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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — President Joe Biden’s special envoy for North Korea said Friday the United States is “preparing for all contingencies” in close coordination with its South Korean and Japanese allies as it monitors North Korean arrangements for a possible nuclear test explosion that outside officials say could be imminent.
South Korean and U.S. intelligence officials have said they detected North Korean efforts to prepare its northeastern testing ground for another nuclear test, which would be its seventh since 2006 and the first since September 2017, when it claimed to have detonated a thermonuclear bomb to fit on its intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Sung Kim, the U.S. special representative for North Korea, was in Seoul for a trilateral meeting with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts to discuss the growing threat posed by North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missiles programs.
“The U.S. assesses that the DPRK is preparing at its Punggye-ri test site for what would be its seventh nuclear test. This assessment is consistent with the DPRK’s own recent public statements,” said Kim, using the initials of North Korea’s formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Aside from coordinating with Seoul and Tokyo over contingency planning, Washington is also prepared to make “both short- and longer-term adjustments to our military posture as appropriate and responding to any DPRK provocation and as necessary to strengthen both defense and deterrence to protect our allies in the region,” Kim said.
Funakoshi Takehiro, Japan’s director-general for Asian and Oceanian Affairs, said the North’s spate of ballistic tests this year and possible nuclear test preparations underscore the need for a more robust international response and lamented the U.N. Security Council’s inaction over the North’s recent tests.
Kim Gunn, South Korea’s representative at the nuclear envoy, said North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile development would only strengthen the security cooperation between the United States and its Asian allies and deepen the North’s isolation and economic woes.
“That is why it is so important to steer North Korea back towards the paths of dialogue and diplomacy,” he said.
Nuclear negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang have stalled since 2019 over disagreements in exchanging the release of crippling U.S.-led sanctions against North Korea and the North’s disarmament steps.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has expanded his ballistic missile program amid the diplomatic pause and a nuclear test would escalate his brinkmanship aimed at cementing the North’s status as a nuclear power and negotiating economic and security concessions from a position of strength.
North Korea has already conducted missile tests 17 different times in 2022, including its first ICBM demonstrations in nearly five years, exploiting a favorable environment to push forward weapons development as the U.N. Security Council remains divided over Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Russia and China last week vetoed a U.S.-sponsored resolution that would have imposed additional sanctions on North Korea over its latest ballistic tests on May 25, which South Korea’s military said involved an ICBM flown on medium-range trajectory and two short-range weapons. Those tests came as Biden wrapped up his trip to South Korea and Japan, where he reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to defend both allies in the face of the North’s nuclear threat.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., said Washington will still push for additional sanctions if North Korea conducts a new nuclear test.
Kim Jong Un’s pressure campaign is unlikely to be impeded by a deadly coronavirus outbreak in his largely unvaccinated autocracy.
Dr. Mike Ryan, the World Health Organization’s emergencies chief, said Wednesday that the U.N. health agency assumes the virus situation in North Korea is “getting worse, not better,” considering the lack of public health tools, despite Pyongyang’s recent claims that COVID-19 is slowing there.
North Korea has so far ignored U.S. and South Korean offers of vaccines and other help. Experts say the North is more likely to accept medical supplies from China, its main ally and economic lifeline.
“We are concerned about how the outbreak might affect the North Korean people, the economy and the already dire food situation in the wake of these developments,” Sung Kim said, calling for the North to respond to offers for outside help.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Ukraine on Tuesday renewed its appeal to Western countries for fighter jets to help frustrate Moscow’s invasion, but the United States and its NATO allies and partners are more concerned about Kyiv’s needs for large amounts of ammunition as the war with Russia is set to enter its second year.
Ahead of the meeting of the Ukraine contact group at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Ukraine made its requirements clear. Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov, when asked what military aid his country is seeking now, showed reporters an image of a fighter jet.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pushed hard for combat planes last week when he visited London, Paris and Brussels on just his second foreign trip since Russia invaded on Feb. 24, 2022. His plea came days after Western allies pledged to provide Kyiv with tanks.
The United States has said no to fighter jets for Ukraine. The United Kingdom is assessing the possibility. On Tuesday, Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren said providing jets “has to be part of the consideration.”
What NATO allies have on their mind, though, is how to keep up a steady supply of ammunition to Ukraine without depleting their own stockpiles.
According to some estimates, Ukraine is firing up to 6,000-7,000 artillery shells each day, around a third of the daily amount that Russia is using.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned Monday that Ukraine is using up ammunition much faster than its allies can supply it.
Moscow’s forces have been pressing in the east of Ukraine while bolstering their defensive lines in the south. The war has been largely static during the winter months, though both sides are expected to launch offensives when the weather improves.
Putin was hoping Western support for Kyiv would fizzle out, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told the meeting.
But he said the contact group would “help Ukraine hold an advance during the spring counteroffensive” and would keep planning for Kyiv’s long-term needs.
“Today’s meeting comes at a critical time,” Austin said. “The Kremlin is still betting that it can wait us out.”
The Russians appear short on resources for any major offensive at the moment, the U.K. Ministry of Defense said Tuesday. “Overall, the current operational picture suggests that Russian forces are being given orders to advance in most sectors, but that they have not massed sufficient offensive combat power on any one axis to achieve a decisive effect,” it tweeted.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that finding ammunition and air defenses is “much more important at the moment than the discussion about fighter jets.”
Pistorius told reporters that getting pilots up to speed on new aircraft and “training just to fly them takes several months, never mind teaching the abilities needed to deploy the weapons systems.”
He said Ukraine’s partners “should focus on what is now at center stage, particularly in view of a Russian offensive that is apparently taking place.”
He said Germany has signed a deal to produce ammunition for self-propelled, anti-aircraft guns it provided to Ukraine, after Kyiv ran into problems finding munitions elsewhere.
That ammunition is crucial for Kyiv to counter Russian attacks, especially on Ukraine’s power infrastructure aimed at disrupting heating and drinking water supply.
Stoltenberg on Monday urged Ukraine’s Western allies to step up their military support.
Asked when he expects Russia’s so-called spring offensive to begin, Stoltenberg said that “the reality is that we have seen the start already.”
“For me, this just highlights the importance of timing. It’s urgent to provide Ukraine with more weapons,” he told reporters in Brussels.
Stoltenberg said that NATO sees “no sign whatsoever that President Putin is preparing for peace” and that arming Ukraine more quickly could save lives by bringing a quicker end to the conflict.
In Ukraine, the country’s presidential office said Tuesday Russian shelling killed at least three civilians and wounded another eight over the previous 24 hours as fighting continued in the south and east.
Russian forces shelled 17 towns and villages in the Donetsk region. Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said. “The Russians are destroying everything in their path,” he said.
Ukraine officials also reported intense shelling and air strikes in Luhansk province, while in the south Russian forces shelled the city of Kherson 13 times over 24 hours, destroying a railway and residential buildings.
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Tara Copp in Brussels contributed to this story.
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KYIV, Ukraine — When Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine in late February, the Russian president vowed his forces would not occupy the country. But as the invasion reached its 100th day Friday, Moscow seemed increasingly unwilling to relinquish the territory it has taken in the war.
The ruble is now an official currency in the southern Kherson region, alongside the Ukrainian hryvnia. Residents there and in Russia-controlled parts of the Zaporizhzhia region are being offered expedited Russian passports. The Kremlin-installed administrations in both regions have talked about plans to become part of Russia.
The Moscow-backed leaders of separatist areas in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, which is mostly Russian-speaking, have expressed similar intentions. Putin recognized the separatists' self-proclaimed republics as independent two days before launching the invasion, and fierce fighting has been underway in the east for weeks as Russia seeks to “liberate” all of the Donbas.
The Kremlin has largely kept mum about its plans for the cities, towns and villages it has bombarded, encircled and finally captured. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said it will be up to the people living in seized areas to decide their status.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this week that enemy forces now control almost 20% of the country's territory. Before the war, Russia controlled 7%, including the Crimea Peninsula and parts of the Donbas.
But in a video message marking the war's first 100 days, Zelenskyy made it clear Ukraine will not submit easily.
“We have defended Ukraine for 100 days already. Victory will be ours,” he said.
U.S. President Joe Biden, meanwhile, said he believes “there’s going to have to be a negotiated settlement” to end the war. Asked if Ukraine should give up territory in exchange for peace, the president said, “It's their territory” and "I’m not going to tell them what they should and shouldn’t do.”
Initially, at least, annexing more land from Ukraine was not believed to be the main goal of the invasion. It was widely thought that the Kremlin intended to install a pro-Moscow government in Kyiv that would prevent Ukraine from joining NATO and pulling further away from Russia’s influence.
But now, Moscow is unlikely to let go of its military gains, according to political analysts.
“Of course (Russia) intends to stay,” said Andrei Kolesnikov, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. To Russia, “it’s a pity to give away what has been occupied, even if it was not part of the original plan.”
Russian forces captured much of Kherson and neighboring Zaporizhzhia early in the war, gaining control over most of Ukraine’s Sea of Azov coast and securing a partial land corridor to the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. They completed the takeover last month with the capture of the port city of Mariupol following a three-month siege.
Residents of the cities of Kherson and Melitopol took to the streets to protest the occupation, facing off with Russian soldiers in plazas. Ukrainian officials warned that Russia might stage a referendum in Kherson to declare the region an independent state.
Petro Kobernyk, 31, an activist with a nongovernmental organization who fled Kherson with his wife, said Russian security forces are cracking down on pro-Ukrainian activists.
“Hundreds of pro-Ukrainian activists, including my friends, are being held in the basements of security services,” Kobernyk said by phone. “Those who actively express their position are kidnapped and tortured, threatened and forced out of the region.”
Russian forces keep people in an “information vacuum,” with Ukrainian websites no longer available, Kobernyk said.
His claims could not be independently verified.
But some in captured areas of Ukraine have welcomed a Russian takeover.
“I’ve wanted to live in Russia since I was little, and now I realize I don’t even have to move anywhere,” said Vadim Romanova, a 17-year-old from Mariupol.
In Russian-occupied cities in southern Ukraine, people with pro-Kremlin views replaced mayors and other local leaders who disappeared in what Ukrainian officials and media said were kidnappings. Russian flags were raised, and Russian state broadcasts that promoted the Kremlin’s version of the invasion supplanted Ukrainian TV channels.
The Russian ruble was introduced as the second official currency in both the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions — at least in the parts under Russian control — and pro-Russian administrations started offering a “one-time social payment” of 10,000 rubles (roughly $163) to local residents.
An office of Russia’s migration services opened in Melitopol, taking applications for Russian citizenship from residents of the captured southern regions through a fast-track procedure. The procedure was first implemented in 2019 in the rebel-controlled areas of the Donbas, where more than 700,000 people have received Russian passports.
Top Russian officials started touring the regions, touting the territories' prospects for being integrated into Russia. Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin visited Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in mid-May and indicated they could become part of “our Russian family.”
A senior official in the Kremlin’s ruling United Russia party, Andrei Turchak, put it even more bluntly in a meeting with residents of Kherson: “Russia is here forever.”
Members of the pro-Kremlin administrations in both regions soon announced that the areas would seek to be incorporated into Russia. While it remains unclear when or if it will happen, Russia is appears to be digging in.
Oleg Kryuchkov, an official in Russia-annexed Crimea, said this week that the two southern regions have switched to Russian internet providers. State media ran footage of people lining up to get Russian SIM cards for their cellphones. Kryuchkov also said that both regions are switching to the Russian country code, +7, from the Ukrainian +380.
Senior Russian lawmaker Leonid Slutsky, a member of the Russian delegation in stalled peace talks with Ukraine, said that referendums on joining Russia could take place in the Donbas, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions as early as July.
Kremlin spokesman Peskov was evasive when asked Friday whether Russian authorities planned to hold votes in those areas, saying that it would depend on the course of Russia’s offensive.
Tatyana Stanovaya, founder and CEO of R.Politik, an independent think tank on Russian politics, said she believes Putin doesn’t want to rush the referendums and run the risk of them being denounced as shams.
“He wants the referendum to be real, so that the West can see that, indeed, Russia was right, the people want to live with Russia,” Stanovaya said.
Ukrainian experts say it will not be easy for the Kremlin to rally genuine support in Ukraine’s south.
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WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, November 20, 2022
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CHICAGO (AP) — The swimming season kicked into high gear early in a large swath of the U.S., as a heat wave pushed temperatures into the 90s and beyond on Wednesday in a stretch spanning from northern Florida to the Great Lakes and covering about a third of the country's population.
The National Weather Service maintained an excessive heat warning through Wednesday evening for most of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, which have been dealing with the sticky humidity and soaring temperatures since Tuesday.
The heat advisory in place for the Midwest and South stretched all the way eastward to the South Carolina shoreline.
Meteorologists warned that the high temperatures could be dangerous or deadly for some people and advised residents to stay hydrated, remain indoors if possible and take precautions if they must be outside.
Some of the affected areas were expected to get relief by Thursday. But the hot weather moving out could bring severe thunderstorms Wednesday to Iowa, Wisconsin and points eastward, including Michigan, according to the weather service's Storm Prediction Center. Those storms could dump large hail or spawn tornadoes or damaging straight-line winds.
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AL KHOR, Qatar (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron traveled to Qatar on Wednesday to attend the World Cup semifinal match between France and Morocco, a politically charged encounter between the north African country and its former colonizer.
Macron was standing beside FIFA president Gianni Infantino in the stands at Al Bayt Stadium after the national anthems for both countries were played before kickoff.
He earlier visited a bazaar in Doha, the Qatari capital. Macron walked through a crowd at Souq Waqif wearing a scarf with the colors of the Qatari flag before getting into a car amid heavy security for the 50-kilometer (30-mile) trip from Doha to Al Khor for the match.
“France will win," Macron said when asked for a prediction.
Morocco was ruled by France from 1912-56. Wednesday’s match has political and emotional resonance for both nations. It dredges up everything that’s complex about the relationship in which France still wields considerable economic, political and cultural influence.
Macron skipped a summit of European Union and southeast Asian leaders in Brussels to attend the match. The winner will play Argentina in the final on Sunday.
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — John Lovelace Jr. had 16 points in Youngstown State’s 105-74 win over IUPUI on Saturday.
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Youngstown State plays Thursday against Detroit Mercy on the road, and IUPUI visits Robert Morris on Monday.
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Hesai Appoints Bob in den Bosch as Senior Vice President of Global Sales
Mr. in den Bosch Brings Over Two Decades of Automotive, Industrial, and Semiconductor Experience
PALO ALTO, Calif. , May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hesai Technology ("Hesai"), a leading global developer of lidar for ADAS and autonomous driving, today announced that it has hired Bob in den Bosch as Senior Vice President of Sales. Mr. in den Bosch brings to the role over two decades of experience as a business leader in the automotive, industrial, and semiconductor industries.
Bob will be responsible for Hesai's automotive business as well as its continued expansion into new industry verticals. He will oversee sales, sales operations, and business development across North America, South America, and EMEA.
Bob joins Hesai from the sensor and light technology company OSRAM, where he served as Vice President of Sales for North America. Prior to that, he held leadership positions at Lumileds, and NXP Semiconductors.
"The global market has been an integral part of Hesai's business since its foundation. Our customer base in AMER and EMEA is expanding at a considerable pace, and for that we are investing heavily in building a strong Americas team," said David Li, CEO of Hesai. "Bob's joining not only brings in decades-long of valuable experience to Hesai, but it is also a timely one. We're delighted to welcome him onboard to accelerate our growth and cement our market leadership across every vertical in ADAS and Autonomous Driving."
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JSAUX releases a free set of 3D models to create new accessories for ModCase
HONG KONG, Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Electronics brand JSAUX officially released their long-awaited translucent backplates for Steam Deck (PC0106), now available on their website in purple, green, blue, and red. The release of the Crystal backplate, one of the JSAUX community's favorite models, will be announced at a later date as a part of a special event.
COLOR UP THE GAMING DAYS
Following the great success of its first backplate, JSAUX is releasing new versions in five different colors and the same semi-transparent style as users' favorite classic handhelds. These lightweight backplates (about 126g.) are made of ABS plastic, polycarbonate, and aluminum alloy, and have a unique dimension of 150mm (L) x 117mm (W) x 32mm (H).
All kits feature three replacement sets for the handheld's rear buttons in different heights (original, lower, and higher), plus a collection of tools to help users install the backplate easily:
x10 Anti-static finger gloves
x1 Screwdriver
x1 Disassemble stick
x1 Thermal paste (already attached to the backplate)
x4 Original buttons
x4 Higher buttons
x4 Lower buttons
x10 Backplate screws
x16 Button screws
FREE 3D MODELS TO CREATE NEW ACCESSORIES
In their first try to bridge the gap between the company and the modding community, JSAUX is now releasing a set of 3D models to design and print adapters for ModCase. It will help users to have a larger amount of gadgets compatible with their accessory. This kit is free to download from the product sheet on JSAUX's official website. It includes design data for:
- A Deckmate adapter.
- A wall mount.
- A VESA-styled mount.
- A universal adapter.
- A TF card slot for microSD cards.
- An hard disk adapter to replace the ModCase kickstand.
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For further information requests, feel free to contact us at marketing@jsaux.com. Also, users can reach out to a brand representative and follow the new product updates on social media.
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‘Superhero for a big brother’: 2-year-old saved from drowning by his 6-year-old brother
ANDERSON COUNTY, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) - A mother in South Carolina said her 6-year-old son is a hero after he saved his younger brother from drowning.
For the Whitlock family, a Fourth of July celebration ended in the emergency room. Savannah Whitlock said it could have been much worse if not for the actions of her son, Atticus.
Atticus was swimming in the pool at his grandparents’ house when his 2-year-old brother, Anson, slipped and fell into the water.
“I saw something on top of the water and I had my goggles on,” Atticus told WHNS. “I didn’t know what it was so I went under, and it was him, Anson.”
Atticus said he found his brother at the bottom of the pool and quickly pulled him up.
“Thankfully, God was watching out and gave Anson a superhero for a big brother,” his mother said.
Whitlock said she thought her younger son had left the pool deck.
“I was here. My dad was here. My husband was here, and he (Anson) just slipped,” Whitlock said.
Whitlock said she took her eyes off the water for a split second and didn’t see the 2-year-old fall into the pool.
“Nobody saw him fall in,” Whitlock said.
When she turned around, Whitlock said she saw Atticus resurfacing above the water with Anson in his arms.
“Atticus came up with him. I jumped in the pool and swam to meet them. I literally just hugged both of them and I told Atticus, ‘I am so proud of you,’” Whitlock said.
Anson was alert and breathing, but after Whitlock and Atticus got him out of the water, they said he became lethargic and passed out. The family then called 911.
“They checked him over. He was very pale. He was completely white. They went ahead and took him to Greenville Memorial and there was a whole trauma team waiting on him,” Whitlock said.
The doctors examined Anson and found no water in his lungs.
“Turns out he remembered to hold his breath and didn’t inhale any water,” Whitlock said.
Savannah said it’s a miracle Atticus knew how to save his brother from drowning.
“The ambulance driver and the fire department asked to speak with Atticus, and they took him aside and told him, ‘You saved your brother’s life. That was amazing that you did that,’” Whitlock said.
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TORONTO, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Micellae Delivery Systems Inc. ("Micellae"), the provider of best-in-class solubility and bioavailability-enhancing technology for cannabinoids, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Andrew Kerklaan as the Company's new Chief Executive Officer.
Dr. Kerklaan takes over from Dr. Mehdi Nouraei, Micellae's founder, who will now focus on his roles as Chief Science Officer and Chairman of the Board. "We have enjoyed significant growth in the last 12 months, and it is now time for an experienced industry CEO to accelerate our expansion into the US and other international markets, while strengthening Micellae's R&D and commercial activities in Canada," said Dr. Nouraei. "Andrew has an impressive track record; we are delighted to welcome him to the team," Dr. Nouraei added.
Dr. Kerklaan is a pioneer in the cannabis sector, who has brought to market many health-focused cannabinoid products. He founded Dr. Kerklaan Therapeutics, a premium brand built on a deep understanding of patient needs and the health benefits of cannabinoids. He has been involved in all aspects of cannabis product development, manufacturing, and marketing, including the launch of oil extraction and refinement facilities in California and Oregon, the development and formulation of unique products, and the retail of finished products in global markets.
"Dr. Nouraei and the leadership team have built a very solid foundation for the continued growth and success of Micellae which now sits at the forefront of cannabis product innovation with its patent pending technology, and I am proud to be joining the team at this time," said Dr. Kerklaan. "Micellae's approach of developing a data-focused science-first foundation is having a huge impact on improving cannabis product effectiveness. The industry is at a critical stage where product formulations must improve upon the known issues of unpredictable onset times and inconsistent effects. Micellae's O2W technology is achieving this, delivering best-in-class standards for enhancing solubility and bioavailability," added Dr. Kerklaan.
"Andrew's hire marks the next step in Micellae's evolution as a leader in the cannabis sector," highlights pharmaceutical CEO and Micellae Board member Edward Gudaitis. "With the potential for applications of the O2W technology within and beyond cannabinoids, Micellae has entered an exciting phase of development which offers significant implications for pharmaceutical drug delivery and consumer product effectiveness."
Micellae is the provider of best-in-class solubility and bioavailability-enhancing technologies for cannabinoids and other cannabis-derived compounds. Founded by world-class researchers at University of Toronto and pharmaceutical industry leaders, Micellae is committed to driving innovation for enhanced therapeutics and consumer cannabis products. Micellae's patent pending O2W technology is the solution beyond nano-emulsification. Addressing significant unmet needs for evidence-based, fast-onset, potent, and sustainable formulations, O2W allows the production of gold-standard Polyethylene Glycol (PEG)-free dosage forms, including capsules, tablets, gummies, chocolates, and beverages. Micellae partners with cannabis companies that aspire to deliver the highest performing, safest, and most sustainable products for their consumers.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Enlight Renewable Energy Ltd. (TASE: ENLT) ("Enlight"), a global renewable energy platform, today announced that it filed a registration statement on Form F-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") relating to the proposed initial public offering of its ordinary shares in the United States. The number of shares to be offered and the price for the proposed offering have not yet been determined. Enlight intends to list its ordinary shares on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol "ENLT." Enlight's ordinary shares currently trade on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange under the symbol "ENLT."
J.P. Morgan, BofA Securities and Barclays will act as lead book-running managers for the proposed offering, with Credit Suisse and Wolfe | Nomura Alliance acting as joint book-running managers. Roth Capital Partners will act as co-manager.
The offering will be made only by means of a prospectus. Copies of the preliminary prospectus related to the offering may be obtained, when available, from: J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, by telephone at (866) 803-9204, or by email at prospectus-eq_fi@jpmchase.com; BofA Securities, Inc., NC1-004-03-43, 200 North College Street, 3rd floor, Charlotte, NC 28255-0001, Attn: Prospectus Department, or by email at dg.prospectus_requests@bofa.com; Barclays Capital Inc., c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, by telephone at (888) 603-5847, or by email at barclaysprospectus@broadridge.com; Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Attn: Prospectus Department, 6933 Louis Stephens Drive, Morrisville, NC 27560, by telephone at (800) 221-1037, or by email at usa.prospectus@credit-suisse.com; Nomura Securities International, Inc., Attn: Equity Syndicate Department, Worldwide Plaza, 309 West 49th Street, New York, NY 10019, by telephone at (212) 667-9000, or by email at equitysyndicateamericas@nomura.com; or WR Securities, LLC, 757 Third Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10017, by telephone at (646) 845-0700, or by email at bankingwr@wolferesearch.com.
A registration statement on Form F-1 relating to these securities has been filed with the SEC but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, 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 securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
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Baltimore prosecutors on Tuesday dropped charges against a man accused of shooting two squeegee workers last May who he believed had transferred thousands of dollars from his mother on a phone app.
Zhamiel Dixon, 26, was accused in charging documents of shooting the two men because he believed they’d recently been responsible for transferring $2,200 via Cash App from his mother. Police said he’d picked up the two men, along with a third squeegee worker, in the Frankford neighborhood and taken them to the back porch of a home in southwest Baltimore, where he confronted them over the money and opened fire.
Prosecutors, however, were unable to locate the shooting victim on whom their case relied, meaning the trial slated to begin Tuesday couldn’t go forward, Dixon’s attorney and a spokesman for the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office said.
James Bentley, the spokesman for the state’s attorney, said one of the shooting victims had suffered a traumatic brain injury and was never going to testify. The other, he said, suffered a minor neck wound from a bullet that grazed him.
That second victim had given police a statement during the investigation, but “vanished” before trial, Bentley said, calling it “yet another example of how victims and witnesses are critical to not only effective prosecution, but public safety.”
Prosecutors are not barred from bringing the charges again, Bentley said.
Jason Silverstein, who represented Dixon in court, said his client “has always denied” the allegations and said he believed the physical description of the shooter didn’t match Dixon.
Silverstein said he’d planned in trial to contest a photo array that led to his client’s identification because Dixon was the only person who clearly had tattoos, which the victim had described the shooter as having. He called the array “suggestive.”
Dixon was still in lockup when the charges were dropped, Silverstein said. He shared the news with his client afterward, and said Dixon was “overjoyed.” | https://www.capitalgazette.com/maryland/bs-md-ci-cr-squeegee-worker-shooting-case-dropped-charges-20230418-vjkbuscnfvfa7iqwv7tpf3jwrq-story.html | 2023-04-19 00:22:32 | 1 | https://www.capitalgazette.com/maryland/bs-md-ci-cr-squeegee-worker-shooting-case-dropped-charges-20230418-vjkbuscnfvfa7iqwv7tpf3jwrq-story.html |
Rookie cornerback Sauce Gardner stood at his stall in the Jets’ locker room after the 19-3 loss to the Jaguars and considered the team’s fourth straight defeat and fading playoff hopes.
“We need to get takeaways and score at this point,” Gardner said.
Gardner, who allowed an uncharacteristic 20 yards to receivers he was covering, pointed to himself as an example of poor form, but it was a collective collapse on the 16-play drive that the Jaguars cobbled together to take 8:15 off the clock in the second quarter that broke their back. Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence (20 of 31 for 229 passing yards; 51 rushing yards and a touchdown) capped the methodical march by extending his 6-foot-6 frame over the goal line from the one, and the Jets never recovered. Typically the staunch stars for the team, the defense failed to pick up the offense that continues to flail behind starter Zach Wilson and Thursday night’s replacement Chris Streveler.
“It was extremely disappointing,” Gardner said. “We couldn’t execute. We couldn’t play complimentary football today.”
The common denominator in each of the four consecutive losses has been the Jets’ inability to come up with an interception or fumble during any of them. Instead, they allowed former Giants tight end Evan Engram to return to MetLife Stadium and record 113 receiving yards, which is more than he ever had in any performance when he was with the home team; Jaguars tailback Travis Etienne Jr. pieced together 83 yards on the ground and another 29 yards in the air on leaks out of the backfield.
“It still wasn’t nearly good enough as a whole for what we feel like is our standard,” Jets coach Robert Saleh said.
Defensive back D.J. Reed, who cited a personal need to tackle and set the edge better, noted that Lawrence, who the Jets beat, 26-21, last season displayed marked improvement from his rookie campaign.
“He’s much better, to be honest,” Reed said. “He’s a totally different football player as far as his confidence. The throws he made today were great throws. He definitely felt more polished compared to last year.”
Now 7-8, the Jets recognize they must do more moving forward if they are to have any chance at reaching the postseason. There will be no margin for defensive lapses during the road games against Seattle and Miami that round out the remainder of the regular season.
Not all Jets addressed the team’s woes. Defensive tackle Quinine Williams, who recorded an early sack and two more tackles, departed the locker room without speaking to reporters.
In his wake, fellow tackle Sheldon Rankins spoke bluntly of how the team must be ready to fight if it wants to crash the playoffs.
