3 miles of the coast, and every 10 years thereafter.
The Champlain Towers South was 40-years-old and was going through the 40-year-recertification process required by Miami-Dade County when it collapsed last June.
At the time, Miami-Dade and Broward counties were the only two of the state’s 67 that had condominium recertification programs.
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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone dissenter in a closely watched abortion case this week, but has so far shown in her nine months on the bench that she is open and able to find agreement with her conservative colleagues.
Jackson was praised by the left when she filled the bench vacancy after Justice Stephen Breyer retired last year. On Monday, she was the only justice to dissent in a case that wiped out a lower court’s decision to uphold a minor's right to go to court for permission to obtain an abortion.
Everyone but Jackson on the court voted to overturn a lower court ruling that said a state court clerk could be sued for denying a pregnant teenager's request for permission to get an abortion without her parents' consent. The Supreme Court told the lower court the case should be moot in light of the recent Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.
KETANJI BROWN JACKSON'S RACIAL 'IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE' ANALOGY CONFUSES CRITICS: CRT 'WRECKS EVERYTHING'
But in her first majority opinion issued last month, Jackson earned support from her conservative colleagues in a case dealing with a dispute between multiple states over unclaimed money – in this case, $250 million of unused money orders issued by MoneyGram, which is based in Texas but headquartered in Delaware. The ruling was unanimous, and the eight other justices supported different parts of the opinion.
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JACKSON GETS SUPPORT FROM CONSERVATIVES IN FIRST MAJORITY RULING
Jackson was confirmed last year after a contentious nomination process in which Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans challenged Jackson’s judicial history of lenient sentencing for violent criminals. Conservatives considered her one of President Biden’s more ideological liberal options to fill Breyer’s role, and were alarmed when Jackson couldn't define what a "woman" is, and instead told senators she is "not a biologist."
Jackson has shown equal willingness to go against her more conservative colleagues. In one of the court's high-profile cases this term dealing with a graphic designer who is refusing to create websites for gay weddings, Jackson sparked criticsm from conservatives by her questioning in the December oral argument.
The justices were debating whether Colorado's anti-discrimination laws violates the First Amendment by compelling the designer to work on a same-sex wedding website against her will.
Jackson suggested that the graphic designer's argument in the case could be used to endorse racial discrimination against people of color in a hypothetical "It's a Wonderful Life"-themed photo shoot or a vintage Santa-themed shoot with only White customers.
Conservatives were outraged, saying that her comments were based in Critical Race Theory (CRT).
REPUBLICANS BAFFLED THAT KETANJI BROWN JACKSON CAN'T SAY WHAT A WOMAN IS: 'IT IS A SIMPLE QUESTION
In January, Justice Brett Kavanaugh – who typically sides with the more conservative members of the bench – had nothing but praise for his new colleague, telling an audience at the University of Notre Dame Law School that she has "hit the ground running," and described her as someone who is "fully prepared, thoroughly prepared" and "off to a great start."
"We miss Justice Ginsburg, of course, and Justice Breyer, but there's turnover, and it's wonderful to have two new colleagues who have fit in, in my judgment, fit in well with the group," he said, speaking also of Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett who was nominated by President Donald Trump in 2020.
He told the law students in the audience that the justices spend "an enormous amount of time" together, eating lunch after every oral argument and conference and becoming friends.
"You can't talk about work at lunch. So, you talk about the things that you would talk about with your friends. You talk about your kids, you talk about movies, you talk about books, you talk about war stories … again and again," Kavanaugh said cheerfully.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS EXPLAINS WHY IT HOSTED JACKSON INVESTITURE BUT NOT FOR GORSUCH, KAVANAUGH, BARRETT
Justice Jackson stepped into an extraordinary era for the Supreme Court, with the unprecedented leak of the draft Dobbs opinion last May that ultimately overturned Roe v. Wade and sent the issue of abortion rights back to the states. Some accused the 6-3 majority of Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices of undermining the court’s legitimacy.
But according to Kavanaugh, the justices are still on friendly terms despite spirited disagreements.
"There are great relations among all nine justices both personally and professionally. We only get tough cases, and we disagree on some of those. I think that's more nuanced than it is sometimes portrayed," Kavanaugh said.
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The Justice Department has charged a suspected Iranian operative for allegedly plotting to assassinate former Trump national security adviser John Bolton.
Shahram Poursafi offered to pay contacts in the U.S. up to $300,000 to murder Bolton, according to court papers unsealed Wednesday. The Justice Department says the plot was likely in retaliation for the U.S. killing of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in January 2020.
Bolton, an Iran-hawk who served as former President Donald Trump's national security adviser from 2018 to 2019, thanked the Justice Department and FBI for uncovering and foiling the alleged plot.
"While much cannot be said publicly right now, one point is indisputable: Iran's rulers are liars, terrorists, and enemies of the United States," he said. "Their radical anti-American objectives are unchanged; the commitments are worthless; and their global threat is growing."
Poursafi, who is 45 and believed to be in Iran, was charged by criminal complaint with two counts: use of interstate commerce in the commission of murder for hire; and providing material support to a transnational murder plot.
The court papers provide a wealth of details into Poursafi's alleged efforts to arrange the assassination from afar.
In October 2021 he first contacted a person only identified as Individual A over social media and asked them to take photographs of Bolton for a book Poursafi was writing, according to prosecutors.
That person put Poursafi in touch with a second individual, identified as a government confidential human source, or CHS, who could take the pictures.
A few weeks later, Poursafi asked the CHS on an encrypted messaging app if they could hire someone for $200,000 to "eliminate someone." He then provided Bolton's name and made clear that he was the target.
Court papers say that Poursafi and the CHS negotiated potential payments, and the price tag eventually rose to $300,000 to compensate the CHS as well as the person the CHS was hiring to carry out the murder.
Poursafi allegedly instructed the CHS to open a cryptocurrency account for eventual payment, but he stressed that "his group" would only pay for completed work.
Court papers say Poursafi then provided the CHS with Bolton's office address in Washington, D.C., including the name and contact details for someone in the office.
In mid-November, the CHS told Poursafi that arrangements had been made with an individual who would carry out the murder.
A few days later, the CHS traveled from Texas to Washington, went to Bolton's office, and sent Poursafi two photos of the building. Poursafi said the facility's parking garage would be a good place to carry out the hit.
On Dec. 2, the CHS said the person hired to kill Bolton was at Bolton's home taking pictures.
Poursafi appeared to be growing concerned that the plot might not come to fruition, and told the CHS that if one took too much time planning something, the window of opportunity could pass.
"The CHS thanked Poursafi for his advice and said he/she had no experience in the spy world or any training in killing people," court papers said.
By mid-January, the CHS told Poursafi that they'd acquired three vans as well as weapons, silencers and ammunition. But later that month said there was a problem and security concerns. Poursafi pushed for the CHS to "finish the job," and dangled more work in the future.
The two sides stayed in touch through April, although no action was ultimately taken against Bolton.
"The Justice Department has the solemn duty to defend our citizens from hostile governments who seek to hurt or kill them," said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen, who leads the Justice Department's National Security Division. "This is not the first time we have uncovered Iranian plots to exact revenge against individuals on U.S. soil and we will work tirelessly to expose and disrupt every one of these efforts."
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Minnesota Gov. Walz draws sharp contrasts with red states
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Tim Walz drew stark contrasts between Minnesota and Republican-led states Wednesday night, using his State of the State speech to highlight how he and his fellow Democrats have used their new control over state government to push through an ambitious liberal agenda.
Walz, now three months into his second term, told lawmakers and other dignitaries in the House chamber how Minnesota Democrats are bucking the backlash seen in red states across the country against abortion rights, trans rights, pushes for racial equity and other cultural flashpoints.
“I’ve seen some of these other governors on TV — they spend a lot of time on TV — and they’re always talking about ‘freedom,’” Walz said in his prepared remarks. “But it turns out what they mean is that government should be free to invade your bedroom, your children’s locker room, and your doctor’s office.”
Walz didn’t name Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis or other GOP leaders who’ve gained national followings by fighting against the “woke” left, but his targets were clear.
“It’s not up to me how folks in places like Florida go about their business,” he said. “But I have to tell you, I’m pretty glad we do things our way and not their way.”
The 2022 elections gave Minnesota Democrats control over both chambers of the Legislature and the governor’s office for the first time in eight years. Walz called it “a new mandate for action — a chance to set aside old fights in favor of doing something truly historic for our children and grandchildren.”
The governor noted that he has already signed legislation or issued executive orders this year to protect abortion rights in the wake of last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade; to make Minnesota a refuge for patients coming from other states to get abortions; and for trans youth coming from other states to seek gender-affirming care.
While other states ban books from their schools, Walz said, Minnesota schools are banishing hunger from theirs. He has already signed a bill making school meals free for all students beginning this fall. He also signed a bill allowing drivers licenses for all, regardless of immigration status. He signed one allowing convicted felons to vote once they get out of prison, and another making Juneteenth a holiday. And he signed yet another requiring Minnesota utilities to get 100% of their electricity from carbon-free sources by 2040.
“If there’s one thing I hope folks in other states take away from what we’re doing here in Minnesota, it’s this: It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you stop complaining about corporations going ‘woke’ and start giving a damn about the real lives of real people.”
Walz also used his speech to promote his budget proposals. The House and Senate have been debating several major budget bills this week, most of which are broadly similar to his own proposals. He mentioned tax credits for families that he says would reduce child poverty by 25%. He renewed his call for direct tax rebates from the state’s enormous $17.5 billion budget surplus. And he mentioned his support for bolstering funding for public schools.
The governor also highlighted his support for gun safety legislation that’s been advancing this session — background checks and a red flag law — after being blocked by Republicans for years.
“I’m not going to stand by and let anyone make this about the Second Amendment when it’s really about our first responsibility to our kids: keeping them safe,” Walz said. “And I’m not going to let anyone hide behind thoughts and prayers when what we need is action now.”
Legislative leaders from both parties planned to hold news conferences afterward to react to the governor’s speech.
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Fidelity Joins Other Prominent Foundation Members at Inaugural FinOps X Summit to Educate and Drive Momentum for FinOps Ecosystem
PORTLAND, Ore., June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The FinOps Foundation, a part of The Linux Foundation's non-profit technology consortium and focused on advancing the people and practice of cloud financial management, announced today at the inaugural FinOps X Conference in Austin, Texas, that global financial services organization, Fidelity Investments, is joining as a Premier Member end user FinOps adopter member company.
A rapidly expanding number of forward-thinking companies across a wide range of industries are starting to develop FinOps teams and practices as they shift to the cloud in order to gain greater control over their cloud spend forecasting and migration planning. FinOps is now practiced in every major industry, with Financial Services and Information Technology being among the biggest adopters.
Fidelity counts more than 40 million people, 23,000 businesses and 3,600 advisory firms as customers and so is a natural fit to collaborate on the evolution of FinOps.
"As Fidelity continues our digital transformation journey, FinOps remains one of the key pillars in ensuring we get the most value out of every dollar spent in the cloud," shared Vice President for Fidelity's Cloud Business Office, Zach Stitham. "We are excited to be part of this community that continues to share experiences, learnings, and ultimately helps to foster a culture of accountability throughout organizations."
As the practice of FinOps takes hold in organizations of all sizes, the FinOps Foundation has continued its rapid expansion. It now serves over 5,700 practitioner members from more than 2,500 organizations. End user members like Fidelity Investments gain exposure in the FinOps community, have easy access to training and enhanced recruitment opportunities - accelerating the adoption and are coached on the development of their FinOps practice.
"We welcome Fidelity as a Premier Member as the FinOps Foundation continues its rapid growth and as the practice of FinOps gains steam in companies large and small," said J.R. Storment, Executive Director of the FinOps Foundation. "Fidelity's hub and spoke model of FinOps practice is a shining example of the right way to help a large, complex organization get the most value out of their cloud spend. Their expertise in their central FinOps team, as well as the dedicated business unit FinOps experts have been a big resource to the larger FinOps community cementing best practices that will give FinOps practitioners everywhere a bedrock foundation for their own efforts."
Fidelity today also received the first annual "Outstanding FinOps Team" award at FinOps X's mainstage for excellence in their broad scale implementation of FinOps and large bench of experts across their hub and spoke model.
The latest FinOps Foundation research indicates that large companies like Fidelity will continue to adopt FinOps, due to the complexity of their cloud environments, reporting requirements and the sheer number of disparate teams requiring collaboration.
With the explosive growth of cloud in recent years, organizations understand the critical need to ensure accountability for cloud spending in order to align cloud adoption and investment with business strategy and value.
To learn more about becoming a member of The FinOps Foundation visit https://www.finops.org/membership/
The FinOps Foundation (F2) is a non-profit trade association made up of FinOps practitioners around the world including Atlassian, Autodesk, Gannett, HERE Technologies, Just Eat, Nationwide and Spotify. Grounded in real world stories, expertise, and inspiration for and by FinOps practitioners, the FinOps Foundation is focused on codifying and promoting cloud financial management best practices and standards to help community members and their teams become better at cloud financial management.
Fidelity's mission is to inspire better futures and deliver better outcomes for the customers and businesses we serve. With assets under administration of $10.5trillion, including discretionary assets of $4.0trillion as of April 30, 2022, we focus on meeting the unique needs of a diverse set of customers. Privately held for over 75 years, Fidelity employs more than 58,000 associates who are focused on the long-term success of our customers. For more information about Fidelity Investments, visit About Fidelity - Our Company
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Several prominent wine producers in Sonoma & Napa Counties have joined the early access program of California-based company building "first of its kind" smart irrigation solution
SANTA ROSA, Calif., Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumo [lumo.ag], an Agtech company focused on water sustainability through the development of smart valve and irrigation technology announced today that it has opened its early access program for 2023.
Lumo intends on manufacturing 250 smart valves in 2023, which will provide growers with automation, precision, and accountability surrounding their irrigation systems. Participating companies who join the early access program receive many benefits, including:
- Priority access and right of first refusal from the first production run of Lumo smart valves
- A Customer Advisory Board (CAB) seat with the option to participate in quarterly workshops to share feature requests and provide feedback that will influence Lumo's product roadmap
- 24/7 on-site support services
- A lifetime hardware guarantee
Prominent wine producers Clos du Val, Bohème, Price Family, Field Vineyards and Pine Ridge Vineyards(a Crimson Group brand which recently earned International Wineries for Climate Action (IWCA) Silver Membership), have all signalled their commitment to water sustainability by reserving early access to Lumo and will be among a select group of early adopters to deploy the smart valve system in their vineyards.
"At Clos du Val, we place a lot of emphasis on innovation, efficiency and sustainability" says Ryan Decker, Viticulture and Grower Relations Manager at Clos du Val. "That's why we're impressed with Lumo and its goal of transforming the agricultural industry by creating a solution which will optimize water usage for commercial growers like us."
Price Family plans on deploying Lumo throughout their infamous Gap's Crown vineyard. "We are inspired by what Lumo is making possible and look forward to broadly implementing their technologies in our vineyard operations" says Rob Harris, General Manager, Price Family Vineyards & Estates.
Lumo has raised $2.1 million in pre-seed funding and is currently commercializing its smart irrigation technology. The system offers a first of its kind wireless, smart water valve network that will enable growers to optimize water usage to improve crop quality and reduce overhead costs. Presently, a number of Lumo's smart valves are being tested in vineyards and orchards in Sonoma and Napa Counties in California.
To inquire about Lumo's early access program, visit lumo.ag or email LetsGrow@lumo.ag.
Lumo is a smart irrigation solution that helps growers save water, improve crop quality and reduce costs. Smart valves with built-in sensors provide automation, accountability and digital record keeping to give growers unprecedented visibility into the health of their irrigation network. Learn more by visiting lumo.ag
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By Judith Graham
Anxiety is the most common psychological disorder affecting adults in the U.S. In older people, it’s associated distress as well as ill health, diminished quality of life, and elevated rates of disability. Yet, when the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent, influential panel of experts, suggested last year that adults be screened for anxiety, it left out one group — people 65 and older.The major reason the task force cited in draft recommendations issued in September: “the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of screening for anxiety” in all older adults. (Final recommendations are expected later this year.)The task force noted that questionnaires used to screen for anxiety may be unreliable for older adults. Screening entails evaluating people who don’t have obvious symptoms of worrisome medical or psychological conditions.“We recognize that many older adults experience mental health conditions like anxiety” and “we are calling urgently for more research,” said Lori Pbert, associate chief of the preventive and behavioral medicine division at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School and a former task force member who worked on the anxiety recommendations.This “we don’t know enough yet” stance doesn’t sit well with some experts who study and treat seniors with anxiety. Dr. Carmen Andreescu, an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, called the task force’s position “baffling” because “it’s well established that anxiety isn’t uncommon in older adults and effective treatments exist.”“I cannot think of any danger in identifying anxiety in older adults, especially because doing so has no harm and we can do things to reduce it,” said Dr. Helen Lavretsky, a psychology professor at UCLA.In a recent editorial in JAMA Psychiatry, Andreescu and Lavretsky noted that only about one-third of seniors with generalized anxiety disorder — intense, persistent worry about everyday matters — receive treatment. That’s concerning, they said, considering evidence of links between anxiety and stroke, heart failure, coronary artery disease, autoimmune illness, and neurodegenerative disorders such as dementia.Other forms of anxiety commonly undetected and untreated in seniors include phobias (like a fear of dogs), obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder (a fear of being assessed and judged by others), and post-traumatic stress disorder.The smoldering disagreement over screening calls attention to the significance of anxiety in later life — a concern heightened during the covid-19 pandemic, which magnified stress and worry among seniors. Here’s what you should know.Anxiety is common. According to a book chapter published in 2020, authored by Andreescu and a colleague, up to 15% of people 65 and older who live outside nursing homes or other facilities have a diagnosable anxiety condition.As many as half have symptoms of anxiety — irritability, worry, restlessness, decreased concentration, sleep changes, fatigue, avoidant behaviors — that can be distressing but don’t justify a diagnosis, the study noted.Most seniors with anxiety have struggled with this condition since earlier in life, but the way it manifests may change over time. Specifically, older adults tend to be more anxious about issues such as illness, the loss of family and friends, retirement, and cognitive declines, experts said. Only a small fraction develop anxiety after turning 65.Anxiety can be difficult to identify in older adults. Older adults often minimize symptoms of anxiety, thinking “this is what getting older is like” rather than “this is a problem that I should do something about,” Andreescu said.Also, seniors are more likely than younger adults to report “somatic” complaints — physical symptoms such as dizziness, fatigue, headaches, chest pain, shortness of breath, and gastrointestinal problems — that can be difficult to distinguish from underlying medical conditions, according to Gretchen Brenes, a professor of gerontology and geriatric medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.Some types of anxiety or anxious behaviors — notably, hoarding and fear of falling — are much more common in older adults, but questionnaires meant to identify anxiety don’t typically ask about those issues, said Dr. Jordan Karp, chair of psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson.When older adults voice concerns, medical providers too often dismiss them as normal, given the challenges of aging, said Dr. Eric Lenze, head of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the third author of the recent JAMA Psychiatry editorial.Simple questions can help identify whether an older adult needs to be evaluated for anxiety, he and other experts suggested: Do you have recurrent worries that are hard to control? Are you having trouble sleeping? Have you been feeling more irritable, stressed, or nervous? Are you having trouble with concentration or thinking? Are you avoiding things you normally like to do because you’re wrapped up in your worries?Stephen Snyder, 67, who lives in Zelienople, Pennsylvania, and was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder in March 2019, would answer “yes” to many of these queries. “I’m a Type A personality and I worry a lot about a lot of things — my family, my finances, the future,” he told me. “Also, I’ve tended to dwell on things that happened in the past and get all worked up.”Treatments are effective. Psychotherapy — particularly cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people address persistent negative thoughts — is generally considered the first line of anxiety treatment in older adults. In an evidence review for the task force, researchers noted that this type of therapy helps reduce anxiety in seniors seen in primary care settings.Also recommended, Lenze noted, is relaxation therapy, which can involve deep breathing exercises, massage or music therapy, yoga, and progressive muscle relaxation.Because mental health practitioners, especially those who specialize in seniors’ mental health, are extremely difficult to find, primary care physicians often recommend medications to ease anxiety. Two categories of drugs — antidepressants known as SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) and SNRIs (serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors) — are typically prescribed, and both appear to help to older adults, experts said.Frequently prescribed to older adults, but to be avoided by them, are benzodiazepines, a class of sedating medications such as Valium, Ativan, Xanax, and Klonopin. The American Geriatrics Society has warned medical providers not to use these in older adults, except when other therapies have failed, because they are addictive and significantly increase the risk of hip fractures, falls and other accidents, and short-term cognitive impairments.We’re eager to hear from readers about questions you’d like answered, problems you’ve been having with your care, and advice you need in dealing with the health care system. Visit khn.org/columnists to submit your requests or tips.KHN (Kaiser Health News) is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. Together with Policy Analysis and Polling, KHN is one of the three major operating programs at KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation). 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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has made “very impressive” progress in meeting conditions to rejoin the Commonwealth, a top official of the group of 56 mainly former British colonies said after an assessment mission, even as the opposition and other groups warned that the human rights situation is fast deteriorating.
