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SMYRNA, Ga. (AP) — Fresh off his commanding reelection, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Saturday played the role of dutiful Republican soldier as he campaigned for the first time alongside Senate hopeful Herschel Walker after spending months steering clear of his ticket-mate.
The joint appearance reflects how important Kemp’s broad coalition will be in determining whether Walker can unseat Sen. Raphael Warnock in a Dec. 6 runoff. The fact it occurred only now underscores the challenges that Walker, a celebrity athlete turned politician, has had appealing to many independents and moderate Republicans amid an intense focus on his rocky past.
“We cannot rest on our laurels, everyone,” Kemp told a few hundred supporters standing in the parking lot of a gun store in suburban Atlanta, urging them to cast one more ballot in a midterm election year that was underwhelming for Republicans nationally.
Kemp was the top vote-getter in Georgia’s general election, drawing 200,000 more votes in his matchup with Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams than Walker did in his challenge to Warnock. The result: Kemp defeated Abrams by 7.5 percentage points, while Walker trailed Warnock by about 36,000 votes or almost 1 percentage point. Warnock fell just shy of a majority, however, triggering the four-week runoff blitz.
The governor campaigned throughout the fall mostly for his own reelection, though he made appearances with several of GOP nominees for lower statewide offices. All of them won without runoffs. The notable absence was always Walker, with Kemp sometimes avoiding even saying his name when reporters asked about the distance between the two campaigns. Kemp would often say only that he backed the “entire ticket.”
Since securing a second term, Kemp has become more explicit in his support, even if still calculated. He’s signed over his voter turnout operation to a Republican political action committee aligned with Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell and endorsed Walker anew in recent interviews. On Saturday, he pitched Walker as a fiscal and cultural conservative who would back tax cuts and support law enforcement and the military, and he repeated Republicans’ principal attack on Warnock: That he votes with President Joe Biden “96% of the time.”
“I know that Herschel Walker will fight for us,” Kemp said. “He will go and fight for those values that we believe in here in our state.”
Yet Kemp also used his brief time on stage as a personal victory lap, nodding to his coming second term and mentioning Abrams before he said anything about Walker or Warnock. “I’ve never been more optimistic about the future of our state, and we’re going to keep our state moving in the right direction because we stopped Stacey and saved Georgia,” he said.
Republicans see Kemp as a critical validator for Walker, especially since the Georgia runoff is now more locally focused because Democrats already have secured 50 seats and hold Vice President Kamala Harris’s tie-breaking vote.
For much of the year, Walker and Republicans tried to nationalize the race because it was among the battlegrounds that would determine Senate control, as Georgia did two years ago with concurrent Senate runoffs won by Democrats Warnock and Sen. Jon Ossoff.
The strategy was partly about tying Warnock to Biden because of the president’s lagging approval ratings and generationally high inflation. But it was also seen as a necessity because of some of Walker’s liabilities.
Walker has on multiple occasions exaggerated his academic achievements, business success and philanthropic activities. He’s faced accusations of violence against his first wife. During the campaign, he acknowledged multiple children he’d not previously talked about publicly, doing so only after media reports on their existence. In October, two women Walker once dated alleged that he encouraged and paid for their abortions despite his stance as a candidate for a national abortion ban with no exceptions.
Walker denies he ever paid for an abortion and has answered with a withering assault on Warnock, focusing in recent weeks on the poor living conditions at an Atlanta apartment building owned by a foundation of the Ebenezer Baptist Church where Warnock serves as senior pastor. Walker has used apparent eviction notices issued to some tenants and complaints by its residents to cast Warnock as a “hypocrite” and “wolf in sheep’s clothing.”
Still, the cumulative effect has fed Warnock’s efforts to tag Walker as “not ready” and “not fit” for the Senate, and it’s made Walker much less popular than Kemp, especially among independents and moderate Republicans. That’s more concerning in an environment where the GOP can’t use Senate control as the incentive for wary GOP-leaning voters to back Walker.
Walker’s electoral shortcomings were especially acute in suburban Atlanta. While Walker ran about 5 points behind Kemp statewide, that gap was almost 7 points in Cobb County, where Saturday’s rally was held, with similar gaps in several other metro area counties that are critical to Republicans’ statewide coalition.
Indeed, an AP VoteCast survey of the general electorate found that 7 in 10 voters who backed Kemp said they did so enthusiastically, but only about half of Walker’s voters said the same. Among Walker supporters, about 4 in 10 said they backed him with reservations and about 1 in 10 said they were opposing the other candidates.
Further, Kemp seems to have reaped benefits from having resisted former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia and nationally. Only 29% of Georgia’s voters said Kemp supports former President Trump too much, according to AP VoteCast, while 43% said that of Walker, who is a friend of Trump and is running with his endorsement.
“Brian Kemp is clearly the most popular Republican in Georgia, and he clearly has the most significant organization,” said Josh Holmes, an influential Republican strategist in Washington and former chief of staff to McConnell.
Even Democrats concede the point, holding a press conference earlier Saturday featuring voters who said they voted for Kemp and Warnock.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Missfresh Limited (NASDAQ: MF) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of persons who purchased or otherwise acquired Missfresh securities pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and related prospectus issued in connection with Missfresh's June 2021 initial public offering.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: September 12, 2022
No obligation or cost to you.
Learn more about your recoverable losses in MF:
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Missfresh Limited made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Missfresh provided false financial figures in its registration statement and related prospectus issued in connection with the Company's June 2021 initial public offering; (2) Missfresh would need to amend its financial figures; (3) Missfresh, among other things, had lesser net revenues for the quarter ended March 31, 2021; and (4) as a result, defendants' public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times and negligently prepared.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Missfresh you have until September 12, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Missfresh securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the MF lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/missfresh-loss-submission-form?id=31040&from=4.
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J. Klein, Esq. represents investors and participates in securities litigations involving financial fraud throughout the nation. The Klein Law Firm is a boutique litigation firm with experience in a wide range of areas including securities law, corporate finance and commercial litigation. Since 2011, our experienced attorneys have achieved superior results for our clients with a personalized focus. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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Company honored as one of the world's best outsourcing providers for digital integrated business services, customer experience, automation tools and consulting
NEW YORK, Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Teleperformance, a global leader in outsourced digital integrated business services, today announced it has been named to The Global Sourcing 100® list in the Leader category for large established global firms for the 8th consecutive year by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals® (IAOP®).
"Teleperformance has long been at the forefront in leveraging emerging digital capabilities with our vast high-touch experience and domain expertise to deliver simpler, faster and safer operations at lower cost for our clients," said Teleperformance Chairman and CEO Daniel Julien. "The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals' continued recognition of our capabilities and the impact we deliver is another testament to the success of our transformation into a digital integrated business services company."
The 2023 Global Outsourcing 100 recognizes the world's best outsourcing service providers and advisors. Nominations are judged on a rigorous scoring methodology that includes an independent review by an independent panel of IAOP customer members with extensive experience in selecting outsourcing service providers and advisors for their organizations.
"In a year when service providers and advisors navigated new — or more intensified — challenges and disruption, the 2023 Global Outsourcing 100® demonstrated that they could and did rise to the occasion," said IAOP's CEO, Debi Hamill. "We are especially proud of these organizations that strived to excel, innovate and pave the way in unprecedented times. Congratulations, Teleperformance on being included among the very best in the world."
About IAOP
IAOP is THE sourcing community, with collaboration at its core, that drives exceptional business and societal outcomes. Our members and affiliates worldwide are digging deep at IAOP conferences, learning at IAOP chapter meetings, getting trained and certified at IAOP courses and workshops, and connecting through IAOP social media, all with one goal: better business results. Whether you are a customer, provider or advisor, new to collaborative business models like outsourcing, or an experienced professional, IAOP connects you and your organization to our growing global community and the resources you need to get the results your company deserves and demands. For more information and how you can become involved, visit www.IAOP.org.
ABOUT TELEPERFORMANCE GROUP
Teleperformance (TEP – ISIN: FR0000051807 – Reuters: TEPRF.PA - Bloomberg: TEP FP), a global leader in outsourced digital integrated business services, serves as a strategic partner to the world's largest companies in many industries. It offers a One Office support services model including end-to-end digital solutions, which guarantee successful customer interaction and optimized business processes, anchored in a unique, comprehensive high touch, high tech approach. More than 410,000 employees, based in 91 countries, support billions of connections every year in over 300 languages and 170 markets, in a shared commitment to excellence as part of the "Simpler, Faster, Safer" process. This mission is supported by the use of reliable, flexible, intelligent technological solutions and compliance with the industry's highest security and quality standards, based on Corporate Social Responsibility excellence. In 2022, Teleperformance reported consolidated revenue of €8,154 million (US$8.6 billion, based on €1 = $1.05) and net profit of €645 million.
Teleperformance shares are traded on the Euronext Paris market, Compartment A, and are eligible for the deferred settlement service. They are included in the following indices: CAC 40, STOXX 600, S&P Europe 350, MSCI Global Standard and Euronext Tech Leaders. In the area of corporate social responsibility, Teleperformance shares are included in the CAC 40 ESG since September 2022, the Euronext Vigeo Euro 120 index since 2015, the EURO STOXX 50 ESG index since 2020, the MSCI Europe ESG Leaders index since 2019, the FTSE4Good index since 2018 and the S&P Global 1200 ESG index since 2017.
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Trump vs. Biden in 2024? That's the opposite of what Arizona voters want
Opinion: Nearly 3 in 5 Arizonans said they would be open to voting for a moderate independent candidate if the 2024 election came down to a rerun of 2020.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s decision to become an independent prompted rafts of conjecture about her path to reelection. It is, after all, rare for a candidate who has chosen not to label herself to win a general election.
But she may well represent the tip of a long political spear.
In December, we at No Labels commissioned a nationwide poll that spoke to thousands of voters across the country, including hundreds in Arizona.
What the poll revealed was that a growing legion of voters has grown tired of the tribal dynamic that now dominates American politics. They don’t want major decisions to be framed as an “either/or” between the ideas promoted by the most extreme voices on the far right and far left.
The exhausted and pragmatic American majority, at long last, are beginning to demand alternatives that reflect their political sensibilities.
Independent thinking isn't on the ballot
Here’s what most everyone knows, but what Washington has yet to figure out:
Most Arizonans, like most Americans, see value in both liberal and conservative ideas – and they’re most comfortable if the two are balanced against one another.
But that’s precisely the problem: This kind of independent thinking is rarely on the ballot anymore.
Much in common:New poll shows what Arizona voters agree on
The two parties have become increasingly allergic to substantive bipartisanship. And that’s a big part of why, as the poll revealed, nearly two-thirds of Arizonans reported that they think the country is on the wrong track.
Huge swaths of the electorate are independent and moderate. But they’re often forced to make a devil’s bargain when casting their ballot for either a conservative Republican or a liberal Democrat.
That may change soon.
Most Arizonans know what they don't want
As our poll by HarrisX revealed, increasing voter frustration is beginning to open the public’s mind to the possibility not of a third party, but of supporting candidates who run on the promise of national unity and commonsense solutions.
Nearly 3 in 5 Arizonans responded that they would be open to voting for a moderate independent candidate if the 2024 election came down to a rerun of 2020 – namely, a competition between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
And the split was similar: 59% of Trump voters would be open to a moderate independent, compared to 58% of Biden voters – a remarkable confluence.
Across the country, we’ve all endured years of hearing incessantly about how divided the American people are – red vs. blue, liberal vs. conservative, Republican vs. Democrat. And yet, as this poll reveals, Arizonans are actually united on much of what they do and don’t want.
Most don’t want Biden and Trump to run again in 2024. But it’s not just the politics.
They're also united on what they do want
Many Arizonans are eager to see Washington combine ideas championed on both the left and the right in a balanced, pragmatic way.
A few examples:
A broad majority of Arizonans want the country to be more energy self-sufficient and more energy diverse. They want to see more gas and oil production now to bring down prices, but they’re also for building more solar and wind power.
They want both stronger border security and a broad-based reform of the immigration system, including permanent legal status for the “Dreamers” who were brought to the U.S. as children.
They’re frustrated that on all these issues the parties have become beacons of the extremes.
Most of the electorate doesn’t want solutions that go all-in either way. What they want is radical pragmatism.
Put an R and a D on the same ticket
Here’s what everyone needs to understand.
Change is afoot, and things aren’t continuing along the lines of the “polarization” that so many of us have been complaining about for the better part of the last quarter-century.
The bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus is ascendant in the House. One of the Problem Solvers’ staunchest allies in the Senate has declared herself an independent.
No Labels, which commissioned the poll, has laid the groundwork for running a Unity ticket, one Democrat and one Republican, if the two parties coalesce around candidates who aren’t palatable for moderate independents.
With sustained pressures, these various threads are poised to braid themselves into a force capable of driving a politics that sets the country back on the right path.
And with that, moderate independents will finally have a choice they can get behind.
Nancy Jacobson is the founder and CEO of No Labels, a political organization that supports centrist, bipartisan policies and politics. Reach her at nancyjacobson@nolabels.org. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2023/02/28/trump-vs-biden-2024-arizona-voters-want-bipartisanship-instead/69951483007/ | 2023-02-28 13:26:25 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2023/02/28/trump-vs-biden-2024-arizona-voters-want-bipartisanship-instead/69951483007/ |
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA and Boeing will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday, Aug. 25, to provide an update on the agency's Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) to the International Space Station – the first flight with astronauts on the company's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft.
Leadership on the call also will discuss data reviews from Boeing's uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2 to the space station, which successfully completed in May 2022.
The briefing participants are:
- Kathryn Lueders, associate administrator, NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
- Steve Stich, manager, NASA's Commercial Crew Program, NASA's Kennedy Space Center
- Mark Nappi, vice president and program manager, CST-100 Starliner, Boeing
To participate in the call, media must RSVP to: ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov no later than one hour prior to the start of the event. Audio of the teleconference will livestream on NASA's website.
CFT will demonstrate the ability of Starliner and the United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket to safely carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. NASA will fly two astronaut test pilots, Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Suni Williams, on the flight test to the space station, where they will live and work off the Earth for about two weeks.
Following a successful test flight with astronauts, NASA will begin the final process of certifying the Starliner spacecraft and systems for regular crew rotation flights to the space station.
Find out more about NASA's Commercial Crew Program at:
https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew
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NORWALK, Conn., Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Terex Corporation (NYSE: TEX) announced that Stacey Babson Kaplan has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Chief Sustainability and Compliance Officer of Terex Corporation, effective immediately. With this expansion of duties, she will add Sustainability to her longstanding role heading Ethics & Compliance for the Company. She serves on the Terex Executive Leadership Team and the Environmental, Social and Governance Executive Steering Committee, reporting to John L. Garrison, Jr., Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer.
"Stacey's new assignment acknowledges her significant and growing role in overseeing Terex's initiatives in ESG," Mr. Garrison said. "Terex has long been highly active in ESG activities, and Stacey is helping us take this commitment to an even higher level."
Ms. Babson Kaplan joined Terex in 2002 as Corporate Counsel, Human Resources Compliance. In 2005, she was appointed Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Employment & Global Diversity. She was named Vice President, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer in 2008.
She holds a Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and a Bachelor of Science degree from The Ohio State University.
About Terex
Terex is a global manufacturer of materials processing machinery and aerial work platforms. We design, build and support products used in construction, maintenance, manufacturing, energy, recycling, minerals and materials management applications. Certain Terex products and solutions enable customers to reduce their environmental impact including electric and hybrid offerings that deliver quiet and emission-free performance, products that support renewable energy, and products that aid in the recovery of useful materials from various types of waste. Our products are manufactured in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia and sold worldwide. We engage with customers through all stages of the product life cycle, from initial specification and financing to parts and service support.
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Video released publicly Friday shows the husband of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fighting with his assailant for control of a hammer moments before he was struck during a brutal attack in the couple’s San Francisco home last year.
The body-camera footage shows suspect David DePape wrest the tool from 82-year-old Paul Pelosi and lunge toward him with the hammer over his head. The blow to Pelosi occurs out of view of the camera and the officers — one of them cursing — rush into the house and jump on DePape.
Pelosi, apparently unconscious, can be seen lying face down on the floor in his pajama top and underwear. Officials later said he woke up in a pool of his own blood.
The release comes after a coalition of news agencies, including The Associated Press, sought access to the evidence that prosecutors played in open court last month. The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office had refused to make the exhibits available to journalists.
A state court judge Wednesday ruled there was no reason to keep the video secret.
The evidence includes portions of Paul Pelosi’s 911 call on Oct. 28, as well as video images from Capitol police surveillance cameras, a body camera worn by one of the two police officers who arrived at the house and a nearly 18-minute audio recording from DePape’s interview with police.
The Capitol Police video shows DePape walk up to a glass-panel door, leave and then return wearing a large backpack and carrying two other bags. He set all the items down and pulled out a hammer, pausing to put on gloves, and used it to smash the door glass so he could step through an opening.
DePape has pleaded not guilty in ongoing state and federal cases. He is being held in jail without bail. He faces charges including attempted murder, elder abuse, and assaulting an immediate family member of a federal official.
The San Francisco public defender’s office, which is representing DePape, 43, said they planned to issue a statement later Friday.
Members of Congress have faced a sharp rise in threats in the two years since the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
During the Jan. 6 attack, rioters chanted menacingly for the speaker as they rampaged through the halls trying to halt certification of Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in the presidential election. One man was convicted this week of eight criminal counts after he put his feet on a desk in Pelosi’s office and left a note to her punctuated with a sexist expletive.
Paul Pelosi was asleep at the couple’s home when DePape allegedly broke in. Nancy Pelosi was in Washington at the time and under the protection of her security detail, which does not extend to family members.
Her husband of nearly 60 years later underwent surgery to repair a skull fracture and serious injuries to his right arm and hands. He has since appeared in public wearing a hat and a glove that covered his wounds.
Nancy Pelosi on Thursday told reporters her husband’s well-being was paramount and she did not know if she would view the video once it was released.
“I don’t even know if I will see that,” she said. “I mean, it would be a very hard thing to see an assault on my husband’s life, but I don’t know.”
San Francisco Officer Kolby Wilmes’ body-camera video begins with officers approaching the brick home and rapping on the door. It takes about 20 seconds for the door to open and during that time, the officers discuss whether they have the right house.
When the door opens, Paul Pelosi says, “Hi, guys, how are you?”
Both men are facing the officers at the door. Initially, the hammer is in the shadows and it takes about five seconds before a flashlight shows DePape holding the handle of a hammer with his right hand and clutching Pelosi’s right hand, which is gripping around the hammer head, with his left hand. The struggle is not apparent in the first few seconds.
“What’s going on, man?” the officer asks.
“Everything’s good,” DePape replies.
“Drop the hammer,” the officer says.
DePape says no and begins to pull it from Pelosi’s grip. Pelosi says, “Hey, hey.”
DePape wins control of the hammer and winds up with his right and delivers a vicious overhand blow as Pelosi disappears out of view and officers rush in. The officers called for backup as they struggled with DePape and Pelosi was lying on the ground.
In an interview with San Francisco Police Lt. Carla Hurley after he was taken into custody, DePape said he didn’t regret the attack even though it was not on Nancy Pelosi, his intended target. DePape told Hurley he was going after Nancy Pelosi for lying to the American public and that he planned to hold her hostage for her crimes. He believed the discredited conspiracy that Democrats stole the 2020 election from Trump.
“Day in, day out, the person who was on the TV lying every day was Pelosi,” he said.
He said he planned to hold her hostage and would “break her kneecaps” if she lied.
He said he was surprised to find Paul Pelosi in the house. DePape said he planned to tie Paul Pelosi up so he could get some sleep, because carrying a heavy backpack to the home had tired him out.
When Hurley asked why DePape did not leave when he realized Nancy Pelosi wasn’t home and the police were on the way, he compared himself to the Founding Fathers.
“They fought the British, they fought the tyranny. They didn’t just (expletive) surrender to it. And when I left my house, I went to go fight tyranny, I did not leave to go surrender,” he said.
The U.S. Capitol Police investigated nearly 10,000 threats to members last year, more than twice the number from four years earlier.
Public officials across the U.S., from local school board members to election workers, have also endured harassment and intimidation.
This month, a former Republican candidate for a state House seat in New Mexico was arrested in a series of shootings targeting the homes or offices of elected Democratic officials and a Kansas man was convicted of threatening a GOP congressman.
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HANGZHOU and SHAOXING, China, Jan. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ascletis Pharma Inc. (HKEX: 1672, "Ascletis") was recently informed that on December 29, 2022, Viking Therapeutics, Inc. ("Viking"), a pharmaceutical company in the United States, filed certain complaints against Ascletis, its founder Dr. Jinzi Jason WU and certain subsidiaries of Ascletis in connection with the drug candidates ASC41 and ASC43F. One complaint was made with the United States International Trade Commission, Washington D.C. and another complaint was made with the United States District Court, Southern District of California, San Diego Division, each covering similar allegations (collectively, the "Complaints"). As of the date of this news, Viking has not yet served the Complaints on Ascletis or raised the relevant allegations with Ascletis before filing of the Complaints.
From the publicly available allegations of Viking set out in the Complaints, Ascletis believes that such allegations have no merit and will vigorously defend against the Complaints. ASC41 is an in-house developed oral tablet using Ascletis' own technologies and targeting thyroid hormone receptor beta (THRβ) for the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH); ASC43F is an in-house developed fixed-dose combination (FDC) oral tablet using Ascletis' own technologies and with dual targets of THRβ and farnesoid X receptor (FXR) for the treatment of NASH.
Ascletis will closely monitor the above legal proceedings, while the business and operations of Ascletis and its subsidiaries remain as usual and normal.
About Ascletis
Ascletis is an innovative R&D driven biotech listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (1672.HK), covering the entire value chain from discovery and development to manufacturing and commercialization. Led by a management team with deep expertise and a proven track record, Ascletis focuses on three therapeutic areas with unmet medical needs from a global perspective: viral diseases, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and oncology. Through excellent execution, Ascletis rapidly advances its drug pipeline with an aim of leading in global competition. To date, Ascletis has three marketed products, i.e. ritonavir tablets, GANOVO® and ASCLEVIR®, and 22 drug candidates in its R&D pipeline. The most advanced drug candidates include ASC22 (CHB functional cure), ASC10 and ASC11(oral small molecules for COVID-19 treatment), ASC40 (recurrent glioblastoma), ASC42 (PBC, primary biliary cholangitis), and ASC40 (acne).
For more information, please visit www.ascletis.com.
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Bp Zone Reviews - Zenith labs Bp Zone was created by Bryan Shelton. It is an all-natural blood pressure formula with saffron, hibiscus & garlic to support healthy blood pressure levels. Read more about dosage, side effects & benefits in this review.
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The BP Zone supplement is effective for everyone over 18, regardless of whether they are a man or a woman.
This in-depth review of BP Zone discusses everything there is to know about the supplement so that you can make an informed decision about whether or not it will work for you.
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Who is The Creator of BP Zone?
BP Zone was initially conceived and developed by Dr. Ryan Shelton who is a general care physician, and also works as the medical director of Zenith Labs.
Zenith Labs is a well-known producer and distributor of many health and wellness products, including the BP Zone supplement.
Dr. Shelton has a wealth of experience in both study and practice in family and natural medicine.
Over nearly two decades, he has been of assistance to thousands of men and women. In addition to his work as a clinician and researcher, Dr Shelton is also the author of many publications that have assisted many people, both male and female.
How Does BP Zone Work?
People who could benefit from having their blood pressure supported by a dietary supplement should consider BP Zone.
This supplement is beneficial for people with unstable blood pressure because it stabilizes it. Its operation of it is not particularly complicated.
The body takes in the constituents.
As the medication makes its way toward the arteries, it assists in the removal of plaque along the way.
When mixed, the herbs start releasing their anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects.
Both the synthesis of nitric oxide and the quality of platelets are improved as a result of this.
After each dose, the patient's blood circulation begins to improve gradually, which paves the road for the patient's heart to resume its normal function. After some time, the blood arteries will become more elastic and will begin to pump blood with greater vigor.
Because this is a natural substance, there is no risk of the body being subjected to any potentially harmful pollutants.
Because of this, customers who have utilized the product have not mentioned experiencing any apparent adverse effects.
BP Zone Unique Ingredients
BP Zone supplement is loaded with a wide variety of plant extracts and herbs. To guarantee the product's high quality and complete lack of risk, the makers put the supplement through rigorous testing at facilities in the United States that are GMP-certified.
They only use items of the highest possible quality and purity standards. Each ingredient contributes something unique to the overall dish.
It is essential to have a complete understanding of everything that they can offer. The following are some of the most critical ingredients of the BP Zone:
Hawthorn: Hawthorn, which is well-known for its anti-inflammatory ingredients, can encourage healthy blood flow into the heart. Because of this, the heart will have an easier time pumping the blood, and there will be less chance of inflammation in the veins. Because of this, it can be a helpful alternative for reviving blood circulation.
Garlic: This ingredient has a high concentration of alliin, a type of fiber that dissolves in water. They can reduce the platelets' adherence to one another and minimize oxidative stress. It also has the potential to lower blood pressure and make the blood thinner.
Arjuna: This ingredient, which can raise nitric oxide levels, can improve blood circulation and ensure that all organs remain in healthy working order.
Magnesium: This ingredient has been shown to reduce the likelihood of developing heart disease. However, the essential benefit is that it has the potential to lower blood pressure, which helps the body to remain in good condition.
L-Theanine: This ingredient is most commonly utilized as an immune booster; nevertheless, it is also capable of assisting in the control of inflammation inside the arteries. It helps prevent the cells from getting excessively irritated due to the inflammation.
Saffron: Saffron's many benefits are mainly unknown to the general public. This ingredient was utilized to create a significant number of traditional medicines. To begin with, it has the potential to reduce oxidative stress. After then, it might be able to regulate the blood pressure and assist the body in relaxing. These are some of the essential benefits of maintaining steady blood pressure.
Danshen: This ingredient has the potential to relax the veins and arteries, hence facilitating average blood circulation. Using Danshen in the supplement will bring about beneficial effects on the cardiovascular system.
CoQ10: This ingredient benefits the human body's skeletal muscles, connective tissues, and cells. In addition to this, there is a possibility that it energizes the system, making it more straightforward for people to fight off fatigue throughout the day.
Taurine: According to some reports, it has the potential to raise both the diastolic and systolic levels of blood pressure. Because of its antioxidant characteristics, it can also help strengthen the health of the cardiovascular system.
Ginger: Because of the anti-inflammatory and antioxidant supplements, it contains, it can reduce arterial pressure and shield the body from the harmful effects of oxidative stress. This is a powerful substance that also has the potential to make one's health better in general.
Calcium: In the absence of calcium, muscle health typically deteriorates. Because of this, it is a practical ingredient of the medication used to treat high blood pressure.
Berberine HCL: This ingredient, which is lauded for its wakefulness, can assist individuals in lowering their exhaustion and blood pressure. It might relax the arteries and make it easier for blood to circulate.
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Pros of BP Zone
BP Zone is a 100 percent natural supplement
BP Zone is GMO-free
BP Zone contains thirteen powerful naturally occurring supplements
BP Zone promotes healthier arteries and better management of blood pressure
BP Zone promotes healthy functioning of the immune system and the production of energy
BP Zone is produced in facilities that have received certification from the GMP
BP Zone proudly crafted here in the good old USA
Cons of BP Zone
BP Zone can only be purchased through their online store
Individuals using the BP Zone could experience varying levels of success with BP Zone
Ideal Dosage of BP Zone supplement
BP Zone is the perfect supplement for you if you are looking for natural ways to get rid of high blood pressure that does not cause side effects and is long-lasting.
Many people take the BP Zone supplement since they also desire to eliminate their risk of developing many cardiovascular problems.
The manufacturer recommends that you take one capsule twice a day, once in the morning and once at night.
Maintaining consistent use for at least one full year is required to obtain the full range of benefits available. Before using any dietary supplement, you must check in with your primary care provider if you have a history of health problems.
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For How Long Should One Take BP Zone?
No predetermined schedule must be followed to take the BP Zone supplement. According to the product's official website, the amount of time it takes for an individual to experience the supplement's effects vary.
Because individuals are distinct from one another, you must consider various aspects, including age, gender, nutrition, health, and supplement make-up, to name just a few.
Even though you might start to see some results after only a few days of taking the supplement, as a general rule of thumb, you should continue to take the supplement for at least an entire period of six months.
Pricing of BP Zone
30-day supply of BP Zone - $59
90-day supply of BP Zone - $135
180-day supply of BP Zone - $234
BP Zone Reviews – Final Verdict
BP Zone is an effective blood pressure supplement. It offers many advantages and might even be helpful in the long run.
The ingredients of the product are the product's most vital selling point. BP Zone utilizes a natural solution that is made up of ingredients that have been studied in clinical settings.
As a result, there won't be any unfavorable effects caused by it. In addition, if you are unhappy with the outcomes, you can request a refund at any time within 180 days of purchase. Therefore, there is nothing to lose but much to gain from this situation.
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(NEXSTAR) — Starting Wednesday, Subway is giving customers the chance to get 50% off sandwiches for one month starting Sept. 1 — but spots are limited. Here’s how it works.
The Subway Footlong Pass is $15 and will only be sold to 10,000 rewards members, Subway says. Pass holders will be able to get 50% off one footlong sub one time per day through September.
The average price for a footlong sub depends on toppings and locations.
Subway’s pass joins the likes of Taco Bell’s Taco Lover’s Pass, launched last year, which let users get one taco per day with a $5-$10 monthly subscription. Likely because they are often so hard to obtain, when fast food and fast casual chains announce subscription or unlimited passes they generate a lot of buzz.
Among the most famous restaurant passes is Olive Garden’s Never Ending Pasta Pass, which offers buyers nine weeks of unlimited pastas for $100. The sought-after item hasn’t been available since 2019, however.
Another legendary pass is McDonald’s Gold Card, which grants free food for life to the lucky few who managed to get their hands on one.
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LOS ANGELES, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Unilever PLC ("Unilever" or the "Company") (NYSE: UL).
Class Period: September 2, 2020 – July 21, 2021
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: August 15, 2022
If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss, click here to participate.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors: (1) that, in July 2020, Ben & Jerry's board passed a resolution to end sales of its ice cream in "Occupied Palestinian Territory"; (2) the risks attendant to the Ben & Jerry's board's decision; (3) the foregoing risked adverse governmental actions for violations of laws, executive orders, or resolutions aimed at discouraging boycotts, divestment, and sanctions of Israel adopted by 35 U.S. states; and (4) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Frank R. Cruz, of The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz, 1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1100, Los Angeles, California 90067 at 310-914-5007, by email to info@frankcruzlaw.com, or visit our website at www.frankcruzlaw.com. If you inquire by email please include your mailing address, telephone number, and number of shares purchased.
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AUSTIN, Minn., June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Jennie-O®, a beloved turkey brand known for its high-quality and flavorful products, is teaming up with Frances Largeman-Roth, RDN, to introduce a collection of innovative and mouthwatering turkey recipes that will elevate summer food adventures everywhere.
Largeman-Roth, a frequent contributor to today.com, is known for her expertise in crafting healthy and delicious meals. This summer, she is showcasing some of her favorite meals featuring Jennie-O® turkey, offering a lean and versatile protein source that is perfect for any summertime gathering or occasion.
"I love food trends! I'm always on the lookout for the latest food trends because consumers love to try them out in their own kitchens," Largeman-Roth said. "Many want to try hot new recipes, while still making healthy eating choices. Jennie-O® turkey is the ultimate ingredient for experimenting with trends while eating well. For example, the smash burger tacos are perfect with ground turkey. The ever-popular salad in a jar comes together so well with ground turkey and is an incredibly effective meal-planning tool. My favorite easy weeknight meal is ground-turkey sheet-pan nachos. You can't go wrong with using a lean protein as versatile as turkey! It fits in anywhere without sacrificing flavor."