“No slouches left,” he said. “We’ve got to be ready to play our best f---ing football.”
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Man leads Ky. police on multi-county chase, faces several charges
Published: Jan. 11, 2023 at 8:29 AM EST|Updated: 21 minutes ago
MADISON COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT/WKYT) - A man is facing charges after leading deputies on a multi-county chase.
State police said Bryon Watson led Rockcastle County deputies on a chase Tuesday night.
According to officers, the chase went onto Interstate 75. They were able to stop Watson in Madison County at mile marker 83.
He was arrested by Berea Police.
The Madison County Detention Center’s website states Watson is facing a host of charges including wanton endangerment of an officer, reckless driving and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida woman was arrested Thursday after police said she hid her mother’s body in a freezer to continue collecting the woman’s disability benefits.
On April 28, 2022, police in the city of Sebastian found the body of Marie Hoskins inside a chest freezer while conducting a welfare check at her home.
Police said the victim’s daughter, 64-year-old Michele Hoskins, told officers she found her mother’s body in her bedroom.
Further investigation found that Marie Hoskins, 93, had been dead for around two weeks from natural causes before her daughter bought the freezer to hide her mother’s death, police said.
According to the Sebastian Police Department, Michele Hoskins allegedly concealed her mother’s death “for the concern she would not be able to receive her disability benefits.”
Police also said that a heavily soiled mattress was found in the home’s backyard under thick brush and covered by palm tree branches.
Michele Hoskins was arrested on a charge for failing to report the death of her mother and tampering with evidence, according to the SPD. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/florida-woman-hid-93-year-old-moms-body-in-freezer-to-collect-disability-police-say/ | 2022-07-09 18:42:51 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/florida-woman-hid-93-year-old-moms-body-in-freezer-to-collect-disability-police-say/ |
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GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR WATER HEATER
Residential homes are traditionally outfitted with storage tank heaters. More energy-efficient tankless/on-demand and hybrid/heat pump water heaters are relatively new to the scene. Whether you’re looking to replace your water heater or upgrade to a new one, the lifespan of the unit matters. How long your water heater lasts will depend on the type, build quality, the water quality in your area and how the heater is maintained.
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WATER HEATER LIFESPAN BY TYPE
Traditional tank water heaters have the shortest lifespan, lasting an average of eight to 12 years. Exposure to water, oxygen and minerals over time corrode the tank from the inside, causing it to leak. This process is usually what causes a traditional water heater to expire.
Tankless water heaters have the longest lifespan and are capable of lasting around 15 to 20 years. There is no tank to degrade over time, and they don’t operate constantly the way a traditional tank heater does. Eventually, though, tankless water heater components may also experience corrosion.
Hybrid water heaters typically last for 13 to 15 years. Like tankless water heaters, they don’t run continuously, which increases their lifespan compared to traditional tank units. Still, they do contain a tank, so they won’t last as long as tankless models.
OTHER FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE A WATER HEATER’S LIFE EXPECTANCY
Quality is an obvious factor in a water heater’s longevity. Higher-quality units tend to have thicker tanks, better insulation and superior components overall. Heaters that have been routinely maintained and cared for last longer than neglected units. Water quality is another significant factor — hard water can reduce the water heater’s lifespan by causing mineral buildup on the heating element and in the tank.
SIGNS IT MAY BE TIME TO REPLACE YOUR WATER HEATER
If you’ve noticed that your energy bill has gotten higher, it could be a sign that your water heater is no longer performing optimally. Knocking noises in the tank, rusty, cloudy or discolored water and leaks are all telltale signs that your water heater should be replaced.
HOW TO EXTEND WATER HEATER LIFE EXPECTANCY
Flush your water heater yearly
Flushing your water heater helps clear out sediment that builds up in the tank. Manufacturers generally recommend flushing a water heater once a year, but if you live in an area with hard water, it’s safer to go with twice a year.
Replace the anode rod regularly
The anode rod in a tank or hybrid water heater attracts particles of limestone, iron and other minerals away from vulnerable components in the tank. Most water heater manufacturers recommend replacing the anode rod every one to three years.
Monitor the pressure valve
Tank and hybrid water heaters have a pressure valve that releases pressure if the tank overheats. If the valve is not working properly, it can cause the tank to rupture — and in rare cases, explode.
Install a water softener
If your home experiences hard water, consider installing a water softener.
Add an expansion tank
In a closed plumbing system, a tank water heater can put stress on pipes and plumbing fixtures through the process of thermal expansion, which happens when water is heated. An expansion tank is essentially an overflow tank that prevents excessive pressure, protecting your plumbing and the heater itself.
Test your water pressure
Normal water pressure in a home should be under 80 psi. When water pressure is too high, it puts stress on the water tank. You can test this with a water pressure gauge.
Adjust the temperature
Most manufacturers recommend keeping your water heater at about 120 degrees for optimal performance.
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Rheem 50-Gallon Residential Electric Water Heater
This 50-gallon electric water heater can effectively support households with three to five people. It comes with a six-year tank and parts warranty.
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This is a smaller electric tank model, with a 40-gallon tank that will suit two to four people. The heater includes a six-year tank and parts warranty.
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Rheem 40-Gallon Natural Gas Water Heater
This 40-gallon unit can reliably heat water for households of two to four people. It has a convenient push-button ignition that simplifies the startup process. The heater comes with a six-year tank and parts warranty.
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BEST TANKLESS WATER HEATERS
Stiebel Eltron Tempra 36 Plus Tankless Heater
This electric tankless unit can provide continuous hot water for three to four bathrooms in warm climates or two to three bathrooms in cool climates. The heater features a digital display and preset temperature buttons for simple operation. It comes with seven-year leakage and three-year parts warranties.
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EcoSmart ECO 27 Tankless Water Heater
This modest yet effective unit is most suitable for apartment and condo units in warmer climates. The electric heater has a digital display and dial temperature controls. With a lifetime warranty, this model gives you peace of mind.
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Eemax Electric Tankless Water Heater
This model can produce enough hot water for up to one shower and two sinks simultaneously in a cold climate, or four showers at once in a warm climate. It has a digital display and dial controls. This electric heater includes five-year leak and one-year parts warranties.
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BEST HYBRID WATER HEATERS
A.O. Smith 50-Gallon Voltex Hybrid Heat Pump Water Heater
This hybrid water heater’s 50-gallon tank can support households of three to five people. You have the choice of efficiency, hybrid, electric or vacation operating modes, which are accessible through the electronic interface. The hybrid electric heater comes with a six-year tank and parts warranty.
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GREAT FALLS — Five years ago, the Ross family of Great Falls lived a waking nightmare.
Their son Troy, three years old at the time, was struggling to breathe and airlifted to Seattle Children’s Hospital with a rare life threatening lung disease, and an uncertain future. Blood transfusions from donors saved his life. Today, Troy is in remission and it’s imperative to his family to pay it forward.
Troy’s room is full of gifts, memories and keepsakes from the outreach he’s received over the past five years. There’s signed footballs and helmets from every college team in Montana, photos of him with treasure state sports stars and banners from various Troy Strong blood drives and events.
But one of the most recent additions is also one of the most important,
“This is my port,” Troy said as he removes the little device from a vial. “It used to be in my chest for pokes."
It’s a symbol of how far he’s come, and a reminder of how precious life is. After five years, countless trips, treatments and transfusions - Troy is finally living like the normal, sports loving 7-year old that he is.
"I just really personally didn't think that we were ever going see a full stage of healthy,” said his father Wes. "When he woke up from surgery and the port was in a little plastic vial, I knew it was real. I knew we'd made it. And it's truly just a miracle that he's here.”
For a long time the Ross family’s entire life revolved around making sure Troy stayed healthy. And though there is always risk of a regression and flare up of symptoms, the hard part is likely over.
"It's kind of an odd feeling to be done,” said his mother Callie. "Like we don't have to schedule our whole entire family life around when is his next treatment? When does his port need to be flushed? It's just a big sigh of relief”
Though worst is behind them, their message will never change. Donated blood saved Troy’s life.
"And for the the fifth summer in a row, the Ross family is healping to organize a statewide “TroyStrong” blood drive, to help meet the critial need. This year, 11 cities across the state are hosting a drive.
"We found the positive out of something that was really horrible,” Callie said. "It helped us cope, at least that was my coping mechanism through it was the blood drives.”
When Troy got sick, Wes was an assistant coach for the Great Falls High football team and well connected to schools and athletic programs across the state. The outpouring of support for Troy led to a surge in blood donations from friends, family and complete strangers who were touched by his story.
And in turn that’s meant hundreds of lives saved in the name of one little boy.
“We want to thank Wes and Callie and Kennedy and Troy for organizing these drives and just being great spokespeople for the need for lifesaving blood,” said Matthew Ochsner, the regional communications director for American Red Cross. "Obviously, they have depended on it and there’s so many other Montana families out there that depend on this blood being on hospital shelves, every single day across the state."
These are the facts: One pint of blood can save up to three lives, someone needs blood every two seconds, and 4.5 million Americans will need a blood transfusion each year. Facts that the Ross family hopes becomes common knowledge thanks to their outreach with these drives.
“It took this to happen for us to be donors and I would rather not have other people have to go through that to spur them to want to do it,” Callie said.
There are still openings at #TroyStrong drives across the state. A complete list of the 11 drives is below, 10 of them are hosted by the Red Cross, one in Miles City is run by Vitalant:
· June 21 – Bozeman, noon-6 p.m., Red Cross Blood Donation Center, 300 North Willson Ave., sponsor code TROYSTRONG
· June 22 – Billings, 12:30-6 p.m., Rocky Mountain College Bair Family Student Center, 1511 Poly Drive, sponsor code TROYSTRONG
· June 22 – Havre, noon–5 p.m., St. Jude Parish Center, 440 7th Ave., sponsor code TROYSTRONG
· June 22 – Helena, noon-5 p.m., Red Cross Blood Donation Center, 3150 N. Montana, sponsor code TROY
· June 22 – Kalispell, 11:30-6 p.m., Red Cross Blood Donation Center, 126 N. Meridian, sponsor code TROYSTRONG
· June 23 -- Great Falls, noon-6 p.m., Red Cross Blood Donation Center, 1300 28th St. S., sponsor code TROYSTRONG
· June 23 – Missoula, noon-6:30 p.m., Red Cross Blood Donation Center, 2401 N. Reserve St., Suite 6, sponsor code TROYSTRONG
· June 24 – Butte, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Butte Central Foundation, 550 E. Mercury St., sponsor code TROY
· June 28 - Miles City, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m, Miles Community College, search for “Miles City” (hosted by Vitalant)
· June 29 – Dillon, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m., University of Montana-Western Swysgood Technology Center, 710 S. Atlantic St., sponsor code TROYSTRONG
· June 30 – Bozeman, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Montana State University SUB Building, 221 Strand Union, sponsor code TROYSTRONG | https://www.kbzk.com/annual-troystrong-blood-drive-heading-to-11-cities-in-june | 2022-06-21 01:05:58 | 1 | https://www.kbzk.com/annual-troystrong-blood-drive-heading-to-11-cities-in-june |
Republicans win back control of House with narrow majority
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans won control of the U.S. House on Wednesday, returning the party to power in Washington and giving conservatives leverage to blunt President Joe Biden’s agenda and spur a flurry of investigations. But a threadbare majority will pose immediate challenges for GOP leaders and complicate the party’s ability to govern.
More than a week after Election Day, Republicans secured the 218th seat needed to flip the House from Democratic control. The full scope of the party’s majority may not be clear for several more days — or weeks — as votes in competitive races are still being counted.
But they are on track to cobble together what could be the party’s narrowest majority of the 21st century, rivaling 2001, when Republicans had just a nine-seat majority, 221-212 with two independents. That’s far short of the sweeping victory the GOP predicted going into this year’s midterm elections, when the party hoped to reset the agenda on Capitol Hill by capitalizing on economic challenges and Biden’s lagging popularity.
Instead, Democrats showed surprising resilience, holding on to moderate, suburban districts from Virginia to Minnesota and Kansas. The results could complicate House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy’s plans to become speaker as some conservative members have questioned whether to back him or have imposed conditions for their support.
McCarthy, R-Calif., celebrated his party having “officially flipped” the House on Twitter on Wednesday night, writing, “Americans are ready for a new direction, and House Republicans are ready to deliver.”
Current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., released a statement Wednesday night saying, “In the next Congress, House Democrats will continue to play a leading role in supporting President Biden’s agenda — with strong leverage over a scant Republican majority.”
Biden congratulated McCarthy, saying he is “ready to work with House Republicans to deliver results for working families.”
“Last week’s elections demonstrated the strength and resilience of American democracy. There was a strong rejection of election deniers, political violence, and intimidation,” Biden said in a statement. “There was an emphatic statement that, in America, the will of the people prevails.”
He added, that “the future is too promising to be trapped in political warfare.”
The narrow margins have upended Republican politics and prompted finger-pointing about what went wrong. Some in the GOP have blamed Donald Trump for the worse-than-expected outcome. The former president, who announced his third White House bid Tuesday, lifted candidates during this year’s Republican primaries who often questioned the results of the 2020 election or downplayed the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol last year. Many of those struggled to win during the general election.
Despite the GOP’s underwhelming showing, the party will still have notable power. Republicans will take control of key committees, giving them the ability to shape legislation and launch probes of Biden, his family and his administration. There’s particular interest in investigating the overseas business dealings of the president’s son Hunter Biden. Some of the most conservative lawmakers have raised the prospect of impeaching Biden, though that will be much harder for the party to accomplish with a tight majority.
Any legislation that emerges from the House could face steep odds in the Senate, where Democrats won the barest of majorities Saturday. Both parties are looking to a Dec. 6 Senate runoff in Georgia as a last chance to pad their ranks.
With such a potentially slim House majority, there’s also potential for legislative chaos. The dynamic essentially gives an individual member enormous sway over shaping what happens in the chamber. That could lead to particularly tricky circumstances for GOP leaders as they try to win support for must-pass measures that keep the government funded or raise the debt ceiling.
The GOP’s failure to notch more wins — they needed a net gain of five seats to take the majority — was especially surprising because the party went into the election benefiting from congressional maps that were redrawn by Republican legislatures. History was also on Republicans’ side: The party that holds the White House had lost congressional seats during virtually every new president’s first midterm of the modern era.
The new majority will usher in a new group of leaders in Washington. If elected to succeed Pelosi in the top post, McCarthy would lead what will likely be a rowdy conference of House Republicans, most of whom are aligned with Trump’s bare-knuckle brand of politics. Many Republicans in the incoming Congress rejected the results of the 2020 presidential election, even though claims of widespread fraud were refuted by courts, elections officials and Trump’s own attorney general.
McCarthy won the nomination for House speaker on Tuesday, with a formal vote to come when the new Congress convenes in January.
“I’m proud to announce the era of one-party Democrat rule in Washington is over,” McCarthy said after winning the nomination.
Republican candidates pledged on the campaign trail to cut taxes and tighten border security. GOP lawmakers also could withhold aid to Ukraine as it fights a war with Russia or use the threat of defaulting on the nation’s debt as leverage to extract cuts from social spending and entitlements — though all such pursuits will be tougher given how small the GOP majority may end up being.
As a senator and then vice president, Biden spent a career crafting legislative compromises with Republicans. But as president, he was clear about what he viewed as the threats posed by the current Republican Party.
Biden said the midterms show voters want Democrats and Republicans to find ways to cooperate and govern in a bipartisan manner, but also noted that Republicans didn’t achieve the electoral surge they’d been betting on and vowed, “I’m not going to change anything in any fundamental way.”
AP VoteCast, a broad survey of the national electorate, showed that high inflation and concerns about the fragility of democracy had heavily influenced voters. Half of voters said inflation factored significantly, with groceries, gasoline, housing, food and other costs that have shot up in the past year. Slightly fewer — 44% — said the future of democracy was their primary consideration.
Counter to the GOP’s expectations, Biden didn’t entirely shoulder the blame for inflation, with close to half of voters saying the higher-than-usual prices were more because of factors outside his control. And despite the president bearing criticism from a pessimistic electorate, some of those voters backed Democratic candidates.
Democrats also likely benefited from anger over the Supreme Court overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision cementing a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion. Voters in Michigan voted to amend their state constitution to protect abortion rights while far more reliably Republican Kentucky rejected a constitutional amendment declaring no right to an abortion.
Overall, 7 in 10 voters said the high court’s ruling overturning the 1973 decision enshrining abortion rights was an important factor in their midterm decisions. VoteCast also showed the reversal was broadly unpopular. About 6 in 10 say they are angry or dissatisfied by it. And roughly 6 in 10 say they favor a law guaranteeing access to legal abortion nationwide.
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INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis man with a history of firing indiscriminately into crowds with a firearm has been sentenced to 147 months in federal prison. He also committed a drive-by shooting of an Indy mosque in May of 2020, according to the United States Department of Justice.
Jonathan Warren, 22, was sentenced after pleading guilty to transmitting threatening communications in interstate commerce and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
According to court documents, from May through August of 2020 Warren was accused of sending multiple threats to a victim whom he attempted to kill on at least two occasions. Authorities state that on each of Warren’s attempts he fired indiscriminately into crowded areas and risked a greater loss of life than his intended target.
On May 24, Warren reportedly fired into the victim’s house and then, later in the same evening, committed a drive-by shooting into the Masjid E Noor mosque on Lafayette Road. Multiple worshippers were at the mosque when Warren committed the drive-by shooting due to it being Eid al-Fitr, or the “Festival of the Breaking of the Fast.”
Two bullets tore into the mosque and nearly hit one of the worshippers inside following a sunset prayer, previous reports describe. Surveillance footage captured images of a red car speeding past the mosque during the shooting.
On June 9, Warren fired multiple shots across the parking lot of the Pangea Apartments on W. 34th Street, the DOJ said. His reckless firing caused multiple bystanders to flee in terror once more.
The DOJ stated that the FBI and the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network Program were able to reconstruct Warren’s shootings through the examination of shell casings collect from the scene. These reconstructions led investigators to identify Warren as the suspect and led to his arrest.
After serving more than 12 years in federal prison, Warren will be required to serve probation for five years following his release.
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NEW YORK (AP) — For the uninitiated, outfitting a college dorm room can be a dizzying experience. Doing it at a time of high inflation can make it even more daunting.
The first step: Meticulously go over what the school allows and provides. If you want a microwave and minifridge, are the energy-saving combo models required? Do you need foam pool noodles to avoid hitting your head under an upper bunk, and if so, might the school provide them? Exactly how thick can a mattress topper be?
“You can see the look of terror on parents' faces,” said Marianne Szymanski, an independent product researcher who has sent two kids to college. “You know, did I get the right mattress pad? It's crazy.”
Etsy's trend expert, Dayna Isom Johnson, said self-expression is top of mind for dorm-bound kids in such things as faux headboards and unique dresser knobs.
“Two of my favorite dorm trends right now are mood-boosting hues that incorporate bright and energetic colors like neon tones, and heritage styles, a nostalgic trend that embodies the traditional collegiate look with items like plaid linens, wood-toned furniture and monograms," she said.
There's no end to help out there, from parents swapping tips in social media groups to seasoned college students offering hacks on TikTok.
Some suggestions:
LIGHTING & CHARGING
Dorm rooms have notoriously bad light, and notoriously few electrical outlets in convenient spots. Many schools don't allow extension cords. For power strips, which are almost always permitted, consider going vertical with a tower that offers surge protection, USB ports and outlets that can accommodate a range of differently shaped plugs.
It may be time to get a three-way charger. Storage carts, headboards and stands with charging capability are plentiful.
Use double-sided tape or hook-and-loop strips to fasten a power strip to the frame of an elevated bed for easy access.
For students so inclined, putting on makeup can be a problem that a lighted makeup mirror can solve. A desk or clip-on lamp is a must for studying. Consider a shared floor lamp. Neon signs are also popular as decorative lighting.
BEDDING & LAUNDRY
Think extra-long twin sheets, mattress protector and thick, cozy mattress pad, but do know some schools don't allow certain types of gel toppers, Szymanski said. As for all those throw pillows, where do they go when it's time to sleep? Usually on the perhaps-not-so-clean floor, so maybe buy fewer. Better yet, take along a body pillow.
Buying two or three sets of sheets does mean using up some already limited storage, but students not terribly laundry-responsible won't go into crisis when the dirties pile up. And if beds are elevated for storage, get curtains to cover the clutter.
What type of laundry hamper to get is a hot topic, and depends on how far from the room the washers and dryers live. There are rolling hampers, compact mesh hampers and all manner of bags. For trekking up and down stairs, huge laundry backpacks (some with padded shoulder straps) are perfect.
A hack: Invest in a clothing steamer or wrinkle release fabric spray rather than an iron.
SHELVING & HOOKS
Extending storage with shelving is a dorm-size jigsaw puzzle. Is there room for over-the-bed shelving? Does the school permit hutches on top of desks, or provide them?
Pro tip: Not a great idea to swap sturdy shelving for an over-the-toilet bathroom version that might not be able to handle something heavy, like a microwave. Also, if a bed will be elevated but not all the way up, a tall bedside stand with extra shelves or drawers might be useful.
Ask the school: Can shelving or stands of any kind be placed in front of windows?
And remember those locker shelves from high school? Use them to extend space in a nightstand or desk.
Those Command stick-on hooks? Bring oh so many, along with the removable poster strips made not to damage walls. Also pick up a couple of over-the-door hangers for bags, coats, robes and hoodies.
CLOSETS & OTHER STORAGE
For the closet, consider sturdy vertical hanger extenders and hanging shoe and clothing storage. Yes, such storage takes up space and adds weight. Can an extra rod be installed?
Storage cubes can triple as seating and step stool, as opposed to a decorative pouf that is simply pretty and comfy.
Under-bed or in-closet storage drawers are essential, along with extra baskets, or at least a bowl for random, easily lost smaller items. Medium plastic baskets for scarves, socks and the like can be used on the top closet shelf.
CLEANING & COOLING
Vacuum cleaners are often available, but they're usually heavy and must be lugged back and forth. Szymanski has a hack for that. Not your run-of-the-mill portable vacuum but an ultra-mini handheld and battery-operated version called the Ayla. It's tube-like and just 11 inches tall.
Some students recommend a duster with cling power, along with a dehumidifier or air purifier.
Portable fans are tiny but mighty. Woozoo, a cult favorite, makes oscillating and remote-controlled versions.
Another Szymanski hack: A roll of Rakot75 towels for cleaning. They're 100% bamboo, come in a 75-count roll, and each sheet can be reused up to six months. Just rinse and reuse.
Don't forget small trash cans for the bathroom and sleeping area, after coordinating with roommates, of course, on this and other shared items.
DECOR & STYLE
Style is everything for some dorm dwellers.
“People really take pride and they really strive for a sophisticated, grown-up space,” said Adar Kirkham, a DIY designer and star of the new digital series “Freestyled” on HGTV.com. “It's now considered cool to decorate your room.”
The pros are mixed on whether removable, peel-and-stick wallpaper is a good idea. Some schools may not allow it and it might not adhere to textured walls. Kirkham suggests using it to decorate desk drawers or other storage units.
Some kids bring along decorative mirrors to hang, rather than the usual all-body vertical kind, or they hang strings of twinkle lights.
The site Dormify.com is full of design inspiration and products. This year's freshmen are more confident than last year's about personalizing their dorm room, said Amanda Zuckerman, Dormify's co-founder and CEO.
“More saturation and color is really popular, so bringing in bright pink, bright orange, bright green and turquoise,” she said.
According to Pinterest, searches are up for hippy and preppy dorm styles.
“People are increasingly searching for things like funky mirror ideas, which have tripled since last year. Indoor plant styling is also on the rise. Searching for preppy dorm room has increased 80%. Pink and blue are some really strong colors for that preppy aesthetic,” said Pinterest's data insights lead Swasti Sarna.
BATHROOM & MISCELLANEOUS
Consider getting some scented Steripod toothbrush protectors. Dorms are dusty. Bathrooms get gross. Toothbrushes might have to be toted around. It should be changed every three months.
Bathrooms are often shared, and stuff gets mixed up. An organizer is essential. Pro tip from the trenches: Use an over-the-door organizer for bathroom stuff. Dormify sells one with a small face mirror built in.
Kirkham suggests a rolling bathroom caddy with just the essentials for quick trips in and out.
Minifridge tip: If allowed leeway on what kind to use, pick one with a separate freezer compartment. It might just guard against freezing food below. Some kids forgo the freezer completely to get more fridge space.
Kirkham, whose show premieres July 24, suggests a minifridge stand that elevates the unit and includes additional storage.
“Everything in a dorm room has to have multiple functions," she said.
A small, portable, battery-operated blender could be useful. It doesn’t take up a lot of space and it helps students eat healthy options stored in room fridges. Szymanski likes the Blendi.
A tool kit comes in handy, as does a first aid kit. To help elevate a bed, Szymanski said, bring along a rubber mallet.
And rather than a bedside canvas caddy, try an attachable bunk bed tray table. It can hold a drink, a phone and more.
Last but not least: a permanent marker good for labeling fabric as well as plastic.
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INNSBRUCK, Austria, Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AV-Comparatives has released the results of 18 consumer and enterprise security products from its 2022 Advanced Threat Protection Test
"Our test results show that the best security programs are very effective at preventing targeted attacks, and that more and more vendors are improving their products in order to combat them."— Peter Stelzhammer, co-founder, AV-Comparatives
The Advanced Threat Protection Test is an add-on test on top of the AV-Comparatives' Main Test Series, which includes the Malware Protection Test, Real-World Protection Test, and Performance Test and checks each security product's ability to protect a computer against targeted attacks, which are known as "advanced persistent threats" (APTs).
These are complex, multi-stage attacks that are aimed at a specific individual or organisation. Whilst the majority of such attacks may be ultimately aimed at infiltrating enterprise networks, an obvious means of doing this is to target the personal computers of staff members within the organisation. Additionally, cybercriminals may launch targeted attacks against individuals for other reasons. This means that protection against such attacks should be provided by consumer security programs, as well as corporate endpoint protection software. All the tested products, consumer and enterprise, had to defend against 15 different complex targeted attacks.
Tested enterprise endpoint security products include:
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud with Advanced Security Pack; Avast Ultimate Business Security; Bitdefender GravityZone Business Security Premium; CrowdStrike Falcon Pro; ESET PROTECT Entry with ESET PROTECT Cloud; G Data Endpoint Protection Business; Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business – Select with KSC; Microsoft Defender Antivirus for Business; VMware Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard.
All the enterprise products listed above blocked at least eight out of fifteen advanced attacks, and so received AV-Comparatives' ATP Enterprise Certification.
Tested consumer security products include:
Avast Free Antivirus; AVG Antivirus Free; Avira Prime; Bitdefender Internet Security; ESET Internet Security; G Data Total Security; Kaspersky Internet Security; McAfee Total Protection; Microsoft Defender Antivirus.
Of these 9 products, seven products reached either the ADVANCED or the ADVANCED+ rating.
AV-Comparatives' Advanced Threat Protection Test uses a variety of different attack scenarios, which the tested programs must defend against. Targeted attacks employ various techniques to avoid detection by security software. These include file-less attacks, code obfuscation, and the use of legitimate operating-system tools. Disguising malicious code also makes it hard for a security program to recognise it. The misuse of legitimate system programs for malicious purposes also makes it easier for cybercriminals to stay under the radar of security measures.
In the Advanced Threat Protection Tests, AV-Comparatives uses hacking and penetration techniques that allow attackers to access internal computer systems. All tests use a subset of the TTP (Tactics, Techniques, Procedures) listed in the MITRE ATT&CK® framework. A false alarm test is also included in the reports.