“Zimbabwe should be part of the Commonwealth. We are traveling the same road, hand in hand,” said the organization’s Assistant Secretary-General, Luis Franceschi, who headed the assessment team.
Zimbabwe “has moved very fast and there is huge commitment” to meeting demands such as democratic reforms, he told reporters in the capital, Harare, Wednesday.
The Commonwealth team arrived in the southern African country on Saturday and ended its mission on Wednesday. It will compile a report to Commonwealth Heads of Government, who have the final say on Zimbabwe’s application to rejoin.
Former president, the late Robert Mugabe, pulled Zimbabwe out of the Commonwealth in 2003 after it became apparent that the organization would extend a suspension imposed a year earlier following elections marred by allegations of violence and rigging.
After taking power from Mugabe in 2017, President Emmerson Mnangagwa applied for readmission in 2018 as part of his push for greater international legitimacy.
Zimbabwe’s bid to rejoin the Commonwealth is part of the Mnangagwa administration’s drive to reengage with the international community after about two decades of isolation.
Zimbabwe remains under United States sanctions, while the United Kingdom and the European Union have gradually eased their own restrictions on the southern African country.
The Commonwealth team met Mnangagwa on Wednesday. It also held discussions with various stakeholders, including non-governmental organizations and the opposition, who say they support Zimbabwe’s readmission but want the country to improve its human rights record.
Readmission into the group hinges on Zimbabwe fulfilling “several rigorous steps” to ensure adherence to principles such as peace and democracy, said the Commonwealth in a statement last week.
Main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa told reporters after meeting the member team on Wednesday that democratic reforms and credible elections should be the benchmark for Zimbabwe’s readmission.
But Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said the country has made “phenomenal progress” that merits its readmission into the Commonwealth.
Addressing the same press conference, Ziyambi described reports of human rights violations such as abductions of anti-government activists as “misinformation” and “stage-managed” to hoodwink the international community.
Zimbabwe is scheduled to hold a general election next year. But many opposition figures say they are already battling intense government repression similar to that during Mugabe’s lengthy iron-fisted rule.
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SALT LAKE CITY, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Co-Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CODX) (the "Company" or "Co-Dx"), a molecular diagnostics company with a unique, patented platform for the development of molecular diagnostic tests, announced today that it will be hosting a booth at the 30th Molecular and Precision Med TRI-CON ("TRI-CON"), held virtually and in person March 6-8, 2023, in San Diego, CA.
Co-Dx, which is also one of two Premier Sponsors of the event, will also be delivering the Lunch Presentation on Monday, March 6 at 11:55 am, focusing on its upcoming at-home/POCT Co-Dx PCR Home™ platform for which the initiation of clinical evaluations was recently announced. The Company has recently made key additions to its Marketing team in preparation for commercialization of the product, which the Company expects to commence upon receipt of the appropriate regulatory authorizations.
This year, TRI-CON celebrates nearly 3 decades of serving as the leading international meeting place for the diagnostics and precision medicine community, providing in-person networking opportunities for thousands of international thought leaders to discuss the latest research, technologies, innovation and business models across the biotech, healthtech, and medtech industries. To learn more about TRI-CON, including in-person and virtual registration details, please visit https://www.triconference.com/.
Attendees interested in learning more about the Company and its products, including its upcoming Co-Dx PCR Home platform (not currently for sale and subject to FDA review), are invited to visit Booth 100.
About Co-Diagnostics, Inc.:
Co-Diagnostics, Inc., a Utah corporation, is a molecular diagnostics company that develops, manufactures and markets a state-of-the-art diagnostics technology. The Company's technology is utilized for tests that are designed using the detection and/or analysis of nucleic acid molecules (DNA or RNA). The Company also uses its proprietary technology to design specific tests for its Co-Dx PCR Home™ platform and to locate genetic markers for use in applications other than infectious disease.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to announce his run for president on Wednesday during a Twitter Spaces event alongside Twitter's Executive Chairman Elon Musk.
During a Wall Street Journal event on Tuesday, when asked if he was hosting a discussion with DeSantis, Musk confirmed the event.
"I will be interviewing Ron DeSantis and he has quite an announcement to make," Musk teased.
He went on to highlight the role Twitter will play on Wednesday.
"It will be the first time something like this is happening on social media and with real time questions and answers," Musk said. "Not scripted. So it's going to be live and let 'er rip. Let's see what happens."
The choice of Twitter as the platform to announce a presidential run is notable. The social media giant was once the favorite platform of former President Donald Trump, who spent two years banned from the site before having his account reinstated earlier this year. He has not tweeted since his reinstatement.
Trump often drove national conversation with a tweet and now uses the much less popular site, Truth Social, to elevate his messaging.
DeSantis' wife, Casey DeSantis, further teased the likely run on Twitter with a video showing DeSantis taking to a stage with an American flag backdrop.
America is worth the fight... Every. Single. Time. pic.twitter.com/lWNQ3DIXgp
— Casey DeSantis (@CaseyDeSantis) May 23, 2023
DeSantis has flirted with a campaign for president for several months, taking trips to early voting states like Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada. He also leaned heavily into the culture war in Florida's recent legislative session, passing abortion bans, book bans and drag bans, among other legislation focused on conservative priorities.
DeSantis has consistently ranked second in nationwide polls of Republican candidates. Trump remains the frontrunner, often ahead of DeSantis by 30 points.
Trump has targeted DeSantis in his own campaign messaging, using personal attacks and his signature disparaging nicknames.
DeSantis is not the only Republican candidate to announce a campaign this week, if that is his plan. South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott also launched a bid for the White House in his home state on Monday.
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MADISON, Conn., May 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Precision X-Ray, Inc. ("Precision"), a global leader in cabinet X-ray irradiators, is excited to announce the launch of CellRadHD, our next generation high-dose benchtop irradiator with integrated dosimetry and dose control.
With over 20 years of experience and leadership in biological X-Ray cabinet systems, Precision continues to push the boundaries with the addition of the CellRadHD, the newest system in our bench-top family, offering the highest-dose available in a benchtop unit. The higher dose of the CellRadHD accommodates multiple sample sizes for cell and tissue irradiation and overall increases throughput. With integrated dosimetry and Automatic Dose Control software, users can expect repeatable and reproducible results across experiments.
"Precision prides itself on knowing and anticipating our customer's needs. The CellRadHD System is Precision's next step in the evolution of our benchtop x-ray irradiators used for cell and tissue irradiation. Because you can put the system on a benchtop right next to the incubator, CellRadHD will help labs maintain safety and security, and maximize workflow. The CellRadHD has improved power (1200W/160 kVp) compared to its predecessor, increasing throughput, a feature important in feeder cell and stem cell development." said Viktoriya Baytser, CEO.
About Precision
Headquartered in Madison, Connecticut, Precision X-Ray, Inc. is the largest dedicated manufacturer of cabinet x-ray irradiation systems, providing safe, reliable, and reproducible results. Since the turn of the century, we continue to provide thousands of partners around the world with products that lead technological innovation in commercial, agricultural, and academic irradiation treatment fields.
It is our mission to innovate and develop next-generation x-ray technology to inspire new and daring research in the global fight against disease as well as other critical, multi-industry applications in a wide array of emerging fields.
State-of-the-art research demands high performance and reliable technology to achieve accurate and reproducible results … Precision delivers with the global standard for x-ray irradiation and imaging research systems.
For more information about the new CellRadHD system and other Precision products and services, please contact Debra Peris, Marketing Manager at dperis@pxinc.com
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Weinstein accuser takes stand in LA after New York testimony
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The New York trial of Harvey Weinstein and its California sequel had a rare crossover Monday as the only accuser of the former movie magnate to testify at both took the stand in Los Angeles and said she was sexually assaulted by him in a Beverly Hills hotel bathroom in 2013 while repeatedly telling him “no.”
Lauren Young said she was paralyzed by fear when Harvey Weinstein blocked her from leaving the bathroom, masturbated in front of her and groped her breasts.
“I was scared of Harvey Weinstein — that he would hurt me, or send someone to hurt me, or ruin my career, or make my life hell,” Young told the court.
When Young testified in New York in February of 2020, she was not one of the accusers whose stories would lead to Weinstein’s conviction for rape and sexual assault and a 23-year prison sentence. But prosecutors called on her to testify to help establish a pattern of Weinstein preying on women.
In Los Angeles, Weinstein is charged with sexual battery by restraint for the same allegations.
Young said Monday that in early 2013, she was a model who was aspiring to be an actress and screenwriter, and through Weinstein’s assistant, who had become a friend, she set up a meeting with him at the Montage Hotel on the night of Feb. 19, 2013, about a script she was working on.
During the meeting, Weinstein said she should accompany him to his room to continue the talk while he got ready for an event.
Young said Weinstein led her into the room and then the bathroom, and his assistant shut the door behind them and left them alone.
She said she was stunned as he quickly shed his suit and got briefly in the shower, then stepped out and blocked her from leaving when she went for the door.
“I was disgusted,” she said. “I had never seen a big guy like that naked.”
She said she backed up against a sink and turned away from him. He then unzipped her dress and groped her with one hand as he masturbated with the other.
Weinstein’s attorney Alan Jackson gave the two-week-old trial rare moments of visual drama with a pair of clothing demonstrations during cross-examination.
He pulled out the dress Young had been wearing that night and got her to acknowledge that a DNA test failed to prove Weinstein had touched it.
Jackson also tried to cast doubt on whether Weinstein could have slipped out of his suit as quickly as she described. He pulled off his own suit coat to demonstrate.
“I’m just going to take my jacket off, I’m not going to go any further,” Jackson said.
“Please don’t,” Young answered.
When asked how Weinstein could have unfastened everything so quickly, Young answered that he may have gotten started while he was walking down the hall, a method she used to use for quick changes as a model.
“Does Mr. Weinstein strike you as a model?” Jackson asked.
“No, but he’s definitely a monster,” Young replied.
Like all of the women Weinstein is charged with sexually assaulting at the trial, Young is going by Jane Doe in court. The Associated Press typically does not publish the names of people alleging sexual assault unless they give their consent, as Young has done through her lawyer.
Young’s testimony closely hewed to her account during the New York trial. But during cross-examination, Jackson pointed out that it differed in many respects from her early accounts to police starting in 2018, when she called a hotline set up for reports about Weinstein after the #MeToo movement exploded.
Young initially told detectives that the assault had taken place a year earlier, days after she had been at a dinner with Weinstein at a Beverly Hills restaurant. Jackson pointed out that she was saying the same as recently as 2020.
“I was sure that I was sexually assaulted,” Young said.
“That wasn’t my question,” the lawyer replied. “I’m asking about the time. Something that would stick in your mind.”
Jackson also brought up her previous confusion about the site of the assault, and she acknowledged that she could not name the hotel in her first three interviews with authorities, the most recent in 2020.
“I had pushed it out of my memory,” Young said.
She decided it was the Montage when police suggested it and took her to the suite where Weinstein had been staying.
“And since then your testimony and your statements have gotten far more detailed and far more colorful, right?” Jackson said.
“My trauma, I got to relive it by walking through that room,” Young said. “I had been in other rooms and didn’t feel anything. When I walked in that room, I felt everything flow back in.”
According to allegations in an indictment and court testimony, the assault of Young came the day after Weinstein raped an Italian model at a different hotel during the run-up to that year’s Academy Awards, where Weinstein was annually a major player.
Weinstein, 70, has pleaded not guilty to 11 counts of rape and sexual assault involving five women. He has said that many of those incidents were consensual, though in the case of Young his defense denies there was any sexual interaction at all.
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Apple is now the first public company to be valued at $3 trillion
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple became the first publicly traded company to close a trading day with a $3 trillion market value, marking another milestone for a technology juggernaut that has reshaped society with a line-up of products that churn out eye-popping profits.
Apple shares closed up 2.3% at $193.97 Friday, bringing its market value to $3.04 trillion. Apple is one of a handful of technology companies, including Microsoft and chipmaker Nvidia, that helped drive the S&P 500 to a gain of nearly 16% in the first half of the year.
The 47-year-old company co-founded by Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs had briefly eclipsed a $3 trillion market value on back-to-back days in January 2022, but couldn’t hold on by the time the market closed. Instead, Apple’s stock sunk into a prolonged descent that pushed its market value briefly below $2 trillion earlier this year amid a slowdown in growth and investor jitters about rising interest rates that affected the entire tech sector.
Apple didn’t come close to the $3 trillion threshold again until earlier this month when the company unveiled what could be its next big product — a high-priced headset called Vision Pro that thrusts users into artificial settings known as virtual reality.
Although the significance of reaching a $3 trillion market value is largely symbolic, its magnitude is still breathtaking.
Consider, for instance, that $3 trillion could buy nearly 9 million homes in the U.S., based on the average sales price during the past year as calculated by Zillow. It could also buy the 50 most valuable sports teams in the world with plenty of change to spare. If $3 trillion were distributed equally to every person in the United States, each person would receive about $9,000.
Microsoft is the second-most valuable public company at $2.5 trillion. Oil giant Saudi Aramco has a market value of $2.08 trillion. Alphabet, the parent of Google, Amazon and Nvidia have market values above $1 trillion.
It took Apple less than two years to close with a $3 trillion market value after topping $2 trillion for the first time in August 2021, which occurred about two years after the Cupertino, California, company reached $1 trillion for the first time.
The cascading trillions have been driven by the technology empire that Apple has built since Jobs returned to the company in 1997 after being pushed aside by then-CEO John Sculley in 1985. At the time of Jobs’ comeback, Apple was flirting with bankruptcy and so desperate for help that it turned to its once-bitter rival Microsoft for a cash infusion.
Today, Apple makes so much money that it can afford to pay $105 billion annually in investor dividends and repurchases of its own stock — and still be left with nearly $56 billion in cash at the end of its last fiscal quarter.
The iPhone, unveiled by Jobs in 2007 with his hallmark showmanship, remains the crown jewel in Apple’s kingdom. Last year, the device accounted more than half of the company’s nearly $400 billion in sales.
The rest of Apple’s revenue flows in from other products such as the Macintosh computer, iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods and a services division that includes music and video streaming, warranty programs, fees collected through the iPhone app store and advertising commissions that Google pays to be the default search engine on the iPhone.
Although most of Apple’s innovations were hatched while Jobs was running the company, most of its wealth has been created under the reign of its current CEO, Tim Cook, who took over as CEO shortly before Jobs died in October 2011. When Jobs passed the baton to Cook, Apple’s market value stood at $350 billion.
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TIPPECANOE COUNTY, Ind. (WLFI) — A community member who recently moved to the Lafayette area from South Bend Indiana is making a difference.
Dan Kiefer lives in Arbor Village where he runs his own food pantry out of his trailer. This is a part of The Center for Restoration Ministry he founded during 2012 in South Bend. After needing to move for health and family reasons, Kiefer is trying to build his Ministry in the Greater Lafayette area.
After experiencing hardships and struggle during his life Kiefer wants to give back in any way he can.
"I’ve been in so many bad difficult places that I have a passion for people now. Because I’ve been there done that. And there's been times when people come to the food pantry, saying 'I never expected to come here' literally in tears. And I was crying with them literally because I’ve been there and done that myself," Kiefer shares.
Not only does the Ministry run a food pantry but also provides services such as 12 step Christian drug and alcohol meetings, Holiday meals and gifts, Bible studies and free giveaways.
The food pantry is open everyday of the week with Monday through Saturday being from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday being 1 p.m. through 6 p.m..
For the exact address, updates and to contact Kiefer about the Center for Restoration Ministry you can find the link to its Facebook page here and Facebook group here. | https://www.wlfi.com/news/indiana/lafayette-man-running-food-pantry-from-his-trailer/article_72ddc90a-90e8-11ed-acf9-abcdf2d5eb7f.html | 2023-01-11 09:37:25 | 1 | https://www.wlfi.com/news/indiana/lafayette-man-running-food-pantry-from-his-trailer/article_72ddc90a-90e8-11ed-acf9-abcdf2d5eb7f.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says it won't take the plunge into a dispute over Michigan State University's decision to end its swimming-and-diving teams, a decision female athletes sued over.
The case was one of many the high court rejected Monday. As is typical, the justices didn't comment in turning away the case.
The dispute the justices rejected stems from MSU's decision to end its men’s and women’s swimming-and-diving teams after the 2021 season. The school cited cost as the reason, saying its swimming and diving facilities needed millions in upgrades.