- Turkey Nachos: Indulge in a fiesta of flavors with this vibrant twist on a classic. Dig into homemade tortilla chips topped with savory Jennie-O® ground turkey, fresh avocado, cilantro and jalapeños. Turkey nachos are kid friendly and ready in under 30 minutes! See Largeman-Roth make them on her Instagram, and get the full recipe at jennieo.com/recipes/turkey-nachos.
- Five-Minute Mediterranean Jar Salad: We've all seen the trendy salads in a jar. Now is your time to shine! This portable picnic pleasure is packed with veggies and protein and placed into a jar. This Five-Minute Mediterranean Salad is gluten free and a quick-and-easy salad treat. Learn how to make it at jennieo.com/recipes/five-minute-mediterranean-salad.
- Southwestern Turkey Sliders: These flavorful and delicious Southwestern turkey sliders are perfect for a weekend barbeque. Jennie-O® lean ground turkey topped with fresh lettuce, tomatoes, onion and avocado will have your friends and family asking for seconds. See how Largeman-Roth makes her sliders on her Instagram, and get the full recipe at jennieo.com/recipes/breakfast-turkey-bacon-roll-up.
- Spaghetti and Turkey Meatballs: These easy turkey meatballs are legendary. Elevate this classic recipe by using lean ground turkey, which boasts 65% less fat than beef. Add them to classic spaghetti, and you have a legendary spaghetti-and-turkey-meatballs meal.
- Breakfast Turkey-Bacon Roll-Up: Start your day with crispy turkey bacon, fresh cilantro, crunchy carrots and fluffy eggs wrapped in a soft flour tortilla for grab-and-go convenience. This breakfast turkey-bacon roll-up is ready in under 30 minutes: jennieo.com/recipes/breakfast-turkey-bacon-roll-up.
To access the full recipes, learn more about the versatility of Jennie-O® turkey, and see how we partnered with Frances Largeman-Roth, RDN, please visit jennieo.com/feasting-with-frances.
About Jennie-O Turkey Store
For over 80 years, the Jennie-O® brand has been helping consumers live well by eating well. As the category leader, Jennie-O® turkey is the trusted brand for quality turkey and a source of expertise. We provide a full portfolio of delicious, nutritious turkey proteins and inspiration for everyday meals or special occasions. Known for our bright green awning evoking the nostalgia of a local farmer stand, our round logo with a touch of yellow and our distinct name from our founders' daughter Jennifer, the Jennie-O® turkey brand has the right amount of small-town friendliness paired with leading company expertise and quality. For more information, visit jennieo.com.
About Hormel Foods — Inspired People. Inspired Food.™
Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL), based in Austin, Minn., is a global branded food company with over $12 billion in annual revenue across more than 80 countries worldwide. Its brands include Planters®, Skippy®, SPAM®, Hormel® Natural Choice®, Applegate®, Justin's®, Wholly®, Hormel® Black Label®, Columbus®, Jennie-O® and more than 30 other beloved brands. The company is a member of the S&P 500 Index and the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats, was named on the "Global 2000 World's Best Employers" list by Forbes magazine for three years, is one of Fortune magazine's most admired companies, has appeared on the "100 Best Corporate Citizens" list by 3BL Media 13 times, and has received numerous other awards and accolades for its corporate responsibility and community service efforts. The company lives by its purpose statement — Inspired People. Inspired Food.™ — to bring some of the world's most trusted and iconic brands to tables across the globe. For more information, visit hormelfoods.com.
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Reactions pour in across the sports world on third anniversary of Kobe Bryant's death
The 'Black Mamba' was an 18-time All-Star over a 20-year career
Thursday marks the three-year anniversary of the helicopter crash that killed Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others.
Bryant, nicknamed "Black Mamba," who was 41-years-old when he died, spent his entire 20-year NBA career in Los Angeles.
An 18-time All-Star, 15-time all-NBA player and 5-time champion, Bryant was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2021.
Reactions from around the sports world came flooding in as tribute to the NBA great.
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With a picture of a smiling Kobe and Gianna, the Lakers posted on Twitter, "Today and Forever."
Nice Kicks noted, "Jayson Tatum is wearing his Kobe Bryant Black Mamba-inspired Air Jordan 37 Low PE tonight for the anniversary of Kobe’s passing."
Daily Loud wrote, "On this day 3 years ago, we lost Kobe Bryant and GiGi Bryant. RIP."
With a video tribute to Bryant, Complex Spots posted, "Long live Kobe Bryant."
Aspen Sports & Society noted Kobe's passion for women in sports, "On the 3-year anniversary of Kobe Bryant's death, we remember Kobe's passion for helping kids access sports, especially girls like his daughter Gigi. "Women can make just as brilliant a crossover as a man can make."'
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Bryant is survived by wife Vanessa and their three daughters.
Along with Kobe and Gianna, other victims of the fatal crash in Calabasas, California, were Payton Chester, 13; Sarah Chester, 45; Alyssa Altobelli, 14; Keri Altobelli, 46; John Altobelli, 56; Christina Mauser, 38; and Ara Zobayan, 50.
The NBA has since named the All-Star Game MVP award after the man who first donned the #8 jersey before switching to #24.
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Super Bowl LVII field turns into a super slip and slide
GLENDALE, Ariz. - The field at State Farm Stadium turned into a Super Bowl slip and slide.
With the surface seeming to get worse as the night wore on, players from both teams had a hard time keeping their footing on Sunday, leading several to change their cleats during a game that ended with the Kansas City Chiefs’ dramatic 38-35 comeback win over the Philadelphia Eagles.
"It was like playing on a water park," Eagles left tackle Jordan Mailata said.
State Farm Stadium has a history of slippery fields.
Players complained about field conditions at the BCS National Championship between Oregon and Auburn in 2010. Same thing in the College Football Playoff title game between Alabama and Clemson in 2015. The Fiesta Bowl has had its share of grassy slipups as well.
The Super Bowl was no different — even after the NFL spent nearly two years preparing the field.
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes slipped while trying to make a cut, but was able to gain a few more yards. Kansas City receiver Skyy Moore lost his footing on a jet sweep and running back Isiah Pacheco even slipped during his celebration after scoring a touchdown.
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts and tight end Dallas Goedert were among the players who changed cleats to get better traction.
"I changed my cleats and right before the second half wore the different ones," Goedert said. "The second half, you know, the field was tearing up a little bit but, you know, once again, we’re playing on the same field as the Chiefs."
It’s not the first time this season Kansas City has had footing problems at State Farm Stadium.
In their season opener against the Arizona Cardinals, the Chiefs had all kinds of trouble with the playing surface.
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First-round pick Trent McDuffie, who had earned a starting job, injured his hamstring when he slipped and end up on injured reserve.
Kicker Harrison Butker also got injured when his plant foot slipped on a kickoff, forcing him to miss games and ultimately change his entire approach to kicking for the remainder of the season.
It happened again in the Super Bowl, though both teams felt the slippage.
"It’s not like we were playing on the on ice and they were playing on grass," Eagles coach Nick Sirianni said. "We all had to play on it, we all have to figure out our shoes."
The grass at State Farm Stadium is on a giant tray that is rolled in and out of the retractable roof stadium. The field sits out in the Arizona sun on warm days and is brought back inside when it gets cold.
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Report details SVB's work to contribute to a more just and sustainable world
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SVB, the financial partner of the innovation economy and parent of Silicon Valley Bank, today released its 2022 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report. The report details the company's commitments and strategies to help create a more just, equitable and sustainable world and reports on its programs and progress made throughout 2021.
"As the financial partner of the innovation economy, we support visionary companies and investors boldly addressing the biggest challenges of our time," said Greg Becker, president and CEO of SVB. "Our long history of serving this sector has enabled us to seize opportunities to build a better world, and this report highlights our efforts, progress and commitment to transparency and accountability."
SVB's ESG program centers on the positive impact its innovative clients make and is built around six strategic initiatives designed to support long-term sustainability for the company:
- Engaging and empowering employees,
- Building a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion at SVB,
- Championing inclusion in the innovation economy,
- Supporting its communities,
- Advancing the transition to a sustainable, low-carbon world, and
- Practicing responsible corporate governance.
Among the many ESG initiatives included in the report, highlights from 2021 are included below:
- $11.2 Billion Community Benefits Plan: SVB announced its $11.2 billion Community Benefits Plan that builds on the company's long-standing commitment to support small businesses, finance affordable housing, reinvest in low- and moderate-income (LMI) communities in Massachusetts and California, and support charitable causes via philanthropy and volunteering. The plan will be executed over a five-year period from January 2022 through December 2026, and includes several commitments:
- $5 Billion Sustainable Finance Commitment: SVB announced its commitment to provide at least $5 billion by 2027 in loans, investments and other financing to support clients' sustainability businesses; and the company has set a goal to achieve carbon-neutral operations by 2025. SVB's Sustainable Finance Commitment aims to support companies that are working to decarbonize the energy and infrastructure industries and hasten the transition to a sustainable, low-carbon, net-zero emissions economy.
- Building an Inclusive Workplace: SVB continued to build a workplace where all employees are connected, celebrated and supported. Among its major advancements, the company implemented a diverse candidate slate mandate for U.S. senior leadership roles to ensure hiring managers are interviewing and selecting from a diverse range of candidates; SVB launched an Inclusion Index survey to understand employees' experience to further strengthen its culture of inclusion; and the company introduced its first six Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) representing Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, LGBTQ+, veteran and military, and women employees.
SVB introduced measurable diversity goals for its senior leadership positions to strengthen hiring and talent development initiatives meant to create paths to professional advancement, especially for women, Black/African American and Hispanic/Latinx individuals. In 2022, SVB completed an employee assessment conducted by a third-party to advance its DEI mission, framework and strategy. SVB also publicly disclosed its 2020 EEO-1 and 2021 EEO-1 workforce demographics to promote transparency.
- Expanding Access to Innovation: Access to Innovation is SVB's signature program designed to advance inclusion and opportunity in the innovation economy, particularly for women, Black/African American and Hispanic/Latinx individuals. In 2021, SVB continued to expand the program, harnessing its resources, experience and connections to address key barriers that prevent underrepresented groups from succeeding in the innovation sector. SVB aims to reach 10,000 individuals annually with access to information, education and career opportunities.
- CRA Outstanding Rating: SVB earned an "Outstanding" rating from the Federal Reserve Bank for its 2018-2020 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) strategic plan.
- $18 Million in Charitable Giving: SVB donated $18 million to charitable causes in 2021, surpassing the company's annual Pledge 1% goal. Through the Pledge 1% corporate philanthropy pledge, SVB aspires to donate at least one percent of its net income to charitable causes annually.
"Using our resources and influence to help build strong communities and contribute to economic, social and environmental progress has always been core to our business," said Craig Robinson, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility. "We are proud of the progress we have made in recent years and our annual reporting will hold us accountable to continue to learn and improve."
SVB reports its ESG data using several disclosure frameworks, including the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Commercial Bank Sector Standard and the World Economic Forum's Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics (WEF), in addition to separately responding to the Financial Stability Board's Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and CDP. The environmental data in the report has been verified by Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance (LRQA).
To learn more about SVB's ESG work, visit svb.com/about-us/living-our-values.
About SVB
SVB is the financial partner of the innovation economy, helping individuals, investors and the world's most innovative companies achieve their ambitious goals. SVB's businesses - Silicon Valley Bank, SVB Capital, SVB Private and SVB Securities - together offer the services that dynamic and fast-growing clients require as they grow, including commercial banking, venture investing, wealth planning and investment banking. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, SVB operates in centers of innovation around the world. Learn more at svb.com/global. [SIVB-C]
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President and CSO Todd Asmuth to present about demand and supply of medical isotopes
JANESVILLE, Wis., July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SHINE Technologies, LLC, a next-generation fusion technology company, today announced that Todd Asmuth, president and chief strategy officer of SHINE, will give an invited panel presentation during the 11th International Conference on Isotopes from July 23-27 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
On Thursday, July 27, Asmuth will present "Demand and Supply of Medical Isotopes" alongside other industry leaders and members of parliament.
The International Conference on Isotopes, typically held every other year since 1995, is organized by the World Council on Isotopes and a participating organization to highlight the importance of nuclear science, medicine and technology in advancing human health and the protection of the environment.
"Nuclear medicine, and global access to it, has never been more important than it is right now. The results from treatments and trials are exciting for cancer patients, but there is not enough consistent supply of isotopes," Asmuth said. "We are dedicated to applying our technologies to improve the supply chain, including producing high-quality and high-volume medical isotopes and our plan to become the first vertically integrated supplier of lutetium-177."
SHINE is deploying and scaling fusion technology in a four-phased approach to solve today's problems in medicine, manufacturing and nuclear waste recycling, with the final goal of achieving safe, clean, abundant fusion energy. In its second phase, SHINE is creating critical medical isotopes used to diagnose and treat life-threatening diseases in patients across the globe.
SHINE is opening the largest facility in North America dedicated to the production of non-carrier-added lutetium-177, a medical isotope being used in targeted cancer therapies. Additionally, SHINE announced that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued its final Safety Evaluation Report related to the operating license of its large-scale, fusion-driven medical isotope production facility. Once online, the facility—named the Chrysalis—will produce and commercially launch molybdenum-99, which is relied on for more than 40 million medical procedures annually to diagnose heart disease, cancer and other diseases.
About SHINE Technologies
Based in Janesville, Wisconsin, SHINE deploys its safe, cost-effective and environmentally friendly fusion technology in a stepwise approach. Its systems are used to inspect industrial components in aerospace, defense, energy and other sectors. SHINE's proprietary medical isotope production processes create non-carrier-added lutetium-177 and are expected to create molybdenum-99. In the future, SHINE plans to scale its fusion technology to help solve one of energy's toughest hurdles by recycling nuclear waste. Through a purpose-driven and phased approach, SHINE aims to generate fusion power to deliver clean, abundant energy that could transform life on Earth. SHINE Technologies LLC, Phoenix LLC and SHINE Europe B.V. are all wholly owned subsidies of Illuminated Holdings, Inc. Want to learn more about SHINE? Visit www.shinefusion.com and follow us @shinefusion.
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MOAPA VALLEY, Nev. (KTNV) — People were left stranded in floodwaters south of Las Vegas, Nevada, Wednesday morning.
At approximately 1:30 a.m., the Moapa Valley Fire District (MVFD) received reports of two incidents where people were trapped in their vehicles in flood waters.
Arriving crews found a semi-truck that was stuck in flood water near State Route 168 at the Overton Wash Crossing. Firefighters say the driver was unable to get out of the vehicle due to flood waters rushing by his truck. MVFD swift water crews were able to reach the driver and bring them to safety.
The second incident occurred south of the first incident, in which arriving crews found a van with two people trapped inside by flood water that had risen to the windows. Due to the rushing waters and lack of access by swift water rescue members, a helicopter was called in to assist.
A crew was able to successfully hoist the two people from their vehicle to safety.
No one was injured during either incident.
State Route 169, south of Overton, will be closed until further notice while crews clean up the roads and remove the trapped vehicles.
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Jury deliberates in Kevin Spacey’s sexual assault trial in London
LONDON (AP) — Jurors in the sexual assault trial of Kevin Spacey retired to begin deliberations on Monday on allegations against the actor by four men that date back two decades.
Spacey, 63, has pleaded not guilty to nine charges, including multiple counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.
The case went to the jury about a month after the nine men and three women were seated in Southwark Crown Court.
Spacey’s defense lawyer said during closing arguments last week that three of the men are liars and he suggested jurors not convict him for making a “clumsy pass” at a fourth man.
The prosecutor called Spacey a “sexual bully” who took advantage of his power as a major celebrity and took what he wanted when he wanted it.
The acts alleged between 2001 and 2013 range from unwanted touching to aggressive crotch-grabbing and, in one instance, performing oral sex on an unconscious man.
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The 2023 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship Odds & Preview: Amy Yang
Amy Yang is in 44th place, at +2, after the first round of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship at Baltusrol GC.
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Amy Yang Insights
- Over her last 15 rounds, Yang has shot better than par on eight occasions, while also carding one bogey-free round and 10 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- She has recorded a top-five score once and a top-10 score four times in her last 15 rounds.
- Over her last 15 rounds, Yang has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round five times, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on six occasions.
- In her past five tournaments, Yang has finished in the top five once.
- The past five times she has played a tournament, she's made the cut four times.
- Yang has finished with a score better than the tournament average in two of her past five appearances, including one finish within three shots of the leader.
- Yang will attempt to prolong her streak of made cuts to four by qualifying for the weekend again.
Over the last year
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KPMG Women’s PGA Championship Insights and Stats
- Yang finished 44th in her only finish at this event in two visits.
- Yang made the cut in one of her past two entries in this event.
- Yang last competed at this event in 2023 and finished 44th.
- The par-71 course measures 6,621 yards this week, which is 394 yards shorter than the average Tour stop during the past 12 months.
- Yang will take to the 6,621-yard course this week at Baltusrol GC after having played courses with an average length of 6,575 yards in the past year.
Yang's Last Time Out
- Yang finished in the 22nd percentile on the 20 par-3 holes at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give, with an average of 3.10 strokes.
- Her 3.84-stroke average on the 32 par-4 holes at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give was strong, putting her in the 98th percentile of the field.
- Yang shot better than 100% of the field at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give on the tournament's 20 par-5 holes, averaging 4.25 strokes per hole compared to the field average, which was 4.63.
- Yang fared the same as the field average on par-3 holes in the last time out, carding a birdie or better on two of 20 par-3s at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give.
- On the 20 par-3s at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give, Yang recorded four bogeys or worse (the field averaged 2.1).
- Yang's seven birdies or better on the 32 par-4s at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give were more than the tournament average (3.0).
- In that last tournament, Yang's par-4 showing (on 32 holes) included a bogey or worse one time (better than the field's average, 4.8).
- Yang ended the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give with a birdie or better on 14 of the 20 par-5s, more than the tournament average of 6.4.
- The field at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give averaged 1.1 bogeys or worse on the 20 par-5s, but Yang finished without one.
KPMG Women’s PGA Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: June 22-25, 2023
- Course: Baltusrol GC
- Location: Springfield, New Jersey
- Par: 71 / 6,621 yards
- Yang Odds to Win: +6600 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 21, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albany NY
410 PM EDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northeastern Warren
and northern Washington Counties through 445 PM EDT...
At 410 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Eagle Point Campground, or 13 miles north of Warrensburg, moving east
at 40 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and heavy rain.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Heavy rains could cause flooding.
Locations impacted include...
Hague, Rogers Rock Campground, Eagle Point Campground, Scaroon Manor
Public Campground, Chestertown, Huletts Landing, Putnam, Wright,
Chipman Point, Starbuckville, Putnam Station, Pottersville, Snody
Dock, Sabbath Day Point, South Horicon, Adirondack, Riverbank,
Chipmans Point, Ottenburgs Ramp and North Bolton.
This includes Interstate 87 between exits 24 and 26.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 800 PM EDT for
east central New York.
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4357 7339 4362 7337 4363 7330 4358 7330
4357 7327 4356 7325 4358 7383 4376 7388
4381 7338
TIME...MOT...LOC 2010Z 260DEG 34KT 4371 7373
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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Border Patrol agent dies in ATV accident during Texas patrol
MISSION, Texas (AP) — A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent died Wednesday after an all-terrain vehicle accident while patrolling along the border in south Texas, according to the agency.
The accident happened about 1 a.m. near Mission, Texas, along the border with Mexico, Customs and Border Patrol said in a statement. The agent was tracking a group of people who had crossed the border illegally.
Fellow agents found the man unresponsive, began life-saving efforts and called for an ambulance, the statement said. The agent died at a hospital.
“The death of an Agent who died while securing our nation’s border is a tremendous loss for our organization and our nation, our prayers are with his family and co-workers during this difficult time,” said U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz in the statement.
The agency did not release the identity of the agent and declined further comment.
The Texas-Mexico border has seen multiple deadly accidents in recent years stemming from immigration-related pursuits.
In June, four migrants died and three other people were injured after a Jeep being pursued by Border Patrol agents crashed into the back of a tractor-trailer on the interstate near the Texas border city of Encinal.
In January, Texas Department of Public Safety Special Agent Anthony Salas died after being involved in a single vehicle traffic accident near Eagle Pass while working with U.S. Border Patrol to transport six people who had illegally immigrated to the U.S.
Last year, an Austin man was charged in the deaths of eight migrants after a deadly crash near the border city of Del Rio following a police chase.
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(KHON) — What are your top airplane passenger pet peeves? According to one study, rear seat kickers and disruptive drunks are Americas most annoying co-passengers.
The Vacationer came out with their study on airplane etiquette and what drives people crazy, especially on long flights. The survey, taken by 1,098 Americans, asked them to rank 16 in-flight behaviors that are often decried on social media.
The timing for the survey couldn’t have been better, as passenger behavior has never been worse.
During the pandemic, incidents involving unruly passengers skyrocketed with the number of FAA investigations in 2019 jumping from 146 to 183 in 2020, and then to a whopping 1099 in 2021. As of September 20, the FAA has already launched 680 investigations in 2022.
Two incidents from 2021 resulted in the FAA handing down it’s largest fines ever – $81,950 to a North Carolina-bound traveler accused of assaulting a flight attendant and trying to open a cabin door. In the second incident, a female passenger allegedly tried to hug and kiss the passenger next to her while flying from Las Vegas to Atlanta. She was also accused of walking to the front of the aircraft and trying to de-plane during the flight.
Top 10 annoying plane etiquette violations by passengers
- Kicking the back of your seat
- Drunk and disruptive
- Smells from poor hygiene
- Inattentive parents
- Eating foul-smelling food
- Hogs the armrest
- Reclines seat fully in front of you
- Talks to you too much
- Boards or deplanes out of turn
- Listens to music or movies too loudly
It’s always a good idea to think about others when on a flight. For example, making sure you bring headphones when listening to music, not bringing on smelly food, especially on long flights and not talking too loud when the cabin lights are off and people are trying to sleep.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — The Pima County Sheriff's Department is in search of a missing vulnerable 91-year-old woman.
The woman is identified as Juanita Ghorm.
She was last seen around 3 p.m., Tuesday Aug. 16 near 2600 block of West Calle del Santo.
Ghorm is described as a 5 foot woman with brown eyes, gray hair, and wear a hair bonnet.
If located, please call 911.
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LOS ANGELES -- Tens of thousands of workers in the Los Angeles Unified School District walked off the job Tuesday over stalled contract talks, and they were joined by teachers in a three-day strike that shut down the nation's second-largest school system.
Demonstrations began at a bus yard by members of Local 99 of the Service Employees International Union, which represents about 30,000 teachers' aides, special education assistants, bus drivers, custodians, cafeteria workers and other support staff.
The workers joined picket lines in a steady rain before dawn, demanding better wages and increased staffing. Some held signs that read "We keep schools safe, Respect Us!" The district has more than 500,000 students from Los Angeles and all or part of 25 other cities and unincorporated county areas.
Leaders of United Teachers Los Angeles, the union representing 35,000 educators, counselors and other staff, pledged solidarity with the strikers.
"These are the co-workers that are the lowest-paid workers in our schools and we cannot stand idly by as we consistently see them disrespected and mistreated by this district," UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz told a news conference.
Myart-Cruz was joined by U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat and U.S. Senate candidate, who said the strikers were earning "poverty wages."
"People with some of the most important responsibilities in our schools should not have to live in poverty," Schiff said.
On the picket lines, Danielle Murray, a special education assistant, told KABC-TV working conditions have been been declining every year.
"We're very understaffed," Murray said. "The custodial staff is a ghost crew, so the schools are dirty. They're doing the best they can."
She added, "Some people are saying, 'If you want more money, get a better job.' Well, some of us have bachelor's degrees, but we choose to work with a special population that some people don't want to work with. We want to make a difference to these students."
Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho accused the union of refusing to negotiate and said that he was prepared to meet at any time day or night. He said Monday a "golden opportunity" to make progress was lost.
"I believe this strike could have been avoided. But it cannot be avoided without individuals actually speaking to one another," he said.
Local 99 said Monday evening that it was in discussions with state labor regulators over allegations that the district engaged in misconduct that has impeded the rights of workers to engage in legally protected union-related activities.
"We want to be clear that we are not in negotiations with LAUSD," the union said in a statement. "We continue to be engaged in the impasse process with the state."
Those talks would not avoid a walkout, the statement said.
During the strike, about 150 of the district's more than 1,000 schools are expected to remain open with adult supervision but no instruction, to give students somewhere to go. Dozens of libraries and parks, plus some "grab and go" spots for students to get lunches also planned to be open to kids to lessen the strain on parents now scrambling to find care.
"Schools are so much more than centers of education - they are a safety net for hundreds of thousands of Los Angeles families," Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement Monday. "We will make sure to do all we can to provide resources needed by the families of our city."
Workers, meanwhile, said striking was the only option they had left.
Instructional aide Marlee Ostrow, who supports the strike, said she's long overdue for a raise. The 67-year-old was hired nearly two decades ago at $11.75 an hour, and today she makes about $16. That isn't enough to keep pace with inflation and rising housing prices, she said, and meanwhile her duties have expanded from two classrooms to five.
Ostrow blames the district's low wages for job vacancies that have piled up in recent years.
"There's not even anybody applying because you can make more money starting at Burger King," she said. "A lot of people really want to help kids, and they shouldn't be penalized for wanting that to be their life's work."
The union says district support staffers earn, on average, about $25,000 per year and many live in poverty because of low pay or limited work hours while struggling with inflation and the high cost of housing in LA County. The union is asking for a 30% raise. Teachers want a 20% pay hike over two years.
Carvalho said the district has offered a wage increase totaling more than 20% over a multiyear period, along with a 3% bonus. In addition, the deal would include a "massive expansion of healthcare benefits," the superintendent told Fox 11 on Monday.
The strike has wide support among union members.
SEIU members have been working without a contract since June 2020, while the contract for teachers expired in June 2022. The unions decided last week to stop accepting extensions to their contracts.
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Pfizer asked U.S. regulators Monday to expand use of its updated COVID-19 booster shot to children ages 5 to 11.
Elementary school-aged children already received kid-sized doses of Pfizer’s original vaccine, a third of the dose given to everyone 12 and older — two primary shots plus a booster.
If the Food and Drug Administration agrees, they would start getting a kid-sized dose of the new omicron-targeted formula when it was time for their booster.
FDA vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks said last week he expected a decision on boosters for that age group soon.
Pfizer and its partner BioNTech also announced a new study of the omicron-focused booster in even younger children, those ages 6 months through 4 years, to test different doses.
Updated boosters made by both Pfizer and rival Moderna rolled out earlier this month for everyone 12 and older. They’re a tweak to vaccines that already have saved millions of lives — a combination or “bivalent” shot that contains half the original recipe and half protection against the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron relatives responsible for most of today’s COVID-19 cases.
The hope is that the modified boosters will help tamp down continuing COVID-19 cases and blunt another winter surge. As of last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 4.4 million Americans had gotten an updated booster so far. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/pfizer-seeks-to-expand-omicron-targeted-booster-shot-to-kids-5-11/ | 2022-09-26 15:50:57 | 1 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/pfizer-seeks-to-expand-omicron-targeted-booster-shot-to-kids-5-11/ |
Prosecutors want 25-year sentence in Texas protest killing
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors are seeking at least 25 years in prison for a U.S. Army sergeant who fatally shot an armed man during a Black Lives Matter protest in Texas, saying his history of racist and provocative texts and social media posts expose a threat of violence likely to resurface.
Daniel Perry, 36, is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday. He was convicted of murder in April for killing Garrett Foster during the downtown Austin protest in July 2020.
On Tuesday, prosecutors submitted into evidence dozens of texts and social media posts Perry wrote, shared or liked, including some shockingly racist images. They had been excluded from Perry’s trial, but were publicly released after his conviction and allowed into the sentencing phase by District Judge Clifford Brown.
Prosecutor Guillermo Gonzalez urged Brown to issue a sentence of at least 25 years. The sentencing range for the murder conviction is five years to life in prison.
“This man is a loaded gun, ready to go off at any perceived threat,” Gonzalez said. “He’s going to do it again.”
Perry said he acted in self-defense. His lawyers asked the judge to consider his more than a decadelong military career and hand down a sentence of no more than 10 years.
Perry is assigned to Fort Wainwright, Alaska, but has been classified as in “civilian confinement” and is pending separation from the military, Army spokesman Bryce Dubee said.
Perry, who is white, was working as a ride-share driver in downtown Austin on July 25, 2020, when he shot and killed 28-year-old Foster, an Air Force veteran. Foster, who was also white, was legally carrying an AK-47 rifle as he participated in the demonstration against police killings and racial injustice, following the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white Minneapolis police officer.
Among Perry’s statements introduced Tuesday, he wrote on Facebook a month before the shooting: “It is official I am a racist because I do not agree with people acting like animals at the zoo.”
Floyd was killed on May 25, 2020. A few days later as protests erupted, Perry sent a text message to an acquaintance: “I might go to Dallas to shoot looters.”
Perry attorney Douglas O’Connell argued that the texts and posts were presented by prosecutors out of context, and that Perry has a right to free speech.
“Some of those social media posts are frankly repugnant,” O’Connell said, while classifying others as “dark humor.”
Forensic psychologist Greg Hupp testified that he believed Perry has post-traumatic stress disorder from his deployment to Afghanistan and being bullied as a child. Perry’s mother, Rachel Perry, testified that he was ostracized as a child because of a speech impediment.
Perry’s conviction prompted outrage from prominent conservatives, and Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has said he will sign a pardon once a recommendation from the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles — stacked with Abbott appointees — hits his desk
The board is reviewing Perry’s case on the governor’s orders, but it is unclear when it will reach a decision.
Perry was stationed at Fort Hood, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) north of Austin, when the shooting happened. He had just dropped off a ride-share customer and turned onto a street filled with protesters.
Perry said he was trying to get past the crowd and fired his pistol when Foster pointed a rifle at him. Witnesses testified that they did not see Foster raise his weapon, and prosecutors argued that Perry could have driven away without shooting.
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THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – A lawsuit filed Thursday by 25 Texas cities claims that Disney, Hulu and Netflix have for years stiffed the cities out of dollars the streaming giants are required to pay under state law — and now cities are coming to collect.
Austin, Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth are among the cities that sued the streaming services in Dallas County to recover money they say they has been owed since 2007 and to require the services to pay each year going forward. Under state law, the services have to pay cities a franchise fee — which traditional cable providers also pay — in exchange for using communication lines over public rights of way to transmit their services into homes.
As more people abandon cable subscriptions in favor of streaming services, cities have lost franchise fee revenue — money that goes to fund city services like police and fire protection as well as roads, parks and libraries.
Cities haven’t made up that revenue with fees from streaming services, said Steven Wolens, a former Texas lawmaker and lead attorney for the cities. Even though state law classifies them as video service providers that must pay the fees, the major streamers haven’t paid cities a dime, Wolens said.
“They should have been paying this fee from the very beginning,” Wolens said. “Shame on them because they are using the public right of way that every other company pays the city to use.”
Exactly how much the streaming giants owe Texas cities isn’t known, Wolens said. For a smaller city, the losses could number in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, he said. For a larger city, that figure could be in the millions.
Other Texas cities that joined the lawsuit are Abilene, Allen, Amarillo, Arlington, Beaumont, Carrollton, Denton, Frisco, Garland, Grand Prairie, Irving, Lewisville, McKinney, Mesquite, Nacogdoches, Pearland, Plano, Rowlett, Sugar Land, Tyler and Waco.