Like all AV-Comparatives' public reports, the report of the 2022 Advanced Threat Protection Test for enterprise products can be downloaded free of charge from the institute's website: https://www.av-comparatives.org/testmethod/advanced-threat-protection-tests/
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AV-Comparatives is an independent organisation offering systematic testing to examine the efficacy of security software products and mobile security solutions. Using one of the largest sample collection systems worldwide, it has created a real-world environment for truly accurate testing.
AV-Comparatives offers freely accessible av-test results to individuals, news organisations and scientific institutions. Certification by AV-Comparatives provides a globally recognised official seal of approval for software performance.
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Bednarik list is out and WVU has 1st day of practice
Published: Aug. 1, 2022 at 8:42 PM EDT|Updated: 51 minutes ago
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Four local college football players are listed on the first 2022 Bednarik Award watch list for this season. They are Ohio State’s Zach Harrison and Ronnie Hickman along with Marshall’s Abraham Beauplan. WVU’s Dante Stills also made the list as the Mountaineers had their first practice of the season.
The Chuck Bednarik Award is presented to the best defensive player in college football
Here’s more that aired on WSAZ Sports Monday evening.
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American aid worker held hostage in Niger for more than 6 years released, US officials say
An American aid worker who was kidnapped in the West African nation of Niger more than six years ago has been released from custody, the Biden administration said Monday.
Jeffrey Woodke was kidnapped from his home in Abalak, Niger, in October 2016 by men who ambushed and killed his guards and forced him at gunpoint into their truck, where he was driven north toward Mali's border.
A senior administration official who briefed reporters Monday on Woodke's release described the action as the culmination of years of efforts but declined to say what exactly led to him being freed from captivity or where he is now.
The official said no ransom was paid and no concession was made to captors.
White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan posted an update about Woodke on Twitter Monday morning.
"The U.S. thanks Niger for its help in bringing him home to all who miss & love him," Sullivan said in part. "I thank so many across our government who've worked tirelessly toward securing his freedom."
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U.S. authorities have apprehended a Libyan man suspected of constructing the bomb that destroyed a passenger plane over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people, including 190 Americans.
"The United States has taken custody of alleged Pan Am flight 103 bombmaker Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi," a spokesperson for the Department of Justice said in a statement to NPR.
Scotland's Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service confirmed that the families of those killed in the bombing have also been notified of the arrest.
"Scottish prosecutors and police, working with UK Government and US colleagues, will continue to pursue this investigation, with the sole aim of bringing those who acted along with Al Megrahi to justice," the office said in a statement.
On Dec. 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded into pieces over Lockerbie, Scotland after a bomb was placed in the cargo area of the plane. The bombing was the single deadliest terror attack in the history of the United Kingdom, and the second deadliest for Americans after Sept. 11, 2001. The plane had taken off from London and was on its way to John F. Kennedy Airport in New York.
According to federal officials, passengers and crew from 21 different countries were killed in the attack. Of the 190 Americans who died, 35 of them were students from Syracuse University in upstate New York who were returning home for the holidays after a semester studying abroad.
The attack launched a decades-long international manhunt for the bomb-makers. In 2020, U.S. authorities made a breakthrough in the case after Libyan authorities apprehended Mas'ud, a former Libyan intelligence operative, and interviewed him about his involvement in the attack.
In 2020, the Justice Department charged Mas'ud with destruction of an aircraft resulting in death and destruction of a vehicle by means of an explosive resulting in death.
The department says he will make his initial court appearance in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
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PITTSBURGH, May 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there should be a way to keep your face mask clean and readily accessible when not in use," said an inventor, from Cedar City, Utah, "so I invented the MASK- ATIZER. My design would provide added protection and peace of mind during the current pandemic."
The invention provides an effective way to store masks when not in use. It also ensures that the masks are clean and sanitized. As a result, it enhances safety and convenience and it helps to prevent lost, forgotten and unsanitary masks. The invention features a portable design that is easy to use so it is ideal for the general population. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the Salt Lake City sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-TLP-105, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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A Swinomish tribal member was sentenced to six years in prison Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle for dealing drugs in Skagit County and on the Swinomish Reservation, according to a news release from the prosecutor’s office.
Robert Andrew Johnny, 28, pleaded guilty last year to a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine, possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and carrying a firearm.
Last March, law enforcement pulled over Johnny and another defendant in Mount Vernon. In their vehicle, according to prosecutors, they had nearly 90,000 fentanyl pills, 2 kilograms of methamphetamine, four guns and $10,000 cash. Authorities reportedly found more drugs at Johnny’s home.
Johnny’s co-defendant, Santos Gutierrez-Fosella, pleaded guilty in October and has a sentencing hearing scheduled for March. Prosecutors wrote that Gutierrez-Fosella sold Johnny drugs to further distribute.
Police had previously stopped Johnny in 2021, when he was driving on the Swinomish Reservation. They found some drugs in his vehicle then, too, prosecutors wrote.
The defense asked for a lower sentence of five years, citing Johnny’s history of substance use disorder and lack of violent crime. This will be the first time Johnny goes to prison, the defense noted.
During the sentencing hearing Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Lauren King noted the harm of drug dealing to tribal communities, according to the news release.
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Committed to becoming a more sustainable travel provider, Allegiant made investments in several ESG areas
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Allegiant Travel Company (NASDAQ: ALGT) released its 2021 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report, a comprehensive publication that details the company's efforts to reduce its climate impact and enhance the communities where employees live and work.
In 2022, Allegiant partnered with Schneider Electric, the global leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, to develop a comprehensive ESG program. The Las Vegas-based airline's goal was to accelerate ESG initiatives throughout the business to better serve its employees, customers, shareholders and communities.
The report, Allegiant's first of its kind, has been prepared with reference to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) frameworks. It can be viewed online at Allegiant.com.
"We are committed to making Allegiant Travel Company an industry leader in sustainability as we develop and adhere to ESG best practices throughout our business," said John Redmond, Allegiant's CEO. "To keep us accountable and in the interest of transparency, we committed to reporting annually on our ESG progress. I'm proud to present our first report in which we begin the process of disclosing data and information on our ESG efforts."
Key highlights from Allegiant's 2021 ESG Report include:
- In 2021, Allegiant's per passenger fuel consumption, measured in gallons of fuel per thousand revenue passenger miles, was 12% more efficient than the industry average.
- Over the past decade, the Las Vegas-based travel company has reduced fuel consumption on a revenue passenger mile basis more than any other domestic airline due to investments in improving its aircraft fuel efficiency.
- Allegiant began providing ongoing carbon emissions reporting of its Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas (GHC) emissions.
- In 2021, Allegiant invested more than $200 million and brought in more than 240 high-wage jobs by creating new bases of operations in Austin, Texas; Flint, Michigan; and Appleton, Wisconsin.
- Allegiant resumed in-kind travel for Make-a-Wish children and their families following a COVID-19 pause and continued to donate more than $1 million annually to the Make-a-Wish Foundation. Allegiant also co-sponsored Girls in Aviation Day and provided scholarships to encourage careers in aviation.
- Sunseeker Resort in Charlotte Harbor, Florida, set to open in 2023, is being constructed using eco-friendly materials and practices throughout the property. Every inch of the resort was designed with sustainability in mind, including the installation of a 2,300-foot seawall to prevent shoreline erosion. Sunseeker will employ up to 1,200 people, which will make it the third largest employer in Southwest Florida.
- The company increased Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) efforts across all levels of its workforce, including achieving a Board of Directors membership that is 25% female and 12.5% ethnically diverse.
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The Makers of The 'Internet's Favorite Sheets' Add GOTS® Certified Bedding and Bath Goods to Their Growing Product Assortment
BROOKLYN, N.Y., April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Brooklinen, the direct-to-consumer (DTC) home essentials company specializing in all things comfort, today announced the launch of their first-ever GOTS® Certified Organic Cotton Collection. The launch spans the bedroom and bathroom, including sheets, duvet covers, towels, robes and bath mats. This assortment of feel-good products is crafted with the luxury and quality that Brooklinen customers know from the brand, now with an added layer of consideration for the conscious consumer.
Brooklinen created this collection in response to growing customer interest in organic home goods, and to expand its range of earth-friendly options. The brand's design and development team worked with trusted existing partners in Turkey and Portugal to craft new finishes and textures exclusive to the line, and to ensure that every piece is GOTS® Certified – the worldwide standard of environmental and social criteria for organic offerings.
"The customer feedback loop helps initiate the majority of our new product development, and organic cotton is one of the top fabrics our customers have requested over the past several years," Rich Fulop, Brooklinen's CEO and Co-Founder, said of the launch. "As a team we've also wanted to step into the organic arena for a long time, and doing it thoughtfully and intentionally was important to us. We did our research and made a big investment to make this launch as great as it possibly can be, and we're thrilled with the final result."
Brooklinen's Organic Bedding features a light-as-air percale weave, 100% long-staple cotton and unique garment-washed finish for a remarkably soft feel and relaxed look. Inclusive of sheets, pillowcases and duvet covers for Full – California King-sized beds, the bedding collection starts at $65. The Organic Bath Collection introduces a new horizontal ribbed texture that offers visual depth, all crafted with a cozy midweight feel and the highest quality Turkish Cotton. Inclusive of towels, robes and bath mats, the bath collection starts at $29. Each piece is available in a range of soothing neutral and strikingly bold colorways inspired by the natural world.
"The Organic Collection was made with the earth in mind, so it was only fitting that our color palette was inspired by nature," said Deanna Wu, Brooklinen's Vice President of Merchandising. "We looked outward to develop each colorway, evoking everything from azure ocean waves to warm desert sands. These colors combined with unique touches like the soft, garment-washed finish of the sheets and eye-catching ribbed texture of the towels make for a lived-in, yet luxurious feel in every piece."
Alongside all of Brooklinen's existing bedding and bath items, these new pieces are also OEKO-TEX® certified for chemical safety. The Brooklinen Organic Collection will be available to shop online at brooklinen.com, and in Brooklinen's retail stores across the country. View the full line here.
To further celebrate this new collection and our planet, Brooklinen is honored to partner with The New York Bee Sanctuary to help support their mission, which includes building wildlife sanctuaries for honey bees and pollinators in New York State, and hosting programs to promote conservation all across the United States. Brooklinen will provide a monetary donation to The New York Bee Sanctuary and host localized events with internal teams across their store fleet throughout Earth Month. Read more about The New York Bee Sanctuary's mission at NYBeeSanctuary.org.
To learn more about GOTS® Certification visit global-standard.org. To learn more about OEKO-TEX® Certification, visit oeko-tex.com.
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LONDON (AP) — British author Jack Higgins, who wrote “The Eagle Has Landed” and other bestselling thrillers and espionage novels, has died. He was 92.
Publisher HarperCollins said that Higgins died at his home on the English Channel island of Jersey surrounded by his family.
Born Henry Patterson in in Newcastle, England, in July 1929, Higgins served in the military before studying sociology at the London School of Economics. He became a teacher in the northern city of Leeds and a writer in his spare time, with novels that sold modestly starting in the late 1950s.
That changed with the 1975 publication of “The Eagle Has Landed,” about a fictional World War II plot to kidnap British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. In a 2010 interview with The Guardian, Higgins recounted a pivotal call from his accountant.
“He asked me what I wanted to get out of my writing,” Higgins said. “I replied that I wasn’t really sure, before adding as a joke it would be nice to make a million by the time I retired. He then said: ‘Well you’re a bloody fool. Because you’ve just earned that much this week. So what are you going to do about it?’”
He was advised to leave England because of 1970s taxation rates and settled with his family on Jersey.
“The Eagle Has Landed” became more popular after the 1976 film adaptation was released. Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland and Robert Duvall were among the stars of the eponymously named movie that was a box office success.
In a statement, HarperCollins chief executive Charlie Redmayne said Higgins’ death marked “the end of an era.”
“I’ve been a fan of Jack Higgins for longer than I can remember. He was a classic thriller writer: instinctive, tough, relentless,” he said.
“The Eagle Has Landed and his other Liam Devlin books, his later Sean Dillon series, and so many others were and remain absolutely unputdownable.”
Patterson wrote nearly 80 books, most under the pseudonym of Jack Higgins. Other Higgins titles included “The Eagle Has Flown,” “Angel of Death,” ”Day of Reckoning,” and “A Darker Place.”
According to his publisher’s website, the novels have sold more than 250 million copies and been translated into dozens of languages.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s state parole board voted Wednesday not to recommend clemency for death row inmate Richard Glossip, even though the state attorney general said he doesn’t think the condemned man whose case has drawn celebrity interest received a fair trial.
The Pardon and Parole Board deadlocked 2-2, meaning it won’t recommend that Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt grant clemency to Glossip, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection on May 18. One board member recused himself because his spouse is a prosecutor who had previous involvement in Glossip’s case, leading Glossip’s lead attorney to object to the move in his opening remarks Wednesday.
There is no formal mechanism to appeal the board’s decision, and Stitt would have needed the board’s recommendation in order to grant clemency. But Glossip’s attorneys filed a motion in state district court asking a judge to prevent his execution from being carried out until a full five-member clemency panel can review his case. They also have a pending petition before the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to halt the execution.
“We will pursue every avenue in the courts to stop this unlawful judicial execution,” Glossip’s lead attorney, Don Knight, said in a statement after Wednesday’s vote.
The vote came despite the state’s new Republican attorney general, Gentner Drummond, taking the unusual step of arguing on behalf of granting clemency — his office typically asks the board to allow executions to proceed. Drummond said that although he doesn’t believe Glossip is innocent, he thinks he didn’t receive a fair trial and deserves a new one.
After the hearing, Drummond issued a statement expressing his disappointment.
“Public confidence in the death penalty requires that these cases receive the highest standard of reliability,” he said. “While the state has not questioned the integrity of previous death penalty cases, the Glossip conviction is very different. I believe it would be a grave injustice to execute an individual whose trial conviction was beset by a litany of errors.”
Before the hearing, reality TV star Kim Kardashian urged her millions of social media followers to contact the parole board and Stitt in a bid to stop the execution. Two years ago, she threw her support behind another Oklahoma death row inmate, Julius Jones, whom Stitt spared hours before his scheduled execution.
Glossip, 60, has long maintained his innocence in the 1997 killing of his former boss, motel owner Barry Van Treese.
Glossip, who was convicted of paying an accomplice, Justin Sneed, to kill Van Treese, told the board Wednesday via video from death row that he knew of no plan to harm Van Treese and that he “feels terrible” about what Van Treese’s family has endured.
“I would never have thought about paying anybody to commit a crime. I absolutely did not cause Justin Sneed to commit any crime against Mr. Van Treese, let alone to murder him,” a tearful Glossip said.
“I’m not a murderer and I don’t deserve to die for this,” he said.
Van Treese’s widow and son, Donna and Derek Van Treese, asked the board to deny clemency.
“The fact is he was brutally murdered,” a visibly emotional Donna Van Treese said. “Our desire and our hope today is justice will be served for our beloved Barry.”
Derek Van Treese said he has felt angry and frustrated by years of delays in the case and the publicity that has come to surround it.
“This case has been pushed from being a legal matter to a political issue. It’s been pushed from the court of law to the court of public opinion.” he said. “All due diligence has been served. Two juries — 24 members of the public — listened to the same evidence. Both juries have found Richard Glossip to be guilty of these charges and rendered the same sentencing.”
Last week, an Oklahoma appeals court upheld Glossip’s conviction despite Drummond’s concerns about some testimony and evidence.
Drummond said in a court filing that although the state isn’t suggesting that Glossip is innocent, he had numerous concerns about the case, such as trial evidence that was destroyed while his appeal was pending and the state’s failure to disclose potentially exculpatory evidence, including that the key witness against Glossip, Sneed, lied to the jury about his psychiatric treatment and reasons for taking the mood-stabilizing drug lithium. But the court rejected that request last month, paving the way for Glossip’s May execution.
Two independent investigations — one by a Houston law firm and another requested by Drummond — have concluded that based on all of the evidence available today, it would be unlikely a jury would vote to convict him.
Glossip was convicted and sentenced to death at two separate trials after his first conviction was tossed for ineffective counsel. Sneed, a handyman at the motel, admitted robbing and killing Van Treese but claimed he did so only after Glossip promised to pay him $10,000. In exchange for his testimony, Sneed received life in prison. He has denied several Associated Press interview requests.
Glossip’s attorneys claim that police suspected Glossip because of some inconsistent statements he made during the search for Van Treese, and that while interviewing Sneed, he never mentioned Glossip until after detectives brought up his name six times and emphasized that Glossip was “snitching on him.” The attorneys suggest in their clemency application that Van Treese’s killing was not a murder for hire, but a botched robbery for drug money committed by Sneed and his girlfriend.
“Richard Glossip is an innocent man who has been the victim of a massive breakdown in the justice system that would have been disturbing had it occurred even in a minor case,” they wrote.
Glossip has been scheduled to be executed three times, only to be spared shortly before the sentence was set to be carried out. He was only hours from being executed in September 2015 when prison officials realized they had received the wrong lethal drug, a mix-up that helped prompt a nearly seven-year moratorium on the death penalty in Oklahoma.
Glossip’s case attracted international attention after actress Susan Sarandon — who won an Academy Award for her portrayal of death penalty opponent Sister Helen Prejean’s fight to save a man on Louisiana’s death row in the 1995 movie “Dead Man Walking” — took up his cause in real life. Prejean herself has served as Glossip’s spiritual adviser and frequently visited him in prison. His case also was featured in a 2017 documentary film titled “Killing Richard Glossip.”
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Associated Press writer Ken Miller contributed to this report.
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LISHUI, China, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tantech Holdings Ltd (NASDAQ: TANH) ("Tantech" or the "Company"), announced today that the Company's Board approved on October 28, 2022 to effect a share consolidation of the Company's common shares at the ratio of one-for-24 with the marketplace effective date of November 9, 2022.
The objective of the share consolidation is to enable the Company to regain compliance with NASDAQ Marketplace Rule 5550(a)(2) and maintain its listing on Nasdaq.
Beginning with the opening of trading on November 9, 2022, the Company's common shares will trade on the NASDAQ Capital Market on a split-adjusted basis, under the same symbol "TANH" but under a new CUSIP Number, G8675X149.
As a result of the share consolidation, each twenty-four common shares outstanding will automatically combine and convert to one issued and outstanding common share without any action on the part of the shareholders. No fractional common shares will be issued to any shareholders in connection with the share consolidation, and such fractional shares will be redeemed by the Company.
The share consolidation will reduce the number of common shares issued and outstanding from 29,278,601 to approximately 1,219,941 (subject to the redemption of the fractional shares at the closing price of the common shares on November 8, 2022). The authorized number of common shares will be reduced by the same one-for-twenty-four ratio from 60,000,000 to 2,500,000.
About Tantech Holdings Ltd
For the past decade, Tantech has been a highly specialized high-tech enterprise producing, researching and developing bamboo charcoal-based products with an established domestic and international sales and distribution network. Since 2017, when the Company acquired 70% of Shangchi Automobile, a vehicle manufacturer based in Zhangjiagang City, Jiangsu Province, it has manufactured and sold vehicles. The Company established two new subsidiaries, Lishui Smart New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd. and Zhejiang Shangchi New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd., in November 2020, to produce and sell street sweepers and other electric vehicles. The Company is fully ISO 90000 and ISO 14000 certified and has received a number of national, provincial and local honors, awards and certifications for its products and scientific research efforts. The Company's subsidiary, First International Commercial Factoring (Shenzhen) Co., LTD, is engaged in commercial factoring for businesses in and related to its supply chain. For more information please visit: http://ir.tantech.cn.
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A natural hat trick from Brady Lindauer spoiled a potential coronation for St. Scholastica men's hockey, as the three unanswered goals proved the difference for St. Mary's, 7-4, in a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference contest at Mars Lakeview Arena on Friday night.
CSS went in to the game knowing it could clinch its first men's hockey league title and first title in any sport since joining the MIAC in 2021 if it swept both games of the weekend series, and the Saints looked like they could do the job when Nathan Adrian gave them a 4-3 lead at 10:07 of the second period. However, Lindauer tied the game about four minutes later, then scored the go-ahead goal 1:50 into the third and an insurance goal into an empty net with 10.7 seconds remaining.
CSS (14-6-2, 11-1-1) lost a league game for the first time this season. The Saints still have a five-point lead atop the conference with three league games remaining and can still clinch the regular season championship with a win on Saturday and an Augsburg loss or tie vs. Hamline. If that doesn't happen, the race will go to the last weekend of the regular season, when the Saints and Auggies play a home-and-home, Friday in Minneapolis and Saturday in Duluth.
Alec Severson had a goal and two assists for the Saints, while Jack Bostedt made 26 saves.
WOMEN'S HOCKEY
Shutout for Arvidson, Saints
Junior goaltender Ashlea Arvidson stopped all 28 shots she faced as St. Scholastica defeated St. Mary's 2-0 in MIAC women's hockey in Winona on Friday night.
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The shutout was the St. Cloud native's second of the season.
Kayla Kasel put CSS on the board late in the first period when she scored on a power play with 3:44 left in the frame. Abby Pohlkamp made it 2-0 Saints with an unassisted tally at 3:24 of the second period and that turned out to be it for the scoring.
The Saints (9-12-1, 7-8-0 MIAC) have won four of their last five league games to pull into the fifth and final playoff spot in the league standings, a point ahead of St. Catherine with three games to play. The Saints and Cardinals will play again Saturday in Winona before CSS concludes the regular season with a home-and-home against second-place Augsburg. | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/sports/college/saints-report-party-postponed-for-css-mens-hockey | 2023-02-11 05:47:05 | 0 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/sports/college/saints-report-party-postponed-for-css-mens-hockey |
A last chance for Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Kylian Mbappé back on the biggest stage of all. Brazil bidding for a record-extending sixth title.
One of the most eagerly anticipated World Cups in memory — as much for off-the-field reasons as those on it — is just around the corner in Qatar and excitement is building after the qualification period was wrapped.
Thirty-two teams, 64 matches, 28 days. The first World Cup in the Middle East.
The tournament starts on Nov. 21 and the final is set for Dec. 18.
Here’s a few things to watch when the tournament gets going in the smallest country ever to host a World Cup:
TOP TEAMS
Brazil (No. 1 in FIFA ranking). Neymar, Vinícius Júnior and the rest of the flair-filled Selecao are peaking at the right time. Is a first World Cup title since 2002 on the horizon?
Belgium (No. 2). The “Golden Generation” is gradually breaking up but there’s still Kevin De Bruyne leading the Belgian charge.
Argentina (No. 3). No World Cup title since the days of the great Diego Maradona. This will be the first World Cup since his death in November 2020 and Argentina is improving, with Messi still at its core.
France (No. 4). The defending champions. Still the country with the most depth to its squad. Now with Mbappé AND Karim Benzema leading the attack. No team has retained its World Cup title since Brazil in 1962.
England (No. 5). Semifinalist at the World Cup in 2018, finalist at the European Championship in 2021. Soccer’s most underperforming national team is trending in the right direction.
BIG STARS
Lionel Messi, Argentina. The seven-time world player of the year might have been saving his 35-year-old legs for one last push at a World Cup winner’s medal that, to many, would solidify him as soccer’s greatest player.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal. He has won the European Championship but the leading scorer in men’s international soccer hasn’t played in a World Cup final, let alone won one. He’s 37 years old now — make the most of him while you can.
Kylian Mbappé, France. The star of the last World Cup at the age of 19 and he is only getting better. The speedy striker could match Brazil great Pelé in being a champion at his first two World Cups.
Kevin De Bruyne, Belgium. Widely regarded as the world’s best midfielder, his driving runs are among the best sights in soccer. Belgium just has to hope he arrives healthy.
Neymar, Brazil. Increasingly overshadowed by Mbappé and Messi at Paris Saint-Germain, still the main man for Brazil. Watch out for tricks and flicks, and some histrionics, too.
HOW IT WORKS
Get ready for a feast of soccer. There are eight groups of four teams, with the top two advancing to the 16-team knockout stage.
There will be four games back-to-back per day — yes, four! — for each of the first two sets of group games, then simultaneous kickoffs for the last two games in each group.
There’ll be no break for the knockout stage, which begins the day after the group stage ends. The first day without soccer comes on Dec. 7 — the 17th day of competition.
MUST-SEE GAMES
Senegal vs. Netherlands, Nov. 21. The first match of the tournament and always a date to save on the calendar. With Sadio Mané and Virgil van Dijk on the field, it’s an interesting one, too.
Argentina vs. Mexico, Nov. 26. The first of the big continental rivalries in the group stage, with Messi potentially sealing his and Argentina’s spot in the last 16.
Spain vs. Germany, Nov. 27. Surely there can’t have been many bigger group-stage matches than this at a World Cup? Two recent champions, two giants of European and world soccer.
Iran vs. United States, Nov. 29. It has been labeled as “ The Mother of All Games Part II.” Just like at the World Cup in 1998, the two countries will meet in the group stage in a politically charged matchup. Diplomatic relations have yet to be restored between the nations since being severed in 1980.
Ghana vs. Uruguay, Dec. 2. Anyone remember the night of July 2, 2010? In the last minute of extra time in a World Cup quarterfinal match between Uruguay and Ghana, Luis Suarez deliberately stopped the ball with his hand on the goalline, got sent off, only for Ghana to miss the penalty and lose in a shootout as Suarez celebrated on the sideline. Revenge would be sweet for Ghana.
UPCOMING FRIENDLIES
With this World Cup taking place in the middle of many countries’ domestic seasons, there will not be the usual pre-tournament build-up of friendlies.
Indeed, for the European countries, the Nations League qualifiers taking place from Sept. 22-27 will represent the teams’ final matches before the World Cup.
Among the big games are Italy vs. England (Sept. 23), Netherlands vs. Belgium (Sept. 25), England vs. Germany (Sept. 26), and Portugal vs. Spain (Sept. 27).
The United States will play Japan on Sept. 23 and Saudi Arabia on Sept. 27, with both friendlies taking place in Europe.
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Wren Kitchens Celebrates Grand Opening in Hamilton, NJ
Wren Kitchens has officially opened in Hamilton Township.
The kitchen design store is located in Hamilton Marketplace on the corner where Pier One Imports used to be (near Bed Bath & Beyond and Shop Rite).
The post says, "We're proud to announce the opening of our 7th U.S. showroom today in Hamilton, NJ! The 9,349 state-of-the-art showroom features 32 kitchens on display and 11 design suites, each being fitted out with VR technology so customers can watch their designs come to life in 3D. Customers can choose everything for their kitchen, from cabinet styles, colors, appliances, countertops, sinks, faucets, accessories and much more. Like all of our showrooms, the Hamilton showroom will be pet and child friendly, with play zones and baby-changing facilities available."
This sounds so cool, doesn't it? If you're planning on renovating your kitchen, go check this place out. Seems like it would have everything you need.
There are only 7 Wren Kitchens showrooms in the United States and this new Hamilton Township location will make the second one in Mercer County.
There is another Wren Kitchens in Lawrence Township. It's located in Mercer Mall where TJ Maxx once was.
The newest Wren Kitchens is located at 150 Marketplace Boulevard, Hamilton Township.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is launching a new initiative to encourage biotech production and research in the U.S., the latest move by the White House to boost domestic industry.
Biden on Monday signed an executive order implementing the initiative and later, in remarks at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, will address how biotech can help fight cancer. On Wednesday, the Democratic president’s administration will host a summit and announce new investments from several federal agencies, according to a White House fact sheet.
The initiative will seek to boost biomanufacturing in pharmaceuticals but also in other industries such as agriculture, plastics and energy. A senior administration official wouldn’t say how much funding will be announced Wednesday.
Biomanufacturing processes can program microbes to make specialty chemicals and compounds, the fact sheet said. Biomanufacturing can be used to make alternatives to oil-based chemicals, plastics and textiles.