Members of the women's team sued saying the decision violated federal anti-discrimination law, commonly known as Title IX. A judge rejected a request to keep the women’s team alive while the lawsuit proceeded, saying she doubted the female swimmers would prevail at the end of the litigation. But a three-judge federal appeals court panel later ruled 2-1 that the judge should take another look at the case.
The court said Judge Hala Jarbou miscalculated a key metric in determining if Title IX is being violated. On reviewing the case a second time, the judge didn't order the team reinstated but told MSU it must develop and submit its own Title IX compliance plan. School officials have said they're discussing reinstating the swimming-and-diving program. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/High-court-won-t-hear-Title-IX-case-involving-17648034.php | 2022-12-12 16:40:04 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/High-court-won-t-hear-Title-IX-case-involving-17648034.php |
Not everyone is working with a Tiffany's budget for Valentine's Day. Even if you are, there's no need to drop all that dough just to make Feb. 14 an extra special day. As a bonafide lover of all things edible, I'm always happy to receive something I can nibble on, sip or cook with versus more junk that'll just take up space (in case anyone I know is listening).
If you're scanning for tasty food or drink gifts this Valentine's Day, you've made a wise choice, and you certainly don't need to spend a ton of money to do it right. There are mountains of delicious gifts that work with any budget, and we've assembled a few of our favorites.
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From rose-shaped wine and sassy conversation candy to addicting condiments and truffles so good you might go faint, these are the best Valentine's Day food gifts under $25.
Sugarfina has the market nearly cornered when it comes to adorable sweets. As a bonus, they all taste great and the confectioner features some unusual flavors. For Valentine's Day, nab a box of these charming Champagne-flavored gummies. The price might seem steep for candy but that's because they're made with actual Dom Perignon Champagne, flavored with Brut and Rosé
If bears are too scary, there are also Sugarfina Lips, and Rosé Roses to consider.
Chocolate on Valentine's Day? Groundbreaking, I know. But if you're going to give it, give the good stuff. I'm partial to creamy truffles and La Maison Du Chocolat takes the craft very seriously. These handmade truffles aren't overly sweet, which I prefer but dense with rich chocolate flavor. A two-pack is $10 or you can spring for a 13-piece box for $45.
Ditch the packet of Ortega taco seasoning and use Oaktown's freakin' delicious Mexican-inspired spices instead. This two-pack includes a bottle of Chili Limón and Rojito Yucatán, which combines annatto seed, citrus, onion, garlic and clove.
If normal convo hearts candy seems a little tame and a tad boring, try a box of the adult version to get some giggles -- and maybe more.
I'm far too dignified to list these saucy saying out loud, but that doesn't mean I didn't just order a few boxes.
This spicy, citrusy salt is excellent around the rim of a margarita but it'll liven up chicken and fish, too. Pair it with a special bottle of tequila and offer to mix your Valentine the classic cocktail.
Rosé is already an easy Valentine's Day win, but this Cote des Roses with a rose-shaped bottle bottom takes things a step further. The wine itself is from Languedoc in the South of France with "notes of raspberry and peony." Best of all, the bottle takes on the appearance of a rose. Sneak one upside down nestled into a dozen roses for a most-charming presentation.
This salty-sweet treat also happens to be a cheeky way to let them know you think they're the best. They can drizzle this honey on everything from fried chicken to cake, but if they're more of a spicy little number, there's also a Bees Knees hot honey with habanero peppers.
Smart gardens may get faster results, but in terms of style, they don't have anything on this small Japanese indoor planter. Grow fresh mint, basil or sage on the kitchen windowsill and never go without.
If your Valentine likes the occasional steak or burger but hasn't tapped into the wonder of cast iron yet, this is a perfect chance to alter the course of their cooking forever. Cast iron is the optimal indoor cooking material for most meats, as it gets screaming hot and holds heat for magazine-cover-worthy sear marks.
This isn't the first time I've sung the praises of mighty chili crisp, and it shan't be the last. It is hard to keep this jar of slightly spicy, slightly sweet, slightly toasty condiment around for long so you might want to bag a few while you're at it.
For the tea lover in your life who also appreciates minimalism, this ceramic cup comes with a lid and single-serving metal infuser insert, so they can brew in the same mug they drink from. It's available in several solid colors as well as patterns, to suit anybody's style. And the double-walled design keeps their tea hot and their hands comfortably warm (not scalded).
For tastes that skew savory, a set of nice cheese knives is a winning gift, especially if you include a wedge or two of decent fromage and a bottle of wine (which you might just be able to manage at this price). These modern slicers and servers come in a fancy gold or matte black finish.
This set of boutique lollipops (flavors include lavender lemongrass, vanilla hibiscus, Champagne and roses and strawberry basil) is already sweet enough, but don't toss those sticks in the trash. Pot them in soil and they'll sprout into various plants, from herbs to baby blue eyes blooms. Does this count as buying flowers?
Does it seem a little cheesy to give someone pizza socks for Valentine's Day? We think not, especially for someone with a healthy sense of humor -- and love of pepperoni, of course. (A whole pizza made of socks is even more incredible, but $1 over the $25 limit.) You can also get sushi socks, if that doesn't seem too... fishy.
This punny line of date-sweetened spreads is perfect for sweethearts with a healthy bent. Free of refined sugar and oils, these vegan dessert spreads are paleo-friendly, and perfect for slathering on toast or whatever else you like. They're sold separately in chocolate, vanilla, cookie, cinnamon and pumpkin spice flavors and are also available on Amazon. | https://www.cnet.com/deals/food-gifts-under-25-for-valentines-day/ | 2023-01-20 18:35:55 | 1 | https://www.cnet.com/deals/food-gifts-under-25-for-valentines-day/ |
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NWEA – a not-for-profit, research and educational services organization serving K-12 students – announced today a new research project funded by Reading Reimagined, an Inclusive R&D program, housed within the Advanced Education Research & Development Fund. The award will test a new protocol for middle- and high-school teachers to use during classroom instruction to improve fluency outcomes for students from historically marginalized populations (e.g., Black, Latinx) who are striving to read on grade level and beyond. Based on the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data, only about 31% of eighth-grade students performed at or above proficient in reading, with historically marginalized student groups faring even worse, and research indicates that fluency is a key contributing variable to overall reading proficiency.
NWEA's research project will focus on empowering middle and secondary educators with an easily administered protocol to address fluency with simple instructional techniques that do not require expertise in teaching foundational skills in reading, while engaging the student as a partner in the work. Free to teachers, the protocol will add simple and scalable strategies around word recognition and language comprehension to existing lesson plans. In addition, the protocol will support student engagement by cultivating a growth mindset with purpose and relevance for fluency learning.
"We are intentionally focusing on secondary students because formal reading instruction tends to wane off by the end of fifth grade," said Dr. Miah Daughtery, Vice President of Academic Services, Literacy, at NWEA. "What happens to middle school students who are not reading fluently? We have stopped assuming that the English teacher in middle school has been prepared to teach reading, and our research project will provide secondary teachers with tools and professional learning to help students continue to grow as readers."
The project will be conducted over the next academic year with a final report produced late next summer. For more information about the project, visit https://aerdf.org/programs/reading-reimagined/eflr/
NWEA® (formerly known as Northwest Evaluation Association) is a mission-driven, not-for-profit organization that supports students and educators in more than 146 countries through research, assessment solutions, policy and advocacy services, professional learning and school improvement services that fight for equity, drive classroom impact and push for systemic change in our educational communities. Visit NWEA.org to learn more about how we're partnering with educators to help all kids learn.
Contact: Simona Beattie, Sr. Manager, Public Relations, simona.beattie@nwea.org or 971.361.9526
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who caused evacuations and an hourslong standoff with police on Capitol Hill when he claimed he had a bomb in his pickup truck outside the Library of Congress pleaded guilty on Friday to a charge of threatening to use an explosive.
Floyd Ray Roseberry, of Grover, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to the felony charge in Washington federal court. He faces up to 10 years behind bars and is scheduled to be sentenced in June.
An email seeking comment was sent to his attorney on Friday.
Roseberry, 52, drove a black pickup truck onto the sidewalk outside the Library of Congress in August 2021 and began shouting to people in the street that he had a bomb. He later made the same bomb threats to police officers and professed a litany of antigovernment grievances as part of a bizarre episode that he livestreamed for a Facebook audience.
Police later said they did not find a bomb but did collect possible bomb-making materials. Roseberry surrendered after about five hours.
During an initial court appearance, Roseberry told the judge he had not taken his “mind medicine” and the judge ordered a mental competency hearing.
A psychiatrist found that medication that Roseberry had been taking wasn’t effectively treating his diagnosed bipolar disorder. A magistrate judge later ruled that the new treatment had been effective and Roseberry was competent to stand trial. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/man-who-claimed-he-had-bomb-near-capitol-pleads-guilty/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2023-01-27 21:59:42 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/man-who-claimed-he-had-bomb-near-capitol-pleads-guilty/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
CHICAGO, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago (FHLBank Chicago) today announced the results of its 2022 Director Election. Members elected two directors from Illinois, one director from Wisconsin, and one public interest independent director who ran unopposed. Each director will serve a four-year term beginning January 1, 2023.
Illinois members elected Betsy A. Johnson and Michael G. O'Rourke.
Betsy A. Johnson is the current President and CEO of Solutions Bank, formerly known as Forreston State Bank. The bank currently employs 68 bankers, $440 million in assets with seven locations in four counties of northern Illinois. Ms. Johnson and management acquired and merged two banks in the last two years. Since 2010, Ms. Johnson has been a director on the boards of the bank and holding company. Outside of banking, she has been a zone chair for the Lions Club and serves as the treasurer for her local Lions Club. She has served on the Forrestville Valley School Foundation as a member and treasurer and continues to be involved in the Foundation's fundraising committee for the last 20 years. She has also served as church council president, pastor search committee, and building committee. Ms. Johnson is a 2003 graduate of the Graduate School of Banking-Madison (GSB-Madison). She has been a strong advocate of the school and has served since 2017 as the current Chair of the Banker Advisory Board, GSB-Madison. Through involvement in the Illinois Bankers Association (IBA), Ms. Johnson has served and chaired numerous committees. She joined the Board of Directors in 2017, the Executive Committee in 2019, and is the current Chair for the IBA. Ms. Johnson also serves on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Community Banker Advisory Committee since 2021 along with 17 other community bankers from the U.S.
Michael "Mick" G. O'Rourke currently serves as President and CEO of Signature Bank and has over 30 years banking experience. He previously served as Associated Bank Executive Vice President, until he left to organize Signature Bank. He was previously employed by LaSalle Bank N.A. and American National Bank. Mr. O'Rourke is currently the Chairman of the Board of St. Patrick High School and Treasurer of the Western Golf Association/Evans Scholar Foundation. He is a member of the Community Bank Council for the American Bankers Association. He also serves as a Director of St. Angela School, the American Ireland Fund, and the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce. He served as Director of the Illinois Banker Association from 2009-2015 and served as Director of Navy Pier from 2010-2020. Also, he previously was a Director of Schawk, Inc. (SGK) and Lancer Insurance. Mr. O'Rourke has a bachelor's degree from Marquette University and a master's degree from Loyola University in Chicago.
Wisconsin members re-elected Ty R. Taylor. Mr. Taylor has been President and CEO of Waukesha State Bank since 2004 and has been with the bank since 1991. Prior to becoming President and CEO of Waukesha State Bank, he oversaw the bank's commercial and mortgage lending services, among other responsibilities. From 1990 to 1991, Mr. Taylor was employed at M&I Marshall & Ilsley Bank. Mr. Taylor has volunteered extensively with various local non-profit organizations. Mr. Taylor has a B.A. in Economics from Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, and is a graduate of the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ty R. Taylor has been a Board member of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago since 2019 and has served on the Public Policy, Operations and Technology, and Risk Management Committees.
For the public interest independent director seat, FHLBank Chicago members elected Kevin L. Newell.
Kevin L. Newell is the founder of the Royal Capital Group and has served as CEO since 2010. Royal Capital is a real estate development firm focused on the creation of economic development and housing in the urban core. The company produces hundreds of new affordable housing units in nationwide while providing total wrap around services in the interest of the community. The organization has created family housing, senior housing, and supportive housing with services. As the CEO of the organization, Mr. Newell has led the company's efforts on business development, strategy, and its investment profile. As the leader of the organization, he serves as an advocate and urban planner aligned with the aim to provide quality, safe, affordable housing that is in the interest of the community. Mr. Newell also serves on the Great Milwaukee Foundation Impact Investment Committee, the Guest House of Milwaukee, MLK Economic Development Corporation. Mr. Newell continues to be an active member of the Wisconsin Preservation Fund since 2017. He has a BBA and MBA graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater with an emphasis in Finance and Management, and an ACRE Alum at Marquette University. Mr. Newell has served on the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago Community Advisory Council since 2019.
The mission of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago is to partner with our members in FHLBank Chicago partners with our members in Illinois and Wisconsin to provide them competitively priced funding, a reasonable return on their investment in the Bank, and support for their community investment activities. FHLBank Chicago is one of 11 Federal Home Loan Banks created by Congress in 1932 as a government sponsored enterprise to support mortgage lending and community investment. We are member owned and member focused. FHLBank Chicago members include banks, credit unions, insurance companies, and community development financial institutions.
To learn more about FHLBank Chicago, visit fhlbc.com.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- sweetFrog (www.sweetFrog.com), the premium frozen yogurt brand, is partnering with ICEE® on a cool, new summertime swirl. The sweetFrog ICEE® swirl is now available at participating U.S. sweetFrog stores.
This summer, guests can cool off with a new swirl made with Cherry ICEE® Sorbet and Blue Raspberry ICEE® Sorbet. These two familiar and beloved flavors are swirled together, combining two favorites into one sweet cup.
"We are excited to partner with ICEE this summer on a new sorbet swirl," said Heather Marini, senior national marketing manager for Kahala Brands®, parent company of sweetFrog. "The two flavors together combine these longtime favorites and offer our guests an alternative to dairy all summer long!"
The sweetFrog ICEE® swirl will be available at participating U.S. sweetFrog stores for a limited time until August 30, 2022.
Promotional Flavor:
- Cherry ICEE® Sorbet
- Blue Raspberry ICEE® Sorbet
Promotional Swirl:
- Cherry ICEE® Sorbet and Blue Raspberry ICEEdd Sorbet
About sweetFrog®
sweetFrog, one of the country's top frozen yogurt concepts, prides itself on providing a family-friendly environment where customers can enjoy premium frozen yogurt, ice cream, gelato and sorbets with the toppings of their choice. There are more than 250 sweetFrog locations in over 25 states and the Dominican Republic. In 2018, sweetFrog was acquired by MTY Franchising USA, Inc., a member of one of the fastest growing franchising conglomerates in the world. Between it and its subsidiaries, it has a portfolio of nearly 30 fast-casual and quick-service restaurant brands with approximately 3,000 locations in 35 countries.
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About The ICEE Company
Founded in 1967, The ICEE Company is the leader and innovator in the frozen beverage industry, offering the most comprehensive frozen beverage package and service network in the beverage and foodservice categories. The brand portfolio includes ICEE, SLUSH PUPPIE, PARROT-ICE fruit smoothies, THELMA's frozen lemonade, and frozen cocktails. The ICEE Company is also a major service provider to the foodservice category through ICEE Managed Service. The ICEE Company is a subsidiary of J&J Snack Foods Corp. (NASDAQ-JJSF), and operates Service Centers throughout the United States, Mexico, Canada. ICEE is distributed globally across Europe, China, Central America, the GCC and Australia.
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Skye Yayoi Drynan, Founder, CEO and Creative Director of House of Skye, unveiled her new collection of Bareback's women's and men's intimates at the Calamigos Ranch in Malibu. The event featured a fireside chat with Skye coupled with entertainment by the Herman Jackson band, with special performances by singer and DJ Esther Anaya, and the DJ duo FOREALISM.
The House of Skye soirée and fundraiser for ASAF Angels included special guests Nick Cooper, of American Idol, Darius Coleman, winner of NBC's Songland, as well as music artist and producer, Maejor. Actors Lisa Ann Walters and Jason Lewis (who was just announced as a contestant on the new season of Dancing with the Stars), along with supermodel Liz Godwin were also in attendance amongst many other VIP's and influencers from the worlds of fashion, music, film, art and finance.
During the evening, Skye announced the launch of the new House of Skye E-Commerce website www.HouseofSkye.shop. Here you will find Bareback's intimates line, as well as, House of Skye's one-of-a-kind Dulce Bestia red carpet statement pieces and a preview of her upcoming Snow Beast line.
House of Skye is a solutions-based luxury lifestyle brand that blends patented technology with fit, function, and a bold aesthetic. Our unique patented solutions-based designs underpin House of Skye's product lines; Bareback, Dulce Bestia, and Snow Beast.
Bareback is an innovative and fashion-forward intimates brand powered by patented technology. We are revolutionizing everyday intimates by creating high-tech, high-function and high-fashion solutions that uniquely balance beauty, comfort and function.
House of Skye is pioneering "nude" intimates for men. The Bareback men's sports brief is the perfect blend of style, sex appeal and comfort. A hidden pocket lets the wearer discretely carry daily and nightly "essentials." Featuring 6 colors, the Bareback Men's Sport Brief compliments a variety of skin tones.
Bareback's Sexy Back Bra is the ultimate transformer bra with over 14 different ways to wear. This innovative design and technology boast 5 Issued Design Patents, 2 Issued Utility Patents and 2 Pending Patents in 100+ Countries.
Truly a bra for all occasions, Skye Yayoi Drynan invented the Sexy Back Bra with versatility, reliability, comfort and style in mind. Designed with 22 Tabs and 8 Adjustable Straps, the Sexy Back Bra is an engineering feat in women's intimates. The Sexy Back Bra's Smart and Sexy Tab and Strap system allows it to fit a variety of body types. Better fit translates into greater comfort and a smoother back aesthetic. From boardrooms to ballrooms, from beaches to bars, this elegant bra can elevate any outfit. The bra is available in sizes 32 to 40 A-DD in traditional sizing. To purchase the Bareback Sexy Back Bra and Men's Sports Brief visit: www.HouseofSkye.shop
Designed for those who are born to lead. Our bold aesthetic and bespoke craftsmanship are celebrity favorites. We believe that you should dress like that star you are. Dulce Bestia creates capsule collections that infuse high-tech, high-function and high fashion into every garment to provide our customers with a timeless signature style.
Our innovative glamping gear and outdoor wear line bridges the gap between high-function and high-fashion. Underpinned by patented technology, we believe that safety and function should not come at the cost of beauty.
Skye Yayoi Drynan is a true renaissance woman. Skye is a designer, singer/songwriter and entrepreneur who holds global patents in tech and fashion for her inventions. A self-made woman from Montana, this former biotech maven (22-years) made a name for herself in fashion with her globally-patented Sexy Back Bra and celebrity-coveted Dulce Bestia couture line. Her couture line donned by top celebrities like Kevin Jonas, Lady Gaga, Gwen Stefani, Carrie Underwood, Iggy Azalea, Miranda Lambert, and Paris Hilton to name a few. Skye's inspirational story and her bold designs are featured in television shows, music videos, concert stages, magazine covers, and on the red carpet. This Wellesley alumna draws creative inspiration from her Japanese roots, travel and the rugged beauty of her home state, Montana, where she lives with her fiancé and her two dogs.