The cities are seeking funds dating to when the services launched — Netflix in 2007, Hulu in 2008 and Disney+, The Walt Disney Co.’s streaming service, in late 2019. Their subscriber bases number in the tens of millions worldwide, with Netflix on top with more than 220 million subscribers.
Representatives for Disney, Hulu and Netflix did not immediately return requests for comment.
This story originally appeared in The Texas Tribune.
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Rapper Desiigner charged with indecent exposure on plane
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The rapper Desiigner was charged Monday with one federal count of indecent exposure on an aircraft, after authorities say he masturbated on a flight from Tokyo to Minneapolis.
The misdemeanor filed against the rapper, whose real name is Sidney Royel Selby III, is punishable by no more than 90 days of imprisonment and a $500 fine.
The charges came just days after he announced in a tweet Thursday that he was “ashamed” about what happened on the plane, that he was admitting himself to a facility to get help and was canceling all his shows.
“Mental health,” he wrote, “is real guys.” No attorney is listed for him in online court records.
The criminal complaint said a flight attendant first spotted Selby exposing himself about 60 to 90 minutes into the April 17 Delta flight. He covered himself, but five minutes later, two flight attendants spotted Selby masturbating. Again he was told “No” and covered himself, the complaint said.
The lead flight attendant then came to Selby’s first-class seat and said that he was going to be arrested. But a short time later, a flight attendant spotted Selby exposing himself a third time.
Selby then was moved to the back of the plane, where two travel companions agreed to monitor him. There, he told his security guard that he was “bugging,” had “messed up” and was “sorry,” the complaint said
Selby apologized to the air crew at the end of the flight and then was detained.
When questioned by the FBI, Selby said he “didn’t get much” in Japan and found one of the flight attendants attractive so he exposed himself.
Selby said in his tweet that he had been admitted to a hospital while performing oversees and given meds. The complaint, however, said he told the FBI that he had not taken that medication before exposing himself. Asked whether he was under the influence, Selby said “no,” and the FBI agent who questioned him said he didn’t appear impaired.
In 2016, Selby was arrested after another driver claimed that he waved a handgun while exiting a tunnel connecting Manhattan and New Jersey. But the gun charge was dropped.
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Kids love to do things on repeat. The same books read over and over, the same games, the same questions. It can be exhausting for parents, but researchers say repetition is key to childhood learning.
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Kids love to do things on repeat. The same books read over and over, the same games, the same questions. It can be exhausting for parents, but researchers say repetition is key to childhood learning.
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Former Arizona Cardinals coach Vince Tobin has died at 79
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Vince Tobin, who coached the Arizona Cardinals to their first playoff win in 51 years in 1998, has died. He was 79.
The Cardinals said Tobin died Monday morning at his Arizona home.
“Our deepest condolences go out to everyone who knew and loved Vince Tobin, and in particular his wife Kathy and their family,” Cardinals owner Michal Bidwill said in a statement. “As head coach of the Cardinals, his steady leadership was a constant and a big part of the success the team enjoyed during his tenure.”
Tobin was hired in 1996 to replace Buddy Ryan and took over a team that had future Hall of Fame defensive back Aeneas Williams and quarterback Jake Plummer.
The Cardinals made the playoffs for the first time since 1982 by winning their final three games of the 1998 season and beat the Dallas Cowboys for their first postseason win since 1948.
Tobin went 28-43 in four seasons as Arizona’s coach.
Born in Burlington Junction, Missouri, Tobin played defensive back at the University of Missouri and served as his alma mater’s defensive coordinator from 1971-76.
After stints in the Canadian Football League and USFL, Tobin was the Chicago Bears’ defensive coordinator from 1986-92. He also was Indianapolis’ defensive coordinator from 1995-96 and coached at Detroit and Green Bay following his tenure in Arizona.
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The order is up for audiences who have been hungry for a "Good Burger" sequel.
Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell have confirmed that "Good Burger 2" is coming.
The order is up for audiences who have been hungry for a "Good Burger" sequel.
Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell have confirmed that "Good Burger 2" is coming.
The pair broke the news recently with an appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon."
In the show's opening, Fallon greets Thompson before Mitchell appears in character as "Ed." That causes Fallon to get in on the fun with a "Good Burger" costume before the three inform the audience to "Welcome to Good Burger 2."
During an interview with Fallon, the late-night host pointed out that it's been more than 25 years since the original "Good Burger" film was released.
The 1997 film was based on a comedy sketch about a fast food restaurant from Nickelodeon's "All That," with Thompson as Dexter and Mitchell as Ed.
It's such a blessing man. It's unbelievable," Thompson told Fallon. "We're gonna shoot it this summer and it'll be out soon."
The plot from the new film involves Dexter Reed "down on his luck after another one of his inventions fails," according to a press release for the project.
"Ed welcomes Dex back to Good Burger with open arms and gives him his old job back," according to the plot line. "With a new crew working at Good Burger, Dex devises a plan to get back on his feet but unfortunately puts the fate of Good Burger at risk once again."
Thompson said in a statement, "I can't believe it's been a little over 25 years since great customer service was born at Good Burger!"
"Being a part of something so many generations of people have come to love has made me so proud and now to be back where it all began working on the sequel is surreal!," he said. "Love performing with my brother Kel and can't wait to show the fans what these characters have been up to since we last saw them."
Mitchell added to that with a statement of his own.
"Ed is one of those timeless characters that has brought so much joy and laughter to fans, and it's such a beautiful blessing to still be doing it after all these years," he said. "It's super awesome to come back and continue the stories of Dex, Ed and Good Burger for both the people who grew up watching and their kids."
"Good Burger 2" is slated to stream later this year on Paramount+.
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Hearse carrying body for donations teeters over 100-foot embankment
Published: Jan. 30, 2023 at 2:50 PM MST|Updated: 43 minutes ago
SILVERTHORNE, Colo. (Gray News) – A hearse carrying a body for medical donation was left teetering over a 100-foot-high embankment in Colorado, leaving first responders in a sticky situation.
According to Summit Fire & EMS, the hearse was traveling on Interstate 70 at 3 a.m. Friday in Silverthorne, close to Breckenridge.
Investigators said the hearse slid off the interstate and came to a rest teetering off the embankment.
First responders said the driver declined medical attention.
It’s unclear how first responders were able to pull the hearse and body to safety, but they praised the person’s decision to be a medical donor.
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SHENZHEN, China, May 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Yadea(01585.HK), the leading electric vehicle manufacturer, announces the launch of Yadea KS6 Pro electric scooter on its direct-to-consumer (DTC) website. The KS6 Pro is the latest addition to Yadea's range of high-quality, eco-friendly and stylish electric vehicles, aimed at urban commuters who are environmentally conscious and value convenience, style and fun.
The Perfect E-Scooter for Summer
As part of Yadea's commitment to bringing its quality selection to global customers, the KS6 Pro is the first model to be launched on DTC website, to celebrate the arrival of summer and the desire for outdoor activities. Urban commuters and outdoor enthusiasts can now continue their adventure with a ride on KS6 Pro in the summer atmosphere.
A Powerful and Sturdy Scooter
Yadea KS6 Pro is powered by a 500W brushless DC motor with a peak power output of 800W, providing a top speed of 30 km/h (18.6mph) in accordance with the regulation, and an impressive range of up to 55km (34miles) on a single charge. The scooter is designed to be corrosion-resistant and built to last, which has undergone 43 rigorous durability tests for long-lasting performance.
A Smooth and Safe Riding Experience
In addition to its high performance, Yadea KS6 Pro stands out for its exceptional safety and comfort. Yadea KS6 Pro features a smooth ride suspension system, with a dual shock-absorbing fork and 10-inch self-healing tubeless tires to reduce bumps and vibrations on the road for comfortable travel over rough terrain. With a polymer memory coating sprayed inside the tire, any steel nails or sharp objects with a diameter of ≤ 3mm poking through the tread are quickly covered, and the hole can be instantly plugged. This eliminates the risk of tire deflation, blowouts, and other safety hazards.
The scooter has a triple braking system (Front drum brake and rear disc brake + electric brake) for faster and stable braking with a response time of 0.1s and a braking distance of < 4.4m (14ft). The scooter also comes with intelligent controls and a Bluetooth app for easy navigation.
Yadea KS6 Pro is available in America and will be introduced to the rest of the world. Stay tuned for more updates and check out more information about KS6 Pro at https://store.yadea.com/products/ks6-pro-folding-electric-scooter
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NEW YORK, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for CCL, EDU, EVFM, LI, and EVTL.
To see how InvestorsObserver's proprietary scoring system rates these stocks, view the InvestorsObserver's PriceWatch Alert by selecting the corresponding link.
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- LI: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=LI&prnumber=071820225
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WEST ALLIS, Wis. (WFRV) – Ludacris will perform on Friday, August 11 at this year’s Wisconsin State Fair.
According to the Wisconsin State Fair, the rapper and actor will perform at the State Fair Main Stage on Friday, August 11. Ludacris is known for his hits “What’s Your Fantasy,” “Money Maker,” “Act a Fool,” and “My Chick Bad.”
The show will start at 7:30 p.m., kicking off with the opener Symba, a rookie rapper who released his latest album in 2022, Results Take Time. The project featured guest appearances from Pusha T, Roddy Ricch, and 2 Chainz.
Tickets went on sale on June 9 at 10 a.m., with prices set at $40, $45, and $50. The Main Stage will start seating at 6:30 pm. The Wisconsin State Fair says those who purchase tickets before entering the Fair will also get free admission to the State Fair on the day of the show.
The Wisconsin State Fair in West Allis runs from August 3 through 13. More information on the Ludacris performance can be found on the State Fair website. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/ludacris-to-headline-the-wisconsin-state-fair-main-stage-tickets-on-sale-now/ | 2023-06-09 17:17:18 | 1 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/ludacris-to-headline-the-wisconsin-state-fair-main-stage-tickets-on-sale-now/ |
Extremely rapid transition to traditional El Nino is underway in the Equatorial Pacific. Also, extreme, intense upper ridge with record heat & drought in Argentina & southern Chile is bringing extremely warm surface waters to both South American coasts.
It all implies we are in rapid acceleration into El Nino from a 3-year La Nina.
In the past 7 days, surface water temperatures in the eastern Equatorial Pacific have gone up by as much as 3C! That is very impressive!
Note the blossoming of abnormally warm waters in the eastern Equatorial Pacific & how the below normal temperatures are shifting way, way west. You can also see the well-above normal (temperature-wise) waters off the southern Pacific & Atlantic South American coasts.
50s today (west-northwest to northwest winds 15-32 mph) will give way to 30s tonight, followed by increasing clouds Tuesday. Winds will increase Tuesday as well.
South-southeast winds will increase to 20-40 mph with highs in the 50s. A few showers are possible late.
A couple waves of showers will pass Tuesday night with howling south-southwest winds gusting 40-48 mph at times. Lows will only run 50-53.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose last week but remains low by historic standards.
U.S. jobless claims rose by 5,000 to 245,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
The four-week moving average of claims, which evens out week-to-week ups and downs, fell by 500 to 239,750. At the start of the year, weekly claims were running around 200,000 and they have gradually moved higher.
Overall, 1.866 million people were collecting unemployment benefits the week that ended April 8, up from 1.80 million the previous week and from 1.53 million a year earlier.
The weekly claims numbers are a proxy for layoffs, and they show that American workers enjoy unusual job security despite rising interest rates, economic uncertainty and fears of a looming recession.
The U.S. job market is healthy overall. At 3.5% last month, the unemployment was a tick above January’s half-century low 3.4%. Employers added 236,000 jobs in March, down from 472,000 in January and 326,000 in February but still strong by historic standards.
The inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve worry that a tight job market puts upward pressure on wages — and on overall prices. They have raised their benchmark interest rate nine times in just over a year. Inflation has edged lower since hitting four-decade highs last year. But March’s 5% year-over-year inflation rate remained well above the Fed’s 2% target.
“While the (claims) levels are still historically low, the number of people collecting unemployment benefits has definitely been on the rise this year, another signal that the labor market, though still hot, is coming back toward a more balanced/normal state,” Stephen Stanley, chief U.S. economist at Santander, said in a research note.
The Fed is hoping to achieve a so-called soft landing — lowering growth just enough to bring inflation under control without causing a recession. Economists are skeptical. Many expect the United States to enter a recession later this year. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/business/us-unemployment-claims-tick-up-to-245000-but-still-low/ | 2023-04-20 20:21:14 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/business/us-unemployment-claims-tick-up-to-245000-but-still-low/ |
SANTA FE, N.M., May 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Thornburg Investment Management ("Thornburg"), a global investment firm that oversees $42 billion in assets1, today announced that Jason Brady intends to step down later this year from his role as president & CEO and portfolio manager, as well as from the Board of Directors of Thornburg, and depart the firm. Mr. Brady will continue in his role to allow for a smooth transition while Thornburg's Board of Directors undertakes a search for his successor.
"Since joining Thornburg in 2006, I am proud of what we have achieved, particularly the strength of the team we have developed, and I'm grateful for the opportunity to serve as the firm's president and CEO for nearly eight years," said Mr. Brady. "This is the appropriate time for a new leader to step in and I remain fully involved and engaged while the Board searches for a successor."
"I thank Jason for delivering strong results across our business and notably assembling an experienced group of world-class leaders at the organization," said Chairman Garrett Thornburg. "Our 41-year foundation leaves us well positioned to make the next phase of our growth the most exciting in our company's history."
About Thornburg
Thornburg is a global investment firm delivering on strategy for institutions, financial professionals and investors worldwide. The privately held firm, founded in 1982, is an active, high-conviction manager of fixed income, equities, multi-asset solutions and sustainable investments. With $42 billion in client assets1 as of April 30, 2023, the firm offers mutual funds, closed-end funds, institutional accounts, separate accounts for high-net-worth investors and UCITS funds for non-U.S. investors.
As an independent firm, Thornburg can take on a wide range of opportunities, explore ideas thoroughly and work across strategies to deliver consistent risk-adjusted outperformance over the long term. The firm attracts free-thinking professionals who are eager to pursue investment outcomes beyond the confines of popular wisdom. From nimble operational capabilities to principles and actions fitting of a global citizen, Thornburg's world-class investment platform and team are aligned on strategy to serve investors.
Thornburg's U.S. headquarters is in Santa Fe, New Mexico with offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai. For more information, visit www.thornburg.com or call (877) 215-1330.
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- Third acquisition under the Kingsway Search Xcelerator Program
- Expected to be immediately accretive, adding $19.7 million of unaudited revenue, $2.6 million of U.S. GAAP income before income taxes and $2.7 million of unaudited non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA
- Capital light, recurring revenue business
CHICAGO, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - (NYSE: KFS) Kingsway Financial Services Inc. ("Kingsway") today announced the acquisition of the privately-held company Secure Nursing Service, Inc. ("SNS"), the third such acquisition completed under the Kingsway Search Xcelerator Program. SNS, based in Los Angeles, California (www.securenursing.com), employs highly skilled and professional per diem and travel Registered Nurses, Licensed Vocational Nurses, Certified Nurse Assistants and Allied Healthcare Professionals with multiple years of acute care hospital experience. SNS places these healthcare professionals in both per diem assignments, and in short-term and long-term travel assignments in a variety of hospitals in southern California.
"The acquisition of SNS marks Kingsway's third business acquisition under the Kingsway Search Xcelerator program. For the last sixteen years, SNS has answered the growing demand for medical staffing driven by the increasing need for healthcare services combined with a persistent nursing shortage across the country. The business meets our criteria of recurring revenue, strong margins, and low capital demands, making it a great fit for our model," said Kingsway President and CEO, J.T. Fitzgerald. "It truly is a pleasure to support our 'Operator-in-Residence', Charles Mokuolu, in this transaction. We're excited to work with Charles as he transitions into the CEO role at SNS."
"We are thrilled to partner with a group that embodies the four pillars of success at SNS: commitment, competency, integrity and reliability," said Roman Gofman, former President and CEO of SNS. "Both our company and our customers are in good hands with Kingsway."
"Roman Gofman and his team have built a leading company by providing the highest level of service in the healthcare industry, with qualified and compassionate healthcare professionals," said Charles Mokuolu, newly appointed President and CEO of SNS. "I am delighted to welcome an SNS team that shares our high-level of standards to the Kingsway family of companies. I look forward to working with the talented SNS team to continue to deliver the highest level of service to our clients and our healthcare professionals."
For the twelve-month period ending June 30, 2022, SNS had $19.7 million of unaudited revenue, $2.6 million unaudited U.S. GAAP income before income taxes and $2.7 million of unaudited non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA. A reconciliation of U.S. GAAP income before income taxes to non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA is presented on the attached schedule. Even after taking into consideration the anticipated effects of purchase accounting, Kingsway expects the acquisition to be immediately accretive.
The transaction was structured as a purchase of SNS' assets and assumption of certain liabilities. The purchase price was $10.9 million (subject to customary adjustments) at close. The closing purchase price was financed with a combination of debt financing provided by Signature Bank and cash on hand. Pegasus Acquirer Holdings LLC and Pegasus Acquirer LLC, subsidiaries of Kingsway, borrowed a total of $6.5 million, in the form of a term loan, and established a $1 million revolver (together, the "Loan") that was undrawn at close. The Loan has a variable interest rate equal to the Prime Rate plus 0.50%, with a floor of 5.00%. The Loan requires monthly principal and interest payments, and the term loan matures on November 18, 2028.
Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP served as legal counsel to Kingsway and Lagerlof LLP served as legal counsel to the sellers in connection with the transaction.
Kingsway is a holding company that owns or controls subsidiaries primarily in the extended warranty, business services, asset management and real estate industries. The common shares of Kingsway are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the trading symbol "KFS."
This press release may include "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are not historical facts, and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expected and projected. Words such as "expects," "believes," "anticipates," "intends," "estimates," "seeks" and variations and similar words and expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements; however, the absence of any such words does not mean that a statement is a not a forward-looking statement. Such forward-looking statements relate to future events or future performance but reflect Kingsway management's current beliefs, based on information currently available. A number of factors could cause actual events, performance or results to differ materially from the events, performance and results discussed in the forward-looking statements. For information identifying important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements, please refer to the section entitled "Risk Factors" in Kingsway's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 (the "2021 Annual Report"). Except as expressly required by applicable securities law, Kingsway disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Additional information about Kingsway, including a copy of the 2021 Annual Report and filings on Forms 10-Q and 8-K, can be accessed on the EDGAR section of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's website at www.sec.gov, on the Canadian Securities Administrators' website at www.sedar.com, or through Kingsway's website at www.kingsway-financial.com.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Members of opposition parties dressed in black disrupted India’s Parliament on Monday and protested in the capital, New Delhi, after Rahul Gandhi, a key opposition leader and fierce critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was expelled from the legislature last week.
Hundreds of supporters of Gandhi’s Congress party demonstrated in the heart of New Delhi and dozens were detained by police. Lawmakers from 18 opposition parties also protested together outside Parliament, donning black clothes to symbolize mourning and waving posters that warned India’s democracy is in danger.
Gandhi’s expulsion on Friday came a day after a local court convicted him of defamation and sentenced him to two years in prison for mocking Modi’s surname in an election speech in 2019. The actions against Gandhi, the great-grandson of India’s first prime minister, were widely denounced by opponents of Modi as assaults against democracy and free speech by a government seeking to quash dissent. His removal from Parliament also delivered a major blow to the Congress party ahead of national elections next year.
“The government wants to suppress the opposition and their voice,” said Mallikarjun Kharge, president of the Congress party.
Over the weekend, Gandhi said he is being targeted for raising questions about Modi’s relationship to Gautam Adani, a coal tycoon who until recently was Asia’s richest man.
Hindenburg Research, a U.S. financial research firm, accused the Adani Group in January of stock price manipulation and fraud running into billions of dollars. Since then, Gandhi has pushed for an investigation into Adani’s sprawling businesses, whose market value has since plummeted by tens of billions of dollars. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party says he has no links to Adani.
The protesting opposition lawmakers backed Gandhi on Monday by renewing calls for a parliamentary probe into the Adani Group.
Gandhi said he was not bothered about losing his seat in Parliament. “My job is to defend the institutions of the country and the voice of people,” he said over the weekend.
A court in Modi’s home state of Gujarat convicted Gandhi last week over a 2019 speech in which he asked, “Why do all thieves have Modi as their surname?” Gandhi then referred to three well-known and unrelated Modis: a fugitive Indian diamond tycoon, a cricket executive banned from the Indian Premier League tournament and the prime minister.
Under Indian law, a criminal conviction and prison sentence of two years or more are grounds for expulsion from Parliament. Gandhi was granted bail for 30 days to allow him to appeal the decision, which Gandhi says he will do. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/opposition-disrupts-indian-parliament-after-gandhis-ouster/ | 2023-03-29 00:48:39 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/opposition-disrupts-indian-parliament-after-gandhis-ouster/ |
Northeast Arkansas church to host inaugural fall festival
TRUMANN, Ark. (KAIT) - The Revival Center is looking to kick off a new fall tradition that will bring the community together, and bring people closer to Jesus.
An inaugural fall festival is set to kick off on Saturday, Oct. 22 at noon at 261 North Pine Street in Trumann.
The festival is being paid for out of the pockets of the Revival Center church members along with a couple of donations from outside the congregation.
The church is hosting a fun competition to help raise more money for the festival.
“My pastor wrote the amount down on a piece of paper, only he knows, if we hit that amount, my wife will get to throw a pie in my face, but if we don’t hit that amount I get to throw a pie in her face,” said festival coordinator Kenneth Crist.
One church member said they were so excited to be able to put this on for a community that only has a couple of festivals per year.
Crist said the festival will have basketball, a ring toss competition, and a donut-eating contest.
While Crist said having fun and bringing everyone together is a big part of the festival, it’s not the main reason.
“You know it is all fun and games, but it is also about Jesus,” said Crist.
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(THE CONVERSATION) When the state of Texas took over Houston’s public school district on March 15, 2023, it made the district one of more than 100 school districts in the nation that have experienced similar state takeovers during the past 30 years.
The list includes New York City, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, New Orleans, Baltimore, Oakland and Newark. Houston is the largest school district in Texas and the eighth largest in the U.S.
While the state of Texas claims the planned takeover is about school improvement, my research on state takeovers of school districts suggests that the Houston takeover, like others, is influenced by racism and political power.
States fail to deliver
State governments have used takeovers since the late 1980s to intervene in school districts they have identified as in need of improvement. While state administrations promise that takeovers will improve school systems, 30 years of evidence shows that state takeovers do not meet the states’ promised expectations. For instance, a recent report called Michigan’s 15-year management of the Detroit schools a “costly mistake” because the takeover was not able to address the school system’s major challenges, which included adequately funding the school district.
But while the takeovers don’t deliver promised results, as I show in my book, they do have significant negative political and economic consequences for communities, which overwhelmingly are communities of color. These negative consequences often include the removal of locally elected school boards. They also involve decreases in teachers and staff and the loss of local control of schools.
Despite the highly problematic history of state takeovers, states have justified the takeovers on the grounds that the entire school district is in need of improvement. However, this is not the case for the Houston takeover because by the state’s own standards, the Houston school system is not failing.
Low threshold for state intervention
Following a 2015 law, HB 1842, the state of Texas was granted authority to take over a school district if a single school in that district fails to meet state education standards for five or more years. The bill was passed by the Republican controlled state legislature with Democratic support. However, Democratic state lawmakers representing Houston argue that the law was a mistake and urged for it to be revised.
Although the state has given the Houston Independent School District a B rating, it plans to take over the Houston schools because one school, Wheatley High School, has not made sufficient progresssince 2017. According to state law, the state can take over a school district or close a school if it fails to meet standards for five years.
The Houston Independent School District has 280 schools. The district serves over 200,000 students. It employs roughly 12,000 teachers. Wheatley High School serves roughly 800 students and has roughly 50 teachers.
So why would a state take over a school district that has earned a B rating from the state? And why base the takeover on the performance of one school that represents fewer than 1% of the district’s student and teaching population?
In order to understand the logic of the planned state takeover of the Houston schools, it pays to understand the important role that schools have played in the social, political and economic development of communities of color. Historically, communities of color have relied on school level politics as an entry point to broader political participation. School-level politics may involve issues like ending school segregation, demanding more resources for schools, increasing the numbers of teachers and administrators of color, and participating in school board elections.
The process of gaining political power at the local level – and eventually state level – often begins at the schools, particularly the school board. For instance, before Blacks and Latinos elect members of their communities to the city councils, the mayor’s office and the state legislatures, they often elect members to the school board first.
Political representation at stake
In Texas, communities of color are politically underrepresented. Although Blacks, Latinos and Asians represent nearly 60% of the population in Texas, their political power at the state level is not proportional to their population. Whites make up 54% of the state legislature. The Republican Party controls the governorship, state House of Representatives and state Senate, but only 12% of all Republican state legislators are of color. Communities of color in Texas have filed lawsuits arguing that they have been prevented from gaining political representation at the state level by Republicans through racial gerrymandering and voter identification laws that disenfranchise Black and Latino voters.
However, despite years of systematic exclusion of people of color, the political landscape is changing in Texas. Texas is increasingly urbanizing as a result of population growth in the state’s cities. Since urban voters are more likely to vote Democratic, the growth in the urban population may potentially alter political dynamics in the state. Also, while African Americans have solidly identified with the Democratic Party in Texas, Latinos have not. But that, too, is changing. Polls show that Latino support for Republican presidential candidates in Texas went from a high of 49% during George W. Bush’s reelection in 2004 to 35% for John McCain in 2008, 29% for Mitt Romney in 2012 and a low of 18% for Donald Trump in 2016, before bouncing back to 41% for Trump in 2020.
Houston, as the largest urban center in Texas, is at the forefront of this challenge to the Republican grip on state power. The Houston schools, in particular, are representative of the state’s demographic and political future. The nine-member Houston school board is reflective of the community it serves. It has three Latinos, four African Americans and two white school board members. This, in my view, is what has put the Houston public school system and school board at the forefront of a battle that is really about race and political power.
The Houston public school system is not failing. Rather, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, Education Commissioner Mike Morath and the Republican state legislature are manufacturing an education crisis to prevent people of color in Houston from exercising their citizenship rights and seizing political power.
This is an updated version of an article previously published Jan. 10, 2020.
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Renovations begin for downtown Rochester hotel sign
(ABC 6 News – Changes are being made to a popular downtown Rochester landmark.
The Kahler Hotel is having renovations done on its rooftop sign.
According to the Olmsted County Historical Center, this is the first time since the 1980s that renovations have been done.
“The sign as you see it today has been up since 1971,” said Caleb Baumgartner, communications coordinator with Olmsted County Historical Center. “There was a sign previous to that was more blocky letters. This one is a little more stylized. Bright neon, can’t be missed and it’s an important part of Rochester’s skyline and a great way for Rochester to keep in touch with its older roots.”
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DEA’s most corrupt agent: Parties, sex amid ‘unwinnable war’
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — José Irizarry accepts that he’s known as the most corrupt agent in U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration history, admitting he “became another man” in conspiring with Colombian cartels to build a lavish lifestyle of expensive sportscars, Tiffany jewels and paramours around the world.
But as he used his final hours of freedom to tell his story to The Associated Press, Irizarry says he won’t go down for this alone, accusing some long-trusted DEA colleagues of joining him in skimming millions of dollars from drug money laundering stings to fund a decade’s worth of luxury overseas travel, fine dining, top seats at sporting events and frat house-style debauchery.
The way Irizarry tells it, dozens of other federal agents, prosecutors, informants and in some cases cartel smugglers themselves were all in on the three-continent joyride known as “Team America” that chose cities for money laundering pick-ups mostly for party purposes or to coincide with Real Madrid soccer or Rafael Nadal tennis matches. That included stops along the way in VIP rooms of Caribbean strip joints, Amsterdam’s red-light district and aboard a Colombian yacht that launched with plenty of booze and more than a dozen prostitutes.
“We had free access to do whatever we wanted,” the 48-year-old Irizarry told the AP in a series of interviews before beginning a 12-year federal prison sentence. “We would generate money pick-ups in places we wanted to go. And once we got there it was about drinking and girls.”
All this revelry was rooted, Irizarry said, in a crushing realization among DEA agents around the world that there’s nothing they can do to make a dent in the drug war anyway. Only nominal concern was given to actually building cases or stemming a record flow of illegal cocaine and opioids into the United States that has driven more than 100,000 drug overdose deaths a year.
“You can’t win an unwinnable war. DEA knows this and the agents know this,” Irizarry said. “There’s so much dope leaving Colombia. And there’s so much money. We know we’re not making a difference.”
“The drug war is a game. ... It was a very fun game that we were playing.”
Irizarry’s story, which some former colleagues have attacked as a fictionalized attempt to reduce his sentence, came in days of contrite, bitter, sometimes tearful interviews with the AP in the historic quarter of his native San Juan. It was much the same account he gave the FBI in lengthy debriefings and sealed court papers obtained by the AP after he pleaded guilty in 2020 to 19 corruption counts, including money laundering and bank fraud.
But after years of portraying Irizarry as a rogue agent who acted alone, U.S. Justice Department investigators have in recent months begun closely following his confessional roadmap, questioning as many as two-dozen current and former DEA agents and prosecutors accused by Irizarry of turning a blind eye to his flagrant abuses and sometimes joining in.
With little fanfare, the inquiry has focused on a jet-setting former partner of Irizarry and several other trusted DEA colleagues assigned to international money laundering. And at least three current and former federal prosecutors have faced questioning about Irizarry’s raucous parties, including one still in a senior role in Miami, another who appeared on TV’s “The Bachelorette” and a former Ohio prosecutor who was confirmed to serve as the U.S. attorney in Cleveland this year before abruptly backing out for unspecified family reasons.
The expanding investigation comes as the nation’s premier narcotics law enforcement agency has been rattled by repeated misconduct scandals in its 4,600-agent ranks, from one who took bribes from traffickers to another accused of leaking confidential information to law enforcement targets. But by far the biggest black eye is Irizarry, whose wholesale betrayal of the badge is at the heart of an ongoing external review of the DEA’s sprawling foreign operations in 69 countries.
The once-standout agent has accused some former colleagues in the DEA’s Miami-based Group 4 of lining their pockets and falsifying records to replenish a slush fund used for foreign jaunts over the better part of a decade, until his resignation in 2018. He accused a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent of accepting a $20,000 bribe. And recently, the FBI, Office of Inspector General and a federal prosecutor interviewed Irizarry in prison about other federal employees and allegations he raised about misconduct in maritime interdictions.
“It was too outlandish for them to believe this is actually happening,” Irizarry said of investigators. “The indictment paints a picture of me, the corrupt agent that did this entire scheme. But it doesn’t talk about the rest of DEA. I wasn’t the mastermind.”
The federal judge in Tampa who sentenced Irizarry last year seemed to agree, saying other agents corrupted by the “allure of easy money” need to be investigated. “This has to stop,” Judge Charlene Honeywell told prosecutors, adding Irizarry was “the one who got caught but it is apparent to this court that there are others.”
The Justice Department declined to comment. A DEA spokesperson said: “José Irizarry is a criminal who violated his oath as a federal law enforcement officer and violated the trust of the American people. Over the past 16 months, DEA has worked vigorously to further strengthen our discipline and hiring policies to ensure the integrity and effectiveness of our essential work.”
AP was able to corroborate some, but not all, of Irizarry’s accusations through thousands of confidential law enforcement records and dozens of interviews with those familiar with his claims and the ongoing investigation, including several who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss them.