The executive order follows bipartisan legislation Biden signed last month that provided $52 billion to subsidize the production of semiconductors, construction of new chip plants and research and development in the United States.
That legislation was intended to reduce the U.S. economy’s reliance on semiconductors made overseas, particularly in Taiwan, and to respond to greater efforts by China to develop its own chip industry.
Biden touted the benefits of the semiconductor law on Friday, in a stop in Columbus, Ohio, where chip giant Intel has broken ground on a new $20 billion factory.
The administration official, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly and insisted on anonymity, said the White House wants to support manufacturing biotech products that are developed in the U.S., rather than seeing American innovations produced abroad.
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(WGN) – Popular YouTube personality Keenan Cahill passed away Thursday at the age of 27, according to a spokesperson for the family.
Cahill had Maroteaux–Lamy syndrome and had posted on social media that he was having open heart surgery on December 15. Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome is a progressive condition that causes many tissues and organs to enlarge, become inflamed or scarred, and eventually waste away (atrophy), according to MedlinePlus. Patients with the syndrome can also have cardiac problems that typically include heart valve abnormalities.
Cahill became one of the first internet sensations when he started uploading lip-synched videos to YouTube in 2010. His clips grabbed the attention of celebrities including Jimmy Kimmel and Katy Perry.
Perry, Jennifer Aniston, 50 Cent, Justin Bieber and other famous fans later appeared on his YouTube channel. Cahill himself also appeared in Sara Bareilles’ music video for “Uncharted” along side Adam Levine, Pharrell Williams and Josh Groban, among others.
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The deaths of seven horses at the home of the Kentucky Derby has once again intensified the debate over the safety of horse racing.
Two of the deaths occurred as the result of race injuries on Derby day, when more than 150,000 people jammed Churchill Downs.
“While each incident reported has been unique, it is important to note that there has been no discernible pattern detected in the injuries sustained,” the track said in a statement that called the incidents “unacceptable.”
In recent years, the industry has instituted a series of veterinary and medication reforms, which led to the fatality rate dropping.
Here’s a look at what horse racing is doing to try to prevent injuries and deaths.
HOW COMMON ARE INJURIES AND DEATHS?
The deaths at Churchill Downs gained greater attention because they occurred in the week leading up to the Kentucky Derby.
There have been spates of deaths in recent years, most notably 30 at Santa Anita in California in 2019. Those led to a series of safety reforms that spread nationally.
Protocol requires a necropsy when a horse dies on-track, and a review of contributing factors, vet records and interviews with stakeholders to learn the cause and what, if anything, could have been done to prevent it.
“It’s hard to explain and say it’s going to happen once in a while,” said Mike Repole, co-owner of scratched early Kentucky Derby favorite Forte, “but the reality is, unfortunately, it’s going to happen once in a while.”
California and New York have public databases that catalogue equine injuries and fatalities; Kentucky does not.
According to a database kept by the Jockey Club, which oversees the breed registry for thoroughbreds in the United States and Canada, more than 7,200 horses died in races from 2009-21.
A potentially catastrophic injury can occur anytime a horse is racing or even running in a paddock on the farm. The large animals’ spindly legs take a lot of concussive force.
WHY ARE HORSES EUTHANIZED AFTER A LIMB INJURY?
A leg injury in a horse can lead to complications as the other legs try to bear the pressure of an animal that weighs about 1,100 pounds. The bones in the leg don’t just break, they often shatter completely, making it extremely difficult to repair or restore to their original form.
Unlike humans who can be put on bedrest, horses are meant to spend most of their time moving. Horses at the track are brought out of their stalls daily to either race, do a timed workout or simply walk several laps around the inside of their barn. They’re also bathed and groomed.
Besides being resistant to having their legs restricted, horses can develop pressure ulcers if they lie down too long. Horses sleep standing up and don’t worry about falling because of a system of tendons and ligaments that allow them to lock the major joints in their legs. If a horse cannot move its legs, the animal’s blood circulation diminishes. Being confined to one place for an extended period of time can affect a horse’s mental health as well.
ARE THERE TREATMENT ALTERNATIVES?
Costs for surgery or other treatments can be considerably high, although deep-pocketed owners of expensive thoroughbreds will often go to extreme lengths to preserve their investment.
Even with treatment, a horse’s chances of complete recovery can be slim. In order to spare the animal additional pain and stress, it is usually euthanized.
WHAT IS RACING DOING TO ADDRESS INJURIES?
Whether it’s everyday races or the Triple Crown series — Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont — horses undergo multiple, comprehensive vet exams and observations to ensure their fitness to run.
Researchers at the University of Kentucky are working to identify a screening tool that can be used before races to identify horses at increased risk of injury. Funding for the study was provided by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission’s Equine Drug Research Council.
The research involves analyzing blood samples from racehorses — both injured and non-injured — at tracks nationwide to see if there are changes in messenger RNA and whether there’s anything that consistently differentiates horses that suffer a catastrophic injury, according to a 2021 article in Trainer magazine.
The Horseracing Safety and Integrity Act — the sport’s new national governing body — launched its racetrack safety program last year. Starting May 22, its antidoping and medication control rules take effect, giving the sport uniformity in post-race and out-of-competition testing, rulings and penalties. The new rules replace the patchwork system of standards in the 38 U.S. racing states that can vary by racetrack and location.
WHO WAS BARBARO AND WHY DID HE MATTER?
The colt won the 2006 Kentucky Derby and horrifyingly shattered his leg two weeks later in the Preakness, which ended his career.
He had surgery for three broken bones in and around the fetlock of his right rear leg. Two months later, Barbaro developed laminitis in his left rear foot. He had five more operations during an extended stay at an equine hospital. Laminitis is common in horses who shift weight to one foot for extended periods to take pressure off an injured foot.
Barbaro’s initial injury and subsequent health battle endeared him to the public, which sent get-well cards to the hospital. His right leg eventually healed, but he developed laminitis in both front feet. Veterinarians and his owners, Roy and Gretchen Jackson, decided he could not be saved, and he was euthanized in January 2007.
His plight led the Jacksons to endow a chair for equine disease research at the University of Pennsylvania’s veterinary school, where the Barbaro Fund also was set up to help the treatment and care of large animals. College scholarships were created for students studying veterinary medicine and equine research.
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PASADENA, Calif., June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE: ARE), the first, preeminent, longest-tenured and pioneering owner, operator and developer of collaborative life science, agtech and advanced technology campuses in AAA innovation cluster locations, today announced that it has released its 2022 ESG Report. Alexandria's sixth ESG-focused report demonstrates the company's commitment to and execution of its industry-leading environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy.
"For Alexandria, our dedication to making a positive and lasting impact on the world drives us each and every day. We believe that doing well in our business and doing good for society are inherently linked endeavors, and this belief has shaped our differentiated business model and supports our industry-leading ESG platform," said Dean A. Shigenaga, president and chief financial officer of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. "We are extremely proud of our broad recognition for leadership across our ESG platform. Our world-class team's commitment and operational excellence enable the longstanding trusted relationships we have built with our innovative life science tenants, who rely on our 24/7, mission-critical laboratory infrastructure to advance their lifesaving work, which cannot be conducted from home."
"We continue to make significant progress in advancing our approach to net zero and are pleased to highlight our decarbonization strategy in our 2022 ESG Report," said Eleni Reed, senior vice president and head of sustainability at Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. "Our strategy, which includes reducing emissions from the operation of our state-of-the-art facilities through electrification, energy efficiency and renewable electricity, is closely aligned with the sustainability goals of many of our innovative tenants. Notably, Alexandria's highly sustainable laboratory developments for Eli Lily and Moderna in our Greater Boston market showcase our proactive approach to reducing emissions."
The company's report details its efforts to advance impactful ESG programs, including its approach to net zero by developing an innovative greenhouse gas emissions mitigation strategy and advancing climate resilience in its life science real estate portfolio. The report also spotlights Alexandria's leadership in catalyzing the health, wellness, safety and productivity of its employees, tenants, local communities and the world through the built environment and beyond, including through its pioneering social responsibility initiatives and its commitment to upholding the highest levels of transparency, integrity and accountability. Notable efforts and accomplishments presented in the report include:
- Being recognized by GRESB as a Regional and Global Sector Leader in the Science & Technology sector for outstanding ESG integration in its value-creation development projects; ranking #2 in the Diversified Listed sector for its mission-critical operating assets; and receiving its fifth consecutive "A" disclosure score for transparency around its practices and performance. Alexandria has earned "Green Star" recognitions in the operating asset benchmark for six consecutive years and in the development benchmark for three consecutive years since its 2020 launch;
- Ranking #5 in Barron's publication of the "10 Real Estate Companies That Are Both Greener and More Profitable";
- Receiving an ESG Rating of "A" from MSCI for the second consecutive year;
- Ranking in the top 10% in ISS environment and social scores and top 10% for its S&P Global ESG scores and increasing its CDP score to "B," putting the company in the top 10% of environmental disclosure and performance scores among FTSE Nareit All REITs Index companies;
- Increasing its investment in renewable electricity to mitigate emissions in its existing asset base, including through a large-scale solar power purchase agreement that will supply renewable electricity to its Greater Boston region starting in 2024;
- Pursuing Zero Energy certifications for two projects: 325 Binney Street, which is targeting LEED Zero Energy and is designed to be the most sustainable laboratory building in Cambridge, and 685 Gateway Boulevard, which is designated as Zero Energy Ready and is on track to achieve ILFI Zero Energy certification;
- Having 88 LEED projects certified or in progress in its asset base, representing a 7% increase compared to 2021;
- Ranking in the top 5 issuers of green bonds among S&P 500 REITs, with $3.2 billion issued since 2018, proceeds from which continue to be allocated to projects that have achieved or are targeting LEED Gold or Platinum certification;
- Having 55 projects that have achieved or are targeting healthy building certifications, putting the company on track to meet its 2025 goal of 50 healthy building certifications;
- Being named one of Newsweek's Most Trustworthy Companies in America in 2023, one of only six S&P 500 REITs recognized in the Real Estate & Housing category;
- Donating mission-critical funds to over 290 non-profit organizations, as well as volunteering over 1,000 hours through Operation CARE, the company's employee social impact program; and
- Earning its eighth Nareit Investor CARE Award in the Large Cap Equity REIT category for superior shareholder communications and reporting, highlighting Alexandria's best-in-class operational transparency and reporting practices.
Alexandria's 2022 ESG Report obtained third-party limited assurance from DNV Business Assurance USA, Inc. (DNV) and was developed in accordance with the Standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Learn more about the company's comprehensive ESG approach and its progress on key initiatives in its 2022 ESG Report, which is available on the ESG page of the company's website.
About Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE: ARE), an S&P 500® company, is a best-in-class, mission-driven life science REIT making a positive and lasting impact on the world. As the pioneer of the life science real estate niche since our founding in 1994, Alexandria is the preeminent and longest-tenured owner, operator and developer of collaborative life science, agtech and advanced technology campuses in AAA innovation cluster locations, including Greater Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, San Diego, Seattle, Maryland and Research Triangle. The trusted partner to over 850 tenants, Alexandria has a total market capitalization of $33.0 billion and an asset base in North America of 75.6 million SF as of March 31, 2023, which includes 41.9 million RSF of operating properties, 5.5 million RSF of Class A properties undergoing construction and 9.7 million RSF of near-term and intermediate-term development and redevelopment projects. Alexandria has a longstanding and proven track record of developing Class A properties clustered in life science, agtech and advanced technology campuses that provide our innovative tenants with highly dynamic and collaborative environments that enhance their ability to successfully recruit and retain world-class talent and inspire productivity, efficiency, creativity and success. Alexandria also provides strategic capital to transformative life science, agrifoodtech, climate innovation and technology companies through our venture capital platform. We believe our unique business model and diligent underwriting ensure a high-quality and diverse tenant base that results in higher occupancy levels, longer lease terms, higher rental income, higher returns and greater long-term asset value. For more information on Alexandria, please visit www.are.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements regarding Alexandria's initiatives, strategies, programs, policies, practices, investments and philanthropic efforts, assessments, progress, timing and performance in connection with Alexandria's ESG goals and the impact of the foregoing on Alexandria's and Alexandria's tenants' business, operations and workforce; the reduction of carbon, energy and other resource use; the mitigation of climate risk; LEED and healthy building certifications and efficiencies; and allocation or use of proceeds for sustainable or ESG purposes. These forward-looking statements are based on Alexandria's present intent, beliefs or expectations, but forward-looking statements are not guaranteed to occur and may not occur. Actual results may differ materially from those contained in or implied by Alexandria's forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of factors, including, without limitation, the risks and uncertainties detailed in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release, and Alexandria assumes no obligation to update this information. For more discussion relating to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in Alexandria's forward-looking statements, and risks and uncertainties to Alexandria's business in general, please refer to Alexandria's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent annual report on Form 10-K and any subsequently filed quarterly reports on Form 10-Q.
CONTACT: Courtney Mulligan, Assistant Vice President – Corporate Social Responsibility & Strategic
Projects, (646) 939-7471, cmulligan@are.com
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Stanton senior Madeline Mathes earned MVP honors on the All-District 4-3A Girls Basketball Team that was released recently.
It was the second straight district MVP honor for Mathes, who was voted District 5-3A MVP in 2021-22.
District 4-3A champion had two other superlatives, as Stanton junior Shelby Phillips shared Co-Defensive MVP honors with Crane’s Kenna Willis, while Junior Ashmore earned Coach of the Year.
The Lady Buffaloes also had senior April Villa, sophomore Aubrey Villa and senior Rylee Murry garner first team honors.
All-District 4-3A Girls Basketball Team
Superlatives
MVP – Madeleine Mathes, Sr., Stanton
Offensive MVP – Karla Montez, Sr., Crane
Co-Defensive MVPs – Shelby Phillips, Jr., Stanton; Kenna Willis, Jr., Crane
Newcomer of the Year – Kimberly Madrid, Fr., Presidio
Coach of the Year – Junior Ashmore, Stanton
First Team
Alexis Rodriguez, Sr., Alpine; Nova Carrasco, Jr., Alpine; Jaylen Pittman, Sr., Crane; Alina Garza, So., Crane; Evvin Mallory, So., Kermit; Mikela Cazarin, Fr., Kermit; Neila Aviles, Sr., Presidio; April Villa, Sr., Stanton; Aubrey Villa, So., Stanton; Rylee Murry, Sr., Stanton; Mia Cordova, So., Tornillo
Second Team
Ali Marony, Alpine; Hope Dominguez, Alpine; Lindsey Ruiz, Jr., Odessa Compass Academy; Jaclyn Bernard, Sr., Crane; Shae Coates, Fr., Crane; Sophie Garcia, Sr., Kermit; Francis Stallings, Sr., Kermit; Victoria Padilla, Jr., Presidio; Sherlyn Herman, Jr., Presidio; Alondra Pineda, Sr., Tornillo | https://www.mrt.com/sports/highschool/article/hs-girls-basketball-stanton-s-mathes-named-17827655.php | 2023-03-09 02:59:37 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/sports/highschool/article/hs-girls-basketball-stanton-s-mathes-named-17827655.php |
NASA officials say its asteroid defense test was a success By Geoff Brumfiel Published October 12, 2022 at 4:20 AM PDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email NASA says its mission to knock an asteroid off course — a test of planetary defense — succeeded beyond its expectations. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.kcbx.org/2022-10-12/nasa-officials-say-its-asteroid-defense-test-was-a-success | 2022-10-12 11:50:18 | 1 | https://www.kcbx.org/2022-10-12/nasa-officials-say-its-asteroid-defense-test-was-a-success |
BEIJING, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fang Holdings Limited (OTC: SFUNY) ("Fang" or the "Company"), a leading real estate Internet portal in China, today announced the appointment of Shandong Haoxin Certified Public Accountants Co., Ltd ("Shandong Haoxin"), an independent accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board,as the Company's auditor, effective July 14, 2022.
Shandong Haoxin succeeds MaloneBailey, LLP ("MaloneBailey"), the Company's previous independent auditor. The Company and MaloneBailey have no disagreements on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedures.
The change of the Company's independent auditor was made after careful consideration and evaluation process and was approved by the board of directors of the Company (the "Board") and the audit committee of the Board. The Company is working closely with Shandong Haoxin and MaloneBailey to ensure a seamless transition and intends to work expeditiously with Shandong Haoxin to file its annual reports for the periods ended December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2021 as soon as possible.
About Fang
Fang operates a leading real estate Internet portal in China in terms of the number of page views and visitors to its websites. Through its websites, Fang provides primarily marketing, listing, leads generation and financial services for China's fast-growing real estate and home furnishing and improvement sectors. Its user-friendly websites support active online communities and networks of users seeking information on, and value-added services for, the real estate and home furnishing and improvement sectors in China. Fang currently maintains approximately 70 offices to focus on local market needs and its website and database contains real estate related content covering 658 cities in China. For more information about Fang, please visit http://ir.fang.com.
Safe Harbor Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such forward-looking statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical fact in this announcement are forward-looking statements, including but not limited to, the results of the winding-up petition and application for appointment of provisional liquidators. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "is expected to," "anticipates," "aim," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "are likely to," "estimates," "may," "should" and similar expressions, and include, without limitation, statements regarding Fang's future financial performance, revenue guidance, growth and growth rates, market position and continued business transformation. Such statements are based upon management's current expectations and current market and operating conditions, and relate to events that involve known or unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond Fang's control, which may cause its actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, the outcome of the appeal (to the extent lodged by Fang) of the NYSE Regulation staff's delisting decision, the impact of Fang's business development strategies, the Fang's ability to continue as a going concern in the future, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact of current and future government policies affecting China's real estate market. Further information regarding these and other risks, uncertainties or factors is included in Fang's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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‘He is a go-getter’: 8-year-old applies for job to buy an Xbox
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WLEX) - A Lexington elementary school student says he decided to get a job to purchase an Xbox.
So, he applied for a job at Drake’s Leestown restaurant.
Family members describe 8-year-old Nash Johnson as energetic and someone who knows what they want.
To get an Xbox, Nash knew he needed some cash. He hopped online and filled out an application to be a dishwasher.
“That was the easiest job I knew. Also, I’m very good at washing dishes,” Nash said.
Nash’s mother, Belinda Johnson, said she had no idea her son sent an application, but she was not surprised.
“That kid is not afraid to fail. He is a go-getter,” Belinda Johnson said. “Financial literacy is really important in our household.”
Nash has jars at home where he learns to save, give and spend. The job at Drake’s was how he was going to get more cash in his spend jar.
“He said, ‘I can get me more money if I get a job. It will get me more money than doing my chores,’” Belinda Johnson said.
However, employees at Drake’s have to be at least 16 years old.
The restaurant couldn’t give Nash the job due to his age, but the team invited him to orientation, where they surprised him with the Xbox.
“I was like shocked, very shocked,” Nash said.
The 8-year-old said he still wants to work as well.
“I wish I had the job and the Xbox,” he said.
Nash’s mother said that’s the kind of work ethic she hopes he carries forever, along with his courage.
“Don’t be afraid to jump out there and go for it. Go get it,” Belinda Johnson said. “You want something, get it.”
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ALONG THE PILMAIQUEN RIVER, Chile (AP) — A ceremonial dip in the frigid waters of the fast-flowing Pilmaiquen River in southern Chile was the culmination of the multiday celebration of We Tripantü, one of the most sacred holidays for the Mapuche, the country’s largest Indigenous group.
Coinciding with the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, the late June “new year” festivities mark the “new rising of the sun” and signify “the change and renovation of life, in all senses,” said Amanda Huichalaf. She took part with her family in the ceremonies led by her sister, the machi or healer and spiritual guide of a Mapuche community alongside the river.
Wading into the Pilmaiquen is a “symbolic way to renew energy,” Huichalaf added. Most participants washed their face, feet and ceremonial jewels as frost covered the lush riverbanks.
In the Mapuche worldview, rivers and other natural elements are home to spirits they revere — like Kintuantü, a protector spirit connected to the Pilmaiquen. The river is also believed to help carry the souls of those buried in a clifftop cemetery on to their next incarnation.
“Water is a pure element. Only with water, the ancestral spirits can travel. The Pilmaiquen River carries in it all our information, carries all our spirituality,” said Millaray Huichalaf, the machi.
But the Pilmaiquen, and the ceremonial compound by the cemetery on a cliff over one of its broad bends, is also where the Huichalafs have been leading a battle against energy companies and others in a decadelong effort to reclaim their ancestral lands. It has included protests, occupations and clashes with police.
“This is where we began the reconstruction of the territory,” Millaray Huichalaf said of the wide meadow where she holds a sacred ceremony in the morning during the solstice. She gives thanks to nature’s spirits and asks for strength for all living beings.
“In addition to being a healer, I’m also a militant in Mapuche resistance. Every day that I wake up, I think about how I can keep defending the river,” she added, voicing hope that her daughters will continue the fight.
One of them goes to school in the nearby village of Carimallin, where Millaray led another We Tripantü ceremony. Some 85% of the 125 kids in the school’s pre-K through 8th grade classes are Mapuche, said Gerson López, a teacher there for a decade. Only half of them are involved in the different Indigenous communities, but they all love the June ceremony, he added. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/mapuche-solstice-ceremonies-highlight-sacred-rivers/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-08-20 05:20:17 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/mapuche-solstice-ceremonies-highlight-sacred-rivers/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
0-9-5-0
(zero, nine, five, zero)
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
0-9-5-0
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Ministry of Health approval clears path for sale and marketing of real dairy products made with Remilk's animal-free protein to Israeli consumers
TEL AVIV, Israel, April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Remilk, a global leader in the development and production of animal-free dairy protein has received a first-of-its-kind approval from the Israeli Ministry of Health (MOH). This historic regulatory event clears a path for the marketing and sale of non-animal dairy products made with Remilk for Israeli consumers. It also establishes the country as one of the first in the world to offer people access to sustainable, real dairy made without cows and free of lactose, cholesterol, antibiotics and growth hormones.
Remilk is a world leader in the development of animal-free milk proteins produced through a proprietary fermentation process. The Ministry of Health approval follows Remilk's receipt of an FDA "No Questions Letter," confirming FDA acceptance of an expert panel's conclusion that Remilk's animal-free protein can be safely used in food products under its GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) standards, as well as a recent regulatory clearance from the Singapore Food Authority.
Remilk has raised more than $130M to date and signed deals with leading players in the global food industry. Last year, Remilk, which is already producing its protein at industrial volumes in facilities around the world, announced a large-scale commercial agreement with the Central Bottling Company (CBC Group), the exclusive Israeli franchisee of Coca-Cola, and one of the largest food companies in Israel, to launch a line of dairy products made with Remilk's protein, for the Israeli market.
"This is a defining moment, not only for Remilk, but for the entire global alternative protein industry and the state of Israel, one of the first in the world to recognize the significance of precision fermentation," said Aviv Wolff, CEO and co-founder of Remilk. "The opening of the Israeli market to real, animal-free dairy products will place Israel not only at the forefront of global food-tech research and development, but also as a leading market in the world for new food consumption. Today's news opens the door for the introduction of high-quality and nutritious animal-free dairy products."
"We thank the Ministry of Health for an in-depth process, in which our non-animal milk protein was thoroughly tested and found to be safe, of high-quality, and identical to its cow-derived counterpart," said Dr. Ori Cohavi, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and co-founder of Remilk. "The breakthrough achievement of Remilk's R&D team lies in its success in converting a technology that has been used for decades to create components for the food industry such as vitamins and enzymes in small quantities, to produce one of the most significant and high-quality components in the food industry. Our milk protein, produced on an industrial scale, allows us to practically change the face of the dairy market."
"Remilk was born to be an international company that dares to challenge the traditional dairy industry," continued Wolff. "It is an honor that Israel, a world leader in alternative protein R&D and investments, has granted Remilk the first regulatory approval of its kind. The product launch planned with the Central Bottling Company is on the horizon as we continue to realize our vision of creating new food systems that can provide nutritious and high-quality solutions for the world's growing population."
About Remilk
Remilk is a global leader in the development of animal-free dairy. The company was founded by CEO Aviv Wolff, an entrepreneur behind several business and social initiatives, and CTO Ori Cohavi, PhD in Biochemistry, who has worked in R&D at a variety of biotech firms. They founded Remilk driven by a shared dedication to reinvent the dairy industry, by removing cows from the milk-making process. Remilk produces dairy-identical milk proteins through precision fermentation and has developed a unique and patented approach to scalable manufacturing which requires a fraction of Earth's resources compared to traditional dairy, while dramatically increasing efficiency in production, and, for the first time in history, eliminating the need for dairy cows in industrial-scale dairy production without compromising on taste, functionality, or nutritional values. Remilk is real dairy, no cows.
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Woman dies after grizzly bear encounter near Yellowstone National Park
WEST YELLOWSTONE, Montana (AP) - A woman was found dead in Montana on Saturday after coming into contact with a grizzly bear on a trail west of Yellowstone National Park.
The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks said in a statement on Sunday that the woman was found deceased on a trail near West Yellowstone, a Montana town nestled in the Custer Gallatin National Forest just west of Yellowstone National Park.
They said the woman was found deceased "following an apparent bear encounter" based on what investigators determined were grizzly bear tracks at the scene. The department said the investigation into the grizzly attack was ongoing.
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Rangers issued an emergency closure of the area where the woman was found, which is popular with hikers.
Though the department’s statement said the death appeared to have followed the woman’s interaction with the bear, it did not confirm her cause of death.
The attack comes amid a rise in Montana’s grizzly bear population and an increase in sightings.
The department put out a news release last week warning visitors that staff had confirmed grizzly bear sightings throughout the state, "particularly in areas between the Northern Continental Divide and the Great Yellowstone ecosystems."
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On this day in history, June 25, 1942, Eisenhower is appointed supreme commander of Allied Forces in Europe
Eisenhower would go on to lead decisive victories in North Africa and at Normandy on D-Day
Future president Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower was appointed commanding general of the European Theater on this day in history, June 25, 1942.
Born in Texas and raised in Kansas, Eisenhower began his military career when he received an appointment to West Point, according to the White House website.
After graduating with the West Point class of 1915, Eisenhower was stationed in Texas as a second lieutenant.
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There, he met Mamie Geneva Doud. The two were married in 1916.
Eisenhower was in charge of a tank training center during World War I, said the Museum of the American G.I.
"He concluded with a prayer for peace ‘in the goodness of time.’"
Following the war, Eisenhower worked in the Panama Canal Zone and attended the Army War College, graduating at the top of his class, said the museum.
Eisenhower continued to climb the ranks of the military, where he "excelled in staff assignments, serving under Generals John J. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur, and Walter Krueger," said the White House website.
After the United States entered World War II, "Eisenhower took over the Army War Plans Division to draft a basic strategy for the war against the Axis," said Military.com.
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, JUNE 6, 1944, US AND ALLIES INVADE NORMANDY IN GREATEST MILITARY INVASION
Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army George C. Marshall tapped Eisenhower for his biggest promotion yet, on June 25, 1942, when he was made commanding general of the European Theater, also known as the supreme commander.
"Although he had not witnessed combat firsthand yet, his 27 years of knowledge and expertise stood out to George C. Marshall," said the Museum of the American G.I.
Eisenhower's leadership prowess and military skill was on display in Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa by British and American troops in November 1942.
His military successes continued.
"By the end of 1943, Eisenhower had conducted successful landings in Sicily and Italy and negotiated an Italian surrender," said Military.com.
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His star was not finished rising, however.
Eisenhower was named supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force for the invasion of Europe.
"Codenamed Operation OVERLORD, the attack across was to be the decisive act of the World War II," said Military.com.
Today, Operation OVERLORD is better known as D-Day.
"It was Eisenhower’s job to surprise the Germans in the time and place of the landings. Complicating matters was the fact that the Allied resources were sufficient for only one invasion attempt," said Military.com.