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Navajo Nation declares widespread Medicaid scam in Arizona a public health state of emergency
PHOENIX (AP) — A widespread Arizona Medicaid scam that has left an unknown number of Native Americans homeless on the streets of metro Phoenix is being declared a public health state of emergency by the Navajo Nation as fraudulent sober living homes lose their funding and turn former residents out onto the streets.
The emergency declaration was issued late last week by the Navajo Nation Commission on Emergency Management and signed this week by Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, according to documents posted on the Facebook page of the tribe’s Operation Rainbow Bridge, which was created to deal with the scam’s effects on its enrolled members.
“There are significant concerns about the impacts to Navajo Nation lives from abrupt displacement that have affected an estimated 5,000 to 8,000 Navajo individuals, particularly in the exacerbation of medical, and public health risks associated with lack of immediate intervention and preventive services,” the declaration reads.
The declaration allows the tribe to add more personnel, travel resources, medical supplies, funding and other means of support to address the ongoing problem.
Navajo Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch said earlier this month that the tribe’s law enforcement teams over the course of several weeks made contact with more than 270 Native Americans released onto the streets of metro Phoenix by sober living homes that have been targeted by a state crackdown on fraudulent billing.
Navajos account for most Native Americans grappling with addictions who have been affected by the scam and subsequent crackdown.
The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community has also warned its members about the deceptive providers with billboards outside its reservation in Scottsdale, Arizona.
The Arizona Health Care Cost Containment system, the agency that manages Medicaid payments for the state, this week announced several more changes that aim to stop payments to deceptive organizations that have been billing for services that are not provided, not appropriate, or unnecessary.
The agency’s website says a six-month moratorium is being placed on new enrollments for certain types of residential and outpatient behavioral health providers and non-emergency transportation services. Some providers will now be required to have background checks and site visits.
Providers also can no longer bill the state for Medicaid money on behalf of others, and certain kinds of claims are now being flagged.
Payments have been cut off to more than 100 of providers suspected of fraudulent billing.
Arizona officials announced in May they were investigating a huge Medicaid funding scam that potentially affected thousands of people, most of them believed to be Native Americans.
State officials believe the fake homes have defrauded Arizona out of hundreds of millions of its share of federal Medicaid dollars. Arizona authorities so far have seized $75 million and have issued 45 indictments in the investigation that also includes the FBI and the U.S. Attorney General’s Office.
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LeBron James is 38 years old. He is in Season 20 of his NBA career. He is, by conventional basketball-playing standards, ancient.
History says his decline should have started already.
Except it hasn’t. Not even close. And count that as just another example of what sets James apart from so many other greats, so many other superstars of their sport who were good enough for long enough to climb atop some lists in the record books.
The NBA’s new scoring leader — he caught Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Tuesday night, one Los Angeles Lakers great taking the record from another — is still one of the very best in the game. He is talking about playing two more years, three more years, maybe more. He could raise the scoring-record bar so high by the time he retires that it would be, at best, highly unrealistic for anyone to catch him.
“I know I’m still playing at a high level. … I’ve been able to do some incredible things in this league,” James said after he scored 38 points on the record-setting night to lift his career total to 38,390 — three more than Abdul-Jabbar, whose reign atop the NBA scoring list ended after almost 39 years. “And hopefully I can do some more incredible things before I’m done.”
The unfortunate part about most longevity records is this: Young athletes don’t set them. By design, they’re usually broken by athletes who are at or near the end of their career.
Take Pete Rose, for example. Rose got his 4,192nd career hit — a record-breaker, the one where he passed Ty Cobb’s official total (some say Rose actually had the record a few hits earlier, but the recognized number for Cobb by Major League Baseball remains 4,191 hits) — on Sept. 11, 1985.
At that moment, when Rose lined that hit off Eric Show, he was a .304 career hitter. But after the record-setter, he batted .225 for the remainder of his career. In fairness, he was 44 and 45 years old during that stint of batting .225.
He slowed down. It happens to everyone. Well, almost everyone.
“I think about the wear and tear on LeBron’s body and the lack of sleep and the 3 1/2 games a week, season after season, how he takes care of himself,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said. “I hope the young players pay attention to that. Anyone who’s ever been around LeBron, he’s always working on his body.”
Tiger Woods got 79 wins in 295 PGA Tour starts between 1996 and 2013, a ridiculously high-for-golf 27% winning rate. Since then, after off-the-course issues and a slew of injuries, Woods has won three times in 62 starts. He has tied Sam Snead for the all-time wins record on tour with 82. No one would dare doubt that Woods can find a way to get one more win and claim the record outright, but few would also say that it should be considered likely.
Wayne Gretzky caught Gordie Howe for the all-time NHL goals record and was still every bit The Great One — his moniker for decades now. But over his last five seasons after setting the record, Gretzky’s production predictably dipped a bit. He averaged 0.25 goals and 1.1 points per game over those last five seasons, at the ages of 34 through 38. Before that, he averaged 0.71 goals and 2.2 points per game.
Even Abdul-Jabbar, after catching Wilt Chamberlain in 1984, saw his numbers decrease. Before the record, Abdul-Jabbar averaged 27.0 points. Afterward, 17.7 points.
“Kareem was a great player his entire career, even after setting the record,” said Pat Riley, his coach with the Lakers and now the president of the Miami Heat. “The record didn’t change anything for him.”
There are two notable exceptions to the notion that says player production almost always must drop off after setting records.
James is the first one. Kobe Bryant averaged 17.6 points in his 20th season, a record for anyone who played that deep into their NBA career. It won’t be a record much longer. James is averaging 30 per game in his 20th season.
The other exception is Tom Brady.
The recently retired seven-time Super Bowl champion never slowed down after catching Drew Brees for three of the biggest records a quarterback can have — most completions, most touchdowns and most yards.
Consider what Brady did this season, his 23rd, at 45 years old: 4,694 yards, 25 touchdown passes, a career-best and league-high 490 completions, a career-best and league-high 733 attempts. It might not have been his best year, but it was still incredibly prolific.
“There’s always going to be a part that wants to play and a part of me that feels like I can play,” Brady said on his “Let’s Go!” podcast when explaining his retirement decision. “I think there’s just a decision to know that it’s the right time. I think for me, it’s going to end at some point and now’s the time.”
Brady never dropped off. Ever.
So far, we can say the same about James. He continues to defy Father Time.
And now, sit back and watch how many more points he adds to this total. Barring injury, 40,000 points will happen. If he plays two or three more full seasons, 42,000 or 43,000 isn’t unthinkable.
“He’s going to extend this record even further,” Abdul-Jabbar told TNT after the game Tuesday night. “And it’ll be interesting to see how far it goes.”
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Plea deal reached with nurse accused of stealing from Lexington hospice patient
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - A plea deal has been reached in the case of a Lexington nurse accused of stealing medicine from a hospice patient.
Cathy Young was arrested in 2020 after police say she stole pills from Doris Grant, who was under hospice care. Police say Young had more than 70 acetaminophen and oxycodone hydrochloride pills inside her vehicle when she was arrested.
According to court officials, Young entered an Alford plea in November to tampering with physical evidence. The two other charges she faced, theft by unlawful taking or disposition of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance, were dismissed as part of the plea deal.
An Alford plea means a defendant doesn’t admit guilt but acknowledges prosecutors have enough evidence to convict.
The recommended sentence for the plea agreement was three years. However, at her sentencing hearing Monday, Young’s attorneys filed a memorandum requesting probation instead.
We’ll keep you updated.
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SAN ANTONIO — If you're looking for a night of laughter, then you may want to get your tickets to see comedian Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias.
He's back on tour and heading to the AT&T Center on Oct. 8. at 8 p.m.
This is part of his all new 2022 “Gabriel ‘Fluffy’ Iglesias Back on Tour.”
Exactly one year ago, Iglesias posted on social media that he was canceling the remainder of his shows at the Tobin Center due to contracting COVID-19.
In a video, Iglesias said that he got tested by two different tests and they both came back positive. He started showing symptoms like body aches and chills.
Iglesias finished off the video by saying he would go back to work as soon as he had three negative tests, and urged everyone to try and stay safe. Fast forward to 2022, and the comedian is ready to take the stage.
Venue presale begins on Thursday, Aug. 4, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Use the code “COMEDY”. General tickets can be purchased through the AT&T Center's website here or through Ticketmaster here on Friday, Aug. 5, at 10 a.m.
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DETROIT, Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Regrid — a leading provider of nationwide land parcel data in the United States has launched their latest product of Enhanced Ownership as an add-on solution to their nationwide parcel data, providing the most current ownership information available with a daily delivery of recordings.
Transparency into changes to property ownership is key to arriving at insights into economic trends, indicators of economic activity, the need to take action by various users, and many more. For these reasons, the Regrid team has committed to delivering daily recordings of ownership changes for use cases that absolutely need that level of currency. The Enhanced Ownership dataset is an enhancement both in currency & depth of information on top of the ownership data their base parcel data already contains.
"Knowledge of ownership – including changes to ownership – is key to understanding a property or place," says Regrid CEO, Jerry Paffendorf. "Increasing the frequency of ownership updates is an awesome addition to our core dataset, and we're very happy to work with our friends at ATTOM to provide it."
Regrid has partnered with ATTOM to create this enhanced product.
"Our mission at ATTOM has always been to increase real estate transparency and improve decision making across various industries," said Sean Mooney, vice president of product at ATTOM. "In joining forces with Regrid and utilizing ATTOM's robust ownership data, which provides enhanced currentness, coverage, completeness, and standardization of property ownership data, users can streamline decision making and gain deeper intelligence about a property."
For use-cases that rely on the most current and complete ownership data, Regrid's Enhanced Ownership parcel data add-on solution includes multiple owner names (shared ownership), mailing addresses and ownership information, matched at a parcel level with Regrid's universal unique parcel IdeededD. This new solution empowers users in real estate, 5G broadband planning, energy and utility infrastructure management and planning, and even as an input into advanced growth models to name just a few use cases for this insightful content.
Please join Regrid data experts, Sahana Murthy, Chief Product Officer and Mathew Karli, Product Manager on Mar 1, 2023 at 2:00 PM EST to get a preview of this data and the story behind why Regrid is making this valuable dataset available to the market. Sign up for the live event or to view the recording here.
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ATTOM provides premium property data to power products that improve transparency, innovation, efficiency and disruption in a data-driven economy. ATTOM multi-sources property tax, deed, mortgage, foreclosure, environmental risk, natural hazard, and neighborhood data for more than 155 million U.S. residential and commercial properties covering 99 percent of the nation's population. A rigorous data management process involving more than 20 steps validates, standardizes, and enhances the real estate data collected by ATTOM, assigning each property record with a persistent, unique ID — the ATTOM ID. The 30TB ATTOM Data Warehouse fuels innovation in many industries including mortgage, real estate, insurance, marketing, government and more through flexible data delivery solutions that include bulk file licenses, property data APIs, real estate market trends, property navigator and more. Also, introducing our newest innovative solution, that offers immediate access and streamlines data management – ATTOM Cloud.
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Texas law enforcement officials told reporters Thursday afternoon that the gunman who killed 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary Tuesday entered the school "unobstructed". Earlier reports that the shooter exchanged gunfire with police were incorrect.
"It was reported that a school district police officer confronted the suspect that was making entry. Not accurate," Victor Escalon, Texas Department of Public Safety regional director told reporters at a media briefing. "He walked in unobstructed initially ... he was not confronted by anybody."
Details surrounding the shooting are few and far between as law enforcement continue their investigation, Escalon said. Reporters at the press briefing repeatedly asked Escalon what happened between when the shooter crashed his car outside the school at 11:28 a.m. and when he entered the school 12 minutes later.
Escalon said the gunman exited his vehicle. He opened fire at two witnesses who were at a funeral home across the street, Escalon said, before he scaled the school fence. The gunman then began to shoot at the school from the parking lot before he gained entry to the building through a door believed to have been unlocked at the time, Escalon said.
Law enforcement is still investigating what unfolded during the 12 minutes between the crash and the shooter entering the school.
The White House announced that President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will travel to Uvalde Sunday.
What else we know so far as of Thursday
The gunman shot his grandmother in the face and posted on social media about it 15 minutes before fleeing and driving to Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott said at a Wednesday news conference.
"Anyone who shoots his grandmother in the face has to have evil in his heart, but it is far more evil for someone to gun down little kids," he said.
Investigators have not officially determined a motive behind the attack, but say the gunman sent three online messages on Tuesday warning about his plans.
He first wrote that he was going to shoot his grandmother, and then that he had done so, Abbott said Wednesday. He said about 15 minutes before he reached Robb Elementary that he was going to shoot up an elementary school, though did not specify which one.
Meta spokesperson Andy Stone later clarified that those messages were "private, one-to-one text messages that were discovered after the terrible tragedy occurred." Meta — the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — is cooperating with law enforcement's ongoing investigation, he added.
CNN and The New York Times report that the gunman allegedly sent a series of messages to a teenage girl living in Frankfurt, Germany, whom he had met online. She provided screenshots to both outlets, though NPR has not verified those messages independently.
The 15-year-old – whom the Times identified only as "Cece" — said the two began talking on social media earlier this month.
The gunman told her on Monday that he had received a package of ammunition that would expand on impact, she said, adding that she asked what he was planning and was told it would be a surprise. She said he had also shown her — on a video call, of which she provided screenshots — a black bag that appeared to hold many magazines of ammunition and at least one firearm.
The Times says that the two spoke on a video call on Tuesday morning and that the gunman — who was wearing all black — said he couldn't tell her his secret until his grandfather left the house. He later texted her that he was waiting for his grandmother, who he said was "on the phone with AT&T" about his cellphone. Some 15 minutes later, he texted that he had shot her.
Cece told The Times that she asked a friend in the U.S. to contact the authorities after hearing about the shooting on the news, and spoke regretfully of the delay.
"Maybe I could've changed the outcome," she told The Times. "I just could never guess that he'd actually do this."
Former congressman Beto O'Rourke interrupted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's remarks
As Abbott prepared to close his remarks at Wednesday's news conference, former congressman and 2020 presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke interrupted the governor.
"You are doing nothing," O'Rourke said. "This is totally predictable. You're all doing nothing."
A variety of responses can be heard in the background, including, "sit down," "you're out of line and an embarrassment" and "let him talk."
Beto O’Rourke interrupts ongoing press conference by Texas Gov. Abbott and other officials. pic.twitter.com/qa8YY0ghQy
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) May 25, 2022
Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin said, "I can't believe you're a sick son of a b**** to come to a deal like this to make a political issue."
O'Rourke, who is running against Abbott in the state's 2022 gubernatorial election, then left the auditorium.
He spoke to media outside the auditorium about Abbott, saying, "The only thing he did was make it easier to carry a gun in public. And he bragged about the fact that there would be no background check, no training, no vetting whatsoever. He talked about 'this was evil.' The only thing evil is what he continues to do to the people of this state."
Mourners gathered at a community vigil
The Uvalde County Fairplex typically hosts happy celebrations like quinceañeras and weddings. But on Wednesday night, the arena became the site of an emotional vigil.
Roughly 2,000 community members gathered to remember the victims, to offer prayers and to comfort their neighbors.
Ministers from three local churches spoke to the overflow crowd, leading them in prayers for the victims, their loved ones, the city and all those affected by Tuesday's tragedy.
Texas Public Radio reports that it was standing room only at the vigil, with a constant stream of residents, law enforcement officers and journalists entering the arena.
Volunteers offered water and soda to attendees, while golden retrievers were on standby to soothe mourners. Community leaders attended, as did Abbott, O'Rourke and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz.
At one point, "Amazing Grace" played while attendees observed a moment of either silence or prayer.
Morning Edition co-host A Martínez watched as a woman made a beeline for a crying teenage girl headed toward the exit, then hugged her wordlessly for over a minute. They didn't seem to know each other, he said, but at that moment it didn't matter.
"That's what we do here in Uvalde, we hug and we love," said the woman, Lea Rentch. She described the community as tight-knit and small — her own grandson goes to school in Uvalde but wasn't at the Robb Elementary campus that day.
The grief of Uvalde residents was palpable and overwhelming, Martínez said, adding that the vigil was unlike anything he'd previously covered.
"It was impossible not to feel how vulnerable and violated this community is right now," he said. Listen to more of his reporting here.
NBA team urged fans to call lawmakers over gun control
At a Wednesday night playoff game, the Miami Heat basketball team urged fans to call their lawmakers to advocate for gun reform laws after the school shooting in Uvalde.
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— Miami HEAT (@MiamiHEAT) May 26, 2022
"The Heat urges you to contact your state senators by calling 202-224-3121 to leave a message demanding their support for common sense gun laws," the stadium announcer said as the team geared up to play the Boston Celtics in Game 5 of the teams' playoff series.
The team, which was facing the Boston Celtics, held a moment of silence before the announcement.
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DETROIT (AP) — Ja Morant scored 21 of his 33 points in the third quarter and the Memphis Grizzlies beat the Detroit Pistons 122-112 on Sunday night.
Morant added 10 assists to help Memphis win for the fourth time in five games. Dillon Brooks and Jaren Jackson Jr. each scored 22 points and Brandon Clarke had 14 points and 14 rebounds.
Saddiq Bey led Detroit with 20 points and Bojan Bogdanovic had 18.
Memphis played without center Steven Adams (hip), the NBA's leading offensive rebounder, but still finished with a 16-8 edge in second-chance points.
The Grizzlies scored the first seven points and led by 19 early in the second quarter. The margin was still 12, 69-57, at the half, thanks to 35 points from Brooks and Jackson.
Morant took over in the third quarter, going 8 of 10 from the floor while his teammates went 3 of 13. Morant assisted on all three baskets he didn't score, helping Memphis build a 101-83 lead.
The Grizzlies led by 22 in the fourth.
TIP INS
Grizzlies: Jackson, who attended Michigan State, is averaging 21.1 points in his last seven games. ... Memphis is 3-0 against Detroit in the last two seasons with an average victory margin of 21.7 points.
Pistons: Detroit has allowed an average of 129 points in its last three games, including a 140-110 loss to the New York Knicks on Tuesday.
UP NEXT
Grizzlies: Host Miami on Monday night to start a five-game homestand.
Pistons: At Miami on Tuesday night to start a three-game trip.
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LIGHT RAIN-SNOW MIX POSSIBLE FRIDAY
Your First Alert Weather Forecast:
More cool and cloudy weather will continue through the weekend. We should be dry overnight with cloudy skies and lows in the upper 20s to middle 30s. You may spot a few sunny breaks early, but clouds thicken over the course of Friday morning. Another round of showers is expected to move in during the morning with wet snow falling across the Northwoods.