The probe is focused in part on George Zoumberos, one of Irizarry’s former partners who traveled overseas extensively for money laundering investigations. Irizarry told AP that Zoumberos enjoyed unfettered access to so-called commission funds and improperly tapped that money for personal purchases and unwarranted trips, using names of people that didn’t exist in DEA reports justifying the excesses.
Zoumberos remained a DEA agent even after he was arrested and briefly detained on allegations of sexual assault during a trip to Madrid in 2018. He resigned only after being stripped of his gun, badge and security clearance for invoking his Fifth Amendment rights to stay silent in late 2019, when the same prosecutor who charged Irizarry summoned him to testify before a federal grand jury in Tampa.
Authorities are so focused on Zoumberos that they also subpoenaed his brother, a Florida wedding photographer who traveled and partied around the world with DEA agents, and even granted him immunity to induce his cooperation. But Michael Zoumberos also refused to testify and has been jailed outside Tampa since March for “civil contempt” — an exceedingly rare pressure tactic that underscores the rising temperature of the investigation.
“I didn’t do anything wrong, but I’m not going to talk about my brother,” Michael Zoumberos told AP in a jailhouse interview. “I’m basically being held as a political prisoner of the FBI. They want to coerce me into cooperating.”
Some current and former DEA agents say Irizarry’s claims are overblown or flat-out fabrications. The former ICE agent scoffed at Irizarry’s accusation he took a $20,000 bribe, saying he raised early red flags about Irizarry. And the lawyer for the Zoumberos brothers says prosecutors are on a “fishing expedition” to bring more indictments because of the embarrassment of the Irizarry scandal.
“Everybody they connect to José is extraneous to his thefts,” said attorney Raymond Mansolillo. “They’re looking to find a crime to fit this case as opposed to a crime that actually took place. But no matter what happens they’re going to charge somebody with something because they don’t want to come out of all of this after five years and have only charged José.”
Making Irizarry’s allegations more egregious is that they came on the heels of a 2015 Inspector General’s report that slammed DEA agents for participating in “sex parties” with prostitutes hired by Colombian cartels. That prompted the suspension of several agents and the retirement of Michele Leonhart, the DEA’s administrator at the time.
Central to the Irizarry investigation are overly cozy relationships developed between agents and informants — strictly forbidden under federal guidelines — and loose controls on the DEA’s undercover drug money laundering operations that few Americans know exist.
Every year, the DEA launders tens of millions of dollars on behalf of the world’s most-violent drug cartels through shell companies, a tactic touted in long-running overseas investigations such as Operation White Wash that resulted in more than 100 arrests and the seizure of more than $100 million and a ton of cocaine.
But the DEA has also faced criticism for allowing huge amounts of money in the operations to go unseized, enabling cartels to continue plying their trade, and for failing to tightly monitor and track the stings, making it difficult to evaluate results.
A 2020 Justice Department Inspector General’s report faulted the DEA for failing since at least 2006 to file annual reports to Congress about these stings, known as Attorney General Exempted Operations. That rebuke, coupled with the embarrassment brought on by Irizarry’s confession, prompted DEA Administrator Anne Milgram to order an outside review of the agency’s foreign operations, which is ongoing.
“In the vast majority of these operations, nobody is watching,” said Bonnie Klapper, a former federal prosecutor in New York and outspoken critic of DEA money laundering. “In the Irizarry operation, nobody cared how much money they were laundering. Nobody cared that they weren’t making any cases. Nobody was minding the house. There were no controls.”
Rob Feitel, another former federal prosecutor, said the DEA’s lax oversight made it easy to divert funds for all kinds of unapproved purposes. And as long as money seizures kept driving stats higher — a low bar given abundant supply — few questions were asked.
“The other agents aren’t stupid. They knew there were no controls and a lot of them could have done what Irizarry did,” said Feitel, who represents a former DEA agent under scrutiny in the inquiry. “The line that separates Irizarry from the others is he did it with both hands and he did it over and over and over. He didn’t just test the waters, he took a full bath in it.”
Irizarry, who speaks in a smooth patter that seamlessly switches between English and Spanish, was a federal air marshal and Border Patrol agent before joining the DEA in 2009. He said he learned the tricks of the trade as a DEA rookie from veteran cops who came up in New York City in the 1990s when cocaine flooded American streets.
But another key part of his education came from Diego Marín, a longtime U.S. informant known to investigators as Colombia’s “Contraband King” for allegedly laundering dope money through imported appliances and other goods. Irizarry said Marín taught him better than any agent ever could the nuances of the black-market peso exchange used by narcotraffickers across the world.
Irizarry parlayed that knowledge into a life of luxury that prosecutors say was bankrolled by $9 million he and his Colombian co-conspirators diverted from money laundering investigations.
To further the scheme, Irizarry filed false reports and ordered DEA staff to wire money slated for undercover stings to international accounts he and associates controlled. Hardened informants who kept a hefty commission from every cash transfer sanctioned by the DEA also stepped in to fund some of the revelry in what amounted to illegal kickbacks.
Irizarry’s spending habits quickly began to mimic the ostentatious tastes of the narcos he was tasked with targeting, with spoils including a $30,000 Tiffany diamond ring for his wife, luxury sports cars and a $767,000 home in the Colombian resort city of Cartagena. He’d travel first class to Europe with Louis Vuitton luggage and wearing a gold Hublot watch.
“I was very good at what I did but I became somebody I wasn’t. ... I became a different man,” Irizarry said. “I got caught up in the lifestyle. I got caught up with the informants and partying.”
Irizarry contends as many as 90% of his group’s work trips were “bogus,” dictated by partying and sporting events, not real work. And he says the U.S. government money that helped pay for it was justified in reports as “case-related — but that’s a very vague term.”
Case in point: an August 2014 trip to Madrid for the Spanish Supercup soccer finals that was charged as an expense to Operation White Wash.
But Irizarry told investigators there was little actual work to be done other than courtesy calls to a few friendly Spanish cops. Instead, he said, agents spent their time dining at pricey restaurants — racking up a 1,000-euro bill at one — and enjoying field-side seats for the championship match between Real and Atletico Madrid.
Joining the posse of agents at the game was Michael J. Garofola, a then-Miami federal prosecutor and erstwhile contestant on “The Bachelorette” who posted a thumbs-up photo on Instagram standing next to Irizarry and another agent — all clad in white Real Madrid jerseys.
“Soaking up the last bit of Spanish culture before saying adios,” he posted a few days later outside a pub.
Irizarry alleged that Garofola also joined agents, cartel informants and others in the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo in 2014 for a night at a strip club called Doll House. In a memo to the court seeking a reduction in his sentence, Irizarry recalled being in the VIP room with another agent and Garofola, racking up a $2,300 bill paid for by a violent emissary of Marín with a menacing nickname to match: Iguana.
Garofola said the trips included official business and he assumed everything was being paid for out of DEA funds.
“There were things about those trips that made me question why I was there,” Garofola told AP. “But Irizarry totally used me to ratify this behavior. I was brand new and green and eager to work money laundering cases. He used me just by my being there.”
When Irizarry was awarded with a transfer to Cartagena in 2015, the party followed. The agent’s rooftop pool, with sweeping ocean views, became an obligatory stop for visiting agents and prosecutors from the U.S.
One that Irizarry recalls seeing there was Marisa Darden, a prosecutor from Cleveland who he says traveled to Colombia in September 2017 and was at a gathering where he witnessed two DEA agents taking ecstasy. Irizarry says he didn’t see Darden taking drugs.
Federal authorities have taken a keen interest in that party, quizzing Irizarry about it as recently as this summer. At least one DEA agent who attended has been placed on administrative leave.
Darden went on to become a partner in a high-powered Cleveland law firm and last year was nominated by President Joe Biden to be the first Black woman U.S. attorney in northern Ohio. But soon after she was confirmed, Darden abruptly withdrew in May, citing only “the importance of prioritizing family.”
Darden refused to answer questions from AP but her attorney said in a statement that she “cooperated fully” with the federal investigation into “alleged illegal activity by federal agents,” an inquiry separate from the FBI background check she faced in the confirmation process.
“There is no evidence that she participated in any illegal activity,” Darden’s attorney, James Wooley, wrote in an email to AP.
A White House official said the allegations did not come up in the vetting process. And U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat who put Darden’s name up for the post, was also unaware of the allegations in the nomination process, his office said, and had he known “would have withdrawn his support.”
Another federal prosecutor named by Irizarry and questioned by federal agents was Monique Botero, who was recently promoted to head the narcotics division at the U.S. attorney’s office in Miami. Irizarry told investigators and the AP that Botero joined a group of agents, informants, Colombian police and prostitutes for a party on a luxury yacht.
Botero’s lawyers acknowledge she was on the yacht in September 2015 for what she thought was a cruise organized by local police, but they say “categorically and unequivocally, Monique never saw or participated in anything illegal or unethical.”
“Irizarry has admitted that he lied to everyone around him for various nefarious reasons. These lies about Monique are part of a similar pattern,” said her attorney, Benjamin Greenberg. “It is appalling that Monique is being maligned and defamed by someone as disgraced as Irizarry.”
Irizarry’s downfall was as sudden as it was inevitable — the outgrowth of a lavish lifestyle that raised too many eyebrows, even among colleagues willing to bend the rules themselves. Eventually, he was betrayed by one of his closest confidants, a Venezuelan-American informant who confessed to diverting funds from the undercover stings.
“José's problem is that he took things to the point of stupidity and trashed the party for everyone else,” said one defense attorney who traveled with Irizarry and other agents. “But there’s no doubt he didn’t act alone.”
Since his arrest, Irizarry has written a self-published book titled “Getting Back on Track,” part of his attempt to own up to his mistakes and pursue a simpler path after bringing so much shame upon himself and his family.
Recently, his Colombian-born wife — who was spared jail time on a money laundering charge in exchange for Irizarry’s confession — told him she was seeking a divorce.
Adding to Irizarry’s despair is that he is still the only one to pay such a heavy price for a pattern of misconduct that he says the DEA allowed to fester. To date, prosecutors have yet to charge any other agents, and several former colleagues have quietly retired rather than endure the disgrace of possibly being fired.
“I’ve told them everything I know,” Irizarry said. “All they have to do is dig.”
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Aritz Parra in Madrid and Chris Megerian in Washington contributed to this report.
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Contact AP’s global investigative team at Investigative@ap.org. Follow the reporters on Twitter: @JimMustian and @APJoshGoodman.
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Labor leaders lashed out Thursday at senators who voted against a proposal to provide rail workers with seven days of paid sick leave.
While the Senate overwhelmingly approved a measure to force through a railroad contract that gives workers a 24 percent raise over five years, a proposal to add paid sick days to the deal failed to reach 60 votes. All but six Republicans voted against the measure.
“While rail workers won significant wage increases and other important gains today, it’s deeply disappointing that 43 senators sided with multibillion-dollar rail corporations to block desperately needed paid sick days,” AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said in a statement.
By pushing through the contract, which was negotiated with the help of the Biden administration in September, Congress will prevent a devastating Dec. 9 rail strike that was set to cause service disruptions as soon as this weekend.
But lawmakers also overrode the vote of train and engine workers at SMART-TD, the largest rail union, who narrowly rejected the tentative deal last month amid concerns about paid sick leave.
Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) was the only Democrat to vote against the sick leave proposal. GOP Sens. Marco Rubio (Fla.), Ted Cruz (Texas), Mike Braun (Ind.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Josh Hawley (Mo.) and John Kennedy (La.) were the only Republicans to support it.
“The fact that there are not 60 senators willing to stand up to Big Business and fight for basic rights for U.S. rail workers is horrific,” tweeted Sean O’Brien, general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. “Every senator who voted NO may not have a spine but at least they still have unlimited sick days. I’m looking at [Manchin] and 42 other cowards.”
Railroads lobbied senators to push through the Biden-negotiated deal without sick leave, arguing that lawmakers would set a bad precedent by modifying an agreement that was negotiated over a period of years.
The deal provides key wins for workers, including the ability to take time off for medical appointments without being penalized. But at the time of the vote, workers at four unions still had not ratified a contract, citing the lack of sick days as a major factor.
The House had voted Wednesday to approve both the agreement and additional paid sick leave after President Biden urged Congress to act this week. Biden did not tell lawmakers how to vote on the sick leave provision, instead focusing entirely on ending the strike threat.
“Working together, we have spared this country a Christmas catastrophe in our grocery stores, in our workplaces, and in our communities,” Biden said in a statement.
Rail workers were worried about this exact outcome. They argued that railroads were refusing to meet their demands because they knew Congress wouldn’t allow a strike, sapping unions’ leverage.
Labor leaders and progressives hinted Thursday that they will continue to fight for paid sick leave through other avenues, whether it’s legislation or executive action.
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In March, Ingrid Weisse, her husband and two young sons were aboard Alaska Airlines 889 from Portland, Ore., on a flight home to Hawaii when the Boeing 737 began buffeting so fiercely that it felt as if the plane would shake itself apart.
"It got really, really violent," says Weisse. There was lots of screaming in the cabin. A flight attendant was hit by an ice bucket that became a projectile. So many people got sick from the sudden changes in altitude that flight attendants had to hand out more vomit bags, she says. Midway through the approximately 45-minute ordeal, one frightened passenger yelled out, "Please tell us this is normal!"
For Weisse and her family — all frequent flyers — it was like nothing they had ever experienced. Clearly the passengers aboard their flight were rattled, but so were the flight attendants. Before disembarking in Honolulu, one of them confided to Weisse that it was the worst turbulence she'd seen in 23 years on the job.
There are different kinds of turbulence, and it's hard to pinpoint what caused the extreme conditions that rocked Weisse's flight. In an email, Alaska Airlines acknowledged "unexpected turbulence" on the flight. But researchers say there's evidence that a particularly unpredictable type known as "clear-air turbulence" is becoming more frequent, says Paul Williams, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Reading in England.
As its name implies, clear-air turbulence occurs in the absence of clouds or bad weather. It's caused by wind shear — sudden changes in wind speed and direction — at altitudes above 15,000 feet.
The reason for this increase in clear-air turbulence is climate change, Williams says. As global temperatures increase due to rising levels of greenhouse emissions such as carbon dioxide, the jet stream is experiencing more wind shear.
"Since satellites began observing in 1979, the amount of wind shear has grown by 15%" in the jet stream, he says, referring to a study he co-authored in 2019.
In a follow-up study using climate model simulations, Williams and colleagues predicted that clear-air turbulence in the middle latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere could triple in the next three to six decades, depending on future greenhouse emissions.
A separate 2020 study by a group of China-based scientists points to increased temperatures in the upper atmosphere contributing to "a profound impact on the wind shear and turbulence in mid-latitudes."
It's hard to avoid what you can't see
Broad areas of turbulence can be forecast by meteorologists, but specific, localized areas of clear-air turbulence present challenges for cockpit crews, says Carlo Scalo, an associate professor who studies turbulence at Purdue University.
"The problem is that clear-air turbulence cannot be spotted because it's above the clouds," Scalo says. "You don't really see it. It's just fast air moving into slow air and vice versa."
One way to limit clear-air turbulence would be to avoid the four main jet streams that encircle Earth. Commercial aircraft often take advantage of these narrow bands of strong wind in the upper levels of the atmosphere to increase speed and shorten flight times.
"That's the trade-off," Williams says. "The airline saves fuel and passengers arrive early. But it might be a bumpy flight."
Avoiding the jet stream would likely mean an increase in greenhouse emissions, he notes, because longer flights burn more fuel.
Bumpier skies appear to be getting more common
The increase is already becoming evident to cockpit and cabin crews, passengers and even aircraft manufacturers. In the last few weeks alone, news reports have chronicled a number of stories far worse than the one Weisse tells.
In early March, significant turbulence aboard a Lufthansa flight from Austin, Texas, to Frankfurt, Germany, injured seven passengers, forcing the plane to divert to Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, D.C.
A Lufthansa flight that experienced “significant turbulence” was diverted to Virginia and seven people were taken to hospitals.
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 2, 2023
Social media footage showed food trays, screens, pillows and other items scattered inside the plane: https://t.co/D2vkkFmhNJ pic.twitter.com/wUOgdiB4XH
In an email to NPR, Jordan Jewell, a 21-year-old passenger aboard that flight, recounted how two flight attendants "hit the ceiling head first" during one of the drastic altitude changes. Jewell later noticed that one of them left "a massive dent in the ceiling of the plane."
"I had my seatbelt on, despite the fasten seatbelt sign being off, so while I flew up I was kept from hitting the ceiling," Jewell says. "A woman sitting four seats and an aisle to my right did not. So the first time the plane dropped she hit the ceiling, and when we stabilized she landed in the aisle on her back."
American Airlines Capt. Dennis Tajer calls clear-air turbulence "a real nemesis" because it can't be seen or easily detected from the cockpit of a commercial airliner and therefore often comes with no warning. What's more, Tajer, who has more than 30 years of experience as a commercial pilot, believes that the problem is getting worse.
"I can tell you from flying even up at altitude, not just your average thunderstorm, [that] the weather events seem more severe than they have been in the past," Tajer says.
Peter Murray, the founder of turbulenceforecast.com, agrees. He set up the website in 2005 to help travelers see areas of likely turbulence before stepping aboard an airplane. By day, he is a systems administrator at Michigan State University. But thanks to the side project, he's had an armchair view of turbulence in the upper atmosphere for nearly two decades.
"I do feel that things are getting ever-so-slightly rougher," he says.
Just a day after the incident on Alaska Airlines, a United Airlines flight out of San Francisco, bound for Munich, Germany, was forced to divert to Denver when a flight attendant was seriously injured during a short-lived, but intensely turbulent, event.
Dianna Previs was a passenger on that flight. Once it landed, she says, the injured flight attendant was wheeled down the aisle, her leg extended and wrapped in an ice pack with what appeared to Previs to be a compound fracture. "She looked like she was in a lot of pain," she says.
In an email, a United spokesperson praised the pilots on the March 21 flight "for their quick work in addressing this issue and working to ensure the safety of everyone on board."
Flight attendants experience the most injuries
Although it is almost unheard of for turbulence to cause a crash, such events do stress a plane's airframe, says Ryan Pettit, an associate technical fellow and senior controls engineer for Boeing.
Really jarring turbulence "can impart pretty big loads on the airplane," he says. However, "the design standards of modern aircraft are really high."
Nevertheless, the National Transportation Safety Board has said that turbulence causes the most common types of accidents aboard aircraft. From 2009 to 2022, the National Transportation Safety Board tallied 163 "serious injuries" resulting from turbulence. The types of injuries tracked include major fractures, serious burns, internal bleeding or any other injury requiring two or more days of hospitalization. Flight crews incurred 80% of all such injuries, the NTSB notes.
Sara Nelson, the international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, says the reason cabin crews suffer most of the injuries is pretty straightforward. "We're checking on other people having their seat belts on. We're in the middle of a service. We're preparing for the next service in the galley with a 300-pound cart," she says.
"So, it's often that we're not buckled in when these clear-turbulence events happen," Nelson says.
Two years ago, the NTSB released a study aimed at improving procedures to tackle the problem. Its recommendations range from more stringent enforcement of seat belt requirements to improving pilot reports of turbulence.
Many passenger aircraft use an app called Sky Path to monitor turbulence with a cockpit-mounted tablet as a motion sensor. The app works similar to how Google Maps processes traffic congestion — by automatically collating real-time reports from other users' devices.
Boeing's Pettit says the passenger jetliners already have active flight controls to minimize shaking during turbulence.
Even so, "it's one thing to try to improve the ride quality once you've experienced the turbulence," Pettit says. "But the best-case scenario is you don't experience it in the first place."
One thing being looked at is the use of lidar, or light detection and ranging, a sort of radar that uses light instead of radio waves. It's an existing technology, but there are a number of hurdles to overcome to make it work for detecting clear-air turbulence, he says.
Nelson, president of the flight attendants union, says changing procedures so that cabin crew members remain buckled in during critical parts of a flight would also help. "There's been recommendations from the NTSB to have flight attendants sitting down earlier on descent and staying [seated] longer on ascent, which is oftentimes where we encounter these issues as we're flying through the various altitudes," she says.
Still, there is a simple, already proven safety device. "The seat belt, you know, it's old technology," Pettit says. "There's nothing exciting about it. But the data really points to it working."
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-npr/2023-04-06/airline-passengers-could-be-in-for-a-rougher-ride-thanks-to-climate-change | 2023-04-06 09:52:08 | 0 | https://www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-npr/2023-04-06/airline-passengers-could-be-in-for-a-rougher-ride-thanks-to-climate-change |
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — At Tuesday’s Fort Wayne City Council meeting, appointments were made for each of the council’s positions.
Chief among them, the position of city council president, which the council awarded to long-time Democratic councilman, Glynn Hines.
All councilmembers voted in favor of Hines except for Paul Ensley (R) and Russ Jehl (R), who both abstained.
Hines has been on council since 1999 and was the vice president of city council last year.
He initially served for 20 years as the councilman for the 6th district. In 2019, Hines was elected to an at-large seat, where he currently serves.
The city’s website praises Hines’ actions serving on the board of transportation, “he was instrumental in placing the “ROSA PARKS” seat on ever Citilink bus in Fort Wayne.”
In recent times, Hines has been vehemently opposed to a new jail being built in southeast Fort Wayne.
City Council also unanimously voted Tom Freistroffer (R) as the council’s new vice president. | https://www.wane.com/top-stories/glynn-hines-chosen-as-new-fort-wayne-city-council-president/ | 2023-01-03 22:56:39 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/top-stories/glynn-hines-chosen-as-new-fort-wayne-city-council-president/ |
Former Wisconsin prosecutor sentenced for secretly recording sexual encounters
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge sentenced a former Wisconsin prosecutor to 18 months in prison Monday for secretly recording sexual encounters with two women, including one he was prosecuting in a restraining order case.
A jury found former Burnett County District Attorney Daniel Steffen guilty in April of three counts of capturing an intimate representation depicting nudity. St. Croix County Circuit Judge Scott Nordstrand handed down the sentence.
A state Department of Justice agent began investigating Steffen in early 2020, according to the criminal complaint in the case. A witness told the agent that a woman the witness knew had openly talked about having sex with Steffen in exchange for leniency on her pending criminal cases.
The woman told the agent she had only met Steffen a couple times in court and denied having a relationship with him. She said she had several cases pending and ended up paying a fine. A few months, later she acknowledged a relationship with Steffen, saying she was facing charges for violating a restraining order and he was prosecuting her.
Investigators searched Steffen’s home in October 2020 and found an iPad in his dresser, according to the criminal complaint. On the iPad were videos of Steffen having sex with the woman in August and September of 2018. The woman told investigators she wasn’t aware he was filming them.
Also on the iPad was another video of Steffen having sex with another woman earlier in 2018. They could be heard talking about how she could avoid charges for hitting a mailbox. She told investigators she wasn’t aware he was filming them.
Nordstrand, the judge, also ordered Steffen to serve two years of extended supervision and four years on probation after he gets out of prison.
Steffen’s attorney, listed in online court records as Minneapolis-based Eric Nelson, didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment late Monday afternoon.
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SAN DIEGO — Last week, the U.S. government revealed they are tracking more than 650 potential cases of so-called “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” (UAP), more commonly known as UFOs.
"Of those over 650, we've prioritized about half of them to be of anomalous interesting value," said the Director of the Pentagon's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Sean Kirkpatrick.
While the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office keeps track, it has come out saying that any potential reports are likely from Earth.
"AARO has found no credible evidence thus far of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology, or objects that defy the known laws of physics," said Kirkpatrick.
But that’s not what everyone thinks.
"We are not alone. If you see something strange in the sky, there is a 50% chance that it is alien contact," said Dr. Desiree Hurtak, who has a Ph.D. in Environmental Public Policy.
More than 200 people from San Diego and across the country attend a three-day conference called "A Portal to Ascension."
Investigative reporters, scientists, authors, and film directors are at the Marina Village Conference Center, participating in panel discussions to disclose their latest findings.
"We're not alone. We've never been alone. Life is not an accident; it's an emergent property of creation itself," said the author of "Making Contact," Alan Steinfield.
CBS 8 reporter Ariana Cohen talked to scientists and authors at the event who say they have all seen UFOs and agree humans are not alone on Earth.
"I grew up in Florida, where I saw a UFO in the 60s. California and Florida are two major places for sightings," said Dr. Hurtak.
"We are closer to realizing we are not alone, and these fast-flying loose objects show us we are not alone in the universe," said Dr. James J. Hurtak.
While the debate continues about whether there is life somewhere else in the universe, people at Sunday's event say the Pentagon looking into UFOs and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) is worth noting.
"The information is important because people understand this information and implement it into society, and we can create harmony and peace. We need to reeducate humanity," said Neil Gaur, Founder of "The Portal to Ascension."
Now, the goal of the AARO and its tracking of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena is to stay dialed in about emerging technologies from foreign countries that could pose a threat.
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NY Binghamton NY Zone Forecast for Tuesday, February 14, 2023
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Zone Forecast Product for Central New York and Northeast Pennsylvania
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
335 AM EST Wed Feb 15 2023
NYZ009-152100-
Northern Oneida-
Including the city of Boonville
335 AM EST Wed Feb 15 2023
.TODAY...A slight chance of snow showers this morning. Mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of rain showers. Highs in the mid 50s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers in the
evening. Lows in the mid 30s. West winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain showers likely in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south in
the afternoon. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers. Lows in the lower 30s. South winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain showers.
Highs in the mid 30s. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
40 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 15.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and
snow. Highs in the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Lows
in the upper 20s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Highs in
the lower 30s.
$$
NYZ015-152100-
Yates-
Including the city of Penn Yan
335 AM EST Wed Feb 15 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the mid 60s. Southwest
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 45 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Southwest winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in
the lower 50s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming east in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers, breezy with lows in the lower 30s. South
winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain showers.
Brisk with highs in the upper 30s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with
gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 TO 20.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Lows in the
lower 30s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Highs in
the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
$$
NYZ016-152100-
Seneca-
Including the city of Seneca Falls
335 AM EST Wed Feb 15 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. South winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in
the lower 50s. Northwest winds around 5 mph, becoming east in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers, breezy with lows in the lower 30s. South
winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain showers.
Brisk with highs in the mid 30s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with
gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 20.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
rain. Highs in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Lows in the
lower 30s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Highs in
the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
$$
NYZ017-152100-
Southern Cayuga-
Including the city of Auburn
335 AM EST Wed Feb 15 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers this morning,
then partly sunny this afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. South
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain showers likely in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast
in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers, breezy with lows in the lower 30s. South
winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain showers.
Brisk with highs in the mid 30s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with
gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 TO 20.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 30.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
rain. Highs in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Lows
around 30. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Highs in
the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
$$
NYZ018-152100-
Onondaga-
Including the city of Syracuse
335 AM EST Wed Feb 15 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers this morning,
then partly sunny this afternoon. Breezy with highs in the lower
60s. South winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in
the lower 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming east in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers, windy with lows in the mid 30s. South
winds 25 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain showers.
Blustery with highs in the upper 30s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph
with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 TO 20.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 40.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
rain. Highs in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Lows
around 30. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Highs in
the mid 30s.
$$
NYZ022-152100-
Steuben-
Including the cities of Corning and Hornell
335 AM EST Wed Feb 15 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the lower 60s. Southwest
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning, then
showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. South winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers, breezy with lows in the mid 30s.
Southwest winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of rain
near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain showers.
Brisk with highs in the upper 30s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with
gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 TO 20.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Lows
in the upper 20s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Highs in
the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
$$
NYZ023-152100-
Schuyler-
Including the city of Watkins Glen
335 AM EST Wed Feb 15 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the lower 60s. Southwest
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds 15 to
20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 50s. Southwest winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers, breezy with lows in the mid 30s. South
winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain showers.
Brisk with highs in the upper 30s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with
gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 TO 20.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
rain. Highs in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Lows
around 30. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Highs in
the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
$$
NYZ024-152100-
Chemung-
Including the city of Elmira
335 AM EST Wed Feb 15 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40. West winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning, then
showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers, breezy with lows in the upper 30s. South
winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow showers.
Highs in the lower 40s. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up
to 35 mph. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 TO 20.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
rain. Highs in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Lows
around 30. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Highs in
the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
$$
NYZ025-152100-
Tompkins-
Including the city of Ithaca
335 AM EST Wed Feb 15 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the lower 60s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds 15 to
20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 50s. West winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers, breezy with lows in the mid 30s. South
winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain showers.
Brisk with highs in the upper 30s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with
gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 TO 20.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
rain. Highs in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Lows
in the upper 20s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Highs in
the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
$$
NYZ036-152100-
Madison-
Including the cities of Hamilton and Oneida
335 AM EST Wed Feb 15 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers this morning,
then partly sunny this afternoon. Breezy with highs in the upper
50s. South winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain showers likely in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast
in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers, breezy with lows in the mid 30s. South
winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain showers.
Blustery with highs in the upper 30s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph
with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 15.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
rain. Highs in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Lows
in the upper 20s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Highs in
the mid 30s.
$$
NYZ037-152100-
Southern Oneida-
Including the cities of Rome and Utica
335 AM EST Wed Feb 15 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly sunny. A
20 percent chance of rain showers. Highs in the upper 50s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming south this afternoon. Gusts up to
35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the evening.
Lows in the upper 30s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs around 50. West winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming east in
the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers, breezy with lows in the mid 30s. South
winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain showers.
Blustery with highs around 40. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with
gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 TO 20.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
rain. Highs in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Lows
in the upper 20s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow. Highs in
the mid 30s.
$$
NYZ044-152100-
Cortland-
Including the city of Cortland
335 AM EST Wed Feb 15 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the upper 50s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. West winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain showers likely in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south in
the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers, breezy with lows in the mid 30s. South
winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain showers.
Blustery with highs in the upper 30s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph
with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 15.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
rain. Highs in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Lows
in the upper 20s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Highs in
the mid 30s.
$$
NYZ045-152100-
Chenango-
Including the city of Norwich
335 AM EST Wed Feb 15 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the upper 50s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in
the lower 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers. Lows in the upper 30s. South winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow showers.
Highs in the lower 40s. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up
to 35 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 15.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
rain. Highs in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Lows
in the upper 20s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Highs in
the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
$$
NYZ046-152100-
Otsego-
Including the city of Oneonta
335 AM EST Wed Feb 15 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the mid 50s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Southwest winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s. West
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers. Lows around 40. South winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow showers.
Blustery with highs in the mid 40s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph
with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 15.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
rain. Highs in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Lows
in the upper 20s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow. Highs in
the mid 30s.
$$
NYZ055-152100-
Tioga-
Including the cities of Owego and Waverly
335 AM EST Wed Feb 15 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Highs around 60. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 50s. West winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers, breezy with lows in the upper 30s. South
winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Highs in the
lower 40s. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 TO 20.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
rain. Highs in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Lows
around 30. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Highs in
the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
$$
NYZ056-152100-
Broome-
Including the city of Binghamton
335 AM EST Wed Feb 15 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the upper 50s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 50s. West winds around 5 mph, becoming south in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers. Lows in the lower 40s. South winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Highs in the
mid 40s. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 TO 20.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
rain. Highs in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Lows
around 30. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Highs in
the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
$$
NYZ057-152100-
Delaware-
Including the cities of Delhi and Walton
335 AM EST Wed Feb 15 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the mid 50s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph,
becoming south in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers. Lows in the mid 40s. South winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain showers likely with a chance of snow showers. Little
or no snow accumulation. Highs in the upper 40s. Northwest winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of precipitation
60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 15.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
rain. Highs in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Lows
around 30. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of snow and rain. Highs in the
upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
$$
NYZ062-152100-
Sullivan-
Including the city of Monticello
335 AM EST Wed Feb 15 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the upper 50s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with
showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s. West winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming south in the afternoon. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers. Lows in the upper 40s. South winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain showers likely. Blustery with highs in the lower 50s.