"After painstaking planning, Eisenhower launched the invasion on June 6, 1944."
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After World War II, Eisenhower was appointed as chief of staff of the United States Army, a position he served until February 1948.
After a stint as the president of Columbia University, Eisenhower was convinced to run for president, said the White House.
"He urged the necessity of maintaining an adequate military strength, but cautioned that vast, long-continued military expenditures could breed potential dangers."
Republicans "tried to interest Eisenhower in the Republican nomination, confident that his popularity would carry him to victory and certain that his internationalist policies were essential to success in the Cold War," said the University of Virginia's Miller Center website.
"Finally, in January 1952, Eisenhower announced that he was a Republican and that he would be willing to accept the call of the American people to serve as president," that site noted.
With the help of the catchy slogan "I Like Ike," Eisenhower was elected president on Nov. 4, 1952 — winning in a landslide over Democrat Adlai Stevenson II.
Eisenhower became the first Republican president in 20 years.
He went on to serve two terms (beating Stevenson again in November 1956).
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"Before he left office in January 1961, for his farm in Gettysburg, he urged the necessity of maintaining an adequate military strength, but cautioned that vast, long-continued military expenditures could breed potential dangers to our way of life," said the White House.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A former top Scientologist has a memoir coming out this fall. Mike Rinder’s “A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology” is scheduled for Sept. 27.
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, announced the book deal Tuesday. Rinder held numerous positions within Scientology, from spokesperson to head of the Office of Special Affairs, the division that took on the church’s critics.
He left in 2007, having spent virtually his whole life in Scientology. He is now a commentator and podcaster, notably as co-host with Leah Remini for the Emmy-winning “Scientology and the Aftermath.”
He has previously alleged that while a Scientologist he was subjected to repeated physical abuse, an allegation the church has denied.
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Sierra Canyon proves to be too much for Taft in Division I regional basketball opener
A few hours before a Sierra Canyon-hosted Division I regional basketball opener that turned into a party for a road Taft crowd in Chatsworth, Toreadors coach Derrick Taylor picked up the phone, exasperated.
Some kid on campus, he explained, was buying tickets for Tuesday night’s clash against the Trailblazers and selling them for $25. By tipoff against Sierra Canyon, he had found out it was a freshman on his team.
“What can I say?” Taylor said. “Capitalism at its best.”
Everyone on campus was excited, as evidenced by the roars that went through Sierra Canyon’s gym after Bishop Brooks hit a three-pointer to open the game. Everyone was over the top. Taylor was not. This was a decorated coach with the benefit of hindsight at the days when he and Sierra Canyon coach Andre Chevalier had their battles in the City Section, he and former Cleveland coach Chevalier competing to attract the best kids in the San Fernando Valley.
So everyone walks into the gym against Sierra Canyon, Taylor said, and gets intimidated. Not him on this night. Not his reigning City Section-champion Toreadors. They would muck it up if the Trailblazers tried to play gritty or run with them if they tried to play fast.
“I’m just going to play it by ear, see whichever one of the styles that work,” Taylor said. “Now, if neither one of them work, yeah, s—, call 911. There’s an assault.”
Corona Centennial’s last-second win over St. John Bosco helps give defending state champion the No. 1 seeding in Open Division regional playoffs.
After a back-and-forth first quarter, the sirens came in the second as Taft just couldn’t run with Sierra Canyon in transition, the Trailblazers shooting the lights out and dominating the paint en route to an 84-47 win.
Senior Jimmy Oladokun led the way with 16 points, with his future University of San Diego coach, Steve Lavin, sitting courtside, Ashton Hardaway added 15 points with a few deep threes, and Noah Williams had 14 points and Bronny James 13.
Twenty years ago, when the high school basketball landscape ran through the City Section, the tables were turned. Chevalier was a young coach trying to knock off Taft, his Cleveland program brimming with talent such as future NBA player Nick Young, and Taylor had a cupboard full of future Division I athletes.
Twenty years later, Chevalier has ascended through the private-school ranks. It’s now his turn to guide a roster full of future college talent as private and prep schools reign. And with the exception of a brief stint at St. John Bosco, Taylor has remained in the City, seeing the talent cupboard run sparse.
“You think back on it, you always wonder — what if it stayed the same?” Taylor said of the changing game. “I don’t cry about none of it. … You either adjust to it or you get consumed by it and you get bitter.”
In front of a packed Valley crowd — hometown kids such as Taft alumnus and “Last Chance U: S2” star Demetrius Calip II in attendance — Taft came out bombing away with zero hesitation, playing the Trailblazers tough in a 26-20 first quarter. But James yo-yoed into a stepback three-pointer to push the lead to 10 points during the second quarter, and the Trailblazers were off, Taft simply not closing out quickly enough to shooters in transition and the halfcourt.
Chevalier patrolled the sideline in a suit and tie, a noticeable change in outfit from his usual Sierra Canyon tracksuit. In a final stretch of the season and during a Southern Section playoff run decimated by injury and inconsistency, Sierra Canyon had gone 3-7 over its last 10 games, in need of a palate cleanser in the state bracket.
The mentality, Chevalier said after the game of his outfit change, was all business.
“Change the mojo,” he smiled. “Do something different.”
In handshake lines after an eventual blowout win, Taylor pulled his former rival aside, the two exchanging final words on the day after a conversation earlier reflecting on “where we come from,” Chevalier said.
“Obviously, it’s the changing of the guard — the private schools have taken over a bit,” Chevalier said of Taylor. “So, it’s a bit different. But I still respect him for what he’s done. It’s not easy to win a championship, and he did that this year.”
Sierra Canyon will advance to the second round of the DI bracket to play Etiwanda on Thursday.
In other games, top-seeded Sherman Oaks Notre Dame took control in the second half to defeat Fairfax 84-68. Dusty Stromer scored 21 points, and Caleb Foster and Mercy Miller added 20 apiece. Dante Ogbu contributed 13 points. Darius Carr scored 27 points for Fairfax. Notre Dame will host Manhattan Beach Mira Costa on Thursday. Mira Costa defeated San Diego Montgomery 49-45.
The biggest upset of the night belonged to King/Drew of the City Section. The No. 16 seed in Division II, King/Drew defeated top-seeded Anaheim Canyon 73-65. No. 2-seeded Tesoro received 26 points from Carson Brown in a 60-51 win over Bakersfield Centennial.
In Division IV, Van Nuys Grant defeated Newport Harbor Sage Hill 59-57 on a three-pointer by DJ Gains with 5.6 seconds left.
In girls Division I, Orange Lutheran rallied for a 62-59 road victory over City Section Open Division champion Westchester. Granada Hills defeated Torrance Bishop Montgomery 59-57 behind Marianne Boco’s 25 points. No. 16 West Hills Chaminade upset No. 1 Ontario Christian 88-65.
Corona Centennial won its third consecutive Southern Section Open Division boys’ basketball title Saturday in an unbelievable finish. Now come state playoffs.
Girls soccer
Marina 2, Bakersfield Centennial 0: Samantha Esparza and Sarah Sumrall each had goals in a Division III opener.
Hart 2, El Camino Real 0: The top-seeded Indians became the first team to score on City champion ECR after 15 consecutive shutouts to win their Division II regional opener. Gianna Costello and Macey Edemann each scored goals.
Bishop Amat 4, Cleveland 1: Lenea Guerrero scored three goals in Bishop Amat’s Division III victory.
Boys soccer
Birmingham 2, Montclair 1: Tony Macedo and Oscar Vargas scored goals in the Division I game.
Baseball
St. John Bosco 2, Lakewood 1: The Braves improved to 4-2. Colin Caycedo struck out six and gave up five hits in 6 2/3 innings. Zach Woodson had both RBIs.
Harvard-Westlake 6, St. Francis 1: The Wolverines (4-1) opened Mission League play with a road victory. Thomas Bridges struck out 10 in 4 2/3 innings. Eli Weinbach had a two-run double.
Arcadia 4, Claremont 2: Gabe Lopez improved to 3-0 with 4 1/3 innings of work. Ian Hoffstetter struck out five in 1 2/3 innings. Jerry Carlos had two hits and two RBIs.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Woodruff Sawyer, one of the largest independent insurance brokerages in the US, announced today the release of the 2023 Private Equity and M&A Looking Ahead Guide. Woodruff Sawyer has been working with the private equity, venture capital, and M&A community for over 25 years and advises on 150+ transactions per year, ranging from middle market growth equity deals, strategic acquisitions, traditional private equity buyouts, and SPAC/de-SPAC transactions.
The macroeconomic and geopolitical backdrop of 2022 has caused significant market upheaval and the general M&A world is in a much different place than it was in Q4 2021. The highest inflation in 40 years, supply chain issues from COVID-19, interest rate hikes, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine have all added to an environment that has seen significantly decreased deal volume and lower overall valuations for sellers. Even so, there is a record amount of dry powder that needs to be deployed by US private equity firms, and despite economic conditions, there is still competition for deals.
Within this uncertain environment, Woodruff Sawyer's 2023 Private Equity and M&A Looking Ahead Guide provides a roadmap for private equity and strategic M&A deal teams as they navigate these deal processes. Covering such trends as the softening Representations & Warranties insurance (RWI) market, the rise in the use of RWI for secondary financing, ongoing underwriter scrutiny in cyber insurance, the trend of rethinking insurance as a mechanism for improving the EBITDA margin, and increasing private and corporate divestitures, the Guide is an invaluable source for dealmakers in need of expert advice.
Luke Parsons, Partner & Senior Vice President of the Private Equity Practice at Woodruff Sawyer notes "Transactional risk and insurance due diligence advisory work is intrinsic to our DNA and we've infused that into our 2023 Looking Ahead Guide. While not the top priority on a deal team's radar, insurance, employee benefits and general risk management concerns are beginning to be more of a priority for private equity deal professionals. Having an expert team of insurance advisors will help deal teams act with more speed and certainty regarding the key protector and mitigator of EBITDA risk for companies: insurance."
For deeper insights, advice and our predictions for the mergers and acquisitions and private equity landscape in 2023, read the full Guide.
As one of the largest insurance brokerage and consulting firms in the US, Woodruff Sawyer protects the people and assets of more than 4,000 companies. We provide expert counsel and fierce advocacy to protect clients against their most critical risks in property and casualty, management liability, cyber liability, employee benefits, and personal wealth management. An active partner of Assurex Global and International Benefits Network, we provide expertise and customized solutions where clients need it, with headquarters in San Francisco, offices throughout the US, and global reach on six continents. For more information, call 844.972.6326, or visit woodruffsawyer.com.
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MASERU, Lesotho (AP) — Voters across the picturesque mountain kingdom of Lesotho are heading to the polls Friday to elect a leader to find solutions to high unemployment and crime.
The southern African country of 2.1 million people has more than 60 registered political parties but the election is expected to be a three-way contest.
Outgoing Deputy Prime Minister Mathibeli Mokhothu of the Democratic Congress party is in a close race against his current coalition partner Nkaku Kabi of the All Basotho Convention and businessman-turned-politician Sam Matekane of the Revolution for Prosperity.
Lesotho’s King Letsie III presides over a constitutional monarchy but has virtually no political power. Whichever party wins enough representatives in Lesotho's 120-seat National Assembly to form a government will select the new prime minister. With so many parties contesting the election, a coalition is very likely, say experts.
Amnesty International has urged all parties to uphold basic rights during and after the election.
“A dangerous pattern of human rights violations, including torture, unlawful killings, and excessive use of force by members of the security forces in Lesotho has been a common feature of the past five years under the current coalition government,” Muleya Mwananyanda, Amnesty’s director for East and Southern Africa, wrote last week.
“Political candidates vying for leadership positions, including parliamentary seats, in the upcoming general elections must make a commitment to put respect for human rights and accountability for past human rights violations front and center of their campaigns," wrote Mwananyanda. "If elected, they must ensure access to justice and effective remedies for the victims of these human rights crimes.”
Election observers from the European Union, the Commonwealth, the African Union and the Southern African Development Community are in Lesotho to assess the electoral process.
Of the three leading candidates, Matekane is the only one who has never been in government. A savvy multi-millionaire businessman, he claims he would best be able to tackle Lesotho's unemployment. Matekane has promised to expand markets for garments manufactured in Lesotho and to diversify the products exported to the U.S. under the African Growth Opportunities Act trade concession.
The garment-making industry is Lesotho's largest employer after the government and had more than 45,500 textile workers at the beginning of 2020, according to official statistics. But about 25% of those workers lost their jobs amid the global economic slump caused by COVID-19.
The scourge of crime is a pressing campaign issue. Lesotho suffered 41 murders per 100,000 people, Africa's highest and considerably worse than the world average of 7 per 100,000, according to the World Population Review.
Whichever party wins power will have to adequately resource the entire law enforcement sector — from the police to the judiciary — to arrest suspects and prosecute the trials to finality, according to crime experts. Lesotho currently has a backlog of criminal cases estimated to be about 4,000 by senior judicial officials.
The traditional Famo music gangs are blamed for turf wars and violent shootings in Lesotho and neighboring South Africa where the gangs also are involved in illegal mining at abandoned sites.
One Famo gang leader, Sarele Sello, is wanted by South Africa's police for the murder of 16 patrons at a Soweto tavern in July but that hasn't kept him out of Lesotho's political campaign. Earlier this week Sello was feted at a campaign rally in the capital, Maseru, and pledged his support for the All Basotho Convention party.
A new government will also be challenged to implement wide-ranging reforms to the judiciary, parliament and media which were recommended by the 16-nation Southern Africa Development Community ADC to end chronic political instability.
Lesotho’s subsistence farming practices must be improved to help end chronic food insecurity. About 320,000 people in Lesotho are currently experiencing a severe food “crisis” and are in urgent need of aid “to save lives, reduce food gaps, protect and restore livelihoods and prevent acute malnutrition,” according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, based at the FAO offices in Rome. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Lesotho-polls-to-elect-leader-to-tackle-17490651.php | 2022-10-06 13:18:32 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Lesotho-polls-to-elect-leader-to-tackle-17490651.php |
Certification Elevates Security for Creative Professionals, Those Working with Highly Sensitive Workloads
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LucidLink, an innovator in cloud file storage for remote collaboration, announced today that it had achieved SOC 2 Type I compliance following American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) standards for SOC for Service Organizations also known as SSAE 21. Achieving this standard with an unqualified opinion serves as third-party industry validation that LucidLink provides enterprise-level security for customers' data secured in its system.
LucidLink's "Zero-Knowledge" end-to-end encryption model continues to meet and exceed industry compliance standards. Valued for its extensive safety features, LucidLink's security stands out in the industry. It ensures that both LucidLink and storage providers have no knowledge of or access to the data that customers store and transmit. With LucidLink customers collaborating on sensitive workloads in media and entertainment, advertising, marketing, architecture, engineering, construction, and more, need an airtight cloud solution with dependable encryption is paramount.
"Security is a crucial element of all our customer's businesses," states Peter Thompson, CEO and co-founder of LucidLink. "We have made it a top priority at LucidLink, and as a global organization, we adhere to the highest international compliance standards. We understand that our customer's data is their most precious asset and are dedicated to expanding our security practice to meet their expectations and sustain their trust."
LucidLink was audited by Prescient Assurance, a security and compliance attestation leader for B2B SaaS companies worldwide. Prescient Assurance is a registered public accounting in the US and Canada. It provides risk management and assurance services, which include but are not limited to SOC 2, PCI, ISO, NIST, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and CSA STAR. An unqualified opinion on a SOC 2 Type I audit report demonstrates to LucidLink's current and future customers that they manage their data with the highest security and compliance standard.
For more information, visit https://www.lucidlink.com/
About LucidLink
LucidLink offers an innovative cloud-native file service designed specifically for extensive data access over a distance. LucidLink Filespaces provides best-in-class security and high-performance scalability to run file-based workloads on object storage for maximum efficiency and productivity. The service is compatible with Microsoft Azure Blob and any Amazon S3-compatible object storage provider that utilizes cloud, on-prem, or hybrid storage. It supports all major operating systems, including Linux, Windows, and macOS. Investors include Baseline Ventures, Headline, Adobe, Bright Cap Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, S28 Capital, and Fathom Capital. LucidLink is privately held, with headquarters in San Francisco, California, and offices in Bulgaria, Europe, and Australia.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Former NBA guard Ben Gordon has been arrested after a Chicago McDonald’s security guard was punched in the face, police said.
Gordon, 39, was charged with misdemeanor battery causing bodily harm and battery making physical contact, the Chicago Tribune reported Saturday.
Gordon, who played for four teams during his NBA career, was arrested about 3:30 a.m. Friday when police responded to a report of a disturbance by a man who was being escorted from the McDonald’s.
A 29-year-old man was hit in the face and thrown to the ground. A 21-year-old man was pushed and also thrown to the ground. Both men refused medical help.
Police said Gordon was arrested at the scene.
Gordon was charged last month with assault, resisting arrest, contempt and child endangerment in New York for allegedly punching his young son at LaGuardia Airport.
According to the Queens district attorney’s office, witnesses, including an American Airlines employee, saw Gordon yell at his son and punch him several times in the face after the boy dropped a book on the ground.
Gordon later confirmed to police that it was his son. Gordon also allegedly assaulted officers as they attempted to handcuff him and put him in a patrol car.
Joshua Kirshner, an attorney representing Gordon, said the son is 10 or 11 years old.
Gordon, who played collegiately at the University of Connecticut, was drafted by the Chicago Bulls in 2004 and played 11 seasons in the NBA with Chicago, Detroit, Charlotte and Orlando, most recently in the 2014-15 season with the Magic.
His best season was 2006-07 when he averaged 21.4 points and 3.6 assists for the Bulls.
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PHILADELPHIA — Stephen Curry expressed relief that his left shoulder injury would not require surgery when he met with reporters during the Golden State Warriors’ shootaround Friday.
“Knowing that it wasn’t going to need surgery or anything like that was great news,” Curry said at Wells Fargo Center as the Warriors prepared to play the 76ers. “Now, you just have to trust the process — no pun intended from where we are. We’re just trying to figure out how to get pain-free quickly, get your strength back and then work your way back into it appropriately.”
After injuring his shoulder on a defensive play Wednesday night in a loss at Indiana, Curry underwent an MRI on Thursday and was diagnosed with a left shoulder subluxation that would not require surgery. Golden State has not officially confirmed a timeline on Curry’s potential return.
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“It was what we were looking for and it really is the best-case scenario,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. “So now, we try to tread water and try to keep it together until he gets back.”
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Thursday marks 50 years since a flood killed 238 people in Rapid City, South Dakota. Survivors say it's important to tell their stories, so future generations don't repeat deadly mistakes of the past.
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Thursday marks 50 years since a flood killed 238 people in Rapid City, South Dakota. Survivors say it's important to tell their stories, so future generations don't repeat deadly mistakes of the past.
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FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The first winter storm of the season to blast off from the Rockies was unloading its energy Thursday primarily in North Dakota, where it could dump up to 18 inches (46 centimeters) of snow and kick up winds as high as 50 mph (80 kph).
The system started with a round of freezing drizzle that made driving tricky in the Dakotas. It led to a chain reaction crash that totaled a state trooper’s vehicle and closed Interstate 94 in eastern North Dakota for several hours Wednesday night and shut down I-29 in eastern North Dakota on Thursday morning.
Both interstates have reopened but travel was expected to become nearly impossible in some stretches due to whiteout conditions, the National Weather Service said. Flight delays and cancellations were being posted at airports across the region.
The storm was already hammering central North Dakota on Thursday morning. Jacqueline Swiftbird, a cashier at the Flying J truck stop in Mandan, said a semi-trailer that had been hauling other vehicles was stuck outside her window. She said she was the only cashier who could make it into work and that she picked up employees for restaurants and other shops in the travel center.
“It is extremely, extremely hazardous out there,” Swiftbird said. “I am really busy being the only cashier but I would rather not have any other employees try to make it here in these conditions.”
Storm warnings were issued Thursday for western Montana, for southwestern through northeastern South Dakota and for northwestern Minnesota, but meteorologist Carl Jones said North Dakota was getting the worst of it.
“Right now it’s mainly driven by heavy snow amounts,” said Jones, who works out of the weather service’s eastern North Dakota office in Grand Forks. “We talking 1- to 2-inch per hour rates over a pretty wide swath.”
The crash involving the North Dakota trooper’s vehicle happened about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday on I-94 near Jamestown, the state Highway Patrol said. The officer had gotten out of a vehicle after seeing a semi-trailer jackknife on the road and the patrol car was struck by a passenger car. The trooper was not injured.
There were seven additional crashes at the same location, all in quick succession. Several people were transported to a Jamestown hospital with injuries, including one person with a broken leg, the patrol said.
Jones, the meteorologist, said the first storm is always a learning or relearning experience.
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EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — The Edmonton Oilers have given coach Jay Woodcroft a three-year contract extension for taking over the team in February and leading them to the NHL Western Conference final.
The Oilers announced the deal Tuesday in removing Woodcroft’s interim tag.
Woodcroft was named the interim coach on Feb. 10 after Dave Tippett was fired following a 7-13-3 run that had the Oilers sitting fifth in the Pacific Division.
The Oilers underwent a rapid turnaround under the 45-year-old Toronto native, winning their next five games by a combined score of 22-8.
Edmonton went 26-9-3 with Woodcroft at the helm for the final 38 games of the regular season to finish second in the division. It was the second-best record in the NHL over that span.
The Oilers defeated the Los Angeles Kings in seven games to open the playoffs, then dispatched the archrival Calgary Flames in five contests to reach the conference final for the first time since advancing to the Stanley Cup final in the 2005-06 season.
Edmonton was swept by Colorado in the conference final.
Woodcroft had been head coach of the Oilers’ AHL affiliate, the Bakersfield Condors, since 2018 before being promoted to Oilers head coach.
Prior to joining the Condors, Woodcroft served as an assistant coach with the Oilers for three seasons and the San Jose Sharks for seven seasons.
He also spent three seasons as a member of the Detroit Red Wings coaching staff (2005-08), including their 2008 Stanley Cup championship season.
Woodcroft and Oilers general manager Ken Holland were scheduled to discuss the extension in a teleconference on Wednesday.
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The best tools for cooking in the great outdoors
Cooking and eating are among the most satisfying parts of both casual hiking and long-distance backpacking. A light but nutritious breakfast contributes the nutrients and calories needed for a productive day, and a late-night snack of s’mores makes a fun and tasty bookend to hours of fun outdoor activities.
Of course, most campsites don’t have a full kitchen, so you’ll need to bring your own cooking supplies. Camping calls for a significantly different set of equipment than cooking at home. Although you will need some specialized tools, you don’t have to spend a fortune to prepare delicious, perfectly cooked meals at the state park or on a backwoods trail.
Best camp cooking equipment
Coleman Xtreme Portable Cooler
Available in 70 and 120 quarts, this reasonably priced cooler has enough room for an entire family’s worth of food for a few days. It does a good job at keeping ice frozen and is one of the best values available in terms of large coolers.
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If there are only two or three of you and you need to keep food safe for multiple days without new ice, this well-engineered cooler is a great solution. It’s lightweight, durable, and able to keep ice frozen up to five days as long as you don’t open it too much.
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This one’s extremely popular because it holds a whopping 150 quarts, yet costs less than $200. If you’re camping with a large group, it’s hard to beat this high-capacity model.
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While it sports a relatively standard two-burner configuration, the Everest stands out from the pack due to its durable construction, highly reliable burners and relative ease of cleaning. Each side can deliver 20,000 Btu, so there’s almost no dish it can’t handle.
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Coleman Triton Instant Start Stove
This no-nonsense camp stove boasts a reliable construction, built-in windscreens and three-year warranty. It’s the best budget-friendly choice, although its 22,000-Btu rating leaves a bit to be desired.
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Camp Chef Explorer Two-Burner Stove
If you’re cooking for a large group of family, friends or other hungry campers, it’s hard to beat this rugged, high-capacity stove. A pair of 30,000-Btu burners on top of a sturdy frame will make short work of the biggest meals.
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HydroBlu Water Filter Jerry Can
Kill two birds with one stone using this novel, durable water storage. It can filter and hold up to one gallon, perfect for campsites that don’t have a potable water connection.
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If your campsite doesn’t allow open flame, this is the best way to make baked goods and other dishes you’d normally cook in a Dutch oven on the campfire. Not only can the inside reach 400 degrees, there are two small burners on top that make it an especially versatile piece of equipment.
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If you prefer powerful, bitter espresso to watery drip coffee, this novel device can help. It’s essentially a well-engineered French press that uses increased pressure to deliver a powerful caffeinated beverage to help get the day rolling.
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Qinline Reusable Food Storage Bags
Plastic bags are far superior to hard-sided containers when it comes to keeping food in a cooler. This 10-pack includes three sizes of bags that are durable to withstand many hand washings.
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Wealers Camp Kitchen Cooking Utensil Set
This kit comes with everything you need to prepare and serve food over the campfire or on a stove: a spatula, tongs, ladle, shears, seasoning bottles, knives, and more, all in a convenient zippered backpack.
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Renovated and expanded space reinforces squash as part of Life Time's racquet sports portfolio
HOUSTON, Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Life Time, (NYSE: LTH), the nation's premier healthy lifestyle brand, has upgraded its racquet sports experience at Life Time City Centre with an $800,000 investment into a new state-of-the-art squash complex.
The new area features five additional courts, including an all-glass court with stadium seating available for events and large-scale squash tournaments. The existing four squash courts have also been renovated for a total of nine.
Life Time City Centre will host its first large-scale squash tournament in February: The U.S. Squash Junior Championship Tournament. Approximately 300 elite junior players are expected to participate. Many additional squash tournaments are planned. The space has been outfitted with live-streaming technology for events.
The program is led by Amr Abdelmaksoud, a highly decorated squash player who has coached numerous world top ten adult and junior players.
"The investment that we have made in squash at City Centre makes Life Time the top local destination for squash in the market," Abdelmaksoud said. "The luxury spaces and amenities that we offer, like our expansive workout floor, groups studio classes, recovery spaces, lounge areas and LifeCafe, make this club an all-encompassing space for players."
Life Time currently has 26 athletic country clubs offering squash programming (classes, leagues, tournament socials) and will soon have more than 40 offering the sport.
More information on Life Time and its squash programming can be found here.
About Life Time®, Inc.
Life Time (NYSE: LTH) empowers people to live healthy, happy lives through its portfolio of more than 160 athletic country clubs across the United States and Canada. The company's healthy way of life communities and ecosystem address all aspects of healthy living, healthy aging and healthy entertainment for people 90 days to 90+ years old. Supported by a team of more than 30,000 dedicated professionals, Life Time is committed to providing the best programs and experiences through its clubs, iconic athletic events and comprehensive digital platform. For more information, visit www.lifetime.life.
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday doubled down on his warning that Turkey could “come all of a sudden one night” in response to perceived Greek threats, suggesting a Turkish attack on its neighbor cannot be ruled out.
Questioned about his earlier use of the phrase and the possibility of Turkish military action against its NATO ally, Erdogan reiterated the expression.
“What I’m talking about is not a dream,” he said at a news conference in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo. “If what I said was that we could come one night all of a sudden (it means) that, when the time comes, we can come suddenly one night.”
Turkey and Greece have decades-old disputes over an array of issues, including territorial claims in the Aegean Sea and disagreements over the airspace there. The friction has brought them to the brink of war three times in the last half-century.
Ankara says Greece is violating international agreements by militarizing islands close to Turkey’s Aegean coastline. It has also accused Greek air defenses of locking on to Turkish fighter jets during NATO exercises over the eastern Mediterranean.
Athens has also accused Turkey of violating its airspace.
“There are some illegitimate threats against us and if these illegitimate threats continue there’s an end to one’s patience,” Erdogan added, sitting alongside Bosnia’s three presidential representatives.