While some slush may stick to grassy surfaces across northern areas, no accumulation is expected. Highs will stay in the 30s there, but we should get closer to 50° around Green Bay and the Fox Valley. By the late afternoon any rain or mix will be ending. We’re in store for another chilly night with Saturday morning lows around 30 degrees.
Looking ahead, we’re anticipating mostly cloudy skies at Lambeau Field, as the Packers host the visiting New York Jets. A few showers will be possible during the game with temperatures in the upper 40s. We’re then looking at a slight cool-down to begin the new work week with mid 40s for highs Monday and Tuesday. We should get back into more afternoon sunshine by the middle of next week.
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WIND FORECAST:
FRIDAY: SW 5-15 MPH
SATURDAY: W 10-15 MPH
TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy... showers ending. A bit colder. LOW: 33
FRIDAY: Cloudy skies. A chance of rain and wet snow NORTH. Continued cool. HIGH: 47 LOW: 30
SATURDAY: Brisk with mostly cloudy skies. Stray afternoon showers NORTH. HIGH: 49 LOW: 35
SUNDAY: Clouds thicken. Cool. Scattered afternoon showers. HIGH: 50 LOW: 32
MONDAY: Mostly cloudy. Colder and windy. Sprinkle or flake? HIGH: 44 LOW: 33
TUESDAY: Partly cloudy. Windy again. HIGH: 46 LOW: 28
WEDNESDAY: Partly cloudy. Breezy at times. HIGH: 49 LOW: 34
THURSDAY: Sun and clouds. Slightly milder, but still cooler than average. HIGH: 51
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WASHINGTON, April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Paralyzed Veterans of America National President Charles Brown issued a statement following President Biden's Executive Order that includes supports for home-based care for Veterans, long-term care workers, and family caregivers.
"PVA commends President Biden for signing today's Executive Order capitalizing on the importance of America's care economy – the hardworking, underpaid, overlooked, in-demand, and often hard-to-find individuals who provide vital care services to populations unable to independently support themselves, from disabled veterans and the elderly to infants. This directive recognizes the dire importance of care workers, while taking an ALL-government approach with support from agencies – like the Department of Veterans Affairs, among others – to improve access to home-based care for Veterans, enhance job quality for long-term care workers, and support family caregivers.
This is truly a day to remember – a day where our nation's caregivers are finally prioritized, valued, seen, and supported. Not too long ago, my sister had to step down as my caregiver because there were no funds available to pay her, and I became dependent on the system. Access to caregiving services is crucial to paralyzed veterans like myself. While we see this moment as a BIG step forward in the right direction, PVA remains more committed than ever to getting Congress to pass the Elizabeth Dole Home and Community Based Services for Veterans and Caregivers Act (H.R. 6823/S. 3854)."
Brown continued, "Veterans with significant disabilities, like spinal cord injuries and disorders – like mine – require specialized and long-term services and supports throughout our lives. While today's Executive Order greatly helps disabled Veterans, this bill would go even further. It would raise the cap on how much VA can pay for the cost of home care from 65 percent of the cost of nursing home care to 100 percent; establish a "one-stop shop" webpage to centralize information for families and veterans on programs available; require VA to provide a coordinated handoff for veterans and caregivers denied or discharged from the comprehensive family caregiver program into any other eligible home care programs; and much more."
To learn more about the Elizabeth Dole Home and Community Based Services for Veterans and Caregivers Act, or join PVA in its fight to pass this bill visit here.
About Paralyzed Veterans of America Paralyzed Veterans of America is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and the only congressionally chartered veterans service organization dedicated solely for the benefit and representation of veterans with spinal cord injury or diseases. The organization ensures veterans receive the benefits earned through service to our nation; monitors their care in VA spinal cord injury units; and funds research and education in the search for a cure and improved care for individuals with paralysis.
As a life-long partner and advocate for veterans and all people with disabilities, PVA also develops training and career services, works to ensure accessibility in public buildings and spaces, and provides health and rehabilitation opportunities through sports and recreation. With more than 70 offices and 33 chapters, Paralyzed Veterans of America serves veterans, their families, and their caregivers in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Learn more at PVA.org.
Contact: S. Oname Thompson
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- Value Green Lease, Tangelo's financial product, provides preferential rates for environmentally responsible projects.
- Lealtad Verde is a Mexican company specialized in circular economy and urban solid waste management. Its new technological model revolutionized Mexico's old recycling model.
- Lealtad Verde recently announced its partnership with Tiendas OXXO to promote the circular economy and recycling culture in Mexico.
MEXICO CITY, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Value Green Lease is a sustainable financing mechanism designed by Tangelo to finance environmentally responsible productive assets, such as electric or hybrid vehicles, water treatment plants, solar panels, or, in this case, biorecycling machines. Value Green Lease is a product with preferential rates that supports projects with a positive environmental impact, in line with Tangelo's commitment to reduce its carbon footprint.
"At Tangelo, we are very excited to fund projects with a positive environmental impact. Our Value Green Lease product creates the right conditions for these types of initiatives and we hope that this project will create a domino effect leading to organizations from different sectors getting access to financial tools to implement sustainability strategies," said Ricardo Hoyo, Head of Corporate at Tangelo. He added: "With this partnership we are enabling the circular economy favoring waste management, allowing recyclable materials to be reincorporated into industrial processes."
Lealtad Verde recently announced a partnership with Tiendas OXXO to promote recycling culture among Mexicans, and to set a precedent in Mexico's circular economy. In March 2022, the first phase of this initiative began with the installation of 30 biorecycling machines in OXXO stores in Mexico City and Monterrey, which can each collect up to 12 kg of PET bottles and 15 kg of aluminum, and are projected to reach up to 3,000 stores throughout the country in the next 5 years with an investment of more than 500 million pesos.
Lealtad Verde developed an integrated solution for the proper management, separation, classification, recovery, monetization and return of urban solid waste, to neutralize carbon footprint. Using the biorecycling machines, its circular economy model makes it an innovative project for the proper management of municipal solid waste.
This partnership has an important Socially Responsible Investment (ESG) component in that the biorecycling machines financed by Tangelo allow OXXO customers, upon depositing their PET bottles, HDPE, or aluminum cans, to obtain several benefits through the Lealtad Verde app such as: discount coupons, OXXO promotions, and even Tlalicoins, the carbon footprint valuing cryptocurrency that is part of #LealesAlPlaneta.
Lealtad Verde's goal for this first year is to collect more than 9 million containers, equivalent to over 187,200 kg of CO2, which translates to planting 1,260 trees or eliminating the emissions equivalent of 40,290 cars driving for a year.
"Our purpose is to neutralize our carbon footprint and we are very happy and proud that Tangelo, a company that supports projects with a positive environmental impact, is supporting the Lealtad Verde project," said Adrian Sanchez, CEO of the company.
Tangelo seeks that the projects it finances help counteract excessive waste generation by rethinking linear production in favor of a circular system, from the design and conceptualization of products to the final disposal promoting recycling, redesign and reuse.
About Tangelo
Tangelo is a high-growth financial technology company specializing in developing and scaling alternative credit products and services for individuals and businesses in Latin America. Through a proprietary technology platform and advanced data analytics capabilities, Tangelo manages a diverse portfolio of customized products including point-of-sale financing, supply chain financing, asset-based lending, credit scoring as a service, and end-to-end white label digital credit solutions for numerous industries.
About FEMSA
FEMSA is a company that generates economic and social value through companies and institutions and seeks to be the best employer and neighbor in the communities where it operates. It participates in retail through FEMSA Comercio, which comprises the Proximidad Division and includes OXXO, a chain of small-format stores; a Health Division that includes pharmacies and related activities; and a Fuels Division that operates the OXXO GAS service stations chain. In the beverage industry, it operates Coca-Cola FEMSA, a public bottler of Coca-Cola products; and in the beer sector, it is a shareholder of HEINEKEN, a company that is present in over 70 countries. In addition, through FEMSA Negocios Estratégicos, it offers logistics services, point-of-sale refrigeration solutions, and plastics solutions to FEMSA companies and external clients. Through its Business Units, it employs approximately 300,000 employees in 13 countries. FEMSA is a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability MILA Pacific Alliance Index, the FTSE4Good Emerging Index, and the Mexican Stock Exchange's IPC Sustentable index, among other indexes that evaluate its sustainability performance.
About FEMSA Proximidad
FEMSA's Proximidad Division generates economic and social value in the countries where it operates. It operates several small-format retail chains in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, and Peru, including OXXO stores. It also operates service stations under the OXXO GAS brand in Mexico. Through its business units, FEMSA's Proximidad Division serves over 13 million consumers every day and employs more than 160 thousand employees, promoting inclusion, diversity, and sustainability practices within its teams to operate in harmony with the planet, the community, and the value chain.
About Lealtad Verde
Lealtad Verde is a Mexican company with over 20 years of experience specializing in circular economy and urban solid waste management. Through the Lealtad Verde app, which was developed by Mexican talent, it helps drive the economy by reinventing the recycling model, connecting, and rewarding the good deeds of the community, with its loyalty program, and helping to counteract harmful effects to the environment. www.lealtadverde.com
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Man reportedly dies after struck by lightning on driveway
MOUNTAIN CITY, Ga. (WGCL/Gray News) - Authorities in Georgia say a man likely died last weekend after lightning struck him.
Representatives from emergency medical services in Rabun County report they received a call about a man possibly being struck by lightning on July 2 at about 3:35 p.m.
WGCL reports emergency crews found an unresponsive man in his 30s on the ground. Crews also reported seeing a hole in a home’s driveway near the man’s body that appeared to be from a possible lightning strike.
The man, who authorities have not currently identified, was rushed to the Mountain Lakes Medical Center, where he later died.
Medical examiners are expected to release the man’s official cause of death once their report is complete.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ Virtus Investment Partners Inc. (VRTS) on Friday reported profit of $17.4 million in its second quarter.
The Hartford, Connecticut-based company said it had profit of $2.29 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs and amortization costs, were $6.86 per share.
The asset management company posted revenue of $225.3 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $199 million.
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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Officials in Republican-controlled Montana want to require authorization before the state’s health department pays for abortions for people covered by Medicaid, a proposal critics say would reduce access and delay or even prevent abortion care for low-income women in the state.
The Department of Public Health and Human Services is taking public comment Thursday on the proposed rule to require doctors to provide more medical information before Medicaid would agree to pay for an abortion to save a patient’s life or any other medically necessary reason. The information would include the number of her pregnancies and children.
Montana is one of 16 states whose Medicaid program is required to cover the costs of “medically necessary” abortions based on state law or a court order, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
A 2019 federal report said seven states at that time, which were not listed, required prior authorization before Medicaid would cover abortion services.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services did not immediately respond to a phone message Wednesday seeking more information.
“Given the time sensitive nature of abortion care, requiring doctors to obtain prior authorization before providing care creates an unnecessary obstacle that may result in delays in care and increase in costs for patients,” said Cat Duffy with the National Health Law Program.
In Montana, abortion is legal until 24 weeks of gestation. A 2021 law that sought a reduction to 20 weeks is being challenged in court while the state also indicated it wants the Montana Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that the state constitution’s right to privacy guarantees access to legal abortion.
The proposed rule would only allow physicians — not physician assistants or advanced practice nurses — to provide Medicaid-funded abortion care.
“This will really inappropriately limit the provision of abortion care to physicians,” said Martha Fuller, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Montana. “The reality is advanced practice clinicians … are totally fully capable of providing abortion care and determining medical necessity.”
Access to abortion is already limited in Montana and the proposed rules would further constrain access in the large, rural state, said nurse practitioner Helen Weems, who provides abortion care at her clinic in Whitefish.
A review of abortions paid for by Medicaid over the past decade led the health department “to reasonably believe that the Medicaid program is paying for abortions that are not actually medically necessary,” the agency stated in an explanation of its proposed rule.
The federal Medicaid program, including state matching funds, will pay for abortions of pregnancies resulting from rape or incest or endangering the life of the patient. A 1995 court case in Montana also requires the state Medicaid program to pay for abortions considered medically necessary, such as to prevent aggravation of an existing physical or psychological condition.
The current form for providers of Medicaid-covered abortions does not require submission of additional evidence why the procedure is medically necessary or required to save the patient’s life and very few providers offer an explanation, the health department said.
Under the proposed rule, physicians would have to provide more information about patients — including results of physical examinations, imaging determining fetus ages, documentation of chronic health issues and whether patients smoke or use illegal drugs — before the agency would authorize abortion services.
“Whatever the intention, the real-world impact of this proposed rule change will be to bar Medicaid members from essential pregnancy care,” Weems said in an emailed statement.
“Abortion care is essential, medically necessary care,” Weems wrote. “Research confirms that being denied an abortion results in worsening financial, health and family outcomes for patients and their children.”
The department would not require any additional medical information for abortions covered by Medicare if the pregnancy stems from rape or incest, but the agency would take further action if the number of those abortions increases above historical levels.
The prior authorization requirement would not apply to treatments for incomplete abortions, miscarriages or septic abortions, it states. In an emergency case, the stated reason for the abortion will be reviewed before a Medicaid payment is made to the provider.
The health department believes the proposed rule change will result in the state spending more money on abortions because those performed by physicians are reimbursed at a higher rate than those provided by mid-level providers, such as physician assistants and nurse practitioners.
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WASHINGTON — For years, the United States has been drifting further apart, less a single country than an uncomfortable marriage of vastly disparate cultural and political entities, a Red America and a Blue America with starkly different realities on masks and vaccines, gun rights and voting rights, Donald Trump and the legitimacy of the 2020 election.
Now the chasm may open even wider. If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, as it appears poised to do, all 50 states will suddenly be free to set their own rules, leading to one America where access to an abortion is guaranteed and another where it is outlawed — and, in some cases, helping someone cross state lines to obtain one could become a crime.
Already in the days since the leak of a draft ruling reversing Roe, governors and state legislators have rushed to define the values of their separate Americas. While California Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed to amend his state’s constitution to protect abortion rights, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed new legislation prohibiting abortion after six weeks. Calls for state legislatures to address the issue in special sessions proliferated on both sides of the divide.
The map showing both the states ready to ban abortions if the Supreme Court lets them and the states building protections for the procedure into their own laws looks strikingly familiar in this season of schism. It would fit neatly atop maps showing state policies on the pandemic or state crackdowns on critical race theory or, for that matter, the Electoral College map of recent presidential elections. The populous Northeast, mid-Atlantic seaboard and West Coast form one like-minded bloc, while the South and most of the Mountain West form another, with the Midwest split between them.
“It’s two different worlds — hostile, suspicious of each other and assuming bad intent,” said Mike Murphy, a veteran Republican strategist and co-director of the Dornsife Center for the Political Future at the University of Southern California, which has studied political polarization. “It’s become totally tribal. There are no opponents anymore. Everyone is an enemy.”
To the extent that President Joe Biden was elected promising to bring the country together, a hope that both liberals and conservatives considered naive, he appears to have put that pledge to the side, at least for now. In the wake of the leak of the draft abortion ruling, he has assailed the Trump faction of America in a way he has mostly avoided until now.
“This MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that’s existed in American history, in recent American history,” Biden said this week.
Jen Psaki, his press secretary, reinforced that Friday, citing Republican efforts to outlaw abortion. “His view is that is another example of the ultra-MAGA agenda as well,” she said.
Biden still boasts of the bipartisan support he secured for last year’s public works spending package, as he did Friday in Ohio, where he praised U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, a retiring Republican, and recalled the days when senators from both parties could debate civilly. “Things have changed,” he said. “We got to bring it back.”
But aides noted that, with control of Congress on the line in this fall’s midterm elections, he had a responsibility to wage a vigorous campaign explaining to the public the consequences of changing parties on Capitol Hill.
The emerging White House strategy is to refocus attention away from high inflation by drawing a strong contrast with Trump’s party, warning that turning out Democrats will put Congress in the hands of the party of far-right figures such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., a fiery, onetime QAnon follower known for making racist and antisemitic remarks and for casting doubt on the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Conservatives quickly seized on Biden’s language this week to accuse him of betraying his own promises. “President Unity Declares War on Half of America,” Breitbart News, a far-right website, pronounced in a headline on a homepage that regularly wages war on the other half.
Five of the past six presidents talked about healing America’s divide without much success. George H.W. Bush called for a “kinder and gentler nation,” Bill Clinton promised to be the “repairer of the breach,” George W. Bush termed himself “a uniter, not a divider” and Barack Obama declared there was not a Blue America and Red America but “the United States of America.”
David Axelrod, who was Obama’s chief strategist, said if he could talk with himself in 2004, when the future president famously made that speech at the Democratic National Convention, he would say, “It’s harder than it looked.”
Society has only been torn further apart in the past 18 years, both by cultural shifts as well as by the political and financial incentives for exploiting divisions, he said. “The reversal of Roe would accelerate these divisions and widen that chasm in ways that seemed unthinkable in 2004,” Axelrod said.
Trump, of course, was the presidential outlier, the only occupant of the Oval Office in modern times who hardly even paid lip service to the notion of bringing the country together. Instead, he relentlessly promoted divisions, seeking to punish Democratic-voting states and describing Blue America as a dystopian hellhole for which he had no responsibility.
The United States has rarely been as united as its name; polarization has been part of the country’s DNA from the beginning, erupting most explosively in the middle of the 19th century over slavery and again in the middle of the 20th century over desegregation. But even so, the past couple of decades have seen a fragmentation that, by some measures, has been among the most pronounced in American history.
One study found that Democrats and Republicans in Congress are further apart ideologically than at any point in the past half-century. The public’s view of its presidents has grown more divided along partisan lines than at any time in the history of polling. House districts have grown so rock-solid liberal or conservative that only a few dozen will be truly competitive in this fall’s election.
“Really, in every area of politics, you see evidence of partisan polarization,” said Carroll Doherty, director of political research at Pew Research Center.
Increasingly, Americans are separating into their own safe spaces — geographically, culturally, ideologically, factually and metaphorically. Not only do they stick to news channels or social media accounts that reinforce their viewpoints, they choose to live among and socialize with those who share their opinions.
In 1960, 4% of Democrats and Republicans said they would be unhappy if their children married someone from the other party. Today, according to the Public Religion Research Institute, that number has grown to 35% among Republicans and to 45% among Democrats. Over the course of just four years, the Institute for Family Studies found, marriages in America between Republicans and Democrats fell by half. As it was, in 2016 only 9% of marriages involved couples from opposite parties; by 2020, that figure had slid to just 4%.
Lilliana Mason, a political scientist at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, said her research shows that Americans likewise do not even want to live next door to someone from the other party. “Our realities become different. The people we surround ourselves with have completely different narratives about what’s happening in America,” she said.