Northwest winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and blustery. Lows 15 TO 20.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 40.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 20s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Lows
in the lower 30s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of rain and snow. Highs around
40. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
$$
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — An organization that provides services for troubled youth and foster children in Missouri has agreed to pay a $1.8 million fine and to implement several compliance measures after admitting it made false claims about the services it provided, federal and state officials said Friday.
Great Circle, based in Webster Groves, admitted that it made false statements in billing the state for services to young people at its residential treatment facility, Assistant U.S. Attorney Meredith Reiter said in a statement.
Great Circle will not be criminally prosecuted and will continue to operate because it cooperated with the investigation and to avoid jeopardizing access to resident treatment services for its clients, she said.
Great Circle provides behavioral health services to children with special needs in the custody of the Missouri Department of Social Services, Children’s Division.
As part of the agreement, Great Circle admitted falsely claiming to have provided enhanced services for six residents between 2019 and 2020.
Great Circle also has agreed to implement a compliance and ethics program and to improve internal controls, compliance, policies and procedures.
The agreement came after a multiyear investigation involving federal, state, Webster Groves and Phelps County officials.
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Infor cloud solutions work to drive new levels of usability, connectivity and insight
NEW YORK , July 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Infor®, the industry cloud company, today announced its successful partnership with The Mayo Hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Specifically, cloud-based Infor HMS and Infor SCS Sales and Event Management solutions were selected to help the property adapt to meet today's and tomorrow's hospitality challenges and support the brand as it grows. By partnering with Infor, The Mayo Hotel, an iconic historic hotel located in the heart of Downtown Tulsa featuring 102 rooms, will have access to modern technology tools to help deliver a great guest experience every time.
"We're approaching our 100-year anniversary, and while we've made it a point to always keep the charm from when we first opened, we take a different approach with our business processes by adopting modern, forward-looking technology. As our guests' tastes and needs evolve, so do we. Technology is at the forefront of the way we live today, so we've invested in new solutions and systems that will directly impact day-to-day tasks for employees and the overall guest experience," said Macy Snyder-Amatucci, owner of The Mayo Hotel. "Partnering with Infor has been seamless. It was clear from our initially training that we would be able to reduce onboarding burden and costs, increase revenue across the property and, ultimately, improve guest satisfaction by reducing administrative burdens from our teams and allowing them to focus on more value-add tasks."
Infor HMS hospitality management system will allow teams at The Mayo Hotel to manage everything from the front office and reservations to accounting and sales within a single application. This will create a unified view of business performance, so managers have greater visibility into how their decisions impact other departments, and vice versa. With a centralized, unified look at guest and business performance, The Mayo Hotel can track guest preferences, simplify reservations, book itineraries and provide guests with consistent quality and services. In addition, modules for event management provide complete financial reporting, revenue forecasting and performance analysis, food and beverage costing, labor scheduling, and full customer relationship management (CRM) and custom correspondence capability.
"Infor understands the complexity of the hospitality industry and the importance not only of managing guest expectations and satisfaction but also the importance of events and catering to the overall business," said Joe Vargas, Infor Hospitality senior vice president and general manager. "Infor is deep in hospitality and our solutions have the capability to cover all aspects of the business — from sales to operations. Thousands of hospitality customers across the globe leverage Infor's powerful cloud solutions to strengthen communication throughout different teams and departments to optimize guest and patron experiences for the future. We are excited to partner with an innovation brand like The Mayo Hotel on its digital journey."
Learn more about Infor HMS: https://www.infor.com/products/hms
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Life Style Live “Hot Links”- July 20, 2023
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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
A senior Russian general has been detained in Moscow in connection with the failed rebellion of Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin over the weekend. American officials said earlier this week that General Sergey Surovikin appeared to have known about the rebellion in advance. Joining us from Moscow is NPR's Charles Maynes. And, Charles, tell us more about what's going on.
CHARLES MAYNES, BYLINE: Yeah. You know, people have been really tight-lipped here in Moscow about what happened. The Kremlin and Russia's Ministry of Defense have certainly refused to comment on General Sergey Surovikin's whereabouts. But our colleague, NPR's Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman, was able to confirm with a senior U.S. official that they believe Surovikin has been detained by Russian authorities without providing further details.
SHAPIRO: Tell us more about who the general is and what he's believed to have done.
MAYNES: Yeah, no - sure. It's important to go back to last Saturday and the ease with which Wagner took the southern city of Rostov-on-Don. This is a major military hub. In Prigozhin's words, his mercenaries took the city without firing a shot, and they marched on Moscow more or less unimpeded as well. That's fed rumors that Prigozhin had, if not help, then certainly sympathizers inside the military. Now, U.S. officials zeroed in on General Sergey Surovikin, who was briefly put in charge of the Russian invasion of Ukraine last winter.
Surovikin was the one behind this Russian strategy of bombing Ukrainian infrastructure to try and freeze the country into submission. It didn't work, and Putin ultimately demoted Surovikin in favor of the chief of general staff, who's been one of the objects of Prigozhin's ire. So the question - was Surovikin somehow tipped off or involved in this uprising against his bosses? Prigozhin has been a fan of his. And what we know is this - last we heard from him was during the uprising this past Saturday.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
SERGEY SUROVIKIN: (Speaking Russian).
MAYNES: So this is Surovikin in a video address in which he called on Prigozhin and Wagner to stand down on the orders of President Putin, saying the rebellion only aided Russia's enemies. But Surovikin hasn't been seen in public since that moment.
SHAPIRO: So what else can you tell us about the relationship between Surovikin and Prigozhin?
MAYNES: Well, from what we know publicly, the two men's lives intersected amid Russia's intervention in Syria, where Surovikin was in charge of the Russian air campaign. It's where he made his name as a brutal but effective commander. While in Syria, Prigozhin's Wagner forces were fighting unofficially. You have to remember this is back in 2015, when Wagner was still a shadow operation used by the Kremlin. Now, fast-forward to the war in Ukraine, and as the initial invasion stalled, Prigozhin and other hard-liners lobbied for Surovikin to take charge. They felt that he could succeed where the military's top brass had failed.
SHAPIRO: It seems like there's a lot of reading tea leaves here, sort of tracing the relationships and the potential influences and alliances. Is there any reason to look at this the other way, to doubt that Surovikin would take part in something like the weekend's uprising?
MAYNES: Sure. You know, it's been pointed out by Western military analysts that after his demotion from commanding the Ukraine operation, Surovikin was put back in charge of the air forces in Ukraine. Yet amid Saturday's uprising, those killed in fighting with Wagner forces were Russian air servicemen - in other words, Surovikin's men. So would he really have ordered them to attack Wagner if he was somehow in on this uprising? We just don't know the answer to that. Meanwhile, President Vladimir Putin argues this insurrection failed because Russian society, including his military, rallied around the government, and Prigozhin was an isolated figure. Many would argue that is President Putin putting a brave face on the crisis. But one thing is clear - you know, rumors that the Kremlin is vetting loyalties or weighing a purge are swirling here, and they're not likely to stop soon.
SHAPIRO: NPR's Charles Maynes in Moscow. Thank you.
MAYNES: Thank you.
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By MARK LONG
AP Sports Writer
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Tyler Buchner accounted for five touchdowns to help offset two interceptions returned for TDs, and No. 19 Notre Dame beat 20th-ranked South Carolina 45-38 in a wild TaxSlayer Bowl on Friday.
The highest-scoring game in Gator Bowl history was filled with big plays and memorable moments. But Buchner delivered the knockout blow when he found tight end Mitchell Evans wide open for a 16-yard touchdown on a third-and-7 play with 1:38 remaining.
Buchner, who regained the starting job after Drew Pyne entered the transfer portal following the regular-season finale, threw for 274 yards and three touchdowns. He also ran for 61 yards and two scores.
But his three interceptions nearly proved too much to overcome.
O’Donnell Fortune returned one of them 100 yards for a touchdown in the fourth quarter, and DQ Smith returned another 47 yards for a score in the first. But Buchner bounced back from both miscues to earn his first victory in three career starts.
Notre Dame (9-4, No. 21 CFP) overcame a 14-point deficit and won despite South Carolina’s scoring on the two pick-6s and on special teams. Punter Kai Kroger connected with long-snapper Hunter Rogers for one of the oddest TDs in bowl lore.
Spencer Rattler completed 29 of 44 passes for 246 yards for the Gamecocks (8-5, No. 19 CFP), with an interception and two touchdowns to Xavier Legette.
South Carolina was missing a number of key starters, including running back MarShawn Lloyd, versatile tight end Jaheim Bell, tight end Austin Stogner, defensive lineman Zacch Pickens, safety Devonni Reed, cornerbacks Cam Smith and Darius Rush, and receivers Josh Vann and Jalen Brooks.
Notre Dame played without All-American tight end Michael Mayer, standout edge rusher Isaiah Foskey, cornerback Cam Hart and defensive lineman Jayson Ademilola.
THE TAKEAWAY
Notre Dame: The Irish gave coach Marcus Freeman his first victory following a lengthy layoff. Notre Dame lost its bowl game last year to Oklahoma State after naming Freeman the head coach and dropped its season opener at Ohio State.
South Carolina: Special teams are usually coach Shane Beamer’s specialty, but he had a few uncharacteristic mistakes to go along with the punter-to-long snapper touchdown pass. Dakereon Joyner was flagged for a block in the back in the second quarter, a call that got Beamer so irate that he drew an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. Those penalties resulted in a 45-yard swing. The Gamecocks also were flagged in the second half for having two guys wearing the same number on a punt and twice for delay of game.
UP NEXT
Notre Dame: The Fighting Irish are expected to land highly coveted transfer quarterback Sam Hartman, a three-year starter at Wake Forest who holds the Atlantic Coast Conference’s record for passing touchdowns with 110. He will have one year of eligibility remaining.
South Carolina: The Gamecocks have numerous holes to fill, none bigger than at offensive coordinator after Marcus Satterfield left for Nebraska. All eyes will be on his replacement, former Arkansas tight ends coach Dowell Loggains, in spring practice.
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Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, saying he believes that "people want leaders that appeal to the best of America, and not simply appeal to our worst instincts."
His remarks, which came Sunday to ABC's This Week, put Hutchinson in a small Republican field that includes former President Donald Trump and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. Others, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, are expected to join the field but have not done so yet.
Hutchinson, a Republican moderate, told ABC that a formal announcement will be made later this month in Bentonville, Ark.
The announcement comes days after the former Arkansas governor spent days in Iowa, which will hold the first presidential caucus, leading to speculation that he would announce his intention to run.
The announcement comes just two days before Trump is expected to surrender to authorities in New York following his indictment by a Manhattan grand jury over hush-money payments made to adult-film star Stormy Daniels to cover up an alleged affair. Trump is the first person who has lived in the White House to face criminal charges. Hutchinson subsequently called on Trump to step aside from the race.
He told ABC the "grand jury found probable cause and that's the standard for any criminal charges in our society." That's a departure from the rest of his party that has called the charges politically motivated.
Hutchinson, who served two consecutive terms as his state's governor, was barred by term limits from running for governor in 2022. He was succeeded by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump's former spokeswoman.
It's unclear whether Hutchinson's candidacy can make inroads in a party that is firmly with Trump. Last week, the latest NPR/PBS News Hour/Marist poll showed that 8 in 10 Republicans agree with Trump and call the investigations a "witch hunt," and 8 in 10 Republicans continue to have a favorable opinion of him.
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NEW YORK and MIAMI, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aterian Investment Partners ("Aterian"), a private investment firm, is pleased to announce its partnership with Stein Fibers (the "Company"). Stein Fibers is the fourth investment from Aterian's Fund IV, an $834 million investment vehicle.
Founded in 1976 and headquartered in Albany, New York, Stein Fibers is a distributor and manufacturer of fiber products to the North American furniture, bedding, automotive, filtration, construction and medical markets. Stein Fibers is a supply chain solutions provider and maintains a nationwide distribution network with best-in-class product availability. The Company offers among the widest product portfolio of fiber and fabrics products across the industry, providing an unmatched breadth of material types, finishes, deniers and colors. Stein Fibers maintains a focus on sustainability and a portion of its fiber including all of its internal manufacturing is derived from recycled materials. With a track record spanning 40-plus years, Stein Fibers has become a leading North American player and partner of choice for customers and suppliers alike.
Chip Stein and Peter Spitalny, Co-Owners of Stein Fibers, stated, "We could not be more excited to partner with Aterian as we proceed into Stein Fibers' next phase of growth. We chose Aterian due to their focus on maintaining company culture developed over decades, commitment to an expedient process, and experience in partnering with family founders like us. We are confident that Aterian is the perfect partner to help us execute on our growth plan both organically and through M&A."
Michael Fieldstone, Co-Founder & Partner at Aterian, commented, "We are thrilled to partner with the talented Stein Fibers team to continue growing the leading supply chain solutions provider in the fiber industry. Over its history, Stein Fibers has expertly navigated an everchanging global supply chain environment while maintaining excellent customer service and quality."
Daniel Krasnow, Principal at Aterian, added, "The Stein Fibers platform represents yet another family-founder partnership that we have embarked on at Aterian. We look forward to partnering with Stein Fibers to support their organic and inorganic strategic growth plan, and continue to be the partner of choice for other like-minded family founder businesses as well as global manufacturers."
Kirkland & Ellis LLP, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, and Stout Capital, LLC advised Aterian.
About Aterian Investment Partners
Aterian Investment Partners is a private equity firm that invests in industry-leading, middle market businesses. In collaboration with management, Aterian supports investments throughout an organization, from people to processes, equipment, technology, and social governance, among others. With offices in New York and Florida, Aterian has raised cumulative equity commitments of more than $1.5 billion since its founding in 2009.
For more information, please visit http://www.aterianpartners.com
About Stein Fibers
Stein Fibers is among the largest suppliers and producers of Polyester Fiberfill and Nonwoven Fibers in North America. The Company has the most extensive in-stock product offerings in the marketplace with unsurpassed responsiveness and customer service. As a customer-oriented company, Stein Fibers prides itself on efficient logistics and excellent sales support. Throughout its five decades, the Company has developed long term personal relationships by consistently leveraging its network to support clients' needs.
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RIPON, Wis., Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alliance Laundry Systems, the global leader in commercial laundry equipment, is expanding on an already strong direct distribution base with the acquisition of Laundry Equipment Services (LES). Alliance closed on the purchase today.
The acquisition is Alliance's latest move in a strategy to bring extraordinary service and factory support to expanding markets where there is an opportunity to partner with exceptional people. This is Alliance's fifth distributor asset acquisition in the last two years.
"We've seen LES make incredible progress in the Mid-Atlantic region with our Huebsch brand," said Craig Dakauskas, Senior Vice President North America Commercial for Alliance Laundry Systems. "We are looking forward to building upon the strong foundation LES has created under its owner, Cameron Clark."
Since 1991, Hagerstown, Md-based LES has been providing vended and on-premises laundry solutions to the Mid-Atlantic region through its distribution of Huebsch-branded equipment.
"I've always believed I was partnered with the best company in the commercial laundry industry and delighted in helping my customers achieve new levels of success through that affiliation," Clark said. "This acquisition will enable us to take our customer service and support to a truly next-level experience."
For more information about Alliance Laundry Systems, visit alliancelaundry.com. To learn more about LES, visit leslaundry.com.
Leading Performance
Alliance Laundry Systems makes the world cleaner as the premier provider of laundry solutions. We deliver Leading performance through our exceptional employees, unmatched quality and our commitment to innovation. Alliance leads the world in commercial laundry sales, product range, reach and R&D investment. No competitor comes close. Our laundry solutions are available under five respected brands, sold and supported by a global network of select distributors. We serve more than 140 countries with a team of more than 3,500 employees. Our brands include Speed Queen®, UniMac®, Huebsch®, Primus® and IPSO®. Together, they present a full line of commercial washing machines, dryers and ironers (with load capacities from 12–400 lb., or 6–180 kg.) and every essential support service necessary to keep your operation running at maximum efficiency. You can also enjoy the superior wash and fabric care of commercial-grade laundry equipment in your home through our legendary Speed Queen® washers and dryers. At Alliance, we aim to bring you laundry peace of mind with an award-winning customer experience that's unrivalled in our industry.
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The 2023 high school baseball season was one to remember. From Opening Day to the state championships, there were plenty of terrific plays and individual moments on the baseball fields across the state.
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Health officials in Hawaii report probable case of monkeypox amid uptick in cases nationwide
HONOLULU (KHNL/KGMB/Gray News) - The Hawaii State Department of Health is investigating a probable case of monkeypox.
The Hawaii DOH reports the patient, an Oahu resident, is currently hospitalized but is in reasonably good health. However, the person did show symptoms and tests consistent with the virus. The patient also recently traveled to an area with confirmed cases.
A spokesperson for the Tripler Army Medical Center said Friday that staff was treating a possible case of monkeypox at the hospital. If confirmed, it would be the first case in Hawaii.
Authorities said the risk of monkeypox spreading in Hawaii remains low but urged residents to remain vigilant.
“Monkeypox does not spread easily from person to person, and the risk remains low for most Hawaii residents,” state epidemiologist Dr. Sarah Kemble said in a statement.
As of Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed 21 cases of the virus in the U.S.
Monkeypox typically begins with flu-like symptoms and swelling of the lymph nodes. Patients also experience rash or sores on the face and body. According to health officials, individuals generally become ill within 21 days of exposure.
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The most financially successful era in NBA history will continue uninterrupted for at least six more years, after the league and its players came to a tentative agreement on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement that will kick in this summer.
It took more than a year of bargaining, with the intensity and expectation growing in recent days, and the handshake agreement was struck in the wee hours of Saturday morning — shortly after the league intended to tell the National Basketball Players Association of its plan to opt out of the current CBA on June 30.
Instead, a deal got done, at least in principle. “The NBA and National Basketball Players Association have reached a tentative agreement on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement, pending ratification by players and team governors,” was the league’s only comment, coming shortly before 3 a.m. Eastern.
Technically, it will be a seven-year deal, though either side can opt out a year early — meaning labor peace is only assured through the 2028-29 season. It will also begin the era of an in-season tournament, something Commissioner Adam Silver has wanted for years.
Barring a change to the current plan, teams will be given an 80-game schedule for next season in August. Those 80 games will include “tournament” games — probably four — that will count in regular-season standings. All teams will have two more games added to their schedule eventually so the full 82-game slate is played; the two teams that make the tournament final will be playing an 83rd game that won’t count in the standings.
Among other details, per a person familiar with the negotiations who spoke to The Associated Press: players will generally have to appear in at least 65 games in order to be eligible for the top individual awards such as Most Valuable Player; the maximum value of contract extensions will rise; and a third two-way contract will now be available to teams — which could potentially see roster sizes grow from 17 to 18. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because neither the league nor the National Basketball Players Association released specifics publicly.
Another new part of the CBA will be a second luxury tax level that, when reached, will keep teams from using their midlevel exception to sign players. That was a clear compromise, given how some teams wanted the so-called “upper spending limit” that would have essentially installed an absolute ceiling on what can be spent each season and help balance the playing field between the teams that are willing to pay enormous tax bills — like the reigning NBA champion Golden State Warriors — and those who aren’t.
“Players lose again … Middle and Lower spectrum teams don’t spend because they don’t want to,” Golden State’s Draymond Green posted to Twitter. “They want to lose. So increase their spending capabilities, just to increase them. They continue to cut out the middle. And this is what we rushed into a deal for?”
The new CBA won’t include a return to the policy that would allow high school players to enter the NBA draft. It was discussed and has been an agenda item for months, but the rule won’t be changing anytime soon — probably not for at least the term of the next CBA.
“We also appreciate that there is a lot of benefit to really having veterans who can bring those 18-year-olds along,” NBPA executive director Tamika Tremaglio said in February during an NBPA news conference at All-Star weekend. “And so, certainly anything that we would even consider, to be quite honest, would have to include a component that would allow veterans to be a part of it as well.”
Silver said Wednesday, at the conclusion of a two-day Board of Governors meeting, that he was hopeful of getting a deal done by the weekend — a clear positive sign. The current CBA, which took effect July 1, 2017, came with a mutual option for either the NBA or the NBPA to opt out after six seasons, or June 30 of this year.
Saturday’s agreement doesn’t end the process, though it’s obviously a huge step forward.
The owners will have to vote on what the negotiators have hammered out, and the players will have to vote to approve the deal as well. Then comes the actual writing of the document — the most recent CBA checked in at around 600 pages containing nearly 5,000 paragraphs and 200,000 words. Much of it will be the same; much of it will need revising.
And while these talks went on for more than a year, this is the second consecutive CBA to be negotiated without the dysfunction that accompanied the talks in 2011 — when the league wound up locking out players for 161 days and had to eventually shorten the 2011-12 season from 82 to 66 games.
There was no appetite for a work stoppage, not after a 2021-22 season in which the NBA revenue topping $10 billion for the first time and basketball-related income reaching $8.9 billion, another record. Silver said the NBA is on pace this season for more sold-out games than ever before.
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Upper Deck enters an exclusive agreement with one of the greatest ice hockey prospects of this generation
CARLSBAD, Calif., July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Upper Deck, the worldwide leader in entertainment and sports collectibles, is proud to announce its exclusive autographed trading card deal with hockey sensation and the number one overall NHL Draft™ pick, Connor Bedard. Under the new agreement, Upper Deck will be the sole producer of Bedard's trading cards.
Connor Bedard was selected by the Chicago Blackhawks® as the first overall draft pick in the 2023 Upper Deck NHL Draft™ on Wednesday, June 28, which marks the second number-one pick in Blackhawks' history. Bedard is considered one of this generation's greatest ice hockey prospects and one of the youngest in this year's draft at just 17 years of age. The first player ever granted early exceptional status into the Western Hockey League, Bedard's illustrious career with the Regina Pats spanned 134 regular season games, scoring 134 goals and 137 assists for 271 points. Notably, Bedard scored 23 points in seven games at the most recent U20 World Junior Hockey Championship, which broke a new record for points in a single tournament–already proving his promising future in the NHL®.
"Connor Bedard is one of the most anticipated prospects in sports right now, and we're thrilled to have him as part of the Upper Deck family," said Jason Masherah, president of Upper Deck. "Throughout the upcoming NHL season, and Bedard's entire NHL career, we'll capture his iconic moments on the ice and immortalize them exclusively on trading cards fans can enjoy for years to come."
Connor Bedard trading cards will be available in flagship products featuring his highly anticipated rookie cards like Young Guns®, Future Watch, and more during the 2023-24 NHL season at hobby shops worldwide and via Upper Deck Authorized Internet Retailers (AIRS). His exclusive cards will also be available on Upper Deck e-Pack® and the newly launched Evolution platform featuring Authentic Digital Collectibles.
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Upper Deck is a global entertainment company creating trading cards, memorabilia, collectibles, games, and online platforms that deliver the experiences collectors crave. Upper Deck has set the unmatched industry standard for quality, authenticity, and innovation and continues to bring generations of fans closer to their favorite athletes and characters with unique and authentic sports and entertainment product offerings, as well as its digital trading ecosystem. The company prides itself on creating collectibles that produce invaluable experiences for sports and entertainment's most dedicated and loyal fans, with a goal to deliver excellence to the community across the most coveted properties as a means to develop memorable moments for collectors of all kinds.
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McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday criticized the Biden administration for providing baby formula to migrant children in holding facilities amid a nationwide shortage.
The comments came as President Joe Biden spoke with CEOs from baby formula companies on Thursday to hasten to get more baby formula supplies on shelves nationwide and limit restrictions, senior administration officials said.
In a joint statement by Abbott and Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd on Thursday said: “Children are our most vulnerable, precious Texans and deserve to be put first. Yet, President Biden has turned a blind eye to parents across America who are facing the nightmare of a nationwide baby formula shortage. While mothers and fathers stare at empty grocery store shelves in a panic, the Biden Administration is happy to provide baby formula to illegal immigrants coming across our southern border. This is yet another one in a long line of reckless, out-of-touch priorities from the Biden Administration when it comes to securing our border and protecting Americans. Our children deserve a president who puts their needs and survival first – not one who gives critical supplies to illegal immigrants before the very people he took an oath to serve.”
While mothers and fathers stare at empty grocery store shelves in panic, the Biden Administration is happy to provide baby formula to illegal immigrants coming across our southern border.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd
Abbott has been outspoken against allowing migrants to cross from Mexico into Texas and has even spent billions of state funds and resources as part of Operation Lone Star to “secure the border,” which he has repeatedly said the Biden administration has “failed to do.”
Migrant advocates reacted angrily Thursday to Abbott’s statement.
“Children need nutrition,” Joshua Rubin, of the organization Witness At the Border, told Border Report. “You make a 1,500-mile journey with babes in arms. They’re going to need to be fed and any decent human being looks for a way to feed them, not for a way to deprive them.”
“Gov. Abbott has a political agenda that’s willing to punish children instead of here, in the richest nation on earth, figuring out a way to make sure all of God’s children have enough formula,” Rubin said.
“It’s so unfortunate that our governor is so short-sighted in his thinking. And is instead interested in stoking, xenophobia, racism and fear in an environment where we can be acting out of abundance, versus a scarcity mentality,” said Marisa Limón Garza, senior director for advocacy and programming for Hope Border Institute in El Paso, Texas.
“These children, all children, deserve access to a full life including food, shelter and love. If we collaborated and thought creatively about expanding our resources verses focusing on political theatre, we just might be able to feed every child regardless of status,” Garza told Border Report.
“It’s unbelievable. This is precisely when you believe you already touched bottom in terms of anti-immigrant and anti-humanity statements and policies fermented by the governor, then you see this. How he’s using children — babies — as part of his distorted political platform,” Fernando Garcia, founder and executive of the Border Network for Human Rights, a border rights coalition based in El Paso.
“He’s not only demonizing immigrants in Texas by calling them criminals and rapists but now to this extent that he is using immigrant children and babies as part of his political gain. That is shameful,” said Garcia, whose group was in McAllen on Thursday after a two-week tour of the Texas border that started in El Paso, to call for better migrant rights.
In a call with media on Thursday afternoon, White House senior administration officials explained the baby formula shortage began on Feb. 17 when the nation’s largest infant formula manufacturer in the country, Abbott Nutrition, initiated a voluntary recall of several lines of formula after concerns of possible bacterial contamination at its manufacturing facility in Sturgis, Michigan.
Four infants became ill and two died in late 2021 and early 2022 prior to the voluntary recall.
On Thursday, “President Joe Biden spoke with retailers and manufacturers, including the CEOs of Walmart, Target, Mead Johnson and Gerber to talk to them about the work they are doing and call on them to do all they can to help families purchase and access infant formula,” a senior administration official said.
They discussed how to faster stock shelves and other companies taking up the slack of inventory in Abbott Nutrition’s absence.
They also discussed “additional steps to get more infant formula onto store shelves as quickly as possible without compromising safety,” a senior administration official said.
This includes the following:
- Increasing imports of baby formula.
- Calling on the FTC and state attorneys general “to crack down on price gouging and unfair market practices related to the sales of infant formula,” officials said.
- Cutting red tape and restrictions to get more infant formula to store shelves by urging states to provide flexibility in the WIC program.
WIC programs typically authorize the purchase of 12-ounce formula containers, but the administration wants to cut out that requirement to allow WIC families to buy 32-ounce containers and that would allow manufacturers to produce more product in larger batches quicker, senior administration officials said.
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Russia official warns West of destruction for arming Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The speaker of the lower house of Russia’s parliament warned Sunday that countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risked their own destruction, a message that followed new pledges of armored vehicles, air defense systems and other equipment but not the battle tanks Kyiv requested.
Ukraine’s supporters pledged billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine during a meeting at Ramstein Air Base in Germany on Friday, though the new commitments were overshadowed by a failure to agree on Ukraine’s urgent request for German-made Leopard 2 battle tanks.
State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin said that governments giving more powerful weapons to Ukraine could cause a “global tragedy that would destroy their countries.”
“Supplies of offensive weapons to the Kyiv regime would lead to a global catastrophe,” he said. “If Washington and NATO supply weapons that would be used for striking peaceful cities and making attempts to seize our territory as they threaten to do, it would trigger a retaliation with more powerful weapons.”
Germany is one of the main donors of weapons to Ukraine, and it ordered a review of its Leopard 2 stocks in preparation for a possible green light. Nonetheless, the government in Berlin has shown caution at each step of increasing its commitments to Ukraine, a hesitancy seen as rooted in its history and political culture.
French President Emmanuel Macron, meanwhile, said Sunday that he does not rule out sending Leclerc battle tanks to Ukraine and had asked his defense minister to “work on” the idea.
Macron spoke during a during a news conference in Paris with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz as their countries commemorating the 60th anniversary of their post-World War II friendship treaty. In a joint declaration, France and Germany committed to their “unwavering support” for Ukraine.
France will make its tank decision based on three criteria, Macron said: that sharing the equipment does not lead to an escalation of the conflict, that it would provide efficient and workable help when training time is taken into account, and that it wouldn’t weaken France’s own military.
Scholz did not respond when asked about the Leopard 2 tanks Sunday, but stressed that his country already has made sizable military contributions to Ukraine.
“The U.S. is doing a lot, Germany is doing a lot, too,” he said. “We have constantly expanded our deliveries with very effective weapons that are already available today. And we have always coordinated all these decisions closely with our important allies and friends.”
Germany’s tentativeness has drawn criticism, particularly from Poland and the Baltic states, countries on NATO’s eastern flank that feel especially threatened by Russia’s renewed aggression.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that if Germany does not consent to transferring Leopard tanks to Ukraine, his country was prepared to build a “smaller coalition” of countries that would send theirs anyway.
“Almost a year had passed since the outbreak of war,” Morawiecki said in an interview with Polish state news agency PAP published Sunday. “Evidence of the Russian army’s war crimes can be seen on television and on YouTube. What more does Germany need to open its eyes and start to act in line with the potential of the German state?”
In Washington, two leading lawmakers urged the U.S. on Sunday to send some of its Abrams tanks to Ukraine in the interests of overcoming Germany’s reluctance to share its own, more suitable tanks.
“If we announced we were giving an Abrams tank, just one, that would unleash” the flow of tanks from Germany, Rep. Michael McCaul, the Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told ABC’s “This Week on Sunday.” “What I hear is that Germany’s waiting on us to take the lead.”
Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat who is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also spoke up for the U.S. sending Abrams.
“If it requires our sending some Abrams tanks in order to unlock getting the Leopard tanks from Germany, from Poland, from other allies, I would support that,” Coons said.
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy head of the Russian Security Council, said the U.S.-led meeting at the air base in Germany “left no doubt that our enemies will try to exhaust or better destroy us,” adding that “they have enough weapons” to achieve the purpose.
Medvedev, a former Russian president, warned on his messaging app channel that “in case of a protracted conflict,” Russia could seek to form a military alliance with “the nations that are fed up with the Americans and a pack of their castrated dogs.”
Ukraine is asking for more weapons as it anticipates Russia’s forces launching a new offensive in the spring.
Oleksii Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s Security and Defense Council, warned that Russia may try to intensify its attacks in the south and in the east and to cut supply channels of Western weapons, while conquering Kyiv “remains the main dream” in President Vladimir Putin’s “fantasies,” he said.
In a column published by online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda. he described the Kremlin’s goal in the conflict as a “total and absolute genocide, a total war of destruction”
Among those calling for more arms for Ukraine was the former British prime minister, Boris Johnson, who made a surprise trip to Ukraine on Sunday. Johnson, who was pictured in the Kyiv region town of Borodyanka, said he traveled to Ukraine at the invitation of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“This is the moment to double down and to give the Ukrainians all the tools they need to finish the job. The sooner Putin fails, the better for Ukraine and for the whole world,” Johnson said in a statement.