“When the time is due, necessary action will be taken because it is not a good sign to lock on radars to our planes. Such things done by Greece are not a good sign.”
Erdogan has previously said Turkish forces can “come all of a sudden one night” when threatening military action against Kurdish militants in Syria and Iraq. Turkey has conducted several military operations against the militants in recent years.
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FT. MYERS, Fla. (AP) _ AliCo. (ALCO) on Monday reported a fiscal first-quarter loss of $3.2 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.
On a per-share basis, the Ft. Myers, Florida-based company said it had a loss of 41 cents. Losses, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 84 cents per share.
The agribusiness and land management company posted revenue of $10.6 million in the period.
Alico shares have risen 15% since the beginning of the year. The stock has declined 17% in the last 12 months.
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NEW YORK, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory firm, has named Diane Swonk – a prominent economist, recognized industry voice and sought-after business advisor – as Chief Economist. Swonk, based in Chicago, will lead the firm's Office of the Chief Economist, which provides deep insights to clients on the economy and how it impacts strategy, growth and operations.
"Our Office of the Chief Economist offers leading economic intelligence to help our clients improve strategic decision-making," said Tandra Jackson, Vice Chair – Growth and Strategy, KPMG LLP. "Diane's broad experience and wide-reaching influence will be tremendously valuable in leading those efforts."
Swonk joins KPMG from Grant Thornton LLP, where she served as chief economist. She has more than three decades of experience in financial services and consulting and serves as an advisor to the Federal Reserve and its regional banks. Swonk also serves on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce economic advisory board and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Additionally, Swonk also advised the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) for the White House under three presidents and served two terms on the Congressional Budget Office's panel of economic advisors. She was named a fellow by the National Association for Business Economics for her outstanding contributions to the field of business economics and was named among the 100 most influential economists in the world for her analysis of the pandemic. She received a lifetime achievement award from the Association for Corporate Growth.
Diane is deeply committed to educational attainment and diversifying the ranks of leadership. She serves on the board of the Posse Foundation in Chicago, an education and leadership program. She works extensively with the Yale Dyslexia and Creative Institute. She just joined the Harris Policy School Council at the University of Chicago after serving for 15 years on the Council for Booth School of Business. She also serves on the board of the Foundation for the National Association for Business Economics (NABE); she serves on the statistics committee for NABE to promote the quality and integrity of U.S. economic data.
She advises the University of Michigan Economics Department, where she earned her B.A. and M.A. in economics with top honors. She earned an MBA in finance and strategic planning with top honors from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.
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The weekly social media posts published by Cristiano Ronaldo this offseason typically have shown the soccer superstar half-dressed, muscles bulging, either working out or promoting one of his many brands.
Remaining relevant and highly visible is clearly so important to the player who, along with Lionel Messi, is the greatest of his generation. That also extends to the final years of his career on the field, too.
It’s why, for the 37-year-old Ronaldo, playing for Manchester United — still one of the world’s most famous sports teams, despite their recent trophy drought — just isn’t enough. He wants to be competing on the biggest stage, winning the biggest trophies while he can.
Hence the current standoff with United, which is becoming more damaging and disruptive as the days go by and the new season looms.
Publicly, Ronaldo has not yet returned to preseason training with the English club because of what has been described as “personal reasons.” The expectation, recently hired United manager Erik ten Hag repeats on an almost-daily basis, is that Ronaldo will be back before the Premier League begins and be a key member of the squad.
The reality, it seems, is different. Ronaldo reportedly wants out after just one season back at Old Trafford, with United no longer in the Champions League or in shape to compete with the best teams in England like Manchester City and Liverpool. United finished sixth last season, 35 points behind first-place City.
So, while the rest of the United squad has been on tour in Thailand and Australia, getting match-sharp and acquainted with ten Hag and his methods, Ronaldo has been back home in Portugal with his family while his agent, Jorge Mendes, shops around seeking a new club for his most famous client.
Currently, there is no buyer.
And the Premier League season starts in about two weeks.
“I don’t know what Cristiano said to the club and to the manager,” said United midfielder Bruno Fernandes, who also plays alongside Ronaldo for Portugal. “I don’t know what’s going on in his head, if he wants to leave. I didn’t ask them that.
“From everything we know,” Fernandes added, “he had some family problems so we have to respect his space, give him some space and that’s it. The only thing I asked Cristiano when he didn’t turn up was if everything was OK with the family. He told me what was going on, that’s it and nothing more.”
On the face of it, United still wants to keep Ronaldo — he was the team’s top scorer last season with 24 goals and is back to being the club’s poster boy for the marketing department — and ten Hag has called the striker “extremely important” along with being “not for sale.”
But why would other top clubs be cold on a player who is still a guaranteed source of goals, and revenue for that matter?
Goals might be the aim of the game but they are not necessarily enough for a modern-day coach. A certain level of mobility and an ability to be part of a team pressing game counts for a lot, too, and Ronaldo does not offer that, even if he remains a supremely athletic player with that uncanny knack of coming alive in the penalty area and scoring from anywhere. A team’s structure must change to accommodate a player like an aging Ronaldo, covering for his deficiencies and the need to make him the focal point.
In short, his presence requires compromises to be made. He is a problem and a solution.
Maybe, if he ends up staying at United, ten Hag can come up with a system in which Ronaldo thrives and the players around him can cover for him and make the team operate in an efficient way. That’s easier said than done.
Thomas Tuchel — the sort of coach who values a team over the individual — clearly thought that wasn’t possible, given his Chelsea team was one of the clubs Mendes apparently spoke to. There was a glaring hole in Chelsea’s forward line, too, with Romelu Lukaku returning to Inter Milan.
Bayern Munich is another team to have reportedly turned down the chance to sign Ronaldo. There has been no desire from Real Madrid or Juventus to go back in for him, either.
Ronaldo’s wage demands are likely ruling out most of the other clubs competing in this season’s Champions League, a competition in which he is the record scorer with 141 goals — 16 more than Messi — and for which he lives.
It leaves Ronaldo in an awkward spot. Still one of the greatest scorers in soccer but a player unwanted by the best teams.
So what comes next? An uneasy truce with United and a sheepish return to a team playing in the Europa League and unlikely to be involved in the Premier League title race? Or can Mendes pull a blockbuster move out of the bag, like he did last year when Ronaldo sealed a sensational return to England?
For his brand and his legacy, Ronaldo will want the latter, ending what has turned out to be a nostalgia project without a happy ending.
And deep down, that might suit ten Hag, too, enabling him to start the rebuilding job at United with a clean slate.
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JAMES ISLAND, S.C. (WCBD) — The cast and crew of popular Netflix series “Outer Banks” are grieving after a member of their team was killed in an early-morning hit-and-run Tuesday.
The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) of South Carolina said Alexander “AJ” Jennings, 22, was walking along a road on James Island when he was hit by a car that fled the scene. He was then hit by a second car, which also fled the scene, but was later located in downtown Charleston by officers with the Charleston Police Department.
Jennings was a cast member on Netflix’s “Outer Banks,” according to the show’s casting agency, Kimmie Stewart Casting. He served as a body double/stand-in for Chase Stokes’ character of John B. in the show’s third season.
The series is currently filming in and around Charleston.
In a Facebook post, the casting agency described Jennings as “a beautiful, kind soul & a bright light every day on set.”
Stokes remembered Jennings with a message on Instagram Wednesday morning.
“Still trying to process why certain things happen, and why the world works in the ways that it does. My heart is shattered. Your life was just starting. We JUST talked about how pumped you were about your tunes, how far you’d come with that ole 6 string and your want to keep creating art,” Stokes wrote in an Instagram story. “Always always making others hearts warm and being so damn selfless. I wish I had more words to say right now, but the past day has been a struggle to say the least. We all love you, you touched all of our lives and made us all better people, and for that– Thank you AJ. Fly high angel.”
CCSO is working to identify the initial car involved in the collision. Anyone with information is asked to contact CCSO at (843) 743-7200. | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/outer-banks-crew-member-dies-after-hit-and-run-in-south-carolina/ | 2022-07-06 18:28:37 | 0 | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/outer-banks-crew-member-dies-after-hit-and-run-in-south-carolina/ |
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MALTBY, Snohomish County — Just across the road from a cafe boasting the world’s largest cinnamon rolls is a small manufacturing plant carved out of the woods of what was once rural Western Washington.
Inside this building, carbon is infused with a silicon gas to produce a black powdery substance that high-profile investors hope will be a key component of the next generation of electric car batteries enabling them to travel farther between plug-ins, recharge more quickly and cost less.
“It’s transformational,” said Rick Luebbe, chief executive officer of Group14 Technologies, which opened the Maltby facility in 2021 and has raised $441 million in funding. The company now employs nearly 100 people, and the industrial workplace north of Woodinville has the excitement of a startup company. A research laboratory is under construction in one corner of the building even as production is underway elsewhere.
Group14 is one of more than 20 companies launched in a global quest to improve the lithium-ion battery — mainstay of the fledgling electric car industry — by including more silicon. In the United States, this effort also has been supported through taxpayer-funded federal research laboratories, including Richland-based Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, to help overcome technical challenges that have long limited how much silicon could be included in a battery.
Within the next decade, two companies plan to make Washington state a hub of this emerging technology. Group14, which has drawn Porsche AG as a lead investor, and Sila, an Alameda, California, company that is partnering with Mercedes-Benz, both have announced plans to open large-scale plants east of the Cascades in Moses Lake.
The two plants will draw on Grant County Public Utility District hydroelectricity as a power source and produce silicon for use in electric car batteries.
“There’s a lot of reasons why Washington state makes sense for making battery components,” Luebbe said. “The power is a huge component. It’s green and it’s inexpensive.”
The Moses Lake plants will benefit from federal tax credits signed into law by President Joe Biden this summer to bring more of the electric battery supply chain — now dominated by China — to the United States.
Automotive companies are turning to silicon as part of a broader effort to engineer lighter, more affordable, more durable and more powerful batteries as they phase out internal combustion engines fueled by fossil fuels that are spurring climate change.
The silicon technology also has applications for many other battery-powered products ranging from cellphones that could last longer between charges to drones and aircraft that could stay aloft for more hours of flight.
Group14 Maltby plant product is shipped to more than 50 customers, many of whom are evaluating the silicon for inclusion in batteries for consumer electronics, according to Luebbe. And Sila has a customer that use its silicon in batteries for a fitness monitoring device now on the market.
“Our company already has 350 people at its [Alameda] headquarters. We’re much further along, much bigger than some of these other companies,” said Gene Berdichevsky, Sila’s chief executive. “You know, the battery world is full of kind of boisterous claims that never come to pass.”
Silicon is one of Earth’s most abundant chemical elements, found in rock and sand all over the world.
When melted and cooled in a highly purified form, it can be used in computer chips or solar panels.
For years, scientists have known that silicon also has the ability to greatly enhance the performance of lithium-ion batteries, which were first put into commercial use in 1991.
Here’s how these batteries work:
As they are charged, lithium ions flow from the positive area of the battery — know as the cathode — to the negative area known as the anode. Graphite is typically packed into the anode area to enable the storage of lithium.
The lithium ions release their current — powering a vehicle — as they move back through electrolyte liquids to the positively-charged cathode.
Silicon, when packed into that same space as the graphite, can hold a lot more lithium, and that can increase the amount of energy stored in the battery.
Silicon also has drawbacks.
It swells, and that can cause the anode to crack and destroy the battery.
In a June 22 presentation, federal Energy Department researchers noted another challenge. A silicon anode is less stable than graphite.
This can degrade the battery over time and greatly shorten its useful life even if it’s not charged very often.
“That’s the problem. This is something that companies and government labs and academic institutions intensely work on right now,” said Robert Kostecki, a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who is involved in battery research.
Company officials at Group14 and Sila say they have developed silicon products that can be blended with graphite — or replace it entirely — without unduly compromising battery life.
Luebbe said Group14’s proprietary technology involves building a scaffold of carbon material that keeps the silicon in a format that makes degradation a “moot point.”
“Generally, every customer we’re working with is getting the cycling they need for commercial deployment,” Luebbe said.
Berdichevsky said Sila’s technology, also proprietary, “achieves and exceeds” automotive industry specification even when silicon entirely replaces graphite.
Some automotive companies are betting that silicon does have an important role to play in the next generation of batteries.
Porsche AG is the lead investor in a Group14 offering that raised $400 million this year. It also has a majority stake in CellForce, a company that will use silicon to develop battery anodes.
Mercedes-Benz AG, which this year announced it’s opening a new battery plant in Alabama, invested in Sila in 2019. Then, last May, the company announced it would use the Sila silicon technology for electric G-Class vehicles that will start production in the middle of this decade.
Uwe Keller, directory of battery development at Mercedes-Benz AG, said his company is involved in extensive research with Sila’s silicon product to determine how it best can be incorporated into a next generation of batteries. But he expects Sila’s technology will boost electric car battery range by 15 to 20%.
“We have to test it by ourselves. That’s what we’re doing,” Keller said. “And that’s what counts at the end of the day.”
Berdichevsky, who worked at Tesla in its early years and co-founded Sila in 2011, said his company plans to start producing silicon product from Moses Lake to send to Mercedes-Benz in the second half of 2024.
In back of the Group14 plant at Maltby, a stack of long narrow cylinders are securely stored behind a tall chain-link fence. They contain silane, a gas formed from silicon, that is used by both Group14 and Sila to produce their next generation products for batteries.
Silane is a global commodity, shipped around the world in seagoing vessels.
In the United States, a major producer of silane gas has been REC, a company that operates a Moses Lake plant — constructed in 1984 — to produce silicon products for the solar industry.
The plant closed in 2019 amid a tumultuous market that dampened demand as China placed tariffs on the polysilicon produced at the plant. But in June, REC announced the plant would reopen in 2023 as part of a broader effort, working with the South Korean-based Hanwha Group, to produce solar panels in the U.S.
The plant takes silicon sand, and through a distillation process converts it to silane gas, which then is converted to a granular product used in making solar panels.
Most of the plant’s silane output will be dedicated to making those panels, according to a REC official. But some gas produced at Moses Lake, as well as some from another REC plant in Montana, could be made available for making the silicon battery products.
At the Maltby plant, the silane gas is injected into a carbon product that on the plant floor resembles blocks of charcoal. After quality control, the final powder ends up packed in foil bags, then stowed in big cardboard boxes for shipment.
The Maltby plant has the annual capacity to produce up to 120 metric tons of product. Group14’s Luebbe is planning for the Moses Lake plant to eventually produce up to 100 times that amount.
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PROVO, Utah (AP) — Fousseyni Traore had 15 points and 11 rebounds in BYU’s 60-56 win against Idaho State in a season opener on Monday night.
Spencer Johnson scored 11 points while going 4 of 7 from the field, and added six rebounds for the Cougars. Gideon George recorded 10 points and was 4 of 13 shooting (1 for 3 from distance).
Brock Mackenzie finished with 15 points for the Bengals. Maleek Arington added 11 points and three steals for Idaho State. Miguel Tomley also had 10 points.
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Up next for BYU is a matchup Friday with San Diego State on the road. Idaho State hosts Westcliff on Thursday.
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SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Korean skincare brand AXIS-Y has just announced the launch of their brand new product line, ay&me. The brand, who have always placed emphasis on being a community focused brand, has been looking forward to this launch for the past 2 years. The process for developing this unique skincare line featuring probiotics has been long but very rewarding for the AXIS-Y team along every step of the way.
To start the development of this line, AXIS-Y got feedback from over 1000 influencers from 68 different countries, in order to ensure that the products in this line align perfectly with what the community needs and wants, a value that the company holds very dear to them. Instead of creating a new line of products based on what the company thought consumers wanted, they asked the community what they thought their skin needed to create a line that would surely benefit many.Understanding how different skin types react in different climates helped the brand to envision the direction for this line. Listening to and acting on feedback is something that the brand always strives to do, having previously improved products based on customer feedback. They took this a step further by creating an entire line dedicated to their community.
The 2 year development process of the new ay&me line involved numerous surveys, testing real samples, and getting feedback from the 50 participants as well as 3 key skincare influencers. Learning more about their community's skin types and main skin concerns helped the brand to understand their audience more in depth and form an understanding of what their community is looking for when it comes to skincare. Testing real samples with the influencers allowed them to really develop the products in a way that suited their audience's skin.
AXIS-Y's special 5-probiotic complex is featured in each of the products in the new line, which works to improve the skin's natural biome, strengthening the skin barrier and promoting healthy, radiant skin. The featured key ingredients such as Adenosine also help to promote collagen synthesis and reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Many skincare products nowadays are harsh on the skin and tend to weaken the skin's microbiome rather than strengthen it, and the goal with biome skincare is to work together with the skin's microbiome to allow it to function optimally.
One of AXIS-Y's core values is being a community focused brand. For them this means building a strong community and ensuring that their community's voices are heard. They have demonstrated how they strive to bring value and positivity to clothes, and taking feedback into consideration is just one of the ways they engage with their community. With this new line they are expressing their appreciation for their community and giving back by creating something especially for them.
The line launches today with three new products, one of which includes two products in a set. You can find it at their official website and it will also be launching in the Allure store.
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1 dead, 2 injured in Colorado avalanche bringing total number of deaths this season to 8
Gear is available designed to increase survival rates if caught in an avalanche. It’s essential to carry a transceiver and probe that can be used to locate someone who is buried and shovels to dig someone out from under the snow.
MARBLE, Colo. – One man was killed, and two others were injured when a powerful avalanche was triggered near Chair Mountain in the Marble, Colorado, area of Gunnison County.
This death now brings the total number of people killed by avalanches in Colorado to eight so far this season, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.
According to the Gunnison County Sheriff’s Office, reports of the avalanche were received just before 6 p.m. local time on Friday.
One of the men trapped by the avalanche was able to exit the backcountry and was taken to a hospital for treatment. A second victim needed to be rescued via helicopter, and the sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post that the third victim remained missing for some time.
The sheriff’s office and various search and rescue groups continued to search for the victim, who was identified as 36-year-old Joel Shute of Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
Shute’s body was eventually located by a helicopter around 11:30 a.m. local time on Saturday, according to the sheriff’s office.
SNOWMOBILER DEATH IS COLORADO'S 7TH AVALANCHE FATALITY SO FAR THIS SEASON
It’s been a deadly year for avalanches in Colorado so far this season.
The Colorado Avalanche Information Center says that eight people have been killed since December. The victims were identified as skiers, snowboarders and hikers.
Gear is available designed to increase survival rates if caught in an avalanche. It’s essential to carry a transceiver and probe that can be used to locate someone who is buried and shovels to dig someone out from under the snow.
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LONDON — David Warner, a versatile British actor whose roles ranged from Shakespearean tragedies to sci-fi cult classics, has died. He was 80.
Warner’s family said he died from a cancer-related illness on Sunday at Denville Hall, a retirement home for entertainers in London.
Often cast as a villain, Warner had roles in the 1971 psychological thriller “Straw Dogs,” the 1976 horror classic “The Omen,” the 1979 time-travel adventure “Time After Time” — he was Jack the Ripper — and the 1997 blockbuster “Titanic,” where he played the malicious valet Spicer Lovejoy.
Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, Warner became a young star of the Royal Shakespeare Company, playing roles including King Henry VI and King Richard II. His 1965 performance in the title role of “Hamlet” for the company, directed by Peter Hall, was considered one of the finest of his generation.
Gregor Doran, the RSC’s artistic director emeritus, said Warner’s Hamlet, played as a tortured student, “seemed the epitome of 1960′s youth, and caught the radical spirit of a turbulent age.”
Warner also starred in Hall’s 1968 film of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” opposite Helen Mirren and Diana Rigg.
Despite his acclaim as as a stage actor, chronic stage fright led Warner to prefer film and TV work for many years.
He was nominated for a British Academy Film Award for the title role in Karel Reisz’s Swinging London tragicomedy “Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment,” released in 1966. He later won an Emmy for his role as Roman politician Pomponius Falco in the 1981 TV miniseries “Masada.”
He had a prolific career on film and TV in both Britain and the United States, and became beloved of sci-fi fans for roles in Terry Gilliam’s “Time Bandits,” computer movie “Tron,” Tim Burton’s remake of “Planet of the Apes,” and the “Star Trek” franchise, where he made several appearances in different roles.
Warner returned to theater in 2001 after almost three decades to play Andrew Undershaft in a Broadway revival of George Bernard Shaw’s “Major Barbara.” In 2005 he starred in Shakespeare’s “King Lear” at the Chichester Festival Theatre, and in 2007 returned to the RSC to play Shakespeare’s comic buffoon Falstaff.
One of his final film roles was as retired naval officer Admiral Boom in “Mary Poppins Returns,” released in 2018.
Warner’s family said he would be remembered “as a kind-hearted, generous and compassionate man, partner and father whose legacy of extraordinary work has touched the lives of so many over the years.”
“We are heartbroken,” the family said.
They said Warner is survived by his partner Lisa Bowerman, his son Luke, daughter-in-law Sarah, “his good friend Jane Spencer Prior, his first wife Harriet Evans and his many gold dust friends.” | https://www.mcall.com/entertainment/ct-ent-david-warner-dies-20220725-3yoxj66m5bhsropee3idi2ymry-story.html | 2022-07-25 17:08:54 | 1 | https://www.mcall.com/entertainment/ct-ent-david-warner-dies-20220725-3yoxj66m5bhsropee3idi2ymry-story.html |
BOSTON, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cynamics, a disruptive sample-based, AI-driven Network Detection and Response (NDR) solution provider announced today that TAG Cyber had selected it as a Distinguished Vendor in the 3rd quarter edition of the 2022 TAG Cyber Security Annual.
Over the past few years, accelerated by the COVID pandemic, there has been a significant rise in organizations' reliance on digital communication infrastructure, increasing, in turn, their vulnerability to a wide array of cyberattacks such as data breaches and ransomware attacks.
As networks' size, data volume, and complexity are all growing exponentially, there is a great need for network security solutions that are simple to implement and maintain, yet provide impeccable network defense.
Cynamics' next-generation approach collects less than 1% of the network traffic and uses patented AI technology to infer about the 100% accurately. This solution which provides full network coverage, visibility, and threat prediction, is hardware-free, and can be deployed in any network size and architecture (on-prem, cloud-native, or hybrid), has been attracting interest from customers and decision-makers, a trend that has been recognized by TAG Cyber as well.
"We were introduced to Cynamics by a prestigious customer who was looking for our review on the company. We immediately felt that they have something special that fulfills a real evolving need. I foresee a great future for Cynamics" said Dr. Ed Amoroso, CEO of TAG Cyber. "Based on their patented AI technology, they created an all-around NDR solution that addresses an important customer need״.
Eyal Elyashiv, co-founder and CEO of Cynamics, commented, "We are honored to be included as a TAG Cyber Distinguished Vendor. Cynamics has distinguished itself from day one with its disruptive yet intuitive AI-based technology. In today's atmosphere of increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks that know no moral boundaries, we are happy to be able to provide a scalable, essentially impeccably performing full network visibility solution to businesses and organizations of all sizes. No one should have to suffer the consequences of irresponsible use of cloud data."
Cynamics is a premium Next Generation (NG) Network Detection and Response (NDR) solution built for MSPs, MSSPs, and companies of all sizes. It's tremendously simple for clients to implement and manage, provides threat detection and total network visibility at a fraction of the cost of comparably effective solutions.
TAG Cyber is a trusted cyber security research analyst firm, providing unbiased industry insights and recommendations to security solution providers and Fortune 100 enterprises. Founded in 2016 by Dr. Edward Amoroso, former SVP/CSO of AT&T, the company bucks the trend of pay-for-play research by offering in-depth research, market analysis, consulting, and personalized content based on hundreds of engagements with clients and non-clients alike—all from a former practitioner perspective.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (NewsNation) — The Justice Department on Friday made public a heavily redacted version of the affidavit used to obtain the search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate.
Despite being redacted, the affidavit contains additional details about an ongoing criminal investigation into classified documents being stored at Trump’s Palm Beach property after he left the White House.
According to the 38-page affidavit, 14 of the 15 boxes recovered from Mar-a-Lago earlier this year contained documents with classification markings.
“184 unique docmnents [sic] bearing classification markings, including 67 documents marked as CONFIDENTIAL, 92 documents marked as SECRET, and 25 documents marked as TOP SECRET,” the affidavit states.
The affidavit says investigators believed documents were being kept in a storage room, the first lady’s residential suit, Pine Hall, the “45 Office” and other spaces on the premises not authorized for storage of classified information or national defense information.
According to the affidavit, several of the documents also contained what appeared to be the former president’s “handwritten notes.”
The department released the document by a noon Friday deadline ordered by U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart.
It was expected that large chunks of the text would be redacted, blacked-out portions the DOJ wants to keep secret. The DOJ had tried to keep the affidavit sealed, saying the investigation is currently ongoing and releasing it could hamper investigators’ efforts.
Also released was a supporting document explaining which areas of the affidavit are redacted.
The service that provides electronic public access to federal court records briefly crashed in the rush to access the affidavit.
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Trump reacted to the release of the affidavit on his social media platform Truth Social, saying, “Affidavit heavily redacted!!! Nothing mentioned on “Nuclear,” a total public relations subterfuge by the FBI & DOJ.”
Trump again called the FBI search a “Break-In of my home.”
The affidavit shows that the DOJ’s investigation began after the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requested help in recovering missing documents.
NATA first requested specific missing documents from Trump lawyers back in May of 2021.
In January, NARA said it recovered more than 100 documents bearing classified markings, totaling more than 700 pages, from an initial batch of 15 boxes retrieved from Mar-a-Lago, according to government correspondence with the Trump legal team newly made public.
What they ended up finding in those boxes, were “newspapers, magazines, printed news articles, photos, miscellaneous print-outs, notes, presidential correspondence, personal and postpresidential records, and ‘a lot of classified records.'”
The affidavit describes repeated attempts by the government to secure additional materials stored at Mar-a-Lago.
Documents already made public as part of the investigation show that the FBI retrieved from the property 11 sets of classified documents, including information marked at the top secret level.
The Aug. 12 release of the search warrant in the investigation helped paint a picture of the possible crimes authorities believe Trump may have committed, including violating the Espionage Act.
Trump has urged the release of the full unredacted affidavit and has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government following what he calls an “un-American break-in.”
Trump and his legal team claim all of the documents were declassified and rightfully in his possession. The fact the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago indicates authorities do not believe that claim to be true.
The release of the redacted affidavit comes as a new NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ poll found that most Americans approve of the FBI’s search of Trump’s estate. More than 93% of Democrats and 61% of independents surveyed said they somewhat or strongly approve of the FBI’s search of Trump’s Florida home, compared to just 30% of Republicans who said the same.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Thirty-six bodies have been found inside a well at a Hindu temple in central India after dozens of people attending a festival fell into the muddy water when its cover collapsed, officials said Friday.
Video of Thursday’s collapse at the temple complex in Indore in Madhya Pradesh state showed chaos afterward, with people rushing away. An excavator pulled down a wall of the decades-old temple to help people flee.
Nearly 140 rescuers, including army personnel, used ropes and ladders to pull the bodies from the well after pumping out the water. A narrow path and debris in the well made the task difficult.
“We have recovered 36 bodies and everybody is accounted for now,” Pawan Kumar Sharma, commissioner of the local municipal corporation, told The Associated Press.
The secretary of the temple board was among the dead and the president is recovering from injuries, Sharma said.
Police brought a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, but no arrests have been made so far, he said.
Witnesses said a large crowd of devotees had thronged the temple to perform a fire ritual and celebrate the festival for the deity Rama.
Dozens of people fell into the water when the structure collapsed and were covered by falling debris, police Commissioner Makrand Deoskar said.
Kantibhai Patel, president of a residents’ association, told reporters that authorities were slow to react and the first ambulance reached the spot an hour after the alert.