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Mason, who on Friday published her latest book, “Radical American Partisanship: Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy,” written with Nathan P. Kalmoe, said the fragmentation of abortion laws in a post-Roe America would only exacerbate those trends as people sought to live in states where they agreed with the new laws.
“The fact that we’ve physically moved away from each other allows us to hate each other more,” she said. “It’s easy to dehumanize someone you’ve never met. It encourages the us-versus-them sort of thinking that creates this dire stakes for elections — if they win the election, everything is over.”
Americans’ views of abortion are actually more nuanced than the black-and-white politics surrounding the issue would suggest. Today’s Republican candidates and officeholders are less willing to support exceptions for rape or even to protect the health of the mother, while today’s Democratic politicians are less likely to support limits on taxpayer funding for abortions.
But a new study released Friday by the Pew center showed that although a strong majority of Americans opposed repealing Roe, their attitudes fractured depending on the question. Only 19% supported abortion being legal in all cases, while 42% wanted it to be legal in most cases but would accept some instances when it would be illegal. Only 8% wanted it to be illegal in all cases, while 29% wanted it illegal in most cases but would accept some circumstances when it would be legal.
“This is an issue where there are some absolutists — people who say abortion should be legal in all places or abortion should be illegal in all places — but most Americans have less absolutist views on this,” said Jocelyn Kiley, Pew’s associate director of research.
Nuance, however, is not the order of the day. In Blue America or Red America, the loudest voices tend to dominate the conversation. The reversal of Roe, should it happen, presumably will fuel that trend. “It’s a really polarizing feeling,” said Mason. “It’s a massive disagreement that Americans are having right now.”
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Supreme Court backs Biden administration in immigration policy rollback
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - The Supreme Court finished its term Wednesday with a ruling in a case over a Trump-era immigration policy. In the final opinion of the term, the justices ruled 5-4 in Biden v. Texas. The majority ruled in favor of a Biden Administration decision to scrap a Trump-era rule that sent asylum-seeking immigrants back to Mexico to wait for their trials in the US.
“This is a massive decision from the court,” said Karen Tumlin from the Justice Action Center.
Tumlin praised the opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, joined by Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the three liberal justices.
On his first day in office, President Biden announced the reversal of the 2019 Trump rule called the Migrant Protection Protocol or “Remain in Mexico” program. Immigration advocates argued the policy put asylum seekers in dangerous situations in Mexico.
But the states of Texas and Missouri sued, saying reversing the policy is illegal. Lower courts agreed, but the nation’s highest court overturned their ruling Thursday, saying the administration was within its rights to reverse the policy, and the lower courts now need to reassess how the administration went about the reversal.
“We want the Biden administration to create the vision for the legal and moral asylum system that we need,” said Tumlin.
In his dissent, Justice Samuel Alito argues the administration’s reversal was improper. Julie Axelrod from the Center for Immigration Studies agrees with Alito and argues border security is at stake. Axelrod thinks the Biden Administration reversing the policy removed a deterrent that could prevent a rush of immigrants.
“You can’t just say, ‘Alright, we had something that was working that stopped us from breaking the law, but, we’re just not going to do it because we’d rather not,’” said Axelrod.
Axelrod is concerned the administration is releasing immigrants into the U.S. to await trial without ensuring they are safe candidates for parole. She believes getting rid of the policy sends a welcome message to people wanting to enter the U.S. illegally.
“You can almost create your own crisis, and then use the crisis to say, ‘I don’t need to follow the law,’” said Axelrod.
After the opinion came down, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in after Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement. Jackson will hear arguments for the first time when the court reconvenes in the fall.
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BENTON HARBOR, Mich., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Whirlpool Corp. (NYSE: WHR) announced today it has been named to Forbes' list of "America's Best Employers for Women 2022." The final list ranks 400 American companies that are admired by employees for their dedication to their female workforce and diverse representation across the organization.
"We are honored to have been recognized by Forbes for our efforts to support female employees and provide an environment for them to bring their talent and thrive," said Carey Martin, chief human resources officer for Whirlpool Corp. "For over 110 years, we have been committed to cultivating a diverse workforce, including more women in leadership roles, in order to help drive innovation at the company to improve the life at home for our consumers."
Whirlpool Corp. has taken meaningful actions to cultivate a strong, inclusive and diverse culture and support its female employees around the world. In 2018, CEO Marc Bitzer became a Catalyst CEO Champion for Change signatory with the pledge to increase the company's female representation in executive and senior level positions and ensure accelerated inclusion of women, including women of color, in senior roles. The company has also continued to action several initiatives to celebrate the diversity of its workforce, and has eleven employee resource groups (ERGs) worldwide, including the Whirlpool Women's Network (WWN), which empowers and engages women at all levels across the organization through networking events, career development programs, and advanced leadership opportunities.
Whirlpool Corp.'s commitment to its female employees is part of the company's core value of Inclusion and Diversity. In recognition of these efforts, Whirlpool Corp. is regularly recognized as a leading company in employee engagement and support. In 2022, the company was named to the 2022 Seramount Top Companies for Executive Women list as well as included on the 2022 Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion for the sixth straight year.
America's Best Employers for Women 2022 were identified through a joint survey from Forbes and Statista of approximately 50,000 Americans working for companies with more than 1,000 employees in the United States. The survey evaluation was based on four different categorical criteria including:
- General work topics—women's evaluations of their employer's atmosphere and development, image, working conditions, salary and wage, workplace, and diversity and inclusion
- Topics related to women—women's evaluations of their employer's parental leave, family support, flexibility, discrimination, representation and career, and pay equity.
- Indirect recommendation—women's evaluations of other employers in their respective industries that stand out either positively or negatively in regard to diversity
- Diversity among top executives / board—an index was built based on the share of women in executive management or board positions.
- Click here to see the full list of Forbes "America's Best Employers for Women 2022."
About Whirlpool Corporation
Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) is committed to being the best global kitchen and laundry company, in constant pursuit of improving life at home. In an increasingly digital world, the company is driving purposeful innovation to meet the evolving needs of consumers through its iconic brand portfolio, including Whirlpool, KitchenAid, Maytag, Consul, Brastemp, Amana, Bauknecht, JennAir, Indesit and Yummly. In 2021, the company reported approximately $22 billion in annual sales, 69,000 employees and 54 manufacturing and technology research centers. Additional information about the company can be found at WhirlpoolCorp.com
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Nevada lithium mine gets $700M conditional loan from Energy
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday announced a conditional loan of $700 million to an Australian mining company to pursue a proposed lithium project in Nevada, as the U.S. seeks domestic supplies for a key component in electric vehicle batteries.
Ioneer Ltd. has hoped to begin mining by 2026 in Esmerelda County. The company projects the site could produce enough lithium to support production of about 400,000 electric vehicles annually for decades; the government’s announcement Friday pegged that figure at 370,000 vehicles annually.
The loan would be the latest project to demonstrate the Biden administration’s commitment to strengthen the nation’s battery supply chain, electrify the transportation sector and cut reliance on fossil fuels and foreign supplies of raw materials, the Department of Energy said.
The proposed Ioneer project has run up against an endangered Nevada wildflower, Tiehm’s buckwheat, that the Fish and Wildlife Service has said is on the brink of extinction. Conservationists have sued in the past to protect the 6-inch-tall plant with yellow blooms.
The Energy Department announcement said the Ioneer project is working to minimize impact on the plant. It said the loan is contingent on completion of an environmental impact statement.
Lithium is fundamental to the battery technology that is most common in electric vehicles and battery electric storage systems. But many engineers are working on alternative battery chemistries because lithium involves rock mining, which means major disturbance to the environment.
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PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. – Disney Cruise Line officially debuted its newest ship, the Disney Wish, at its Port Canaveral terminal Tuesday.
The company christened the ship in front of a select number of media, Disney executives and a livestream audience.
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The christening ceremony kicked off with a video presentation from cast members onboard the new ship describing what a wish means to them. Shortly after, Disney’s CEO Bob Chapek gave a speech alongside Disney Parks, Experinces and Products chairman, Josh D’Amaro.
“Like all the ships in our fleet, the Disney Wish is the best in class, purpose built to inspire a sense of delight and wonder. This ship is a celebration of nearly 100 years of Disney storytelling and excellence, and it brings fantastic worlds and beloved characters to life like never before,” Chapek described.
Also helping in the celebration was actress, singer and voice actor for Tiana in Princess and the Frog, Anika Noni Rose. She helped sing a song that ushered in a list of compelling characters including characters from Toy Story, Frozen, Marvel and Star Wars.
“This ship kicks off the largest expansion in Disney Cruise Line history. And I’ll tell you our future here it is boundless,” D’Amaro explained. “We’ll be welcoming two more ships to our fleet and a second tropical destination in the Bahamas. What does that mean? We can bring our ships to ports across the United States and to iconic destinations around the world.”
Near the end of the ceremony, three Make-A-Wish children, who are now the ship’s “godchildren,” recited the blessing, officially welcoming the ship to the fleet.
At approximately 144,000 gross tons and 1,250 guest staterooms, the ship will be slightly larger than the Disney Dream and Disney Fantasy. The Disney Wish will also be powered by liquified natural gas, or LNG, one of the cleanest-burning fuels available.
The Disney Wish will sail its maiden voyage a five-night cruise to Nassau, the Bahamas, and Disney’s private island, Castaway Cay on July 14, 2022 from Port Canaveral. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/29/ready-to-set-sail-disney-debuts-disney-wish/ | 2022-06-29 18:37:17 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/29/ready-to-set-sail-disney-debuts-disney-wish/ |
WASHINGTON — Consumers struggling with skyrocketing prices for food, gas, autos and rent got a tantalizing hint of relief last month, when prices didn't budge at all from June after 25 straight months of increases. With gas prices continuing to fall, inflation is probably slowing further this month.
So has the worst bout of inflation in four decades possibly peaked? Economists say it's too soon to know for sure. Even if it has peaked, it will likely remain high well into next year.
Since inflation ignited early last year, it has temporarily slowed before, only to re-accelerate in later months. When that happened last fall, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was forced to jettison his description of higher prices as being merely “transitory" and to acknowledge that high inflation was proving to be chronic.
Even if some prices should keep declining, others — housing costs, for example — are almost sure to remain painfully high. And that means there's likely still a long way to go before inflation will get anywhere close to the 2% annual pace that the Fed has targeted and that Americans were long accustomed to.
On Wednesday, the government reported that consumer inflation jumped 8.5% in July from 12 months earlier. That was an unexpectedly sharp slowdown from the 9.1% year-over-year inflation rate in June, which was the largest in four decades. But it was still quite high.
So-called core prices, which exclude the volatile food and energy categories to produce a better picture of underlying inflation, also rose more slowly: They increased 0.3% from June to July, less than the 0.7% rise from May to June. Over the past 12 months, core prices rose 5.9%, the same as in June.
Here are some questions and answers about inflation:
WHERE IS INFLATION HEADED?
That's hard to say, because there are multiple signs pointing in both directions.
In addition to the ongoing drops in gas prices, the cost of groceries — a huge driver of inflation for the past year — could soon rise much more slowly. Futures prices for dairy, chicken and eggs have been falling in recent weeks, according to Capital Economics, a forecasting firm. And costs for such farm commodities as wheat, corn and soybeans are also well off their springtime peaks.
Many supply chain snarls are loosening, with fewer ships moored off Southern California ports and shipping costs declining. That should help reduce the cost of furniture, cars and other goods. Prices for appliances are already falling.
In addition, Americans' expectations for future inflation fell last month, according to a survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, likely reflecting the drop in gas prices that is highly visible to most consumers.
Inflation expectations can be self-fulfilling: If people believe inflation will stay high or worsen, they’re likely to take steps — such as demanding higher pay — that can send prices higher in a self-perpetuating cycle. But the New York Fed survey found that Americans’ foresee lower inflation in future years than they did a month ago.
ARE THERE SIGNS INFLATION COULD STAY HIGH?
Plenty. Inflation is a byproduct of broad economic trends — too much money chasing too few goods, in the classic economic view — not merely whether individual industries are struck by supply shortages or other problems.
One trend that may be keeping Fed officials up at night is that companies are still hiring workers at a voracious pace — and are willing to pay more to find the people they need. In the April-June quarter, employees' wages and salaries, excluding government workers, jumped 1.6%, matching a two-decade high that was reached last fall.
Businesses typically pass on at least some of their higher labor costs to their customers in the form of higher prices. But if workers become more productive — if they use more technology, say, or a company streamlines operations — a business can pay more and make up for the higher costs through greater efficiency rather than through higher prices for customers.
Unfortunately, for the first half of this year, the opposite has happened: Productivity has tumbled and wages, adjusted for declining efficiency, have been growing at double-digit levels. Economists say that means further pay increases would have to be passed on to consumers through higher prices. And those price increases would fuel continued high inflation.
“This is way above anything we’ve seen since the high inflation of the early 1980s,” said Peter Hooper, head of economic research at Deutsche Bank Securities, referring to labor costs. “The danger here is that you’re entering into a wage-price spiral, that increasing wage costs are pushing up prices further and making it that much more difficult to actually bring down inflation to a more desirable level.”
WHAT’S CAUSED THE SPIKE IN INFLATION?
Good news — mostly. When the pandemic paralyzed the economy in the spring of 2020 and lockdowns kicked in, businesses closed or cut hours and consumers stayed home as a health precaution, employers slashed a breathtaking 22 million jobs.
Everyone braced for more misery. Companies cut investment and postponed restocking. A severe recession ensued.
But instead of sinking into a prolonged downturn, the economy staged an unexpectedly rousing recovery, fueled by vast infusions of government aid and emergency intervention by the Fed, which slashed short-term interest rates.
Suddenly, businesses had to scramble to meet demand. They couldn’t hire fast enough to fill job openings or buy enough supplies to meet customer orders. As business roared back, ports and freight yards couldn’t handle the traffic. Global supply chains seized up.
With demand up and supplies down, costs jumped. And companies found that they could pass along those higher costs in the form of higher prices to consumers, many of whom had managed to pile up savings during the pandemic.
Critics blamed, in part, President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, with its $1,400 checks to most households, for overheating an economy that was already sizzling on its own. Many others assigned a greater blame to supply shortages. And some argued that the Fed kept rates near zero far too long, lending fuel to runaway spending and inflated prices in stocks, homes and other assets.
HOW ARE HIGHER PRICES AFFECTING CONSUMERS?
It's hitting most people pretty hard, even if they have received pay raises. On average, weekly paychecks, adjusted for inflation, fell 3.6% in July compared with a year ago.
For lower-income families, economic research shows that the hit is typically harder. Poorer Americans are more likely to spend a greater proportion of their incomes on items that have increased the most in price in the past 18 months: Food, gas and rent.
There are also subtler differences that can make inflation harder for those earning less. Many people can't afford the kind of bulk purchases of groceries that can help higher-income households economize.
Paola Becerra, 40, who lives in Stamford, Connecticut, has started to miss doctor's appointments to use the money instead for groceries or gas.
“My groceries for just one week are now never below $100,” she said. "And I can’t buy in bulk because I don’t have a big fridge.” | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/nation-world/heres-what-the-latest-inflation-rate-report-means-for-prices/507-5b43d6e4-f23a-48b2-8b95-fb64ded0061e | 2022-08-10 21:44:16 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/nation-world/heres-what-the-latest-inflation-rate-report-means-for-prices/507-5b43d6e4-f23a-48b2-8b95-fb64ded0061e |
(NEXSTAR) — Love Trader Joe’s, or just a fan of autumnal treats? You could be the perfect candidate for the opportunity to try all of Trader Joe’s new fall products — and get paid $1,000 for it. It goes without saying that you must love pumpkin, of course.
FinanceBuzz, a financial tips and recommendations site, is now hiring a “pumpkin spice pundit” to undertake a fall feast of Trader Joe’s items like pumpkin-centric ravioli, samosas and waffles. Desserts like cinnamon rolls and apple cider donuts are also on the menu, FinanceBuzz says.
Applicants must be at least 18 years old, based in the U.S. and live near a Trader Joe’s location for in-person shopping. As the tester, you’d be tasked with writing out your impressions of each food or drink item and rating them based on several factors.
FinanceBuzz explains the aim of the review is to find which items are the “best” ones and to “decide which foods to budget for and which to skip.”
While the “side gig” isn’t affiliated or endorsed by Trader Joe’s, the selected taster will receive a $500 gift card to cover costs of test items.
Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. ET on August 28 and the chosen candidate will be notified by Sept. 2, FinanceBuzz says. The selected pumpkin pundit will complete their task by Sept. 18.
Paid to taste
Professional taste testing may sound like silly fun but it’s a real business and valuable market research to food companies.
Earlier this month, the Canadian Candy Funhouse company opened hiring for a “chief candy officer” — a position that entails trying over 3,500 pieces of candy each month. The position paid about $77,786 USD per year to help the company decide which products it will carry.
In July, the Washington Post reported Hershey would begin its search for a part-time “sensory panelist,” a role requiring six months of training with the company’s research and development team. | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/get-paid-1k-to-taste-trader-joes-fall-products-heres-how/ | 2022-08-20 17:17:57 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/get-paid-1k-to-taste-trader-joes-fall-products-heres-how/ |
2 officers disciplined for use of force over $5 pizza during Walmart receipt check
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCTV/Gray News) – Two police officers in Kansas are being criticized for using what many say was excessive force over a $5 frozen pizza during a receipt check at a Walmart in Kansas City.
The incident happened June 1 near the entrance of the Walmart.
Dayton Borisouth, 24, was held down with a knee on his neck over a receipt check for a $5 frozen pizza, video shows.
Borisouth said he had bought a frozen pizza at self-checkout and skipped bagging it to avoid being wasteful. As he was exiting the store, an officer asked him if he had his receipt.
Borisouth said he paid for the pizza and had the receipt but initially wouldn’t show his receipt to the police officer because he believed he wasn’t legally required to do so.
“He said, ‘Got your receipt?’” Borisouth recounted. “And I answered. I said, ‘Yes.’ And then I just kept walking.”
In the reflection of the sliding glass door, he then saw the officer approaching him from behind with urgency.
“I shook my head no, and said, ‘Stop chasing me. You don’t have the right to detain me. I didn’t break any laws,’ and then he pinned me in the corner where the claw machine was,” Borisouth continued.
Borisouth said after the officer pushed him against the wall, he told the officer, “I have the receipt. It’s in my pocket.”
“And as I was pulling it out of my pocket, he’s like, ‘Stop reaching in your pocket. Stop reaching your pockets,’ like I had a weapon,” Borisouth said. “But whenever it first started, I cleared it up with him immediately. I was like, ‘I have one weapon on me. And it’s not a weapon.’ I was like, ‘It’s my work blade and I do not intend to use it.’ I let him know that immediately.”
A video of the rest of the interaction went viral on TikTok, recorded by Borisouth’s uncle Christopher Enloe.
The officer takes Borisouth to the ground, while a second officer approaches them. Borisouth repeatedly tells them he has the receipt to prove he paid for the pizza.