The last week was especially tragic for Ukraine even by the standards of a brutal war that has gone on for nearly a year, killing tens of thousands of people, uprooting millions more and creating vast destruction of Ukrainian cities.
A barrage of Russian missiles struck an apartment complex in the southeastern city of Dnipro on Jan. 14, killing at least 45 civilians. On Wednesday, a government helicopter crashed into a building housing a kindergarten in a suburb of Kyiv. Ukraine’s interior minister, other officials and a child on the ground were among the 14 people killed.
Zelenskyy vowed Sunday that Ukraine would ultimately prevail in the war.
“We are united because we are strong. We are strong because we are united,” the Ukrainian leader said in a video address as he marked Ukraine Unity Day, which commemorates when east and west Ukraine were united in 1919.
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Sylvie Corbet in Paris contributed.
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Man charged in Jacksonville shooting
JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (WBRC) - The Jacksonville Police Department has made an arrest in a deadly shooting that happened August 21.
According to a Facebook post, officers went to the 1500 block of Rochester Road SE. around 10:30 p.m. on a domestic disturbance call.
They found a man who had been shot inside the home. He has been identified as 25-year-old Trenton Medders of Ohatchee.
Justin Racca, 25, of Jacksonville is charged with Manslaughter.
“This is an isolated incident; there is no imminent danger to the public,” said Jacksonville police Chief Marcus Wood. “These types of incidents don’t occur frequently in our community, but the officers and staff of the Jacksonville Police Department stand ready to respond to any disturbances that may occur.”
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WERNERSVILLE, BERKS COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Twila Reber has a very special birthday coming up as she is soon turning 104! However, for Twila it’s the simple things in life she enjoys and all she wants for her big day is Tastykake.
According to Donna Schudel, a Community Relations employee with Phoebe Berks Health Care Center (HCC) Twila has been a resident at the center for 30 years, who is incredibly popular and knows everybody.
Schudel says Twila was born on May 17, 1919, and will be celebrating her 104 birthday on May 17, 2023. And all she wants for her birthday are Tastykake products. So, the staff would like to present her with 104 packs of Tastykake products on Wednesday, May 17.
“It’s the simple pleasures in life she enjoys and the simplicity of her request that made it so special. We asked, ‘What’s on your bucket list? What do you want?’ And all she wanted was her Tastykake,” Schudel explained.
Schudel stated that Twila has been living at Phoebe Berks HCC for 30 years so she knows everyone whether they’re staff or residents. According to the staff, when workers would get snowed in or stuck at the building, she would open her apartment and bake them cookies.
So, if you would like to say Happy 104th Birthday to Twila and congratulate her on her milestone, send or drop off a box of any Tastykake product to the address below:
Phoebe Berks HCC
Attn: Twila & Lexi
1 Heidelberg Drive, Wernersville, PA 19565
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TRENTON, N.J., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The New Jersey Propane Gas Association welcomes an overdue discussion of looming consumer costs anticipated from New Jersey's Energy Master Plan (EMP). Not surprisingly, the Brattle Group's study, accepted by the BPU August 17, relies on key assumptions and omissions to suggest, erroneously, that the EMP will cost consumers only a little bit more, compared to their current energy bills.
Yet, by their own admission, the Brattle study omits any discussion of capital costs for equipment conversions, building retrofits and other "up-front" costs. These costs are huge for all classes of customers but conveniently ignored in the Brattle study.
The report also assumes significant new savings from energy efficiency and conservation efforts, as if customers are wasting expensive energy today, and can afford even more up-front costs.
Then there's the assumption that natural gas price increases will gallop far more than electricity increases by 2030, partly because of state-mandated conversions away from fossil fuels. So the state will help to cause the gas rate increases that will allegedly justify electric conversions. Of course, there's no discussion of the ratepayer costs of wind or solar farms which don't exist yet, their transmission lines, substations and distribution systems, not to mention the continued reliance on nuclear plants whose state-approved subsidies will expire, and gas-fired peaking units.
Lower-income customers might be spared some impacts because more state subsidies might be available to cover the huge costs of conversion and operation of electric appliances.
But, not to worry, customers can still keep their gas-fired cooking and non-heating equipment.
And, the cost projections are based on customers served by South Jersey Gas and Atlantic City Electric, neither of which serves the majority of New Jersey homeowners, and neither of which has the highest rates in New Jersey. New Jersey's overall electric rates are already among the highest in the country, and the Master Plan will do nothing to ease the burden.
And finally, the report suggests that the state will save $1.7 billion due to lower greenhouse gas emissions, and, in the same section, notes this estimate was never actually calculated for the study.
New Jerseyans have been waiting since the Energy Master Plan's 2019 update to learn what it will actually cost. With this latest study, we're no closer to finding out, and it's unlikely to be only a little bit more.
NJPGA is the statewide trade association representing propane distribution and service companies who serve more than 120,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers who rely on propane for their energy needs including space heating, water heating, cooking, recreational uses, manufacturing processes and transportation.
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HDVI Accelerates Claims Resolution Process and Launches Proprietary Telematics-Based Insurance Product in Oklahoma
CHICAGO, June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- High Definition Vehicle Insurance (HDVI), a technology-first commercial auto insurance provider, will now process claims in-house to deliver a more streamlined, efficient and customer-focused experience. The company also launched its insurance products for commercial trucking fleets in Oklahoma, for policies effective beginning July 1.
"HDVI understands the significant impact claims processing times can have on fleets," said Karla Ferguson, director of claims. "An efficient claims process ensures damaged vehicles are repaired or replaced promptly, minimizes downtime, and reduces the financial burden by providing timely reimbursement for repairs, medical expenses, or property damages."
Ferguson leads a best-in-class claims team with over 60 years of combined experience working on claims in the trucking industry and a deep understanding of the unique challenges and risks associated with operating a fleet of semis. HDVI's claims experts are aligned with its fleet services team to ensure they are aware of losses quickly, have access to related telematics data, and can tap into and understand how a particular fleet operates.
"By utilizing telematics data, our team can offer a more precise account of the accident, aiding in the determination of fault and the extent of the damages incurred, which can reduce the likelihood of fraudulent claims and ensure efficient, fair claim resolution," Ferguson added.
Fleets can use post-accident telematics and data to understand areas for improvement and take corrective actions to avoid future claims, reduce downtime, and save money. Every HDVI customer gets partnered with a fleet services representative to help build and maintain a safety-first culture and get the most from their efforts.
HDVI claims benefits include:
- 24/7 claims reporting
- Experienced trucking adjusters
- Claims number provided to customers same day when reported within business hours
- Faster and fair resolution of claims
- Direct access to a U.S.-based support team and constant contact with assigned claims professional
- Emergency response team at the point of accident and available for post-incident fact gathering
- Quick access to telematics data, video and knowledge of customers' operations from HDVI fleet services team
In the event of a loss, Ferguson said fleet owners should report their claim immediately and provide further details upon request. Fast action can help preserve important evidence like dashcam footage and witness statements needed for an accurate claims assessment and to expedite resolutions and minimize downtime.
The company also announced its expansion into Oklahoma, where fleets can get its competitively priced insurance solution with broad coverage, flexible payment terms, and enhanced coverage options. HDVI's Safety Lookback™ analyzes fleets' telematics data from the past 90 days when a policy is first quoted. Fleet customers can earn immediate discounts that can be applied at the start of the policy period if the data shows strong safety performance, and they can achieve a discount of up to 20% in year one.
HDVI used approximately 3.5 billion miles of telematics data to build a proprietary risk model and better select, price, manage, and retain risk. Data shows that 90% of HDVI customers see an improvement in speeding or hard braking within their first year with the company.
HDVI is currently available in 20 states, including Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Oklahoma, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin. The company expects to operate in 30 states by the end of 2023.
For more information, visit https://hdvi.com.
About HDVI
HDVI is a technology-first commercial auto insurance provider. The company assesses risk using historical and real-time telematics data and provides tools and services that help fleets increase safety, reward safe driving, and benefit from efficient and fair claims processing. HDVI is headquartered in Chicago with additional offices in Greenville, South Carolina; Columbus, Ohio; Portland, Oregon; Dallas; and San Francisco. High Definition Vehicle Insurance, Inc. is a licensed property casualty insurance agent with products underwritten by various insurance companies.
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The BBC called a truce Monday in its showdown with sports commentator Gary Lineker, reversing its suspension of the former soccer great for a tweet that criticized the U.K. government’s contentious new migration policy.
The about-face followed a weekend of chaos and crisis for Britain's publicly funded national broadcaster, which faced a huge backlash after sidelining one of its best-known hosts because he expressed a political opinion.
“Gary is a valued part of the BBC and I know how much the BBC means to Gary, and I look forward to him presenting our coverage this coming weekend,” BBC Director-General Tim Davie said.
Lineker, 62, said he was “glad that we have found a way forward.”
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The furor stems from a plan announced last week by Britain's Conservative government to try to stop tens of thousands of migrants a year from reaching the country in small boats across the English Channel. A new bill will bar asylum claims by anyone who reaches the U.K. by unauthorized means and will compel the government to detain and deport them “to their home country or a safe third country.”
The legislation has been condemned by refugee groups and the U.N., and the government concedes it may breach international law.
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Lineker, one of England’s most lauded players and the corporation’s highest-paid television presenter, was suspended after he described the plan as “immeasurably cruel" and called the government's language "not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s.”
The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail — two right-leaning newspapers long critical of the BBC — expressed outrage over what they described in headlines as Lineker’s “Nazi” comment, although he had not used the word.
The Conservative government called Lineker’s comparison offensive and unacceptable, and some lawmakers said the BBC should sack him.
The broadcaster announced Friday that Lineker would be “stepping back” until he agreed to keep his tweets within BBC impartiality rules.
Critics accused it of suppressing free speech, and the BBC was forced to scrap much of its weekend sports programming after commentators, analysts and Premier League players refused to appear on air as a show of support for Lineker.
The flagship “Match of the Day” program was reduced from the usual 90 minutes of highlights and analysis to a 20-minute compilation of clips from the day’s games, without commentary or punditry. Other TV and radio soccer shows were pulled from the schedule on Saturday and Sunday as the boycott spread.
Davie insisted Monday that the BBC “did the right thing” by suspending Lineker, but there would now be an independent review of its social media rules to address “gray areas” in the guidelines.
“Between now and when the review reports, Gary will abide by the editorial guidelines," he said.
Davie said the BBC “has a commitment to impartiality in its Charter,” as well as a commitment to freedom of expression.
“That is a difficult balancing act to get right,” he said.
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The furor reflects the distinctive nature of U.K. media, where newspapers are highly opinionated and news broadcasters are required to be balanced — especially the taxpayer-funded BBC, which has a duty to be impartial.
The crisis dramatically illustrated the pressures long faced by the 100-year-old BBC in an increasingly polarized political and media world. Those on the right often sense a leftist slant in the broadcaster’s news output, while some liberals accuse it of having a conservative bias.
Opposition politicians accuse the government of political meddling by pushing for Conservative-friendly bosses for the BBC. Davie is a former Conservative local-government candidate. BBC chairman Richard Sharp is a Conservative Party donor who helped arrange a loan in 2021 for then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson, weeks before Sharp was appointed to the BBC post on the government’s recommendation.
The Conservatives also periodically suggest changing the BBC's funding model. It gets much of its money from a license fee paid by all households with a television.
The opposition Labour Party's culture and media spokeswoman, Lucy Powell, said the Conservatives “have long wanted to undermine the BBC.”
“As well as a review of the BBC’s social media guidelines, this saga should prompt the government to examine how it protects and promotes a truly independent and impartial BBC," she said.
As part of its commitment to impartiality, the BBC bars news staff from expressing political opinions.
Lineker, as a freelancer who doesn’t work in news or current affairs, isn’t bound by the same rules and has sometimes pushed the boundaries of what the BBC considers acceptable. Last year, the BBC found that Lineker breached its rules with a tweet about alleged donations from Russians to the Conservatives.
James Harding, a former BBC director of news, said the corporation has got into a “muddle” over the issue of impartiality.
He said it was important that the broadcaster “that delivers news and information that informs the country is impartial,” but added: "You can’t get to a world in which the BBC is policing the opinions of every writer, director, musician, sports personality, scientist, business entrepreneur."
Lineker said it had been “a surreal few days” and thanked colleagues for their support. And he showed no signs of stopping his use of social media.
“A final thought: however difficult the last few days have been, it simply doesn’t compare to having to flee your home from persecution or war to seek refuge in a land far away," he tweeted to his 8.8 million followers. “It’s heartwarming to have seen the empathy towards their plight from so many of you.” | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/revolt-at-bbc-forces-broadcaster-to-reinstate-sports-host/4150737/ | 2023-03-13 16:27:53 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/revolt-at-bbc-forces-broadcaster-to-reinstate-sports-host/4150737/ |
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Whitley Co. inmate accused of attempting to bribe guard to bring drugs into jail
WHITLEY COUNTY, Ky. (WTVQ) — An inmate in the Whitley County Detention Center is accused of attempting to bribe a guard to bring drugs into the jail.
Jamie Muse allegedly asked a guard to bring drugs into the jail by an outside source, which was his mother, earlier this month, according to a Facebook post by the Whitley County Sheriff’s Department.
The guard notified his supervisors and an investigation began.
On Saturday, April 9, an operation to “[quell] an effort to bring narcotics into the detention center” was conducted.
Muse, 31, was given new charges of promoting contraband, bribery of a public servant and trafficking in controlled substances.
His mother, Stephanie Lawson, 48, was arrested and is charged with conspiracy to promote contraband, bribery of a public servant, trafficking in controlled substances and possession of marijuana. | https://www.wtvq.com/whitley-co-inmate-accused-of-attempting-to-bribe-guard-to-bring-drugs-into-jail/ | 2023-04-10 18:44:35 | 1 | https://www.wtvq.com/whitley-co-inmate-accused-of-attempting-to-bribe-guard-to-bring-drugs-into-jail/ |
FORT RUCKER, Ala (WDHN)—A Fort Rucker soldier is dead after an altercation with another soldier on the military base.
According to Fort Rucker Public Information Officer Jimmie Cummings, two Advanced Individual Training (AIT) Soldiers got into an altercation on Tuesday, December 10.
Cummings says one soldier was taken into custody by the Fort Rucker Department of Public Safety and another soldier was taken for medical treatment and later succumbed to his injuries from the altercation.
The specifics of the altercation were not released.
Fort Rucker is expected to release a statement this afternoon after the deceased soldier’s next of kin has been notified.
No further information is available at this time.
Stay with WDHN for updates. | https://www.cenlanow.com/crime/ft-rucker-soldier-dies-after-altercation/ | 2023-01-12 17:15:44 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/crime/ft-rucker-soldier-dies-after-altercation/ |
IZIUM, Ukraine — The gas line was punctured by shrapnel. Plastic sheets now hang where the windows were. A single electric heat lamp is all there is to keep the home from freezing.
Halyna Zahorodnikh, who is 71, wears layers of fleece in the apartment to stay warm.
She is one of millions of Ukrainians facing a winter that's essentially being weaponized against them.
Russia's systematic and repeated attacks on Ukraine's energy and heating infrastructure — the latest of which involved the heaviest missile strikes in a nearly nine-month war — have led to regular power outages in some of the country's largest cities.
In smaller towns like Izium, where Zahorodnikh has lived all her life, electricity is intermittent and constantly threatened by the type of long-range missile and drone strikes that have become common over the last two months of Russia's war on Ukraine.
Following last week's widespread attacks, almost half the country's energy system has been disabled, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said at a meeting with the European Commission Friday. "Russia is trying to compensate for the losses on the battlefield with missile attacks on civilian critical infrastructure," he said.
Ukraine's energy ministry has been trying to repair damaged infrastructure as quickly as it can.
"Russia tries to destroy all of the energy supply chains. Generating facilities — especially thermal power plants — distribution systems and power lines," the energy ministry said in a written statement to NPR before the most recent attacks.
The attacks have left residents and businesses scrambling for gas-powered generators and firewood. Nonprofit aid organizations, the United Nations and Western allies have started to include winter clothing, thick blankets and heating equipment in shipments to the country.
"Should there be large-scale outages for long periods of time, we simply do not have the resources to provide people in need with the assistance they will need," says Marysia Zapasnik, the International Rescue Committee's Ukraine director. "The humanitarian situation will become much more dire than it is now."
The electrical heat lamp warming Zahorodnikh's living room was given to her by an aid organization. Donated blankets line her bed. She plans to stay for winter.
And if she loses power?
"I don't know," she says, with a stubborn smile. "Maybe I'll burn my books."
Russia targets Ukraine's ability to move energy
Russia has attacked Ukraine's heating and electrical infrastructure since the start of its nearly nine-month invasion.
As early as June, Ukraine's energy minister, German Galushchenko, told NPR that Russia was looking to weaponize the coming heating season with attacks on energy resources and facilities.
Many of Russia's early strikes, Galushchenko said, were aimed at power generating sources — thermal coal and gas plants. Russia also continues to occupy the largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine — and all of Europe — in the country's south. Ukraine gets roughly 60% of its energy from nuclear power stations.
As of late October, the energy ministry says, Russian attacks have damaged about 40% of the country's thermal generation. Ninety percent of its wind power and more than 40% percent of its solar energy sources were either under occupation or damaged.
Many of Russia's more recent attacks have targeted the distribution systems, says DTEK, Ukraine's largest private power generator.
"These actions cannot be called anything other than energy terrorism and a brutal attempt to create a humanitarian disaster right in the center of Europe," DTEK says in a statement.
Attacks on substations and transformers limit Ukraine's ability to move power around and also its ability to import energy from Europe. They're also harder targets to defend against long-range attacks, says Oleksandr Kharchenko, the director of the Energy Research Center in Kyiv.
"I believe that Ukraine has enough [electrical] generation capacity," says Kharchenko. "Generation capacity has been better defended from the start of this war. But substations — there are a lot of them. It's not possible to cover each of them by special air defense [systems]."
Ukraine races to repair its electrical grid
In a small village east of Kharkiv, where the sounds of artillery and tanks can still be heard like distant thunder, Mykhailo Voinov opens the metal door of a damaged electrical substation. A thumb-sized gash, from shrapnel, mars the door.
Voinov is an electrician who's been fixing damaged Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
"There's a lot of damage from shrapnel, but this one is the worst," he says, reaching into the substation and tapping on its main component, a ribbed cylinder-shaped transformer. It's empty, he points out. The oil from it drained through a hole from the shrapnel.
Fixing this one substation will cost thousands of dollars, Voinov says. Transformers, conductors and other components for electrical substations are in short supply. His team often has to wait weeks for equipment before they can make repairs, he says.
"Repair crews are working 24/7, without a day off, to minimize the length of emergency power outages," Ukraine's energy ministry says. Still, authorities are urging residents to conserve electricity, as much of the population prepares for a long winter with regular outages.
Voinov is among them. In a small village where his family owns a dacha, a summer cottage, power is expected to be out for months. Only a few residents, including Oleksandr Lysytskyi and his wife, Svitalana Maliarova, remain.
A crater from a Russian artillery shell that landed in their yard is filled with broken glass. They buried one of their dogs in another, Lysytskyi says.
Since Russian troops were driven out of the area in mid-September, Lysytskyi says, he's been trying to prepare his house for the coming winter. They're boarding up broken windows with plywood or covering them with plastic sheets provided by the United Nations.
A wood-fire boiler provides his home with heat. The wood, he says quietly, he's been collecting from the mine-riddled woods behind their house.
Lysytskyi and his family remained in this small village throughout Russia's occupation. They'll stay, he says, through the approaching winter.
Millions of Ukrainians are expected to turn to firewood to heat their homes
Wood-burning stoves and boilers, like the kind Lysytskyi is depending on, have been in high demand across Ukraine. They're now so hard to buy that territorial defense units have taken to creating stoves by welding sheets of metal, for soldiers who will spend the winter in front-line positions.
The increased reliance on firewood has raised concerns from some environmental groups in Ukraine. Deforestation of the country's rich woodlands was a concern even before Russia's full-scale invasion. Last year, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy launched a Green Country Project, aimed at reforesting parts of the country with a million trees.
Since Russia's invasion, Ukraine's environment ministry has sent warnings to the public, making it clear that unpermitted logging is punishable by fines.
The need to protect undamaged forests is paramount, says Ruslan Strilets, the environment minister. "Because of the trenches, the explosions and fires," he says. "One-third of Ukrainian woodland has been damaged by war."
Strilets believes illegal logging won't be a major issue for the country over the winter — in part because the government has expanded a program to provide civilians with firewood to meet increased demand.
The state-run program gives residents the opportunity to buy up to roughly 530 cubic feet of firewood for the upcoming heating season. The government has more than doubled the amount of wood available for purchase, Strilets says, in anticipation of the increased need.
There are logistical issues to overcome though. Civilians need to be able to afford the firewood — a problem with the increased cost of everyday goods, like food and medicine. There are also concerns about delivery — how firewood will be transported to hard-hit places like Izium.
Bridges, roads and railways have been damaged across Ukraine and many people aren't prepared to navigate the bureaucratic process of getting wood purchased and delivered, says a resident of Izium, in far northeastern Ukraine. He prefers not to give his name because he's been illegally collecting wood for neighbors.
The man, a writer before the war, has been organizing other men to supply residents of the heavily damaged town with firewood. He's been collecting it in a burnt and torn woodland that the Russians had been using, before being driven out, as an ammunition storage site west of town.
"These trees will be cut down," he says, standing among spent Russian artillery shells. "The government will hire people and pay for this, but so far they haven't decided what to do and we have the chance to cut this wood for people who need it, and take it to them."
The work is dangerous. Unexploded ordnance litters the ground. Jagged metal is buried in the soft dirt. A local official tells NPR it will take years to demine the woodland, where residents like the man logging used to collect mushrooms.
Asked if he's worried about being fined or stepping on an explosive, the logger laughs.
"I think freezing temperatures are scarier than forestry."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.knkx.org/2022-11-20/how-russia-is-weaponizing-the-ukrainian-winter | 2022-11-21 11:49:06 | 0 | https://www.knkx.org/2022-11-20/how-russia-is-weaponizing-the-ukrainian-winter |
WASHINGTON, D.C. (NewsNation) — As the new year looms, so does a slew of new laws and regulations in across the U.S. While they’re mostly on the state level, much of this legislation will have major impacts across country.
MINIMUM WAGE
Amid inflation and no changes on the federal level, several states will raise their minimum wages in 2023.
The federal wage in the U.S. is $7.25, a rate that hasn’t been changed since 2009. As of fall 2022, 15 states have minimum wage rates that match the federal minimum wage, down from 16 last year.
In the new year, 27 states will see an increase in their minimum wage, with a majority of the states implementing them starting Jan. 1.
Of the states set to increase minimum wages in 2023, Montana will see the lowest rate at $9.95 an hour, while Washington state is the highest at $15.74 an hour.
Michigan and Ohio will raise theirs to $10.10 an hour. California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Washington and New York will all bump theirs to $15 dollars an hour or more.
On the federal level, all military members’ salaries will increase by 4.6%, due to the annual Defense Spending Bill.
NEW LEGALIZED DRUG LAWS
Six states are set to either legalize recreational marijuana use in 2023 or put marijuana up for a vote. This does not include New York, which made recreational sales legal Thursday.
Connecticut, Maryland and Missouri will roll out their rules and regulations for legalized recreational marijuana for adults over 21.
Voters in Maryland and Missouri, which currently offer medical marijuana to adults, passed ballot measures in November that approved the change.
Colorado voters also passed a ballot measure in the midterm election to legalize psychedelic mushrooms. While the substance won’t be available for some time, due to working out specifics of its regulations, the state will decriminalize those substances by Jan. 4, 2023, according to the Colorado Secretary of State’s office.
Oklahoma, Ohio and Minnesota are expected to vote on the issue in the new year.
Capped insulin prices
The cost of a life-saving drug for people with diabetes will be capped starting on Jan. 1. The Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act includes a $35 a month limit on what patients pay out of pocket for insulin. However, it’s only for patients who will qualify as seniors on Medicare.
A push in Congress to cap insulin for all Americans, not just seniors, failed. Lawmakers want to try for it again in 2023. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/new-year-new-laws-the-changes-you-can-expect-in-2023/ | 2022-12-31 00:27:56 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/new-year-new-laws-the-changes-you-can-expect-in-2023/ |
NEW YORK, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Pegasystems Inc..
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CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons and entities that purchased PEGA common stock between May 29, 2020 and May 9, 2022, inclusive.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) PEGA had engaged in corporate espionage and misappropriation of trade secrets to better compete against Appian, a principal competitor; (2) defendants' product development and associated success was, in significant part, not the result of its own research and product testing but rather the result of such corporate espionage and trade secret theft; (3) defendants had engaged in a scheme to steal Appian trade secrets, which was not only known to, but carried out through, the personal involvement of the Company's CEO; (4) the Company's CEO and other officers and employees did not comply with the Company's written Code of Conduct, including its express prohibition on "stealing" confidential information from a competitor and "misrepresenting your identity in hopes of obtaining confidential information"; (5) the Company was "unable to reasonably estimate damages" in the lawsuit filed by Appian as a result of the foregoing misconduct (the "Appian Litigation"); and (6) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' statements about PEGA's business, operations, prospects, legal compliance, and potential damages exposure in the Appian Litigation were materially false and/or misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis when made.
DEADLINE: July 18, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/pegasystems-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=28543&from=4
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TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) – Governor Laura Kelly has appointed a new secretary for the Kansas Department of Transportation following a slew of leadership vacancies announced last year.
Kelly said on Wednesday that Calvin Reed will be the next secretary for KDOT. Reed has occupied the position of acting secretary since November 2022, when former KDOT Secretary Julie Lorenz said she would be stepping down from her position alongside Deputy Secretary Burt Morey.
“Calvin Reed has long worked to ensure Kansas families and travelers can travel throughout the state safely and efficiently, making him an obvious choice to lead the agency,” Kelly said. “I welcome his continued service to Kansas and to my administration.”
A press release from the Office of the Governor states that Reed has more than 15 years of experience with KDOT. Previously, he served as bureau chief of the Structures and Geotechnical Services Division in 2019 before moving to director of the Engineering and Design Division. He is a graduate of Kansas State University with degrees in science in civil engineering.
“I am honored to be appointed by Governor Kelly to serve as the next Secretary of Transportation,” Reed said. “KDOT has a proud tradition of providing safe and efficient solutions for Kansas citizens and communities. I am excited to lead an agency that continues to deliver on these generational investments for Kansans.”
The press release went on to state that Greg Schieber, the state transportation engineer, will take up the role of acting secretary starting June 25 until Reed is approved by the Kansas Senate Confirmation Oversight Committee. Once Reed receives approval from the committee, he will start his duties as secretary for KDOT and will be up for confirmation from the Kansas Senate next year. | https://www.ksn.com/news/capitol-bureau/kansas-governor-names-new-transportation-secretary/ | 2023-06-21 20:35:25 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/capitol-bureau/kansas-governor-names-new-transportation-secretary/ |
LOS ANGELES, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rexford Industrial Realty, Inc. (the "Company" or "Rexford Industrial") (NYSE: REXR), a real estate investment trust focused on creating value by investing in and operating industrial properties located in Southern California infill markets, today announced that the Company will release second quarter 2022 financial results after the market closes on Wednesday, July 20, 2022. A conference call with senior management will be held on Thursday, July, 21, 2022, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
To participate in the live telephone conference call, please dial 1-877-407-0789 (for domestic callers) or 1-201-689-8562 (for international callers) at least five minutes prior to start time. A webcast of the conference call will also be available in a listen-only mode at ir.rexfordindustrial.com.
Conference call playback will be available through August 21, 2022 and can be accessed by dialing 1-844-512-2921 (for domestic callers) or 1-412-317-6671 (for international callers), using the pass code 13730258.
About Rexford Industrial
Rexford Industrial creates value by investing in, operating and redeveloping industrial properties throughout infill Southern California, the world's fourth largest industrial market and consistently the highest-demand, lowest supply market in the nation. The Company's highly differentiated strategy enables internal and external growth opportunities through its proprietary value creation and asset management capabilities. Rexford Industrial's high-quality, irreplaceable portfolio comprises 328 properties with approximately 39.3 million rentable square feet occupied by a stable and diverse tenant base. Structured as a real estate investment trust (REIT) listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker "REXR," Rexford Industrial is an S&P MidCap 400 Index member. For more information, please visit www.rexfordindustrial.com.
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By YURAS KARMANAU
Associated Press
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops control about 80% of the fiercely contested eastern city of Sievierodonetsk and have destroyed all three bridges leading out of it but Ukrainians were still trying to evacuate the wounded, a regional official said Tuesday.
Serhiy Haidai, governor of the eastern Luhansk region, acknowledged that a mass evacuation of civilians from Sievierodonetsk now was “simply not possible” due to the relentless shelling and fighting. Ukrainian forces have been pushed to the industrial outskirts of the city because of “the scorched earth method and heavy artillery the Russians are using,” he said.
“There is still an opportunity for the evacuation of the wounded, communication with the Ukrainian military and local residents,” he told The Associated Press by telephone, adding that Russian soldiers have not yet completely blocked off the strategic city.
About 12,000 people remain in Sievierodonetsk, from a pre-war population of 100,000. More than 500 civilians are sheltering in the Azot chemical plant, which is being relentlessly pounded by the Russians, according to Haidai.
In all, 70 civilians were evacuated from the Luhansk region in the last day, the governor said.
A Russian general, meanwhile, said a humanitarian corridor will be opened Wednesday to evacuate civilians from the Azot plant. Col. Gen. Mikhail Mizintsev said evacuees would be taken to the town of Svatovo, 60 kilometers (35 miles) to the north in territory under the control of Russian and separatist forces.
He said the plan was made after Ukraine called for an evacuation corridor leading to territory it controls.
Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Management Center, is accused by Ukraine of human rights violations while commanding troops during the long siege of Mariupol, Ukraine’s key port on the Sea of Azov, which has been taken over by the Russians.
Russian forces in the past few weeks have pressed hard to capture Ukraine’s eastern industrial Donbas area, which borders Russia and is made up of the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk.
“The situation is difficult,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a news conference Tuesday with Danish media. “Our task is to fight back.”
Zelenskyy has pleaded for more and faster deliveries of Western arms.
Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar said Tuesday the military had only received around 10% of the Western weapons it had requested “to create parity with the Russian army.”
“No matter how much effort Ukraine makes, no matter how professional our army, without the help of Western partners we will not be able to win this war,” Malyar said in a televised news conference.
She said Ukraine uses 5,000 to 6,000 artillery rounds a day, while Russia uses 10 times more.
In recent days, Ukrainian officials have spoken of the heavy human cost of the war, with the fierce fighting in the east becoming an artillery battle that has seen Kyiv’s forces outgunned and outnumbered.
Malyar said every day of delay means the loss of lives of more Ukrainian soldiers and civilians. “And therefore, unfortunately, we cannot wait very long, because the situation is very difficult,” she added.
With the conflict now in its fourth month, the battle of Donbas could dictate the course of the war.
If Russia prevails, Ukraine will lose not only land but perhaps the bulk of its most capable military forces, opening the way for Moscow to grab more territory and dictate its terms to Kyiv.
A Russian failure, however, could lay the grounds for a Ukrainian counteroffensive — and possible political upheaval for the Kremlin.