The structure apparently caved in because it could not handle the weight of the large crowd, said the state’s top elected official, Shivraj Singh Chauhan. He ordered an investigation.
A team of army rescuers joined the operation on Thursday night. The Times of India newspaper reported the rescue work was expedited after underwater cameras showed bodies floating in the muddy waters of the well.
Chauhan said 33 of the bodies had been identified. Sixteen of the people who were injured remained hospitalized Friday.
Sobbing relatives claimed the bodies of the victims and visited the hospital where the injured were being treated.
Temple authorities had stopped using the well years ago and covered the mouth with iron grills and tiles.
Municipal authorities in January ordered the temple owners to remove the covering of the well because it was an unsafe and unauthorized structure, but temple authorities ignored the warning, the newspaper said.
Building collapses are common in India because of poor construction and a failure to observe regulations.
In October, a century-old cable suspension bridge collapsed into a river in the western state of Gujarat, sending hundreds of people plunging into the water and killing at least 132 in one of the worst accidents in the country in the past decade.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The anonymous written comments staff members of the Portland Police Bureau provided after an LGBTQ policy training session shows many rejecting the whole training.
KOIN 6 News in Portland obtained the feedback for the online training video titled, “PPB LGBTQAI2S+ and Queer Policy – Introduction and Training.” The document includes a wide variety of feedback, from positive responses to complaints about technical issues.
But many used blunt, direct language to register their response. Among them:
“I will never ask anyone for their preferred pronouns. This woke agenda is insane. I guess it’s time to resign like everyone else.”
“With policies like this, we are creating a natural playground for psychopaths and other bad actors.”
“Biggest takeaway is that the people that make decisions within the police bureau are Marxist ideologues trying to destroy the bureau.”
One of the most common responses include anger with a “Black Lives Matter” sign seen in the training.
“I find the use of the house with a ‘Black Lives Matter’ poster in the window highly inappropriate and offensive. … No officer or member should be forced to accept a violent political organization’s agenda or it’s representation to prove that they care about ALL people.”
KOIN 6 News reported last week PPB Chief Chuck Lovell hasn’t responded over the anonymous responses because the intention of the survey was to get honest responses in order to gauge the work the bureau has to do.
“It is always our goal to build relationships and PPB is committed to treating people from the LGTBQIA2S+ community respectfully and appropriately,” Lovell said in a statement. “PPB is doing everything we can to prepare and equip our members to have improved relationships with this community.” | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/some-portland-police-staff-decry-woke-lgbtq-training-video/ | 2023-04-25 23:47:39 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/some-portland-police-staff-decry-woke-lgbtq-training-video/ |
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus on Wednesday expanded the death penalty law to include “attempted terrorism,” in a move that could radically ramp up the government's pressure on the country's beleaguered opposition.
Authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko signed a law allowing the death penalty for an attempt to commit a terrorist attack. Previously, it could not be handed down for “an unfinished crime.” Belarus' leading human rights groups and opposition politicians have spoken out against the law.
Belarus is the only country in Europe where the death penalty is still in place.
The new law amends Belarus' Criminal Code and applies in cases of plotted acts of international terrorism and murders of government officials or public figures. It has been approved by the country's parliament.
Authorities in Belarus started actively bringing terrorism charges against opposition figures after Lukashenko won his sixth term in office in a disputed 2020 presidential election, triggering a wave of mass street protests that drew up to 200,000 people.
Lukashenko's government responded with a violent crackdown, detaining more than 35,000 people and brutally bearing thousands. Key opposition figures have been either jailed or forced to leave the country.
In March 2021, the prosecutor general's office launched a criminal case on the charges of preparing a terrorist act against opposition leaders Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Pavel Latushka and others.
The latest arrests on terrorist charges involved so-called “railway partisans" suspected of sabotaging the Belarusian railways to hinder supplies of Russian weapons to the frontlines in Ukraine.
“Introducing death penalty for ‘attempted terrorism’ is a direct threat to activists opposing the dictator and the war (in Ukraine),” Tsikhanouskaya told the AP. “I call on the international community to respond and consider any instruments for preventing political murders in Belarus.”
Belarus' Helsinki Committee, the Viasna human rights center and the Human Rights Against Death Penalty group have issued a joint statement noting that the new amendments “create prerequisites for serious abuses and arbitrary application of the death penalty.” | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Belarus-expands-death-penalty-law-ups-threat-to-17182155.php | 2022-05-18 20:36:37 | 1 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Belarus-expands-death-penalty-law-ups-threat-to-17182155.php |
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Gov. Kathy Hochul loses support in New York amid surge in concern over crime and living costs: poll
Despite a drop in support for Hochul, several initiatives recently touted by the governor are being welcomed by Empire State voters
New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul is facing a drop in support from voters as crime and the cost of living continue to dominate concerns from residents of the Empire State.
A Siena College Research Institute poll released Monday found that 49% of the 744 registered New York state voters who responded to the poll believe state is headed in the wrong direction, compared to 41% who said they believe it's on the right track.
As for Hochul's impression on voters, 46% said they hold a favorable view of the governor and 43% said they hold an unfavorable view — down from 48% to 42% last month. Hochul's job approval also faced a drop in support, with 56% saying they approve and 40% saying they disapprove, with slightly more voters disapproving from last month's poll.
The latest poll on Hochul's handling of a variety of issues of the state comes as the governor and the state legislature prepare to debate the $227 billion spending plan that is expected to pass at the start of New York's fiscal year on April 1.
HOCHUL PROPOSES FURTHER OVERHAUL TO NEW YORK'S CONTROVERSIAL BAIL REFORM LAWS
Survey respondents disapproved of Hochul's handling of crime and efforts to make living in the state more affordable — the top two concerns voters believe Albany should prioritize.
A total of 49% of voters said they somewhat or strongly disapprove of Hochul's handling of crime throughout the state, compared to 43% who said the opposite. More than half of respondents, 60%, said they believe crime is a serious problem in the state, with a combined 67% of respondents saying they believe crime is a serious problem in their communities.
On Hochul's efforts to alleviate the cost of the living in the state, 54% of voters said they somewhat or strongly disapprove of her handling of the issue, compared to 39% who said the opposite.
Hochul also faced pushback from voters on the idea of prohibiting all fossil fuel-burning equipment — including gas stoves — for new single-family homes by the end of 2025 and for all new construction by the end of 2028, with 53% of respondents opposing the effort and 39% supporting it.
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Aside from the disapproval ratings of Hochul's handling on a variety of issues, she also witnessed support for several portions of her 2023 agenda and budget proposal. For instance, 57% of voters said they approve of Hochul's proposal to ban flavored tobacco products and 62% approve of the proposal to raise the tax on a pack of cigarettes from $4.35 to $5.35.
Hochul also witnessed support from Empire State voters on her proposed initiative to base increases in New York's minimum wage on the rate of inflation, with 70% supporting the effort and 26% opposing it.
The Siena poll was conducted Feb. 19 - 23 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points. | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gov-kathy-hochul-loses-support-new-york-amid-surge-concern-crime-living-costs-poll | 2023-02-28 13:59:19 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gov-kathy-hochul-loses-support-new-york-amid-surge-concern-crime-living-costs-poll |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Adrian Kempe broke a tie on a power play midway through the third period and the Los Angeles Kings beat Dallas 3-2 on Tuesday night to snap the Stars' four-game winning streak.
Pheonix Copley made 28 saves for his seventh straight victory. He's the fourth goalie in Kings history to have such a streak.
Anze Kopitar and Rasmus Kupari also scored for Los Angeles.
Jason Robertson for Dallas scored to extend his points streak to eight games. Miro Heiskanen also scored.
The Stars failed to pick up at least one point for just the fifth time in their past 25 games. Dallas has 15 wins and five overtime or shootout losses in that span.
Kempe’s power-play goal put the Kings ahead 3-2 at 9:25 of the third period. He and Kevin Fiala used their speed to create an impromptu 2-on-1 rush, with Kempe burying his shot from just outside the crease to net 15 goals in consecutive seasons for the first time.
The action picked up in the second period, leaving the game tied at 2.
Heiskanen got the Stars on the board at 6:31 on a long shot from the blue line through traffic.
Kopitar put the home team back up 2-1 at 8:13, redirecting in Drew Doughty’s shot from distance for his 11th goal of the season.
Robertson made it 2-all 56 seconds later, burying his wrist shot from the slot off Joe Pavelski’s crisp centering pass.
The Kings led after the first period on Kupari’s third goal. He beat Oettinger on a wrist shot from the right circle 7:28 into the game, set up by Kevin Fiala’s 28th assist.
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Stars F Roope Hintz had two assists for his 12th multipoint game, while also extending his point streak to six games. He has six goals and three assists in that span. … The Kings could get F Trevor Moore (upper body) and Arthur Kaliyev (lower body) back against Boston on Thursday. Moore missed his fourth straight game, Kaliyev his sixth in a row.
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Stars: At Anaheim on Wednesday night.
Kings: Host Boston on Thursday night.
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EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Connor McDavid scored his 60th goal of the season with his second of the game 1:31 into overtime to lift the Edmonton Oilers to a 4-3 victory over the Arizona Coyotes on Wednesday night.
Moments after hitting the post, McDavid went high on Connor Ingram, giving him 60 goals in 72 games and making him the fastest player to reach the mark since Mario Lemieux accomplished the feat in 62 games in the 1995-96 season.
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins also had a pair of goals, and Leon Draisaitl assisted on all four of the Oilers’ scores. Stuart Skinner made 14 saves for Edmonton, which has won five straight games and nine of its last 11.
Clayton Keller scored twice and J.J. Moser also scored for the Coyotes, who have lost two in a row following a four-game winning streak. Ingram stopped 27 shots.
McDavid extended his points streak at home to 16 games with his first goal of the game on the power play 5:47 into the opening period. McDavid took it behind the goal line and banked it in off Ingram’s head.
Moser tied it with a power-play goal with 4:13 left in the first.
Keller gave the Coyotes the lead 3:37 into the second period after a giveaway behind the Oilers’ net allowed Nick Schmaltz to send it in front, and Keller extended his points streak to 10 games with his 33rd goal.
With just 10 seconds to play in the second, Nugent-Hopkins tied it on the power play.
Arizona regained the lead 8:54 into the third when Barrett Hayton made a nice pass through traffic to get Keller a wide-open net and his second of the game.
Just over three minutes later, Draisaitl made a long stretch pass to send Nugent-Hopkins in on a breakaway and he beat Ingram stick-side for his second of the game.
NOTES: Out with injuries for the Coyotes were Josh Brown (lower body) and Zack Kassian (upper body). ... Out for the Oilers were Ryan Murray (back), Ryan McLeod (upper body) and Devin Shore (undisclosed). Edmonton played the game with 11 forwards and seven defensemen.
UP NEXT
Coyotes: At Colorado on Friday in the finale of a three-game trip.
Oilers: Host Vegas on Friday in the final game of a three-game homestand.
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Could Giannis Antetokounmpo be Kylian Mbappe's doppelgänger?
Well, the Milwaukee Bucks star definitely hopes one soccer team thinks so.
After reports on Monday said that Saudi Arabian side Al Hilal submitted a record $332 million bid for Mbappe, Antetokounmpo took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to shoot his shot.
Mbappe, who hasn't posted on the app since June 30, quoted Antetokounmpo's response with 13 laughing emojis as the soccer world eagerly awaits his decision.
Funny enough, Al Hilal took notice to Antetokounmpo's plea and posted that he's welcome to join the club -- but only as a fan.
Mbappe's rumored departure from Ligue 1 side Paris Saint-Germain has become the biggest talking point in the ongoing transfer window. His contract expires next summer, when he could leave for a different team on a free transfer.
PSG has to either convince the 24-year-old forward to extend his contract or sell him now to recoup a significant sum for his exit and reinvest in the team.
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OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) – When elected to be the District Attorney of Alameda County, Pamela Price committed to taking aggressive steps to restore public trust within Alameda County’s criminal justice system. That includes pursuing comprehensive alternatives to incarceration and establishing programs to address criminal violations committed by youth between the ages of 18 and 25.
“Every community has the experience of people making mistakes,” she said. “If it’s your child, do you want me to throw your child away because your child made a mistake… Forever?”
KRON4 told Price that comments such as the one above cause some people to think she is more compassionate to criminals than their victims. Price responded.
“I am very concerned about particular harms that people suffer,” she said. “We’re not here to say anybody can do anything to anybody. Trust me. We are prosecuting people across this county every day.”
However, after only 6 ½ months in office, Alameda County’s first Black female District Attorney finds herself the subject of a recall effort by a group called “Save Alameda for Everyone.”
Nolan Higdon, Professor of Communications at Cal State East Bay, gives perspective on what appears to be a rise in public officials facing recalls in the Bay Area.
“I think everything is politically motivated at one level or another,” he said. “Certainly, that is true for a recall. But I think when you see more and more recalls, as compared to previous years, for example, that’s a sign that people don’t think the system is working for them. They don’t think the way things are going is right and switching the leadership is a way to try and change things up. It might not necessarily succeed but I think a lot of people are gravitating toward that.”
Cristine Soto DeBerry served as former SFDA Chesa Boudin’s chief of staff and is currently the executive director of the Prosecutor’s Alliance of California. She says proponents of recalling DA Price may find the atmosphere is not quite the same as it was when SF voters recalled Boudin.
“I think the biggest difference is that our region has seen the recall of a District Attorney and that it didn’t deliver on the promise that the recall proponents suggested it would. In San Francisco the suggestion was if we remove DA Boudin, we will then have safety in our city. We will eliminate drug use. We will reduce drug overdose. We will solve the problem of crime in this city. That has proven not to be the case,” she said.
The possibility of being recalled has not changed the Alameda County DA’s focus on fulfilling the criminal reform mandate of 2020’s California Racial Justice Act.
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Here is latest Fishing Report as provided by Texas Parks and Wildlife for Aug. 19. If there are any locations that were not included and you would like to see them included, please email requests to sports@mrt.com.
Big Bend Region
Amistad
GOOD. Water clear; 83 degrees; 64.47 feet low. Dog days of summer are definitely here. Bass are being caught on topwater baits in the morning. Move to the hydrilla grass when the sun is up using punch rigs and jigs. Unfortunately, due to the low water conditions Diablo boat ramp is closed. Rough canyon boat ramp is the only boat ramp remaining open. Report by Captain Olin Jensen, Jensen’s Guide Service. Channel catfish are great in 3-10 feet of water along the edge of grass and stick ups with cheese bait. White bass are surface action near the dam in the evening. Black bass are good off the grass using creature baits. Report by Captain Kent Terrill, 3T Guide Service.
Panhandle/Plains Region
Alan Henry
FAIR. Water clear; 84 degrees; 9.29 feet low. Crappie are good 25-30 feet of water using live bait and jigs. Report provided by Randy Britton, Lake Alan Henry Crappie Guide.
Arrowhead
GOOD. Water lightly stained; 83-85 degrees; 4.70 feet low. Blue catfish are good drifting in the main lake with fresh cut shad. Crappie are good on structure in deep water. White bass can be caught early and late schooling on main lake points. Report by Brandon Brown, Brown’s Guide Service.
Cisco
GREAT. Water stained; 84 degrees; 6.73 feet low. The catfish and perch bites are good this week. Channel and flathead catfish are good on perch and frozen shad in 5-10 feet of water. Report by Jason Miller, Lake Cisco Rentals.
Coleman
GOOD. Slightly stained; 85-87 degrees; 4.84 feet low. Crappie are good with jigs or minnows on brush piles. Hybrid striped bass are good on imitation. They are chasing bait fish all over the lake. Bass are good with fish to 6 pounds on a green pumpkin jigs, black blue jigs, shad color swim jigs.
Ft. Phantom Hill
GOOD. Water stained; 82 degrees; 6.02 feet low. White bass and hybrid bass are slow on artificial baits.Troll mainlake structure for best success as fish are scattered out. Report by Clayton Lohse, Respect the Fish Guide Service.
Hubbard Creek
GOOD. Water Stained; 83 degrees; 5.73 feet low. White bass are good on slabs. Hybrid bass are slow to fair this time of year. Channel catfish are good on mud flats in 5-10 feet of water on baited holes. Crappie are good on boat docks, bridge pilings and submerged brush. Report by Clayton Lohse, Respect the Fish Guide Service.
Millers Creek
GOOD. Water stained; 93 degrees; 4.14 feet low. Fishing conditions are similar this week. Fishing at night along the shoreline is fair for channel and blue catfish using shad and punch bait. Hybrid bass are schooling early morning, biting on swimbaits from the bank or trolling. Crappie and white bass are slow with few reports.
Nasworthy
GOOD. Water murky; 86 degrees. 0.93 feet low. Fishing patterns are holding steady. Largemouth bass are good flipping creature baits and swim jigs and spinner baits on deeper docks. Crappie are fair in the reeds, around docks, and the bridge using black and chartreuse crappie jigs and minnows. Catfish are good by the dam and in the river, using cut bait and stink bait. Report provided by the Angelo State Fishing Team.
O.C. Fisher
SLOW. Water stained; 83 degrees; 46.57 feet low. Catfish are good in the river channel using cut bait and chicken liver. Black bass are good along brush edges dropshots with wacky rigged worms in pumpkin seed. Crappie and white bass are slow with the low lake level.
O.H. Ivie
GREAT. Water clear; 89 degrees; 21.32 feet low. Fishing patterns are similar. White bass are great with live bait and crankbaits. Crappie good with jigs and minnows. Largemouth bass are good. Catfish are fair on prepared baits and live bait. Report by Concho Park and Marina.
Possum Kingdom
GOOD. Water lightly stained; 87 degrees; 4.18 feet low. Striped bass are fair trolling with live shad for the best catches, or artificials in chrome, chartreuse and white. There is some surface, but it is sporadic. Sand bass are good on silver spoons and rattletraps in chrome and white. Look for early morning surface action, but the fish are not staying up long. Catfish are good on punch bait and cut shad fished in heavy timber from 20-30 feet of water. Clarity is roughly 2-4 feet on most of the lake. Report by TJ Ranft, Ranft Guide Service.
Spence
FAIR. Water stained; 84 degrees. 42.76 feet low. Black Bass fishing is improving as water the temperature drop slightly. Smaller fish in the 2-4 pound range are starting to enter the shallows biting soft plastics and topwater baits. The larger bass are in 12-14 feet of water, utilizing electronics can locate these fish. The top bait has been the Maximus worm and a 7/0 hook. Channel catfish are fair to good using cut baits and stink bait. Boaters should be aware of fluctuating water levels, as the hazards can change from day to day. Please, always wear your life jacket. Report by Bill Brasher, Bronte Fishing Guide Service.
Twin Buttes
FAIR. Water stained. 84 degrees; 20.34 feet low. White bass are good schooling on the surface early morning into the afternoon biting on crankbaits. Channel catfish are good in 4-8 and 17-28 feet of water with cheese bait. Report by Captain Michael Peterson, 4 Reel Fun Guide Service.
Hill Country
Brownwood
SLOW. Water slightly stained; 84 degrees; 6.37 feet low. Bass good to five pounds on jigs,Texas rigged worms and crankbaits scattered around the rocky boulders 1-12 feet of water. Crappie to one pound are excellent on minnows 10-13 feet of water over brush piles and structure. White bass are slow on crankbaits and jigs under the lights, with some schooling action. Catfish are slow on prepared baits around baited holes and flats.
Buchanan
GREAT. Water lightly stained; 81 degrees; 14.34 feet low. Largemouth bass are good near rock piles shallow early and out to 25 feet of water later in the day. White bass are good with topwaters when there is surface action, switching to deep diving crankbaits and spoons for suspended fish. A few striped bass are mixed in with the whites. Night fishing is producing good striped bass working lights around docks. Largemouth bass are good at night throwing crankbaits and swimbaits through the lights. Report provided by Bryan Cotter, Texas Hawgs Bass Fishing Guide Service.
LBJ
GOOD. Water lightly stained; 87 degrees; 0.57 feet low. Crappie continue to be good in 18-24 feet of water on brush piles with chartreuse jigs, and live bait. Catfish are good in 20-27 feet of water with punch bait. Report by Jess Rotherham, Texas Crappie Fishing Service. Bass are good with Texas rigged big worms over brush piles 2-5 feet of water and topwater lures near docks. Crappie are fair with live bait. Report by Charles Whited, Barefoot Fishing Tours.
. | https://www.mrt.com/sports/article/Texas-Fishing-Report-for-Aug-19-17382468.php | 2022-08-18 23:07:35 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/sports/article/Texas-Fishing-Report-for-Aug-19-17382468.php |
DUNEDIN, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand outshot Switzerland and even moved goalkeeper Victoria Esson into an attack position several times, but failed to break a 0-0 tie Sunday in the Women’s World Cup and became the first host nation to be eliminated in group play in tournament history.
The Football Ferns are co-hosting the World Cup with Australia, which must win Monday against Canada to avoid its own early elimination.
Switzerland advanced to the round of 16. The Swiss also played to a scoreless draw against Norway, but won the group with the draw against New Zealand, coupled with the Norwegians’ simultaneous 6-0 rout of the Philippines.
New Zealand controlled the pace for long stretches of the match and had its chances to score, outshooting Switzerland 12-3. Jacqui Hand knocked a shot off the right post in the 24th minute.
All 25,947 seats at Forsyth Barr Stadiums were filled — the only one of Dunedin’s six tournament matches to sell out. The raucous crowd stomped and cheered all night, to no avail.
The tournament began July 20 with New Zealand upsetting Norway 1-0, but the Ferns failed to score from the 48th minute of that match through two more games. They lost their previous match 1-0 against the Philippines.
KEY MOMENTS
Esson moved into an offensive position several times in the last minutes of the match as New Zealand pressed for a winner. She managed a header off a corner kick but was off target.
WHY IT MATTERS
Switzerland becomes one of two teams from Group A to advance to the round of 16. It’s only the team’s second time in the knockout round — the first was in the Swiss’ only previous Women’s World Cup in 2015.
The New Zealanders’ failure to score put an end to their Women’s World Cup run.
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
“Just gutted, I think. Obviously we talked and we were proud of ourselves and what we’ve been able to accomplish, but at the end of the day we wanted to get out of this group stage and we just didn’t. It’s just black and white. So, obviously gutted,” said New Zealand midfielder Malia Steinmetz of the elimination.
“We expected it to be really tough. New Zealand really tried everything they could, and I think we knew how to respond, especially defensively. We did a lot right,” said Inka Grings, Switzerland’s coach.
WHAT’S NEXT
Switzerland will play either Spain or Japan from Group C, pending a match between those teams on Monday to decide the top two places in that group.
New Zealand is done for the Women’s World Cup.
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Ellen McIntyre is a student in the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State.
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WFO SAN ANGELO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, May 20, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in San Angelo has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northeastern Shackelford County in west central Texas...
Southeastern Throckmorton County in west central Texas...
* Until 745 PM CDT.
* At 637 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Fort Griffin,
moving northeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* This severe thunderstorm will be near...
Fort Griffin around 705 PM CDT.
Woodson around 745 PM CDT.
Other locations impacted by this severe thunderstorm include Lusk,
The Intersection Of Us-183 And Us-283 and The Intersection Of Us-
283 And Ranch Road 209.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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Phase one of ServMan enhancements include a new mobile application and expanded API integration with 24/7 sales contact center, Slingshot by WorkWave
HOLMDEL, N.J., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WorkWave®, a leading provider of SaaS software solutions that support every stage of a service business's life cycle, has announced increased investment in the modernization of ServMan, its core ERP software solution for the HVAC, plumbing and electrical industries. This investment will allow ServMan to continue to be at the forefront of these industries with a multi-phased modernization approach as well as integration with Slingshot by WorkWave, a 24/7 sales contact center for service companies.
"The market has a clear need for what ServMan delivers — there simply is no other effective solution available for service companies performing this type of work," says WorkWave CEO David F. Giannetto. "Our top priority at WorkWave is to continue to update, modernize and fill every gap in our software portfolio so that every one of our customers has the right tools they need to propel their business forward, which puts ServMan on track to deliver even more value well into the future."
The first wave of modernization arriving in Q4 2022 will deliver an entirely new, device-native mobile platform that allows field technicians to improve efficiency, as well as their job satisfaction. It also includes a new set of flexible APIs and an integration into Slingshot by WorkWave, a solution WorkWave acquired in 2021. Slingshot is a comprehensive sales and answering service for home and commercial field service providers, and is already in use with key ServMan clients. The fully integrated solution will meet the increased demand from ServMan customers, allowing Slingshot agents to respond to service inquiries in real time, resolving customer needs on the first touch at any time during the day, even during peak season or spikes in inbound call volume when missed calls equal missed revenue.
"Through this integration, we are covering both inbound customer calls and new sales leads, making it easier for our customers to grow. With the majority of leads happening over the phone, often after hours or all at one time during weather anomalies, we are able to ensure that Slingshot converts these leads into customers, scheduling these service calls in real time, to increase both customer satisfaction and sales growth," says Giannetto.
To learn more about ServMan by WorkWave, visit our website.
For nearly 40 years, WorkWave has been building best practices into its market-leading field service and last mile software solutions to allow best-in-class companies to grow their business, service their customers and maximize their money. Its solutions empower service-oriented companies to reach their full potential through scalable, cloud-based software solutions that support every stage of a business life cycle, including marketing, sales, service delivery, customer interaction and financial transactions. WorkWave is a trusted partner for thousands of customers across a wide variety of industries, including pest control, lawn care, cleaning, HVAC, plumbing and electrical, and last mile delivery. WorkWave's award-winning culture and solutions have been recognized in the SaaS Awards, the Cloud Awards, the American Business Awards, the NJBIZ Best Places to Work Awards, and the Stevie Awards for Great Employers. For more information, visit workwave.com.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Shane McClanahan pitched eight superb innings to win his fifth consecutive start and the Tampa Bay Rays completed a three-game sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals with a 2-1 victory on Thursday.
Ji-Man Choi hit a two-run homer as the Rays moved a season-high 11 games over .500.
McClanahan (7-2) allowed one unearned run, two hits, walked one and struck out nine, The lefty, who leads the majors with 98 strikeouts, has given up just five runs over 40 innings in his last six starts.
“I think he’s putting himself in a category here through two months of the season — pretty special category,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said.
It was the first time McClanahan has pitched into the eighth inning.
Jason Adam worked the ninth to get to his second save
Miles Mikolas (4-4) had an eight-inning complete game, allowing three hits and striking out nine.
The right-hander was the first St. Louis pitcher to have a complete game and lose since Adam Wainwright on April 26, 2021, against Philadelphia.
“I thought Miles actually outpitched him if you ask me, but Shane has something for you,” St. Louis manager Oliver Marmol said. “He’s (McClanahan) got electric stuff. He did a phenomenal job. Miles also did a really nice job. That was a plus-outing there.”
Marmol said the Cardinals had six or seven balls hit at over 100 mph that were right at people.
“The guys behind me made a lot of great plays,” McClanahan said. “I owe a lot of success to them.”
With both pitchers in control, the game at Tropicana Field was played in 1 hour, 54 minutes.
Mikolas retired his first nine batters on just 27 pitches before running into trouble during the fourth.
Kevin Kiermaier had a leadoff single and scored on Choi’s one-out homer that made it 2-0. Choi has a nine-game hitting streak and has driven in 10 runs over the stretch.
The Cardinals got within 2-1 in the sixth after an error by McClanahan.
Paul Goldschmidt extended his career-best on-base streak to 45 games with a two-out walk and went to second when Nolan Arenado singled for the Cardinals’ second hit.
Albert Pujols hit a soft comebacker that McClanahan failed to catch barehanded. McClanahan recovered, but made an errant throw to first that allowed Goldschmidt to score.