Borisouth’s arms were up and under his forehead instead of behind his back because he said he was afraid his head would be slammed on the ground. The second officer grabs Borisouth by the hair and is heard saying, “I’m going to break your nose.”
The second officer then puts a knee on Borisouth’s neck as he begins screaming. A third officer approaches and holds Borisouth’s legs down as he is handcuffed.
“There needs to be at least a suspension, at least, because that’s serious,” Borisouth said of the knee on his neck. “George Floyd died from that.”
When Borisouth is lifted to his feet, you can see what appears to be a receipt laying on the ground.
Another Walmart shopper is seen picking the receipt up off the ground and handing it to one of the officers as Borisouth is whisked away.
Borisouth said he was detained for an hour in a police car, then was told he was being released because the receipt was valid and proved he paid for the pizza. However, he was told he was getting a summons to appear in court for refusing to comply with commands.
The incident was reported to the Kansas City Police Department’s internal affairs department on June 3. On June 12, police announced they had finished their internal investigation.
The first officer who stopped Borisouth for a receipt check was off-duty and working as a security guard for Walmart.
In part, the police department said, “The off-duty officer observed the individual walking towards the exit with unbagged merchandise. When requested to present his receipt, the individual refused, became belligerent and continued out the door despite the officer’s verbal commands. It is our determination that the officer should have disengaged at that time due to the circumstances.”
The department went on to say that one of the responding officers employed techniques that are “not approved, nor trained, by the department.”
“Due to these findings, both officers have been disciplined consistent with policy and will undergo additional training to ensure future compliance,” police said. The department did not clarify what those disciplinary actions are.
The failure to comply charge against Borisouth has been dismissed.
“It makes me feel a little bit better that they’re starting to realize that I’m not a criminal,” Borisouth said of the police statement. “I was just trying to buy a pizza for my family to eat. No matter what, this is going to stick with me for the rest of my life. I’m probably always going to be scared of cops now and fearing for my daughter and my son and what they’re going to have to go through as they get older.”
Borisouth said he believes the officer singled him out for a receipt check because he was shirtless and has blue hair.
He said he has contacted a lawyer and plans to sue. He said his wrist was injured in the incident.
There have been numerous lawsuits related to detaining people after receipt checks at Walmart. Just last week, according to Business Insider, one of those concluded with Walmart being found not liable for the false imprisonment of the shopper.
The article clarifies what customers should know about receipt checks.
“While shoppers are not legally required to show receipts, a customer’s refusal to show their receipt could give a store probable cause to detain them, previous cases have determined,” it states.
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SHENZHEN, China, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A one-of-a-kind commercial complex worth RMB10 billion and jointly developed by New World Development Company Limited (the parent company of K11) and China Merchants Shekou Holdings in Shenzhen, was officially named K11 ECOAST.
Located in Prince Bay, Nanshan, Shenzhen, and with a total GFA of 228,500 sq. meters, K11 ECOAST is K11's first flagship project in the Chinese mainland consisting of K11 Art Mall, K11 HACC multi-purpose art space, K11 ATELIER office building, and the Promenade. The inspiration for the name "K11 ECOAST" combines the concept of green development alongside the conservation of waterfront resources. The complex is dedicated to promoting a sustainable, circular lifestyle and integrated the concept of environmental protection through the power of creativity, culture, and innovation.
Scheduled to open at the end of 2024, K11 ECOAST will be the new harbourfront cultural retail destination and circular economy trailblazer in the Greater Bay Area.
Globally renowned artists and designers forge K11 ECOAST into a new creative cultural benchmark in the Greater Bay Area
Blessed with unique geographic advantages in winding promenades and breathtaking seascapes, K11 ECOAST will impress visitors with natural beauty and the extraordinary experiences it provides. Upholding the core values of Art, People, and Nature, K11 ECOAST has partnered with 50 world-leading artists and architects to create the most aesthetic and impactful of China's seaside art districts.
A team of architects of K11 ECOAST includes David Chipperfield, a renowned UK architect, one of only eight architects honored with a knighthood and the designer of Shanghai West Bund Museum, OMA which designed the CCTV Headquarters in Beijing, and leading Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, celebrated for his integration of nature and architecture. The three architectural masters delve into the elaborate balance between architecture and nature, skillfully harmonizing the architectural design with the coastal landscape, birthing a new hot spot and destination for creative culture and eco-friendly life in the Greater Bay Area.
As a vanguard for cultural retail, K11 strives to promote and incubate the soft power of Chinese culture, leading every visitor into a journey of imagination. K11 HACC multi-purpose art space proactively combines a variety of contemporary arts and creative culture to offer an ideal exhibition and activity platform for artists, designers, and art organizations. So far, partnerships have been established with leading art and cultural institutions around the world to build the ecology of the space. World renowned names like MoMA PS1, the Centre Pompidou, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Palais de Tokyo are onboard. K11 HACC gathers cultural and artistic vanguards and joins hands with famous curators to present a splendid contemporary artistic world.
K11 HACC at K11 ECOAST will create a compelling space for artistic communication through a collection of contemporary masterpieces from around the world, and act as a grand stage for up-and-coming Chinese artists to stimulate creativity, enrich urban living, and establish an inspirational cultural and artistic hub.
The K11 Art Mall will allow visitors to enjoy outstanding artworks contributed by foreign artists in honor of Shenzhen's unique culture, including public art pieces by two female sculptors--Phyllida Barlow from the UK and Monika Sosnowska from Poland.
K11 is the force behind the "Art + Commerce" model, creating added value for businesses and promoting the development of local art and culture within a commercially defined space. The concept of integrating art and people with business is embodied in all aspects of the K11 ECOAST layout, from its split-level entryway design to its 270° sea view restaurants, pet-friendly environment and the immersive multi-sensory artistic experience offered. With a keen focus on long-term social development, cooperation is underway with New World Group, which boasts a huge ecosystem of over 14 million members and creates share values with communities. Partnerships like these help to deliver a more diversified commercial experience with artistic and cultural features, attracting new generations in pursuit of cultural and spiritual trends.
Largest Total LEED Platinum Pre-Certified Cluster of Buildings in the Greater Bay Area
K11 ECOAST was designed and constructed in accordance with China's 14th Five-Year Plan national guidelines on environmental protection and sustainable development for the circular economy. Echoing the "Zero-Waste City" building pilot program undertaken in Shenzhen, K11 ECOAST capitalized on the opportunity to act as a pioneer by integrating circular economy principles into its design and operations, remarkably reducing waste, and ensuring environmental protection in architectural design, food, fashion, and education. As a result, waste has been reduced significantly, ensuring better environmental protection and a greener, safer, more enjoyable retail experience for visitors.
K11 ECOAST embraces the "Sponge City" concept for sustainable stormwater management, alleviating pressure on the city's existing drainage system. Featuring 60,000 sq. meters of outdoor landscaping, the largest among all K11 projects, K11 ECOAST fully incorporates green and healthy building concepts into its design using renewable energy, recyclable materials, and hospital-grade air filtering systems. K11 ECOAST consists of three WELL pre-certified and LEED Platinum pre-certified buildings at the highest certification level, making it the largest total LEED Platinum pre-certified cluster of buildings in the Greater Bay Area.
K11 ECOAST Contributes to City-Industry Convergence and Win-Win in the Greater Bay Area
Located in the Nanshan District of Shenzhen, a core Greater Bay Area city, K11 ECOAST boasts an infrastructural network highlighted by multiple integrated transportation systems and a one-hour living circle that extends to 30 million people and an area of significant influence in many Asian countries.
With the Belt and Road guidelines, Shenzhen is committed to building itself into the most competitive international consumer hub city. Here, K11 ECOAST, together with numerous international brands, will unlock the local consumption potential and drive internationalized consumption in Shenzhen and the Greater Bay Area. In the meantime, Shenzhen is implementing the Sustainable Development Goals and taking the lead in creating a model city which embraces the harmonious coexistence of people and nature, which acts as the constant driving force behind the sustainable development of K11 ECOAST. Backed by Shenzhen's keen innovation spirit and huge market potential, an incentive for the constant upgrading of brands, K11 ECOAST will make fantastic contributions to economic development in the Greater Bay Area.
Integrating arts, commerce, and the circular economy, K11 ECOAST is destined to become a harbourfront cultural retail destination in the Greater Bay Area, pushing high-quality economic and social development and advocating for trendy, high-end consumption.
About K11 Group:
K11 Group is a unique concept brand that combines culture and commerce, sustaining an ecosystem that caters to all walks of life. Founded in 2008 by renowned entrepreneur Adrian Cheng, the Group encourages a deeper look at the interconnectivity between creativity, culture, and innovation. Through K11 Group, Cheng's aim is to enrich the daily lives of next-generation consumers and create a new global identity for Chinese millennials, as well as cultivate opportunities for communities to thrive, connect, work and shop.
K11 Group is based in Hong Kong SAR with operations in Greater China and investments in Europe and the US. By 2026, K11 Group will have gained a footprint of 38 projects (GFA 2.80 million sq.m) in 10 cities across the Greater China. In addition to its flagship K11 MUSEA, 11 SKIES, and K11 Art Malls, the Group operates K11 ATELIER, K11 ARTUS, and K11 Select. In addition, it cultivates cultural richness through the Hong Kong non-profit K11 Art Foundation and the K11 Craft & Guild Foundation, alongside educational platforms like K11 KULTURE ACADEMY & K11 Future Taskforce.
About K11 ECOAST:
K11 ECOAST, located in Prince Bay, Nanshan, Shenzhen, is the harbourfront cultural retail destination and circular economy trailblazer in the Greater Bay Area. Scheduled to open at the end of 2024, the project includes the K11 Art Mall, K11 HACC multi-purpose art space, K11 ATELIER office building, and the Promenade, with a total GFA of 228,500 m2.
Upholding the K11 brand's core values of Art, People, and Nature, K11 ECOAST is determined to break through the conventional business models to integrate international art and culture into commercial development, cultivating a unique cultural retail experience. K11 ECOAST does not simply bring together prestigious international brands while keeping a finger on the pulse of high-end fashion – it collects contemporary masterpieces from around the world, and serve as a grand stage for budding Chinese artists. Together, they are furnishing a cultural and artistic hub to nourish inspiration – creating a new milestone in cultural retail.
Located in the Greater Bay Area, an area with endless potential, K11 ECOAST will soon become the flagship and crown jewel of K11. The Greater Bay Area will continue to promote the development of a creative and green economy leverages its innovative advantages alongside Shenzhen, and create a richer, more imaginative commercial experience and forger a stronger connection with the world.
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Medicare beneficiaries would need more than $300,000 for healthcare costs in retirement: EBRI
Medicare beneficiaries are projected to pay a high price for premiums, deductibles and prescription drugs in retirement, according to a report by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI).
A 65-year-old man with Medigap and average premiums will need to have saved $96,000 to have a 50% chance of covering premiums and median prescription drug costs, EBRI said. A woman in the same position would need to have shored up $116,000.
These projections rise significantly when the chances of getting these healthcare costs covered go up. To have a 90% chance of meeting their healthcare cost needs, men would need to have saved $166,000, while women would need to have socked away $197,000, EBRI said. Meanwhile, couples would need to save $212,000 to have a 50% chance of covering their medical needs in retirement and $318,000 to have a 90% chance.
In extreme cases, a couple with considerably high prescription drug expenses would need to save $383,000 to have a 90% chance of having enough to cover their healthcare costs, EBRI said.
However, EBRI’s research notes that "enrollees in Medicare Advantage plans generally have lower savings targets."
A man enrolled in Medicare Advantage with median drug expenses and an average usage of healthcare services would need to have saved $56,000 to have a 50% chance of meeting his healthcare spending needs in retirement, EBRI said. The same person would need $96,000 to have a 90% chance of meeting those expenditures.
And a woman would need to save $67,000 to have a 50% chance and $113,000 to have a 90% chance of covering her health care costs in retirement, EBRI said. Couples would need to have amassed $123,000 to have a 50% chance and $184,000 to have a 90% chance of covering their healthcare expenses in retirement.
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Retirement plan balances decreased by nearly 25% in 2022
Medicare Advantage Plans: Pros and Cons
Medicare Advantage plans offer at least the same level of coverage as Medicare Part A (hospital insurance) and Part B (medical insurance) in addition to added benefits, according to the Medicare marketplace eHealth. These could include vision, dental, prescription drug coverage, and fitness center memberships. But unlike government-administered Medicare, Medicare Advantage is offered by private insurance companies contracted by Medicare. Depending on the type of Medicare Advantage plan people enroll in, prices and scope of services can vary.
In addition, Medicare Advantage plans offer maximum out-of-pocket expense thresholds. So once enrollees breach those limits, they’d typically not pay anything for covered services, eHealth said. Original Medicare doesn’t have out-of-pocket maximum rules.
However, Medicare Advantage plans may impose some limitations on enrollees. Medicare Advantage plans work with specific networks of providers. So some people may not find the coverage they need. Moreover, enrollees may need prior authorization for hospital stays, home healthcare, medical equipment, and other procedures, eHealth said.
"If you have chronic conditions or significant health needs, you may want to think twice," Consumer Reports said in a study. "For one thing, with original Medicare you can see any provider that accepts Medicare, which is most of them."
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Americans may deplete more than half their pandemic era savings by end of 2023: Goldman Sachs
The costs of Medicare
The costs of Medicare’s different components and Medicare Advantage Plans (also called Medicare Part C) vary based on several factors.
For instance, Medicare Part A is free for those who have paid Social Security taxes for 10 years, according to Consumer Reports. Medicare Part B costs $165 a month plus copays and coinsurance. Medigap costs $178 a month, based on eHealth estimates.
Medicare Part D costs $22 a month, plus copays and coinsurance, based on eHealth estimates. Higher earners, however, would be charged more. Monthly Medicare Advantage pricing depends on the provider, but on average would cost $18 plus $165 for Medicare Part B, in addition to copays and coinsurance, Consumer Reports said. Higher earners would pay more.
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THE WOODLANDS, Texas, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Target Hospitality Corp. ("Target Hospitality", "Target" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: TH), one of North America's largest providers of vertically-integrated modular accommodations and value-added hospitality services, today announced that Brad Archer has agreed to remain in his positions as President and Chief Executive Officer and continue serving as member of the Company's Board of Directors through June 30, 2025.
"The decision to extend my tenure with the Company is a result of personal reflection, ongoing conversations with the Board and the transformational changes occurring within the business," said Mr. Archer. "We continue to make significant progress advancing our strategic diversification efforts and are close to executing a highly attractive contract that will enhance our position as the largest provider of permanent solutions to the United States Government's domestic humanitarian aid missions. This development, together with the opportunities we have identified to broaden our commercial reach, are important catalysts that will drive sustained growth and value creation. Target's future has never been brighter, and I look forward to continuing to work closely with the team to ensure flawless execution of our business plan."
Stephen Robertson, Chairman of the Board for Target, stated, "We appreciate Brad's decision to extend his tenure with the Company and help guide it through its next phase of evolution and growth. This is a mutually beneficial partnership that is aligned around the common goals of maximizing value for our shareholders, delivering exceptional service to our customers, and creating more opportunities for our talented employees to thrive. Speaking on behalf of the entire Board, we are excited and energized by the path ahead."
About Target Hospitality
Target Hospitality is one of North America's largest providers of vertically integrated modular accommodations and value-added hospitality services in the United States. Target builds, owns and operates a customized and growing network of communities for a range of end users through a full suite of value-added solutions including premium food service management, concierge, laundry, logistics, security and recreational facilities services.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward Looking Statements
Certain statements made in this press release are "forward looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. When used in this press release, the words "estimates," "projected," "expects," "anticipates," "forecasts," "plans," "intends," "believes," "seeks," "may," "will," "should," "future," "propose" and variations of these words or similar expressions (or the negative versions of such words or expressions) are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, conditions or results, and involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors, many of which are outside our control, that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
Investor Contact
Mark Schuck
(832) 702-8009
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The Storm Team 11 forecast calls for mountain flurries to linger into our Saturday morning. Clouds will decrease through the late morning with mostly sunny skies in the afternoon. The high will be 52.
Several Winter Weather Advisories for the mountains of southwest VA and western NC will go into effect early Sunday morning and last through early Sunday evening. Smyth, Tazewell, and Grayson counties in Virginia are included.
Saturday night will be mostly cloudy with showers moving in late evening. The low will be 35.
70% chance of rain showers on Sunday with a wintry mix in the mountains. The high will be 49.
Sunday night showers start to taper off with a low of 34.
Mostly cloudy and cool on Monday with a high of 48.
Monday night will be mostly cloudy with a low of 28.
Mostly cloudy skies with a 20% chance of morning flurries in the higher elevations on Tuesday with a high of 45.
Skies start to clear as clouds push out Tuesday night with a low of 25.
Mostly sunny skies are on tap for Wednesday with chilly temperatures with a high of 53.
The sun and clouds continue Thursday with a high of 60. Showers will start to move in late with a 20% chance of showers.
Rain is back in the forecast on Friday with a 60% chance of rain. The high will be 52.
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MIAMI, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnival Cruise Line today announced protocol updates that meet public health goals but recognize the evolving nature of COVID-19. With these changes, America's Cruise Line is making it easier for more guests to sail with simplified vaccination and testing guidelines, including no testing for vaccinated guests on sailings less than 16 nights, and eliminating the exemption request process for unvaccinated guests, who will only need to show a negative test result at embarkation. All new guidelines are effective for cruises departing on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022 or later, and include:
- Vaccinated guests must continue to provide evidence of their vaccination status prior to embarkation. Pre-cruise testing is no longer required, except for cruises to Canada, Bermuda, Greece and Australia (per local guidelines), and on voyages 16 nights or longer.
- Unvaccinated guests are welcome to sail and are no longer required to apply for a vaccine exemption, except for cruises in Australia or on voyages 16 nights and longer.
- Unvaccinated guests or those who do not provide proof of vaccination must present the results of a negative PCR or antigen test taken within three days of embarkation.
- All policies are subject to local destination regulations.
Note: Guests under the age of five years are exempt from vaccination and testing requirements from the United States and under the age of 12 from Australia.
Voyages 16 nights and longer will continue to have vaccination and testing requirements that are specific to the itinerary. Requirements for long voyages and destination-specific protocols are available on Carnival's Have Fun. Be Safe. page on Carnival.com.
For guests who have a pending vaccine exemption application and are awaiting confirmation for cruises departing Sept. 6 or later, the booking is confirmed unless booked on a sailing that calls on Canada, Bermuda, Australia or if the voyage is 16 nights or longer.
"Our ships have been sailing very full all summer, but there is still room for more of our loyal guests, and these guidelines will make it a simpler process, and make cruising accessible for those who were not able to meet the protocols we were required to follow for much of the past 14 months," said Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line. "We've got lots happening, with Carnival Luminosa and Carnival Celebration joining our fleet this November and more to come in 2023. Whatever the ship, homeport or itinerary that works for you, our great onboard team is ready to deliver a fun vacation – something we all look forward to even more nowadays!"