Jan Egeland, the secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, one of the aid organizations supplying food to civilians in the Donbas, said fighting in the past few weeks has made regular food distributions impossible. Now, he said, the remaining civilians in Sievierodonetsk “are almost entirely cut off from aid supplies after the destruction of the last bridge.”
Reports of overnight shelling came from other Ukrainian regions as well, with five people wounded in the northeastern Kharkiv region. According to an intelligence update Tuesday by the U.K. Defense Ministry, Russian forces appear to have made small advances in the Kharkiv region for the first time in several weeks.
A regional Ukrainian military official said the country’s air defense shot down two Russian cruise missiles targeting the region around Odesa, Ukraine’s main port on the Black Sea.
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MORE STORIES ON THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
— Ukrainians use humor to cope with the trauma of war
— Bucolic Ukraine forest is site of mass grave exhumation
— Russia lowers gas flows to Europe through pipeline
— Pope blasts Russian ‘cruelty, ’ lauds Ukrainian ‘heroism’
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
U.S. President Joe Biden says he’s working closely with European partners to get 20 million tons of Ukrainian grain, currently blocked from leaving Black Sea ports due to Russia’s invasion, onto international markets.
He said Tuesday the plan would involve building temporary storage silos on Ukraine’s borders to deal with the problem of the different rail gauges that Ukrainian and European railway systems use.
“Ukraine has a system, like Russia has, a rail gauge that is different than the gauge of the rest of the tracks in Europe,” Biden said. “So we’re going to build silos, temporary silos, in the borders of Ukraine, including in Poland. So we can transfer it from those cars into those silos, into cars in Europe and get it out to the ocean and get it across the world. But it’s taking time.”
Ukraine is one of the world’s biggest exporters of wheat, corn and sunflower oil. The lack of Ukrainian grain on world markets is threatening to exacerbate food shortages and inflation across the world. Many African and Middle Eastern countries rely heavily on Ukrainian grain and could face problems feeding their people without it.
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Nearly two-thirds of the children in Ukraine have been uprooted during the war, according to a U.N. official who visited the country last week.
“The war in Ukraine is a child rights crisis,” Afshan Khan told a news briefing Tuesday. She’s the Europe and Central Asia director for UNICEF, the U.N. children’s agency.
Khan said 277 children in Ukraine have been killed and 456 injured, mostly due to explosives used in urban areas. She said the number of damaged schools is likely in the thousands, and only about 25% of schools in Ukraine are even operational.
Millions of Ukrainian women and children have fled the country since the Russian invasion in February.
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French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Romania on Tuesday to hold talks and meet with French troops stationed there as part of NATO’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Macron’s visit to Romania, a European Union member since 2007 and a NATO member since 2004, was the beginning of a regional tour that includes a visit Wednesday to non-NATO Moldova. Both countries share long borders with Ukraine.
“Nobody knows what is in store for us in the coming weeks and months, but we will do all we can to put an end to the Russian invasion, to help Ukrainians and continue with negotiations,” Macron said at the eastern Mihail Kogalniceanu air base, where he was greeted by Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca.
In a brief address to French soldiers deployed at the NATO base, Macron praised them for “honoring our commitment to defend Europe as war is being waged again.”
France has around 500 soldiers deployed in Romania.
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The Kremlin says Russia would be ready to consider a U.K. appeal over the fate of two Britons sentenced to death for fighting for Ukraine.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said neither Moscow nor the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine who passed the sentence had heard from London on the issue.
“You need to apply … to the authorities of the country whose court passed the verdict, and that is not the Russian Federation,” Peskov said. “But, of course, everything will depend on appeals from London. And I am sure that the Russian side will be ready to listen.”
Britons Aiden Aslin and Sean Pinner, and Moroccan national Brahim Saadoun, were accused of fighting as mercenaries for Ukraine in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. They were sentenced to death in proceedings that London called “a sham.”
Separatist authorities said all three had a month to appeal their sentence. Kyiv has pledged to try to secure their release through a prisoner swap with Russia.
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Russian natural gas deliveries through a major pipeline to Europe will drop by around 40% this year, state-controlled energy giant Gazprom said Tuesday, after Canadian sanctions over the war in Ukraine prevented German partner Siemens Energy from delivering overhauled equipment.
Germany’s utility network agency said it did not see gas supplies as endangered and that reduced flows through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline under the Baltic Sea aligned with commercial behavior and Russia’s previously announced cutoff of gas to Denmark and the Netherlands, the German news agency dpa reported. The Federal Network Agency said it was monitoring the situation.
Spot gas prices rose in Europe, a sign of jitters over possible further effects of the war on supplies of Russian gas, which powers industry and generates electricity on the continent.
The European Union has outlined plans to reduce dependence on Russian gas by two-thirds by year’s end. Economists say a complete cutoff would deal a severe blow to the economy, consumers and gas-intensive industries.
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Russia’s foreign ministry says it has banned dozens of British media and defense figures from entering the country.
A statement on the ministry website Tuesday said the ban on 29 journalists and commentators was a response to what it claimed was the British media’s “deliberate dissemination of false and one-sided information” on Russia and its war in Ukraine.
The list included senior editors and correspondents for the BBC and the Times and Guardian newspapers.
Also banned were 20 people including Britain’s navy chief, a junior defense minister, and senior executives at defense and aerospace firms Thales UK and BAE Systems.
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The prime ministers of NATO members Albania and Montenegro are heading for Kyiv after an invitation from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Albania’s Edi Rama announced the trip on social media, with a photo of him boarding a plane Tuesday accompanied by Montenegro’s Dritan Abazovic.
Both Balkan countries have denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and joined the sanctions against Moscow.
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Ukrainian authorities said Tuesday they had received the remains of 64 defenders of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol in the latest body swap with Russia.
The statement by the Ministry for Reintegration of Occupied Territories said the exchange took place in the Zaporizhzhia region, but didn’t clarify how many bodies were returned to Russia.
It was one of the several swaps the warring sides have conducted. Earlier this month Moscow and Kyiv exchanged 160 bodies each. There was no immediate confirmation from Moscow on the swap reported by Ukraine on Tuesday.
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DUBLIN, Ohio, May 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHAT:
It's finals time, a.k.a. the season of all-nighters in the library. Wendy's® knows late-night cram sessions can leave you hungry for the right answers – and for a late-night snack, so it is 'Fueling Fry-nals' this year with a FREE Medium Size Hot & Crispy Fry with purchase.* That's right, late-night study sessions just got a whole lot more delicious.
WHERE & WHEN:
From Monday, May 1 through Sunday, May 7, Wendy's is helping hungry Philadelphia-area college students fuel their late-night study sessions from 9 p.m. to midnight via an exclusive in-restaurant and drive-thru offer at participating locations.*
WHY:
Wendy's is always open until midnight or later to fuel students' and fans' late night cravings. Check your local restaurant as hours may vary.
HOW:
No matter your major, Wendy's fans can get this 'Fuel for Fry-nals' deal via by asking for their 'Fuel for Fry-nals' free medium size Hot & Crispy Fry with purchase* and showing their valid student ID at participating Philly-area Wendy's restaurants. Extra credit - don't forget to download the Wendy's mobile app and earn points for free food when ordering with Wendy's Rewards™**. Yep, free food for eating your favorite Wendy's menu items.
An A+ deal to close out the school year. 'Fry'nally, a reason to celebrate!
ABOUT WENDY'S:
Wendy's was founded in 1969 by Dave Thomas in Columbus, Ohio. Dave built his business on the premise, "Quality Is Our Recipe®", which remains the guidepost of the Wendy's system. Wendy's is best known for its made-to-order square hamburgers, using fresh, never frozen beef***, freshly-prepared salads, and other signature items like chili, baked potatoes and the Frosty® dessert. The Wendy's Company (Nasdaq: WEN) is committed to doing the right thing and making a positive difference in the lives of others. This is most visible through the Company's support of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption® and its signature Wendy's Wonderful Kids® program, which seeks to find a loving, forever home for every child in the North American foster care system. Today, Wendy's and its franchisees employ hundreds of thousands of people across approximately 7,000 restaurants worldwide with a vision of becoming the world's most thriving and beloved restaurant brand. For details on franchising, connect with us at www.wendys.com/franchising. Visit www.wendys.com and www.squaredealblog.com for more information and connect with us on Twitter and Instagram using @wendys, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/wendys.
*Limited time only at participating Philadelphia area Wendy's on May 1 – 7 from 9 pm - midnight. Must request a free medium size fry with purchase and show a valid student ID in order to obtain discount. No substitutions. Offer not valid on third-party delivery platforms.
**Wendy's Rewards available at participating U.S. Wendy's. My Wendy's™ account registration and use required to earn points and redeem rewards. Points have no monetary value. See www.wendys.com/Rewards for details.
***Fresh beef available in the contiguous U.S., Alaska and Canada.
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Besides the Manhattan DA's probe, Trump faces federal investigations By Leila Fadel, Ryan Lucas Published March 24, 2023 at 7:16 AM EDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 3:41 Former U.S. President Donald Trump is facing a multitude of legal challenges. What's the status of those investigations? Copyright 2023 NPR | https://www.mainepublic.org/2023-03-24/besides-the-manhattan-das-probe-trump-faces-federal-investigations | 2023-03-24 12:23:22 | 1 | https://www.mainepublic.org/2023-03-24/besides-the-manhattan-das-probe-trump-faces-federal-investigations |
FALLSTON, Md. (AP) — A Maryland man, whose father called law enforcement to report him suicidal, was taken into custody early Friday, ending a 39-hour manhunt during which he wounded two Baltimore County police officers in separate shootings and holed up in a wooded area behind a suburban shopping center, authorities said.
David Linthicum, 24, was already on the run when he shot the second officer, a detective, and stole his department-issued vehicle Thursday night, police said.
Officers eventually stopped Linthicum about 20 miles away using spike strips. From there, Linthicum fled into the woods but was surrounded by officers from multiple law enforcement agencies, with a helicopter illuminating the scene from above. Eight hours later and without further injury, they had him in handcuffs, authorities said.
The ordeal began when police responded to a call about a person in distress at Linthicum’s Baltimore County home Wednesday afternoon. When an officer arrived, Linthicum’s father told the officer his son was suicidal. Together, they walked downstairs to Linthicum’s room in the basement, according to charging documents.
“As they entered the bedroom, they saw David Linthicum laying on his bed and holding a high-powered rifle,” the documents say.
Linthicum fired about 15 rounds toward the officer and his father, who both “fled the residence to seek cover from any further gunshots,” according to police. The officer realized he had been struck and was transported to a hospital; Linthicum fled the scene.
After receiving treatment, the officer was discharged from the hospital later that night.
Meanwhile, federal and state law enforcement joined the manhunt that would continue throughout the following day and night as Linthicum evaded capture.
Around 9:20 p.m. Thursday, authorities warned residents to shelter in place in the area surrounding Linthicum’s home, saying he had been spotted nearby.
In an update Friday afternoon, officials with the Baltimore County Police Department said the detective, who was patrolling the area in connection with the manhunt, saw Linthicum walking along a road near his house.
When the detective exited his unmarked pickup truck and approached the suspect on foot, Linthicum raised a rifle and pulled the trigger, firing numerous rounds and striking the officer multiple times, according to charging documents. The officer returned fire as Linthicum stole the truck and drove away, the documents say.
The detective suffered gunshot wounds to his face, torso, leg and arms, police wrote. He had been wearing a ballistic vest and was in stable condition as of Friday morning, Interim Baltimore County Police Chief Dennis Delp said during a news conference.
“He’s going to need a significant amount of reconstruction,” said Dr. Thomas Scalea, physician in chief at the University of Maryland Medical System’s Shock Trauma Center, who told reporters outside the hospital Thursday night that the detective was on life-support. “He’ll be with us for a while.”
In a statement released Friday afternoon, Gov. Wes Moore asked Marylanders to keep the injured officer in their thoughts.
“He and his fellow officers are true heroes, who unselfishly put their lives on the line to protect Marylanders,” Moore said. “We are grateful to have restored peace in the communities affected and vow to bring this individual to justice.”
Once Linthicum was surrounded in the woods Thursday night, officers used several “less lethal” tactics to encourage him to surrender, including flash bangs. He tried to hide in a rocky area, but officers used a helicopter and drones to locate him before he was finally captured at around 5:45 a.m. Friday, Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler said.
“Eventually it culminated in our personnel going hands-on with him and physically, after some resistance, being able to place him into custody,” Gahler said.
He said Linthicum was intermittently communicating with officers during the standoff, but much of what he said was irrelevant to the situation at hand. For example, in response to the flash bangs, Linthicum made a comment about how much he likes fireworks, Gahler said.
Linthicum “sustained no injuries as a result of his arrest,” but was sent for a medical review “out of an abundance of caution,” the sheriff said.
He was later transferred into Baltimore County Police custody, officials announced Friday afternoon.
“Our community is safer with this individual in custody where he belongs,” Gahler added at a news conference.
Gahler said police found a firearm in the recovered vehicle and Linthicum had ammunition on him when he was arrested. The area was being searched in case he dropped another firearm in the woods.
Linthicum has been charged with 11 total offenses, including armed carjacking and three counts of attempted first-degree murder.
Harford County schools in the Fallston area were closed Friday. Some Baltimore County schools were also closed Thursday while the manhunt was underway.
Court records show Linthicum pleaded guilty to drug possession with intent to distribute in 2019 and received probation before judgment. Officials said there was no immediate indication drugs were involved in the latest crimes.
A person who answered the phone Friday morning at a number listed under Linthicum’s father’s name declined to comment.
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Skene reported from Baltimore.
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SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The National Weather Service upgraded a Flood Advisory to a Flood Warning for San Francisco Wednesday night. Flooding on urban streets is imminent as rain continues pouring overnight, city officials said.
San Francisco activated its Emergency Operations Center to coordinate storm operations and emergency responses.
“We want people to stay indoors. We want them to stay home. Wind gusts will pick up 50-70 mph, trees will be falling, power outages will occur, floods will be happening in the city. The rainfall is coming down hard and it’s not letting up anytime soon,” Mayor London Breed told reporters.
PG&E reported that more than 10,500 customers lost power this evening.
Mary Ellen Carroll, executive director of the Department of Emergency Management, said at 5 p.m., “It was a quiet day until an hour ago. Our 911 operations center is extremely busy right now. We’ve received a half inch of rain today, however, that number is going to go up significantly over the next few hours. Stay off the roads. If you encounter a flooded area, please do not drive through it.
“It’s going to be a long night for us,” Carroll added.
Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches are possible, according to the NWS.
The San Francisco Fire Department rescued a family who was pinned inside their car after a tree toppled over on Larkin Street.
San Francisco didn’t have enough time to dry out after a New Year’s Eve storm nearly set a record for the city’s 24-hour rainfall total. The last day of 2022 saw more than 5 inches of rain, the city’s second-wettest day in the past 170 years.
San Francisco residents should only call 911 is they are facing a life-threatening situation, according to Breed. Residents should call 311 for non-life-threatening issues or go to sf311.org, the mayor said.
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A new wave of anger swept through Uvalde on Tuesday over surveillance footage of police officers in body armor milling in the hallway of Robb Elementary School while a gunman carried out a massacre inside a fourth-grade classroom where 19 children and two teachers were killed.
The video published Tuesday by the Austin American-Statesman is a disturbing 80-minute recording of what has been known for weeks now about one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history: that heavily armed police officers, some armed with rifles and bulletproof shields, massed in the hallway and waited more than an hour before going inside and stopping the May 24 slayings.
But the footage, which until now had not surfaced publicly, anguished Uvalde residents anew and redoubled calls in the small South Texas city for accountability and explanations that have been incomplete — and sometimes inaccurate — in the seven weeks since the shooting. Hours after the video was published, some residents at a Uvalde City Council meeting said they had not been able to bring themselves to watch it.
Jesus Rizo said officers who are paid taxpayer dollars to protect people should not have “sat there” when children were in danger.
“You could’ve saved some lives. You could have held somebody’s hand as they were dying,” he said. “The parents could have seen them one last time as they were dying.”
Others demanded consequences for police and more information in an investigation marked by confusing statements that have had to be retracted at times.
“Give these families some closure,” said Daniel Myers, a pastor in Uvalde and family friend to one of the victims.
An investigative committee led by Texas lawmakers had earlier announced plans to show the video to Uvalde residents for the first time Sunday, in addition to sharing their findings after weeks of closed-door testimony from more than 40 witnesses.
“This has been the most unprofessional investigation or handling of it that I’ve ever seen in my life,” Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin said in an interview with The Associated Press. “These families get blindsided constantly.”
The footage from a hallway camera inside the school shows the gunman entering the building with an AR-15 style rifle and includes 911 tape of a teacher screaming, “Get down! Get in your rooms! Get in your rooms!”
Two officers approach the classrooms minutes after the gunman enters, then run back amid the sounds of gunfire.
As the gunman first approaches the classrooms a child whose image is blurred can be seen poking their head around a corner down the hallway and then running back while shots ring out. Later, about 20 minutes before police breach the room, the video shows a man wearing a vest that says “sheriff” use a hand sanitizer dispenser mounted on the wall.
Throughout the video, the screams of children are redacted.
Officials said the 77 minutes of footage they are preparing to release this weekend does not contain images of children in the classroom. Rep. Dustin Burrows, a Republican who is leading the investigation, said after the video was posted by the Statesman that “watching the entire segment of law enforcement’s response, or lack thereof, is also important.”
But the video alone does not answer all the questions that remain — nearly two months later — about the law enforcement response. Among them are how schools police Chief Pete Arredondo came to the forefront of the massive law enforcement response involving numerous local, state and federal agencies.
State authorities have cast Arredondo as the on-scene commander and said his errors delayed police killing the gunman. Arredondo, however, has told the Texas Tribune he didn’t consider himself to be in charge of operations and that he assumed someone else had taken control of the law enforcement response. He did not have a police radio at the time.
The roles of the ranking on-scene officers from other agencies, including the Texas Department of Public Safety, remain unclear. McLaughlin has accused DPS of minimizing its involvement in the response and releasing inaccurate timelines.
Last week, a critique of the police response written by tactical experts and requested by DPS alleged that a Uvalde police officer had a chance to open fire on the gunman before he entered the school. McLaughlin has said that account was inaccurate.
“All they keep doing is piling missed facts on missed facts, and throwing it out there and see what sticks,” McLaughlin said.
In a statement, DPS Director Steve McCraw said the video provides “horrifying evidence” that the law enforcement response was a failure. | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2022/07/13/uvalde-s-new-anguish--video-shows-police-waiting-in-school | 2022-07-13 13:10:36 | 1 | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2022/07/13/uvalde-s-new-anguish--video-shows-police-waiting-in-school |
Supreme Court won't hear dispute over California law prohibiting sale of foie gras
CA animal cruelty law bars restaurants and retailers from selling foie gras in the state
- The Supreme Court will not get involved in an argument over a California animal cruelty law that prohibits foie gras from being sold in the state.
- Foie gras is made from the enlarged livers of force-fed ducks and geese, and animal welfare groups had supported the law.
- The law doesn’t completely forbid Californians from eating foie Gras. Courts ruled that residents can still order foie gras from out-of-state producers and have it sent to them.
The Supreme Court said Monday it won't get involved in a dispute over a California animal cruelty law that bars foie gras from being sold in the state, leaving in place a lower court ruling dismissing the case.
Foie gras is made from the enlarged livers of force-fed ducks and geese, and animal welfare groups had supported the law. As is typical, the court did not comment in declining to hear the case, and it was among many the court said Monday it would not hear.
The law doesn’t completely bar Californians from eating foie gras in the state. Courts have ruled that residents can still order foie gras from out-of-state producers and have it sent to them. Restaurants and retailers are still forbidden from selling it or giving it away, however.
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The foie gras case had been on hold at the high court while the justices considered a different case involving another California animal cruelty law, that one governing the sale of pork in the state. In that case, the justices earlier this month backed that law, which requires more space for breeding pigs. The pork industry has said the ruling will lead to higher costs nationwide for pork chops and bacon.
California's foie gras law, however, predates the pork law and went into effect in July 2012. It says: "A product may not be sold in California if it is the result of force feeding a bird for the purpose of enlarging the bird’s liver beyond normal size."
Farmers and producers of poultry products in Canada sued over the law along with New York-based Hudson Valley Foie Gras. The case has been going on since 2012. Most recently, a trial court dismissed the case and a federal appeals court agreed with that outcome. The Supreme Court’s decision not to step in leaves that decision in place. | https://www.foxnews.com/us/supreme-court-wont-hear-dispute-california-law-prohibiting-sale-foie-gras | 2023-05-22 21:04:13 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/us/supreme-court-wont-hear-dispute-california-law-prohibiting-sale-foie-gras |
AUSTIN, Texas and AKRON, Ohio, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RVshare, the largest community for RV owners and renters, is announcing today its recent accolade as a winner in Good Housekeeping's 2023 Family Travel Awards. The full list of awards can be found on goodhousekeeping.com/familytravel2023.
RVshare is the first online RV rental platform, offering the largest selection of trusted RV rentals in the country. Connecting RV owners with travelers looking to hit the open road, RVshare provides a range of high quality vehicle options, from cozy camper vans and family-friendly trailers with multiple bunk beds to drivable units perfect for a long road trip. Encapsulating the spirit of adventure and the spontaneous delight that awaits you on a road trip, RVshare opens up the possibilities of exploring the great outdoors for all travelers. Renters may choose to have their RV delivered and set up at their campground, like a mobile hotel room, or jump in the driver's seat themselves to map out their adventure.
"We have long admired Good Housekeeping's excellent travel tips and recommendations, particularly when it comes to families, as this demographic is a significant part of RVshare's customer base," said RVshare's CEO, Jon Gray. "We are honored to have been recognized by the publication in its first-ever Family Travel Awards. One of RVshare's main priorities is to make RV travel more accessible to families, allowing travelers of all ages to make the most of an RV vacation - without having to purchase an RV. Much of RVshare's success starts with our consumers. We always prioritize our travelers' sentiments and values, focusing on ever-evolving industry trends in an effort to remain a leader in the outdoor travel industry."
Interest in RVing has boomed since 2020, proving the travel category is here to stay. According to RVshare's 2023 Travel Trends Report, 99 percent of Americans are planning leisure travel in 2023, with 51 percent planning more than last year - and among them, 61 percent are planning on taking a road trip or vacation in an RV. Over 3 in 5 travelers (62%) are likely to consider renting an RV for a trip in the future, a 9-point increase over 2021. As a travel option, RVing offers travelers greater flexibility to change their schedule (59% agree), lower costs by avoiding fees for extra luggage (52% agree) and the ability to budget around predictable travel costs (47% agree). Families are one of the largest groups interested in RVing with over 4 in 5 parents (81%) reporting they're likely to consider renting an RV for a trip in the future. Even more, nearly 3 in 4 parents (71%) say they're much more likely to consider an RV trip if the RV is delivered to them at their destination and picked up after the trip as well, a popular amenity offered by RVshare.
The full list of Family Travel 2023 Awards is now live and can be found on www.goodhousekeeping.com/family-travel-awards-2023/. For additional information about RVshare, visit rvshare.com.
RVshare is the largest online community for RV renters and owners with a diverse selection of vehicles for rent across the US, ranging from luxury motorhomes to cozy camper vans. On RVshare you'll find vehicles that can accommodate any outdoor adventure, whether it's a weekend of camping or a cross-country tour of national parks. Hit the road yourself or plan for a campsite delivery to experience the unbridled freedom of RV travel. With more than 3 million nights of sleeping under the stars booked, families and groups can experience a one-of-a-kind trip and create memories that will last a lifetime. For more information, visit rvshare.com, and follow us on Facebook and Instagram @rvshare.
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Electrically driven, alternative-fuels-capable pump supports vehicle electrification
DETROIT, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stanadyne, a leading global fuel and air management systems supplier, has developed an electrically driven gasoline direct injection (GDI) fuel pump as part of its approach to fuel delivery system technology based on electrification. Called the "E-Pump Module," it is powered by 24- and 48-volt vehicle architectures and is decoupled from the internal combustion engine drivetrain. This enables the fuel flow and pressure to be electrically controlled to optimize and reduce fuel consumption, as the pump speed is now independent of engine revolutions per minute.
"Moving to an electrically powered GDI pump breaks from the standard design of connecting it to the engine for operation," said Stanadyne Chief Technology Officer Dr. Brad Stroia. "This is an important innovation for hybrid vehicles. Pump operation can be reduced, or even suspended entirely, when the engine has low fuel delivery demand to improve overall vehicle efficiency."
The E-Pump's compact, modular, and scalable design uses a Stanadyne proprietary controller and software. It is scalable for 250- to 500-bar fuel systems and suitable for a wide range of engine applications. The pump is compatible with E10 to E85 and M15 fuels with a top-end fueling capacity of 1000 cc per revolution (up to 100 liters per hour).
When tested on a demonstration vehicle and compared to base 200-250 bar GDI system technology on a 2.0 liter turbo engine:
- Emissions were reduced by an approximately 10 percent.
- Mechanical noise emission was reduced by approximately 9 dB(A).
- Start time was improved by approximately 0.7 seconds.
- A system pressures of up to 400 bar were achieved.
"Stanadyne's new E-Pump enables vehicle electrification by offering lower power absorption, a quieter noise signature, and features such as start-stop and on-demand fueling, providing higher system efficiency by decoupling vehicle accessories from the engine," said Stroia. "Its lower fuel consumption provides environmentally friendly emissions benefits that help reduce pollution."
Stanadyne's Electrified Gas Direct Injection Fuel Pump is the first in a line of electrified products being developed by Stanadyne to enable clean propulsion for electrified applications. It is making its industry debut at the North American International Auto Show (aka Detroit Auto Show) and will be on display at the company's Automobili-D vehicle pod during Industry Days being held September 14-15, 2022.
Stanadyne designs, manufactures, and remanufactures fuel delivery systems and components for gasoline and diesel engines, as well as low-carbon alternative fuels. Founded in 1873, the company specializes in pioneering technology for engines that move our world and remanufactured components that help keep them operating efficiently. The company provides customers with customized design, engineering, and manufacturing solutions from its United States, China, Italy, India, and United Arab Emirates locations in partnership with its global aftermarket service dealers and distributor network. For more information, visit stanadyne.com.
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Three inmates at the Santa Fe County jail, a young jail guard and the mother and wife of an inmate are accused of smuggling drugs into the facility in a joint operation that lasted four months.
The jail began investigating the alleged plot in January, monitoring alleged suspicious phone calls between 38-year-old Martin Flores and his loved ones, according to court documents. The case eventually was referred to the Region III Narcotics Task Force, which began its own investigation in February, and the six accused co-conspirators — who include murder suspect Jay Wagers — were charged last week.
A statement of probable cause filed March 7 in Santa Fe County Magistrate Court says the alleged plot began to unravel after jail investigators conducted a search March 6 on 22-year-old corrections officer Gabriel Roque and found 122 suspected Suboxone strips in his car. A tip about the drug smuggling ring spurred the investigation, according to the statement.
Roque told investigators the operation had started about four months earlier.
He had not been paid to deliver the Suboxone strips March 6, he said, according to charging documents, but stood to make up to $10,000 from the delivery. He also claimed he had felt threatened by the other suspects and alleged 22-year-old Isaac Barela, one of the inmates accused in the operation, was sharing information about his family with other detainees.
Roque, who was released from jail March 7, is charged with bringing contraband into a jail, distributing a controlled substance and conspiracy to commit distribution of a controlled substance. His next hearing is scheduled Wednesday morning.
Warden Derek Williams said the jail attracts a lot of younger workers, which can be difficult. He added the job can come with intimidation and manipulation from inmates and corrections officers can be baited into participating in illegal activity. However, he said, staff are trained to avoid such pressures.
Santa Fe County spokeswoman Cindy McKee declined to confirm Roque’s current employment status, citing the county’s policy of not commenting on personnel matters.
Court documents allege inmate Martin Flores had organized the operation with help from his wife, Crystal Flores, 41, and his mother, 58-year-old Carolyn Flores, an employee of the nonprofit Life Link, which provides behavioral health services, including substance abuse treatment, as well as housing aid for the homeless and other resources in the community.
Investigators noted an “inordinate” amount of calls between Martin Flores and his mother, which included well-known code words used by jail inmates such as “ribbons” and “blue cushion pillows,” which refer to Suboxone and fentanyl pills, respectively, according to his arrest warrant affidavit.
Another coded phrase heard in the calls was “birthday party,” which investigators believe signified plans to smuggle drugs into the jail, the affidavit says.
Martin Flores also was heard on calls instructing his wife how to wrap gifts and directing her to give the gifts to his mother, who was the only person able to visit him in jail, the affidavit says.
The Floreses’ calls included mentions of an “Uncle Charles,” an alias investigators eventually tied to Roque through at least two informants and monitoring of Martin Flores’ jail pod. Roque told investigators he had met with Carolyn Flores at The Life Link at least twice to pick up drugs from her, according to an affidavit.
The three inmates and Martin Flores’ wife and mother were charged with bribery of public officer or employee; distribution of a controlled substance; conspiracy to commit distribution of a controlled substance; and conspiracy to commit bribery of public officer or employee.
Crystal Flores is the only suspect who had not been arrested as of late Tuesday afternoon.
Wagers, 27, and Carolyn Flores attended virtual hearings Tuesday in Magistrate Court. Carolyn Flores was granted interim conditions of release.
Wagers, who is accused of fatally shooting 39-year-old Joseph Aiello on Oct. 4, 2021, at a home on Alamosa Drive and then carrying out a violent crime spree later that day, will remain incarcerated.
New Mexico Department of Public Safety Lt. Scott McFaul, who leads the Region III Narcotics Task Force in Northern New Mexico, did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
Life Link CEO Michael DeBernardi said in a statement late Tuesday afternoon the organization intends to cooperate fully with investigators.
He referred to Carolyn Flores as a former employee but did not provide details on her position.
“Given our philosophy that substance abuse and addiction present ongoing public health concerns, we at The Life Link were disheartened to learn that a former employee is the subject of an investigation into drug distribution at the jail,” DeBernardi wrote in his statement. “This unfortunate development not only saddens us tremendously, but deepens our resolve to mitigate the harmful effects of substance abuse and addiction in our community.”
The warden said he has not had any conversations with The Life Link about Carolyn Flores’ arrest and added he was not aware of Flores ever visiting the jail in the capacity of a Life Link employee.
“We’ll probably have some kind of correspondence about proactive efforts to screen — better screen — individuals that are working in partnership with the facility,” Williams said.
When asked if the jail will consider adding extra measures to prevent corrections staff from engaging in illegal activity, Williams said Roque’s arrest speaks for itself.
“This end result is … probably the best deterrent because it’s showing people that we actively do investigate any type of concerns, whether it’s inmate or staff, and that we will push it to the furthest extent of the law,” Williams said. | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/santa-fe-county-jail-guard-life-link-employee-charged-in-alleged-drug-ring/article_984fc15a-c27c-11ed-8197-fb6a66834f5b.html | 2023-03-15 13:49:15 | 0 | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/santa-fe-county-jail-guard-life-link-employee-charged-in-alleged-drug-ring/article_984fc15a-c27c-11ed-8197-fb6a66834f5b.html |
Former National League MVP Cody Bellinger and the Chicago Cubs have agreed to a $17.5 million, one-year contract, a person familiar with the negotiations tells The Associated Press.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity Tuesday because the agreement was subject to a successful physical.
Bellinger, the 2019 NL MVP, was cut by the Los Angeles Dodgers on Nov. 18 after the 27-year-old outfielder hit .210 with 19 homers, 150 strikeouts and a .654 OPS in 144 games.
“Got a track record of a lot of success and dynamic defense,” Cubs manager David Ross said at the winter meetings in San Diego. “I remember when he first got in the league first base, smooth hands, dynamic center fielder, great outfielder. Hadn’t had the success he had early on, but definitely a lot of potential for a great player.”