“I just rushed it,” McClanahan said. “I knocked it down, my momentum was taking me one way and I thought I had not as much time as I did and just rushed the throw,”
Pujols picked up his 1, 374th extra-base hit in the second when Rays second baseman Vidal Bruján overran his pop fly in shallow right field for a double. Pujols is now three extra-base hits away from tying Cardinals great Stan Musial for third place on the all-time MLB list.
VIDEO SPECIAL
The Rays played a video tribute before the top of the third honoring St. Louis stars Yadier Molina and Pujols, who are both retiring after this season.
“I think both of them have meant quite a bit to the game,” Cash said. “You marvel at their careers. Look at Yadier Molina (39) and Albert Pujols (42) the age they are, they kept themselves in that shape to be able to compete at his level still is just remarkable.”
Both jumped over the railing of the third-base dugout after the video to acknowledge a standing ovation.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cardinals: Outfielder Dylan Carlson (left hamstring) could rejoin the team Friday.
Rays: Reliever Andrew Kittredge was placed on the 15-day IL and is expected to have surgery to remove a loose body in his right elbow.
UP NEXT
Cardinals: Right-hander Andre Pallante (1-0) will go against Cincinnati righty Luis Castillo (1-3) on Friday night in St. Louis.
Rays: Righty Drew Rasmussen (5-2) and Minnesota left-hander Devin Smeltzer (2-0) are Friday night’s starters at Target Field.
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Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with Mike Savage, the mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia, about the massive wildfire that forced 16,000 people from their homes.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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The 2023 NFL Draft starts on April 27 with the first-round picks at Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri. The SEC has produced 395 first-round selections and another 108 choices among the top 32 picks who were not first-rounders. AL.com is counting down to the draft by highlighting the SEC players
Ozzie Newsome was an All-American end for Alabama who spent 13 seasons as Cleveland’s tight end after the Browns chose him with the 23rd selection in the 1978 NFL Draft.
When Newsome retired, the former Colbert County High School star had more receptions for more yards than any tight end in NFL history and only three wide receivers had more receptions.
Newsome has been a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame since 1999 and the Browns’ all-time receiving leader even longer.
When the Browns moved to Baltimore in 1996 to become the Ravens, Newsome came with them as the team’s vice president of player personnel and de facto general manager. He didn’t officially take the general-manager title until 2002, when he became the first African American to hold that position with an NFL team. Newsome continued in that role through the 2018 NFL Draft.
Baltimore won the Super Bowl twice during that span, and Newsome selected Ole Miss offensive tackle Michael Oher with the 23rd choice in the 2009 draft.
The 14 SEC players drafted in the first round with the No. 23 pick include:
· Alabama tight end Ozzie Newsome, Cleveland Browns, 1978
· Florida tackle David Williams, Houston Oilers, 1989
· Tennessee defensive end Chris Mims, San Diego Chargers, 1992
· Florida guard Mo Collins, Oakland Raiders, 1998
· Ole Miss running back Deuce McAllister, New Orleans Saints, 2001
· LSU wide receiver Dwayne Bowe, Kansas City Chiefs, 2007
· Ole Miss tackle Michael Oher, Baltimore Ravens, 2009
· Florida defensive tackle Sharrif Floyd, Minnesota Vikings, 2013
· Auburn defensive end Dee Ford, Kansas City Chiefs, 2014
· Missouri defensive end Shane Ray, Denver Broncos, 2015
· Ole Miss wide receiver Laquon Treadwell, Minnesota Vikings, 2016
· Ole Miss tight end Evan Engram, New York Giants, 2017
· Georgia offensive tackle Isaiah Wynn, New England Patriots, 2018
· Florida cornerback Kaiir Elam, Bufalo Bills, 2022
The first round of the NFL Draft has included at least 23 selections annually since 1967. The three SEC players drafted with the No. 23 pick who were not first-rounders include:
· Alabama back Charley Holm, Washington Redskins, 1939
· Tulane back Buddy Banker, Washington Redskins, 1940
· Georgia Tech guard Ray Beck, New York Giants, 1952
McAllister recorded four 1,000-yard rushing seasons and received two Pro Bowl invitations in eight years with the Saints.
Bowe went to the Pro Bowl in 2010, when he led the NFL with 15 touchdown receptions.
Ford went to the Pro Bowl in 2018, when he led the NFL wth seven forced fumbles.
Treadwell, Engram (a Pro Bowl selection in 2020), Wynn and Elam played during the 2022 season.
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(The list includes only players selected in the regular NFL draft. The drafts from other leagues are not included nor are any supplemental drafts that have been held by the NFL.)
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PENNSYLVANIA (WHTM) — Police statewide are making an extra effort to pull over aggressive drivers in an enforcement initiative that will last through August.
Pennsylvania State Police and 300 local departments are participating in the effort. They will be looking for several signs of aggressive driving, and the goal is to reduce the number of aggressive driving-related crashes, injuries, and deaths on roadways.
The enforcement will focus on heavy truck violations, pedestrian safety, red light turning, and tailgating. People driving too fast for conditions, following too closely, or taking other aggressive actions will also be cited. Any aggressive driver stopped by police will get a ticket.
The enforcement is part of Pennsylvania’s Highway Safety Program and is funded by part of PennDOT’s investment of federal funds from the National Highway Traffic Safety Program.
According to PennDOT, the number of highway deaths on Pennsylvania roads dropped to a record low in 2019 when more than 1,059 were recorded — the lowest number since record keeping began in 1928.
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To the Editor:
This letter is on behalf of The Humane Society of Noble County Inc., to request a donation for our Pawparazzi Gala. This event will take place on Oct. 14, 2022, at Sylvan Cellars Event Center. Our theme is, Walk the Red Carpet, and we are looking to raise money for sound reduction boards for our dog kennels. We are having a gala, silent and live auction, sit-down dinner, a live band and a fun-filled night.
We cannot meet our goal without the help of people/companies like you/yours. That's why I'm writing to you. Would you consider making a donation to help sponsor our event? By giving to “Pawparazzi Gala” you'll be able to help us by sound proofing our kennels. This will benefit both humans and dogs. It will reduce stress for the dogs and will help with the amount of barking. As of now, it is very loud and stressful for all of them. These pups are already stressed enough just being in there. Let's make living in a kennel more peaceful for them until they can find their forever home.
We hope that we can count on your help to make this year's event one of our best yet. Should you make a donation, your business will be recognized for display at the event, as well as on our Facebook page.
Thank you in advance for your help. We hope to see you at the event. If you have any questions or need further information, please contact us at 260-347-2563. Thank you for your consideration.
Traci Mullins
Humane Society of Noble County Inc.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The plastics industry says there is a way to help solve the crisis of plastic waste plaguing the planet's oceans, beaches and lands— recycle it, chemically.
Chemical recycling typically uses heat or chemical solvents to break down plastics into liquid and gas to produce an oil-like mixture or basic chemicals. Industry leaders say that mixture can be made back into plastic pellets to make new products.
“What we are trying to do is really create a circular economy for plastics because we think it is the most viable option for keeping plastic out of the environment,” said Joshua Baca, vice president of the plastics division at the American Chemistry Council, the industry trade association for American chemical companies.
ExxonMobil, New Hope Energy, Nexus Circular, Eastman, Encina and other companies are planning to build large plastics recycling plants. Seven smaller facilities across the United States already recycle plastic into new plastic, according to the ACC. A handful of others convert hard-to-recycle used plastics into alternative transportation fuels for aviation, marine and auto uses.
But environmental groups say advanced recycling is a distraction from real solutions like producing and using less plastic. They suspect the idea of recyclable plastics will enable the steep ramp up in plastic production to continue. And while the amount produced globally grows, recycling rates for plastic waste are abysmally low, especially in the United States.
Plastic packaging, multi-layered films, bags, polystyrene foam and other hard-to-recycle plastic products are piling up in landfills and in the environment, or going to incinerators.
Judith Enck, the founder and president of Beyond Plastics, says plastics recycling doesn't work and never will. Chemical additives and colorants used to give plastic different properties mean that there are thousands of types, she said. That’s why they can’t be mixed together and recycled in the conventional, mechanical way. Nor is there much of a market for recycled plastic, because virgin plastic is cheap, she said.
So what is more likely to happen than actual recycling, said Enck, a former regional administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is the industry will shift to burning plastics as waste or as fuel.
Lee Bell, a policy advisor for the International Pollutants Elimination Network, thinks chemical recycling is a public relations exercise by the petrochemical industry. The purpose is to dissuade regulators from capping plastics production. Making plastic could become even more important to the fossil fuel industry as climate change puts pressure on their transportation fuels, Bell said.
The industry has made roughly 11 billion metric tons of plastic since 1950, with half of that produced since 2006, according to industrial ecologist Roland Geyer. Global plastic production is expected to more than quadruple by 2050, according to the United Nations Environment Programme and GRID-Arendal in Norway.
The international Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development says the share of plastic waste that is successfully recycled is projected to rise to 17% in 2060 from 9% in 2019 if no additional policies are enacted to restrain plastic demand and enhance recycling, but that wouldn't begin to keep up with the projected growth in plastic waste. With more ambitious policies, the amount of plastic waste that is recycled could rise to 40% to 60%, according to OECD.
Two groups working to reduce plastic pollution, the Last Beach Clean Up and Beyond Plastics, estimated that the U.S. rate for recycling plastic waste in 2021 was even lower — 5% to 6%, after China stopped accepting other countries' waste in 2018.
The U.S. national recycling strategy says no option, including chemical recycling, should be ruled out. The way to think of these new plants, the industry says, is as manufacturing plants. They should be legally defined that way, and not as waste management. About 20 states have adopted laws in the past five years consistent with that wish. Opponents say it’s a way to skirt the more stringent environmental regulations that apply to waste management facilities.
EXISTING PLANTS
The U.S. facilities currently recycling plastic into new plastic are small — the largest is a 60-ton-per-day plant in Akron, Ohio, Alterra Energy, according to the ACC.
Alterra Energy says it takes in the hard-to-recycle plastics, like flexible pouches, multi-layered films and rigid plastics from automobiles — everything except plastic water bottles since those are recycled mechanically, or plastics marked with a “3” since they contain polyvinyl chloride, or PVC.
“Our mission is to solve plastic pollution,” said Jeremy DeBenedictis, company president. “That is not just a tag line. We all truly want to solve plastic pollution.”
The Ohio facility typically takes in 40 tons to 50 tons per day, heating and liquifying the plastic to turn it back into an oil or hydrocarbon liquid, about 10,000 gallons to 12,000 gallons daily. About 75% of what comes into the facility can be liquified like that. Another 15% is turned into a synthetic natural gas to heat the process, while the remainder — paper, metals, dyes, inks and colorants — exit the reactor as a byproduct, or carbon char, DeBenedictis said. The char is disposed of as nonhazardous waste, though in the future some hope to sell it to the asphalt industry.
The process doesn’t involve oxygen so there’s no combustion or incineration of plastics, DeBenedictis said, and their product is trucked as a synthetic oil to petrochemical companies, essentially the “building blocks on a molecular level for new plastic production."
The materials they take in, that haven't been able to be recycled until now, should not be sent to landfills, dumped in the ocean or incinerated, DeBenedictis said.
“That next level has to be a new technology, what you call chemical recycling or advanced recycling. That’s the next frontier,” he said.
“Let’s not kid ourselves here. This is the right time to do it,” added company CEO Fred Schmuck. “There is absolutely no way we can meet our climate goals without addressing plastic waste.”
DeBenedictis said he’s licensing the technology to try to grow the industry because that’s the “best way to make the quickest impact to the world.” A Finnish oil and gas company, Neste, is currently working to commercialize Alterra’s technology in Europe.
The main chemical recycling technologies use pyrolysis, gasification or depolymerization. Neil Tangri, the science and policy director at the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, is skeptical. He says he has been hearing that pyrolysis is going to change everything since the 1990s, but it hasn’t happened. Instead, plastic production keeps climbing.
GAIA views chemical recycling as a false solution that will facilitate greater production of virgin plastic — a high-energy process with high-carbon emissions that releases hazardous air pollutants, Tangri said. Instead, GAIA wants plastic production to be dramatically scaled back and only recyclable plastics to be produced.
“Nobody needs more plastic,” Tangri said. “We keep trying to solve these production problems with recycling when really we need to change how much we make and what we make. That’s where the solution lies.”
EQUITY ISSUES IN SITING PLANTS
In Rhode Island, state lawmakers considered a bill this year to exempt such facilities from solid waste licensing requirements. It was vigorously opposed by environmental activists and residents near the port of Providence who feared it would lead to a new plant in their neighborhood. State environmental officials sided with them.
Monica Huertas, executive director of The People’s Port Authority, helped lead the opposition. The neighborhood is already overburdened by industry, she said, so much so that she sometimes has asthma attacks after walking around.
Dwayne Keys said it’s unfair that he and his neighbors always have to be on guard for proposals like these, unlike residents in some of the state’s wealthy, white neighborhoods. The port area has enough environmental hazards that residents don't benefit from economically, he added. Keys calls it environmental racism.
“The assessment is, we're the path of least resistance,” he said. “Not that there's no resistance, but the least. We're a coalition of individuals volunteering our time. We don't have wealth or access to resources or the legal means, as opposed to our white counterparts in higher income, higher net worth communities.”
The chemistry council's Baca said the facilities operate at the highest standards, the industry believes everyone deserves clear air and water, and he would invite any detractors to one of the facilities so they can see that firsthand.
U.S. plastics producers have said they will recycle or recover all plastic packaging used in the United States by 2040, and have already announced more than $7 billion in investments in both mechanical and chemical recycling.
“I think we are on the cusp of a sustainability revolution where circularity will be the centerpiece of that,” Baca said. “And innovative technologies like advanced recycling will be what makes this possible.”
Kate O’Neill wrote the book on waste, called “Waste.” A professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley, she has thought a lot about whether chemical recycling should be part of the solution to the plastic crisis. She said she has concluded yes, even though she knows saying so would “piss off the environmentalists.”
“With some of these big problems,” she said, “we can’t rule anything out.”
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) — A person in southwest Florida has died after being infected with an extremely rare brain-eating amoeba, health officials said.
The Florida Department of Health in Charlotte County confirmed the death Thursday. The agency had previously issued an alert last month, warning residents about the Naegleria fowleri infection.
“I can confirm the infection unfortunately resulted in a death, and any additional information on this case is confidential to protect patient privacy,” Florida Department of Health spokesman Jae Williams said in an email.
Health officials said last month that the infection might have been caused by sinus rinse practices using tap water, but an investigation is ongoing. Sinus solutions should be made using only distilled or sterile water. Tap water should be boiled for at least one minute and cooled before sinus rinsing.
“Infection with Naegleria fowleri is rare and can only happen when water contaminated with amoebae enters the body through the nose,” Williams said. “You cannot be infected by drinking tap water.”
Naegleria fowleri is a single-celled organism that lives in soil and warm fresh water, such as lakes, rivers and hot springs, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It can cause a brain infection when water containing the amoeba goes up the nose. Only about three people in the United States get infected each year, but these infections are usually fatal. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/ap-health/officials-person-dies-after-brain-eating-amoeba-infection/ | 2023-03-04 12:21:24 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/ap-health/officials-person-dies-after-brain-eating-amoeba-infection/ |
Businesses and neighborhoods across the U.S. are turning to private security companies to add an extra layer of protection.
“People are feeling less safe,” Steve Amitay, the executive director of the National Association of Security Companies, said. “Since the start of COVID-19, there's really been a surge in crime; in all types of crime.”
NASCO is a trade association representing more than half of security officers in the U.S. Amitay said a rise in extremism, mass shootings, and protests are also giving people a reason to rethink their security measures.
“The big one is retail and the need for private security at retail establishments. But now, it’s manufacturing establishments. It's also commercial office buildings, hospitals,” he explained.
P4 Companies, a guarding company that operates in 14 states, has seen more inquiries for security officers. One of the newest growth areas for them is non-gated communities and neighborhoods.
“One of the things we’ve done in a neighborhood in the north side of Chicago was putting off-duty police officers and squad cars and patrolling a certain geographic area of that neighborhood,” Steve Vitale, executive VP at P4 Companies, said.
This service can run neighborhoods $180,000 or more a year for eight to 10 hours of daily surveillance.
Criminologist Andrea Borrego said we should think twice before making a decision on safety measures.
“There's this idea that police presence or security presence makes people feel safer,” Borrego, an associate professor of criminal justice and criminology at the Metropolitan State University of Denver, said. “But it could also deter customers who feel unsafe around security guards.”
She said there should be more focus on why certain crimes are increasing in the first place.
“While more police presence might make people feel safer, it's hard to say whether or not it actually deters crime or are we addressing why crime is happening,” Borrego said.
“There's still a very big need to have security officers and off-duty police officers provide that deterrence for people to feel safe,” Vitale said. | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/communities-neighborhoods-increasingly-using-private-security-to-deter-crime | 2022-08-23 20:53:30 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/communities-neighborhoods-increasingly-using-private-security-to-deter-crime |
A fire destroyed a Days Inn hotel in Kittery on Wednesday afternoon, and firefighters worked to find one to two people unaccounted for in the blaze.
Kittery Fire Chief David O’Brien said the call on the fire came in at 12:03 p.m. He said the fire at the $1.6 million hotel went to five alarms.
PORTLAND FIREFIGHTERS RESCUE OVER A DOZEN PEOPLE, 3 DOGS FROM MAJOR APARTMENT FIRE
"It is a total loss," he said. "There is nothing left of the building."
O'Brien said firefighters are chasing down reports of missing people. "At this point, we have one possibly two that are unaccounted for," he said.
1 DEAD IN COASTAL TEXAS REFINERY FIRE
O’Brien said one firefighter was injured with cuts. He also said a passerby was injured but didn't provide additional details.
Flames tore through parts of the roof, and smoke could be seen from more than a mile away. Part of the building also collapsed.
O’Brien said the fire was under investigation. The size of the fire, the size of the building, wind and lack of water all made it challenging to fight the blaze, he said. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/at-least-1-missing-after-maine-hotel-destroyed-by-fire-total-loss/article_fac7ad18-553b-5c81-95b8-548b0cdc5ba5.html | 2023-05-18 01:43:03 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/at-least-1-missing-after-maine-hotel-destroyed-by-fire-total-loss/article_fac7ad18-553b-5c81-95b8-548b0cdc5ba5.html |
“Can you move?” my husband asked with a smirk.
I glanced in his direction with narrowed eyes. He laughed.
“Barely,” I replied.
I moved slowly from the comfort of my easy chair to let our dogs outside.
I tried not to walk and sound like the “Tin Man” without an oil can. I was a bit stiff from the exertion of the past couple days.
I had just planted dozens and dozens (and dozens) of flowering plants, vegetables and seeds in our front and back yards.
My husband was in charge of mowing and trimming.
I enjoy communing with nature on pleasant early summer days. Besides enjoying fresh air and sunshine, I had acquired a week’s worth of lifting, bending and walking.
I probably should have stretched my muscles before hauling planters and bags of soil around our yard.
Gardening has health benefits on several levels. At the time, I had many projects with advancing deadlines, so I was feeling a bit stressed. Exercising my creative side by landscaping with various colors was calming.
Soon I was up to my wrists and ankles in soil. My deadlines did not seem very important.
In fact, researchers have noted that 30 minutes of gardening reduces the level of the stress hormone cortisol. I probably had no stress hormones in my body after eight hours of gardening.
Soil bacteria also positively stimulates your immune system. We all need strong immune systems.
If you do not garden, consider that having flowers around your home and workplace also reduces stress levels.
You may want to move your reading or writing tasks outside. Some researchers showed that attention span and memory can improve by 20%.
Gardening improves nutritional intake. Growing vegetables for adults or children makes it more likely that they will eat fruits and vegetables.
Other researchers have shown that gardeners have greater nutrition knowledge.
By the way, did you know that we adults should aim for 4 1/2 to 5 cups of fruits and vegetables (total) daily? Choose a rainbow of colors of vegetables to reap the benefits of beneficial phytochemicals (plant chemicals) on your health.
All that bending, stretching and load-bearing exercise during gardening improves our muscle tone. Weight-bearing exercises can help prevent osteoporosis, especially when accompanied by a healthful diet with plenty of calcium, vitamin D and other nutrients.
Who was burning more calories in our yardwork pursuits?
My husband, who was trimming and mowing, won the calorie-burning contest. Mowing a lawn, on average, burns about 306 calories an hour. Trimming shrubs burns about 240 calories per hour. When I was digging in the garden and raking, I burned about 250 calories an hour.
Gardening can have a ripple effect. In neighborhoods that beautify with gardening, you might find a bit of good-natured competition. The entire neighborhood may suddenly be “spruced up” to look better.
See www.ag.ndsu.edu/fieldtofork for links to webinars by our Extension experts, along with handouts and many other resources to help with growing, preparing and preserving produce.
Here’s a tasty, fragrant recipe from Sky Purdin, who shared this delicious recipe as part of our Growing Together Community Cookbook. It features ingredients that are easy to find in grocery stores and later, from farmers markets or our own backyard.
Fresh Tomatoes with Basil
3 tomatoes (any variety, but Roma or Beef tomatoes work very well)
3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
½ cup fresh basil
Coarse sea salt (optional)
Rinse all produce thoroughly under running water. Slice the tomatoes into thick, round slices. Gently tear basil leaves and place on top of tomatoes. Drizzle with balsamic vinegar and sprinkle with sea salt (if desired).
Makes four servings. Each serving has 20 calories, 0 grams (g) fat, 1 g protein, 4 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber and 5 milligrams sodium (without added salt).
Julie Garden-Robinson, Ph.D., R.D., L.R.D., is a North Dakota State University Extension food and nutrition specialist and professor in the Department of Health, Nutrition and Exercise Sciences. Follow her on Twitter @jgardenrobinson | https://www.willistonherald.com/lifestyle/home_and_garden/prairie-fare-gardening-provides-exercise-reduces-stress/article_46befcf4-e517-11ec-b4ce-e3954cea7042.html | 2022-06-06 00:05:10 | 1 | https://www.willistonherald.com/lifestyle/home_and_garden/prairie-fare-gardening-provides-exercise-reduces-stress/article_46befcf4-e517-11ec-b4ce-e3954cea7042.html |
Backpacks are the most practical way for our children to carry school books and supplies. They are specifically designed to distribute the weight of the load among some of the body's strongest muscles. However when too heavy or worn incorrectly, backpacks may lead to significant back, neck and shoulder pain, as well as cause postural problems.
Backpack safety tips for children and adults
- Shea Mills, PT, DPT Special to the Progress
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While HBO's hotly anticipated Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, premiered on Sunday, several beloved GoT alumni could be spotted in a star-studded new mega trailer for the network's upcoming slate of programming. Most notably, perhaps: Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey in brand new footage for their new series, The Last of Us.
The show, based on the 2013 video game of the same name, will debut next year and follows a smuggler (Pascal) as he's tasked with escorting a teenage girl (Ramsey) through a post-apocalyptic world. The Last of Us also stars Gabriel Luna and Nick Offerman.
Lena Headey also scored a close-up shot in the trailer for her role in the upcoming The White House Plumbers, in which she stars opposite Woody Harrelson, Justin Theroux, Domhnall Gleeson and Kiernan Shipka.
The jam-packed 02:20 minute clip also teased the return of The White Lotus for its second season -- featuring returning fan-favorite Jennifer Coolidge alongside Aubrey Plaza and a new ensemble cast; and the debuts of Lily-Rose Depp and The Weeknd in the new series The Idol; Elizabeth Olsen and Jesse Plemons in David E. Kelly's Love & Death; and Fred Armien in Los Espookys.
More returning shows include Succession, Avenue 5, Our Flag Means Death, Hacks, Somebody Somewhere, Winning Time, And Just Like That, and Perry Mason, among others.
House of the Dragon premiered with the first episode on Sunday, bringing to life George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood. The all-new series, which takes place 200 years before GoT, details the battle of succession as House Targaryen attempts to maintain its place on the Iron Throne.
Members of the ensemble cast, including Emily Carey, Eve Best, Fabien Frankel, Matt Smith, Milly Alcock, Paddy Considine and Steve Toussaint, recap the in-fighting in episode one and tease where things go from here, as season 1 gets deep into the political maneuvering that follows in interviews with ET.
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- Marking the first phase of the company's second Bio Campus, Plant 5 is expected to have shortest construction timeline
- Samsung Biologics will maintain the world's largest biomanufacturing capacity at 784,000 liters upon completion of the newest plant
- Key features of Plant 5 include seamless process integration and optimization, advanced automation and sustainable systems
INCHEON, South Korea, June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- While attending the 2023 BIO International Convention, Samsung Biologics (KRX:207940.KS), a leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), revealed details of the company's future expansion plan to have its new fifth plant operational by April 2025. Recently on June 1, the company fully completed its latest and the world's largest biomanufacturing plant, Plant 4. The move reinforces Samsung Biologics' unmatched speed and commitment to providing partners with high-quality services and products in response to the surging demand for biologics.
As the first facility of Samsung Biologics' second Bio Campus at its headquarters in Songdo, South Korea, Plant 5 is expected to have the shortest construction timeline, made possible by the company's standardized design, accumulated operational excellence, and proven expertise acquired through the construction of its existing four plants. The new plant will add a capacity of 180,000 liters, and upon its completion, Samsung Biologics will maintain the world's largest biomanufacturing capacity at 784,000 liters.
"Over a decade ago, we committed to bringing innovative solutions to our partners, and we've successfully delivered on that commitment with each new plant. Now building on this foundation, Plant 5 will leverage our unparalleled experience and expertise to deliver long-term success for our clients," said John Rim, President and CEO of Samsung Biologics. "By expediting our capacity expansion and providing fully integrated services, we hope to close the gap between the demand and supply of life-saving biomedicines."
Dubbed the Dream Plant for its flexibility and ability to meet clients' goals, Plant 5's key features also include seamless process integration and optimization as well as advanced automation to consistently deliver high productivity and quality throughout its operations. The new plant will also incorporate sustainable systems to support the company's commitment in achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or earlier.
Plant 5 ultimately marks the first phase of Samsung Biologics' second Bio Campus. In July 2022, the company purchased 357,360m2 of land for the expansion, which will feature an Open Innovation Center for biotech incubation and four plants for a total capacity of 720,000 liters.
All facilities will be connected to maximize output and efficiency with automated logistics and will incorporate next-generation technologies with fully digitalized systems to offer seamless client communication. Upon the completion of Bio Campus II, Samsung Biologics will hold a total capacity of 1.324 million liters.
"This strategic investment allows us to support our clients across the entire product lifecycle," said Rim. "Through innovation and sustainability, Bio Campus II will add unbeatable value to our existing services and offer expanded capacity in record time to enable their success."
About Samsung Biologics Co., Ltd.
Samsung Biologics (KRX: 207940.KS) is a fully integrated, end-to-end CDMO service provider offering seamless development and manufacturing solutions from cell line development to final aseptic fill/finish as well as laboratory testing services at every stage for biopharmaceutical products. Our facilities are all cGMP compliant with bioreactors ranging from small to large scales to serve varying client needs. To maximize our operational efficiency and expand our capabilities in response to growing biomanufacturing demands, Samsung Biologics launched Plant 4, which will further advance the company's standing as the world's largest manufacturing facility at a single site—holding a 604KL total capacity—and announced plans to construct Plant 5, which will be operational in 2025. Additionally, Samsung Biologics America enables the company to work in closer proximity to clients based in the U.S. and Europe. We continue to upgrade our capabilities to accommodate our clients by investing in technologies such as an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) facility, a dedicated mRNA manufacturing facility, and additional aseptic filling capacity. As a sustainable CDMO partner of choice, we are committed to on-time, in-full delivery of the products we manufacture with our flexible manufacturing solutions, operational excellence, and proven expertise.
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