Duffy added that Carnival is in the process of updating its website, communications, and processes, and sharing more details with guests and travel advisor partners to reflect these new, simplified policies. "We appreciate the patience of our guests and travel advisor partners as we update all materials, but the end result is a very positive one for all who are looking forward to cruising with us," she said.
For additional information on Carnival Cruise Line and to book a cruise vacation, call 1-800-CARNIVAL, visit www.carnival.com, or contact your favorite travel advisor or online travel site.
ABOUT CARNIVAL CRUISE LINE
Carnival Cruise Line, part of Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), is proud to be known as America's Cruise Line. Since its founding in 1972, Carnival has continually revolutionized the cruise sector, making a cruise vacation an affordable and popular option for millions of guests. Carnival operates from 14 U.S. homeports and employs more than 40,000 team members representing 120 nationalities. Carnival's newest ship, Mardi Gras, featuring the first roller coaster at sea, is the first cruise ship in the Americas powered by eco-friendly Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). Carnival returns to Australia in October 2022 and will welcome four additional ships over the next two years, including Carnival Celebration, which arrives to Miami in November to close out Carnival's 50th birthday festivities.
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$10K reward offered for information in killing of Florida couple
MOUNT DORA, Fla. (WESH) – A $10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest in the killing of an elderly couple at a Florida retirement community.
Mount Dora officials are investigating the homicide of an 83-year-old man and his 80-year-old wife at the Waterman Village senior living facility.
Police said they got a 911 call around 4 p.m. Saturday from Waterman Village security about suspicious activity.
When police arrived, they found the elderly couple dead inside their apartment.
“We’re committed to spare no expense in learning the facts surrounding this untimely death,” said Mount Dora interim Police Chief Mike Gibson.
Investigators have released few details about the deaths, simply saying the investigation was very active.
They also would not release the identities of the victims, but said the couple’s son, who was out of town, had been notified of his parents’ deaths.
“There are things we just cannot discuss at this moment,” Gibson said Sunday. “Possibly tomorrow we’ll be able to put out more.”
Gibson added that Waterman Village had extensive security measures and staff in place.
Some concerned Waterman Village residents claimed there were several incidents of suspicious activity in the two or three days prior to the homicides.
A husband and wife who live near where the couple was killed claimed a strange woman was trying to enter their apartment late last week.
“I do know that all of our neighbors who weren’t so careful about it before are going to keep their doors locked,” said the wife, whose name was not given.
Despite the fear, police and city officials told residents the city is safe.
“You shouldn’t feel any less safe than you felt yesterday morning when you woke up,” Mount Dora Mayor Crissy Stile said Sunday. “Our police department serves this city well. They protect our city.”
Mount Dora has called in reinforcements for the investigation, and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is offering the help of its forensic science resources.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to call the Mount Dora Police Department at 352-735-7130 or contact Crimeline at 1-800-423-TIPS.
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ANDOVER, Mass., May 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TransMedics Group, Inc. ("TransMedics") (Nasdaq: TMDX), a medical technology company that is transforming organ transplant therapy for patients with end-stage lung, heart, and liver failure, today announced that it intends to offer, subject to market and other conditions, $300 million aggregate principal amount of convertible senior unsecured notes that will mature on June 1, 2028, unless earlier redeemed, repurchased or converted. TransMedics also expects to grant the initial purchasers of the notes an option to purchase, within a 13-day period beginning on, and including, the initial issuance date of the notes, up to an additional $45 million aggregate principal amount of notes.
TransMedics intends to use a portion of the net proceeds from the offering to pay the cost of certain capped call transactions (described below). In addition, TransMedics intends to use the remaining net proceeds to expand its logistics network through potential partnerships or acquisitions and for general corporate purposes.
The notes will be senior unsecured obligations of TransMedics and bear cash interest, payable semiannually in arrears on June 1 and December 1 of each year, beginning on December 1, 2023. The notes will be convertible, only during certain periods and subject to certain circumstances, into cash, shares of TransMedics common stock, or a combination of cash and shares of TransMedics common stock, at TransMedics' election. Prior to June 8, 2026, the notes will not be redeemable. On or after June 8, 2026, TransMedics may redeem for cash all or a portion of the notes (subject to certain conditions), at its option, if the last reported sale price of TransMedics' common stock has been at least 130% of the conversion price then in effect for at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during any 30 consecutive trading day period (including the last trading day of such period) ending on, and including, the trading day immediately preceding the date on which TransMedics provides notice of redemption at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date. Final terms of the notes, including the interest rate, conversion rate, conversion price, and certain other terms of the offering, will be determined at the time of pricing of the offering.
In connection with the pricing of the notes, TransMedics expects to enter into privately negotiated capped call transactions with one or more of the initial purchasers and/or their respective affiliates and/or other financial institutions (the "option counterparties"). The capped call transactions are expected generally to reduce the potential dilution to TransMedics' common stock upon conversion of any notes and/or offset any potential cash payments TransMedics is required to make in excess of the principal amount of converted notes, as the case may be, with such reduction and/or offset subject to a cap. To the extent any observation period for any converted notes does not correspond to the period during which the market price of TransMedics' common stock is measured under the terms of the capped call transactions, there could also be dilution and/or a reduced offset of any such cash payments as a result of the different measurement periods. If the initial purchasers of the notes exercise their option to purchase additional notes, TransMedics expects to enter into additional capped call transactions with the option counterparties.
TransMedics has been advised that, in connection with establishing their initial hedges of the capped call transactions, the option counterparties or their respective affiliates expect to purchase shares of TransMedics' common stock and/or enter into various derivative transactions with respect to TransMedics' common stock concurrently with or shortly after the pricing of the notes. This activity could increase (or reduce the size of any decrease in) the market price of TransMedics' common stock or the notes at that time. In addition, the option counterparties or their respective affiliates may modify their hedge positions by entering into or unwinding various derivatives with respect to TransMedics' common stock and/or by purchasing or selling TransMedics' common stock or other securities of TransMedics' in secondary market transactions following the pricing of the notes and prior to the maturity of the notes (and are likely to do so on each exercise date for the capped call transactions, which are expected to occur on each trading day during the 40 trading day period beginning on the 41st scheduled trading day prior to the maturity date of the notes, or, to the extent TransMedics exercises the relevant election under the capped call transactions, following any termination of any portion of the capped call transactions in connection with any repurchase, redemption or early conversion of the notes). This activity could also cause or avoid an increase or a decrease in the market price of TransMedics' common stock or the notes, which could affect the ability of holders to convert the notes and, to the extent the activity occurs during any observation period related to a conversion of the notes, it could affect the number of shares of TransMedics' common stock and value of the consideration that holders will receive upon conversion of the notes.
The notes will be offered only to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). The offer and sale of the notes and any shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the notes have not been, and will not be, registered under the Securities Act or any other securities laws, and the notes and any such shares cannot be offered or sold absent registration or except pursuant to an applicable exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and any other applicable securities laws.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the securities described herein, nor shall there be any sale of these securities, in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the laws of such jurisdiction.
About TransMedics Group, Inc.
TransMedics is the world's leader in portable extracorporeal warm perfusion and assessment of donor organs for transplantation. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, the company was founded to address the unmet need for more and better organs for transplantation and has developed technologies to preserve organ quality, assess organ viability prior to transplant, and potentially increase the utilization of donor organs for the treatment of end-stage heart, lung, and liver failure.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements with respect to, among other things, statements about the expected terms, timing and size of the proposed offering and capped call transactions. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. Our management cannot predict all risks, nor can we assess the impact of all factors on the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in or implied by any forward-looking statements we may make. In light of these risks and uncertainties, the forward-looking events and circumstances discussed in this press release may not occur and actual results could differ materially and adversely from those anticipated in or implied by the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: risks and uncertainties related to market conditions; the expected terms and timing of the proposed offering, the notes and the capped call transactions; the satisfaction of customary closing conditions related to the proposed offering; the risk that TransMedics may not be able to consummate the proposed offering on the anticipated terms, or at all; and other factors described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), including under the heading "Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, filed with the SEC on February 27, 2023, our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2023, filed with the SEC on May 4, 2023, and comparable disclosure in our subsequent filings with the SEC. We will make additional information available in our annual and quarterly reports and other filings with the SEC. The forward-looking statements in this press release speak only as of the date of this press release. Factors or events that could cause our actual results to differ may emerge from time to time, and we are not able to predict all of them. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by applicable law.
Investor Contact:
Brian Johnston
332-895-3222
Investors@transmedics.com
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After 2½ years, 2.4 million Covid cases, 35,000 deaths, and a veterans’ care sector careening beyond his control, Gov. Murphy has decided that the time is just right for someone to mark his pandemic report card.
His administration has hired a team of white-shoe legal power players for this task, which comes with no contract that anyone can examine, no bidding for that contract, no specific agenda, no cost attached, and few details other than a stated goal to have a report released late in 2023. | https://www.nj.com/opinion/2022/12/murphys-pandemic-probe-prepare-for-another-airball-editorial.html | 2022-12-04 12:34:53 | 1 | https://www.nj.com/opinion/2022/12/murphys-pandemic-probe-prepare-for-another-airball-editorial.html |
Although the matter is reportedly still up in the air, I’m hoping the Supreme Court releases its report on the investigation of a draft opinion in last spring’s abortion case. But I doubt we’ll learn the identity of the leaker. We never do.
I consider the leak contemptible, but we mustn’t be starry-eyed. The court has leaked for most of its existence. At times there have only been hints, such as the advance word alleged to have been passed to President Franklin Roosevelt before a key 1935 decision on private gold ownership. Other disclosures have been more detailed. Either way, the leaker almost always remains unpunished.
Let’s begin in 1854, when Rep. Zedekiah Kidwell took to the House floor demanding an investigation of Justice Robert Cooper Grier for allegedly giving friends early notice of the outcome of a major case concerning rights on the Ohio River. Though the Judiciary Committee in due course cleared Grier of wrongdoing, some historians think it’s likely that he leaked. Perhaps he also spoke to the newspapers: On two of the five occasions when the case came before the justices, the New York Tribune published the outcome in advance.
Jump ahead two years to oral argument in Dred Scott v. Sandford. In 1856, immediately after the justices held their private discussion of the case, the gist of their positions appeared in the Tribune. “This was of course a gross breach of confidence,” wrote Justice John Catron a year later, “as the information could only come from a judge who was present.”
The irony is that Catron offered his condemnation in a letter to family friend James Buchanan, who had asked him whether Dred Scott would be decided before his March 1857 inauguration as president. By this time, at least three newspapers had reported accurately that the ruling would go against Scott, who claimed that once his owners took him to a state where slavery was illegal, he was free. The Tribune reported both the reasoning and that the court would be “nearly divided” — as indeed it was.
As for Catron, not long after venting his fury over the leaks, he told Buchanan when the decision would come down. The president-elect also heard from the previously investigated Grier, who shared “in confidence” not only the “probable result” and the undergirding argument, but also the reasoning of the dissent. Buchanan, for his part, altered his inaugural address to take the leaked information into account.
Writing in the 1920s, the legal scholar Charles Warren conceded that Grier’s detailed letter to the president-elect “would not at the present time be regarded as one of strict propriety” but noted that justices of the era would commonly “impart in confidence to an intimate friend or relative the probable outcome of a pending case” as long as “the seal of secrecy was imposed.” History is silent on whether those regular disclosures affected the inner workings of the court. What we can say is that no official inquiry of the Dred Scott leaks ensued.
Over the next few decades, however, the court began to develop a strong anti-leak ethos, perhaps due in part to the public’s growing fear during the Gilded Age that government employees were busily enriching themselves and their families. Small wonder, then, that there was outrage on all sides in 1919, when a law clerk named Ashton Fox Embry disclosed the justices’ vote in a pending case to friends who proceeded to trade on the information. An investigation ensued. Embry resigned and was indicted, but the charges were later dismissed, evidently because there was some question as to whether he’d committed a crime.
From that day to this, leaks from the Supreme Court have regularly led to demands for investigation, but these have had little success. We do know the source of the 1973 leak to Time magazine of the Roe v. Wade decision, but not because of the investigation. We know because the culprit — a law clerk for Justice Lewis Powell — was so plagued by guilt that he turned himself in. Chief Justice Warren Burger must have been impressed by the young man’s remorse, because no punishment ensued.
What’s the right attitude toward leaks? Perhaps we should give the last word to Edward Douglass White, who was serving as chief justice at the time of the 1919 episode, where the law clerk and his friends exploited advance knowledge for money. In December of that year, White told a journalist that he’d been concerned since taking the bench about whether the court could keep its secrets: “In order to prevent a leak I wrote with my own hand the decision of the Supreme Court in the Standard Oil Case some years ago.” (The case to which White referred, which led to the company’s breakup, was decided in 1911.) White said that he’d waited until the day before the decision was announced to hand the draft to the printer and done all the proofreading himself.
He then added a remarkable claim: “There have been many rumors of leaks in the past, but I have investigated them and all but one were disproved.” The true one involved someone White called “a minor attaché of the court” who “was tempted and fell.” Apart from that episode, said White, “No man would be so degraded as to interfere with the processes of the nation’s highest court.” (He didn’t say which case that earlier breach of secrecy involved.)
But the story has a startling denouement. The leaker was forced — White does not say by whom — to confess his role to the U.S. president. A few days later, in White’s telling, the unfortunate minor attaché “died under mysterious circumstances.” The chief justice didn’t seem too saddened by the outcome. “The business of the Supreme Court is a sacred thing,” he said.
I expect the report on the Dobbs leak to take the public relations-y position that the justices and their staffs still believe White’s dictum. And perhaps they do. Why, then, do I remain confident that the investigators haven’t found the leaker?
Because the news would have leaked.
Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Yale University, he is author, most recently, of “Invisible: The Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster.”
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ALPE D'HUEZ, France -- In his first Tour de France, 22-year-old Tom Pidcock became the youngest winner of a stage on the iconic Alpe d'Huez mountain after crossing the line solo at the ski resort on Thursday, when Jonas Vingegaard kept the overall lead.
The mountain bike Olympic champion from Britain attacked on the ascent, and his frenetic pace up the legendary 21 hairpin bends was too fast for his breakaway companions.
"That was certainly one of my best experiences in cycling," said Pidcock, a jack of all trades who also owns a cyclocross world title. "It's unreal when you're literally slaloming through people's flags, fists and God knows what else. You can't experience that anywhere else other than the Alpe d'Huez in the Tour de France."
For his first day in the yellow jersey, Vingegaard finished three minutes, 23 seconds behind Pidcock to keep his overall lead intact. The Jumbo-Visma team leader was in a group including defending champion Tadej Pogacar and 2018 Tour winner Geraint Thomas.
Pogacar, who cracked on Thursday in the first big Alpine stage, tested his rival twice in the last three kilometers but Vingegaard responded with ease.
Vingegaard leads Pogacar by two minutes, 22 seconds, with Thomas third, 2:26 off the pace.
Pidcock and four-time champion Chris Froome had joined forces earlier in the day in the downhill of the Col du Galibier to catch the breakaway. The daunting 102.5-mile Stage 12 from Briancon featured three tough climbs so difficult that they are classified as "beyond category" -- the Col du Galibier, the Col de La Croix de Fer and the climb to Alpe d'Huez.
At the foot of the final climb, the five remaining breakaway riders -- Louis Meintjes, Froome, Pidcock, Neilson Powless and Giulio Ciccone -- had a lead of more than six minutes on the group including all the main contenders.
Amid the sound of cowbells and flares lit by some of the hundreds of thousands of fans lining the road, Pidcock accelerated with 10.5-kilometer left as he dropped Powless and Ciccone.
Meintjes and Froome stayed in contention a bit longer but Pidcock attacked again to dash Froome's hopes of claiming a first win since the crash that nearly ended his career three years ago.
Pidcok beat the record of Colombia's Lucho Herrera, who was 23 when he won on Alpe d'Huez in 1984. Meintjes was second at the top, 48 seconds behind, and Froome completed the stage podium.
"I gave it everything I had. No regrets," Froome said.
Vingegaard took control of the race on Thursday at the end of an epic day of cycling that knocked Pogacar off his pedestal. After spending the day harassing the two-time champion with relentless attacks, Vingegaard finally dropped his Slovenian rival in the last climb of Stage 11.
Thursday's battle between the main contenders was less spectacular. Jumbo-Visma riders rode at the front of the yellow jersey group in the final climb, setting the tempo and preventing attacks from Vingegaard's rivals, except Pogacar's moves.
On a disappointing Bastille day for French riders, Romain Bardet was dropped on the final climb and slipped to fourth overall, 2:35 off the pace.
Gallery: Tour de France 2022: Stage 12, Briancon | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jul/15/pidcock-takes-stage-vingegaard-keeps-tour-lead/ | 2022-07-15 08:54:03 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jul/15/pidcock-takes-stage-vingegaard-keeps-tour-lead/ |
LOCAL NEWS
Have yourself a very northwest weather week
A cold, rainy, and possibly snowy situation in the Puget Sound area to begin the week.
The National Weather Service is saying it will be mostly cloudy with temperatures around freezing Sunday.
The chance of precipitation is 60%, but what kind of precip that will be depends on where you are and how you roll the dice.
⚠️Heads up!
With very cold low temperatures & Fraser Outflow picking up on Sunday, dangerously cold wind chills are expected across portions of Whatcom & San Juan counties Sunday night into Monday. #wawx pic.twitter.com/iFP7RA1m2c
— NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) December 18, 2022
KIRO 7 chief meteorologist Morgan Palmer reports windy conditions in Western Whatcom County and San Juan Islands gusting up to 50mph. Some tree limbs may be at risk of falling.
Freezing rain will be possible along Snoqualmie Pass making travel conditions treacherous. As temperatures drop, so will the snow levels.
What starts as rain will quickly change over to snow. A Convergence Zone will set up near the North King County/ Snohomish County line. Snow should continue throughout the night with totals 1-3″, isolated higher totals possible.
Snow will be possible Monday morning with slick roads around the north. Conditions will dry out during the day on Monday with chilly highs only in the upper 20′s low 30′s.
The trend this week will be bone-chilling temperatures. Any precipitation would be snow during this timeframe and would give the chance for the most widespread lowland snow chance.
However, we are still uncertain how much moisture will still be around. Stay tuned for more on these days.
For Friday and Christmas Eve, temperatures may begin to moderate during this time and the chance for wintry weather will shift to chances of rain.
KIRO 7 meteorologist Morgan Palmer contributed to this report | https://mynorthwest.com/3753839/have-yourself-a-very-northwest-weather-week/ | 2022-12-18 22:18:53 | 0 | https://mynorthwest.com/3753839/have-yourself-a-very-northwest-weather-week/ |
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