Bellinger figures to play center for the Cubs. He had a $17 million contract this season and likely would have received a slight raise in arbitration.
“Playing through an injury, trying to come back and learning how to balance, wanting to be out on the field and actually getting fully healthy, I think is what a lot of players in my experience deal with and try to rush back and maybe not getting all the way there,” Ross said.
“Getting into a space where you’ve got a leg issue, you’ve got a shoulder issue, and you get into some bad habits," Ross said. "Bad habits create mistakes or make it tougher to hit, and then you get into this rabbit hole of chasing the feeling that you used to have.”
Bellinger was limited to 95 games during the 2021 regular season when he was on the injured list three times and batted .165. He hit .353 in 12 games in that postseason and had the go-ahead RBI single in Game 5 of the NL Division Series against the rival San Francisco Giants. Bellinger also had a tying, three-run homer against Atlanta in Game 3 of the NL Championship Series.
In 2020, Bellinger hit .239 with 12 home runs in 56 games during the pandemic-shortened season. He homered three times in the NLCS, and the Dodgers beat the Braves to reach the World Series. They went on to defeat Tampa Bay in six games to win the franchise’s first title since 1988.
Bellinger has battled injuries since his MVP season, including having surgery on his right shoulder in November 2020.
Before his precipitous drop-off, Bellinger was the 2017 NL Rookie of the Year and 2018 NLCS MVP. He made two All-Star teams, and won a Gold Glove in 2019.
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is warning that China is trying to replace the dollar with the yuan as the world’s most traded currency and has evaded U.S. sanctions on Russia by setting up transfer trade system independent of Western banks.
Rubio, in an op-ed for The Telegraph, a British news site, warned that the United States’ ability to punish other countries through financial and banking sanctions is being challenged by China’s yuan, which is now the most traded currency in Russia.
“This alternative financial system is currently limited by its scope,” Rubio wrote. “Nevertheless, it is providing a lifeline to Vladimir Putin as he resists punitive measures in the wake of his invasion of Ukraine.”
Rubio warned the emergence of an alternative financial system “creates a blind spot” in which other nations and companies that do business with the United States “can hide questionable behavior from the global community.”
“Moreover, as China’s economy continues to grow, more nations will enter Beijing’s orbit and this emerging system” of alternative finance, Rubio wrote.
“Two policy conclusions should follow from these developments. The first is that we need to revitalize domestic manufacturing,” the Florida senator said, arguing that “to survive and thrive in a multipolar era, we need to be able to make things again — from semiconductors to pharmaceuticals and everything in between.”
Rubio said the second takeaway is that the United States needs to get better and making and keeping allies and can “no longer count on foreign countries to follow our lead by default.”
“To balance Beijing’s growing anti-American coalition and to keep the dollar as strong as possible, the U.S. must build a coalition of its own,” he wrote.
Rubio said in a follow-up interview with The Hill that China appears to have accelerated its efforts to create a global financial system in parallel with the West in reaction to the strict sanctions placed on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine.
“The Chinese are thinking that’s there’s going to be a Western-led sanctions as a result of something that happens in Taiwan. I think they begin to view as, ‘Well, this is the best way to protect ourselves, to make sure we can conduct business,’” he said.
Rubio said an alternative financial system also give countries that want to buy Russian oil at a discount a way to circumvent U.S. sanctions.
“I think the Chinese see an opportunity now and you’re beginning to see them make moves,” he said.
Rubio said he still believes sanctions are “effective” but he warned that the current and future administrations need to be “mindful” that the more sanctions that are applied internationally, the more incentive there will be for countries to participate in an alternative financial system based on the yuan.
“If you sanction enough countries, you create almost a common market of economies that have an interest in an alternative way to conduct business with one another,” he said, noting that China has long tried to create an alternative to the SWIFT, the messaging network that underpins the global system for financial transfers.
“I think it will be probably be accelerated now,” he said. “Recent events, what’s happened with Ukraine and now with the specter of Taiwan it probably has accelerated their timeline.”
He said the Chinese eventually want to create “a new global order.”
“They said this, it’s open —especially if you read the English translation of the Mandarin speeches — it’s pretty clear they’re offering not just an alternative but one they believe will become the dominant world order in which they’re creating parallel institutions to everything that was created after World War II: the World Bank, the IMF, existing trade agreements and so forth. And I think that eventually the currency is going to be part of it,” he said.
“They operate on 50-year plans, not two-week plans like we do,” he added. “It was always to replace or supplant the U.S. as the world’s dominant economy on every front.” | https://www.koin.com/hill-politics/rubio-warns-china-is-trying-to-topple-dollars-global-dominance/ | 2023-05-17 19:14:01 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/hill-politics/rubio-warns-china-is-trying-to-topple-dollars-global-dominance/ |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows is unconstitutional, a federal judge says.
The law is both “unconstitutionally vague and substantially overbroad” and encouraged “discriminatory enforcement,” according to the ruling late Friday by U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump.
“There is no question that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment. But there is a difference between material that is ‘obscene’ in the vernacular, and material that is ‘obscene’ under the law,” Parker said.
“Simply put, no majority of the Supreme Court has held that sexually explicit — but not obscene — speech receives less protection than political, artistic, or scientific speech,” he said.
The law would have banned adult cabaret performances from public property or anywhere minors might be present. Performers who broke the law risked being charged with a misdemeanor or a felony for a repeat offense.
Parker used the example of a female performer wearing an Elvis Presley costume and mimicking the iconic musician who could be at risk of punishment under the drag law because they would be considered a “male impersonator.”
Friends of George’s, a Memphis-based LGBTQ+ theater company, filed a complaint in March, saying the law would negatively impact them because they produce “drag-centric performances, comedy sketches, and plays” with no age restrictions.
“This win represents a triumph over hate,” the theater company said in a statement Saturday, adding that the ruling affirmed their First Amendment rights as artists.
“Similar to the countless battles the LGBTQ+ community has faced over the last several decades, our collective success relies upon everyone speaking out and taking a stand against bigotry,” the group said.
Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson, a Republican who was one of the law’s main sponsors, said he was disappointed with the ruling.
“Sadly, this ruling is a victory for those who support exposing children to sexual entertainment,” Johnson said, adding that he hoped the state’s attorney general will appeal the “perplexing ruling.”
Initially, the complaint listed Republican Gov. Bill Lee, Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and Shelby County District Attorney General Steven Mulroy as defendants. But the plaintiffs later agreed to dismiss the governor and top legal chief — although Skrmetti continued to represent Mulroy for this case.
A spokesperson for both Skrmetti and Mulroy did not immediately respond Saturday to requests for comment on Parker’s ruling.
Tennessee’s Republican-dominated Legislature advanced the anti-drag law earlier this year, with several GOP members pointing to drag performances in their hometowns as reasons why it was necessary to restrict such performances from taking place in public or where children could view them.
Yet the actual word “drag” doesn’t appear in the statute. Instead lawmakers changed the state’s definition of adult cabaret to mean “adult-oriented performances that are harmful to minors.” Furthermore, “male or female impersonators” were classified as a form of adult cabaret, akin to strippers or topless dancers.
The governor quickly signed off on the statute and it was set to take effect April 1. However, to date, the law has never been enforced because the federal judge had sided with the group that challenged the statute in March, and he temporarily blocked the law.
Parker also cited how the law’s sponsor, Republican state Rep. Chris Todd, had previously helped lead an effort to block a drag show in his district before introducing the drag ban proposal. Todd later confirmed that he hadn’t seen the performance, but nevertheless pursued legal action to stop the show and the event was held indoors with an age restriction.
This incident was among the several reasons to believe that the anti-drag law was “geared towards placing prospective blocks on drag shows — regardless of their potential harm to minors,” Parker wrote.
The drag law marks the second major proposal targeting LGBTQ+ people passed by Tennessee lawmakers this year. Lee signed into law GOP-backed legislation banning most gender-affirming care, which is being challenged in court. | https://www.yourbasin.com/entertainment-news/trump-appointed-federal-judge-rejects-tennessees-anti-drag-law-as-too-broad-too-vague/ | 2023-06-04 02:53:41 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/entertainment-news/trump-appointed-federal-judge-rejects-tennessees-anti-drag-law-as-too-broad-too-vague/ |
Following a week of protests after the leaking of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, the governors of Maryland and Virginia are urging the Justice Department to provide security at the homes of the Supreme Court justices who live in their states.
In a letter sent to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland and Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia called on the Justice Department to send adequate resources and tighten security for the justices.
The governors hope that doing so will keep the conservative justices and their families safe as abortion-rights supporters continue to protest outside their homes.
Hogan and Youngkin, both Republicans, said the recent demonstrations outside the houses of the justices — Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett — are "markedly different" from those taking place on the steps of the Supreme Court or at other public spaces.
Part of the reason for the difference is a law passed in 1950 during the Truman era when Congress was worried about picketing and parading around the justices' houses. This is a law that Margaret Russell, associate professor of constitutional law at Santa Clara University in California, is familiar with.
"There is a lot of protection under the First Amendment for picketing on public sidewalks, for marching, protesting — and that includes public sidewalks in the neighborhoods where these individuals live," Russell told NPR.
What is prohibited under the law, however, is targeted picketing, she said.
"Whether that is stopping outside of someone's house and actually seeking to have an impact on that person ... the law is pretty clear on that," Russell said.
Today, @GovernorVA and I sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland calling on the Department of Justice to provide adequate resources to keep the Supreme Court justices and their families safe amid ongoing protests at their homes. pic.twitter.com/6D0bMGSp3q
— Governor Larry Hogan (@GovLarryHogan) May 11, 2022
The governors said they want federal law enforcement to take the lead in protecting the justices in the weeks and months ahead as protests continue.
"It is critical that our Department acts to preserve the safety and standards of the highest court in the land. There is simply too much at stake," Hogan and Youngkin wrote.
The governors emphasized in their letter that under federal law, anyone who "pickets or parades" inside or outside a building or residence of a judge with the "intent of influencing" the judge can be fined and/or face up to a year in prison.
Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley released a statement Wednesday in regards to security for the Supreme Court and the justices:
"Attorney General Garland continues to be briefed on security matters related to the Supreme Court and Supreme Court Justices. The Attorney General directed the U.S. Marshals Service to help ensure the Justices' safety by providing additional support to the Marshal of the Supreme Court and Supreme Court Police."
Demonstrations taking place outside the homes of the justices come after a draft majority opinion was leaked last week suggesting the Supreme Court may overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion across the United States.
On Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell defended the Supreme Court's potential move to issue rulings that are in conflict with a majority of Americans' views on abortion rights. In an interview with NPR's Deirdre Walsh, McConnell said that this is a feature of the system.
"So for the Supreme Court to on any issue, to reach a decision contrary to public opinion, it is exactly what the Supreme Court is about," he said. "It's to protect basic rights, even when majorities are in favor of something else — that happens all the time."
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French foreign minister hopes Sweden, Finland join NATO soon
By LIUDAS DAPKUS
Associated Press
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — France’s top diplomat says that she hopes that the NATO applications of Sweden and Finland will be “ratified quickly.” The Turkish parliament is expected to vote soon on whether Finland should join the 30-member alliance. French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna referred to an upcoming NATO summit in the Lithuanian capital in July when she said Thursday that “we hope this summit will be a success and that there will be 32 countries at the Vilnius summit.” Colonna told a news conference in Vilnius that “the applications of Sweden and Finland should be ratified quickly.” | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-business/2023/03/30/french-foreign-minister-hopes-sweden-finland-join-nato-soon-2/ | 2023-03-31 02:48:08 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-business/2023/03/30/french-foreign-minister-hopes-sweden-finland-join-nato-soon-2/ |
By several measures, Bad Bunny became the world's biggest pop star in 2022. Just consider his record-breaking, sold-out, two-night run at Yankee Stadium. Twenty minutes before the show was slated to begin, a swarm of unticketed fans rushed the gates of the arena and attempted to claw their way past the NYPD officers stationed at the entrance (the cops promptly shuttered the doors and restrained anyone who tried to sneak in). Most of the 50,000 attendees had already shuffled inside, but for the hundreds of guests still in line, that meant listening to the cawing seagulls and seesawing synths that open his fourth studio album Un Verano Sin Ti from outside the stadium. After waiting outside for an hour and a half, the police finally opened up the gates and fans started to filter in. Once the show was in full swing, Bad Bunny mounted a floating island, affixed himself to its massive palm tree, and sang Un Verano Sin Ti's "Un Coco." He glided across the sky, the crowd bellowing in the stands. When the song ended, the floor erupted in chants: "Benito! Benito! Benito!"
But a month earlier, during the first night of the album's debut in San Juan, Benito delivered a searing speech that granted his concert a different kind of force. During the televised show, he lambasted the island-wide blackouts that have affected Puerto Rico since LUMA, a private consortium, took over the energy system last year. He didn't mince words, calling Gov. Pedro Pierluisi a "c*********." Predictably, the statement was labeled "vulgar" and "disrespectful" by some online, though Benito had thoughts for his detractors the next night: "You know what's also disrespectful?" he asked. "It's disrespectful for Puerto Rico to go without power one, five, four times a day. It's disrespectful that schools keep closing year after year. It's disrespectful that people in this country still don't have access to hospitals or healthcare systems. It's disrespectful that they keep trying to fool us and take us for pendejos, but they f***** with the generation that won't be taken advantage of."
This is who Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio is: both an irrepressible global pop star and political provocateur who collects streaming accolades with ease, but one who refuses to temper his idiosyncrasies or move to U.S. pop's center. His commitment to self-determination for the people of his island is strong; his unwillingness to sing in English is stronger. Those political interests permeate both his music and his public image, but within that rebellious ethos he never sacrifices space for play. Online, he is impish and magnetic: a meme fiend who has cultivated the kind of winsome goofball persona that compels fans to comment strings of cry-laughing face emojis on his posts. Rarely has a pop star of this stature embraced and flaunted these qualities all at once.
Some of that hard-earned freedom could be attributed to the fact that Benito became famous outside of the U.S. first — a reality that not only afforded him a more porous approach to industry conventions around politics and identity, but also allowed him to retrofit the architecture of U.S. pop stardom in his image. Where many U.S. entertainers might deploy progressive politics as part of a manufactured recipe for success, or abstain from these issues altogether, Benito is unafraid to tell it like it is. The man has a preternatural gift for realness, one that he wields with fluidity, because that is what Caribbeanness demands. It makes Bad Bunny's fame feel delightful and deviant.
His playful but political spirit courses through the veins of Un Verano Sin Ti, the sprawling, 23-track opus that set Benito's explosive year in motion. The album assembles all kinds of styles from the Caribbean, alchemizing reggae, bomba, reggaetón, Dominican bachata, merengue and dembow (notably, it misses an opportunity to explicitly feature long-neglected Black Dominican artists in the genres they helped pioneer). There is the coarse mambo "Después de la Playa" and the wisecracking dembow "Tití Me Preguntó"; even the EDM scorcher "El Apagón" interpolates elements of bomba in its condemnation of the blackouts.
Un Verano Sin Ti is a site of witness, wonder and a being-with. The album captured a particular condition of life in 2022: the hunt for a kind of comfort that doesn't detach itself from politics, but positions joy as a primordial communal discipline. Listening to it, you can almost feel the condensation from a Medalla beer drip down your fingers, or hear the revving engine of a motor scooter in the distance. It is the sound of shattered islands making due with what we've got. It is an exercise in public health. It is a blast of pleasure and pride.
Musically, UVST might be Benito's most conventional release yet, floating mostly atop the glassy waters of pop. His two 2020 albums, YHLQMDLG and El Último Tour del Mundo, took a different approach: The former was partially an ode to the raw edges of Puerto Rican underground and early 2000s reggaeton, two formative styles that shaped him into the artist he is today. El Último Tour del Mundo, on the other hand, expanded Benito's previous ventures into pop-punk and pop-rock. In the wake of these records, UVST felt a little safer. There is the misty popetón "Moscow Mule," the bossa nova shuffle of "Yo No Soy Celoso" and even a cookie-cutter throwback trap number called "Dos Mil 16." But Benito also experimented in genre a little here, recruiting independent Latinx artists like The Marías and Buscabulla to appear on the album — a maneuver that not only garnered him indie-kid approval, but also demonstrated how the pop mainstream continues to cull aesthetics from the underground. Un Verano Sin Ti was unafraid to converge these worlds and buck typical genre divides.
The broad appeal of Un Verano Sin Ti undoubtedly introduced Bad Bunny to all kinds of new listeners, further amplifying his global reach. He could have easily abandoned some of the styles that brought him global celebrity and conformed to unspoken industry rules, collaborating with the likes of "Katy Perry or Miley Cyrus," to use his own words. But he didn't, and even choosing the most commercial of styles paid off: For the third consecutive year, he was Spotify's most streamed artist across the globe, collecting 18.5 billion streams. He had the highest-grossing tours of 2022, cashing in $373.5 million from 65 shows. And if Drake lyrics are any marker of clout, Aubrey Graham recently likened himself to Benito on the song "Major Distribution" ("Bad Bunny numbers, it's a robbery").
Every week, new data insights and reports about Latin music's growing influence seem to arrive. Latin music (an imprecise, outdated shorthand term for a messy, complex history of dozens of genres and languages) is now considered the fourth most listened to genre in the United States. Meanwhile, UVST spent 13 nonconsecutive weeks atop the Billboard 200, the most weeks at No. 1 for an album this year, and became the first Spanish-language album to be nominated for album of the year at the Grammys. Skeptics and xenophobes take note: English-language music is by no means universal or exceptional.
An important caveat: These profit-based milestones are often used as talking points in "feel good," multicultural narratives about Latinx representation in the mainstream. You know how the story goes: the biggest pop star on the planet is Latino, signaling some neoliberal fantasy of racial harmony and ethnic representation. But these metrics don't tell the whole story, and they require race-based interrogation. The numbers may be shiny and big, but they say nothing about the hypervisibility of white Latinx — and the continued scourge of anti-Black racism — in the Latin music industry.
Still, Un Verano Sin Ti can't be separated from the political context that surrounds it. On "Andrea," Bad Bunny narrated the story of a woman seeking to live life on her own terms. Rumors circulated that the song was about the case of Andrea Ruiz, a woman who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in Puerto Rico after the court denied her a restraining order. Though Bad Bunny later clarified that she was not the inspiration for the song, its themes fall in line with his previous denunciations of gender-based violence.
And then there is "El Apagón," the visceral condemnation of recent blackouts in Puerto Rico. The song closes with a feature from Gabriela Berlingeri; she alludes to the U.S. investors who have been hiking up rent and fomenting the displacement of locals. "No me quiero ir de aquí / Que se vayan ellos," she sings ("I don't want to leave here / Let them leave.") When the video for "El Apagón" dropped, it was bookended by a 20-minute documentary, Aquí Vive Gente. Reported by independent journalist Bianca Graulau, the mini-doc further exposed the gentrification and upheaval generated by wealthy Americans swooping down on the island in search of tax breaks. In a stroke of cruel irony, its release coincided with Hurricane Fiona's landfall in Puerto Rico, which caused a total blackout across the island.
Bad Bunny doesn't usually rely on low-level political signaling; he's the kind of pop star who makes explicit critiques in his songs and follows it up with action (In 2019, he joined the Puerto Rican summer protests that led to the resignation of then-governor Ricardo Rosselló). Sometimes, this approach feels like a relic of the past. In the U.S., label executives have often believed political messaging and commercial success are mutually exclusive. Take Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On," which Motown boss Berry Gordy famously debated releasing, only for the song to later shoot to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. And while many American celebrities have brought imperative issues of identity and inequality in entertainment to the fore, the bulk of pop star-driven activism tends to be more sanitized, or even centered around their own images: open letters, NGO donations, retweets, thoughts and prayers, corporate benefit concerts for uncontroversial causes. What's more, fans and cultural critics sometimes conflate celebrities' marginalized identities with deliberate political praxis. But when pop stars are cultural agitators, they know how to communicate that sense of insurgence through artful storytelling, at the same time that they recognize the on-the-ground labor of activists everywhere (consider Lizzo's recent acceptance speech at the People's Choice Awards, during which she shared the stage with 17 freedom fighters).
Above all, there's a sense that Bad Bunny has become a genuine disrupter and an industry titan by simply being himself. He is the kind of artist who threads a song about a womanizer with too many girlfriends alongside one with metaphors about gentrification. He keens about a situationship whose wounds he's still healing from while posting #storytime videos on TikTok in a tank top stained with pizza grease. In the apogee of his career, following the most commercial record of his discography, the biggest pop star on the planet used his platform to decry the neocolonial injustices ravaging his home. Political engagement isn't some abstract exercise for him; it's simply part of his reality — an act of solidarity with the people who made him who he is.
In a year where pop stars mined dance music history for inspiration, Bad Bunny could have done the same, or recorded inauthentic collaborations with other pop giants. But instead, he embraced another kind of euphoria: the music of his home. There, he made space for the tangled realities of Caribbean life — its forced resilience, yes, but also its small, perfect joys. That's what it means to be Caribbean after all: you learn to carry the beauty and the hardship all at once.
The broadcast version of this story was adapted by host Juana Summers, edited by Patrick Jarenwattananon and produced by Alejandra Marquez Janse.
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BOSTON — The Prince and Princess of Wales on Thursday heard about solar-powered autonomous boats and low-carbon cement at a green technology startup incubator in suburban Boston before learning how a nonprofit gives young people the tools to stay out jail and away from violence.
William and Kate, making their first overseas visit since the death of Queen Elizabeth II, also found time for hundreds of cheering onlookers at each stop on the second of three days in the city. The royal couple spent 10 minutes with the crowd at one stop, chatting, taking selfies and receiving lots of flower bouquets. Some fans held up signs “Welcome to Boston, Your Highnesses” and “Welcome to Chelsea, the Future King and Queen of England.”
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” declared Loren Simao, who said she’s watched William grow up over several decades. “They are just wonderful people, and we need more of them in the world.”
The visit started Wednesday with a reception at Boston City Hall and a trip to a Boston Celtics basketball game. It culminates Friday with the awarding of the prince’s signature Earthshot Prize, a global competition aimed at finding new ways to protect the planet and tackle climate change.
The trip also comes amid uproar back home over an 83-year-old honorary member of the royal household who reportedly asked the Black chief executive of an east London women’s refuge where she “really came from” after she told the older woman that she was British. Some said the incident was an example of wider issues of racism at Buckingham Palace.
On Thursday, William and Kate stopped by Roca Inc., a nonprofit north of Boston that strives to halt the cycle of incarceration, poverty, unemployment, substance abuse, pregnancy and racism faced by young men and women ages 16 to 24.
Roca CEO Dr. Molly Baldwin and Chelsea police Capt. Dave Batchelor explained the science and cognitive behavioral therapy used by the nonprofit.
During the visit, the royal couple met with two young men involved in the program.
“Well I hope you give yourself a pat on the back as well, you got yourself here,” the prince told Jonathan Williams. “These guys have provided you with the support and the outside bit, but you’ve done it yourself.”
The couple also talked to some participants in Roca’s program for young mothers. The royals, who have three children, even showed off their parenting skills while interacting with some of the kids, at one point helping a little girl look for her mother.
Before heading to Roca, the couple went to Greentown Labs in Somerville, where they were greeted by CEO Emily Reichert, Mayor Katjana Ballantyne as well as Joe Curtatone, the former mayor of the city just north of Boston who is now the president of the Northeast Clean Energy Council.
Since its 2011 founding, Greentown, the largest climate technology startup incubator in North America, has supported more than 500 companies that have created more than 9,000 jobs.
While at Greentown, the royal couple chatted to Shara Ticku, CEO of c16 Biosciences, a company developing decarbonized alternatives for the consumer products supply chain, starting with a sustainable alternative to palm oil. “Oils today come from animals or plants,” Ticku said. “We made this from fungi.”
At Open Ocean Robotics, CEO and cofounder Julie Angus told the prince and princess about their solar-powered autonomous boats, which provide real-time information about the oceans. Angus had a computer and monitor on her table, showing data of a real boat out in the harbor in Victoria, British Columbia, where the company is based.
“Five knots? That’s quite quick,” the prince said, looking at the screen. “It’s amazing it hasn’t capsized,” he added. Angus noted that the boats are able to self-right.
William and Kate also chatted with Katherine Dafforn, co-founder of Living Seawalls, an Australian company that designs environmentally friendly ocean infrastructure. “For all of us, time is ticking,” William said.
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Upon their departure from Greentown Labs, Kate received flowers from 8-year-old Henry Dynov-Teixeira, who was wearing a King’s Guard costume.
Thursday’s agenda also included a visit to the Boston waterfront, where the royal couple braved brisk conditions to learn about efforts to prepare the Boston Harbor community for rising seas and other impacts of climate change.
As they left, Prince William talked with several park workers who asked if they had enjoyed the Boston Celtics game they attended Wednesday night. Prince William said Kate had asked if he wanted to shoot some hoops.
“Ten feet up? It’s been a long time since I’ve done that,” he laughed, adding, “We might come back when it’s a bit warmer. It’s beautiful along the waterfront.”
The royal couple’s first trip to the U.S. since 2014 is part of the British royal family’s efforts to change their international image. In the wake of Elizabeth’s death, King Charles III, William’s father, has made clear that his will be a slimmed-down monarchy, with less pomp and ceremony than its predecessors.
That includes a focus on the Earthshot Prize, which offers 1 million pounds ($1.2 million) in prize money to each of the winners of five separate categories: nature protection, clean air, ocean revival, waste elimination and climate change. The winners and all 15 finalists also receive help in expanding their projects to meet global demand.
The winners are scheduled to be announced Friday at Boston’s MGM Music Hall as part of a glitzy show headlined by Billie Eilish, Annie Lennox, Ellie Goulding and Chloe x Halle. The show will also feature videos narrated by naturalist David Attenborough and actor Cate Blanchett. | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/ct-aud-nw-william-kate-boston-20221202-l4e6ulksl5dhzhyz4mgiw4fbw4-story.html | 2022-12-02 15:08:48 | 1 | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/ct-aud-nw-william-kate-boston-20221202-l4e6ulksl5dhzhyz4mgiw4fbw4-story.html |
Updated October 30, 2022 at 11:04 PM ET
In just three years, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has gone from prisoner to president-elect.
After being jailed on corruption charges, the left-wing da Silva engineered a stunning political resurrection on Sunday by winning Brazil's presidential runoff election — in a nail-biter — over right-wing incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro.
Official returns gave da Silva, who is a former two-term president, 50.9% of the vote compared to 49.1% for Bolsonaro. Da Silva will be sworn-in for a four-year term on Jan. 1.
"I'm really happy," said Victor Costelo, 33, who works in advertising, as he celebrated on the streets of Sao Paulo that were crowded with da Silva supporters, many of them wearing the red colors of his Workers Party. After four years of Bolsonaro, who Costelo described as an authoritarian, he said, "the next four years will be more hopeful for us."
The extremely tight race showed how politically polarized Brazil has become in recent years. Although the balloting was largely peaceful, there were several violent incidents during the campaign with authorities reporting the killings of at least four da Silva supporters at the hands of pro-Bolsonaro fanatics.
Bolsonaro, 67, a populist in the mold of former U.S. President Donald Trump, served as an army captain during Brazil's military dictatorship that lasted from 1964-85 and filled his cabinet with former officers. He repeatedly challenged the legitimacy of the election and the reliability of Brazil's electronic voting machines and hinted that he might not accept the results if he lost.
His anti-democratic rhetoric alarmed many Brazilians, while 77-year-old da Silva promised a return to normality.
"We are going to fix the country and you are going to be happy again," he told voters in the run-up to Sunday's balloting.
Da Silva and Bolsonaro were the two top finishers in a first round of presidential voting on Oct. 2 that featured 11 candidates. But neither da Silva nor Bolsonaro secured more than half the votes required for an outright victory, forcing this weekend's runoff election.
Da Silva has promised to increase the minimum wage and jump-start the economy, which has been flagging since the COVID-19 pandemic hit Brazil and caused nearly 700,000 deaths – the world's second-highest death toll after the U.S. He has also pledged to protect the Amazon rainforest after deforestation hit a 15-year high under Bolsonaro.
Sunday's victory was perhaps the most spectacular in da Silva's roller-coaster political career.
After three failed runs for the presidency, da Silva was elected to the post in 2002 then reelected in 2006. As president, he oversaw an economic boom that helped lift millions out of poverty, making him an icon of the Latin American left.
However, after leaving office, Lula became ensnared in a wide-ranging bribery scandal that landed him in prison for 580 days. His political career appeared to be over. But he was released on a technicality in 2019 and launched yet another run for the presidency that quickly garnered enthusiastic support.
His victory will help consolidate a leftward shift in Latin America where, from Mexico to Argentina, the biggest countries are run by leftist presidents.
World leaders were quick to congratulate da Silva on his victory.
"I send my congratulations to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on his election to be the next president of Brazil following free, fair, and credible elections," President Biden said in a statement. "I look forward to working together to continue the cooperation between our two countries in the months and years ahead."
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a tweet that he anticipated working with the leader on mutual priorities, like protecting the environment.
"The people of Brazil have spoken," Trudeau said.
There was no immediate comment from Bolsonaro. But two of his close political allies, finance minister Paulo Guedes and Arthur Lira, president of the lower house of Congress, seemed to acknowledge that Bolsonaro had lost.
Guedes tweeted "Thank you for everything, Jair Bolsonaro." Lira told reporters that it was time for pro-Bolsonaro forces to reach out to the other side, adding "long live democracy in Brazil."
Da Silva, speaking at a victory rally in São Paulo, acknowledged the divided nature of the electorate and called for national unity. But he couldn't resist crowing about his ability to come back from a political near-death, saying of his adversaries: "They tried to bury me alive, but I'm here. ... Today, we are saying to the world that Brazil is back."
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LAS VEGAS, May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The newly created Permanent Jewelry Association (PJA), a business trade group for permanent jewelry artists, is set to officially launch at the upcoming Permanent Jewelry Expo (PJX) May 30 – June 1 at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. PJX will provide the largest educational and networking event in the world specifically for permanent jewelry artists and the PJA will be the premiere trade association for artists around the world.
"We are excited to launch this new trade association geared specifically for the permanent jewelry industry," said PJA President Amy Dixon. "PJA will promote professional conduct, safety, and industry standards, and will educate and provide resources for a permanent jewelry artist and our clients."
Permanent jewelry is a new trend in the U.S. and has spread into parts of Europe. It has grown more than 923% over the past year. Customers are attracted to the product because of the experience permanent jewelry provides.
"When consumers see what permanent jewelry is and what it can represent to an individual, people want one," Dixon said. "It's kind of like a tattoo but with jewelry instead of ink. We see moms and daughters, sisters, friends, brides and their bridesmaids, couples, and others come in for a special bonding experience."
The group will also assist new artists in their business ventures by offering resources to help those entrepreneurs in the business be able to grow and expand. Sunstone Welders provide everything PJ artists need to start a PJ business or add to their current business. For a small investment of about $2,500 the "business in a box" for entrepreneurs that include an Orion mPulse welder, all tools, and training, artists can potentially make a five- to six-figure revenue stream. Permanent Jewelry makes a great business or side-hustle for women entrepreneurs. Artists can also access an assortment of precious metal chains from Sunstone to use in their new business.
"People have a great experience with permanent jewelry," said Jonathan Young, CEO at Sunstone Welders. "When people see what permanent jewelry is, what it can represent, everyone wants one. It represents something differently for each person—that's what makes it so enjoyable."
For more information on the expo or on beginning a permanent jewelry business, visit https://sunstonewelders.com/products/permanent-jewelry/.
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